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Mike Shewring
@mikeshewring.bsky.social
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Ecologist / conservation scientist
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lesserspotnet.bsky.social
Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at its nest in New Forest, photo by Steve Laycock Six Lesser Spot young in a Quantocks nest, photo Gus Robin
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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peatlandcymru.bsky.social
Want to restore your peatland as an asset for future generations?
£10K-£250K grant to develop a plan and/or to action its restoration.
Recorded guidance webinar now online youtu.be/eTIOtUStmPY
Deadline 14/1/2026.
More here: bit.ly/4qbX6bT
@natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social
#farming
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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peatymike.bsky.social
Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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tfinch.bsky.social
Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
www.rspb.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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peatlandcymru.bsky.social
Want a breath of fresh air? Join the peatland team!
3 perfect posts to make a positive difference monitoring the success of the peatland restoration programme expanding Wales-wide.
Salary £36,246 - £39,942. Closing 3/12/2025.
Go for it!
swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor...
#GreenJobs #Wales
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
mikeshewring.bsky.social
#peatland
wadertales.bsky.social Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 8d
Restoring peatland.
Capturing carbon and providing breeding habitat for waders.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/p...
Paper by Rob Hughes & Chris Bingham
#ConservationScience🌍
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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wadertales.bsky.social
Restoring peatland.
Capturing carbon and providing breeding habitat for waders.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/p...
Paper by Rob Hughes & Chris Bingham
#ConservationScience🌍
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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jmbecologist.bsky.social
If we focus on restoring ecosystem processes rather than a reference species assemblage

Can we derive general rules?

Here we find plant-pollinator networks in grasslands

& plant-herbivore ones in woodlands

both become more complex with restoration age & area
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Restoration of ecological interactions: The influence of site and landscape factors
Restoration has been extensively used in agricultural landscapes as a mitigation measure to reduce biodiversity loss in response to historic habitat d…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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peatymike.bsky.social
Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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peatlandcymru.bsky.social
Less than a week…
To register for a free guidance Webinar for the £10K-£250K Peatland Restoration Grant.
Register here for 7/11/25 WEBINAR: bit.ly/4oITBb8
Grant application deadline 14/1/26.
More here: bit.ly/4qbX6bT
#WalesPeatlandAction
#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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richardkbroughton.bsky.social
A video is now available of the lecture I gave last week to the Linnean Society & British Ornithologists' Club in London, on woodland birds, Marsh Tits & Willow Tits (~45 mins): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HF... #ornithology #ukbirding @ukceh.bsky.social
A Quietening of the Woods | The Decline of Woodland Birds
YouTube video by Linnean Society
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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rspbscience.bsky.social
New PhD opportunity:

Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection

Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social

📷Ben Andrew
A solitary Lapwing stands in the grass.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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penrhynbirder.bsky.social
The annual rarities report from @britishbirdsbbrc.bsky.social, always a good read for a winter evening.

But en route, do stop and read a fascinating @britishbirds.bsky.social 'Eye' article from Sula Brookes about developing names for birds in #BSL British Sign Language. Brilliant work.
Cover of British Birds magazine for October 2024, featuring a photo of an Asian Desert Warbler on a dead Rose branch. The warbler is small and brown, with a pale throat, chestnut tail and yellow legs and iris. The title of the BBC Eye article: "British Birds and British Sign Language: signs of change" above a photo of a male House Sparrow on an orange roof tile. The House Sparrow is pale grey below, with a black throat that extends to its breast, a dark bill and eye, a grey crown and a chestnut back to the head.
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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birdsinwales.bsky.social
The 2026 WOS Calendar is now available by post - here’s how to buy:

welsh-ornithological-society.sumupstore.com
Welsh Ornithological Society Cymdeithas Adaryddol Cymru Registered Charity no. 1037823
welsh-ornithological-society.sumupstore.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
mikeshewring.bsky.social
Lovely day @birdsinwales.bsky.social conference on Saturday. Lots of interesting talks and catching up with friends.

Hopefully lots of people inspired to start doing some bird recording. Check out @btobirds.bsky.social surveys here www.bto.org/get-involved... or just use @birdtrack.bsky.social
Anne Benchley introducing the day. Picture shows a lecture theatre with Anne in front of a large screen showing a slide describing what we will be taking about today - basically the. Importance of bird recording and how that information helps us make better decisions. Dame Steph Tyler standing in front of a large screen starting her talk on her lifetime of bird recording. Andy King (wos lifetime achievement award winner) standing in front of a large screen with a picture of a Roe deer. Heather Coats receiving the Lifetime achievement award from Iolo.
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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jasubke.bsky.social
PhD on carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes in ditches. Supervised by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social at Uni Glasgow with @peatymike.bsky.social, Amy Pickard (@ukceh.bsky.social ) and me.
Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates!
🧪 #GreenhouseGases

share.google/lvswIyC9TYg5...
The role of ditches in the global carbon cycle: A critical & unrecognised player.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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alicemmilner.bsky.social
Come and work with the InSPIRE project on understanding how proglacial #peatlands lock away carbon as glaciers recede. Details below for this 24-month post-doc position.
peatbloke.bsky.social Paul J. Morris @peatbloke.bsky.social · Oct 17
Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...
Job profile
vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
Alongside @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk & @wclnews.bsky.social, we’ve responded to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 's piece on the Planning Bill.

He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.

But we’ve never been silent.

We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
Environment groups are anything but ‘mute’ on the planning bill | Letters
Letter: Craig Bennett, Hilary McGrady, Dr James Robinson and Richard Benwell say they have never stopped campaigning on the planning and infrastructure bill’s flaws
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
mikeshewring.bsky.social
Further ecological illiteracy from #Labour . People need homes but they also need healthy biodiverse ecosystems - healthy planet healthy people. Shame #Labour can’t see this. These things can’t be mutually exclusive. They must do better! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
mikeshewring.bsky.social
Personally I hope this doesn’t take off as well as Movember or dry Jan
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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richardkbroughton.bsky.social
I've just seen him again in his home-range. Now 10 yrs and 5 months old since hatching, and just over 10 years since ringing. Incredible that small 11g birds like Marsh Tits can live for over a decade, whereas small rodents/shrews of similar size live less than 2 yrs.
richardkbroughton.bsky.social Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Mar 8
Stop what you’re doing and listen to a 10 year old Marsh Tit. Colour ringed on this same territory in 2015. Paired and singing today. Officially the oldest Marsh Tit ever in our 22 yr study, and one of the oldest recorded in Britain. #ukbirding #ornithology
October 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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billsutherland.bsky.social
Hugh Possingham, one of the worlds most respected conservationists, describing how embedding simple tests into practice helps deliver learning and effective conservation. Without testing there is little learning and we don’t know if effective. youtu.be/qcQvYTldF_0?...
How embedding tests into conservation practive transforms effectiveness
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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mliebreich.bsky.social
The #PragmaticClimateReset is a two part-essay calling for a reset in our approach to climate action. Part I shows why narratives trumpeting the failure of efforts to date are wrong. Part II says that, nevertheless, the climate community now needs to change its approach. 1/n
September 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM