Robin Pakeman

New paper from our excellent student Noemi Naszarkowski dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Wildfires have much more and longer standing effect on dry heaths than on wet heath or bog vegetation.

Great news! From 1 January 2026, Nordic Journal of Botany will be a fully #OpenAccess journal! We are pleased to make NJB content freely accessible and increase the visibility of your published research!
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Been listening to the football whilst driving home - Wales vs the Netherlands. Really struggling mentally with Holland playing against the Dutch.

A panoramic landscape view of the glen. A single shadow is cast from the right-hand side.

We are preparing for 2 new #VR #LTE experiences this year!

One is the Glen Finglas LTE where @robinjpakeman.bsky.social ‬@hutton.ac.uk is looking at the effects of sheep & cattle #grazing on grassland #biodiversity. bit.ly/Gfinglas

We will be visiting the site in 2 weeks to film for it 🌎

Nice. I think we've stayed around there in the past.

Calgary?

Few days left to apply! Arctic vegetation mappers don't miss this amazing opportunity to work in #Nuuk with a great team! 🇬🇱👇

NEW ISSUE: SPECIAL ISSUE Exploring karst biodiversity: ecological, evolutionary, and conservation perspectives. Guest Editor: Meng Li, Nanjing Forestry University. Twelve exciting articles on karst environments!
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@nordicoikos.bsky.social #specialissue #karst #biodiversity

Just to prove we made it to the North Sea.

Day 7. Final day from Norham to Eyemouth, then Berwick to get the train to Edinburgh. 57 km under blue skies and a headwind for the morning. Most stressful part of the journey is the train travel- terrible facilities on trains unless you have a small road bike. Total distance 479 km.

Day 6, Melrose to Norham. Only 61 km today of rolling countryside, mostly using back roads a few miles north of the Tweed. Brilliant sunshine but a nagging headwind again.

Day 5 of the Kirkpatrick Way, Newcastleton-Melrose. 73km, more than expected as the gpx route took us to a locked gate on a boggy and tree invaded railway line. Long climbs in the morning followed by rolling hills for the afternoon. The easterlies have become northerlies as we turned north!

Day 4, Annan to Newcastleton, and past the halfway mark. Headwind all day bit relatively easy roads. Only 49 km as accommodation options are limited for the next 40 km. Very much border country and passed the famous Gretna Green blacksmith shop. Now entering the hills.

Day 3 of the Kirkpatrick Way. 70 km from Castle Douglas to Annan. First half through rolling hills with the odd cheeky climb, second half on the flat into a headwind. We lunched with Scotland's favourite poet and had good views of the Lake District. Finally, a shot of a #heron for heron lovers.

Some wind sculptured trees near Kirkcudbright. 77 km today through gently rolling hills.

One from yesterday I forgot to post. This is Luce Bay site #1 in the Scottish Coastal Survey. We repeated the survey mainly in 2010 and 2011, but this site had to wait until 2013 to get safe access to do the repeat at the same time of year as it was done in 1976.

Day 1 of the Kirkpatrick Way, Portpatrick to Newton Stewart. 77km of rural quiet roads through Galloway. Hardest thing was finding the velocipede sculpture at the official start in Stranraer. Gratuitous sea kale piccie to show how close to the sea we were at times.

End of day zero of the current bike trip. Only 12 miles so not a proper day. Most of day taken up with three trains to get from Edinburgh to Stranraer including two hours on Ayr station. View is of Portpatrick harbour - extreme SW Scotland.

Well done Dr Eshelman

NEW ISSUE: The NJB May issue is out! The cover shows the locus classicus of Astragalus tangeh-zendanensis sp. nov. (Fabaceae), north of Damghan, Iran. Photo and article by Reza Naderi et al.
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3 year postdoc position on this coming up here in beautiful Bergen - if interested keep your eyes peeled! 👀

NEW PAPER: A case study on structural development and ecological services of restored mangroves in Adyar Estuary, India by Viswanathan et al. The illustration shows the ecological significance of afforested mangroves in Adyar Estuary, Chennai. #mangroves @nordicoikos.bsky.social

No prizes for guessing where I am today.

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️

Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I'm hiring a Research Hub Manager for the AIB Trinity Climate Hub @tcddublin.bsky.social This is a fabulous opportunity to build an excellent and exciting research culture for climate and nature across all faculties of Trinity College Dublin. my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes

We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

2-yr postdoc on Forecasting Biosphere-Scale Effects of Ecological Novelty Using Species Distribution and Vegetation Models - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University

🚨Postdoc opportunity @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍
Help forecast how rising ecological novelty reshapes #biodiversity & #vegetation 🌿 Work at the interface of species distribution models & dynamic global vegetation models 🌐🍃♨️- based in Aarhus, Denmark shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology

Grassland scene near Boulder, CO

📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.

We've been saying this for years.

The cows just tend to "blow the bloody doors off"