The advice for dealing with climate-deniers (& delayers): “Provide them no oxygen. Block and report if you must but don’t engage.” “We have zero years left” Short article summarising the IPCC (Climate Change) report 2021 in the tweet below is well worth a look.

New lineage of carnivorous plant with traps on the flower stems. Avoids pollinator-prey conflict by capturing insects smaller than its pollinators. Paper is behind a pay wall doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… And summarised here and elsewhere: news.sky.com/story/scientis…

Great day yesterday for #remotesensing using the multispectral drone for a bit of everything: species composition, plant health and orchard yield prediction data. Cheltenham and Gloucester off in the distance(ish!)😎

Another day in the field #remotesensing for plant health and flower counts. Sunflowers should be fairly easy for the model to identify…

Contrary to what you may think, a sunflower head is actually a collection of hundreds, if not thousands, of smaller flowers. Can be seen in the photo below if you look closely, flowers opening from the outside but not yet the in centre.

I am proud to find a very good commentary from Dr Axel Mithöfer published focusing on a paper I (and colleagues) submitted to Annals of Botany Annals of Botany earlier this year: Spotlight on prey-induced metabolite dynamics in sundew. doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc…

A bizarre and interesting example of unexpected outcomes of the reintroduction of a species. Hyperparasitoids and all! theguardian.com/environment/20…

The butterfly that drinks caterpillars alive… Challenge: find a more enticing article title about science theguardian.com/environment/20…

What? Are you serious. "doing the right things" A huge unfunded tax giveaway to the top 1% is "doing the right things"? Biggest tax cuts in 50 years when public sector are breaking due to under-funding is "doing the right thing". What a bizzare thing to say.

“I have come to Antarctica to receive post and count penguins… and I’m all out of post” bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Field site recce visit with Louise Best, Dr Chris Hatcher and Julia Webb today for undergraduate teaching and postgraduate research projects. Lovely to see a fine herd of Longhorn cattle being used for grazing as a surrogate for the extinct aurochs 🐮

I love starting my working day like this 🤦🏻‍♂️

Beautiful frosty day in South #Wales looking at GlosGeog and Uni of Glos Ecology & Environmental Science FieldTrip sites

Blimey, I bet the peat corer was heavy coming out of this one

Great session today with prospective ⁦UGlos Bioscience⁩ students covering all things from carnivorous plant evolution to drones and microscope skills in ecology

Lightning just set off the fire alarm. That’s new!

📰Published📰 Carnivorous sundews are more carnivorous in high-light bog microhabitats that are not also nutrient-rich buff.ly/3VKigQx

Researchers from Loughborough and University of Gloucestershire have uncovered how sundews become more carnivorous in certain habitats 🌱 They alter the density of their leaf tentacles and the uptake of nitrogen from prey to thrive in different microhabitats. Read more ➡️ lboro.uk/4atiCkP