It's balsam bashing season 🌿 🌸
Himalayan Balsam is a pesky invasive plant. Whilst pretty, it can cause havoc in woodlands with each plant able to produce up to 800 seeds per year.
Live near #Drumnadrochit? Join the gang at #UrquhartBay this Saturday & get bashing 👇
17.07.2025 09:03 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
A group of 9 IAPETUS DTP PhD students
Final @iapetusdtp.bsky.social student conference of my PhD. Thanks to Heriot-Watt University for organising & hosting! A good @newcastleuni.bsky.social turn out! @sagencl.bsky.social
15.05.2025 17:21 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#crayfish friends - are you sitting on primary data on crayfish populations?
we are looking for partners in a global trait gathering programme. Currently have 50+ contributors from a full global spread but looking for more!
Please dm me or email me j.south@leeds.ac.uk
Please share!!
24.01.2025 10:13 — 👍 20 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1
UKCEH scientist Eleonora Fitos measures a survey plot in a flowery meadow
📣 #HiringNow: Seeking 3 x experienced Field Botanists or Field Ecologists for a 6-month full-time role starting in April.
Your expertise will support the ERAMMP team delivering a national field survey across Wales.
Apply by 25 Jan: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CEH_Careers/...
#UKCEHJobs
16.01.2025 16:16 — 👍 24 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 2
New paper! 'Integrated management of the raw water transfer invasion pathway'.
This paper shows the incredible scale of the pathway in England and Wales. Pathway stakeholders must support RWT information sharing.
www.reabic.net/journals/mbi/2025/1/MBI_2025_Waine_etal.pdf
#invasive #freshwater
15.01.2025 10:02 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A photograph of an upland landscape in northern England with text over it. Title reads: “Expert input needed for multi-taxa biodiversity research project across northern England’s uplands”. Subtitle reads: “Species, habitat or regional specialists please contact franky.rogers@uea.ac.uk”. Logos for the University of East Anglia, RSPB and ARIES DTP in the top right corner.
Do you have knowledge or expertise in taxonomic groups found in the UK’s uplands? I’m looking for naturalists to contribute to autecological analysis as part of a #biodiversity audit assessing impacts of land-use change across eight of northern England’s protected landscapes 1/4
10.12.2024 13:45 — 👍 11 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 3
Dove Marine Laboratory was looking particularly picturesque this morning!
09.12.2024 19:02 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Diagram showing how tree species diversity can influence understory plants through changes in microclimate which in turn affects phenology and nectar and pollen quantity and quality. This may affect pollinator visits and plant fitness
📣 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & @philstevenson.bsky.social within @treesdla.bsky.social on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 🧪🌍 Apply by 20 Jan www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...
07.12.2024 08:54 — 👍 199 🔁 103 💬 5 📌 3
Hi! Please could I be added if there’s still space? Thanks! 😊
05.12.2024 21:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Window now open to apply for a BSBI grant for 2025!
We offer grants for short #WildFlowerID courses (our online course Identiplant & courses from external providers), for Plant Study & Research.
Our Grants page also lists other grants that we think might be of interest to botanists:
bsbi.org/grants
01.12.2024 18:49 — 👍 55 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 3
Thank you!
03.12.2024 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Professor @VirginiaTech
Director of Invasive Species Collaborative
Invasive species | ecology | policy | soundscapes | sneakers 👟
PhD Student at Newcastle University and Fera Science looking at genome assembly SNPs and GT-Seq for management of invasive species 🐝🪱
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/saraholiviagriffin
Poetry collection New Famous Phrases March 25 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social New Northern Poet | New Writing North North East Poet | BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Forester, foodie, FICFor, FRSE. Currently Chief Scientist at Forest Research. Views my own.
Ecologist and PhD student researching on Vespa velutina and Harmonia axyridis
Ecologist. Ecological modelling, ecosystem services, invasive alien species, and wildlife trade. Often found running models or marvelling at reptiles
Ecology professor | Global citizen | Local agriculture supporter | Father to a prodigy | iecolab.org
British Ecological Society Invasion Science Special Interest Group
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/invasive-science-group/
Ecology, evolution and conservation of reptiles and amphibians • Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution at Newcastle University • Scientific Associate at Natural History Museum, London • He/Him
Hi Bluesky! 👋
🌿 Four Gardens, One Botanic World
🌍 Global centre for biodiversity science, horticulture and education
📍 Visit Edinburgh, Benmore, Dawyck & Logan
https://www.rbge.org.uk/
PhD in public awareness and perceptions of invasive species, University of Stirling
PhD Student at Durham University.
Studying effects of rewilding in the UK on vegetation structure 🌳 & microclimate 🌡️.
Also keens interests in tropical ecology, primatology, conservation tech.
I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
PhD student at Newcastle University
PhD PGR in Marine Ecology 🧜♂️🌊 | Urchin Barrens & Kelp Forests 🌿 | IAPETUS2 DTP scholar @ Newcastle University | Scientific diver, videogame nerd, and nature lover | A chilean in the North-East !
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodrigo-Munoz-Cordovez
INVASIVESNET facilitates development and delivery of open knowledge and open data on #InvasiveSpecies
https://t.co/ei7wEMKJvu
Entomology, forestry, forest health, Extension, science communication, life in academia. Youth sports coach and dog owner. And you can't have too much bacon.
PhD in camera trapping and citizen science | Research fellow in biodiversity and society at Coventry University | Learning to manage ME/CFS | Walkies and belly rub co-ordinator for Zephyr the labradoodle
Asst professor, fish ecology, movement, invasive and introduced species 🐟🐠🐡
