Markus P. Eichhorn

Markus Eichhorn

@markuseichhorn.bsky.social

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Ecologist, author, tree watcher. Shill for Big Forest. Writing another textbook on biodiversity and biogeography. It's always karaoke time. More at treesinspace.com

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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · 7h

Want to know a bit more about our newest recipient of IAVS Honorary Membership? 📖
Meet Milan Chytrý, founder of European Vegetation Archive & a leading figure in vegetation science
Discover his outstanding contributions to #vegetationscience in our newly published #IAVS bulletin—
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Alas, I suspect that Toby is ineligible on grounds of not being a natural-born US citizen.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

I run an annual workshop on the ecology of dragons with a book chapter forthcoming so I take this stuff very seriously 🤓

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

We can also dispute whether dragons can be described as 'land vertebrates'. Their greater dispersal ability is likely to free them from impacts of localised land-use change.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't we come here to get away from the dummies?

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

We're now 'zwischen den Jahren' (between the years), the period during which in Germany it's considered rude to give someone new work. I'm looking at you, journal editors.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Mainly because SF poll well among the kind of young, progressive, voters for whom this would be an easy win. There's also an undeniable element of blood sports tourism for the English aristocracy.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

What an accomplishment. Well done. I expect to see it listed on your Pure profile.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Mixed, I suspect, but probably underpinned by the very strong place that rural tradition holds in the national culture. I was a little surprised to see SF out in support though.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

My own opinions on the subject are ambivalent so don't read this as endorsing either side. I just expect it to become an issue at the next election.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 1d

In the UK, when opinions on fox hunting between Parliament and the population were so completely at odds, it became an effective electoral pledge for the opposition. #SpeirGorm

Bill to ban fox hunting defeated by huge majority in Dáil vote

Local councillor Audrey Buckley said she was 'very disappointed' in the bill's defeat, describing the practice as 'barbaric'

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 2d

Need to grab a last-minute gift for tomorrow? Give the gift that keeps on giving: a... necklace made of beetles? #ChristmasEveShopping 🏺 #Archaeology
Strung together and placed in a bark box, insect exoskeleton fragments were made into jewellery in Iron Age Poland.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Above: a phyllobius viridicollis beetle on a leaf. Below: several phyllobius viridicollis pronota (the section between the head and abdomen) from a grave at Domasław, south-west Poland. In one case, three are strung together, indicating they were used as beads on a necklace/bracelet.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 2d

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Nollaig Shona…🎄

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Handgun Yoga 🇺🇦💙 @handgunyoga.bsky.social · 2d

After reading The Raven a high school classmate asked if poetry existed before Edgar Allen Poe, and what did they call it?

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2d

Congratulations to Glòria Pallarès on winning the ACE Award 🏆

Her Mongabay investigation exposed corrupt forest finance schemes affecting 9.5M+ hectares of Indigenous land — and helped communities reclaim their rights.

Read the full investigation: buff.ly/W7RQrKp

Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès wins top anti-corruption reporting award

Journalist Glòria Pallarès won the Anti-Corruption Excellence (ACE) Award for her investigation into corrupt forest finance schemes published in collaboration with Mongabay. The award ceremony was…

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2d

That's wonderful. I would want that to be there for anyone, or anyone's child. You must be incredibly proud to have such a strong son. All power to him 💪

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2d

This should be the promotional flyer for a karaoke night.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland has gone 10 years with the freedom to change gender and... society did not collapse. No scandals have erupted. No vile criminal behaviour has resulted. Just 300+ people per year having the right to become themselves. #SpeirGorm

‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade

Ireland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 3d

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

William Bond, defender of grasslands

In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy has been that trees are the planet’s universal remedy. Plant enough of them, in enough places, and carbon will be soaked up, water wil...

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 3d

In late July 2025 I received word from a friend of his discovery of Field Eryngo Eryngium campestre on the edge of Winchester, Hampshire. Probably arrived via a car tyre with continental origins, but fab nonetheless. Formerly more widespread but now a true national rarity. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 3d

Ecologist here, we know plenty about the diversity of life, and as the @britishecologicalsociety.org we actively support the inclusion of trans people alongside all the many ways of simply being human. Dawkins does not represent or speak for us.

Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists - British Ecological Society

A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies.

www.britishecologicalsociety.org

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Adele (She/Her) @river22.bsky.social · 3d

Geneticist had the best response to an office pool about whether my kid would be a boy or girl: “Probably”.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4d

Mark me down as predicting another scandalous collapse, tainting the good work of more serious organisations, and leaving local communities to pick up the pieces afterwards.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4d

I'm particularly irked by their claim to have brought tech to the environmental world. We already use LiDAR, photogrammetry and thermal imaging in multiple projects. More precise measurements are pointless if the process isn't right.

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4d

When Brewdog admitted failure and sold off their rewilding project, there was at least hope that it had passed into competent hands. No such luck.

‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical

Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estates

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, me too. Second day in bed and no sign of improvement. Hope you get through it soon.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 8d

That's a chicken-and-egg problem though. The people writing the plan don't have the power to set the budget. So far as I know that discussion hasn't really started yet.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 8d

Draft National Restoration Plans are required from all EU states by September 2026. There's a lot to do and not much time. www.wwf.eu?20421666/Nat...

EU states coloured by progress towards National Restoration Plans

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 8d

There's a good team working on it but the demand for haste has made it effectively a closed-room process. It's not ideal.

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