Functional Ecology Lab at Uni. York, UK

The final version of the book should be available late next week (probably Aug 14th).
I will let you know here when you can get the final paperback hardcover and eBook version!

Never tire of that view.

Image of a big with water and red moss in the foreground and conifer trees in the background.

Photo of sundews on moss.

Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.

@dmrippin.bsky.social yikes!!

Beautiful bog woodlands of the Cairngorms. New surveys and experiments to reveal the functional diversity of these special places is now under way. We urgently need to better value these habitats and understand their sensitivity to climate change.

Remnants of woodland in NW Lancs offer calm and cool in the recent extreme heat. More connectivity and open access would benefit all

Drop me a line Robert.mills@york.ac.uk if you want a natter sometime.

@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social enjoyed the petrichor session… if you ever want to chat on soil ecology, and why soil organic matter is the most precious thing on Earth, drop me a line

Do you know what time of year this photo was taken?

Thrilled to announce our webinar series:

🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱

We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.

Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!

Judging by the amount of Rumex, I think you’d have company too ☺️

Exactly that, conserving and protecting those places is key. Good old rough edges and mixed systems (wood pasture being an excellent option) are a way to start to bringing in diversity into the agri-landscape too alongside putting land to woodland regeneration

Whilst there is no doubt that conversion of forest to intensive grazing is an ecological catastrophe, it’s important to nuance this perspective: some of the most species-rich ecosystems on the planet are low-intensity pasture and meadow systems. Not all livestock agri is the same.

This is lush… where be this?

Oooh, Woodstock decomp? Also will be doing that this year.

Oooh, would be very keen to learn more about this!

Congrats to Zheng Fang on his latest PhD paper. This one shows that #microplastics can reduce the toxicity of salinity to #earthworms and that salinity is a more significant environmental challenge to earthworms than microplastics.

authors.elsevier.com/c/1lEy415DSl...

PhD Scholarship - Microbial Communities and Soil Health in Restoring Grasslands at Edge Hill University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD Scholarship - Microbial Communities and Soil Health in Restoring Grasslands at Edge Hill University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Deadline extended. Funded PhD studentship at Edge Hill University with a wonderful Cumbrian field site. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Can do! Drop me an email Robert.mills(at)york.ac.uk

Some alpine delights from obergurgl this week @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Open top chambers (OTCs) are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally assess climate change impacts. In this picture we see a bunch of them newly set up in a mountain grassland

An Open Top Chamber (OTC( in a grassland, seen from above, with some plots inside. The plots are 50% vegetarion, 50% bare soil. OTCs are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally Assessment climate change impacts.

Msc student Silje Steine has her ducks in a row! 😉. She is sitting at a table sorting many many little bags into neat stacks, in a candle-lit mountain cabin. The bags contain seeds to be sown as part of a field experiment.

MSc Student Silje Steine sitting in a meadow, bent over a vegetation plot, sowing some seeds. Lots of bags, equipment, recording sheets in the foreground.

Update! @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social & MSc Silje Steine @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social have now set up plots & OTCs, prepared and sowed seeds of 8 lowland species into the alpine, with/without warming & neighbours. Excited to see results over the summer!! #ITEX #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

Exciting! What species and why?

Students from the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York, hanging out in the amazing forests that surround Obergurgl, learing all about alpine ecology.

@uoyenvironment.bsky.social #Obergurgl #Austria #PhotoRippin

Morgen!

Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences - University of Bologna

One month left to apply for a PhD position in my group on the ERC funded project EcoMEMO.

Link to the PhD course and application: unibo.it/en/study/phd...

Please contact me if you need more info on the project, the group and life in Italy in general.

More info below⬇️

Collecting lichens to explore their role in degrading plant litter whilst on the branch @britishlichensociety.org.uk

Arrived ready for a week of lovely alpine fun @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social Obergurgl.

Arrived ready for a week of lovely alpine fun @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social Obergurgl.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025

New #FATESmodel postdoc in Oslo! Come and join our team :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo