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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 10h

Calling all early-career researchers 👩🔬👨🏫

Join YESI’s Meet the Editor session (15 Oct, 12–1pm, UoY Derwent D/L/006) to hear from editors of Atmospheric Environment, New Political Economy + Journal of Political Ecology.
Tips on publishing, peer review & more!

🔗 Book now: buff.ly/5vobmF4

York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 13h

🤖🌿 NERC AI for Environmental Science Workshop - New date + venue

Open to York PIs + Co-Is looking to develop/collaborate on a bid. Explore AI/data science sols for:

🌪 Environmental hazards + human health
🌳 Terrestrial ecology
🌊 Oceans + climate

💡Build ideas, meet collaborators: buff.ly/t47tBUF

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 1d

🎲🌱 Game Night 2: Urban Labor-a-tree – part of #yefest25

Join us Tue 14 Oct, 5.30–8pm, Sustainability Clinic, @york.ac.uk. Compete to build the ultimate green city in this fast-paced strategy board game inspired by real community voices.

👥 Open to all (16+)
🎟 Free – book here: buff.ly/WBWV9Jv

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 1d

🌱🔍 Want to see sustainable housing in action?

Join YESI’s Environment + Health theme for a guided tour of York’s retrofit demonstrator house 🏠⚡️
📅Tue 21 Oct | 5.30–6.30pm, 23 Vine St, York

🎟 Free, only 5 spots left! ➡️https://buff.ly/WPSp4iy

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 The #YESIFellowsScheme 2025-26 is NOW OPEN!

Unlike traditional funding, YESI Fellowships break silos + spark innovation 🌍
✨ Cross-disciplinary + cross-sector
✨ Local to global partnerships
✨ Solution-focused on urgent sustainability challenges

Apply now ➡️ buff.ly/HX5N54s

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Forest Research @forestresearchuk.bsky.social · 6d

💦 Through piloting the Woodland Water Code, we worked with Blenheim Palace and AtkinsRéalis to quantify reductions in agricultural pollution and flood waters on the estate as a result of woodland creation.

🔗 Read more: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/blenhei...

#GreenFinance #NaturalCapital

Blenheim Palace and the Woodland Water Code - Forest Research

Discover how Blenheim Palace is piloting the Woodland Water Code to guide strategic woodland creation.

www.forestresearch.gov.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 2d

🌍✨ In August, #TCESG25 brought together colleagues worldwide in Johannesburg to reimagine how transformation happens.

From dialogue + workshops to artistic expression, the conference was alive with creativity and connection.

🎥 Relive the spirit in this 3-minute film: buff.ly/VxLuiZj

TC/ESG 2025: Johannesburg Conference Recap

A month ago, more than 400 change makers from over 50 countries gathered in Johannesburg for TC/ESG25 — a co-hosted conference by the Transformations Community and the Earth System Governance…

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 5d

#FundingFriday: NERC Network Plus call – Antifungal Resistance (AFR) in the Environment🌍🧫

Develop a £4.762m Network Plus with academics, business + policy partners to investigate how AFR emerges + spreads through:
🏥 Healthcare
🌾 Agriculture
🏠 Household products

⏰Apply by: 2/12/25
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Network Plus: antifungal resistance in the environment

Apply for funding to develop a Network Plus to investigate how antifungal resistance emerges and spreads in the environment through healthcare, agriculture, and household mould-preventative product…

www.ukri.org

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 5d

#FundingFriday: New NERC call: Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Environmental Science – Phase One 🌍🤖

Seeking innovative projects using AI + data science to tackle complex environmental challenges.

Apply by: 11/12/25 🔗 buff.ly/a9Z4cGp

Interested PI or Co-Is? Contact: [email protected]

Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one

Secure funding to deliver new world-leading data science and AI approaches to tackle critical environmental challenges. Interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond environmental science is…

www.ukri.org

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 6d

🎬 Singing Back the Buffalo – film screening + online Q&A with director Tasha Hubbard.

🗓 Thu 9 Oct | 6–8.30pm
📍 Bowland Auditorium, @york.ac.uk

A powerful story of buffalo, Indigenous leadership + sustainability.

👉 Register: buff.ly/9lCFr63

@dfstirrup.bsky.social

Singing Back the Buffalo - Film Screening and Director Q&A

Come to 'Singing Back the Buffalo', a film about preserving the Great Plains buffalo through Indigenous culture, followed by a director Q&A

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 6d

📢Breaking Down or Breaking Free: Climate, Race and the Struggle for Justice, guest lecture with @prosocial.bsky.social

🗓Wed 8 Oct | 5.30-7pm | @yorkstjohn.bsky.social + online

An unmissable talk on how climate & racial justice are deeply connected.

👉 Register:

Breaking Down or Breaking Free: Climate, Race and the Struggle for Justice

A guest lecture by Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins on the intertwined struggle for racial and climate justice.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 7d

📢Workshop: AI for Environmental Science – Phase One 🌍🤖

We’re bringing together UoY researchers interested in applying for the NERC AI for Environmental Science call (£400k).

💡 Focus: hazards & health | terrestrial ecology | oceans & climate
🤝 Connect with potential PIs + CoIs

🔗 buff.ly/t47tBUF

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 8d

🎲 Join Play for the Planet for Game Night 1: Daybreak! Work together to fight climate change, build resilience & introduce green tech across the globe.

Part of #yorkenvironmentfestival2025

📅 Date Sat 4 October
📍 York
💚 Collaborative, fun, and thought-provoking
🔗 buff.ly/q7jC1ck

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 8d

🔌🏠 Curious about sustainable housing in practice? Join YESI’s Environment + Health theme for a guided tour of York’s retrofit demonstrator house on Tue 21 Oct, 5.30–6.30pm. Explore heat pumps, solar panels & more!

📍 23 Vine Street, York
🎟 Free, limited to 10 places – buff.ly/WPSp4iy

The image displays a row of houses with solar panels installed on their roofs

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 9d

📄 Want to explore your own idea? Find out how to apply and read the Call Guidelines for the YESI Fellows Scheme 2025/26 here: buff.ly/LHsu7CR

Call now open!

How to apply

Changing lives for the better through academic excellence and bold, creative thinking.

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 9d

🧭 Fieldwork. Access. Impact. Inclusion.

The YESI Fellows Scheme gave Dr Kayla McCarthy (Biology) the chance to lead a project, grow as a PI + work across disciplines.

Her project explored how to reduce barriers to fieldwork in environmental research 👇
🔗 buff.ly/gHCIcf2

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 9d

🌍 How can we tackle barriers to environmental resilience & justice?

Join our hybrid workshop at @york.ac.uk on Tue 4 Nov, 13:30–15:00 (UK) with partners from Thailand, Uganda and beyond.

💡 Share ideas | 🌱 Spark collaborations | 🤝 Build solutions
🔗 Book here:

Environment, resilience and justice workshop

Join us for a hybrid workshop to tackle barriers and pathways to a just, sustainable future. A chance to share ideas, spark collaborations, and shape the next steps with global partners.

www.york.ac.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 12d

💡 #FundingFriday: NIHR Climate Change & Health Research Collaboration Awards 🌍🏥

🔹 £2M available
🔹 Large-scale, transdisciplinary projects
🔹 Focus: adapting UK health + social care to climate change & extreme weather

📅 Deadline: 10 March 2026

Full info👉 www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr...

www.nihr.ac.uk

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 12d

🎨 #FundingFriday!

Sustainable AI Futures (AHRC BRAID) is seeking creative practitioners to explore AI & the environment through original artworks 🌍🤖.

3 mini-residencies available: £2,750 + up to £1,000 expenses. Deadline: 1 Nov 2025.

Call for proposals👉 buff.ly/uduYmsR

susaifutures.com – Sustainable AI Futures is led by Bath Spa University, with the support of the AHRC BRAID programme

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Lindsay Stringer @proflinds.bsky.social · 13d

Our new paper published in Anthropocene Science provides a new policy option for how we deal with #drought at a global level while taking an integrated policy approach with climate change, biodiversity, disaster risk reduction and development 👇

York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 13d

🌍By 2050, droughts could hit 80% of the world’s population, costing hundreds of billion💸.

New paper led by YESI Director @proflinds.bsky.social calls for urgent, transformative drought governance under the #UNCCD—aligned with the #ParisAgreement, #CBD, #SendaiFramework + #SDGs.

🔗 buff.ly/RBb1BFP

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 13d

🌍By 2050, droughts could hit 80% of the world’s population, costing hundreds of billion💸.

New paper led by YESI Director @proflinds.bsky.social calls for urgent, transformative drought governance under the #UNCCD—aligned with the #ParisAgreement, #CBD, #SendaiFramework + #SDGs.

🔗 buff.ly/RBb1BFP

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 13d

Got an idea with real-world impact? The next round is now open 👇
🔗 buff.ly/wDmQiAA

YESI Fellows Scheme 2025-26 - Call guidelines request

This form is to request YESI Fellows Scheme 2025-26 Call Guidelines. The YESI Fellows Scheme 2025–26 will open on 8 September 2025. Have a project idea in mind? Complete this form to receive the full…

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 13d

🌱 “This work would have remained just an idea without YESI.” – Dr Adam Green

Thanks to the YESI Fellows Scheme, the MoorFood project helped connect archaeology, ecology + farming communities across Yorkshire.

Read more🔗 buff.ly/SHIdlcp

@uoyenvironment.bsky.social @natarchivestrust.bsky.social

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Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting talk on resilience, community, gender, climate change and impacts of colonialism as seen through diverse Bengali culture. Murals of Survival: Indigenous Resilience and Environmental Sustainability in West Bengal
@yesiuoy.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social

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Forest Research @forestresearchuk.bsky.social · 15d

The #ClimateChange Hub is the official home of UK forestry climate change guidance.

🌳 Our practical, evidence-based resources can help land managers navigate risks, adaptation measures and carbon considerations.

Explore the Climate Change Hub ➡ www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/forestr...

Forestry carbon information resource launches on the Climate Change Hub - Forest Research

Forestry carbon information resource on the Climate Change Hub

www.forestresearch.gov.uk

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