The recent European heatwave caused significant air-sea heat transfer, resulting in a massive and severe marine heatwave (MHW) in the western Mediterranean Sea with current temps of up to 5degC warmer than usual. So what?.....

How do people who live away from their only ageing parent cope? Sometimes it’s unbearable being far away, sigh.

DICE Kent 5/ Turns out that the conservation sector may need to improve on its ability in selecting the right things to measure in order to achieve its purpose & objectives. The idea is simple 💡, challenging to actually do 🤔, but not impossible to get better at 💪! #DICECON22 #ConEffect

#DICECON22 #WlifeTrade 6/6 Species-level data is crucial to measuring the real impact of #WlifeTrade. Upgrading monitoring protocols requires us to know how and why they are failing. This analysis provides a framework that can be applied to other diverse taxa 🦐🦜🕷️🐍

Oh wow those numbers of animals in wildlife markets! Great work Bristol Rigby! Looking forward to reading your results!

Day 1 of #DICECON22 is over, and it’s been fantastic! We’ve had talks on everything from the impacts of nickel mining in Indonesia to rewilding in the UK, from how smells in nature impact well-being to how images of chimps help conservation fundraising.

Couldn't present this myself at #IUSSI2022 in San Diego (#becauseijusthadababy🙃). Using #ants to show that invasiveness is linked to greater commercial success in the global pet trade (paper published last year in #PNAS, pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… ) 🐜👽

This is as good as any bug if you ask me.

1/6 I'm working with my supervisor Matthew Struebig and @m_ddlvoigt to highlight how forest dependent species in Borneo have been affected by #deforestation and which might require reclassification on the IUCN Red List. #DICECON22 #Landsea2

1/6 #DICECON22 #LandSea2 As a part of my MSc I have been researching how co-locating #aquaculture with offshore wind farms could provide both environmental and economic benefits to the UK. #SaveOurOcean #ClimateCrisis #conservation

1/6 Hi everyone! I'm studying Maltese snake distributions! As the islands are experiencing immense urban expansion, the snake species are at risk of severe habitat constriction impacting their distributions as well as suffering declines from other threats #DICECON2022

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll contribute to the global overdepletion of the ocean. So give him a salad, maybe.

I have a bunch of hummingbird books on my shelf at work that all make the same crazy claim: hummingbirds flap their wings 200 times per second. Here's text from Johnsgard 1983, for instance.

The new academic year is about to start, and we are being balloted for strike action AGAIN. Year after year of strike action is really hard on students, & its exhausting for us. If you think student fees have been used to improve #HigherEd, think again #EnoughIsEnough #UCURising

This is an excellent resource from Survival International - words like wilderness, bushmeat, wet markets, poacher, untouched have power to harm. There is so much work to do to #DecoloniseConservation

Just published! Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality with @DrDavidLRoberts Andrew L Rhyne Orion Goodman and D Cawthorn We review CITES lists and look at cases 1/2 authors.elsevier.com/a/1gnkz1R%7EeS…