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White mountain ermine hopping in the snow... Enjoy #bluesky 😊

Tenure track position in English linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) / tenure track -tehtävä, englannin kielen tutkimus (Apulaisprofessori tai Professori)

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Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics.

The closing date for applications is August 18th.

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Interested in insects? Join us at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social on Tuesday 24 June as part of @royentsoc.bsky.social’s National Insect Week! 🪰🪲🦋🐞🐝🪳

It’s a tough one. These are society-led journals that reinvest in the community with grants, mentoring, events, etc. There are also discretionary waivers @funecology.bsky.social

BioArtAttack 2D BioArtAttack 2D is a drawing and painting competition for children aged 7-18 years old to draw or paint their favourite animal, plant or fungi. The Nancy Rothwell Prize is now a sub-category for speci...

Calling young UK-based artists!

To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨

🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...

Field drawing of Charaxes cognatus, also known as the Sulawesi blue nawab. The butterfly is shown from the front and side, with some parts of the wings coloured.

We're rounding off #IAW25 with this drawing from Alfred Russel Wallace's Butterflies of Malay Archipelago notebook (MS/181).

You can access this, and over 61,000 other records with over 218,000 images, at Linnean Online. linnean.access.preservica.com
#ArchivesAreAccessible

One of the rarest birds in Scotland - a very fragile population discovered only a few years ago.

In an effort to balance the "Editors/Reviewers as gatekeepers" (& the "Mike's a miserable old git") narrative, I'm having a great start to today by handling a really interesting, well-written manuscript on cool niche-related things.
Reach out if you'd be interested in reviewing such a manuscript! 😄

Mapping the ‘National Estate for Nature’ – and what it should do next This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: the Lulworth Ranges in Dorset, on a long lease from the Weld Estate to the Ministry of Defence. Back in March, the Government announced it was forming a new &#…

In March, Ministers launched the ‘National Estate for Nature’ group – bringing together some of England's largest landowners to do more to restore nature.

I've now mapped what these landowners own - & set out what the National Estate for Nature should do next 1/

whoownsengland.org/2025/06/10/m...

Come and join us in Newcastle for a wonderful gathering of network ecologists! This year our theme is 'Network Ecology in the Anthropocene' and our plenary speakers include Jane Memmott and Paulo Guimarães. Symposium tickets are an absolute bargain, especially for students.

New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe

pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

Can I love this post more than once? ;)

A photo of a group of people in front of a traditional Mediterranean building with a wooded hill in the background.

A group of people smiling at the camera. They are stood on a scenic viewpoint with a wooded valley in the background.

We had a great week hosting MSc students and staff from the University of Lincoln. We’d like to say a big thank you to all involved. Thanks especially to the students who really got enthused by the conservation and management of this area. Good luck with your future careers! @g-iossa.bsky.social

CAMS European ground-level grass pollen forecast (Copernicus and ECMWF): higher grass pollen concentrations are indicated on this map for Portugal, Spain, France and Italy for today

Do you know the pollen forecast of CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social?

Check it out for grass pollen to view the situation in Europe today and the near future.

Source:
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa...

A Copper Sun Jumper spider under UV light. The spider is small and dark but its palps are glowing a blue-green colour.

A Copper Sun Jumper spider under white light. The spider is small and dark with pale legs and yellow palps.

Trialling out a new piece of our field-kit: a UV torch. Check out the palps on this juvenile male Copper Sun Jumper (𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴). Really exciting to see this fluorescence - and interesting to consider what function this may have. #biofluorescence #arachnid

Amazing! The students had a fantastic time, thanks Sophie and Fabrizio

Fabrizio holding out a plant so that listening students can understand its features. Three students stand to the side, listening.

The top of a limestone platform in the garrigue. The oak trees are bare of leaves, and mosses and low-lying plants cover the limestone with green foliage.

Students leaning down to take photos of orchids. The orchids are not yet open, but have pointed, dark flower buds.

A dung beetle, 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪, rolling a ball of dung.

Day 2 with Neuchâtel and we’ve been exploring the garrigue. This is a Mediterranean scrubland habitat based on limestone soils. We found specialist plants, including orchids. Although small, one of our highlights was finding the dung beetle 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 rolling its balls of dung.

The front page of a project in iNaturalist. The description reads "Organisms spotted during the University of Neuchâtel Mediterranean Ecosystem field course to the south of France, 2025. Areas covered include the Cevennes and the Camargue." 784 observations have been made, with 509 species recorded. Below this are titles depicting the most commonly encountered species including plants, birds and mayflies.

A very good start to our year with 509 species recorded on @inaturalist.bsky.social during the Université de Neuchâtel field course. Highlights were Early Spider Orchids, plus Southern Festoon butterflies. It will be exciting to see other universities rise to this challenge in our 2025 league table!

A group of people in front of a traditional building. In the background there is woodland with a mix of tree species in it.

A group of people posing on a viewing platform. Behind them are rolling hills of green oak woodland.

We’d like to say a big thank you to our visitors from KU Leuven. We had a great time hosting you all. Thanks for being so enthusiastic, in both your project work and on our excursions. We wish everyone all the best for their future studies in ecology! @aquaecoevocon-kul.bsky.social

A group of people examining the flowers on a tree.

A paper wasp on her nest. The nest is small and contains about 30 cells.

A Violet Bird's Nest Orchid. It is a purple flower with yellow stamens. An ant is visiting it.

A group of people walking along a path in a forest. A woman is crouching down to take a photo of a plant with her mobile phone.

We had a great first day with our visitors from the University of Lincoln. We explored the local habitats around the centre, and deployed our first camera traps for the week. Highlights on our walks were a paper wasp on her nest and a Violet Bird’s Nest Orchid: a parasitic species with no leaves.

A group of people carefully catching moths from inside a moth trap that is under a sheet. There are pots on the table in front of them for storing the specimens.

A Poplar Hawk Moth. It is grey with angular wings.

A female Napoleon Spider. She has a yellow abdomen with black markings that resemble the bust of Napoleon wearing his bicorne hat.

Two students approaching a meadow with sweep nets. One is in the process of sweeping her net down into the meadow grasses.

Day two with MSc students from the University of Lincoln and we have focussed on insects surveys. First by identifying the contents of our moth trap, then by sweep-netting in the meadows. Highlights were this Poplar Hawk Moth and Napoleon Spider, which has markings resembling the bust of Napoleon.

A group of students looking through telescopes and binoculars at rolling green hills.

A pair of Przewalski's Horse stallions fighting. They are rearing up at each other and one has its mouth open. They are on short green grass with stunted trees nearby.

A Short-toed Snake Eagle it flight. It has a pale underside with rows of fine spots.

A group of staff and students stood smiling at the camera. There is a gorge in the background with slopes covered in trees and emergent limestone cliffs above.

Yesterday we spent a fantastic day with MSc students and staff from Lincoln, exploring the Causse Méjean. Plenty of orchid species, plus lots of birds of prey. Highlights were a very close fly-by by Short-toed Snake Eagle, plus fighting Przewalski Horse stallions at their conservation site.

Students and staff on a field course. They are next to a river, examining samples captured by kick sampling, and placed in a white tray on the ground.

A Spinycheek Crayfish

Five students kick-sampling in a shallow river. They are spaced out across the width of the river, each holding a kick sampling net.

Staff and students examining samples in white trays in a covered terrace.

While here with us, MSc students from the University of Lincoln learned a range of field techniques. One exercise focussed on freshwater invertebrate sampling and ID, which is a useful tool in assessing river health. ‬@g-iossa.bsky.social @sheborg.bsky.social

The Château du Fraissinet in autumn. There is a long gravel drive leading down to a large building. The borders of the drive are lined with lavender and small cypress trees. In the background there is a hill covered in woodland which is just starting to show the signs of autumn turning the leaves from green to brown.

A student taking a photograph of a fallen trunk. The trunk is covered in lots of brown mushrooms. The student has vibrant pink hair in plaits and is wearing a baseball cap and t-shirt.

A group of students examining the contents of their sweep net for collecting insects. In the background more students are looking at a field guide to identify their findings. It is autumn and the sun is shining on the old buildings of the chateau behind them all.

A group of students sampling invertebrates in the shallows of a river. They are wading in wellington boots and have long-handled kick-sapling nets and white trays. Some are looking in their tray to see what they have caught.

We’re gearing up to welcome our first field courses of the year, starting next month, and are looking forward to a busy spring. However, we still have availability this autumn if you or any of your colleagues need a field course location for your students.

‘No one wants a building that kills birds’: why cities are turning off the lights Activists demand action to stop birds crashing into high-rise blocks

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year?

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand

Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta:

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Eighty percent of England’s peatlands are dry and degraded, mapping shows Healthy peatlands can help tackle the climate crisis but degraded peat emits carbon and contributes to global heating

“Eighty percent of England’s peatlands are dry and degraded, new mapping shows”

Time to stop letting grouse moor owners & farmers burn them, then…!

(Consultation still open on moorland burning ban plans)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

430.51 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 10-May-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...

High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide

Schöngart et al. in @natclimate.nature.com

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