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A participatory science project to research societal attitudes to urban wild species and spaces. www.noveleco.eu. Funder: European Research Council #ERCCoG. PI: @marcuscollier.bsky.social #novelecosystems #citizenscience #urbanwildspaces
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Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marcuscollier.bsky.social & Megan Lynn Maurer. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth
Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities
Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...
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Britain may be 0, but Ireland is barely a shade better as one of the 10 countries with the lowest connection to nature. It's about time we get together and sort this out. Great paper by Myles Richardson @findingnature.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
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November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Congrats newly minted Dr. @maireadod.bsky.social!

Pic is from a 2023 visit to Trinity College (hosted by @marcuscollier.bsky.social), including @dublinsoil.bsky.social next to Dr. O'Donnell on the right side of the table on a sunny warm mid-spring day.
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Very happy to report the first glimpse at the new identity for our research group—EcoVisualization Studio—which combines @mountainlegacy.bsky.social with CEDAR (Co-Lab for Ecological Design And Restoration). More soon!
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marcuscollier.bsky.social & Megan Lynn Maurer. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth
Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities
Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...
www.tandfonline.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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We are hiring!
Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation at Trinity College, School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Botany! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Any enquiries, please DM me!
#academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marcuscollier.bsky.social & Megan Lynn Maurer. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth
Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities
Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...
www.tandfonline.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Only days before submitting her thesis, my PhD student Natalia just had her 2nd @noveleco.bsky.social paper published. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities' is open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth #novelecosystems
August 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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#TNOCRoundtable THE KINSHIP SERIES 🌳
The kinship with trees and forests: How can we cultivate reciprocal relationships with trees and forests?
Read and join the conversation 👉 buff.ly/gCv29Lz

#KinshipWithNature #UrbanForests #Reciprocity #DeepEcology #NatureCulture
July 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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📰 Just out in @pnas.org special issue: Elizabeth M. Cook, Yeowon Kim, Nancy B. Grimm, and Weiqi Zhou introduce how #NatureBasedSolutions can make cities more resilient.
🔗 buff.ly/KJPOGHX
#NbS #UrbanSustainability #Equity #ClimateResilience #GreenCities
July 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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We are hiring!
The School of Natural Sciences in Trinity College Dublin is seeking to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Science.
Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui..., and under 'Department', scroll to The School of Natural Sciences. Deadline: August 15th.
July 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Great weather for doing some research on drystone wall ecology. Here, with two recently graduated students working as excellent research assistants, Órla R. Fitzgerald and Evelyn Sweeney, we are collecting some very preliminary data and testing methods.
July 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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The second ‘Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming #urban #naturebasedsolutions, led by Dr. @timonm.bsky.social‬, can be found here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10..... This was a huge effort and a key output from the excellent NATURA Project team! Also #openaccess thanks to the NSF.
PNAS
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July 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I’m delighted to be part of the writing team for TWO exciting new papers published today as part of the Natura Project Network; #openaccess thanks to the NSF. ‘Nature-based solutions for #urban #sustainability’, led by Dr Elizabeth Cook, is here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #naturebasedsolutions
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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July 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Our latest open-access @noveleco.bsky.social paper is out! 'Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces'. We scraped social media data to show general attitudes to #urbanwildspaces rdcu.be/evHeW.
Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces
Scientific Reports - Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces
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July 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Our latest paper is out!
Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces: rdcu.be/evHeW.
Led by Haider Khalid, we scraped social media to show general attitudes to #urban #novelecosystems #AI
Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces
Scientific Reports - Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces
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July 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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We're hiring a Teaching Fellow for the next academic year. An applied ecologist with expertise in terrestrial field ecology and contemporary biodiversity loss/policy issues. See the TCD vacancies site or contact me for details. Please circulate, especially to PhD students nearing completion.
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Our latest open source publication is making the news!
Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions scienmag.com/advancing-mu...
Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions
In an era defined by urgent environmental crises and accelerating urbanization, the quest for equitable and sustainable solutions has never been more pressing. A groundbreaking study led by
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June 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🎉 Launch day! #Science2Story is here!

As 21 Biodiversa+ funded research projects wrap up, they’ve teamed up with NBSComics to transform key findings into three powerful long-form comics.

🌍 Dive into the comics 👉 nbscomics.com/science2story/
June 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Don’t miss this great new paper about Co-creation in urban sustainability transitions just published in Urban Transformations @biomedcentral.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Great paper by @jcsvenning.bsky.social and his team discussed in today's @irishtimes.com.
Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe. www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...
Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe
Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone
www.irishtimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Wonderful new paper from our amazing Dr. Melissa Pineda-Pinto and the NovelEco team: Realizing #multispeciesjustice through a capability approach to promote #naturebasedsolutions. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions - npj Urban Sustainability
npj Urban Sustainability - Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions
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May 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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🌱 We use the Capability Approach as a bridge between these frameworks, tested through embodied place-based workshops in novel urban ecologies.
May 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM