Carla Jack
@pocketwildingie.bsky.social
Wildlife & horticulture enthusiast in the Irish Midlands. Working on restoring Ireland's biodiversity pocket by pocket with whatever resources are at hand. Focusing on knowledge sharing and often distracted by handi-crafting. Spelling errors included free.
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On Friday, Brock Bergseth gave us a powerful talk, debunking some of the most common myths around changing (environmental) behaviour, and discussing how our inherent social wiring can be leveraged to create meaningful, scalable change.
Catch it on our YouTube channel now! @biology.ox.ac.uk
Catch it on our YouTube channel now! @biology.ox.ac.uk
Leveraging human behavioural science for conservation. Brock Bergseth
YouTube video by Oxford Biodiversity Network
youtu.be
If you are into any form of practical ecology then this talk brings a lot of important behavioural primers into place. #CommunityOrganising #ScienceCommunication
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Did u know? We might not like cold winters,but small souls like overwintering caterpillars/insect eggs/pupae need cold, dry'ish weather to successfully complete their metamorphic lifecycle. Their great enemy is warm, wet weather that can lead to deadly fungal infections. White is wonderful. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐙🤍
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Did u know? We might not like cold winters,but small souls like overwintering caterpillars/insect eggs/pupae need cold, dry'ish weather to successfully complete their metamorphic lifecycle. Their great enemy is warm, wet weather that can lead to deadly fungal infections. White is wonderful. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐙🤍
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“This time of chaos can also be an opportunity, a chance to emulate the older cultures that replaced them: those who planted trees in the ruins of empire, who remade the Commons on abandoned plantations, and quietly continued to tend their small forest garden as their ancestors had before them.”
The Lost Forest Gardens of Europe
The indigenous Mesolithic societies of Europe never disappeared: they adapted, and survived in new ways. Their cultures, values, spiritual beliefs, and relationships with the land are encoded in the f...
www.shelterwoodforestfarm.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
“This time of chaos can also be an opportunity, a chance to emulate the older cultures that replaced them: those who planted trees in the ruins of empire, who remade the Commons on abandoned plantations, and quietly continued to tend their small forest garden as their ancestors had before them.”
"What counts as ‘waste’ comes to be decided by reference to wealth creation and preservation. This is what Locke was doing when he justified the European annexation of Indigenous territories on the grounds that they were not being used ‘productively’: the land was, in other words, being wasted."
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"What counts as ‘waste’ comes to be decided by reference to wealth creation and preservation. This is what Locke was doing when he justified the European annexation of Indigenous territories on the grounds that they were not being used ‘productively’: the land was, in other words, being wasted."
Huge fan of cover crops protecting the skin of the land. Love to see a bit of height for invertebrate shelter and bird food! Not just beautiful.
🌻Not all things are about the bottom line, sometimes you do things for beauty or nature
🌻 sunflower in a cover crop, there are plenty of out cheaper cover crop seeds around but this was worth it!
#covercrops #sunflower #baseireland #farmingfornature
@base.ireland @farmingfornature
🌻 sunflower in a cover crop, there are plenty of out cheaper cover crop seeds around but this was worth it!
#covercrops #sunflower #baseireland #farmingfornature
@base.ireland @farmingfornature
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Huge fan of cover crops protecting the skin of the land. Love to see a bit of height for invertebrate shelter and bird food! Not just beautiful.
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Importantly, birds that remained with the same partner tended to lay eggs earlier, which is strongly tied to how many chicks they rear 🐣.
See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪
See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪
Seabirds are more likely to ‘divorce’ in bad weather
Wild seabirds are more likely to split up in windy weather, according to a new study involving the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
ceh.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Importantly, birds that remained with the same partner tended to lay eggs earlier, which is strongly tied to how many chicks they rear 🐣.
See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪
See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪
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Long, frass-packed leaf mine on Carpinus betulus, doesn’t readily key out via bladmineerders.nl - any guidance out there?
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Long, frass-packed leaf mine on Carpinus betulus, doesn’t readily key out via bladmineerders.nl - any guidance out there?
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NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith.
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
Let there be warmth! The British churches putting their faith in heat pumps
Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of decarbonisation
www.thereengineer.pro
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: I wrote about British churches installing heat pumps, in some cases in 1,000-year-old buildings! Decarbonisation may not be easy, but many view it as an act of faith.
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
This is a special feature to mark The Reengineer’s first anniversary! Spread the word! 🥳
www.thereengineer.pro/p/let-there-...
First learnt about these little predators in The Good Slug Guide by Jo Kirby last year. Amazing to see them in action. Great pics!
Devil's Coach Horse Ocypus olens feeding on a slug on the Life on the Edge @southdevonnl walk last night at Start Point, Devon.
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
First learnt about these little predators in The Good Slug Guide by Jo Kirby last year. Amazing to see them in action. Great pics!
Pulmonaria is my favourite starter perennial if you are new to dividing plants. It's incredibly forgiving and an early source of nectar for bees (UK/Ireland).
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Pulmonaria is my favourite starter perennial if you are new to dividing plants. It's incredibly forgiving and an early source of nectar for bees (UK/Ireland).
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Looking for unique archaeology, history and geology gifts?
Check our my Etsy page for handmade hyper-niche wares!
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Check our my Etsy page for handmade hyper-niche wares!
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November 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Looking for unique archaeology, history and geology gifts?
Check our my Etsy page for handmade hyper-niche wares!
tephraarts.etsy.com
Check our my Etsy page for handmade hyper-niche wares!
tephraarts.etsy.com
"All the scans, reconstructions, and 3D models will be made freely available in open repositories. That means anyone, from entomologists to curious hobbyists, could explore these ancient insects in digital space."
Fantastic!
#OpenResearch #Entomology
Fantastic!
#OpenResearch #Entomology
Imagine a drop of ancient resin. Inside is an insect, trapped for 53 million years, so well preserved it looks like it might twitch back into life. These amber fossils offer us a breath-taking glimpse into long vanished ecosystems.
But there’s a catch
But there’s a catch
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"All the scans, reconstructions, and 3D models will be made freely available in open repositories. That means anyone, from entomologists to curious hobbyists, could explore these ancient insects in digital space."
Fantastic!
#OpenResearch #Entomology
Fantastic!
#OpenResearch #Entomology
I think I finally understand what true blasphemy feels like.
My favourite wholesome follow - Ian Denton's Weedy pond cam - invaded by hounds chasing a fox. Feeling sick but happy the fox seems to have gotten away today.
My favourite wholesome follow - Ian Denton's Weedy pond cam - invaded by hounds chasing a fox. Feeling sick but happy the fox seems to have gotten away today.
Hounds update.
Here caught on camera - you can hear them in full cry, when they pick-up the trail of the fox.
I heard on the grapevine that the fox was chased to a busy main road a few miles away, where it escaped the hounds.
By 1.30 last night, a rather scared looking fox appeared in the thicket.
Here caught on camera - you can hear them in full cry, when they pick-up the trail of the fox.
I heard on the grapevine that the fox was chased to a busy main road a few miles away, where it escaped the hounds.
By 1.30 last night, a rather scared looking fox appeared in the thicket.
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I think I finally understand what true blasphemy feels like.
My favourite wholesome follow - Ian Denton's Weedy pond cam - invaded by hounds chasing a fox. Feeling sick but happy the fox seems to have gotten away today.
My favourite wholesome follow - Ian Denton's Weedy pond cam - invaded by hounds chasing a fox. Feeling sick but happy the fox seems to have gotten away today.
Conservation thread with interesting implications for protecting ground nesting birds in falling temperatures 🧵
Temperature drives inter-annual variation in badger Meles meles predation of lapwing Vanellus vanellus on Scottish hill-edge farmland.
Study funded by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.
Badgers search out eggs in cold weather when worms
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Study funded by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.
Badgers search out eggs in cold weather when worms
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Temperature drives inter‐annual variation in badger Meles meles predation of lapwing Vanellus vanellus on Scottish hill‐edge farmland
Wading birds have declined globally, with particularly pronounced declines in western Europe. Multiple species are now on the IUCN Red List, with northern lapwing Vanellus vanellus near-threatened an....
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Conservation thread with interesting implications for protecting ground nesting birds in falling temperatures 🧵
I made a dried flower wreath for a friend coping with loss.
I didn't know when I picked them that this would be their purpose but I'm glad my garden provided a way for me to express heartache for someone I care for.
#WildflowerArt #DriedFlowers
I didn't know when I picked them that this would be their purpose but I'm glad my garden provided a way for me to express heartache for someone I care for.
#WildflowerArt #DriedFlowers
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I made a dried flower wreath for a friend coping with loss.
I didn't know when I picked them that this would be their purpose but I'm glad my garden provided a way for me to express heartache for someone I care for.
#WildflowerArt #DriedFlowers
I didn't know when I picked them that this would be their purpose but I'm glad my garden provided a way for me to express heartache for someone I care for.
#WildflowerArt #DriedFlowers
".. most of the plants I added as tiny things are now large and I’ve divided multiple times to start filling the garden. "
I love the amount of plastic and pesticides avoided by being patient, observant and allowing groups to naturally form in a space.
I love the amount of plastic and pesticides avoided by being patient, observant and allowing groups to naturally form in a space.
A photo tour of our garden across the seasons this year www.wildway.info/p/plant-comm... I don't water or fertilise our garden, and I hardly weed it either thanks to my wild way principles
Plant community gardening with nature at its heart
How I've grown a low effort, high impact wildlife garden without any chemicals, watering and barely any weeding
www.wildway.info
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
".. most of the plants I added as tiny things are now large and I’ve divided multiple times to start filling the garden. "
I love the amount of plastic and pesticides avoided by being patient, observant and allowing groups to naturally form in a space.
I love the amount of plastic and pesticides avoided by being patient, observant and allowing groups to naturally form in a space.
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I sometimes forget that many people cannot imagine what bio-based construction looks like for the end customer, when seeing only construction site pictures.
It looks exactly the same as climate-damaging construction if you want to, only without the climate damage, toxins, and all that. 🧵13
It looks exactly the same as climate-damaging construction if you want to, only without the climate damage, toxins, and all that. 🧵13
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I sometimes forget that many people cannot imagine what bio-based construction looks like for the end customer, when seeing only construction site pictures.
It looks exactly the same as climate-damaging construction if you want to, only without the climate damage, toxins, and all that. 🧵13
It looks exactly the same as climate-damaging construction if you want to, only without the climate damage, toxins, and all that. 🧵13
"Taken together, this study demonstrates that selective predation by nematodes reorganizes energy flow within soil micro-food webs, offering mechanistic evidence that predator-driven shifts in energy flow underpin biodiversity-function relationships in agricultural soils." #SoilFoodWeb #SoilScience
Just published: Selective predation by nematodes drives energy fluxes and ecosystem multifunctionality in soil food webs
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Redirecting
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October 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Taken together, this study demonstrates that selective predation by nematodes reorganizes energy flow within soil micro-food webs, offering mechanistic evidence that predator-driven shifts in energy flow underpin biodiversity-function relationships in agricultural soils." #SoilFoodWeb #SoilScience
Vivid descriptions of what living with #TippingPoints looks like. 300 person village wiped out in a few moments.
There is no magic technology or offset credit coming to save us
We are all in the same ocean but in different boats. Climate refugees belong to all of us.
There is no magic technology or offset credit coming to save us
We are all in the same ocean but in different boats. Climate refugees belong to all of us.
"the Rhone isn't the only river whose source is a glacier - the Rhine, the Danube, the Po - the continent's biggest rivers all start here. And when these glaciers are gone, Farinotti says, these rivers will be forever altered."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
Accelerated glacier melt is threatening Europe's villages, rivers and economies
Temperatures in Europe are increasing at twice the average global rate. As glaciers in the Swiss Alps disappear, Europe's biggest rivers are losing a crucial source of their summer water flow.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Vivid descriptions of what living with #TippingPoints looks like. 300 person village wiped out in a few moments.
There is no magic technology or offset credit coming to save us
We are all in the same ocean but in different boats. Climate refugees belong to all of us.
There is no magic technology or offset credit coming to save us
We are all in the same ocean but in different boats. Climate refugees belong to all of us.
I'm currently listening to the #GreenCrime audiobook and it goes beyond highlighting environmental crime and into the heart of what severs our kinship with nature.
#BookSky
#BookSky
Environment crime is mass murder.
Who goes to prison for it?
@drjuliashaw.bsky.social
#greenCrime www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Who goes to prison for it?
@drjuliashaw.bsky.social
#greenCrime www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?
Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I'm currently listening to the #GreenCrime audiobook and it goes beyond highlighting environmental crime and into the heart of what severs our kinship with nature.
#BookSky
#BookSky
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Very excited that the first chapter of my PhD is now published! 🧬 We analysed ancient DNA and biomarkers directly from artefacts, showing how birch tar provides insights into past societies, technology, resources, and health.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Ancient DNA and biomarkers from artefacts: insights into technology and cultural practices in Neolithic Europe | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Birch bark tar was widely used throughout prehistoric Europe for hafting stone tools
as well as various other purposes. While previous research has mainly focused on the
identification and production ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Very excited that the first chapter of my PhD is now published! 🧬 We analysed ancient DNA and biomarkers directly from artefacts, showing how birch tar provides insights into past societies, technology, resources, and health.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
We have so much to learn from traditional Transylvanian wood pasture management.
Mixed farming communities need to be supported for their true value of working with nature and preserving food systems not just how they compete with the short term thinking of corporate agriculture.
Mixed farming communities need to be supported for their true value of working with nature and preserving food systems not just how they compete with the short term thinking of corporate agriculture.
We used the Cultural Values Model to assess biocultural change in Transylvanian wood-pastures. Traditional features persist but mix with electric fencing (establishing) and mechanization, especially in lowlands. Stewardship is eroding.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Applying the Cultural Values Model to assess biocultural change in Eastern European wood‐pastures
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
We have so much to learn from traditional Transylvanian wood pasture management.
Mixed farming communities need to be supported for their true value of working with nature and preserving food systems not just how they compete with the short term thinking of corporate agriculture.
Mixed farming communities need to be supported for their true value of working with nature and preserving food systems not just how they compete with the short term thinking of corporate agriculture.
Beautiful!
October 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Beautiful!
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Addressing the connection between animal biodiversity declines and the carbon stored in our ecosystems can help to make smarter decisions about aligning responses to the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis.
🌐🌏 via @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...
🌐🌏 via @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...
Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions
When a toucan plucks fruit from a tree in the Amazon Rainforest, it’s doing more than just finding lunch. Moving to a new location and depositing seeds via its droppings could be crucial in addressing...
news.mongabay.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Addressing the connection between animal biodiversity declines and the carbon stored in our ecosystems can help to make smarter decisions about aligning responses to the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis.
🌐🌏 via @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...
🌐🌏 via @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...
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Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it
Bat vs. Robin—Scientists Capture Real-Life Audio of Midair Hunt
Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it
www.scientificamerican.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it