Prof Thorunn
@luehea.bsky.social
Ecologist 🌿 🍄 🧬 🌾 “Some people draw conclusions like curtains, ooooh don’t they draw them tight” (John Martyn). Views mine 🇮🇸🏴🇪🇺
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📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
August 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
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Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October.
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
August 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October.
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026!
@southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi
icom2026.org/symposia/
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We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.
Join the BES Board of Trustees - British Ecological Society
We are seeking an ecologist working in academic research
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
May 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.
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Find out more here:
British Ecological Society (BES) Fellowship 2025/26
Applications are open for the 2023/24 British Ecological Society (BES) Fellowship untill 13th June.
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May 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi
May 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi
This is the best, and my favourite space traveller
We should strive not only to do projects like voyager, but to *create* and *protect* the systems that allow risks like this to be taken. Voyager was pretty cheap, as projects go, but it needed optimistic vision…
We should strive not only to do projects like voyager, but to *create* and *protect* the systems that allow risks like this to be taken. Voyager was pretty cheap, as projects go, but it needed optimistic vision…
About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
March 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is the best, and my favourite space traveller
We should strive not only to do projects like voyager, but to *create* and *protect* the systems that allow risks like this to be taken. Voyager was pretty cheap, as projects go, but it needed optimistic vision…
We should strive not only to do projects like voyager, but to *create* and *protect* the systems that allow risks like this to be taken. Voyager was pretty cheap, as projects go, but it needed optimistic vision…
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Hot off the press 🔥
The Spring Niche is here🌸
Find exciting research stories and key policy moments from our global community of ecologists packed in the new issue BES membership magazine. Get your copy by becoming a member today.
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The Spring Niche is here🌸
Find exciting research stories and key policy moments from our global community of ecologists packed in the new issue BES membership magazine. Get your copy by becoming a member today.
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March 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hot off the press 🔥
The Spring Niche is here🌸
Find exciting research stories and key policy moments from our global community of ecologists packed in the new issue BES membership magazine. Get your copy by becoming a member today.
🧪🌍
The Spring Niche is here🌸
Find exciting research stories and key policy moments from our global community of ecologists packed in the new issue BES membership magazine. Get your copy by becoming a member today.
🧪🌍
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Can't recommend this postdoc opportunity highly enough. Really exciting Wellcome-funded project led by a wonderful PI. You will be happy in this lab.
📢 We are hiring! 📢
We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*.
More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef
Get in touch if interested!
We are looking for a postdoc to help us work out why mice cannot regenerate the spinal cord but spiny mice *can*.
More info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/4m6yzbef
Get in touch if interested!
Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our group at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) and the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR), The University of Edinburgh.
tinyurl.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Can't recommend this postdoc opportunity highly enough. Really exciting Wellcome-funded project led by a wonderful PI. You will be happy in this lab.
I wrote a thing for #IWD25
- a more personal description of my pathway to #ecology than what you’ll see in my biogs and CV 😏
Curious about leadership and diversity? sign up to the Elm network mailchi.mp/d4a21a569247... and join @britishecologicalsociety.org - together we will change the world!
- a more personal description of my pathway to #ecology than what you’ll see in my biogs and CV 😏
Curious about leadership and diversity? sign up to the Elm network mailchi.mp/d4a21a569247... and join @britishecologicalsociety.org - together we will change the world!
March 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I wrote a thing for #IWD25
- a more personal description of my pathway to #ecology than what you’ll see in my biogs and CV 😏
Curious about leadership and diversity? sign up to the Elm network mailchi.mp/d4a21a569247... and join @britishecologicalsociety.org - together we will change the world!
- a more personal description of my pathway to #ecology than what you’ll see in my biogs and CV 😏
Curious about leadership and diversity? sign up to the Elm network mailchi.mp/d4a21a569247... and join @britishecologicalsociety.org - together we will change the world!
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It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve spotted blooming from across Britain & Ireland in the last week!
March 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve spotted blooming from across Britain & Ireland in the last week!
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February 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I long ago moved the social media apps to the “back” of my phone. It is liberating to break the habit.
The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I long ago moved the social media apps to the “back” of my phone. It is liberating to break the habit.
Here’s a “why you have to block lace knits” mood 😮
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January 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Here’s a “why you have to block lace knits” mood 😮
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For WiP Wednesday what will be the first completed project of the year - and a bonus cat 🧶
January 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
For WiP Wednesday what will be the first completed project of the year - and a bonus cat 🧶
I think I promised crows. The weather is chilly here at the moment and the campus crows particularly bold in pursuit of treats from me - they spot me veeery quickly when I appear.
Being spotted in cahoots with them does get me into some nice conversations too 😄
Being spotted in cahoots with them does get me into some nice conversations too 😄
January 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I think I promised crows. The weather is chilly here at the moment and the campus crows particularly bold in pursuit of treats from me - they spot me veeery quickly when I appear.
Being spotted in cahoots with them does get me into some nice conversations too 😄
Being spotted in cahoots with them does get me into some nice conversations too 😄
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And #PlantSciEd is up and running! We’ve started with an excellent keynote from Stephen Spoel giving us an overview of UK plant science strategy, and food for thought as to what this means for educators.
January 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
And #PlantSciEd is up and running! We’ve started with an excellent keynote from Stephen Spoel giving us an overview of UK plant science strategy, and food for thought as to what this means for educators.
Happy New Year all, and hello to my many new followers.
Stay for the #wildflowerhour #knitting #academic chat, #ecology my cat, and possibly the odd crow 🐦⬛ - everything else is muted to preserve my equanimity…
Stay for the #wildflowerhour #knitting #academic chat, #ecology my cat, and possibly the odd crow 🐦⬛ - everything else is muted to preserve my equanimity…
January 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Happy New Year all, and hello to my many new followers.
Stay for the #wildflowerhour #knitting #academic chat, #ecology my cat, and possibly the odd crow 🐦⬛ - everything else is muted to preserve my equanimity…
Stay for the #wildflowerhour #knitting #academic chat, #ecology my cat, and possibly the odd crow 🐦⬛ - everything else is muted to preserve my equanimity…
Homage to Amma (maternal grandma) who could knit this stuff with her eyes shut (though she only ever did the tradition Icelandic black and white - yarns have come a loooong way!)
First #knit cast on of the year, and likely to be the first completion of the current WiPs
First #knit cast on of the year, and likely to be the first completion of the current WiPs
January 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Homage to Amma (maternal grandma) who could knit this stuff with her eyes shut (though she only ever did the tradition Icelandic black and white - yarns have come a loooong way!)
First #knit cast on of the year, and likely to be the first completion of the current WiPs
First #knit cast on of the year, and likely to be the first completion of the current WiPs
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A huge congratulations to @pettorelli.bsky.social for being awarded an OBE for services to conservation and outreach in the #NewYearsHonours!
Nathalie has been involved with the BES for many years and has made major contributions to numerous areas of our work 🌍
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Nathalie has been involved with the BES for many years and has made major contributions to numerous areas of our work 🌍
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January 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A huge congratulations to @pettorelli.bsky.social for being awarded an OBE for services to conservation and outreach in the #NewYearsHonours!
Nathalie has been involved with the BES for many years and has made major contributions to numerous areas of our work 🌍
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Nathalie has been involved with the BES for many years and has made major contributions to numerous areas of our work 🌍
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It's Day 3 of #NewYearPlantHunt, best wishes to all our intrepid hunters going out today while weather is 🤞 still ok.
Check out this round-up of Day Two results from the fabulous @commonbynature.bsky.social:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-...
📷 @danryannature.bsky.social & Matt Williamson
Check out this round-up of Day Two results from the fabulous @commonbynature.bsky.social:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-...
📷 @danryannature.bsky.social & Matt Williamson
December 31, 2024 at 9:28 AM
It's Day 3 of #NewYearPlantHunt, best wishes to all our intrepid hunters going out today while weather is 🤞 still ok.
Check out this round-up of Day Two results from the fabulous @commonbynature.bsky.social:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-...
📷 @danryannature.bsky.social & Matt Williamson
Check out this round-up of Day Two results from the fabulous @commonbynature.bsky.social:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-...
📷 @danryannature.bsky.social & Matt Williamson
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The BEST plant hunt of the year!!!! Have you signed up yet? #WildflowerHour
Only 9 hours until #NewYearPlantHunt starts!
Have you planned your Hunt yet? You could hunt with friends & family, go solo (enjoy some quiet time!) or join one of these group hunts: bsbi.org/new-year-pla...
Main thing is to enjoy hunting for/recording wild & naturalised plants blooming in midwinter.
Have you planned your Hunt yet? You could hunt with friends & family, go solo (enjoy some quiet time!) or join one of these group hunts: bsbi.org/new-year-pla...
Main thing is to enjoy hunting for/recording wild & naturalised plants blooming in midwinter.
December 28, 2024 at 5:42 PM
The BEST plant hunt of the year!!!! Have you signed up yet? #WildflowerHour
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So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
This is so true. Natural history is such an important part of ecology. Not knowing the actual organisms in the real world makes it very hard to understand the interconnectedness, and the role of time and space.
#naturalHistory
#naturalHistory
Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A place for natural history in the 21st century
Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....
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December 16, 2024 at 8:11 AM
This is so true. Natural history is such an important part of ecology. Not knowing the actual organisms in the real world makes it very hard to understand the interconnectedness, and the role of time and space.
#naturalHistory
#naturalHistory
Christmas gift this year - Lettlopi slouch socks.
The recipient is not on social media so it’s safe 🤣🧦🧶#ShowMeYourKnits
The recipient is not on social media so it’s safe 🤣🧦🧶#ShowMeYourKnits
December 15, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Christmas gift this year - Lettlopi slouch socks.
The recipient is not on social media so it’s safe 🤣🧦🧶#ShowMeYourKnits
The recipient is not on social media so it’s safe 🤣🧦🧶#ShowMeYourKnits
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December 12, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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