A image of a poster advertising my virtual presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the British Ecological Society. The image features prominently the talk's title "Nature-based activities improve human-nature connectedness: A systematic review and meta-analysis", along with my name ("Kevin A. Wood"), on a white background. On the left-hand side of the image there is a blue vertical banner, with a message encouraging people to check out the talk. The top of this banner features the British Ecological Society's logo (a stylized black letter "E").
Attending #BES2025 next week? Check out my virtual presentation on the role that nature-based activities can play in fostering human-nature connectedness.
In the meantime, you can find the open access paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
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09.12.2025 16:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 New paper out now in @conbiology.bsky.social!
#Headstarting - hatching eggs and/or rearing chicks in captivity & releasing them back to the wild - has been increasingly used for #wader #conservation. But it can be challenging and expensive.
So why do it and when❓
📷WWT/Bob Ellis #godwit
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08.12.2025 18:32 — 👍 30 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
An infographic showing six images of people engaged in outdoor activities, which serves as the graphical abstract for our newly published paper on human-nature connection. The first image, showing a man and girl looking at an otter, represents encounters with captive animals. The second image, representing educational activities, shows a woman and two children pond dipping and identifying the animals that they find. The third image shows a group of people on a 'Landrover safari' looking at waterbirds, which represents encounters with wildlife. The fourth image represents gardening, and shows a group of adults and children creating a new garden. The fifth image shows two people in the distance walking alongside an estuary, representing recreation. The final image represents mindfulness and shows a person meditating in nature. For each activity, the mean value for the change in human-nature connectedness is reported, based on the analyses undertaken in our paper.
Our open access study on human-nature connectedness is in the latest issue of Perspectives in Ecology & Conservation
Outdoor activities increase human-nature connectedness, with mindfulness and encounters with wildlife giving the largest increases in connectedness
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
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04.12.2025 15:30 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Senior Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society
Join the editorial board on Journal of Applied Ecology! Apply by 21 Dec 2025.
We're looking for a 6th Senior Editor!
If you…
👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management
👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision
👉have editing experience
…we’d love to hear from you!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...
08.12.2025 10:01 — 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
An infographic showing six images of people engaged in outdoor activities, which serves as the graphical abstract for our newly published paper on human-nature connection. The first image, showing a man and girl looking at an otter, represents encounters with captive animals. The second image, representing educational activities, shows a woman and two children pond dipping and identifying the animals that they find. The third image shows a group of people on a 'Landrover safari' looking at waterbirds, which represents encounters with wildlife. The fourth image represents gardening, and shows a group of adults and children creating a new garden. The fifth image shows two people in the distance walking alongside an estuary, representing recreation. The final image represents mindfulness and shows a person meditating in nature. For each activity, the mean value for the change in human-nature connectedness is reported, based on the analyses undertaken in our paper.
Our open access study on human-nature connectedness is in the latest issue of Perspectives in Ecology & Conservation
Outdoor activities increase human-nature connectedness, with mindfulness and encounters with wildlife giving the largest increases in connectedness
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
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04.12.2025 15:30 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our December issue is out now!🌏
Includes topics such as...
👉 Direct & indirect effects of fire on tick populations🔥
👉Spatial & temporal determinants of oyster settlement rates🦪
👉Structural equation modelling in wildlife ecology review🧪
Read it 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
03.12.2025 09:05 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Flyer for Peatland Hydrology session at EGU 2026 concluding QR code to session information
Peat friends!
Our #EGU26 session "Peatland hydrology: From tropical to subarctic latitudes" 🌍🌿💧 is open for abstracts. We welcome studies on a broad range of hydrological processes in peatlands. Submission deadline is Thu 15 Jan, 13:00 CET. Full info here: www.egu26.eu/session/56151
01.12.2025 15:31 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
What do you think the primary goal of applied ecological/conservation research is?
1️⃣ Diagnose threats and impacts
2️⃣ Understand ecological processes
3️⃣ Inform management or policy
4️⃣ Something else (comment below)
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26.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1
We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪
If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...
24.11.2025 11:53 — 👍 15 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
21.11.2025 07:51 — 👍 15 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD Opportunity - *Understanding The Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance by Migratory Birds*
Supervised by me, @stubearhop.bsky.social (Exeter) & Patricia Brekke (ZSL). Application deadline 8th January. Please get in touch for more info
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
17.11.2025 06:05 — 👍 11 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1
The International Swan Census (ISC) is taking place on the weekend of 17th-18th January 2026 (WeBS January Core Count weekend), counting Whooper and Bewick’s Swans. Follow these simple steps to get involved 👇
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social
#UKBirding #Ornithology
18.11.2025 10:27 — 👍 24 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
Sadly, we are getting reports of swan mortality in the @lincolnswans.bsky.social population from suspected avian influenza. We are monitoring this closely: please help us and report any sick or dead swans or waterbirds, either via the App or by email to lincolnswansightings@gmail.com. #ornithology
18.11.2025 09:04 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Ring on a dead Whooper Swan. Photo by David Tough
Ring on a dead Whooper Swan. Photo by David Tough
Advice from BTO on checking a dead bird for rings
We're now starting to get reports of dead Whooper Swans with rings. If you find a dead bird & feel comfortable doing so - check for rings using the below @btobirds.bsky.social advice 👇🏻 Collecting information on ringed birds helps better understand the impact on different age groups.
07.11.2025 21:45 — 👍 43 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 1
Please keep an eye open for dead & dying Whooper Swans (and other waterbirds), see thread below on how to report for possible sampling & please also report to @birdtrack.bsky.social so we can start to build a comprehensive picture of the spread 👇🏻
06.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 11 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1
Whooper Swan sick with bird flu in a field, photograph by Kane Brides
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
06.11.2025 20:08 — 👍 108 🔁 84 💬 3 📌 6
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to manage a team to evaluate peatland restoration projects that benefit #waders in #NorthernIreland: buff.ly/GyPhtQ5
05.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
04.11.2025 07:56 — 👍 17 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
📢 BOU COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS OPEN
➡️ Awards Nominations Committee
➡️ Engagement Committee
➡️ IBIS Management Committee
➡️ Meetings Committee
➡️ Records Committee
Plus NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme
More info & to nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...
#ornithology 🪶
31.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Image of a Cormorant cut out on a white background. Wording reads: We're hiring! Senior Research Ecologist. Research Ecologist. Research Support Officer. www.bto.org/jobs. The PeacePlus logo is top right of the image.
New Ecologist and Research Support roles for a project in Northern Ireland! @bto-ni.bsky.social
Discover more and apply at www.bto.org/jobs
These positions are supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).
#Ornithology #Ecology
23.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 20 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
Research Highlights Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society
Join the editorial board on Journal of Applied Ecology! Apply by 01 Nov 2025.
Are you an Early Career Researcher looking to take the next steps into editing? 💭🧪
If yes, you might be a great fit as a Research Highlights Editor! Research Highlights are commentary papers that contextualise research within the wider field 📚🌏
More info 👇
bit.ly/4o0bTV8
20.10.2025 09:01 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoc @UniOldenburg | ICBM @icbm-uol.bsky.social
Scientific Coordinator @bassproject.bsky.social (Researching the ocean’s skin)
Aquatic Ecology & Biogeochemistry | Air–Sea Exchange | Phytoplankton Dynamics and Organic Matter | Stable Isotopes
Ecological forecaster aiming to predict population responses to changing environments. Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh
Marine Biologist based in the Virgin Islands. Working with marine protected areas, coral restoration and mangroves. Dive instructor. Fish ID is my jam, see if you can stump me! 🐠🤓
Freshwater ecologist. Lake fan.
PhD student investigating navigation in songbirds at University of Oldenburg, Germany 🧭🐦⬛
Passionate about #birds 🦉🪺🦆
#ornithology #birdmigration #tracking
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Associate Professor in Environmental Physiology, University of Jyväskylä. Eco-evo, ecophysiology, molecular ecology, host-microbiome, ecotoxicology research. Editor in Oecologia and J Avian Biol, NSO board member.
PhD Student at the University of Antwerp
Ecophysiology, Ecotoxicology, Infectious Disease, Movement Ecology and Conservation
Bird-watcher & conservationist in and from Wales. Associate researcher at Cardiff Uni, co-director of Eco-explore Community Interest Company, trustee of Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru & Craig y Rhondda. Received Marsh Award for Ornithology 2025.
Ecologist (restoration, ecosystem assessment, beaver-nerd, water policy), botanist, birder, hill walker. No pictures of cats (dogs a different matter). YNWA.
Prof. Freshwater Science, University of Stirling. Associate Dean Research, Natural Sciences.
Molecular Ecologist at the University of Exeter.
xavharrison.github.io
PhD Researcher #UniversityofSalford | (MSc) & (BSc) Avian ecologist specializing in the phylogenetics and conservation of birds | Passionate about all wildlife | Blackpool, UK
www.linkedin.com/in/glen-hancocks
www.researchgate.net/profile/Glen-Hancocks
Restoration Ecologist from Ireland @npwsireland.bsky.social. Interested in woodlands, peatlands, uplands and environmental change. Views my own.
Scientific journal published by ZSL and Wiley, that provides a forum for novel, peer-reviewed research into the conservation of animal species and their habitats. Find out more at https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14691795
Bird Conservation International is BirdLife International's journal, promoting worldwide research and action for the conservation of birds and their habitats.
Visual ecologist at Exeter University. I study how visual information affects the ecology, behaviour, survival and conservation of many different animals. Areas of interest include camouflage, signalling, visual modelling and artificial light at night
M.Sc. Graduate, KNT University
Photogrammetry | Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing → Environmental Monitoring, Forest Ecology, Wildfire
Photogrammetry → Bundle Adjustment, UAV, Canopy Cover
#RemoteSensing #Photogrammetry #UAV #Drone #DeepLearning #GIS
Peer-reviewed journal of #ornithology publishing original research, reviews and meta-analyses
Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
Ecologist, ecotoxicologist, zooplankton 🔬& multiple stressors 💊🌡️🛢️
University of South Bohemia 🇨🇿
💦Exploring how aquatic communities respond to stressors
www.linkedin.com/in/claire-duchet-0831b456
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claire-Duchet
research software, ecology, public health, open science
Research Fellow at The Kids Research Institute, Australia and University of Western Australia
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