Round 2 of field work in the Sierra is a go! And boy, does Spain look beautiful at this time of year! 😍🌼🏔️Time to get some thermal physiology data on those early flying species with Rob Wilson 🦋🔥

Postdoc opportunity! Come and work with Asst Prof Weng Ngai Lam and myself #TEELab on #nutrientcycling & #leaflitter #invertebrates in #urban #forests in Singapore Asian School Of The Environment

Great write up.

Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Thrilled to share our new DICE Kent research on fire impacts - hot off the press🔥 in PNASNews

Working with BorneoNatureFdn & using 16-years of data, we examined the ecological impacts of fire and potential for recovery in Indonesia's tropical peatlands🧵1/10

Damn.

Look! A job opportunity! I’m hiring a research technician in my lab to work on CT scanning and segmentation of birds and mammals. Apply now if you love vertebrate anatomy: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…. we’ll also be hiring a Postdoc on the project soon.

Pls RT. #Job !

Deadline approaching! 19th April - #Bioinformatician role in #Evolutionary #Genomics - come work with us on a Natural Environment Research Council funded grant. See post 👇 and link for details.
ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Drop us a line if you have any questions!
UCL UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research

In Scotland, BrewDog aimed to create a 'Lost Forest' on land they bought by planting 100,000s of trees, despite lots of natural regeneration.

Why? Because they got £690k in grants. The result? Most of the planted trees died.

It's a racket, pure + simple
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2024/04/14/bre…

What a way to come back to twitter to begin my hunt for a #postdoc ! I was so incredibly happy to win best oral presentation European Cetacean Society this year in Sicily. Thanks for hosting such a great conference, I learnt so much 🐋🐬🦭

These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
Jane Willenbring was the first to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and assault in Antarctica. Years later, women are still coming forward with tales of horror.
wired.com/story/women-an…

Now in GEB Journal: Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography 💧☀️🌡️ Paper led by me & Jonas Lembrechts Koenraad Van Meerbeek Pieter De Frenne and collaboratively written by 97 participants of #MEB2022 - thank you! And see you at MEB2024 in August in Finland!

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Great to see our review on microclimate in ecology and biogeography out in its full glory. ❄️🔥🏔️🌳🌍 Big thanks to Julia Kemppinen 🏳️‍🌈 for expertly leading the (massive) team through this project! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Thrilled to be a For Women in Science L'Oreal/UNESCO UK & I Rising Talent this year! This award supports my research on 🦋 at Queen Mary University of London & my motherhood 🥲. ⁠ What a month!

- pic to reflect on the change we need for representation of #WomenInSTEM .

Thank you UNESCO UK & L'Oréal UK & Ireland!🌟

Our new contribution to wasp positivity! with Bob Brown & Prof Seirian Sumner ! Thank you to all fellow scientists who contributed anonymously to our research, especially the Insectes Sociaux community! UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research IUSSI_NWES

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Accepted to GEB Journal: Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography 💧☀️🌡️ Paper led by me & Jonas Lembrechts Koenraad Van Meerbeek Pieter De Frenne and written by 97 participants of #MEB2022 See you in August at MEB2024! Meanwhile preprint here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

Very pleased to announce that I've moved to Helsinki to take up a position with Luonnonvarakeskus! I've freshly arrived and am so excited to be here. What a stunning welcome from these blue skies 🥳

We're hiring a 4-month data science/ML postdoc in my group at I-X Imperial Life Sciences!

What will the future of eco-acoustics look like? Biodegradable sensors? Adaptive sampling? Apply by 18 March, start ~May

Do some cool science in London with us
imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti…

Deadline for this is tomorrow!

Seeing this tweet promoted by Elon Musk made me want to do the stats for France.

Top 5 men: 2812, 2720, 2673, 2637, 2610
Top 5 women: 2588, 2476, 2413, 2367, 2333

Definite proof that men have a (biological?) advantage at chess and especially in top-level competition?

Wait...

Exciting PhD studentship opportunities (x2) to work with me on social insect-soil-plant interactions in relation to anthropogenic habitat change (further details: tomfayle.com). Fieldwork in Malaysian Borneo! Deadline 28th February 2024.