William (Bill) Sutherland
@billsutherland.bsky.social
Academic. Obsessed with making conservation more effective. Enjoying making nerdy videos explaining the principles of ecology and conservation. YouTube Channel: Conservation Concepts https://youtube.com/@bill_sutherland
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The meaning of Christmas plants Or more importantly spoiler alert calling things by their name so we don’t lose them from our landscape
Discussing the spiritual side of nature, why Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe are significant, and how meaning is going being lost. Happy Christmas! youtu.be/hkn_r4DZrxY?...
The spiritual side of nature
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The meaning of Christmas plants Or more importantly spoiler alert calling things by their name so we don’t lose them from our landscape
Discussing the spiritual side of nature, why Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe are significant, and how meaning is going being lost. Happy Christmas! youtu.be/hkn_r4DZrxY?...
The spiritual side of nature
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Discussing the spiritual side of nature, why Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe are significant, and how meaning is going being lost. Happy Christmas! youtu.be/hkn_r4DZrxY?...
How stone walls can be aged and how they tell us about cattle breeds, wolves, climate and land management youtu.be/LUg2RdIbcao?...
Stone walls: their history and ecology
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
How stone walls can be aged and how they tell us about cattle breeds, wolves, climate and land management youtu.be/LUg2RdIbcao?...
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Excellent advice collated by @billsutherland.bsky.social at #BES2025 - how to approach scientific conferences (especially ones as big as those from @britishecologicalsociety.org).
Don't be afraid to chat people up, attend talks you fancy, and enjoy yourself!
What would you add?
#academicsky 🧪
Don't be afraid to chat people up, attend talks you fancy, and enjoy yourself!
What would you add?
#academicsky 🧪
I asked participants for tips attending scientific conferences #BES2025 youtu.be/ow_ickvkvbA?...
Tips for attending scientific conferences
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Excellent advice collated by @billsutherland.bsky.social at #BES2025 - how to approach scientific conferences (especially ones as big as those from @britishecologicalsociety.org).
Don't be afraid to chat people up, attend talks you fancy, and enjoy yourself!
What would you add?
#academicsky 🧪
Don't be afraid to chat people up, attend talks you fancy, and enjoy yourself!
What would you add?
#academicsky 🧪
I asked participants for tips attending scientific conferences #BES2025 youtu.be/ow_ickvkvbA?...
Tips for attending scientific conferences
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I asked participants for tips attending scientific conferences #BES2025 youtu.be/ow_ickvkvbA?...
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Excited to be at #BES2025 in Edinburgh!🌳
I'm presenting on the underappreciated risk to common species (Poster B1.68, Strathblane Hall, Wednesday 17:00-18:30).🐸
Interested in chatting more, including common species, extinction risk and conservation effectiveness? Find/message me here/Whova
I'm presenting on the underappreciated risk to common species (Poster B1.68, Strathblane Hall, Wednesday 17:00-18:30).🐸
Interested in chatting more, including common species, extinction risk and conservation effectiveness? Find/message me here/Whova
December 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Excited to be at #BES2025 in Edinburgh!🌳
I'm presenting on the underappreciated risk to common species (Poster B1.68, Strathblane Hall, Wednesday 17:00-18:30).🐸
Interested in chatting more, including common species, extinction risk and conservation effectiveness? Find/message me here/Whova
I'm presenting on the underappreciated risk to common species (Poster B1.68, Strathblane Hall, Wednesday 17:00-18:30).🐸
Interested in chatting more, including common species, extinction risk and conservation effectiveness? Find/message me here/Whova
At the BES I have permission to make 3 videos: getting a PhD, getting a job, making the most of conferences. Welcome input from anyone with thoughts. Here is today’s video discussing the ecology of deserts. youtu.be/JmZFz4gjoLs?...
Deserts: origin and ecology
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
At the BES I have permission to make 3 videos: getting a PhD, getting a job, making the most of conferences. Welcome input from anyone with thoughts. Here is today’s video discussing the ecology of deserts. youtu.be/JmZFz4gjoLs?...
We used to have aurochs: we now have domesticated cattle. Thanks to analysing bones, found by cavers in Yorkshire caves, we now understand the extraordinary way in which that exchange occurred. youtu.be/YCbQYcNkb_o?...
The origin of domestic cattle
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
We used to have aurochs: we now have domesticated cattle. Thanks to analysing bones, found by cavers in Yorkshire caves, we now understand the extraordinary way in which that exchange occurred. youtu.be/YCbQYcNkb_o?...
Fascinating story of reintroducing white storks to Sweden and the importance of source population youtu.be/LHHBLKeKcmc?...
Importance of source population for reintroduction
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December 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Fascinating story of reintroducing white storks to Sweden and the importance of source population youtu.be/LHHBLKeKcmc?...
Exploring the lynx's ancient landscape with the remarkable Tom Lord youtu.be/rHTy2tJUamE?...
Reconstructing the lynx's ancient landscape
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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December 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Exploring the lynx's ancient landscape with the remarkable Tom Lord youtu.be/rHTy2tJUamE?...
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Have you worked on / do you know of a conservation project that changed what it was doing after looking at the evidence or undertaking a test? Replies welcome below, or on Bill's original post. Thanks!
For a highly prestigious publication a journalist is looking for conservation projects that changed what they were doing after looking at the evidence or undertaking a test. Please say working on a project that would be a good example and would like some fame. Can be anywhere in the world. Thanks.
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Have you worked on / do you know of a conservation project that changed what it was doing after looking at the evidence or undertaking a test? Replies welcome below, or on Bill's original post. Thanks!
For a highly prestigious publication a journalist is looking for conservation projects that changed what they were doing after looking at the evidence or undertaking a test. Please say working on a project that would be a good example and would like some fame. Can be anywhere in the world. Thanks.
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
For a highly prestigious publication a journalist is looking for conservation projects that changed what they were doing after looking at the evidence or undertaking a test. Please say working on a project that would be a good example and would like some fame. Can be anywhere in the world. Thanks.
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There are also some in Cumbria, a jaw bone is in the collection of a museum in Barrow
Was astonished to learn that most of the UK’s lynx bones are from small area in Yorkshire Dales; last until at least early medieval. Coexisted in complex habitat: upland wood pasture could be critical. youtu.be/rHTy2tJUamE?...
Reconstructing the lynx's ancient landscape
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
There are also some in Cumbria, a jaw bone is in the collection of a museum in Barrow
Was astonished to learn that most of the UK’s lynx bones are from small area in Yorkshire Dales; last until at least early medieval. Coexisted in complex habitat: upland wood pasture could be critical. youtu.be/rHTy2tJUamE?...
Reconstructing the lynx's ancient landscape
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Was astonished to learn that most of the UK’s lynx bones are from small area in Yorkshire Dales; last until at least early medieval. Coexisted in complex habitat: upland wood pasture could be critical. youtu.be/rHTy2tJUamE?...
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I'm preparing for my talk at #BES2025 and want to know what people think the main goal of applied ecological and conservation research is. If everything goes to plan, I’ll be using the poll results in the talk itself, so the more responses the better! @britishecologicalsociety.org
What do you think the primary goal of applied ecological/conservation research is?
1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Diagnose threats and impacts
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Understand ecological processes
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Inform management or policy
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Something else (comment below)
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1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Diagnose threats and impacts
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Understand ecological processes
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Inform management or policy
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/PuXpIV/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Something else (comment below)
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I'm preparing for my talk at #BES2025 and want to know what people think the main goal of applied ecological and conservation research is. If everything goes to plan, I’ll be using the poll results in the talk itself, so the more responses the better! @britishecologicalsociety.org
Much enjoyed learning about how to study bird migration with radar whilst on the roof of Lund University. youtu.be/0sB5On1gLsg?...
Studying bird migration with radar
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Much enjoyed learning about how to study bird migration with radar whilst on the roof of Lund University. youtu.be/0sB5On1gLsg?...
Exploring the power of volunteering in conservation and what motivates volunteers, such as the amazing Breckland Flora Group. youtu.be/qh_BBXCm4vc?...
Volunteering for conservation: motivations and results
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Exploring the power of volunteering in conservation and what motivates volunteers, such as the amazing Breckland Flora Group. youtu.be/qh_BBXCm4vc?...
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How many people walk past the ridge and furrow landforms at Grave's Park in Sheffield and don't see the historic use for arable cultivation? Or the charcoal pits in nearby woods?
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@billsutherland.bsky.social here explains how you can read a landscape and it's history.
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@billsutherland.bsky.social here explains how you can read a landscape and it's history.
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
How many people walk past the ridge and furrow landforms at Grave's Park in Sheffield and don't see the historic use for arable cultivation? Or the charcoal pits in nearby woods?
youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
@billsutherland.bsky.social here explains how you can read a landscape and it's history.
youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
@billsutherland.bsky.social here explains how you can read a landscape and it's history.
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ICYMI hortological hues to Catz research this year:
💚 @frankiegardner.bsky.social, English PhD, on Britain's obsession with lawnmower poetry: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...
💚 @billsutherland.bsky.social (Fellow 2008–24; Hon Fellow 2024) on risks from the ornamental plant trade:
💚 @frankiegardner.bsky.social, English PhD, on Britain's obsession with lawnmower poetry: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...
💚 @billsutherland.bsky.social (Fellow 2008–24; Hon Fellow 2024) on risks from the ornamental plant trade:
Britain’s poetic obsession with the lawnmower
Research by a postgraduate student at St Catharine's has revealed how British poets over the last 50 years such as Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a ‘lawnmower poetry microgenre’, using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, addiction, mortality and much more. Francesca Gardner, an English PhD student, argues in her article published by Critical Quarterly that this tradition goes back to the 17th-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing – with a scythe – to comment on the violence of the English Civil War.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
ICYMI hortological hues to Catz research this year:
💚 @frankiegardner.bsky.social, English PhD, on Britain's obsession with lawnmower poetry: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...
💚 @billsutherland.bsky.social (Fellow 2008–24; Hon Fellow 2024) on risks from the ornamental plant trade:
💚 @frankiegardner.bsky.social, English PhD, on Britain's obsession with lawnmower poetry: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...
💚 @billsutherland.bsky.social (Fellow 2008–24; Hon Fellow 2024) on risks from the ornamental plant trade:
Astonishing that Mongolia has both the Gobi desert and taiga/boreal forest. Here. I try and explain how tiaga works. youtu.be/TjlHz9GwnG8?...
Taiga: the earth’s coldest forests
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Astonishing that Mongolia has both the Gobi desert and taiga/boreal forest. Here. I try and explain how tiaga works. youtu.be/TjlHz9GwnG8?...
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Ecological palimpsests
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November 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Ecological palimpsests
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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November 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Describing, with Breckland as an example, the idea of ecological palimpsests: how history underpins much of the ecology we see today youtu.be/6pkWmMmv8bY?...
Many visionary organisations are now reflecting on the evidence of actions as part of practice and regularly testing actions. The expectation is to be more effective and richer. Please say if your organisation, based anywhere, is keen on this journey. www.conservationevidence.com/content/page...
Conservation Evidence - Page Content
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November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Many visionary organisations are now reflecting on the evidence of actions as part of practice and regularly testing actions. The expectation is to be more effective and richer. Please say if your organisation, based anywhere, is keen on this journey. www.conservationevidence.com/content/page...
How does fire determine distribution of Eucalyptus forest and rainforest? youtu.be/3oK2OEPJHvM?...
Fire determining Eucalyptus and rainforest
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November 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
How does fire determine distribution of Eucalyptus forest and rainforest? youtu.be/3oK2OEPJHvM?...
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Can ecological surgery of ant mounds help to restore grassland habitats?
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Can ecological surgery of ant mounds help to restore grassland habitats?
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...
- www.gabrielleflinn.com/post/ecologi...
@ukceh.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk Funded by John Lewis Partnership Foundation.
My own ant hill work chronicled: storvaxt.blogspot.com/2025/10/enco...