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Five pioneering UCL researchers have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) grants of £1.25m each to pursue cutting edge research in neuroscience, economics and conservation UCL Faculty of Life Sciences UCL Brain Sciences IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL Social & Historical Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/sep/…

What does #COP16Colombia need to deliver? On the second day of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, hear from Dr Izzy Bishop who is attending COP16, Professor Kate Jones and Dr Tristram Wyatt. #UCLbiodiversity #PeaceWithNature #PazConLaNaturaleza

Paper accepted 🥳🙌 in #philtransb (Royal Society Publishing) is a nice way to start a grey Monday. Watch this space to learn more about how clustered warming tolerances drive non-linear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet! 🥵🌎🌿

A bonfire can look like the perfect place to hibernate for #hedgehogs at this time of year!🦔 This #BonfireNight use our checklist to help reduce the risk of harming hedgehogs + other wildlife! #rememberhedgehogs🎇👇

Rewarded by beauty 😍🐝 It wasn’t easy to find a wasp nest this year due to the wet weather! But still, thanks to Big Wasp Survey we got one! Today it’s the end of our study, and looking at this abandoned nest, it’s beautiful. Wasps are amazingly talented architects!

Huge thanks to Cintia Oi for teaching me everything there is to know to work safely with wasps 😇 I haven’t got stung a single time!! And to Prof Seirian Sumner for convincing UCL East campus UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research and Kate E. Jones 🦇 that the #PeopleNatureLab Garden would be a perfect home to welcome them!

Wonder why there is a picture of a Dutch shoe? Well, they find Steve’s shoe rather a nice location to build a nest. Thank you Steve for donating the nest. We will make sure you get the shoe back, so maybe next year a new nest emerge!

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) starts today. Find out more about how climate change affects biodiversity and meet UCL's team at COP29: bit.ly/3NCRmWo #ClimateUCL #COP29Baku #UCLGenerationOne

Applications open for Sept 2025 intake of UCL's MSc Biodiversity & Global Change. Learn the latest scientific research and skills to address global biodiversity changes, with leading researchers from UCL Faculty of Life Sciences , ZSL Science, and Science at the Natural History Museum. APPLY: ucl.ac.uk/prospective-st…

Wild bird numbers continue ‘alarming’ decline in UK, Defra figures show | Birds | The Guardian ⁦The Guardian⁩ RSPB Science⁩ ⁦UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research⁩ ⁦BTO⁩ ⁦JNCC⁩ #ornithology theguardian.com/environment/20…

🌱 Announcing TREES! 🌍 The NERC-funded Doctoral Landscape Award led by UCL & partners will train future environmental scientists through interdisciplinary research and a commitment to EDI & sustainability. 🔗 Learn more: trees-dla.ac.uk

Right that's it. I'm leaving! I'm off to #BSKY. You can find me here: @Waspwoman.bsky.social Some fab starter-packs of people to follow floating round - come over and join the fun! We're working on a #Wasp StarterPack of people to follow! Post your BSKY handle here to be added.

Some French language coverage of our work on airborne #eDNA with Arte4 from UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research UCL East campus NPL arte.tv/fr/videos/1230…

Great review of Virtual Worlds: Corals at the Grant Museum of Zoology - a collaboration between UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research marine biologists and Datascape Realities to create an immersive underwater journey. ucl.ac.uk/culture/news/r…

Moving over to Bluesky with others - will miss some of the great science, conservation, birding, butterfly, nature news & people here - find me @richgreg3.bsky.social RSPB Science UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research RSPB

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**NEW PAPER ALERT** **VIVA NEWS** Jo Trafford recently passed his viva on Friday 10th AND has published a paper on 'Experimental Evidence of Rapidly Decaying Environmental DNA Highlights Infection Risk from Two Major Amphibian Pathogens'. The London NERC DTP doi.org/10.1002/edn3.7…