How do you get a 120% increase in wetland plants in the farmed landscape & massively increase water beetle diversity too? The answer is restore farm ponds by scrub & sediment removal - key is to go in hard & make a big impact. See new paper: share.google/VVowsJzqHdPT...

Thoroughly enjoying the @ialipa2025.bsky.social conference in Aix-le-Bans. One day in and I've already met so many fabulous people. What a supportive and inclusive bunch! Loved sharing my research on ghost ponds, and looking forward to more presentations tomorrow

Sampling #ghostponds before & after ressurection today with @hayleymcmechan.bsky.social & the MSc Conservation & MSc Aquatic Conservation teams on our @uclgeography.bsky.social fieldcourse to N. Norfolk. Utter madness!

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds

So excited to be quoted in this article about our resurrected #ghostponds with members of our fantastic team @carlsayer.bsky.social, @hburningham.bsky.social, @timholtwilson.bsky.social

What a fabulous couple of days of engagement with the Freshwater Biological Association 💦 and its inspiring memebers. I left with a sense of real belonging amongst these freshwater scientists and conservationists and am totally fired up to continue my work in pond resurrection activism beyond my PhD

An honour to host @freshwaterbio.bsky.social at NTU. Truly inspiring speakers including @carlsayer.bsky.social @davetickner.bsky.social @louiselavictoire.bsky.social @steveormerod.bsky.social. The time to act to protect our freshwater ecosystems is NOW.

Waiting with anticipation to see what grows 🌱 from my ice age ghost pond muds 👻. Had a lovely time at Wakehurst place last week dividing the sediment samples into germination tanks and tucking them in all cosy under their little 45micron night caps 😴

And today for my PhD... I'm making 45micron hairnets for 85 fish tanks.. obviously!

Spring is on its way 💚🌷🪻🌱

Our UCL #ghostponds #ghostpingo #pond restoration work featured today. Very positive news for freshwater nature recovery @hburningham.bsky.social @timholtwilson.bsky.social

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Really enjoying the beginning of my macrophyte propagule identification journey. This beautiful collection is just a few macrofossils that I picked out from a resurrected ice age ghost pond in Norfolk. Not all propagules but pretty none the less

'Restoring Ghost Pingos' - a new advisory booklet about realising the biodiversity potential of backfilled periglacial ponds - norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/LostPonds. 🌍
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This month my palaeoecology journey begins. Yesterday my lovely #UCL team and I made a "mud masterplan" plan. I have 58 sediment samples from ice age ghost ponds to work through. I'll be seiving, picking out, identifying and counting aquatic plant macrofossil from these rich seed banks.

2 years at a #ghostpond

The most successful form of #pond conservation is the re-excavation of deliberately infilled #ghostponds. Here = 2 years of colonisation in a Norfolk ice age #ghost filled in for farming. An incredible pond results at fierce speed! @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hayleymcmechan.bsky.social

Thank you Liverpool and #BES for a fantastic couple of days. Went to some inspiring talks, took many photos of useful posters and met a load of lovely people. What a friendly bunch us nature lovers are 🤩