Andrew Hacket-Pain

Seedling growing in the forest

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

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We're trying to understand why.
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Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Image of document titled, A Guide To Collecting Seed From Native Trees and Shrubs in the UK. A woman is pictured reaching up into green leaves with a wooden tool.

Ever fancied growing your own native trees from seed or helping supply a nursery? We have just the publication to show how it's done. 📖

Check it out this #NationalTreeWeek

View or download a pdf of the handbook here👉 buff.ly/NxEkKPJ

Exciting #postdoc opportunity with #ForestGEO: forestgeo.si.edu/postdoctoral...

Excited to have a ground beetle project @carabidaeuk.bsky.social open for applications in @crocus-dla.bsky.social. Nice mix of analysing long-term data, fieldwork and time at @forestresearchuk.bsky.social, assessing trends in woodland carabids. Please share!

blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄

I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:

🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social

**The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**

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...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

ACCE+ DLA Programme: Forest responses to extremes - how does drought affect tree seed production? at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: Forest responses to extremes - how does drought affect tree seed production? at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

Link doesn't seem to work, please use this: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Based in Liverpool, UK with me & @belenfadrique.bsky.social. You'll also be registered at Kew & spend time working there during your PhD.

International applicants *very welcome* & eligible for funding.

Tips & advice on applying via the @acce-dla.bsky.social
link above. Contact me with questions!

🚨 Funded PhD 🚨 How does the reproduction of trees respond to drought? How does this shape forest resilience to drought? Join us in Liverpool & Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social
to answer this question!

Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Deadline: 7th January

🌳🌰🌲🌱🌤️🌡️

Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Understanding the ecological interplay between tree planting and natural processes to create future forests

🚨PhD opportunity🚨Come and work with us & Stirling Uni to understand the role of woodland creation 🌳in nature recovery 🌺🦋

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

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Can you help restore Scotland's precious temperate rainforest by
🥬Raising the profile of ancient woodland?
🥬Managing partner relationships & projects?
🥬Providing advice to landowners & managers?
This really is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference.
Apply 👉 buff.ly/VyWT9BL

Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members

The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!

Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I highly recommend this fellowship! This is what brought me to Boulder over 7 years ago, and I’m still here… ❄️ 🛰️ 🧪

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Picture of Japanese pine

Happy to share our last study published in @natcomms.nature.com

We asked

Can the weather tell trees when it’ is time to reproduce?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...

New paper out 🥳
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@stockholm-uni.bsky.social

The National Trust explains why there are so many acorns this year A National Trust gardener said the volume of acorns was

Why are there so many acorns in the UK this year? Oaks everywhere seem to have been laden with acorns. Nice to quoted when the BBC investigated!
There are lots of chestnuts too, and beech seeds in some places but not others. Happy squirrels and jays this year! 🐿🌰🌳
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Text: LTE Site of the Week- Lady Park Wood, Wales/ England. Photo of a forest with little sunlight reaching the floor. Text: Running since 1944. Andrew Hacket-Pain, Liverpool University, John Healey, Bangor University. Icons for woodland and grazing.

#LadyParkWood which borders #England & #Wales is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek.

@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social, & John Healey from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social are looking at #woodland development bit.ly/LadyParkWood 🌏

Another recent paper in #BirdStudy showed autumn densities of Pheasant & Red-Legged Partridge in southern England can be an astonishing 2,500 birds per km2 on land near releases. After winter, there were still up to 700 birds/km2. That's huge numbers.
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology

PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Come work with us!

Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

#job at The Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU: Associate Senior Lecturer in conservation ecology, to improve the understanding of impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services resulting from alternative forest management strategies.

Closing 15 September 2025

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

🚨 Postdoc opening 🚨
Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change.

2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025.

🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...

Lady Park Wood Handover — ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST - Andrew Hacket-Pain (Liverpool University) writes about the handover of the Lady Park Wood long-term experiment.

We have a new #blog:

@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social wrote a blog on the handover of Lady Park Wood (Wales/ England) from George Peterken to a new academic team at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social.

Read it here: bit.ly/4eoChUS

#Woodland #LongTermExperiment #LTE 🌎

In the Netherlands this week, and a big crop of acorns on the way here too

Why the summer solstice is a ‘celestial starting gun’ for trees Research shows longest day is a cue for beeches to launch their growth strategies

Happy #solstice! Today, beech trees start to decide whether to produce bumper seed crops next year, or to skip reproduction next year. It is a marker for growth and phenology processes. @micbog.bsky.social talked to The Guardian about how it works:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...