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Integrating environmental DNA into national biodiversity datasets to explain drivers of biodiversity loss at University College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Integrating environmental DNA into national biodiversity datasets to explain drivers of biodiversity loss at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

📣 Funded UK PhD opportunity 📣

Integrating environmental DNA into national biodiversity datasets to uncover drivers of biodiversity loss 🧬🌳 Supervised by J. Littlefair (UCL), C. Outhwaite (ZSL) & E. Matechou (QMUL). Start Oct ’26.

Apply: bit.ly/3NqcN0a
Email j.littlefair@ucl.ac.uk to chat.

🎓 Requirements:

MSc or PhD in ecology, fisheries science, marine biology, environmental modelling (or related). Experience with Ecopath/Ecosim/Ecospace essential; R/Python & strong quantitative skills desirable.

📩 EOIs: Dr Francisco de Castro
francisco.decastro@afbini.gov.uk

🔬 Responsibilities:

Lead development & calibration of a spatial Ecopath/Ecospace model of the Irish Sea. Analyse ecosystem & fisheries scenarios, support ecosystem-based fisheries management, publish peer-reviewed research, collaborate with partners.

#Ecopath #FisheriesScience

📢 Postdoc opportunity: Quantitative Ecologist / Fisheries Scientist 📢

AFBI (Belfast, UK) seeks a postdoc to join the Fisheries & Aquatic Ecosystems Branch. Full-time, start early 2026, funded up to 3 yrs via PLEACE PLUS (SEUPB).

#Postdoc #MarineScience

🎉 Feeling inspired by this year's annual meeting? #BES2025

Our SIG will be seeking a new chair in 2026, which is a fantastic way to get more involved with the BES.

📩 Get in touch at quantitative@britishecologicalsociety.org to register interest and get more info!

Thanks to everyone we met at #BES2025!

If you have a minute pre-xmas break, please help us shape our BESAG 2026 Annual Meeting by filling out our super short questionnaire below!

Also, keep your eyes peeled on our socials in january, we'll soon be looking for a new comittee member 👀

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📣 Today’s the day!

🕕 Meet the SIGs: 18:00-19:00

📍 Mezzanine

Come meet the Quantitative SIG, then head with us from the Atrium to The Fox & Faun from 7:30pm for our SIG social with Aquatic & Teaching & Learning.

See you there! 📊🍻

#BES2025

Coming to #BES2025 this week? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We'll be there too!

Come find us at the Meet the SIGs session! 🌊
📍Mezzanine
🕰️ 6-7pm

We'll then head to the pub for drinks and food for a joint social with Teaching and Learning & Quantitative @bes-quantitative.bsky.social SIGs! 🍻
📍Fox & Faun
🕰️ 7.30pm

📈 Quantitative ecologists at #BESAnnualMeeting - we’d love to see you!

Join the Quantitative SIG at Meet the SIGs (Tue 18:00–19:00), then come along to our joint social with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social and Teaching & Learning SIG.

Good company, games, food & drinks to be had! 🍻

📊 Heading to #BESAnnualMeeting next week?

Come and meet the Quantitative SIG at Meet the SIGs on Tuesday 18:00–19:00 at the EICC.

A great chance to chat quantitative ecology, hear what we’re up to, and get involved 👋

Stick around afterwards for the SIG socials!

There's still time to sign up!

Don't miss out on today's Quantifying Ecology webinar. 11am BST.

Quantifying Ecology - British Ecological Society The Quantitative Ecology SIG are teaming up with a cohort of BES groups to put on a series of free webinars exploring all facets of quantitative ecology.

1 week to go until our next Quantifying Ecology webinar with
@besaldernetwork.bsky.social!

Feat. Taiwanese forest SDMs and RainbowR, an organisation promoting LGBT+ voices in the R community.

Tues 14th Oct @ 11am BST

Sign up here: bit.ly/3HWpEol

🍄 Opportunity alert!

Natural England are looking for a UK-based collaborator to support analytics for a Fungal Red List for Great Britain.

Tasks include bias assessment, Frescalo modelling, AOO/EOO, and data presentation (Shiny or Excel).

📩 Get in touch: Matthew.Wainhouse@naturalengland.org.uk

Anyone interested in queer ecology, forests or SDMs... roll up! 🌲🌈📈

📣 Two weeks to go! 📣

Don't forget to sign up using the link below.

Join us for our next webinar, with @besaldernetwork.bsky.social!

Catherine Mercer and Ella Kaye will present their work predicting forest distributions using SDMs, and with @RainbowR, an organisation promoting LGBTQIA+ voices in the R community.

Tues 14th Oct @ 11am BST

Sign up: bit.ly/3HWpEol

Walsh PhD Scholarship: Modelling the impact of climate change on #forest productivity
Details at: drjonyearsley.github.io/agriadaptPhD...

Apply by 30th Sept 2025

@bes-quantitative.bsky.social @bes-forests.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social @ucdearth.bsky.social @teagasc.bsky.social

Last chance to sign up!

Great to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks for coming along!

📣 Last chance to sign up! 📣

Tomorrow at 10am.

📣 Don't forget to join us on Tuesday for our next webinar!

One week to go before the next webinar in our Quantifying Ecology series. Don't forget to sign up!

Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible...

Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤

Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV

📣 Join us for our next Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣

This time, Dr Rémi Fay will present in collaboration with @bes-parasitesgroup.bsky.social :

"Modeling the dynamics of brucellosis in an wild Alpine ibex population."

9th Sep @ 10am BST bit.ly/3HWpEol

This was a great way to start a Tuesday - thanks to @jamesaorr.bsky.social‬ and looking forward to the rest of the talks in the series 💻🌿

📣 One more day to register! 📣

We kick off tomorrow at 9am BST.

Our Quantifying Ecology series is kicking off next week! Join us on Tues 5th Aug for our first webinar 🐟

📬 Subscribe now to receive this month’s Quantitative Ecology Newsletter!

Featuring the latest on events, research, opportunities, and of course, our quantitative meme of the month.

Sign up here: bit.ly/3Ieke7T

(Photo credit: Instagram @britishecolsoc)

📣 Don’t forget to sign up to our first Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣

We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for:

”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts”

5th Aug @ 9am BST

bit.ly/44SzlwG

📣 Don’t forget to sign up to our first Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣

We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for:

”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts”

5th Aug @ 9am BST

bit.ly/44SzlwG