The paper looked at snake responses to differing volumes of pink noise. Very interesting, but they did NOT play sounds of human screams. These sorts of headlines are not helpful for snake conservation & probably not the attention the researchers had hoped for

Congrats to Flora Rendell-Bhatti & team!

I urgently need your help!! 🦈 🌊 Endangered sharks are being eaten in our fish and chip shops, under the misleading name of rock salmon. Please help get this important petition to 10K by midnight. We need sharks in the ocean for years to come! Pls RT petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6213…

Ended the week with some success. Now let it rain!

Not an ideal first week of life as a pond

Snow-SHMOW! The pond has a NEWT! It took a whole 5 days from spade-to-newt. Job done.

🐸💚🐸 It’s that time of year again Did you know which one is Frog spawn & Toad spawn ? Here’s the answer frog spawn is laid in clumps Toad spawn is laid in strings 🐸💚🐸

⚠️❗️ Funding for #Ecology is falling behind other sciences! Our latest policy report found that while in many research areas, UK Research and Innovation funding has increased by 2.8 times between 2006 - 2021, funding for #EcologicalResearch only increased 1.5 times... britishecologicalsociety.org/new-reports-ca…

A month of rain later and the pond is full! Presenting the latest UK designated protected area (thanks Dad for the excellent signage) 🐸

🍃How can we balance conservation and restoration of habitat with people’s need to access nature in England? 📅We have a few places left to attend this in-person event in London on April 19 Find out more⬇️britishecologicalsociety.org/event/people-p…

How can we improve collaborations between ecologists & policymakers? Join us tomorrow to find out! We will be hosting a joint online panel discussion with the Civil Service Climate & Environment Network on working together to better inform UK policy⬇️ britishecologicalsociety.org/event/bridging…

🌳🌿 Not sure why this tree went over but it’s been down for at least 2 years yet still continues to drop its leaves every autumn 🍂 and blossom every spring 🌸. Amazing! (🐶 Bailey for clickbait).

Paper alert: Integrated species distribution models fitted in INLA are sensitive to mesh parameterisation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… Bob O'Hara Kate E. Jones 🦇 Bat Conservation Trust

Dear councils, If you manage small verges like this, they could be lifelines for pollinating insects next spring if you reduce mowing and don't spray them with weedkillers. You'll be saving bees and butterflies by saving time & money. Looks better too! 🐝

Wonderful surprise having smooth snake appear on BBC Breakfast yesterday morning. Well done Owain!

Our NEW PAPER is out in Royal Society Publishing #ProcB! You can read it here #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology UKCEH Paper Alerts Invertebrates have declined between 1990 and 2019 in Great Britain, and declines are stronger in areas of intensive arable and horticultural farming. 🧵

We need more and better wildlife-friendly farming options to halt biodiversity loss theguardian.com/environment/20… New paper from 👩‍🎓Francesca Mancini, me & others

Humans use more than a third (~15,000 species) of Earth’s vertebrates, and almost 40% of exploited species are threatened by human use 🦧🦉🦜🐆🐢🦏🐡🐸🐫🦥🐟 Check out our new paper in Communications Biology today 🔗nature.com/articles/s4200… #biodiversity #humanwildlife #openaccess

Climate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing? I developed this table of impacts for my book 📕 ‘Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction’ based on the IPCC 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 reports Beyond 1.5°C #ClimateChange impacts gets worse and worse

Job role with @Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Recovering #Adders on the Cotswold Escarpment Specialist gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/jobs/recoverin… #snakes #reptiles #conservation