🔊 Come and join us for the grand finale of our AI series. Hosted by Jane Birch, this panel discussion will explore AI, its environmental impact and use to achieve good:

🗓️ 26 April
🕝 2.30pm to 5.30pm
📍 The Guildhall York and online
▶️ Book tickets: bit.ly/ai-environment…

🚜 How has farm management evolved over time?

In his latest paper in Agricultural History, Shane Hamilton looks at the evolving landscape of farm management across the last 100 years: read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-h…

Looking forward to exhibiting Growing Stories For Different Climates later this month. The audio composition uses acousmatic storytelling to explore synergies between food growing, climate & diasporic connections amongst black & minority ethnic peoples in the UK & beyond.

Getting ready for the CityNatureChallenge The species are lining up to be recorded.
York City Nature Challenge 2024

Study assesses the impact climate change could have on the distribution of ecosystems across the planet up to the year 2500, giving a global picture of how much humans, animals and plant-life may need to adapt.

york.ac.uk/news-and-event…

13th May from 7:30pm, come to Fulford Arms and find out if male elephants work together when they're scared! 🐘🐘

NEW BLOG: Reaching a new audience: behavioural ecologists of the future?

Helen Mylne shares her recent visit to St. Oswald's Primary to talk all about her research on African savannah elephants and introduce the children to Squank the elephant

york.ac.uk/anthropocene-b…

New Paper:

'Projected future climatic forcing on the global distribution of vegetation types' [...to 2500 CE]

Dr. Bethany Allen David Williams @[email protected] robmarchant Lindsay Stringer Michael Clark & Ariane M Burke
Royal Society Publishing

#climatechange #biodiversity

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New paper on assessing inconsistencies in historical global land-use models such as HYDEv3.2.1 using archaeological and historical reconstructions with Daryl Stump, Colin Beale and Chris Thomas Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity
#LandUse #Africa #historical
doi.org/10.1007/s10113…

LCAB visions - 13 May 2024

Join us as we showcase our work to date & our strategy for the next 5 years, marking our mid-grant change of Directors as Prof Chris Thomas hands over to Prof Lindsey Gillson.

Book your place now! Open to all University of York staff

york.ac.uk/anthropocene-b…

🌳Are you passionate about trees? Join this joint workshop for @UniofYork researchers to explore the many ways tree studies cut across diverse disciplines.
Alison Dyke Joanne Morris Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity School of Arts and Creative Technologies, UoYork Archaeology UoYork Department of Environment and Geography
30 April➡️ow.ly/NKL650R3hLh

Researchers, including #LCAB PDRA Jamie Carr, call for support for traditional Nigerian bakeries to shift to clean energy to reduce deforestation. Improved awareness of alternative energy sources & policies to address the issue are urgently needed.

york.ac.uk/news-and-event…

New paper finds fuelwood use for cooking is an big #deforestation driver in Nigeria + policy on energy transitions focuses on households, neglecting commercial bakeries. Lindsay Stringer Aliyu Barau Julia Tomei Rob Marchant Eleanor Jew Joshua Kirshner
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#LCAB PhD student Molly Brown recently helped curate an ivory exhibition at National Trust for Scotland Brodie Castle. Using examples from the Castle & drawing from sources across the globe, her blog explores historic & contemporary issues around the ivory trade.

york.ac.uk/anthropocene-b…

We might not officially be in the Anthropocene epoch but humans are part of Earth’s system and integral to its processes. What else do #LCAB Director, Chris Thomas, and others have to say about the term⬇️

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Biology at York The Leverhulme Trust

📢New blog post: Society trusts scientists, so trust yourself and talk to the press.

PhD student Molly Brown shares her takeaways from the ‘Introduction to News Media’ session run by the Science Media Centre. #smcintro

york.ac.uk/anthropocene-b…

🍽️Dive into responsible food production + consumption with Prof Sarah Bridle & experts at this Panel Discussion! 🌱 Don't miss your chance to quiz the experts! Part of #sustainabilityweek University of York.

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#Antarctica 's #ecosystemservices are critical to the entire world. They are valued at ~US $180 billion annually (a massive underestimate). Check out our new paper about how this was calculated.

'Sharing flight behaviour across multiple species seems to reinforce this ‘don’t eat me’ message.” 🦋
Fascinating research from @biologyatyork offers new insights into the self-preserving techniques used by inedible butterflies: bit.ly/3wvpiit #YorkResearch

Congratulations Biology at York team Take It or Leaf It qualifying top in #BUC2024 and through to the semi-finals👏🎉. Your #LCAB supporters were on their feet for that tense tiebreaker!