Holly Langridge
@ecology-holly.bsky.social
Currently work in forest and soil ecology research at University of Bristol, but taking a break from science in 2025 to cycle to Asia.
Other interests: comedy, books, crafts, TV & film, travel, hiking.
She/her.
Other interests: comedy, books, crafts, TV & film, travel, hiking.
She/her.
@taskmaster.tv I laughed so hard at the twin task that I nearly choked on a piece of orange. I was home alone; my life flashed before my eyes. 10/10, worth the risk.
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@taskmaster.tv I laughed so hard at the twin task that I nearly choked on a piece of orange. I was home alone; my life flashed before my eyes. 10/10, worth the risk.
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We are looking for a research fellow to join our group for 2 years! Please share with anyone looking for a new position and interested in 🌱 local adaptation, plant-soil interactions and land use! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/340833
Research Fellow in Plant Evolutionary Ecology (postdoc)
We are looking for a 2-year postdoctoral research fellow within the European Research Council project PlantSoilAdapt - “Eco-evolutionary dynamics in plant-soil interactions during land use transition:...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
We are looking for a research fellow to join our group for 2 years! Please share with anyone looking for a new position and interested in 🌱 local adaptation, plant-soil interactions and land use! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/340833
Popping back to Bristol to collect the car I keep meaning to sell. Cost almost as much to go from my house in Levenshulme to Manchester (7 min) by train, as from Manchester to Bristol by Flix bus. Our public transport is a mess! #NorthernRail
April 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Popping back to Bristol to collect the car I keep meaning to sell. Cost almost as much to go from my house in Levenshulme to Manchester (7 min) by train, as from Manchester to Bristol by Flix bus. Our public transport is a mess! #NorthernRail
Never has my desire to throw a scientific instrument out of a window been stronger. 6+ months of trying to fix it, tens of emails to Elementar, various new parts, hours reading the manual, an actual engineer visit and it still doesn't sodding work. 2 days til I leave this job - I think I'm beaten 😫
April 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Never has my desire to throw a scientific instrument out of a window been stronger. 6+ months of trying to fix it, tens of emails to Elementar, various new parts, hours reading the manual, an actual engineer visit and it still doesn't sodding work. 2 days til I leave this job - I think I'm beaten 😫
We popped to Devon for fieldwork at our regular Woodland Trust site. A beautiful sunny fond farewell since it'll probably be my last visit before I take a year out to cycle Europe and travel. It seems recent forestry work has scared away the deer so very little trap damage.
March 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We popped to Devon for fieldwork at our regular Woodland Trust site. A beautiful sunny fond farewell since it'll probably be my last visit before I take a year out to cycle Europe and travel. It seems recent forestry work has scared away the deer so very little trap damage.
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Friends, if you saw a news story or social media post about this, even if it didn't happen to you personally, you can help by sharing that link with me.
February 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Friends, if you saw a news story or social media post about this, even if it didn't happen to you personally, you can help by sharing that link with me.
@anthomycota.bsky.social great talk today, thanks
February 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
@anthomycota.bsky.social great talk today, thanks
We're fractionating soil from our 13C herbivory experiment at the moment and it's giving seaweed vibes when it dries. Also, a lot of colour variation for being only max 30 metres apart in the field.
February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We're fractionating soil from our 13C herbivory experiment at the moment and it's giving seaweed vibes when it dries. Also, a lot of colour variation for being only max 30 metres apart in the field.
We had a thoroughly enjoyable evening at the #BristolLightFestival, even if we spent so long queuing for Swoon ice cream that we missed the flamingos being lit. I think I was spoilt by the astronaught last year, these lights didn't quite compare.
February 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We had a thoroughly enjoyable evening at the #BristolLightFestival, even if we spent so long queuing for Swoon ice cream that we missed the flamingos being lit. I think I was spoilt by the astronaught last year, these lights didn't quite compare.
I came across this majestic male bison in Teremiski village, Poland in July. We were in Białowieża forest for SAP lab fieldwork and leaf litter processing. He muched contentedly while I sat safely inside a car. This made my month!
December 24, 2024 at 1:48 PM
I came across this majestic male bison in Teremiski village, Poland in July. We were in Białowieża forest for SAP lab fieldwork and leaf litter processing. He muched contentedly while I sat safely inside a car. This made my month!
In May we started our most intense experiment yet: 13C pulse-chase of in-situ oak seedlings to investigate effects of mammal & insect herbivory. We used air tight chambers to label only the leaves. We had PRS probes, data loggers, lysimeters and took flux data with automatic chambers in sequence.
December 23, 2024 at 5:47 PM
In May we started our most intense experiment yet: 13C pulse-chase of in-situ oak seedlings to investigate effects of mammal & insect herbivory. We used air tight chambers to label only the leaves. We had PRS probes, data loggers, lysimeters and took flux data with automatic chambers in sequence.
The incredible view from by my holiday accommodation in Çamlıhemşin, Turkey, back in April. I hadnt expected the small apartment blocks perched all over the hills among the tea plants. Snow covered Kaçkar mountains in the distance.
December 22, 2024 at 7:54 PM
The incredible view from by my holiday accommodation in Çamlıhemşin, Turkey, back in April. I hadnt expected the small apartment blocks perched all over the hills among the tea plants. Snow covered Kaçkar mountains in the distance.
I'm a pretty infrequent poster and brand new to Bluesky so now seems like a good time to look back on the year. These ruined leaf litter traps are from Devon last Jan, where we're looking at tree productivity vs soil biodiversity. Deer to blame for this destruction. #SAPlab #fieldwork
December 21, 2024 at 8:22 PM
I'm a pretty infrequent poster and brand new to Bluesky so now seems like a good time to look back on the year. These ruined leaf litter traps are from Devon last Jan, where we're looking at tree productivity vs soil biodiversity. Deer to blame for this destruction. #SAPlab #fieldwork
The really surprising thing from fieldwork to our temperate rainforest site in Devon was that all of our leaf litter traps and mammal exclusion fences survived storm #Darragh unscathed. Previous visit we had to change 6 traps - there's no rhyme or reason to their destruction! 🦌🍂
December 13, 2024 at 2:25 PM
The really surprising thing from fieldwork to our temperate rainforest site in Devon was that all of our leaf litter traps and mammal exclusion fences survived storm #Darragh unscathed. Previous visit we had to change 6 traps - there's no rhyme or reason to their destruction! 🦌🍂
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📢 18-month postdoc in my lab doing drought modelling with either the UK land surface model JULES or machine learning. Up to you which. Please share widely (thanks)
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Closes: 18th January
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Closes: 18th January
December 11, 2024 at 10:31 AM
📢 18-month postdoc in my lab doing drought modelling with either the UK land surface model JULES or machine learning. Up to you which. Please share widely (thanks)
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Closes: 18th January
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Closes: 18th January
A rare sighting during yesterday's SAPlab fieldwork in Devon - the elusive greater spectacled PI in full winter plumage! This species more commonly found stalking the halls of a university. (I jest with love 😅).
December 11, 2024 at 12:11 PM
A rare sighting during yesterday's SAPlab fieldwork in Devon - the elusive greater spectacled PI in full winter plumage! This species more commonly found stalking the halls of a university. (I jest with love 😅).
1 week into Bluesky and my discover feed is half cats! Don't get me wrong, I love me a cute Kitty, but I was trying to keep it profesh (soil and forest ecology). I'm pretty sure I haven't liked a single cat related post 🤷🏼♀️
December 6, 2024 at 6:50 PM
1 week into Bluesky and my discover feed is half cats! Don't get me wrong, I love me a cute Kitty, but I was trying to keep it profesh (soil and forest ecology). I'm pretty sure I haven't liked a single cat related post 🤷🏼♀️
The situation in Georgia is alarming. I got a glimpse of their heavy-handed policing during my visit. The people protesting are risking a lot, largely in protest of losing the chance at something (EU membership) that we (UK) chose to give up. #Georgia #Tbilisi #Europe
Police raid Georgia opposition parties’ offices as protests continue
The opposition Coalition for Change party says its leader Nika Gvaramia is detained by police.
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December 5, 2024 at 10:08 AM
At the polar opposite end of the publishing scale, I also finally got around to writing up my trip to Georgia (the country) this week for my personal blog.
Can something be subtly life-changing? If so, that was Georgia for me and I enthusiastically recommend this "mystical land" to all. 🌍🧭
Can something be subtly life-changing? If so, that was Georgia for me and I enthusiastically recommend this "mystical land" to all. 🌍🧭
Shifting Perspectives: Two Wild Weeks in Georgia’s Greater Caucasus Mountains
I feel like I could write a book on my trip to the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region of Georgia in Autumn 2023. It was a truly unforgettable experience that has proven unexpectedly life-chan…
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November 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
At the polar opposite end of the publishing scale, I also finally got around to writing up my trip to Georgia (the country) this week for my personal blog.
Can something be subtly life-changing? If so, that was Georgia for me and I enthusiastically recommend this "mystical land" to all. 🌍🧭
Can something be subtly life-changing? If so, that was Georgia for me and I enthusiastically recommend this "mystical land" to all. 🌍🧭
My first Bluesky post is (coincidentally) my first Nature paper! Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events doi.org/ntzk. Huge props to @frantecol.bsky.social and the other collaborators for this mammoth effort.
#Soil #Microbiome #ClimateChange
#Soil #Microbiome #ClimateChange
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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November 28, 2024 at 2:26 PM
My first Bluesky post is (coincidentally) my first Nature paper! Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events doi.org/ntzk. Huge props to @frantecol.bsky.social and the other collaborators for this mammoth effort.
#Soil #Microbiome #ClimateChange
#Soil #Microbiome #ClimateChange