Mike Shewring
@mikeshewring.bsky.social
Ecologist / conservation scientist
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If we focus on restoring ecosystem processes rather than a reference species assemblage
Can we derive general rules?
Here we find plant-pollinator networks in grasslands
& plant-herbivore ones in woodlands
both become more complex with restoration age & area
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Can we derive general rules?
Here we find plant-pollinator networks in grasslands
& plant-herbivore ones in woodlands
both become more complex with restoration age & area
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Restoration of ecological interactions: The influence of site and landscape factors
Restoration has been extensively used in agricultural landscapes as a mitigation measure to reduce biodiversity loss in response to historic habitat d…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If we focus on restoring ecosystem processes rather than a reference species assemblage
Can we derive general rules?
Here we find plant-pollinator networks in grasslands
& plant-herbivore ones in woodlands
both become more complex with restoration age & area
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Can we derive general rules?
Here we find plant-pollinator networks in grasslands
& plant-herbivore ones in woodlands
both become more complex with restoration age & area
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Less than a week…
To register for a free guidance Webinar for the £10K-£250K Peatland Restoration Grant.
Register here for 7/11/25 WEBINAR: bit.ly/4oITBb8
Grant application deadline 14/1/26.
More here: bit.ly/4qbX6bT
#WalesPeatlandAction
#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
To register for a free guidance Webinar for the £10K-£250K Peatland Restoration Grant.
Register here for 7/11/25 WEBINAR: bit.ly/4oITBb8
Grant application deadline 14/1/26.
More here: bit.ly/4qbX6bT
#WalesPeatlandAction
#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Less than a week…
To register for a free guidance Webinar for the £10K-£250K Peatland Restoration Grant.
Register here for 7/11/25 WEBINAR: bit.ly/4oITBb8
Grant application deadline 14/1/26.
More here: bit.ly/4qbX6bT
#WalesPeatlandAction
#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
To register for a free guidance Webinar for the £10K-£250K Peatland Restoration Grant.
Register here for 7/11/25 WEBINAR: bit.ly/4oITBb8
Grant application deadline 14/1/26.
More here: bit.ly/4qbX6bT
#WalesPeatlandAction
#HighNatureLowCarbon
@natreswales.bsky.social
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A video is now available of the lecture I gave last week to the Linnean Society & British Ornithologists' Club in London, on woodland birds, Marsh Tits & Willow Tits (~45 mins): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HF... #ornithology #ukbirding @ukceh.bsky.social
A Quietening of the Woods | The Decline of Woodland Birds
YouTube video by Linnean Society
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A video is now available of the lecture I gave last week to the Linnean Society & British Ornithologists' Club in London, on woodland birds, Marsh Tits & Willow Tits (~45 mins): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HF... #ornithology #ukbirding @ukceh.bsky.social
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New PhD opportunity:
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New PhD opportunity:
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
Balancing the trade-offs between conservation and restoration in woodland creation and wader protection
Details here: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
@chrissuthy.bsky.social
@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social
@naturescot.bsky.social
@rspbscience.bsky.social
📷Ben Andrew
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The annual rarities report from @britishbirdsbbrc.bsky.social, always a good read for a winter evening.
But en route, do stop and read a fascinating @britishbirds.bsky.social 'Eye' article from Sula Brookes about developing names for birds in #BSL British Sign Language. Brilliant work.
But en route, do stop and read a fascinating @britishbirds.bsky.social 'Eye' article from Sula Brookes about developing names for birds in #BSL British Sign Language. Brilliant work.
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The annual rarities report from @britishbirdsbbrc.bsky.social, always a good read for a winter evening.
But en route, do stop and read a fascinating @britishbirds.bsky.social 'Eye' article from Sula Brookes about developing names for birds in #BSL British Sign Language. Brilliant work.
But en route, do stop and read a fascinating @britishbirds.bsky.social 'Eye' article from Sula Brookes about developing names for birds in #BSL British Sign Language. Brilliant work.
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The 2026 WOS Calendar is now available by post - here’s how to buy:
welsh-ornithological-society.sumupstore.com
welsh-ornithological-society.sumupstore.com
Welsh Ornithological Society Cymdeithas Adaryddol Cymru Registered Charity no. 1037823
welsh-ornithological-society.sumupstore.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The 2026 WOS Calendar is now available by post - here’s how to buy:
welsh-ornithological-society.sumupstore.com
welsh-ornithological-society.sumupstore.com
Lovely day @birdsinwales.bsky.social conference on Saturday. Lots of interesting talks and catching up with friends.
Hopefully lots of people inspired to start doing some bird recording. Check out @btobirds.bsky.social surveys here www.bto.org/get-involved... or just use @birdtrack.bsky.social
Hopefully lots of people inspired to start doing some bird recording. Check out @btobirds.bsky.social surveys here www.bto.org/get-involved... or just use @birdtrack.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Lovely day @birdsinwales.bsky.social conference on Saturday. Lots of interesting talks and catching up with friends.
Hopefully lots of people inspired to start doing some bird recording. Check out @btobirds.bsky.social surveys here www.bto.org/get-involved... or just use @birdtrack.bsky.social
Hopefully lots of people inspired to start doing some bird recording. Check out @btobirds.bsky.social surveys here www.bto.org/get-involved... or just use @birdtrack.bsky.social
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PhD on carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes in ditches. Supervised by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social at Uni Glasgow with @peatymike.bsky.social, Amy Pickard (@ukceh.bsky.social ) and me.
Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates!
🧪 #GreenhouseGases
share.google/lvswIyC9TYg5...
Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates!
🧪 #GreenhouseGases
share.google/lvswIyC9TYg5...
The role of ditches in the global carbon cycle: A critical & unrecognised player.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
PhD on carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes in ditches. Supervised by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social at Uni Glasgow with @peatymike.bsky.social, Amy Pickard (@ukceh.bsky.social ) and me.
Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates!
🧪 #GreenhouseGases
share.google/lvswIyC9TYg5...
Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates!
🧪 #GreenhouseGases
share.google/lvswIyC9TYg5...
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Come and work with the InSPIRE project on understanding how proglacial #peatlands lock away carbon as glaciers recede. Details below for this 24-month post-doc position.
Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...
Job profile
vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Come and work with the InSPIRE project on understanding how proglacial #peatlands lock away carbon as glaciers recede. Details below for this 24-month post-doc position.
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Alongside @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk & @wclnews.bsky.social, we’ve responded to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 's piece on the Planning Bill.
He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.
But we’ve never been silent.
We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.
But we’ve never been silent.
We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
Environment groups are anything but ‘mute’ on the planning bill | Letters
Letter: Craig Bennett, Hilary McGrady, Dr James Robinson and Richard Benwell say they have never stopped campaigning on the planning and infrastructure bill’s flaws
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Alongside @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk & @wclnews.bsky.social, we’ve responded to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 's piece on the Planning Bill.
He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.
But we’ve never been silent.
We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.
But we’ve never been silent.
We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
Further ecological illiteracy from #Labour . People need homes but they also need healthy biodiverse ecosystems - healthy planet healthy people. Shame #Labour can’t see this. These things can’t be mutually exclusive. They must do better! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Further ecological illiteracy from #Labour . People need homes but they also need healthy biodiverse ecosystems - healthy planet healthy people. Shame #Labour can’t see this. These things can’t be mutually exclusive. They must do better! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Personally I hope this doesn’t take off as well as Movember or dry Jan
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Personally I hope this doesn’t take off as well as Movember or dry Jan
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I've just seen him again in his home-range. Now 10 yrs and 5 months old since hatching, and just over 10 years since ringing. Incredible that small 11g birds like Marsh Tits can live for over a decade, whereas small rodents/shrews of similar size live less than 2 yrs.
Stop what you’re doing and listen to a 10 year old Marsh Tit. Colour ringed on this same territory in 2015. Paired and singing today. Officially the oldest Marsh Tit ever in our 22 yr study, and one of the oldest recorded in Britain. #ukbirding #ornithology
October 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I've just seen him again in his home-range. Now 10 yrs and 5 months old since hatching, and just over 10 years since ringing. Incredible that small 11g birds like Marsh Tits can live for over a decade, whereas small rodents/shrews of similar size live less than 2 yrs.
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So excited to see this essay finally out after months of hard work behind the scenes.
Here, we ponder what if we redesigned the economy so that it's regenerative and serves all life, rather than shareholder profits?
circularbioeconomyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
Here, we ponder what if we redesigned the economy so that it's regenerative and serves all life, rather than shareholder profits?
circularbioeconomyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
October 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
So excited to see this essay finally out after months of hard work behind the scenes.
Here, we ponder what if we redesigned the economy so that it's regenerative and serves all life, rather than shareholder profits?
circularbioeconomyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
Here, we ponder what if we redesigned the economy so that it's regenerative and serves all life, rather than shareholder profits?
circularbioeconomyalliance.org/wp-content/u...
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Hugh Possingham, one of the worlds most respected conservationists, describing how embedding simple tests into practice helps deliver learning and effective conservation. Without testing there is little learning and we don’t know if effective. youtu.be/qcQvYTldF_0?...
How embedding tests into conservation practive transforms effectiveness
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Hugh Possingham, one of the worlds most respected conservationists, describing how embedding simple tests into practice helps deliver learning and effective conservation. Without testing there is little learning and we don’t know if effective. youtu.be/qcQvYTldF_0?...
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The #PragmaticClimateReset is a two part-essay calling for a reset in our approach to climate action. Part I shows why narratives trumpeting the failure of efforts to date are wrong. Part II says that, nevertheless, the climate community now needs to change its approach. 1/n
September 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The #PragmaticClimateReset is a two part-essay calling for a reset in our approach to climate action. Part I shows why narratives trumpeting the failure of efforts to date are wrong. Part II says that, nevertheless, the climate community now needs to change its approach. 1/n
New review on Forest to bog restoration - wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... . A useful and timely summary.
Strong agree with the statement that the evidence is spatially biased to Scotland!
Strong agree with the statement that the evidence is spatially biased to Scotland!
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Forest‐to‐Bog Restoration on Carbon Sequestration, Water Chemistry, and Biodiversity in Irish and British Peatlands
A forest-to-bog restoration site in Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland, 4 years after clear-felling, conifer removal, and cell bunding (surface bunds joined to form watertight cells to retain shallow water an...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New review on Forest to bog restoration - wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... . A useful and timely summary.
Strong agree with the statement that the evidence is spatially biased to Scotland!
Strong agree with the statement that the evidence is spatially biased to Scotland!
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Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
August 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
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"Incidentally, although women have always played a major role in natural history, only 8% of birds named after people are named after women." #womeninscience #envhist #museums #naturalhistory
150 years ago today, the last known Rodrigues parakeet died.
It - and one other specimen - is now in @zoologymuseum.bsky.social: the only physical evidence the species ever existed.
I wrote about them & the importance of #museums in our knowledge of #extinction:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...
It - and one other specimen - is now in @zoologymuseum.bsky.social: the only physical evidence the species ever existed.
I wrote about them & the importance of #museums in our knowledge of #extinction:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...
The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums
Two specimens at a museum in Cambridge are the only physical evidence this bird ever existed.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"Incidentally, although women have always played a major role in natural history, only 8% of birds named after people are named after women." #womeninscience #envhist #museums #naturalhistory
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Some absolutely stunning views for peat depth surveys today. Now that’s what I call a gorgeous Welsh summer!
August 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Some absolutely stunning views for peat depth surveys today. Now that’s what I call a gorgeous Welsh summer!
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This is so exciting. Very proud of my husband Dr Andrew Brown, who is an air quality scientist but has teamed up zoologists in the UK and Canada to undertake this important work.
#interdisciplinary 🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#interdisciplinary 🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Air pollution filters help scientists produce first UK wildlife survey using eDNA
Social media post led to discovery that samplers measuring toxic particles in air can also detect fragments of DNA
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This is so exciting. Very proud of my husband Dr Andrew Brown, who is an air quality scientist but has teamed up zoologists in the UK and Canada to undertake this important work.
#interdisciplinary 🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#interdisciplinary 🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If you know researchers with expertise in forestry/agro forestry please share this permanent lectureship @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. The quality of life in north wales is fabulous: great colleagues & a stunning location.
jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
August 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
If you know researchers with expertise in forestry/agro forestry please share this permanent lectureship @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. The quality of life in north wales is fabulous: great colleagues & a stunning location.
jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....