Supporting safe and equitable access to field research
To celebrate Pride Month 2025, we are excited to share a series of blogs and podcasts highlighting useful articles and resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and researchers. In each post, the authors bโฆ
Very useful blog on safety in the field, with the focus on marginalised communities. Thank you @zoomingbio.bsky.social and @britishecologicalsociety.org for this piece; mandatory reading for anyone teaching and organising field courses.
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methodsblog.com/2025/06/17/s...
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๐ข FOLOU is launching a news article series to share insights from the case studies carried out within the project โ focusing on #foodloss during primary production.
๐ Read the first article: www.folou.eu/introducing-...
๐ฌ Questions or ideas? Feel free to join the conversation in the comments!
04.06.2025 09:47 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐15th Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Showcase Event
โญ๏ธUniversity of Edinburgh, 3-4th September 2025 and will focus on the theme of 'collaboration'
โญ๏ธAbstract call open: forms.gle/z63AUAmCbF9F... Deadline 6th June
โญ๏ธFree in person & online registration
enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/the-efl-show...
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Competence-based education - British Ecological Society
Join the Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group for this webinar on using competency-based frameworks in ecological education
Join the BES Teaching and Learning Group for this webinar on using competency-based frameworks in ecological education.
Date: Tuesday 03 June 2025
Location: Online
Time: 10:00 โ 12:00 (BST)
Registration: Free โฌ๏ธ
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/ecol...
02.05.2025 10:54 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Understanding Food Loss | EIT Food Learning Services
EIT Food is supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union
We have had great learner engagement in the first two weeks of our new open, online course on Food Loss developed as part of the FOLOU project.
Please join in with the exciting conversations by registering for this free course, accredited by EIT Food! learning.eitfood.eu/courses/unde...
28.03.2025 12:58 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
ยฃ15 million food surplus fund now open for applications
Food redistribution charities can submit applications for grants starting at ยฃ20,000
This sounds like a great initiative to reduce food loss โฌ๏ธ Join our new online course to learn more about this important issue (@FOLOU EU project)
www.futurelearn.com/courses/unde...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
16.03.2025 18:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Understanding Food Loss - Online Course - FutureLearn
Discover practical ways to reduce food loss in farming, boost food security, and improve sustainability in food production. Grow sustainably online with the University of Reading.
Are you interested in understanding how to measure & reduce #foodloss?
Join our 2-week online free #course from the University of Reading, developed as part of the FOLOU project.
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100% online via FutureLearn
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Certificate
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@EITFood accreditation
๐Sign up: rdg.ac/food-loss
11.03.2025 18:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
One month left to apply for this PhD investigating the on-farm management changes required to integrate the production of food and energy while supporting biodiversity on UK farmland.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The PhD is linked with the EU Value4Farm project value4farm.eu
05.03.2025 10:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
value4farm โ Sustainable renewable energy value chains for answering farmersโ needs
There is great potential to integrate the production of renewable energy and food from farmland through innovative technologies such as agrivoltaics and small-scale anaerobic digestion to produce biogas.
The Value4Farm project has three demonstration sites: value4farm.eu Videos: lnkd.in/dftaX8rd
05.03.2025 09:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
EFL 2025 "Fieldwork Collaboration"
Abstract call now open (deadline 6th June): forms.gle/s69hQ67VYa2p...
Register now for in-person and online attendance: forms.gle/HDi56EEQA8fB...
28.02.2025 11:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
If you are at the #BES2024 conference and interested in teaching & learning - join the T&L group social event this evening! Details below โฌ๏ธ
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If you are going to #BES2024 please consider coming to the joint social evening with the Teaching and Learning Group and Quantitative Ecology Special Interest Group on Wed 11 Dec. Meet us at the conference reception at about 7pm or head to the Pump House for 7:30. Weโd love to see you!
04.12.2024 06:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
Quantitative ecology (especially seeds, and all who eat them), game-based/playful learning, ducks, cats, flowers, fantasy fiction and storytelling. Views my own.
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Researcher/lecturer ๐ฉโ๐ซ in Agricultural Chemistry (Soil science) at the University of Florence, Italy.
Coordinator of LEGUMINOSE project (https://www.leguminose.eu/)
Interdisciplinary research on land systems, conservation, and restoration
Assistant Professor for Resilient Landscapes at Wageningen University and Research ๐ณ๐ฑ
www.martin.science
Biรฒleg. Vigatร . Relacions Institucionals i Comunicaciรณ al @ctbeta.cat.
Contributing to sustainable rural development and transition to circular bioeconomy.
At @uvic-ucc.cat
Conservation ecologist, Pollinator afficionado, Wageningen University
Led by Prof. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, weโre the ๐-hive of biodiversity research at the University of Wรผrzburgโs Biocenter, Germany ๐ฉ๐ช From buzzing tropical forests to European farmlands, we decode how climate and land use changes shape the web of life.
The FOLOU project aims to bring knowledge and consensus to prevent and reduce FOod LOss at the primary production stage - Funded by the European Union.
Uncommon fondness for crispy M&Ms.
Our Planet. Decoded.
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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI is a CGIAR research center (@cgiar.org). www.ifpri.org
A strategic alliance of philanthropic foundations working
together and with others to transform global food systems.
Working for a secure #FutureofFood for all.
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Ecologist interested in how biodiversity, farming, and people work together. Agroforestry enthusiast. Research Lecturer at Uni. of Reading (she/her)
Professor of Sustainable Agriculture. Nature-based Solutions; Grassland Specialist; Expert Wildlife Gardener. Views are my own.
Conservation charity bringing everyone together for the love of trees ๐ณ