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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly this 👆

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14h

Don't care about the massive damage done to native ecosystems by the constant release of vast numbers of invasive pheasants for shooting?

Maybe you'll care about catching Lyme disease instead.

British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 11d

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag.bsky.social · 15h

Megafauna bones discovered in South America suggest that humans regularly ate giant sloths and armadillos. Archaeologists now think smaller animals only became dietary staples after the megafauna were hunted to extinction.

archaeology.org/news/2025/10/06/what-happened-to-south-americas-megafauna/

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 1d

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Government were advised Palestine Action are non-violent, criminal damage generally minor & do not meet threshold of proscription. But they did it anyway (after lobbying from Elbit Systems).

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway

www.thecanary.co

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 1d

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Government were advised Palestine Action are non-violent, criminal damage generally minor & do not meet threshold of proscription. But they did it anyway (after lobbying from Elbit Systems).

MI6 insiders slam Palestine Action ban as 'distraction' from real counter-terrorism

It seems everyone with any expertise on terrorism, including MI6, was against the Palestine Action ban - yet Labour proceeded anyway

www.thecanary.co

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 5d

A great thread dismantling the latest 'conservation populism' to be floated in Britain. With funding available for species recovery, this is business for some. We'll see more of this pitching for commercial projects that scientists & species experts think is useless. #ornithology #ukbirding

Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 5d

More ill thought out 'conservation' translocations 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/... - so much to unpack here #Ornithology #UKBirding 🧵

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities

Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 2d

@ueaceec.bsky.social 👆

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 2d

📢 We're hiring! Are you ready to make a national impact?

Join us as Senior Project Manager on the UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure – a major initiative transforming how we monitor and respond to extreme hydrological events across the UK.

🔗🧪 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 4d

Studying breeding waders sometimes involves catching chicks multiple times.
Do these intensive studies have negative effects on chick growth?
Blog about reassuring paper by Camilo Carneiro et al from 5 Oct 2024 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/h...

How do wader chicks respond to being handled?

Every wader researcher knows that their actions can have negative consequences for the birds they are studying. Given that most shorebird species are in trouble or causing concern, conservation sci…

wadertales.wordpress.com

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 2d

@ueaceec.bsky.social 👆exciting opportunity

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 2d

🍄 Opportunity alert!

Natural England are looking for a UK-based collaborator to support analytics for a Fungal Red List for Great Britain.

Tasks include bias assessment, Frescalo modelling, AOO/EOO, and data presentation (Shiny or Excel).

📩 Get in touch: [email protected]

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds great - and genuine Biodiversity gain!

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 3d

Very little gain. It was already a diverse grassland with regenerating scrub, so this will not have improved things for biodiversity

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d

“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.”

They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 4d

NEW PAPER: Badgers, weather, and waders: badger predation on lapwing nests rise in cold conditions (below 4°C) and with high earthworm availability. Cold years see heavy losses, suggesting weather forecasts could guide management to protect waders

➡️ vist.ly/499u6

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

Badger predating a lapwing nest: Photo credit: Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Fig. 2 from the article: Relationship between the overall probability of badger predation on a lapwing clutch at Auchnerran farm, northeast Scotland, and (a) 7-day temperature, (b) earthworm abundance together with implications for the overall probabilities of other fates.

Fig. 3 from the article: Annual 7-day temperature (°C) (immediately prior to lapwing nest outcome) across 2018–2023 at Auchnerran farm, northeast Scotland.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 12d

Biodiversity Net Gain or plastic pollution?

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Wylie Horn @wyliehorn.bsky.social · 7d

Project Officer - Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms - RSPB - environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/107624-... #entomology #ScottishBirding

Project Officer - Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms

The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting and organising volunteer surveys of the 5 key insect species across the Cairngorms with a particular emphasis on Dark Bordered Beauty in ...

environmentjob.co.uk

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British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 11d

Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 10d

Many practitioners in UK remain very dismissive of Lyme and obtaining a diagnosis can be very difficult.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 11d

Terrifying tipping points being breached

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 11d

Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams
threatening fish, ecosystems, and communities that depend on them—with no way to stop the process once it starts.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Why Alaska’s salmon streams are suddenly bleeding orange

Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams. The shift, eerily similar to mine pollution but entirely natural, threatens fis...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 10d

Tragic reminder of the chronic misery of undiagnosed Lyme disease and the common failings of UK medical care to consider or treat Lyme. Sadly a familiar pattern.

Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 11d

This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.

As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?

I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 11d

Terrifying tipping points being breached

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 11d

Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams
threatening fish, ecosystems, and communities that depend on them—with no way to stop the process once it starts.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Why Alaska’s salmon streams are suddenly bleeding orange

Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams. The shift, eerily similar to mine pollution but entirely natural, threatens fis...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 11d

Allotments may mimic former arable in terms of lighter scarification not deep cultivation, and lack of biocides

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 19d

This is quite mind-blowing; Ecosystem processes and herbivores don’t just depend on but shape landforms + sedimentation process at regional-continental scales

Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 19d

Most people don't get it -- but this study nature.com/articles/s43... is co cool! Usually we think about the sequence stratigraphy as uniformitarian discipline/process/structure. But what if the evolutionary events, such as dinosaur extinction changed how stata look!?
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology
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All impact-identified continental Cretaceous-Paleogene boundaries coincide with a facies change.

Conceptual illustration of the ‘Dinosaurs as Ecosystem Engineers’ hypothesis.

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