Jacob Parkman

Frequently asked question:

“Hey David, I’ve seen you arrange shark research field skills courses and one-day expeditions for a variety of universities and organizations. Could you do that for my group?”

Absolutely yes! Let’s chat.

Are you looking for a wild PhD opportunity? 🦠🧵

There are several opportunities to join the Wild Microbiome Lab in 2026! Scroll for more information, or visit the link below for full project descriptions and application information👇

xavharrison.github.io

Reminder transphobia affects more than just trans people

Some great research coming from my lab group!

Well that’s my highlight of the season done and dusted already.

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’ New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

"The first-of-its-kind study shows that the world’s biggest oil and gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to global renewable energy — contradicting industry claims to be pioneers in the energy transition."

Really cool this! New insight into where museum specimens come from is always welcome, would love to be able to apply it to egg collections (many of which are unlabelled due to their collectors being old, bored, 19th century toffs who were only in it for aesthetic value and prestige).

THE #REDROSES ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS!

A brilliant peformance in the final against a Canada side who never relented.

England's forward pack sensational, Heard brilliant - what a moment infront of over 80,000 people.

#RWC2025 #WomensRugby #RWC2025Final

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

I have a fundamentally different political view to that entire March today.

But I am fucking sick of the rank classist comments eg referencing things like "flat roof pubs" and Wetherspoons when talking about it.

Stop painting working class people as stupid racists;

New BirdTrack migration blog just landed! Read here: www.bto.org/our-work/new... #Ornithology

My rent's gone up by almost 20% - and my landlord wants to evict me Glasgow tenant Elle Glenny says the impact of a rent increase has been catastrophic.

"The landlord says the rent increase reflects the market rate for the area."

Translation: "Every other landlord round here is hiking the rent, so I reckon I can get away with it too."

This is exploitation, plain and simple. We need robust rent controls now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Tree Sparrow perches on a branch showing its chestnut crown as snow falls. Wording over the image reads we need your help across the UK for the Winter Bird Survey starting in mid-September!

1/ Calling UK birders! 📢 We need your vital help to fill data gaps for bird populations outside the breeding season via the Winter Bird Survey ➡️www.bto.org/winbs #Ornithology #UKBirding

The men are shit, the women are shit, the Union’s full of cunts, your club’s about to be cut, and it honestly feels like it’s only going to keep getting worse. Welsh Rugby in 2025 is the pits.

Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction

Forests are vital in fighting climate change. 🌲

The Amazon Soy Moratorium has been one of the greatest successes in halting #deforestation since its implementation in 2006.

Scrapping it sends the wrong signal ahead of #COP30 and threatens the Amazon. ❌

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our paper is already one of the ten most-shared on social media articles in the history of the journal.

As of right now, 14 people have posted about it on Twitter.

And 1,018 people have posted about it on Bluesky.

Which sorta makes our point here?

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for community Moscar Moor is not for sale, but the group hopes to secure it under new Community Right to Buy law.

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for the community

Local Labour councillor Minesh Parekh said: “I look forward to people making use of the upcoming 'Community Right to Buy' legislation to bring mismanaged land into community hands”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starting a scrap while a player is down injured and then saying “he’s fine” over and over again before he’s carted off? Yeah there’s a limit and that was way past it.

Ongoing collapse of avifauna in temperate oceanic islands close to the mainland in the Anthropocene | Journal of Animal Ecology | besjournals.onlineli... | #ornithology 🪶🌍🧪

My response to those who say it’s “too late” to address climate change and global environmental damage.

It is NOT too late. As long as one tree is still standing, one whale is still swimming, and one child is still breathing it is not too late to protect something precious.

A yellow and two reds in union? Might have missed one knowing origin.

WOW!!!!!!!!!! SOMERSET CHASE DOWN 230 AND WIN BY 5 WICKETS!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Spineless on student loans, spineless on AI theft.
Nick Clegg is 12 stone of pond slime stuffed into a suite and held up by the resulting noxious gasses & a true scumbag.

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

These books just arrived. Our new crop pollination book with info about fruits, vegetables, bees an conservation measures came out 😊 I hope we will also produce versions adapted to other countries.

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.

Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice www.wired.com/story/intell...

Incredibly cool!

Today we can announce a panel of judges has found:

- The ecological case against industrial sandeel fishing is sound

- The UK has the right to stop this damaging fishing in its waters

This means sandeels can be safeguarded for the seabirds that need them.