Prof Nicki Whitehouse

Visited Mar Lodge on Tuesday. What an incredible landscape! Full of historic features too.

Penultimate day in Puglia and I am very sad to go home on Saturday. We've had a wonderful 3 week break. I could have happily have stayed another week but work becons back and then fieldwork. So, still plenty to look forward to! Today we had another amazing day at this beach. No people due to wind!

Yes, I did visit a wetland on my holidays in Italy! This is the one at Torre Guarcello... And then stunning sea behind. This was a real highlight today

Streets of Polignano. #Puglia

Visited Polignano yesterday, was well worth the trip but already busy. Excellent lunch too! Pasta di seppie.

It was up to 38 Deg a couple of days ago but a bit cooler now

I like dry heat and not been too humid. High humity and high heat is pretty awful though!

Personally I really like the heat but son and hub are finding it hard going so may be relieved by some coolness

Incredibly hot here in Puglia! 38 Deg on the shade and even the palms are wilting...

Visited lovely Ostuni last night - great place full of vibes and enchanting small places

Fires are springing up everywhere across Puglia. We drove through 2 fires going alongside the motorway. The heat is already having major impacts across the region...

We are now on Puglia. It was 38.5 at one point this afternoon .. hot!! 🥵

Yes, it's v enjoyable! Though hot indeed.

Coastline at Maratea Porto. This really is a stunning coastline. Not too busy either. Would highly recommend this area of southern Italy

Visited Maratea yesterday. View across sea to the Golfo di Policloro. It's beautifully green down here and rather quiet as we are off the tourist route.

Finally away on our holidays! Staying in this gorgeous location in southern Italy. Up in the hills so not boiling hot yet but very nice indeed.

The ancient genius of drylands Written by – Mudit Joshi Drylands don’t often make headlines. They’re not lush like rainforests or dramatic like melting glaciers. But behind their cracked soils lies one of the most su…

Great new post by one of the AGRI-DRY MSCA PhD Fellows Mudit Joshi on the ecological adaptations of plants in drylands environment, as part of the AGRI-DRY EU/UKRI MSCA DN
agri-dry.org/2025/06/15/t...

Spent yesterday peat coring on Hatfield Moors. It's hot and dry out there, vegetation impacted by lack of rain

Sampling for peat carbon content on the Went as part of land use for net zero project respect

📢Calling all archaeologists, ecologists, landowners and landmanagers - Please check out the details for the 'Into the Wild Network' questionnaire on approaches to rewilding -
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Please share our #rewilding survey with ecologists, land manager and archeologists.

Coring along the river Went today as part of new lowland peat project on managing land use conflicts

View across Genova yesterday evening. It's a really nice city to visit, not too busy at all right now and v pleasant. Now back to Scotland!

Venue for today's workshop university of Genova

Thank you for the post!!

Are you interested in re-wilding? We have a questionnaire on re-wilding and the historic environment open, and keen to hear from ecologists, land managers, and archaeological practitioners. Access the questionnaire here - uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Another day on the field yesterday. This time up to Ben Lawers for my PhD student Issy's fieldwork, excavating a peat stack for sampling. Stunning scenery and weather at the moment here in Scotland

First fieldwork of the season on Flanders Moss! And a glorious day it was. This is part of the new land use project based at @uofglasgow.bsky.social

In a state of pure decadence, I believe I have watched about 80 episodes of various Chinese dramas the last few days. A total of 4 series have been watched over the last week and I'm enjoying every moment of it!

It looks lovely! It's rather too warm here at 11 Deg... Some sunshine would be 🤗