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Dr Kenneth F. Rijsdijk
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Samenhang tussen Landschap, mens en natuur. Universiteit van Amsterdam 🇳🇱. ⚒️🧪Knowledge to sustain our Biosphere. Let’s built toxic free environments together! 🌺
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island species are generally known for their nativism like the dodo. However the related extinct giant pigeon, the Rodrigues-solitaire was aggressive and developed natural weapons, clubs at its wrists, to fight each other for territory. The reasons how this could evolve were long unknown.
Prof Sjoerd Kluiving explaining the principles of #regenerative leadership in the panel discussion of #ESG symposium. Chair Jessica Peters EGS officer, Linea Bingel municipality of #Amsterdam and Ankie van Wersch director SMEs NL: key is E of #biosphere inclusive!
October 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fiona Watson vice president of the @wbcsd.bsky.social world business council for sustainable development, talking about 360 degrees risks that companies should be aware of and that #ESG anticipate, ignoring them may it put a company on critical risk.
October 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Jessica Peters #CSR manager and member of #ClubofRome CSR, co-owner of an investing fund, introducing the #ESGdays emphasising that companies who embrace #ESG s are more resilient and future prepared than oldskool linear company practices.
October 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Now with entrepreneur and systemthinker Jorge Sousa, architect Renee Wansdronk, Prof Sjoerd Kluiving at the @ESGdays launching our #regenerative business leadership initiative! It’s about exploiting the regenerative power of the #biosphere without undermining it! esgdays.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Huge thanks and credits to the amazing tabs-team: Johannes de Groeve, @drken-rysdyk.bsky.social , Sietze Norder and @suzetteflantua.bsky.social.

Also credits for the incredible visualisation of this graphical abstract to @mirantakouvari.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Zaterdagavond voor @kunstenlandschap.bsky.social op bezoek bij organisator, cidermaker en landschapshersteller Frank Rozendaal voor het eerste Landschapscafé van @mooyland.bsky.social in een welhaast uitverkocht kerkje van Zweeloo voor een 'hagenpreek' van heggenspecialist @drken-rysdyk.bsky.social.
March 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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🧑‍🎓🤖 How Students Use AI in Coursework

A study found students use AI for writing and research, balancing editing with argument development. Many remain sceptical, preferring to refine ideas rather than rely on AI entirely.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#SciComm 🧪 #AI #HigherEd
University students describe how they adopt AI for writing and research in a general education course - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - University students describe how they adopt AI for writing and research in a general education course
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March 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#NAEM2025 🧪now Prof Yadvinder Malhi Director @naturerecovery.bsky.social on the critical role of animal wildlife in climate change adaptation. Starting with #atolls which may look like paradises,but many are converted in #palm monocultures and became abandoned, resulted in a coconut dominant forest.
February 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#NAEM2025 Prof Daniel Kissling university of amsterdam #ibed on the application of #LiDAR to study the role of #ecological structure on
#biodiversity and #ecosystem functioning
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#NAEM2025 🧪 Dr Karen van der Rijden of the Technical University of #Denmark on conservation strategies of the marine habitats in the #North-Sea: Rushing to reach 30% (protection) by 2030 (EU policy): but are we improving seabed habitat quality for the wider region?
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#NAEM2025 Prof Daniel Kissling university of amsterdam #ibed on the application of #LiDAR to study the role of #ecological structure on
#biodiversity and #ecosystem functioning
February 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
PhD candidate Emma Polman at 🧪#NAEM2025 investigating how water management in #grassland area influences #carbonstorage in the soil by #microorganisms. She sampled in grazed nature reserve in Flevoland.
February 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Emma is a PhD student - jointly supervised with @drken-rysdyk.bsky.social - who studies the effect of grazing by large herbivores on soil biodiversity and C and N cycling. She's also using modelling and LIDAR to look at landscape processes - stay tuned!
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Emma Polman
Emma Polman, PhD candidate [email protected] ◦ twitter As a PhD student in the PSECO group I am researching the effect of large herbivores and geese on carbon and nutrient flows in a eutrophic we…
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February 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
#NAEM2025 PhD candidate Robin Lexmond @radboud university is researching #hedgerows and their effect on #biodiversity. In the Netherlands a lot of hedgerows were removed since 1950s. This may have led to a decrease in insects since that period.
February 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#NAEM2025 🧪 Dr Michiel Veldhuis @unileiden.bsky.social #Human-wildlife coexistence in a #biodiversity hotspots. Also focussing on the influence of #global-warming. Boost biodiversity increase reserve size and/or #living-together-with-nature again. What can we learn from the indignious people?
February 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🧪#NAEM2025 #Human-nature relationships Keynote Paula Kahumbu Kenya wildlife conservationalist #elephants ceo wildlifedirect.org
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February 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Now at the Dutch Ecologist Network Symposium 🧪#NEAM2025 www.nern.nl/NAEM2025 exiting programme!
NAEM 2025 | NERN
Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting ECOLOGY IN A CHANGING WORLD 11 & 12 February 2025 Conference Centre "De Werelt" (Westhofflaan 2, Lunteren, The Netherlands) Scope Each year in February, the Netherla...
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February 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Prof Esther Turnhout in knowledge transformation society on “Why we need to transform environmental science 🧪”, she is also in the @ipbes.bsky.social panel, which is like the IPCC for nature! she wants to build back better #universities
January 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
#Anthropocene symposium Dr Niek Weilands works on reducing the #carbon footprint and chemical pollution of #healthcare, in this terms the netherlands is number 1 of the world… So healthcare is contributing to unhealthy environments due to #linear-health-economy Dr Weilands established #Green-Teams.
January 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Dr Ellen Droog from Vrije Universiteit on the #Anthropocene 🧪symposium The paradox of health communication: why health information is not empowering… health information lead to fear and guilt leading to tune out (people don’t care anymore).
January 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#Anthropocene symposium session on One Health introduced by Prof Richard Jaspers @Vrije universiteit sustainable healthy living and well being for all. Health and live sciences is about extending our “healthy” lives.
January 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#Anthropocene symposium 🧪in the #Guyana session: Leonidas Oikonomakis on #extractivism is the mechanism of (gold, oil) resource exploitation at the cost of local communities… in spite of all good intentions by companies: “green-extractivism.”
January 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Attending the #Anthropocene 🧪symposium. Invisible threats and expectations in a visibly ruined Planet: the #Guineas.
Anthropologist Prof Marjo de Theije introduction, the Guyanas are islands compared to the rest of S America,no common language. Recent oil discoveries bring hope. But who will profit!
January 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ludo Pinkers on the role of human #psychology evolution in the #anthropocene symposium
A major trait of homo sapiens is #adaptation, and it is essential to understand our (negative) interaction with the biosphere. The general adaptation syndrome is vested in the limbic system of our 🧠
January 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM