Julia Cooke

Reframing how we talk about the climate crisis in teaching and learning - British Ecological Society Join the Teaching and Learning special interest group for this webinar on teaching about the climate crisis.

Are you wondering how best to discuss the climate crisis with your students? Sign up to this free webinar to hear from staff and students who have been considering new ways to reframe this conversation. Feb 26th 2-4pm www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/refr...

Frontiers | Co-producing a live fieldwork broadcast in the biosciences

New paper ‘Co-producing a live fieldwork broadcast in the biosciences’. 🎦 📺🥾▶️ The 3rd paper from my PhD, but probably the work I am most proud of. Working in partnership with some fantastic @SciencesNCL UGs on this novel delivery approach. #fieldwork
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Senior Editor - British Ecological Society Journal of Animal Ecology, a British Ecological Society journal. Apply by 13 Feb 2025.

🚨 we're looking for a Senior Editor to join our editorial board!
📝 details can be found here: buff.ly/3PxptAb
⌚ closing date is 13th February 2025, 23:59 GMT

👇 A blog contribution to the website "Siliceous Plants" by @sarah-thorne14.bsky.social and @juliacooke.bsky.social

Inter- and intra-observer variation in phytolith morphometry: are measurements comparable? Dr. Welmoed Out, archaeobotanist at Moesgaard Museum in Denmark, presents a paper published together with colleagues from the International Committee on Phytolith Morphometry (ICPM) of the Internat…

Interesting new blog post showing how to avoid phytolith identification varying among researchers by @welmoedo.bsky.social siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/i... #siliceousplants

One of the first things the plenary speaker, Prof Nathalie Seddon spoke about was the importance of Georgina Mace, the plenary’s namesake, as a mentor to her.

A room full of people listening to two people presenting with padlet results showing on a large screen.

Packed room for the #mentoring workshop at #BES2024 this morning. Brilliantly led by Matt and Fiona from the Education team. More info about the BES mentoring platform www.britishecologicalsociety.org/learning-and...

💡Are you at #BES2024? Why not sign up for our speed review session and get an Editor's thoughts on your submission idea! Join us at the Cityside entrance on Thursday, from 17:00 - 18:30.

To sign up, and for more info, come and see us on the BES Stand!👋

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If you are at the #BES2024 conference and interested in teaching & learning - join the T&L group social event this evening! Details below ⬇️

Silicon-Carbon Trade-Off in the Epidermis of Sedges Summary by Félix de Tombeur from the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (Montpellier, France) studying silicon dynamics in soil-plant systems. The variation in foliar Si concentrations be…

Cool new blog post looking at Si-C trade-offs in sedges by @felix-detombeur.bsky.social siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/s... #siliceousplants

Interested in #teaching #learning #education and #siliceousplants and headed to #BES2024 ? Here’s the timetable for you! Workshops, posters, groups to meet. Please check times with official app as I may have made errors.

If you are going to #BES2024 please consider coming to the joint social evening with the Teaching and Learning Group and Quantitative Ecology Special Interest Group on Wed 11 Dec. Meet us at the conference reception at about 7pm or head to the Pump House for 7:30. We’d love to see you!

Mechanisms of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Increasing Silicon Uptake by Rice Summary by Li-Xue Qiu, a master student at Zhejiang University, China, studyingAMF-Si-P interactions in soil-crop systems. The majority of vascular plants, including most crops, establish a symbiotic ...

New #siliceousplants paper summary. It’s by Li-Xue Qui on their recent paper about mechanisms of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increasing silicon uptake by rice: siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/m...

How does Silicon fertilization mediate diverse positive effects on crop plants under drought? Dr Kirti Bardhan, Assistant Professor of crop physiology at Navsari Agricultural University, India, currently working as visiting scholar in Texas Tech University, USA, summarizes his recent review pa...

New post: How does Silicon fertilisation mediate diverse positive effects on crop plants under drought? Dr Kirti Bardhan, summarises his recent review paper on this topic here: siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/h... #siliceousplants

The 14th EFL Showcase (2024) The EFL project team coordinates an annual Showcase event that brings together fieldwork educators from a range to disciplines to share innovations in field teaching and learning with a particular foc...

The 2024 EFL Showcase will be held on the 10/11th September at the Royal Geographical Society @RGS_IBG and online.
Join us to discuss 'The future of HE fieldwork practice and teaching'.
Further info:
enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/the-efl-show... Abstract submission now open on that link.

The Isotopes in Biogenic Silica 2024 conference will be from 29-31 May 2024 in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. Abstract submission is now open. Registration will be open from 15 February. More info is available here: ibis2024.com #siliceousplants

The Silicamics 4 conference will be 14-18 Oct 2024, in Logonna-Daoulas near Brest (France). Call for abstracts is open until 15 March. More information here: www-iuem.univ-brest.fr/silicamics-4... #siliceousplants