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Natalia (Nat) Zielonka
@natbzielonka.bsky.social
Research Fellow at @dice-kent.bsky.social | biodiversity 🕊️🪲 + agriculture 🍇 + soundscapes 🎶 + human well-being 🫶 | PhD at @ueaceec.bsky.social | Support Officer and Chair of Engagement Committee at @bou.org.uk
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The Anthropocene is characterised by:

⚠️ biodiversity declines
⚠️ extinction of experience
⚠️ declining wellbeing

At #BOU2025, I'm talking about how it may be possible to address all 3 challenges

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1/6 🧵 #ornithology #conservationscience #bioacoustics 🔊🧪🪶🌍
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“If you've ever felt calmer after a walk in the park or a stroll through the woods, it's not your imagination - it's biology.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wild about nature: Four health benefits of the outdoors
Spending just 20 minutes in nature can lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress levels.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
October 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Excited to be trailing FreeStations - accessible environmental pollution equipment - at our @dice-kent.bsky.social campus next week

Huge thanks for Prof Mark Mulligan from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for building them with us!

Read more here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2025/09...
October 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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New paper out today in
@natecoevo.nature.com on biodiversity & human wellbeing in UK forests, both seasonally and along a gradient of socioeconomic deprivation

Funded by @erc.europa.eu and Woodland Trust 🌳, with lovely @dice-kent.bsky.social team

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spatio-temporal variability in forest biodiversity associated with human well-being across socio-economic deprivation gradients - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Applying a combined social science and trait-based ecology approach, the authors identify ecological traits in forests eliciting positive or negative well-being among human participants in England and...
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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New Woodland Birds Virtual Issue of IBIS in celebration of the #BOUatEOU symposium. Check out all these (free-to-access) great papers:
bou.org.uk BOU @bou.org.uk · Aug 18
Celebrating #BOUatEOU, our IBIS editors have compiled an IBIS Woodland Birds virtual issue.

All articles are free-to-view and you can read them here 📰
onlinelibrary.wiley....

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Woodland Birds: Ibis
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🔊 VACANCY

Could you be our next Conference Support Officer?

Help us to deliver our exciting conference programme

You'll receive an annual honorarium + free place at BOU conferences

Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline: 29 August

#ornithology 🪶
August 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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📣📣📣 Fully funded MSc scholarships available for this Sept.

Short deadline: 21st July

Kent are offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science #scholarships @dice-kent.bsky.social

For more info: lnkd.in/eiPJG8uE

Any questions, then please email: lhscholars@kent.ac.uk

#phdchat #funding
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July 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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We have developed guidelines on how to give linguistically friendly presentations in English for #ICCB2025 presenters. Please have a read to make your presentation inclusive. Amazing work led by @elizeyxng.bsky.social et al.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@iccb2025.bsky.social
#languagebarriers
June 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Want to join our team of friendly, fun (personal opinion) and interdisciplinary fellows at @dice-kent.bsky.social?

We’re interested in researching nature recovery from ecological, social and policy perspectives

Happy to chat about my life as a fellow!

Apply 👇

🌎 #ConservationScience
May 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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The 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #PlasticPollution, #ornithology / #birds, #conservation & our work at @adriftlab.bsky.social and want to discuss an application, get in touch! #PhDjobs

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
May 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

#ornithology 🪶

SPC: Stuart Sharp
@piedflynet.bsky.social
Daria Dadam &
@parusradious.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Our new #DrForest paper has found canopy density & tree species diversity have varying impacts on health & wellbeing 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#foresthealth #biodiversity #urbanforests #forestmanagement #environmentalhealth #urbanplanning #research #Sustainability
May 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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More exciting synchrony-based results can be read in the paper and many happy hours can be spent exploring our maps of abundance and demographic synchrony here: synchrony.uea.ac.uk.

@jengill.bsky.social @simon-butler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social
Here we present the results of the analysis of synchrony in annual population count, productivity, and survival for 26 species across 995 sites monitored from 1998 to 2019 under the European Constant Effort Scheme (CES) (Morrison et al. in prep.).
synchrony.uea.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
#ornithology 🪶 🧪
Our new OA paper is out: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology

Using @euring.bsky.social Constant Effort Site data spanning 12 countries across Europe we explore geographic and temporal variation in synchrony in counts, productivity and survival rates.
May 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Really looking forward to #BioBlitz 2025 at @dice-kent.bsky.social tomorrow!

There’s still time to book yourself onto free walks and surveys that are running all day tomorrow 👇

🦅 🦇 🐞 🐝 🌱 🌻 🦔
Join @dice-kent.bsky.social for #BioBlitz 2025 on the 17th May 🌱 🪲 🐸 🐝 🦡 🌺

This is a family friendly event where we try to record as many species as possible!

We’ve lots of free events! Find them all and sign up here 👉 lnkd.in/e5kjJRmd

Why not join me for a walk to learn about #soundscapes? 🐦🔉
May 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Join @dice-kent.bsky.social for #BioBlitz 2025 on the 17th May 🌱 🪲 🐸 🐝 🦡 🌺

This is a family friendly event where we try to record as many species as possible!

We’ve lots of free events! Find them all and sign up here 👉 lnkd.in/e5kjJRmd

Why not join me for a walk to learn about #soundscapes? 🐦🔉
May 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
⚠️⏰ The deadline is today!! ⚠️⏰
bou.org.uk BOU @bou.org.uk · Apr 24
⏰ Deadline tomorrow!

Passionate about science communication?

Join our team! We are looking for the next Social Media support officer to help develop and deliver BOU's social media content

🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...

#ornithology 🪶

Please repost!
April 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
⚠️⏰ The deadline is today!! ⚠️⏰
bou.org.uk BOU @bou.org.uk · Apr 24
⏰ Deadline tomorrow!

Passionate about making #ornithology inclusive and diverse?

Join our team! We are looking for the next Equality and Diversity support officer to advance our work in ornithology.

🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...

🪶🧪

Please repost!
April 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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📢 BOU at #EOU2025

Join us for a woodland birds symposium on EOU registration day 18 August | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

SPC: Stuart Sharp @piedflynet.bsky.social Daria Dadam & @parusradious.bsky.social

#ornithology
April 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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🎉 New paper out in Forest Ecology and Management.

Effect of bark beetle outbreak and salvage logging on tree-related microhabitats in Białowieża Forest
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Based on the internship report of MSc student Flora van Eupen. A wonderful achievement for her!
April 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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1/⚠️ Blackbirds are in trouble & we need your help! Threatened by the Usutu virus, we need you to submit your garden Blackbird sightings so scientists can better understand the virus’ spread & potential impacts on these songbirds. 🌍 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #UKBirding #Ornithology
April 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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⚠️ Passionate about making #ornithology inclusive and diverse?

Join our team! We are looking for the next Equality and Diversity support officer to advance our work in ornithology.

🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025

🪶🧪

Please repost!
April 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I promise this is the last post about this!

If you followed any #BOU2025 on Bluesky, or if you added in person, please please 🙏 fill out this survey today!

💭 We really want to know what everyone liked and disliked about our first Bluesky #conference

It only takes 5 minutes ⏰ 👇

#ornithology 🪶
bou.org.uk BOU @bou.org.uk · Apr 11
⏰ LAST DAY TO TELL US YOUR THOUGHTS ⏰

Did you follow #BOU2025 on Bluesky?

💬 If so, how did you find it? If not, why not? It only takes 5 minutes ⌚

Your views will inform the future of our Bluesky conferences!

🔗 forms.gle/i8CdLFPru4...

#ornithology 🪶🧪 #AcademicSky
April 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Please come and take my job! I’ve been the social media support officer for the @bou.org.uk for almost 4 years and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it! I made so many new friends, met new colleagues, attended many amazing conferences and learnt a lot.

This is an ideal role for #ECR folks in #ornithology 🪶
bou.org.uk BOU @bou.org.uk · Apr 10
⚠️ Passionate about science communication?

Join our team! We are looking for the next Social Media support officer

🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025

Get in touch with our current officer if you have questions @natbzielonka.bsky.social

#ornithology 🪶

Please repost!
April 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM