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James Bullock

@jmbecologist.bsky.social

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Applied ecologist working on the ecological emergency

Studying ecosystem restoration, rewilding, dispersal, spatial ecology, ecosystem services, agro-ecology, global change. Views are my own & personal/unofficial

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Environmental science 56%

Agriculture 16%

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Just Stop Oil @just-stopoil.bsky.social · 13h

🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL

Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 22h

The Collins Word of the Year 2025 is ‘confected outrage’

Title of the first chapter in the right wing playbook
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage

Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies

www.theguardian.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

After journeying for weeks from a glacier in the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a boat carrying dozens of Indigenous leaders docked in Belem to attend the COP30 climate summit.

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 1d

We're delighted that tireless advocate for the natural world, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social CBE, will be opening the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Central Hall on 27th November.

Chris speaking with @bbclaurak.bsky.social earlier👇

Please make sure your MP is attending: nebriefing.org
#NEB

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .

@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 1d

If you engage with the public about the climate & biodiversity crises

It becomes clear that much of the denial is not because people do not believe these things are happening

But because they don’t want to face the terrifying truth

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 2d

Is YOUR bank using YOUR money to fund climate chaos, genocide, nuclear arms? Check bankbetter.uk/about/bank-f...

Is so easy to change to an ethical bank.

#FossilBanksNoThanks #DivestFromFossilFuels

Bank Finance – Bank Better

bankbetter.uk

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Wimborne our Panto Bad Banker tried to persuade people to help him fund climate chaos, genocide & nuclear arms.

But we showed people how to bank better & to ensure their money is used ethically.

/contd

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 2d

While governments consider proposals to protect forests, UK banks continue to fund their destruction.

UK banks have provided over £1 billion to "forest-risk" companies since the COP26 agreement to end deforestation.

#Deforestation
#COP30

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How could Tropical Forest Forever fund proposed at Cop30 tackle deforestation?

Scheme aims to raise $125bn to invest in bonds, with returns used to reward tropical countries for conservation

www.theguardian.com

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 2d

There are still many who confuse rewilding with the special case of trophic rewilding

Rewilding is not just about (re)introducing large animals & the assumption of top-down control of ecosystems

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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 3d

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

James Watson in his own words

“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…

liorpachter.wordpress.com

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 3d

I remember the bonfire nights of my youth - absolutely freezing

As the warmest bonfire night on record hit the UK, the BBC managed to report it without mentioning climate change!
www.bbc.com/weather/arti...

UK weather: after warmest ever Bonfire Night when with UK temperatures drop?

After the UK's warmest ever Bonfire Night, Helen Willetts looks at how long the mild November weather will last.

www.bbc.com

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 3d

Banks are bankrolling climate chaos, genocide, nuclear arms - using *YOUR* cash and savings. Time to call it out. Time to move your money.

Check your bank: bankbetter.uk/about/bank-f...

See you tomorrow in Wimborne: eepurl.com/jrkXlU

#FossilBanksNoThanks #greenwashing #DivestFromFossilFuels

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 3d

Having finished watching Celebrity Traitors, I’m reminded again of the parallels with academia

Where certain people you thought were your colleagues

End up screwing you over

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 3d

Dialogue around #netzero is one of ordinary people being unable to afford it. The reality is that 'investing' in net zero yields returns of £37bn a year and growing.

We need a National Emergency Briefing to reset the climate conversation #neb2025 #nationalemergencybriefing

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 3d

“Too many corporations are making record profits from climate devastation, with billions spent on lobbying, deceiving the public and obstructing progress.”

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know? 🤔 UK Government pours billions into subsidies for fossil fuels - £17.5 billion every year, money that could be invested in renewables and boosting the green economy.

How outraged are you?

#COP30
#StopFossilSubsidies
#EndFossilFuelSubsidies

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit

UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’

www.theguardian.com

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 3d

Taxonomy & classification - of species, communities, ecosystems, etc - is the underpinning of ecology & conservation

Yet can be a weakness - seeing nature in terms of fixed entities

Rather than of flows, processes and variability

The latter are the basis of functioning & resilience

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier this year we published this paper calling for the redirection of conservation attention toward processes at the heart of ecosystem function,

including adaptation, gene flow, dispersal, and trophic interactions.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Biodiversity conservation requires integration of species-centric and process-based strategies | PNAS

Conservation science and policy are geared primarily toward the preservation of species and habitats, with priority often given to the rarest, most...

www.pnas.org

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

My predictions for COP30

1. Several days of promising that 1.5C is not dead

2. Huge panic when discovered there is nothing new to announce

3. Final communique - 2 days late - full of nebulous promises, and maybe a vague pledge to eventually transition away from fossil fuels

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 4d

There are many things the BBC could do investigations of:

eg, banks funding fossil fuel expansion, companies greenwashing, billionaires eroding workers’ rights

Instead they are focusing on migrants

If you play from the far right’s songbook, they’ll soon be calling the tune

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 4d

In 2021, the Gov warned we “could lose control of our climate for good” beyond 1.5°C.

Now, the CCC says “prepare for 2°C by 2050”

This huge shift in just 4 years calls for a new plan.

MPs can only make sound decisions to protect us if they’re briefed.

Is your MP attending?
www.nebriefing.org

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 5d

Thx. No space to explain that!

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 5d

If we focus on restoring ecosystem processes rather than a reference species assemblage

Can we derive general rules?

Here we find plant-pollinator networks in grasslands

& plant-herbivore ones in woodlands

both become more complex with restoration age & area
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Restoration of ecological interactions: The influence of site and landscape factors

Restoration has been extensively used in agricultural landscapes as a mitigation measure to reduce biodiversity loss in response to historic habitat d…

www.sciencedirect.com

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George Holmes @georgeholmes.bsky.social · 6d

Fancy coming to POLLEN in Barcelona and joining our panel on "Political Ecologies of Restoration: Reintroduction, Assisted
Migration, and Rewilding"? Then submit an abstract via the link below!

pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...

Programme - POLLEN

pollenpoliticalecology.network

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Davide faranda @davifaranda.bsky.social · 6d

🌍 Reducing scientific travel cuts CO2 emissions but fragments the scientific networks.
With Tommaso Alberti on the @egu.eu Nonlinear Processes blog, we move from carbon accounting to carbon investment: travel less, but travel with purpose to keep science connected.
👉 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/np...

Rethinking the carbon cost of scientific exchange: Nonlinear effects of reducing scientific mobility

The carbon footprint of scientific collaboration has become an increasingly debated topic. Conferences, workshops, and research travel remain central to how science function, yet they also contribute ...

blogs.egu.eu

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