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SAOCousins
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Plant community ecology, dispersal, landscape & climate change
Professor in Physical Geography
Passionate about teaching in the field
Ed-in-Chief/ecology @NordicJBotany
Splosh around with watercolour and watching 🪶 🐦🌿🦇
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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · Nov 28
Following a landscape through time. I study how biodiversity linked to grasslands and deciduous woods are affected by landscape changes. This set of change is so common in Sweden. There is no space left for species to inhabit or disperse #communityecology 🧪🌍
#biodiversity
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Three maps and four aerial photos of the same landscape. The first map is from 1783, green colours denotes meadows, dark pink arable fields, lighter pink with trees pasture. Map from 1901 where orange is crop fields, green (along the river) meadow and white with * grazed areas. 1953 is an aerial photo where yellow is crop fields (tiny bit at the top), green forest and pale green open land that isn't ploughed, black and white photos from 1960 and 1975 show that open land is planted with spruce. 2018 is so spruce plantation and 2023 a clear cut. What biodiversity that's left is along the small strip of the riverbank
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Sandwich Gull
#artDD2025 not #dailydrawing
The view outside my window in Sandwich 🥪
Don't try that fancy brickwork at home 🫣
#watercolour
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November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Kestrel
#ArtDD2025 sometimes #dailydrawing
A little doodle with inspiration from @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social 📸
#Birds #watercolour
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November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Hasty oystercatcher

From a ph by @alan658.bsky.social with thanks

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Black backed wader with black head and collar. Long orange beak, pointing to left, orange eye and pink legs. White belly. Black inksplatters across image.
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Little London Grey Heron
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
A mini draw but the a Heron is too large for its frame
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#Heron #watercolour
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November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Vi behöver två lektorer (vikariat)
Universitetslektor i naturgeografi med inriktning mot geomatik & miljövård (2 år)
Och ett med inriktning mot kvartärgeologi, #marklära & #GIS (1 år)
Temporary #lecturer #soil #geomatics #environmental ⚒️ #quaternary
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Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
Jobb
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November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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A weekend with lots of people in the house. It feels VERY quiet now
Son 1 birthday 🥳, son 2 back from the Azores (volcano🌋 course hense Olivine and GT🍸), daughter back for the first time since starting Uni plus partners, cousins, etc 🎂 🥳🥳
Lots of species for a birthday present
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Black-headed Gull
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing wishful thinking
#watercolour #bird
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November 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Still stilt

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Painting of tall wading bird, looking to left, black thin beak, black top of head and back and wings, rest is white. Standing on single, long pink leg.
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Avocet

Today I've been trying to see how little paint I can put on paper but still produce a bird😀. Here's one version.

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Black and white wader, black top of head, few black patches on top of wings and tail, and black beak. Rest is white but depicted only by a bit of shadow.
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Suddenly the house is full of noise 🥰
Daughter home from uni. Shoes and friends
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Down the hatch 2
#artDD2025 #dailydrawing
Yellow crowned night heron. Little doodle inspired from @balail.bsky.social that I can't do justice #heron
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October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Avocet

Another quickie - I'm supposed to be cooking...🤭

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Ink and watercolour of wading bird facing viewer, on one long leg, with black stripe over top of head, and long slender up-turned bill, two black patches on it’s back just visible, otherwise white.
October 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Gull

I do love gulls. This sketch, however, had to be a very hasty 10 minutes only (dinner was nearly ready😄).

From a great 📷 by @kristina0221.bsky.social, with thanks.

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Ink and watercolour of gull facing viewer, standing on one angled leg, grey wing feathers just visible on shoulder, otherwise white, with slightly pink leg and beak.
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Down the hatch!
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
Great Blue Heron with dinner. A little doodle inspired by the 📸 by
@kortduce.bsky.social via @everyheron.bsky.social
#watercolour #heron
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October 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Stile and lighthouse
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
Two favourite subjects 😁 (no heron)
From my little West Coast tour of Sweden
Morups Tånge #lighthouse #style #watercolour @lakesstiles.bsky.social
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October 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Spot the heron 😁
Lots of trout in the stream
#GreyHeron
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October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Bearded Tit
I'm pretty chuffed with this photo #birds 🦉
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October 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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🎉I am very happy to share that I've been awarded the FORMAS Early Career Grant, a 4-year research project starting in 2026! formas.se/en/start-pag...

This was my 2nd attempt for FORMAS, and I’m so grateful to everyone who supported, encouraged, and mentored me along the way 🙏
Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years
This call welcomes researchers who have recently received a doctorate or who are at an early stage of their career. You can apply for funding to conduct your own research project, where you formulate ...
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October 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Yorkshire Dale's Autumn
#ArtDD2025 not #dailydrawing but want to
It's just raining so I need some #Yorkshire sun 🌞
#watercolour little doodle
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October 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Today I enjoyed chairing Laura Schat's excellent public defence of her thesis Evolutionary pathways to traits diversity and specialisation.
Great opponent Jeremy Beaulieu @phylieu.bsky.social .
Can you name the grasses? 😁
October 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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"Phylophytobiogeography" I type. I hesitate... is there no way I can be a bit more... specific?
#academicenglish
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Therapeutic.. Three days, . With a walking break and a field trip in between.
Dorset Holloway
October 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Tenterden High Street

Quick splosh to capture this gorgeous red cafe.

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Ink and paint street scene, with three weatherboarded houses facing viewer, central one is bright fed with a red awning over cafe chairs and tables. Either side they are white but with grey shade.
October 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Grey Heron
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
Inspired by the excellent 📸 by @pierrealquier.bsky.social via @everyheron.bsky.social
#bird
#heron #watercolour
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October 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Hedgerow treasures
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
Small doodles one one sheet of paper. Annoyingly tearing of the tape
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Horse chestnut, beech, hawethorn, sloe dog rose, hazel, viburnum, oak, lilac
October 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM