📢New research alert! Our new paper investigating the interactive effects of land-use change and climate change on biodiversity is out this week in @NatureComms! This includes a shiny new land-use change map for Britain. A thread on the findings...🧵(1/17)

Some fantastic news from Sycamore Gap ⛰️ 🌳 ⛰️ , where everyone’s favourite tree is ALREADY re-shooting! 🌱🌱🌱 For it to do this only ~9 months after being felled is the sign of a healthy & resilient tree https://t.co/WUM2OIl6Q3

Another great piece of research from one of our @NUGeog PhD ducklings !🦆🦆🦆Tracking the fate of seagrass over time on the Maldivian archipelago via ground-truthed remote sensing. Such important work @matthewmartinf

Out today! New research from the awesome @Kateehalstead @ONEPlanetDTP on the effect of Storms Arwen and Barra on Oak trees (Quercus robur and Q. petraea). Unusual wind direction (northerly) seemed to cause more windsnap vs other comparable storms ('87) https://t.co/MPqhtV0SJu

Fantastic to see our applicants (and their parents) enjoying themselves at our #NUX experience day on the weekend with @andysuggitt and @ChrisBullOceanO Predator (ladybirds) v prey (aphids) is always a popular activity - a gift from the very wonderful Mike Jeffries !

And ICYMI I did a full thread on this project a few months back: 🧵 https://t.co/DL97wZcMkK

🗺️New! We wrote an article for the @RGS_IBG all about maps- and specifically on how @AGAuffret & myself & a fab team of researchers quantified the huge changes in land use in GB over the mid-late 20th Century. Access the land conversion maps for free here

Our new study in @NatureEcoEvo looks at how assemblages of birds, butterflies and plants have changed across Great Britain in the last 50 or so years. 🔗 https://t.co/KiJe7bDF92 🧵Some key results

It is an honour to have one of the best unis in UK @NorthumbriaUni / 2024 @NUGeog Geography Field Trip. Display of equipment associated to atmospheric and soil sampling to be used in #Tenerife. #environmentalsciences / Team supervised by @andysuggitt Logistics: @GeoTenerife

Robert, Ian & Keith getting absolutely nailed by the supermarkets this year. 15p per bag. Normally supply chain abuse & financial unsustainability is set at 19p at this time of year - and costs have spiralled in 2023. Effing grim.

Do you have interesting #microclimate research you want to share with the scientific community? Please submit an abstract for the BG3.27 session 'Advances in Microclimate Research: Methodologies, Applications, Trends, and Adaptation Strategies' at #EGU2024

WTF Whipsidderry. Another predictable rock fall. We’ve now surely, due to the developer’s arrogance, lost all future access, via the steps, to the beach. @BBCCornwall @CornwallCouncil @NewquayCouncil

Does your workplace have a policy for supporting neurodiverse staff? If so, would you get in touch and share it with us at @UCUNUbranch? @Autism @autismspeaks @AutismSociety @autismtalknd @awnnetwork_ @AutisticGirls_ @NEAutismSociety

Here's our new #nighttrains map for 2024 including the new lines starting today. Anything missing? Any mistakes? Please note we don't include irregular car-only and cruise trains.

Come and join the Cascade team; seeking researcher to work on science-Policy Knowledge Exchange. Deadline 21st Dec ⏰

📣 FUNDED PhD opportunity in London @QM_SBBS for Chinese 🇨🇳 nationals via Chinese Scholarship Council. Balancing selection in butterflies using genomics & machine learning, with Dr Matteo Fumagalli. DEADLINE 31 January 2024 https://t.co/7CbZnO4qSA DM/email for any questions!

If you've ever wondered what it's like working in the UK, I just submitted a risk assessment ... for a Zoom meeting.

… impressive new infrastructure from @EnvAgencyYNE’s Flood Alleviation Scheme to treat the symptoms, but given rate of increase in high flows due to climate change (+0.9cm/year at Viking recorder!), we should be doing all we can upstream too (2/2).

I got the train Newc ➡️ York for a catch-up with local @RGS_IBG last night. Standing water most of the way. York currently on Red Alert, floodgates were closed, “Flooding is expected” (ditto River Foss at Haxby, Derwent Valley). Residents of York will recognize the scenes… (1/2)

Out today. Hopefully it will be well received, masses of new information - up by 112 pages to 528

For an ecology paper to get in Nature it needs to be so general that the title could be understood by anyone. Meanwhile, cell biology/DNA papers...