We're delighted to announce that applications are now open for the EDGE Fellowship 2025!

If you're an early-career conservationist from Asia or the Pacific, we want to hear from you.

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The saddest part of my job is seeing the ecosystem I love and live to protect dying in front of my eyes… The fourth global coral bleaching event has been confirmed. calacademy.org/press/releases…

Sauron had a lot of problems, but he knew how to manage a wetland. The Dead Marshes were one of the environmental gems of Mordor, and an impressive nature-based solution to help remediate the environmental damage caused by the corpse issue after the Battle of Dagorlad

Enjoyed starting a YouTube channel describing concepts in conservation. Have ideas for future videos but welcome suggestions of something interesting that illustrates a general issue. Also welcome ideas for getting this known by those who would benefit.
youtube.com/@Bill_Sutherla…

I saw an idea recently that I thought was lovely…public libraries that are open late every night so ppl can socialize, as an alternative to bars or sitting alone at home. Would be especially perfect for introverts to socialize comfortably and for older people who are lonely.

Women are neglected by the medical system in almost every way.

Women are more likely to die from almost every illness and disease than men are because medical science is studied on men, not women, with very few exceptions.

Science knows little about female bodies and the…

Shooting more and more badgers dead is not the solution to tackling the spread of tBT in cattle.

The dairy industry needs to fix its bio security, stop moving infected dairy cows around the country, and work to stop cattle-to-cattle transmission – not demonise badgers.

Urban cats should be kept inside.

We have reached a 1.5 C world which is not a safe world - its an extremely dangerous world and will push us even faster towards a a 2 C world in 2030s of drought famine and devastation no human has ever seen before
But its not even enough to make main stream news

I try not to complain much about my job man, but this year one thing I’m feeling super acutely is how much like k-12 university teaching has become.

It’s increasingly so different from my undergraduate experience that I’m starting to feel old and somewhat frustrated.

#JobAlert
!! NB short deadline: 12th April 2024

Research scientist on „Transport, slaughtering and killing of farm animals“
Institute of Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Celle, Germany

More information: applied-ethology.org/Research_Scien…

Round 2 of cervical cancer shite. Got an egg sandwich, but biscuits were crap.

Challenges & opportunities in human dimensions behind cat–wildlife conflict conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

'Free-ranging cat ownership & abandonment occurred less with owners with more knowledge of biodiversity & invasive pp than with respondents with less knowledge of these subjects'

Killing over half the wild population of badgers when they are not the primary cause of disease in the cattle herd is a scandal and an ecological disaster.

It’s time we demand our policymakers protect nature, not attack it > buff.ly/3T4QsnT
#EndtheCull #BadgerMonday

In which a middle-aged and middle-ranking academic thought to make a few quiet points about universities and mental health, and instead the whole thing got a bit out of hand. Ooops. You might as well read it anyway. voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…

Really interesting short doco about 50 years of litter on Skye youtu.be/6G4LVAEn1s0?si… via YouTube

East Antarctica 38.5C above seasonal average on March 18th.

Biggest jump in temperature ever recorded at a met station - anywhere on Earth.

Just staggering.

Make no mistake.

Anything is now possible. And I mean anything.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Ohhhh yes. Another one!
Field Inclusive is happy to offer ONE $2000 FALL Travel Award for a marginalized or historically excluded student to attend any conference, workshop, or training opportunity in a natural sciences field.

This application will close August 1, 2024 at…

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board?!

Me: Yes, but not that kind of ...

Flight attendant: Pilots are arguing about the phylogenetic position of extinct nonradial echinoderms

Me: Tell them to come over here