Andrew Hacket-Pain
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social
Forest & tree ecology, woodlands, tree seeds and regeneration, the phenomenon of masting. New interest in wild (& rewilded) woodland. First love = tree rings, soulmate = tree seeds
Uni of Liverpool, UK
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/andrew-hacket-pain
Uni of Liverpool, UK
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/andrew-hacket-pain
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🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
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🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social
**The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**
**The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social
**The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**
**The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**
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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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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
🚨 Funded PhD 🚨 How does the reproduction of trees respond to drought? How does this shape forest resilience to drought? Join us in Liverpool & Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social
to answer this question!
Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline: 7th January
🌳🌰🌲🌱🌤️🌡️
to answer this question!
Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline: 7th January
🌳🌰🌲🌱🌤️🌡️
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🚨 Funded PhD 🚨 How does the reproduction of trees respond to drought? How does this shape forest resilience to drought? Join us in Liverpool & Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social
to answer this question!
Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline: 7th January
🌳🌰🌲🌱🌤️🌡️
to answer this question!
Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline: 7th January
🌳🌰🌲🌱🌤️🌡️
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Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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🚨PhD opportunity🚨Come and work with us & Stirling Uni to understand the role of woodland creation 🌳in nature recovery 🌺🦋
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Understanding the ecological interplay between tree planting and natural processes to create future forests
iapetus.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🚨PhD opportunity🚨Come and work with us & Stirling Uni to understand the role of woodland creation 🌳in nature recovery 🌺🦋
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Can you help restore Scotland's precious temperate rainforest by
🥬Raising the profile of ancient woodland?
🥬Managing partner relationships & projects?
🥬Providing advice to landowners & managers?
This really is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference.
Apply 👉 buff.ly/VyWT9BL
🥬Raising the profile of ancient woodland?
🥬Managing partner relationships & projects?
🥬Providing advice to landowners & managers?
This really is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference.
Apply 👉 buff.ly/VyWT9BL
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Can you help restore Scotland's precious temperate rainforest by
🥬Raising the profile of ancient woodland?
🥬Managing partner relationships & projects?
🥬Providing advice to landowners & managers?
This really is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference.
Apply 👉 buff.ly/VyWT9BL
🥬Raising the profile of ancient woodland?
🥬Managing partner relationships & projects?
🥬Providing advice to landowners & managers?
This really is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference.
Apply 👉 buff.ly/VyWT9BL
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Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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I highly recommend this fellowship! This is what brought me to Boulder over 7 years ago, and I’m still here… ❄️ 🛰️ 🧪
The CIRES prestigious Visiting Fellows Program invites scientists to join the thriving community of researchers at @colorado.edu and @noaa.gov laboratories. Applications opened TODAY, and will be accepted through January 1, 2026. Learn more here: buff.ly/gg7HNXe
October 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I highly recommend this fellowship! This is what brought me to Boulder over 7 years ago, and I’m still here… ❄️ 🛰️ 🧪
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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Happy to share our last study published in @natcomms.nature.com
We asked
Can the weather tell trees when it’ is time to reproduce?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked
Can the weather tell trees when it’ is time to reproduce?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Happy to share our last study published in @natcomms.nature.com
We asked
Can the weather tell trees when it’ is time to reproduce?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We asked
Can the weather tell trees when it’ is time to reproduce?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New paper out 🥳
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
New paper out 🥳
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Why are there so many acorns in the UK this year? Oaks everywhere seem to have been laden with acorns. Nice to quoted when the BBC investigated!
There are lots of chestnuts too, and beech seeds in some places but not others. Happy squirrels and jays this year! 🐿🌰🌳
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There are lots of chestnuts too, and beech seeds in some places but not others. Happy squirrels and jays this year! 🐿🌰🌳
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The National Trust explains why there are so many acorns this year
A National Trust gardener said the volume of acorns was
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Why are there so many acorns in the UK this year? Oaks everywhere seem to have been laden with acorns. Nice to quoted when the BBC investigated!
There are lots of chestnuts too, and beech seeds in some places but not others. Happy squirrels and jays this year! 🐿🌰🌳
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There are lots of chestnuts too, and beech seeds in some places but not others. Happy squirrels and jays this year! 🐿🌰🌳
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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#LadyParkWood which borders #England & #Wales is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek.
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social, & John Healey from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social are looking at #woodland development bit.ly/LadyParkWood 🌏
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social, & John Healey from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social are looking at #woodland development bit.ly/LadyParkWood 🌏
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#LadyParkWood which borders #England & #Wales is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek.
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social, & John Healey from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social are looking at #woodland development bit.ly/LadyParkWood 🌏
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social, & John Healey from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social are looking at #woodland development bit.ly/LadyParkWood 🌏
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Another recent paper in #BirdStudy showed autumn densities of Pheasant & Red-Legged Partridge in southern England can be an astonishing 2,500 birds per km2 on land near releases. After winter, there were still up to 700 birds/km2. That's huge numbers.
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.
Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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September 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Another recent paper in #BirdStudy showed autumn densities of Pheasant & Red-Legged Partridge in southern England can be an astonishing 2,500 birds per km2 on land near releases. After winter, there were still up to 700 birds/km2. That's huge numbers.
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
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Come work with us!
Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
August 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Come work with us!
Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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#job at The Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU: Associate Senior Lecturer in conservation ecology, to improve the understanding of impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services resulting from alternative forest management strategies.
Closing 15 September 2025
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Closing 15 September 2025
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
August 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
#job at The Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU: Associate Senior Lecturer in conservation ecology, to improve the understanding of impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services resulting from alternative forest management strategies.
Closing 15 September 2025
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Closing 15 September 2025
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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🚨 Postdoc opening 🚨
Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change.
2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025.
🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...
Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change.
2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025.
🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...
Forest Biology Center - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Centrum Biologii Lasu Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl
August 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🚨 Postdoc opening 🚨
Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change.
2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025.
🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...
Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change.
2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025.
🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...
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We have a new #blog:
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social wrote a blog on the handover of Lady Park Wood (Wales/ England) from George Peterken to a new academic team at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
Read it here: bit.ly/4eoChUS
#Woodland #LongTermExperiment #LTE 🌎
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social wrote a blog on the handover of Lady Park Wood (Wales/ England) from George Peterken to a new academic team at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
Read it here: bit.ly/4eoChUS
#Woodland #LongTermExperiment #LTE 🌎
Lady Park Wood Handover — ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST -
Andrew Hacket-Pain (Liverpool University) writes about the handover of the Lady Park Wood long-term experiment.
bit.ly
July 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We have a new #blog:
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social wrote a blog on the handover of Lady Park Wood (Wales/ England) from George Peterken to a new academic team at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
Read it here: bit.ly/4eoChUS
#Woodland #LongTermExperiment #LTE 🌎
@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social wrote a blog on the handover of Lady Park Wood (Wales/ England) from George Peterken to a new academic team at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
Read it here: bit.ly/4eoChUS
#Woodland #LongTermExperiment #LTE 🌎
Happy #solstice! Today, beech trees start to decide whether to produce bumper seed crops next year, or to skip reproduction next year. It is a marker for growth and phenology processes. @micbog.bsky.social talked to The Guardian about how it works:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Why the summer solstice is a ‘celestial starting gun’ for trees
Research shows longest day is a cue for beeches to launch their growth strategies
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Happy #solstice! Today, beech trees start to decide whether to produce bumper seed crops next year, or to skip reproduction next year. It is a marker for growth and phenology processes. @micbog.bsky.social talked to The Guardian about how it works:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Leg 2/8 of slow travel from NW England to Poznan, Poland. 36 hours with time to read papers and enjoy the views. And a stopover in Köln, with a visit to the Cathedral. All on time so far...
June 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Leg 2/8 of slow travel from NW England to Poznan, Poland. 36 hours with time to read papers and enjoy the views. And a stopover in Köln, with a visit to the Cathedral. All on time so far...
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By 3,000 BC everywhere in England that trees could grow was covered, sometimes called the ‘wildwood’
As Nature intended
The introduction of agriculture about 3,000 BC started the steady reduction until 1900 AD it was 5%
Currently the figure has increased to 10%
1 of 3
As Nature intended
The introduction of agriculture about 3,000 BC started the steady reduction until 1900 AD it was 5%
Currently the figure has increased to 10%
1 of 3
June 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
By 3,000 BC everywhere in England that trees could grow was covered, sometimes called the ‘wildwood’
As Nature intended
The introduction of agriculture about 3,000 BC started the steady reduction until 1900 AD it was 5%
Currently the figure has increased to 10%
1 of 3
As Nature intended
The introduction of agriculture about 3,000 BC started the steady reduction until 1900 AD it was 5%
Currently the figure has increased to 10%
1 of 3
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And AGAIN! 3xpostdocs + Project Officer 17 months) in @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social ExCASES team, doing applied research on biodiversity renewal. Based at @researchnt.bsky.social working with fab @sarahcrowley.bsky.social. #envsocialscience #scipol #sustainability #sts #conservation folk do apply!
📢We're recruiting for four new roles to support the @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social project!
Are you a PhD graduate hoping to solve the real-world challenges of biodiversity renewal? ➡️3 Postdoctoral Research Fellow posts now open careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/#/...
and...
Are you a PhD graduate hoping to solve the real-world challenges of biodiversity renewal? ➡️3 Postdoctoral Research Fellow posts now open careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/#/...
and...
June 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
And AGAIN! 3xpostdocs + Project Officer 17 months) in @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social ExCASES team, doing applied research on biodiversity renewal. Based at @researchnt.bsky.social working with fab @sarahcrowley.bsky.social. #envsocialscience #scipol #sustainability #sts #conservation folk do apply!
Tomorrow is the #SummerSolstice, which is a special day for beech trees too! We are installing experiments to test how the #solstice helps synchronise masting. Colleagues up ladders in trees across Europe doing this! Science explained in @uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/could-trees-...
June 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Tomorrow is the #SummerSolstice, which is a special day for beech trees too! We are installing experiments to test how the #solstice helps synchronise masting. Colleagues up ladders in trees across Europe doing this! Science explained in @uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/could-trees-...