Yara Shennan-Fapón

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

08.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 4737    🔁 1834    💬 142    📌 83

Understanding regenerative agriculture in Europe: An analysis of academic literature, stakeholder perceptions and policy comparing Spain and the UK Europe’s food and agricultural systems face multiple threats, from soil degradation, to water availability, high input costs and changing agricultural…

The work and evidence-base on #RegenerativeAgriculture is
growing. This month, results from the H2020ReSET project @markmulligan.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
were published tinyurl.com/3mbhfn5u We show need for evidence on RA barriers, costs, outcomes to be integrated in policymaking

09.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for confirming! A shame for academic research authors since we are encouraged/required to publish in open access journals, meaning we now miss out on payments.

02.09.2025 19:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does anyone else feel like the conditions for scientific publishing recognition by @alcs.co.uk have worsened? Is this policy that payments cannot be recevied for articles in open access journals new? #research #publishing

02.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social:
"The Role of Science and Scientists in Public Environmental Policy Debates: The case of EU agrochemical and Nature Restoration Regulations".
We reflect on how to debunk misinformation and help depolarize heated debates.
👉 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

19.06.2025 07:35 — 👍 25    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

Our role in @mip4adapt.bsky.social includes bringing together actors from European local & regional govs to learn latest advances in science and practice. Next event on #RegenerativeAgriculture w/ @britishecologicalsociety.org @dryad-project.bsky.social ReGenL & Access to Land 🗓️ tinyurl.com/5buuw4e5

12.06.2025 09:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Making starter packs seems to be the hot thing and I noticed that we don't have one for conservation scientists (🧪), so here we go go.bsky.app/3CZDnb2
So if you are an active researcher and would like to be added, reply here. Please no journalists or NGOs, there are other starting lists for that ;)

11.11.2024 19:42 — 👍 246    🔁 120    💬 132    📌 12

Always happy to spend time with farmers, this time extensive livestock farmers/landowners from Spain's savanna, the Dehesa. Grateful for their time and knowledge of #NbS already in use. From 14 NbS proposed, there were clear winners, including rotational/holistic/regenerative grazing 🌱#DRYADProject

07.05.2025 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to read this!

03.04.2025 09:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A flyer for the British Ecological Society Symposium called "Nature, Farming and Food: How we value our land" happening 19-20 June 2025. The symposium is a partnership with BES, TABLE and the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery. Early bird registration and call for presentations is now open.

Evidence and data about what we eat, where and how it’s grown are some of the most contested scientific debates in the public sphere. All along the food chain, ecological and environmental data about farming are produced by different actors at different scales. How do we ensure scientists, farmers, policymakers and the public are making decisions based on the best possible information?

This symposium will tackle the debates and their politics head-on. It will ask how claims made about the impact of food on land and ecosystems differ when voiced by farmers, corporations or ecologists, and ask how we can work together to create the best evidence. The event will present an opportunity for a diverse range of delegates to present their research and/or practice on what we eat and how we produce it, with a focus on the potential and the pitfalls for how ecological information about food systems is designed, produced and communicated in different ways.

With the goal of solutions-oriented approaches to food systems transformation in the UK and across the world, this symposium will also address the realities of working in partnership in science, policy and practice.

How do we value land?

TABLE is partnering w/ @britishecologicalsociety.org & @naturerecovery.bsky.social on Nature, Farming & Food Symposium (19-20 June) to bring together science, policy & practice.

Registration & call for presentations is open: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-...

27.02.2025 12:56 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

70% of the UK is farmland. Essential that sustainable, reasonable land inclusive land use planning is achieved to avoid total nature depletion, as well as the ecosystem services that go with it.

27.02.2025 11:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A tinted portrait of Rachel Reeves, the UK Chancellor, is overlaid with bold white text reading: "Is Rachel Reeves about to defund nature?" Below, lime-green text warns that the UK Government might be cutting the farming budget, which would be disastrous for both farmers and nature.

Right now, the UK Government is considering cuts to the nature-friendly farming budget – the biggest pot of funding for nature.

Here’s why that would be a disaster for farmers, food security, and wildlife.

A thread. 🧵👇

26.02.2025 14:07 — 👍 207    🔁 99    💬 10    📌 8

👋🌎🔬 Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and our move to bsky 👋🌎🔬 @icatalist.bsky.social

12.02.2025 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beautiful trip to visit one of the dryad-project.eu field sites in the Spanish Dehesas, Extremadura. Historically managed socio-ecological systems, Holm Oak open woodlands, livestock, silvopastoral grazing, and jamón ibérico.

06.02.2025 17:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Smallholder farmers and efficient ranching practices critical to meet ambitious restoration targets in Brazil's Atlantic Forest A new study led by King’s simulated the effects of various restoration policies to assess their impact on biodiversity and agricultural production.

Thrilled to see my last #PhD paper on restoration policy scenarios for Brazil’s Atlantic Forest published shorturl.at/pQ1Ie We modelled stakeholder-driven scenarios with different restoration targets to assess trade-offs for agriculture, biodiversity & people www.kcl.ac.uk/news/smallho...

21.01.2025 09:11 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Is Bluesky social where we do blue skies thinking? If so, happy to be here 👋

26.11.2024 09:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0