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Paul Dolman

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Collaborative interdisciplinary biodiversity conservation. Professor of Conservation Ecology at University of East Anglia. Father, survivor of grief, optimist. Pronouns: he/him

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · Jan 20

Working with this amazing Farmer-led Landscape Recovery collaboration of so many individual farmers with a vision to deliver evidence-based habitats at landscape-scale has been uplifting & gives me optimism for a better future 🌍 #Biodiversity

Breckland Farmers Wildlife Network @brecksfarmerswn.bsky.social · Jan 20

The Breckland Farmers Wildlife Network is a farmer-led group. We came together 12 years ago to collaborate on creating a landscape scale wildlife network in the Brecks. We're very proud to now have 58 members and cover over 50,000ha.

Visit brecklandfarmlerswildlifenetwork.org.uk to find out more

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 12h

@morstonpond.bsky.social @norfolkponds.bsky.social 👆

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 14h

I'm in

Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t know who made this but it’s pretty great!

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 1d

Small birds need big trees in the forest: The key to protecting cavity-nesters | www.sciencedirect.co... | Forest Ecology and Management | #ornithology 🪶

Small birds need big trees in the forest: The key to protecting cavity-nesters

Due to their specific nesting requirements, cavity nesters are associated with a set of distinct habitat features. These characteristics can be shaped…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 1d

Common Calamint newly appeared in this eutrophic verge after ground disturbance (building new wall). Seedbank echo of a softer semi-natural past history.

The soft lilac flowers and opposite pairs of rounded leaves of Common Calamint

Close up showing sparse lilac dotting on the petals

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 1d

Common Calamint newly appeared in this eutrophic verge after ground disturbance (building new wall). Seedbank echo of a softer semi-natural past history.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing active hunting and arial predation of small migrating birds! #ornithology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

www.science.org

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing active hunting and arial predation of small migrating birds! #ornithology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

www.science.org

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly this 👆

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 3d

Don't care about the massive damage done to native ecosystems by the constant release of vast numbers of invasive pheasants for shooting?

Maybe you'll care about catching Lyme disease instead.

British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 14d

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 3d

Megafauna bones discovered in South America suggest that humans regularly ate giant sloths and armadillos. Archaeologists now think smaller animals only became dietary staples after the megafauna were hunted to extinction.

archaeology.org/news/2025/10/06/what-happened-to-south-americas-megafauna/

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 4d

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Government were advised Palestine Action are non-violent, criminal damage generally minor & do not meet threshold of proscription. But they did it anyway (after lobbying from Elbit Systems).

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway

www.thecanary.co

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 4d

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway

www.thecanary.co

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 7d

A great thread dismantling the latest 'conservation populism' to be floated in Britain. With funding available for species recovery, this is business for some. We'll see more of this pitching for commercial projects that scientists & species experts think is useless. #ornithology #ukbirding

Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 8d

More ill thought out 'conservation' translocations 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/... - so much to unpack here #Ornithology #UKBirding 🧵

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities

Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 5d

@ueaceec.bsky.social 👆

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 5d

📢 We're hiring! Are you ready to make a national impact?

Join us as Senior Project Manager on the UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure – a major initiative transforming how we monitor and respond to extreme hydrological events across the UK.

🔗🧪 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 7d

Studying breeding waders sometimes involves catching chicks multiple times.
Do these intensive studies have negative effects on chick growth?
Blog about reassuring paper by Camilo Carneiro et al from 5 Oct 2024 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/h...

How do wader chicks respond to being handled?

Every wader researcher knows that their actions can have negative consequences for the birds they are studying. Given that most shorebird species are in trouble or causing concern, conservation sci…

wadertales.wordpress.com

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 5d

@ueaceec.bsky.social 👆exciting opportunity

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 5d

🍄 Opportunity alert!

Natural England are looking for a UK-based collaborator to support analytics for a Fungal Red List for Great Britain.

Tasks include bias assessment, Frescalo modelling, AOO/EOO, and data presentation (Shiny or Excel).

📩 Get in touch: [email protected]

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds great - and genuine Biodiversity gain!

Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 6d

Very little gain. It was already a diverse grassland with regenerating scrub, so this will not have improved things for biodiversity

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d

“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.”

They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 7d

NEW PAPER: Badgers, weather, and waders: badger predation on lapwing nests rise in cold conditions (below 4°C) and with high earthworm availability. Cold years see heavy losses, suggesting weather forecasts could guide management to protect waders

➡️ vist.ly/499u6

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Badger predating a lapwing nest: Photo credit: Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Fig. 2 from the article: Relationship between the overall probability of badger predation on a lapwing clutch at Auchnerran farm, northeast Scotland, and (a) 7-day temperature, (b) earthworm abundance together with implications for the overall probabilities of other fates.

Fig. 3 from the article: Annual 7-day temperature (°C) (immediately prior to lapwing nest outcome) across 2018–2023 at Auchnerran farm, northeast Scotland.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 15d

Biodiversity Net Gain or plastic pollution?

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