Jason Newton

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡

At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.

Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.

More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

Red-breasted toucan eating banana

For UK-based ecologists submitting a #stableisotopeecology application to the National Environmental Isotope Facility, please get in touch with your ideas - www.stableisotopelab.com/people The next deadline will be 8th October 2025. More details see www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

Royal Terns, Ilha Comprida, Brazil

Royal Terns, Ilha Comprida, Brazil... #SuperSeabirdSunday

Least pygmy owl predating a spot-breasted antvireo. Legado das Águas

Least pygmy owl predating a spot-breasted antvireo. Legado das Águas

Thoroughly enjoyed talking to the students and staff at the Museu de Zoologia at the University of Sao Paulo, about our @isotopesuk.bsky.social Stable Isotope Ecology Lab at @suerc.bsky.social , but also the many ways in which stable isotopes can be used in ecological applications.

Historical anthropogenic stressors affect bird ecology and feather development in neotropical forests Fragmentation and habitat loss driven by agricultural expansion have significantly affected bird ecology. Additionally, the growing use of agrochemicals impacts ecosystems and avian communities. Tool....

In her new paper, Ana Navarro shows how the birds of Brazil's Atlantic Forest have changed their diet and habitat use over time, using the stable isotope analysis of museum feathers. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

I think in Lanarkshire we're very far from that stage
However it wouldve been nice this afternoon if Glasgow airport had turned theirs on!

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC at the Radiocarbon Meeting in Krakow

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC, together in Kraków! Great to see everyone at the 25th Radiocarbon Conference last week—enjoying 14C science, collaboration, and a bit of Kraków sunshine. #Radiocarbon2025 #NEIF #14C #Krakow

A great start for my trap in March/April because of the warm spell, but June has been cold and wet so it's averaging out

Delighted that pangolin research by @ruthlewissmith.bsky.social is featured by Birmingham Museums. Huge thanks from SUERC @isotopesuk.bsky.social for the generous donation of sample material from their natural science collection!

Please do!

great spotted woodpecker with chick

Was a little late into work this morning getting a few snaps of the woodpeckers in the garden

Lovely - possibly an oak beauty?

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis Rationale Increasing demand for fish and seafood means that the traceability of marine products is becoming ever more important for consumers, producers and regulators. Highly complex and globalised.....

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis - Wilson - 2025 - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry #stableisotopes analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

You’re only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD Graduate students are not machines. Behaving like one during your programme will leave you frustrated and unfulfilled, says Gauthier Weissbart.

2025. #DEI. You’re only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD. Graduate students are not machines. Behaving like one during your programme will leave you frustrated and unfulfilled, says Gauthier Weissbart. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Against a green background, the text on the left reads, 'BES travel and training grants. This grant supports the training and development of PhD students and postgraduate research assistants. Grants of up to £500 are available.' Then, a dotted line is used as a spacer, and underneath the text reads, 'Applications are now open'. On the right side of the infographic is an image of two individuals cycling in Guinea.

Applications for our travel and training grant are now open for two weeks!

About the Cosmogenic Nuclide Course - GAEA - Geo-Biosciences Advanced E-Learning Academy

Today, GAEA launches their Cosmogenic Nuclide Geochronology. This course has been developed by Dr Derek Fabel of the @isotopesuk.bsky.social NEIF Cosmogenic Nuclide Facility at SUERC. The course is free to any academic email address, any problems use the contact form. www.gaea.ac.uk/about-the-co...

Interested in #parasites and #isotopes? New database and paper lead by Amandine Sabadel just out! All data based on the same standardised protocol and collected in a large global collaborative effort:

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

A photo of me standing in front of the Gilbert Scott Building at the University of Glasgow. As per Google, "the building is a striking Gothic Revival structure...and features an iconic bell tower, one of Glasgow's most notable landmarks."

A photo of the side of the AMS Laboratory at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) with lovely clear blue skies above it. A sign on the side of the building includes the logo for SUERC, "AMS Laboratory", and different universities and organisations associated with it.

I'm thrilled to have started a new role as an "In situ Radiocarbon Scientist" at @uofglasgow.bsky.social/ SUERC/ @isotopesuk.bsky.social! I'll be setting up a new NEIF in situ 14C lab over the next year 🧪🏔️

Pangolin walking on a field.

Are you working on conservation, wildlife trade or policy in West Africa?

This free Oxford masterclass with Dr Dan Challender & Dr Amy Hinsley offers practical insights to tackle illegal wildlife trade using evidence-led strategies.

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please add me!!

See the thread below for a list of resources to find academic jobs outside the United States.

(Thank you academicsky!)

📣 Did you know that EAG offers grants to early career scientists to attend international conferences in #geochemistry?
#ECRs can seek support through our student sponsorship or the early career ambassadors program.
Next application deadline: 1 May
More info: www.eag.org/early-career/

Rare Long‐Term Data Reveal the Seasonal Dietary Plasticity of Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) in Response to Fruiting Tree Phenology (A) Generalized additive models illustrating the relationship between day of year and overall dietary breadth (sum of different food types) and dietary fruit breadth (sum of fruit genera). Lines indi....

Possibly the first paper I've been involved with that has no stable isotope data! doi.org/10.1002/ajp....

Congratulations @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social !!!

Stable Isotopes Launch This is "Stable Isotopes Launch" by GAEAcademy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

NEIF has launched an online course developed by our stable isotope teams at BGS and SUERC covering the fundamentals of stable isotopes. Through these 5 videos, covering basic terminology, notations, essential equations, and potential applications of stable isotopes.
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Dr. Keith A. Hobson, an older man with a white beard, paddles a canoe along a scenic river

Out now in the Waterbirds journal: In Memoriam for Dr. Keith A. Hobson (July 10,1954 to October 2, 2024 ), a much-missed member of the ornithological community and former editor of this journal bioone.org/journals/wat...

Human-derived food accounts for more than a third of the diet of urban foxes, a new study suggests Scientists at Nottingham Trent University found that food from people—directly or indirectly—contributes an estimated 35% of the urban fox diet, compared to just 6% for their rural counterparts.

Stable isotopes: how anthropogenic is urban fox diet? phys.org/news/2025-03...

A reminder that the deadline for the next application round to access NEIF facilities is the 26th March 2025. Applicants must discuss projects with the relevant NEIF laboratory prior to submission. Applications are submitted online via the NEIF Application Portal - www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

One of SUERC's VG SIRA IIs

So long SIRA II !