@goodnatured.bsky.social
LEC postgraduate researcher studying floodplain meadow botanical diversity.
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We've teamed up with Arcana, our newest #BSBICorporateSponsor, to offer the ‘Flora On The Edge’ collection, a range of blankets woven from 100% recycled cotton.
Each design features 5 rare wild plants.
10% of sales goes to support BSBI's work.
View the collection: arcanaliving.com/collections/...
Each design features 5 rare wild plants.
10% of sales goes to support BSBI's work.
View the collection: arcanaliving.com/collections/...
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We've teamed up with Arcana, our newest #BSBICorporateSponsor, to offer the ‘Flora On The Edge’ collection, a range of blankets woven from 100% recycled cotton.
Each design features 5 rare wild plants.
10% of sales goes to support BSBI's work.
View the collection: arcanaliving.com/collections/...
Each design features 5 rare wild plants.
10% of sales goes to support BSBI's work.
View the collection: arcanaliving.com/collections/...
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My partner Nadine has made the news today. Very proud of her! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My partner Nadine has made the news today. Very proud of her! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I *AM* going to spam you with harebells this evening.
Campanula rotundifolia, Harebell, in sheep-grazed limestone pasture. Sheep have grazed here probs since the 12th century; wool a source of wealth for t'monks at the abbey.
💚🌱
#HarebellChallenge #WildflowerHour
@thenewgalaxy.bsky.social
Campanula rotundifolia, Harebell, in sheep-grazed limestone pasture. Sheep have grazed here probs since the 12th century; wool a source of wealth for t'monks at the abbey.
💚🌱
#HarebellChallenge #WildflowerHour
@thenewgalaxy.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I *AM* going to spam you with harebells this evening.
Campanula rotundifolia, Harebell, in sheep-grazed limestone pasture. Sheep have grazed here probs since the 12th century; wool a source of wealth for t'monks at the abbey.
💚🌱
#HarebellChallenge #WildflowerHour
@thenewgalaxy.bsky.social
Campanula rotundifolia, Harebell, in sheep-grazed limestone pasture. Sheep have grazed here probs since the 12th century; wool a source of wealth for t'monks at the abbey.
💚🌱
#HarebellChallenge #WildflowerHour
@thenewgalaxy.bsky.social
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We have a Research Experience Placement with Dr Phil Wheeler advertised for this summer via @centa.bsky.social:
centa.ac.uk/centa-resear...
Project title: Using 3D models from smartphone video to
assess urban tree crown volume
centa.ac.uk/centa-resear...
Project title: Using 3D models from smartphone video to
assess urban tree crown volume
May 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
We have a Research Experience Placement with Dr Phil Wheeler advertised for this summer via @centa.bsky.social:
centa.ac.uk/centa-resear...
Project title: Using 3D models from smartphone video to
assess urban tree crown volume
centa.ac.uk/centa-resear...
Project title: Using 3D models from smartphone video to
assess urban tree crown volume
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Online panel discussion: Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives. Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30pm to 6:45pm events.k-state.edu/event/trees-...
Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives
events.k-state.edu
April 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Online panel discussion: Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives. Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30pm to 6:45pm events.k-state.edu/event/trees-...
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Pratensis: refers to plants typically found in meadows or pastures.
From the Latin ‘pratum’ meaning meadow.
Examples Meadow Foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis), Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis), Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis) and Red Clover (Trifolium pratense).
From the Latin ‘pratum’ meaning meadow.
Examples Meadow Foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis), Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis), Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis) and Red Clover (Trifolium pratense).
March 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Pratensis: refers to plants typically found in meadows or pastures.
From the Latin ‘pratum’ meaning meadow.
Examples Meadow Foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis), Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis), Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis) and Red Clover (Trifolium pratense).
From the Latin ‘pratum’ meaning meadow.
Examples Meadow Foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis), Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis), Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis) and Red Clover (Trifolium pratense).
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🚨 The @floodplainmead.bsky.social team has produced a free @ouopenlearn.bsky.social course, 'An Introduction to Floodplain Meadows'.
The course explores how these traditional landscapes can deliver a range of nature-based solutions to improve our environment.
www.open.edu/openlearn/na...
The course explores how these traditional landscapes can deliver a range of nature-based solutions to improve our environment.
www.open.edu/openlearn/na...
An introduction to floodplain meadows
This free course, An introduction to floodplain meadows, explores how these traditional landscapes can deliver a range of nature-based solutions that will improve our environment. The course will ...
www.open.edu
March 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🚨 The @floodplainmead.bsky.social team has produced a free @ouopenlearn.bsky.social course, 'An Introduction to Floodplain Meadows'.
The course explores how these traditional landscapes can deliver a range of nature-based solutions to improve our environment.
www.open.edu/openlearn/na...
The course explores how these traditional landscapes can deliver a range of nature-based solutions to improve our environment.
www.open.edu/openlearn/na...
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FMP are one of 50 Nature & farming groups united in calling for Government to protect the nature-friendly farming budget.
Cuts could scupper the vital work of farmers trying to restore soils, boost nature & grow healthy food.
Read the press release here:
www.wcl.org.uk/farming-and-...
Cuts could scupper the vital work of farmers trying to restore soils, boost nature & grow healthy food.
Read the press release here:
www.wcl.org.uk/farming-and-...
March 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
FMP are one of 50 Nature & farming groups united in calling for Government to protect the nature-friendly farming budget.
Cuts could scupper the vital work of farmers trying to restore soils, boost nature & grow healthy food.
Read the press release here:
www.wcl.org.uk/farming-and-...
Cuts could scupper the vital work of farmers trying to restore soils, boost nature & grow healthy food.
Read the press release here:
www.wcl.org.uk/farming-and-...
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📢New policy brief with partners Pasture For Life: Research funding should prioritise scientists and livestock farmers working more closely together on co-designed, co-delivered farm-level research projects 👩🌾🧑🔬🐮
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/more-fu...
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/more-fu...
March 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📢New policy brief with partners Pasture For Life: Research funding should prioritise scientists and livestock farmers working more closely together on co-designed, co-delivered farm-level research projects 👩🌾🧑🔬🐮
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/more-fu...
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/more-fu...
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It's back! The government have announced that the GCSE in Natural History is going ahead!
March 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It's back! The government have announced that the GCSE in Natural History is going ahead!
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I visited Caster Hanglands two years ago and was amazed by how fantastic this site was. Sarah Lambert showed us around. It is so important to protect!
March 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I visited Caster Hanglands two years ago and was amazed by how fantastic this site was. Sarah Lambert showed us around. It is so important to protect!
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Important. You can plant a load of seed to regenerate facsimile species rich grassland but you don't get back the full ecosystem with all its invertebrates for a very long time - 75yrs here. But this assumes all the needed invertebrates have somewhere nearby to come back from!
Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return..
phys.org/news/2025-03...
phys.org/news/2025-03...
A long wait for pollinators: Restored grasslands need 75+ years for full biodiversity recovery, study finds
Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return. Kobe University's finding underscores the importa...
phys.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Important. You can plant a load of seed to regenerate facsimile species rich grassland but you don't get back the full ecosystem with all its invertebrates for a very long time - 75yrs here. But this assumes all the needed invertebrates have somewhere nearby to come back from!
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When I hear people describe themselves as content creators.
March 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
When I hear people describe themselves as content creators.
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As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
March 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
March 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
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Did you know California Grasslands support over 2600 species, many of which are endemic?
We are making progress and restoration efforts are successful, but only currently commonly restore 7 or 0.26% of those species! Connecting practitioners is the next step!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are making progress and restoration efforts are successful, but only currently commonly restore 7 or 0.26% of those species! Connecting practitioners is the next step!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Did you know California Grasslands support over 2600 species, many of which are endemic?
We are making progress and restoration efforts are successful, but only currently commonly restore 7 or 0.26% of those species! Connecting practitioners is the next step!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are making progress and restoration efforts are successful, but only currently commonly restore 7 or 0.26% of those species! Connecting practitioners is the next step!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Lovely piece here by @davegoulson.bsky.social in praise of hoverflies
#Insects
#InvertebrateoftheYear
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Insects
#InvertebrateoftheYear
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘About time they got some credit’: why hoverflies are an underappreciated insect
Prof Dave Goulson is one of the world’s foremost experts on insects. But there’s a special place in his heart for hoverflies, one of the prettiest flies around. Here he explains why we should nominate...
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Lovely piece here by @davegoulson.bsky.social in praise of hoverflies
#Insects
#InvertebrateoftheYear
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Insects
#InvertebrateoftheYear
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Applied meadow management course coming up via CIEEM, led by Rachel Remnant, one of our wonderful floodplain meadow ambassadors: events.cieem.net/Events/Event...
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Applied meadow management course coming up via CIEEM, led by Rachel Remnant, one of our wonderful floodplain meadow ambassadors: events.cieem.net/Events/Event...
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IT IS TODAY! The Quarter Finals of Botanical University Challenge starting 2pm GMT watch on our YouTube Channel! Good luck to our eight plantastic teams! #BUC2025 @bucbotany.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
IT IS TODAY! The Quarter Finals of Botanical University Challenge starting 2pm GMT watch on our YouTube Channel! Good luck to our eight plantastic teams! #BUC2025 @bucbotany.bsky.social
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🔎Behind the paper🔎
Carly Stevens shares her motivation behind surveying all #limestonepavements in Great Britain, presents the #conservation challenges faced by this #habitat, & encourages every #ecologist to go into the field to collect data
functionalecologists.com/2025/02/25/c...
Carly Stevens shares her motivation behind surveying all #limestonepavements in Great Britain, presents the #conservation challenges faced by this #habitat, & encourages every #ecologist to go into the field to collect data
functionalecologists.com/2025/02/25/c...
Carly Stevens: Exploring Great Britain’s limestone pavements
In this blog post Carly Stevens, professor at University of Lancaster, presents her work ‘Large changes in vegetation composition seen over the last 50 years in British limestone pavements’. She sh…
functionalecologists.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🔎Behind the paper🔎
Carly Stevens shares her motivation behind surveying all #limestonepavements in Great Britain, presents the #conservation challenges faced by this #habitat, & encourages every #ecologist to go into the field to collect data
functionalecologists.com/2025/02/25/c...
Carly Stevens shares her motivation behind surveying all #limestonepavements in Great Britain, presents the #conservation challenges faced by this #habitat, & encourages every #ecologist to go into the field to collect data
functionalecologists.com/2025/02/25/c...
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Sooo… Looks like this is happening tonight.
That counter is going to tick over 100,000 🔥
Keep signing —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
That counter is going to tick over 100,000 🔥
Keep signing —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
February 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Sooo… Looks like this is happening tonight.
That counter is going to tick over 100,000 🔥
Keep signing —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
That counter is going to tick over 100,000 🔥
Keep signing —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Do you want to join the UKs biggest botanical quiz? @bucbotany.bsky.social starts tomorrow.
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... out today! It's great to write about an area of #Botany that is growing. @seburbanbotany.bsky.social @herbarium.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @botsocamerica.bsky.social
The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant‐aware students
Societal Impact Statement In some indigenous languages, plants are referred to as ‘those who care for us’, reflecting their essential role in tackling global challenges. Yet, urbanisation and other ...
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Do you want to join the UKs biggest botanical quiz? @bucbotany.bsky.social starts tomorrow.
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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪 Less than a week to go for #BUC2025! The 31 - YES, THIRTY-ONE teams in Round 1 will meet Dr Chris Dixon asking multiple-choice questions. Streamed YouTube botanicaluniversitychallenge from 14:00 GMT Weds 12 Feb. Watch live or later recording! @thebotanist.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪 Less than a week to go for #BUC2025! The 31 - YES, THIRTY-ONE teams in Round 1 will meet Dr Chris Dixon asking multiple-choice questions. Streamed YouTube botanicaluniversitychallenge from 14:00 GMT Weds 12 Feb. Watch live or later recording! @thebotanist.bsky.social
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Please consider non-profit society journals when you choose a journal for submitting your work AND for reviewing/editing.
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
January 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Please consider non-profit society journals when you choose a journal for submitting your work AND for reviewing/editing.
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Congratulations to Leeds University for this moral leadership. As a sector dedicated to knowledge and learning, no university should remain connected to the odious X.
The X-odus continues. Given the lack of engament at the Other Place, there's not a vast point being on there anyway. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X - Research Professional News
Leeds says Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Congratulations to Leeds University for this moral leadership. As a sector dedicated to knowledge and learning, no university should remain connected to the odious X.