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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · Jul 14

everything is terrible but MY FAVORITE CONFERENCE IS BACK

Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026

mark your calendars!!!

#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Aug 25

An opportunity not to be missed! The indomitable @thenaturedave.bsky.social advertising a fully funded 5-year PhD and 2-year postdoc (soon) at Rutgers in the US. I loved my time living in NJ & this is a chance to join what will no doubt be a fearsomely amazing lab. Apply or share!

Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · Aug 25

(Plz share) We're hiring! 5-year PhD student to join our new lab at Rutgers University. Broadly, exploring how climate change impacts terrestrial species, ecosystems and biodiversity – compute, field, or lab! See here:
ecoclimateglobal.org/join/
(hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)

Join the Lab

Current Opportunities Please see below for current and upcoming opportunities to join the group. We always welcome inquiries from motivated potential members with research interests that fit our group...

ecoclimateglobal.org

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Aug 18

Aye we looked into camping & definitely see the need for that option for hiding from rain!

Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Aug 16

Cool, thanks! Do you camp at Knepp? How long are you there for?

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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · Aug 16

New for all microclimate enthusiasts!

A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.

Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social

🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...

How to set up your own microclimate network

Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organize…

the3dlab.org

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Aug 15

Folks who run undergraduate ecology field courses in the UK - where do you go? I know the @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social centres are popular. Any others? (Ideally in N England or Scotland).

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thrilled to share this OA paper (with code!) for designing #microclimate sensor networks. Led by @thenaturedave.bsky.social & @jlembrechts.bsky.social, plus Stijn Van de Vondel, Eric Greenlee, and former @durham-university.bsky.social student, Kian Hayles-Cotton
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A workflow for microclimate sensor networks: Integrating geographic tools, statistics, and local knowledge

Wireless environmental sensors have become integral tools in environmental and conservation research, offering diverse data streams that complement tr…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just got the final proofs of my book💓

Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!

I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years

I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪

book cover of the book "A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing" by Martin A. Nunez

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Jul 11

That's a wrap! Thank you to the wonderful attendees of our inaugural @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social field event with @northwildlife.bsky.social and with support from @britishecologicalsociety.org . I have learnt loads & met many excellent people working on #rewilding in the region! 👍🌱

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Jul 11

Last talk of the #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social event by Rosie McCallum @newcastleuni.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social talking about #BNG in the North East

@britishecologicalsociety.org

Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Jul 11

After great intro on drones by @camgoodhead.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Graham Holyoak from @northwildlife.bsky.social, now onto Duncan Hutt to talk about the Rothbury Estate at our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social event @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Jul 10

Now moving onto the @northwildlife.bsky.social #rewilding project at West Chevington, former open cast coal mine

@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Jul 10

Next up on #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding [email protected] @rewildingbritain.org.uk . Great talk about the RB monitoring framework and early work from pilot studies.

@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@northwildlife.bsky.social

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Jul 10

Tom Jameson from @forestresearchuk.bsky.social kicks off our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @britishecologicalsociety.org event, organised by @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social. Exciting couple of days coming up!

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · May 11

Thank you for writing it! It sums it up perfectly 😄 (and reading this paper again, I'm reminded of how much it inspired me during my PhD - so thanks for that too!)

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · May 11

I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · May 9

Absolute pleasure to contribute to this @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper out yesterday, cooked up at the Species on the Move (SOTM) Conference in 2023.

Takeaway: species on the move under climate change can move along many gradients and dimensions, at multiple scales!

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Reimagining species on the move across space and time

Climate change is already leaving a broad footprint of impacts on biodiversity, from an individual caterpillar emerging earlier in spring to dominant plant communities migrating poleward. Despite the ...

www.cell.com

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Apr 24

Update!! We have extended the deadline to 4th May and we're now inviting applications from anyone working on rewilding in North England or South Scotland. If that sounds like you, please apply to join us in July!

Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Mar 17

Are you a practitioner or academic working in rewilding in North East England?

Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!

Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society

A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in the North East of England.

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

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Julia Kemppinen @juliakemppinen.bsky.social · Apr 16

I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends April 25! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Apr 15

Less than 1 week left to the deadline. Get those applications in!

Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Mar 17

Are you a practitioner or academic working in rewilding in North East England?

Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!

Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society

A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in the North East of England.

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

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Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference @mebconf.bsky.social · Mar 28

We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Mar 14

Reminder! ✨ Paid 6-week summer internships with UKCEH!

➡️ Are you a student looking for hands-on research experience?
➡️ Work on topics relevant to global environmental challenges
📅 30 June – 8 August 2025
📍Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford

Deadline 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...

Group of people sitting outside eating lunch, and the text Summer Internship Programme 2025 Apply Now!

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · Mar 19

Last year I published a paper showing how many threatened species are lacking documented conservation actions. New paper just out and led by @ashsimkins.bsky.social shows that when conservation interventions *are* in place, it works!

Ash Simkins @ashsimkins.bsky.social · Mar 18

*Positive news* Despite global declines in biodiversity, we find conservation has driven improvements in >100 species. This suggests with greater resource allocation to more species, conservation can halt and reverse biodiversity loss! First PhD paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus)
(c) Octavio Jimenez Robles

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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · Mar 18

Just a few days left to apply for this #pdra position 👇 if you like #forests, #ecology, #lidar and #coding, come and join us!

Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · Feb 24

I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge.

Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲

Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/

#pdra #forests #lidar

Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · Mar 7

Our new paper and software tool PointsToWood is out! Led by Harry Owen and Targeted at high performance for small branches, PointsToWood performs #deeplearning enabled leaf-wood semantic segmentation of high resolution #TLS point clouds. 🌿 🌲 🌳

👇performance on unseen tropical data

Image shows leaf (black) wood (red) separation by PointsToWood on an unseen tropical forest dataset from Cameroon. Even though we only trained on European forest data, the diversity and high quality of our training dataset results in excellent performance in other biomes.

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