How it started How its going

Super job! Well done all! What a cool project doing Species ID on a chip :) 🦏🧬👩‍🔬

The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean science.sciencemag.org/content/371/65…

One of the most extraordinary examples of mimicry. This is a planthopper pretending to be a weevil *going the other way*. The “antennae” are extrusions from the abdomen; the insect’s eyes are at the other end… But does it walk backwards, too?

Dutch radar reveals mass southward movements of birds in response to frost and snow. The interesting thing, to me, is that birds only seem to move after conditions deteriorate. If they would be able to predict such cold events you'd expect them to start moving sooner, right?

Are you struggling to find time to consider #conservationevidence in #conservation practice? Kent Wildlife Trust helped develop a strategy for evidence use, appropriate to the range of decisions required and the time you have available. #openaccess here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.…

Funded post-doc position available with Hannah Mossman, Rachel Dunk and me. Come and measure organic carbon burial in new saltmarshes manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r… 🌎👩‍🔬💧🧑‍🔬🌱👨‍🔬🦆 Ecology & Environment Research Centre @ManMetUni MMU's Department of Natural Sciences #saltmarsh #ecology #isotopes #organicgeochemistry

I am delighted that my review on familiarity as a cue to kinship in social birds has been selected for the Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution 2020 Highlights. It's a pleasure for this to feature alongside other excellent research published in a very challenging year #Ecology shar.es/aoIkaB

Watching another moorland burn in Peak District National Park from my house. So frustrating to watch this while in a meeting about wetland restoration and carbon sequestration Tim Birch #Glossop

*New Paper Klaxon!* “The case for a design-led, end-user focused airport noise management process“. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… This one took a lot of late-night reading and writing. Thanks to Jack for his expert input, and to whoever invented coffee for keeping me going.

WOWZERS! Awesome footage of Kestrel vs Hobby at the Stow Maries nest box with @DenisStr Possibly one of the most incredible things I have captured! See the other clips on my blog: wildlifekate.co.uk/post/kestrels-… Chris Packham Hawk and Owl Trust RSPB BBC Springwatch @SIBirdClub

I tweeted about my irritation with mainstream nature conservation the other day, and it prompted some interest. I've now written a blog: 'Time to Get Angry: Beyond the Cosy Consensus in British Nature Conservation'. jmdean1982.medium.com/time-to-get-an…. Please have a read.

A new entry in the charts for Highly-Anticipated Bird Books of 2021. Make sure you get it from the good folds @sounds_wild when it lands.

well done and cool paper

Exciting new paper in Evolution Evolution Journal by the Frommen Lab (Ecology & Environment Research Centre @ManMetUni) highlighting how age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness shape the structure of highly cooperative fish societies in the wild. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

This one is amazing…😵‍💫

Filmed this morning by Jean Louis Kakoua Atsima, the DTA at Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, this elephant is feeding on aquatic plants in the Ivindo River above Koungou Falls - in the Ivindo World Héritage Site.

What are whiskers for? How do they work? And what can we learn from them? Robyn Grant explains in our latest video with @BBCIdeas, with the help of some porcupines!