Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Dr Lorna Harris @lornaharris.bsky.social · 14d

📢 New Peatpedia post! A brief intro to #peatland soils, peat fossils, and moss piglets. Moss piglets! Microscopic creatures wriggling in the moss. I got very distracted doing background research on them, so a future post will be dedicated entirely to moss piglets!

open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

1 7 22

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Akrotelm 🌾 @akrotelm.bsky.social · 14d

@hanna-martens.bsky.social berichtet über ihre Forschung zum Potenzial für die #Biodiversität 🪺🪻 auf wiedervernässten Mooren, die zusätzlich mit Photovoltaik ⚡️ überbaut sind. #RRR2025

1 4 11

Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 14d

No need to be an ECR, anyone's photos are welcome 📷💚

1

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Alex Cobb @dynamicpeatlands.bsky.social · 15d

Are you fascinated by how peatlands form and how they are impacted by human land use? I am seeking PhD students to join my lab at the Asian School of the Environment in Singapore. For more, visit dynamicpeatlands.org/phd-programme

Opportunities to join Alex Cobb's group

PhD, postdoc, Masters and undergraduate opportunities with Alex Cobb's group at the Asian School of the Environment.

dynamicpeatlands.org

6 6

Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 16d

Peat ECR is at the RRR this week in Greifswald! Join us and meet other early career researchers Monday evening for drinks from 6-8. For more details, check your latest email from the RRR organizing committee. rrr2025.com

rrr2025.com

2 5

Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · 25d

🚨📸 About 2 weeks left to send in your best #wildlife in a #peatland shot and publish in the 2026 edition of #PeatCalendar

Email to: [email protected]

Deadline: 30 September

Promotional poster for the “2026 PEAT Calendar” by the Peatland ECR Action Team. The calendar theme is “Wildlife.” The poster announces that photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. The background features a scenic photo of a wooden boardwalk leading through a peatland toward snow-capped mountains under a colorful sunset sky. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.

1 6 8

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Pamela Baur @pamelabaur.bsky.social · Sep 2

My doctoral thesis is titled “drought-influenced greenhouse gas fluxes and their emission pathways of the subsaline reed ecosystem of Lake Neusiedl”.
The dissertation is available at:
doi.org/10.25365/the...
#wetland #drought #GHG #methane #ebullition #plant-mediated #reed #Phragmites #pathway #LTER

Drought-influenced greenhouse gas fluxes and their emission pathways of the subsaline reed ecosystem of Lake Neusiedl

doi.org

1 1 1

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

David Olefeldt @olefeldt.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Study in ES&T! Permafrost peatlands accumulate mercury from distant sources, but thaw causes collapse into wetter bogs and fens. Lauren Thompson shows that these bogs, and especially fens, become hotspots for mercury methylation, and potential downstream transport.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

6 15

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · Sep 4

Do you mentor scientific writing, or use written assignments in the science courses you teach? Do you find mentoring/teaching writing hard, or time consuming? (Because it is!) Our new book can help, and it's getting close to being in your hands.

Owls, blurbs, and a cover – oh my! “Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is getting close

We (that’s Bethann Garramon Merkle and I) are getting very excited about our new book, Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach. Over the last few months, we’ve be…

scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com

2 18 29

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Mike Shewring @mikeshewring.bsky.social · Sep 3

New review on Forest to bog restoration - wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... . A useful and timely summary.

Strong agree with the statement that the evidence is spatially biased to Scotland!

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Forest‐to‐Bog Restoration on Carbon Sequestration, Water Chemistry, and Biodiversity in Irish and British Peatlands

A forest-to-bog restoration site in Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland, 4 years after clear-felling, conifer removal, and cell bunding (surface bunds joined to form watertight cells to retain shallow water an...

wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

1 1 5

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Dr. Jessica Richardson @definearth.bsky.social · Sep 3

🧪 Did you know drought stress can have a legacy effect on recalcitrant compounds in leaf litter? 🍃 Or that deforestation added an extra 3°C in the past 20 years? 🌡️ Read more, plus a timeless concept about wetlands (hint: it's about protecting them), in Peatmail: peatmail.substack.com/p/lessons-wr...

Lessons Written in Mud: Why We Can’t Drain the Swamp

Reflecting on the mistakes of past societies and the future of wetland conservation.

peatmail.substack.com

4 10

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Manx Peat Partnership @manxpeat.bsky.social · Sep 3

Find out about the depth and extent of upland #peat on the Isle of Man by viewing our new interactive peatland map 😁 You can also view photographs 📸 of restoration areas, at fixed points, which will show changes over time. Visit our website to find out more www.manxpeat.org/map

2 6

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Aug 11

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential of Temperate Fen Paludicultures

📄 buff.ly/APdzmb9

3 1

Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Aug 24

⚠️ Monthly reminder for the upcoming Photo contest deadline on September 30th.

Have your best shot of#wildlife in #peatlands and other #wetlands featured in the next edition of #PeatCalendar2026
🐻🦊🐸🕷️🦟🐜🦦🦫🦧🐃🦋🫎🦆

ℹ️ peatecr.com/contact-us2/...

✉️ [email protected]

2 3

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Joey Pickard @bootlegbryos.bsky.social · Aug 15

Some interesting bog employment opportunities coming out for those on the peatlands and wetlands feed!

Countryside Jobs Service @countrysidejobs.bsky.social · Aug 15

@ulsterwildlife.bsky.social wants to appoint a PEAT+ Peatland Restoration Manager. Full time, fixed term to 31 March 2029, unless renewed. Northern Ireland, various locations

Ulster Wildlife: PEAT+ Peatland Restoration Manager advertised with CJS

Salary: £38,579 to £41,806. Access to employer’s contributory pension scheme - maximum 10% per annum. Contract type: Fixed term to 31 March 2029, unless renewed. Working hours: Full time Location:…

c-js.uk

3 2

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Eliza Maher Hasselquist @emhasselquist.bsky.social · Aug 12

I’m at #ESA2025 through tomorrow and may be hiring soon! If you are interested in biodiversity and ecology of peatlands, riparian zones, ditches, and/or forestry let’s meet up and chat! PhD and postdoc opportunities with all the benefits of the Swedish social system will be published soon!

7 6

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

C-Paleo Lab @cpaleolab.bsky.social · Aug 13

La suite du projet sur les stocks de carbone des tourbières de Parc Canada : campagne de terrain à Wood Buffalo. Beaucoup de bisons et de forêts brulées. 🦬

Une tourbière pergélisolée a été découverte et a été carotté !!!

📌Parc national de Wood Buffalo, Territoires du Nord-Ouest et Alberta

1 3 5

Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Aug 14

Excellent shot for the #PeatCalendar2026!!

#peatland
#wetlands
#Wildlife

Promotional graphic for the 2026 PEAT (Peatland ECR Action Team) calendar with the theme ‘Wildlife.’ The text announces photo submissions are open until September 30, 2025. Background image shows a wooden boardwalk stretching through peatland toward snow-capped mountains under a colorful sunset sky. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.

Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Jul 29

New Series Alert!💚Welcome to the PeatECR bio series, a monthly spotlight on one early-career researcher/practitioner working in and around wetlands (no discrimination between peatlands and non-peatlands in this case). If you or someone you know would like to be featured, please get in touch with us!

PeatECR Bio Series - a monthly spotlight on one researcher/practitioner working in and around wetlands.
If you or someone you know would like to be featured, please email us at peatecr@gmail.com with attention to Rahel Bauerdick, our current coordinator of this series.
Please share far and wide to help us reach more early-career folk around the world!

3 10

Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Jul 29

You can email us via [email protected] attn to Rahel Bauerdick ( @rahelleilab.bsky.social ), who is our current coordinator of this series 🍃

1

Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Jul 29

PeatECR Bio Series #1 - just in time to introduce our first featured bio in for July 2025 💚
Today we introduce Leeza Speranskaya, a recent MSc graduate, focusing on evaporation dynamics in restiad peat bogs. Connect with Leeza here:
www.linkedin.com/in/leeza-spe...
#PeatECRBioSeries

Leeza Speranskaya is a Masters graduate from the University of Waikato, now working as an environmental scientist at a consultancy. She is a self-proclaimed data cruncher but enjoys the occasional bush-bash, both of which she got to experience during her Masters! Leeza’s Masters research focussed on Kopuatai bog, a unique peatland ecosystem located near Paeroa, New Zealand. Kopuatai is dominated by a plant called Empodisma robustum, a wire rush that has allowed this peatland to form due to its high water retention abilities. Specifically, this plant conserves water through restricted transpiration and its dense standing litter. Leeza’s research had two components - (a) analysing over 10 years of evaporation data (i.e., data crunching) which was diligently collected by her supervisor Dave Campbell via the eddy covariance method, and (b) measuring interception loss by collecting rainwater from under the dense E. robustum structure (i.e., bush-bashing). The 10-year evaporation dataset was compared to that of Mer Bleue, Canada, in collaboration with key researchers Peter Lafleur and Elyn Humphreys, to determine the impact of their differing vegetation types on evaporation. This research was able to confirm that E. robustum does in fact have higher water retention capabilities than the Sphagnum mosses found at Mer Bleue during dry canopy conditions, while wet canopy conditions allowed for higher evaporation due to interception loss. An analysis of evaporation patterns with increasing vapour pressure deficit (VPD) at Kopuatai and Mer Bleue indicated that E. robustum is able to restrict evaporation at high VPD, which may allow it to be more resistant to climatic warming and drying compared to ecosystems like Mer Bleue.

1 5 13

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Tina Claffey Photography @tinaclaffey.bsky.social · Jul 21

My favourite orchid on the bog, Marsh Helleborine. Wonderful to be able to photograph it up close for John Feehan's invaluable Wildflowers of Offaly series on #YouTube under Offaly Heritage
youtu.be/LuG9uf1Hu0Y?...
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @peatlandecr.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Marsh Helleborine with John Feehan, Wildflowers of Offaly series

YouTube video by Offaly Heritage

youtu.be

4 4

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

International Peatland Society @peatlands.bsky.social · Jul 21

IPS is proud to announce that it will co-host the AsiaFlux 2025 conference in Riau, Indonesia. Register now if you want to participate in this important event. www.asiaflux2025.com #peatlands #southeastasia #climate

2 3

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Alan Puttock @alanputtock.bsky.social · Jul 22

New PhD funding opportunity: Quantifying natural flood management through peatland restoration in the upland moorland environment (Physical Geography @exeter.ac.uk )

@dpanici.bsky.social @philipimetcalfe.bsky.social @uoe-creww.bsky.social

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Quantifying NFM through peatland re | University of Exeter

The University’s Department of Geography invites applications for a PhD studentship funded by the Environment Agency and South West Water and the University of Exeter to commence as soon as possible t...

www.exeter.ac.uk

1 12 9

Reposted by Peatland ECR Action Team

Tóchar Community Stories @tocharstories.bsky.social · Jul 19

Our Tyrrellspass children's project featuring in @rteradio1.bsky.social Countrywide's bog special - here's the little audio feature that captures the essence of the work Eugene Dunbar and artist Annie Holland did with the children of St Anne's NS #Spéirghorm
soundcloud.com/athena-media...

Tyrrellspass children get to tell their own bog stories

Before the Summer break the 4th Class children of St Anne's NS Tyrrellspass Westmeath got to take part in a bog nature and creative art project under Tóchar Stories - led by local ecologist and volunt

soundcloud.com

5 6