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Marcus Collier

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Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Trinity College Dublin. PI of NovelEco (www.noveleco.eu) @noveleco.bsky.social ERC Consolodator Award. Research: #naturebasedsolutions #novelecosystems #citizenscience #multispeciesjustice #naturepositive .. more

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jul 12

Great weather for doing some research on drystone wall ecology. Here, with two recently graduated students working as excellent research assistants, Órla R. Fitzgerald and Evelyn Sweeney, we are collecting some very preliminary data and testing methods.

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · 9d

We are hiring!
Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation at Trinity College, School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Botany! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Any enquiries, please DM me!
#academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Sep 6

Past to future 2/2 🌍 We outline 7 key actions: protect historical data, expand digitization, harness new tech (AI, CV), engage citizen science, ensure FAIR & ethical use, foster inter- & transdisciplinary work. Past insights for future #conservation🌱Big thx to @laenavarro.bsky.social for leading!

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Sep 6

Past to future 1/2 🌍 Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com perspective shows how archives, maps, art, oral histories & palaeo-records can enrich #biodiversity science—helping set baselines, track change & inform #conservation. 🔗 rdcu.be/eEcIt #history #ecology #baselines

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NovelEco Project @noveleco.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marcuscollier.bsky.social & Megan Lynn Maurer. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth

Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities

Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Aug 7

Only days before submitting her thesis, my PhD student Natalia just had her 2nd @noveleco.bsky.social paper published. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities' is open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth #novelecosystems

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