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Lera Miles
@leramiles.bsky.social
Nature and climate. Work @unepwcmc.bsky.social on nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation. She/her. Sheffield/Cambridge. Views my own.
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Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
www.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Interested in doing a PhD on #zoonotic diseases & #wildlife trade within a #politicalecology approach? Look no further, @geofrancismasse.bsky.social seeks a potential candidate to be based at @durham.ac.uk 👇
Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography

Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.

@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Installed Pathos - Nethack Codex. Several late nights later, uninstalled. Way too good an implementation!
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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You can read the Business and Biodiversity Assessment Primer in all UN languages! 🏡🌍

The #BizBiodiversity Assessment will provide critical information to best measure the dependencies and impacts of business on nature. 🧪

👉 Read it here: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The IUCN tulip specialist group are volunteers working to assess conservation status of these excellent flowers. They'd like your help to buy some badges. #tulips #iucn #redlist gofund.me/af025b34c
Donate to Expert group members pin badges, organized by Brett Wilson
Hi, We are the IUCN SSC Wild Tulip Specialist Group (WTSG). We work to understand wil… Brett Wilson needs your support for Expert group members pin badges
gofund.me
October 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
October 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power

We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before

🧵

www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/7
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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The Global Framework on Chemicals Fund will launch its second call for applications on 30 September 2025.

Join the event to learn more about the #GFC & its Fund, priorities, application forms & other guidance.

▶️ 30 September, 10:00 CEST
📆 tiny.cc/GEN30Sep25
September 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Want to do a postdoc with our group on something related to biodiversity conservation, policy, and the environment? Reach out - applications are open for the Donnelley fellowship! yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...
Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Environmental Fellowship
The Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellowship supports postdoctoral fellowships for research in biodiversity or a combination of biodiversity with conservation and public policy. The Fellowship was created to...
yibs.yale.edu
September 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The Pollinator Academy is an online platform that provides tools and training to help strengthen your knowledge of the taxonomy of European pollinators. Follow us and visit our website to find out more! #PollinatorAcademy #Pollinators #Taxonomy #Bee #Hoverfly #Butterfly Pollinatoracademy.eu
September 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023
Müller et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The magic of a resurrected #ghostpond just 3 years on. Nearly 30 wetland plants & Great Crested Newt where there was ploughsoil. This lost #pond was filled in >100 years ago but still had a viable seedbank 1.5 m below the field surface. The most successful form of ecological restoration known?
August 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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NEW: Ash dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has found.

🎞️ Hear from lead author @fionaseaton.bsky.social

🌳🧪 1/
August 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Europe is heading for a sad record: the largest burned area in decades.
www.climatechangepost.com/news/europe-...
Europe is heading for a sad record: the largest burned area in decades
www.climatechangepost.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Microraptorians were among the most interesting dromeosaurs. Most were small, but some like Changyuraptor got to roughly turkey sized, which is not small at all for an animal that was likely gliding/flying

#paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart
August 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If you see this, quote 10 games to get to know you by...

5 videogames:
Nethack
Zelda - Breath of the Wild
XC2
Tetris
Civ IV
5 boardgames:
Wingspan
Race for the Galaxy
Terraforming Mars
Azul
Splendor
If you see this, quote 10 games to get to know you by:

Abzu
Chocobo's Dungeon 2
Digimon World 2
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
Minecraft
Monster Hunter Gen U
Monster Rancher 2
Pokémon Crystal
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers
Satisfactory

wow that's a lot of 2nd gen titles
If you see this, quote 10 games to get to know you by:

🎮 Portal (1 and 2)
🎮 Silent Hill 2
🎮 Dark Souls (really all FromSoft games)
🎮 Hollow Knight
🎮 Binding of Isaac
🎮 Grounded
🎮 Dishonored
🎮 Left 4 Dead (1 and 2)
🎮 Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
🎮 Little Big Adventure 2
August 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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@FAO.org is seeking a forest expert for its Halting Deforestation, Degradation and Emissions Team in Rome, Italy.

jobs.fao.org/careersectio...
Forestry Officer (Halting Deforestation, Degradation and Emissions)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
jobs.fao.org
August 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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💬“Through citizen science, everyone can contribute to conserving the incredible biodiversity we share.” 🔍

Meet Ayesha Hargey, Associate Programme Officer in our Science team.

As #YouthForBiodiversity, Ayesha hopes to put spotlight on citizen science and how we all can play a part #ForNature.
August 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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📣 Three open positions to work on the thermal vulnerability of lake communities in the context of climate change (ERC Climate Countdown) with Arnaud Sentis @inrae-france.bsky.social 🧪🌐

🌍 Aix-en-Provence, France
🗓️Start Sept-Nov 2025
👉 Apply before September 9
Please share!
July 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM