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NovelEco Project @noveleco.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marcuscollier.bsky.social & Megan Lynn Maurer. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth

Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities

Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · 7d

We are hiring!
Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation at Trinity College, School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Botany! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Any enquiries, please DM me!
#academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience

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NovelEco Project @noveleco.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marcuscollier.bsky.social & Megan Lynn Maurer. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth

Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities

Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...

www.tandfonline.com

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Aug 7

Only days before submitting her thesis, my PhD student Natalia just had her 2nd @noveleco.bsky.social paper published. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities' is open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth #novelecosystems

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jul 24

An effort to seed a revival of hedgerows in Dublin city www.dublininquirer.com/an-effort-to...

An effort to seed a revival of hedgerows in Dublin city

“We're going to develop different urban trial hedgerows,” says Sophie von Maltzan. “The edible hedgerow, and the not-so-fast-growing hedgerow, and the thorn-free hedge.”

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The Nature of Cities @tnoc.bsky.social · Jul 22

#TNOCRoundtable THE KINSHIP SERIES 🌳
The kinship with trees and forests: How can we cultivate reciprocal relationships with trees and forests?
Read and join the conversation 👉 buff.ly/gCv29Lz

#KinshipWithNature #UrbanForests #Reciprocity #DeepEcology #NatureCulture

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Urban Systems Lab @uslnyc.bsky.social · Jul 22

📰 Just out in @pnas.org special issue: Elizabeth M. Cook, Yeowon Kim, Nancy B. Grimm, and Weiqi Zhou introduce how #NatureBasedSolutions can make cities more resilient.
🔗 buff.ly/KJPOGHX
#NbS #UrbanSustainability #Equity #ClimateResilience #GreenCities

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are hiring!
The School of Natural Sciences in Trinity College Dublin is seeking to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Science.
Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui..., and under 'Department', scroll to The School of Natural Sciences. Deadline: August 15th.

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jul 12

Great weather for doing some research on drystone wall ecology. Here, with two recently graduated students working as excellent research assistants, Órla R. Fitzgerald and Evelyn Sweeney, we are collecting some very preliminary data and testing methods.

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jul 14

The second ‘Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming #urban #naturebasedsolutions, led by Dr. @timonm.bsky.social‬, can be found here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10..... This was a huge effort and a key output from the excellent NATURA Project team! Also #openaccess thanks to the NSF.

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jul 14

I’m delighted to be part of the writing team for TWO exciting new papers published today as part of the Natura Project Network; #openaccess thanks to the NSF. ‘Nature-based solutions for #urban #sustainability’, led by Dr Elizabeth Cook, is here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #naturebasedsolutions

PNAS

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our latest open-access @noveleco.bsky.social paper is out! 'Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces'. We scraped social media data to show general attitudes to #urbanwildspaces rdcu.be/evHeW.

Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces

Scientific Reports - Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces

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NovelEco Project @noveleco.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our latest paper is out!
Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces: rdcu.be/evHeW.
Led by Haider Khalid, we scraped social media to show general attitudes to #urban #novelecosystems #AI

Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces

Scientific Reports - Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jun 27

We're hiring a Teaching Fellow for the next academic year. An applied ecologist with expertise in terrestrial field ecology and contemporary biodiversity loss/policy issues. See the TCD vacancies site or contact me for details. Please circulate, especially to PhD students nearing completion.

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NovelEco Project @noveleco.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our latest open source publication is making the news!
Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions scienmag.com/advancing-mu...

Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions

In an era defined by urgent environmental crises and accelerating urbanization, the quest for equitable and sustainable solutions has never been more pressing. A groundbreaking study led by

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Mairéad O'Donnell @maireadod.bsky.social · Jun 17

A great write-up on our recent publication led by Melissa Pineda-Pinto

@marcuscollier.bsky.social @noveleco.bsky.social

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Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions

In an era defined by urgent environmental crises and accelerating urbanization, the quest for equitable and sustainable solutions has never been more pressing. A groundbreaking study led by

scienmag.com

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The Nature of Cities @tnoc.bsky.social · Jun 10

🎉 Launch day! #Science2Story is here!

As 21 Biodiversa+ funded research projects wrap up, they’ve teamed up with NBSComics to transform key findings into three powerful long-form comics.

🌍 Dive into the comics 👉 nbscomics.com/science2story/

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Roberto Garbero @robertogarbero.bsky.social · Jun 2

Don’t miss this great new paper about Co-creation in urban sustainability transitions just published in Urban Transformations @biomedcentral.bsky.social

Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · May 27

It has taken several years to get this paper published, but finally, thanks to our fantastic lead author, Prof.
@nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social, here it is!
'Premises, practices and politics of co-creation for urban sustainability transitions.' urbantransformations.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Premises, practices and politics of co-creation for urban sustainability transitions - Urban Transformations

Co-creation is becoming a widely used mode of urban governance and research for city-making and city-transitioning being conceptually entangled with experimentation, innovation and collaboration. In t...

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Jun 6

Great paper by @jcsvenning.bsky.social and his team discussed in today's @irishtimes.com.
Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe. www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe

Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone

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NovelEco Project @noveleco.bsky.social · May 29

Wonderful new paper from our amazing Dr. Melissa Pineda-Pinto and the NovelEco team: Realizing #multispeciesjustice through a capability approach to promote #naturebasedsolutions. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions - npj Urban Sustainability

npj Urban Sustainability - Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions

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Mairéad O'Donnell @maireadod.bsky.social · May 29

🌱 We use the Capability Approach as a bridge between these frameworks, tested through embodied place-based workshops in novel urban ecologies.

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Mairéad O'Donnell @maireadod.bsky.social · May 29

🌱 Our findings highlight how recognizing more-than-hunan agencies can help identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for multispecies flourishing in urban settings.

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Mairéad O'Donnell @maireadod.bsky.social · May 29

🌱 We argue for the untapped potential of novel ecologies as crucial sites for just a d biodiverse urban futures.

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Mairéad O'Donnell @maireadod.bsky.social · May 29

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Mairéad O'Donnell @maireadod.bsky.social · May 29

🌱🌱🌱 New Publication 🌱🌱🌱

I'm proud to be a co-author on a paper exploring how multispecies justice can be meaningfully integrated into nature-based solutions in cities.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions - npj Urban Sustainability

npj Urban Sustainability - Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions

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