Diogo Veríssimo
@diogoverissimo.bsky.social
Bringing together marketing & biodiversity conservation science. Research Fellow @UniofOxford | Board @europeansma | Chair IUCN Behaviour ChangeTask Force | 🇵🇹
🌍 New research! 🚨
Environmental crimes — from illegal logging to wildlife trafficking — make up only 2% of Interpol Red Notices.
Global enforcement is potentially overlooking one of the world’s biggest criminal sectors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Environmental crimes — from illegal logging to wildlife trafficking — make up only 2% of Interpol Red Notices.
Global enforcement is potentially overlooking one of the world’s biggest criminal sectors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S003...
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🌍 New research! 🚨
Environmental crimes — from illegal logging to wildlife trafficking — make up only 2% of Interpol Red Notices.
Global enforcement is potentially overlooking one of the world’s biggest criminal sectors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Environmental crimes — from illegal logging to wildlife trafficking — make up only 2% of Interpol Red Notices.
Global enforcement is potentially overlooking one of the world’s biggest criminal sectors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S003...
🎨🌿 NEW! “Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation” in FEE
How can art & science team up to protect nature?
🖌️ Inspire creativity & empathy
🎭 Communicate complex issues
🌍 Build connections & action
👉 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
How can art & science team up to protect nature?
🖌️ Inspire creativity & empathy
🎭 Communicate complex issues
🌍 Build connections & action
👉 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🎨🌿 NEW! “Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation” in FEE
How can art & science team up to protect nature?
🖌️ Inspire creativity & empathy
🎭 Communicate complex issues
🌍 Build connections & action
👉 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
How can art & science team up to protect nature?
🖌️ Inspire creativity & empathy
🎭 Communicate complex issues
🌍 Build connections & action
👉 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
🌍 Languages of Life | Línguas da Vida | Bahasa Kehidupan 🗣️🌱
Biodiversity doesn’t speak only English. 🌳🐒
If species cross borders, our words should too.
New paper in @ConLetters : why saving life also means using more languages
🔗https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13139
Biodiversity doesn’t speak only English. 🌳🐒
If species cross borders, our words should too.
New paper in @ConLetters : why saving life also means using more languages
🔗https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13139
September 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🌍 Languages of Life | Línguas da Vida | Bahasa Kehidupan 🗣️🌱
Biodiversity doesn’t speak only English. 🌳🐒
If species cross borders, our words should too.
New paper in @ConLetters : why saving life also means using more languages
🔗https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13139
Biodiversity doesn’t speak only English. 🌳🐒
If species cross borders, our words should too.
New paper in @ConLetters : why saving life also means using more languages
🔗https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13139
🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology!
📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%
🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience
📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%
🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience
September 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology!
📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%
🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience
📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%
🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience
📢 NEW PAPER 📢 Are your digital conservation campaigns moving the needle? 🤔
New study combines #ConservationCulturomics + synthetic control to measure impact! This offers a cost-effective evaluation framework #Conservation #ImpactMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #Biodiversity
Link shorturl.at/GRRdQ
New study combines #ConservationCulturomics + synthetic control to measure impact! This offers a cost-effective evaluation framework #Conservation #ImpactMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #Biodiversity
Link shorturl.at/GRRdQ
September 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📢 NEW PAPER 📢 Are your digital conservation campaigns moving the needle? 🤔
New study combines #ConservationCulturomics + synthetic control to measure impact! This offers a cost-effective evaluation framework #Conservation #ImpactMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #Biodiversity
Link shorturl.at/GRRdQ
New study combines #ConservationCulturomics + synthetic control to measure impact! This offers a cost-effective evaluation framework #Conservation #ImpactMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #Biodiversity
Link shorturl.at/GRRdQ
We believe sport can help save species. 🦁⚽
In our new @FrontEcolEnviron paper, we explore how professional teams, fans & conservationists can team up to turn iconic mascots into real-world action for biodiversity. 🌍🏟️
📄 Read it: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SportsForNature
In our new @FrontEcolEnviron paper, we explore how professional teams, fans & conservationists can team up to turn iconic mascots into real-world action for biodiversity. 🌍🏟️
📄 Read it: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SportsForNature
June 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We believe sport can help save species. 🦁⚽
In our new @FrontEcolEnviron paper, we explore how professional teams, fans & conservationists can team up to turn iconic mascots into real-world action for biodiversity. 🌍🏟️
📄 Read it: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SportsForNature
In our new @FrontEcolEnviron paper, we explore how professional teams, fans & conservationists can team up to turn iconic mascots into real-world action for biodiversity. 🌍🏟️
📄 Read it: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SportsForNature
This new paper on conservation flagships feels like a full circle moment for me. From my Master’s thesis to my PhD, this concept has shaped so much of my research journey.
Now it's all come together in one framework — and it's open access: 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Now it's all come together in one framework — and it's open access: 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
May 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This new paper on conservation flagships feels like a full circle moment for me. From my Master’s thesis to my PhD, this concept has shaped so much of my research journey.
Now it's all come together in one framework — and it's open access: 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Now it's all come together in one framework — and it's open access: 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
And that is a wrap for Sourcery —magical chaos, biting satire, and wizardly misadventures in peak Discworld fashion. Ridcully, Rincewind, and a sourcerer’s showdown? Genius. #TerryPratchett #Discworld
January 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
And that is a wrap for Sourcery —magical chaos, biting satire, and wizardly misadventures in peak Discworld fashion. Ridcully, Rincewind, and a sourcerer’s showdown? Genius. #TerryPratchett #Discworld
📢NEW📢Our look at what has been done around behaviour change and biodiversity, across different threats to biodiversity, stakeholder groups and communication channels. 🧵1/6
This is the first output of the IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Taskforce!
Link: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is the first output of the IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Taskforce!
Link: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
October 22, 2024 at 12:14 PM
📢NEW📢Our look at what has been done around behaviour change and biodiversity, across different threats to biodiversity, stakeholder groups and communication channels. 🧵1/6
This is the first output of the IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Taskforce!
Link: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is the first output of the IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Taskforce!
Link: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Academic #publishing is broken
@peercommunityin.bsky.social with its no fee model for authors & readers can help. I want to start a PCI Social & Behaviour Change but need your support!
Interested in submitting, reviewing or joining editorial board? Let us know forms.gle/6Lb2J86vdWMX...
@peercommunityin.bsky.social with its no fee model for authors & readers can help. I want to start a PCI Social & Behaviour Change but need your support!
Interested in submitting, reviewing or joining editorial board? Let us know forms.gle/6Lb2J86vdWMX...
October 17, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Academic #publishing is broken
@peercommunityin.bsky.social with its no fee model for authors & readers can help. I want to start a PCI Social & Behaviour Change but need your support!
Interested in submitting, reviewing or joining editorial board? Let us know forms.gle/6Lb2J86vdWMX...
@peercommunityin.bsky.social with its no fee model for authors & readers can help. I want to start a PCI Social & Behaviour Change but need your support!
Interested in submitting, reviewing or joining editorial board? Let us know forms.gle/6Lb2J86vdWMX...
🎮🌍 Can mobile games save endangered species? Our RCT shows that gaming can boost conservation knowledge & support pro-environmental policies as well as better cat management, but not donations.
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
October 10, 2024 at 9:07 AM
🎮🌍 Can mobile games save endangered species? Our RCT shows that gaming can boost conservation knowledge & support pro-environmental policies as well as better cat management, but not donations.
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
And we are off! 1st book down.
A really fun book that is a great parody of tourism and tourists amongst many other things! Now on to The Light Fantastic! #discworld
A really fun book that is a great parody of tourism and tourists amongst many other things! Now on to The Light Fantastic! #discworld
September 21, 2024 at 1:40 PM
And we are off! 1st book down.
A really fun book that is a great parody of tourism and tourists amongst many other things! Now on to The Light Fantastic! #discworld
A really fun book that is a great parody of tourism and tourists amongst many other things! Now on to The Light Fantastic! #discworld
I turned 40 recently and so decided to read all #Discworld novels, written by @TerryPratchett , in the next year!
I got (almost) all of them already from #eBay second hand and will be following the narrative order shown below!
Can I do it? Stick around to find out!
I got (almost) all of them already from #eBay second hand and will be following the narrative order shown below!
Can I do it? Stick around to find out!
September 20, 2024 at 6:57 AM
I turned 40 recently and so decided to read all #Discworld novels, written by @TerryPratchett , in the next year!
I got (almost) all of them already from #eBay second hand and will be following the narrative order shown below!
Can I do it? Stick around to find out!
I got (almost) all of them already from #eBay second hand and will be following the narrative order shown below!
Can I do it? Stick around to find out!
🧐 Figuring out if trade threatens a species' survival is no easy task. In our paper, we propose an approach to make better assessments by looking at motivations, capabilities and opportunities of those involved in the trade! 📊💡
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
September 12, 2024 at 10:12 AM
🧐 Figuring out if trade threatens a species' survival is no easy task. In our paper, we propose an approach to make better assessments by looking at motivations, capabilities and opportunities of those involved in the trade! 📊💡
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
🚨 New 🚨 Ever wondered how researchers chose where they publish?
We found 3 groups:
1️⃣ Prefers society-owned journals, willing to pay more 2️⃣ Prefers #OA & broad scope, cost-sensitive 3️⃣ Values double-blind review & high impact, dislikes high fees
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We found 3 groups:
1️⃣ Prefers society-owned journals, willing to pay more 2️⃣ Prefers #OA & broad scope, cost-sensitive 3️⃣ Values double-blind review & high impact, dislikes high fees
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 3, 2024 at 2:44 PM
🚨 New 🚨 Ever wondered how researchers chose where they publish?
We found 3 groups:
1️⃣ Prefers society-owned journals, willing to pay more 2️⃣ Prefers #OA & broad scope, cost-sensitive 3️⃣ Values double-blind review & high impact, dislikes high fees
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We found 3 groups:
1️⃣ Prefers society-owned journals, willing to pay more 2️⃣ Prefers #OA & broad scope, cost-sensitive 3️⃣ Values double-blind review & high impact, dislikes high fees
LINK conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨 New! 🚨 Latest research dives into the transition from a #media campaign to community-led governance in Nagaland, #India 🇮🇳. We explore how the Amur #Falcon hunting ban evolved through local empowerment and governance
📖 Link conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
August 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM
🚨 New! 🚨 Latest research dives into the transition from a #media campaign to community-led governance in Nagaland, #India 🇮🇳. We explore how the Amur #Falcon hunting ban evolved through local empowerment and governance
📖 Link conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
❗ New Research❗ We used a randomized controlled trial to test co-designed messages to reduce illegal us of animal based medicinal products in China, a key market for wildlife products.
LINK: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
LINK: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
August 7, 2024 at 11:38 AM
❗ New Research❗ We used a randomized controlled trial to test co-designed messages to reduce illegal us of animal based medicinal products in China, a key market for wildlife products.
LINK: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
LINK: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! Wildlife trafficking demands urgent action. It threatens species, ecosystems, and human health. The EU must bolster regulations, expand trade databases, and prioritize sustainability to combat wildlife trafficking 🌿🦜 #WildlifeTrade
LINK: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
LINK: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 8, 2024 at 3:38 PM
NEW! Wildlife trafficking demands urgent action. It threatens species, ecosystems, and human health. The EU must bolster regulations, expand trade databases, and prioritize sustainability to combat wildlife trafficking 🌿🦜 #WildlifeTrade
LINK: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
LINK: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
NEW! We looked at how #TheElephantQueen 🌿🎥film impacted tolerance for 🐘in #Kenya 🌍💖
Students 🔼 knowledge, affection and perceived benefits of 🐘. Community members 🔼knowledge and recognized benefits of 🐘, but felt costs of living with 🐘 more
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Students 🔼 knowledge, affection and perceived benefits of 🐘. Community members 🔼knowledge and recognized benefits of 🐘, but felt costs of living with 🐘 more
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
March 7, 2024 at 2:55 PM
NEW! We looked at how #TheElephantQueen 🌿🎥film impacted tolerance for 🐘in #Kenya 🌍💖
Students 🔼 knowledge, affection and perceived benefits of 🐘. Community members 🔼knowledge and recognized benefits of 🐘, but felt costs of living with 🐘 more
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Students 🔼 knowledge, affection and perceived benefits of 🐘. Community members 🔼knowledge and recognized benefits of 🐘, but felt costs of living with 🐘 more
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Calling all #socialmarketing enthusiasts and academic publishing mavens! Join us in designing the next frontier of social marketing academic publishing, with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (#DEI) and well as impact. Drop me a line if interested
March 5, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Calling all #socialmarketing enthusiasts and academic publishing mavens! Join us in designing the next frontier of social marketing academic publishing, with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (#DEI) and well as impact. Drop me a line if interested
Excited to be visiting University of Porto in my home Portugal!
And the food... Ah the food... 🤩
And the food... Ah the food... 🤩
February 26, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Excited to be visiting University of Porto in my home Portugal!
And the food... Ah the food... 🤩
And the food... Ah the food... 🤩
📢New📢It's not just in fashion.. Photos of #animals edited to enhance appealing traits lead to higher willingness to donate 🐾 But not everyone liked these edited photos and there are ethical implications to photo editing... #BeautyBias #Photoshop
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 13, 2024 at 12:48 PM
📢New📢It's not just in fashion.. Photos of #animals edited to enhance appealing traits lead to higher willingness to donate 🐾 But not everyone liked these edited photos and there are ethical implications to photo editing... #BeautyBias #Photoshop
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
And we are off! Excited to see what topics will capture the attention of delegates at the COP of the Convention for Migratory Species in Uzbekistan
February 12, 2024 at 4:55 AM
And we are off! Excited to see what topics will capture the attention of delegates at the COP of the Convention for Migratory Species in Uzbekistan
Exciting to be giving a talk today at the Oxford Uni Conservation Society on framing, messaging and biodiversity conservation!
January 22, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Exciting to be giving a talk today at the Oxford Uni Conservation Society on framing, messaging and biodiversity conservation!