Molly Brown
@molly-rc-brown.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary PhD Student | Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @ Uni of York. Interested in #Biodiversity, #BehaviouralScience, #BehaviourChange, #SocialMarketing & illegal wildlife trade #IWT 🐘🌱
She/her 🌈 Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
She/her 🌈 Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
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Myself, @mpetel.bsky.social and Allison Bishop are seeking presentations for our panel on rights in environmental governance at #POLLEN2026 in Barcelona, June 29th - July 3rd 2026. Fancy joining us? Submit your abstract here by 5th December: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Myself, @mpetel.bsky.social and Allison Bishop are seeking presentations for our panel on rights in environmental governance at #POLLEN2026 in Barcelona, June 29th - July 3rd 2026. Fancy joining us? Submit your abstract here by 5th December: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
🎉 Hard to believe it’s already been a month since I passed my PhD viva! Still feeling very grateful, proud, and a little bit in disbelief that I am #PhDone!
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🎉 Hard to believe it’s already been a month since I passed my PhD viva! Still feeling very grateful, proud, and a little bit in disbelief that I am #PhDone!
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Really excited to hear about this initiative ‘Naturalists for Palestine’, sign up everyone!
naturalistsforpalestine.org
naturalistsforpalestine.org
Naturalists for Palestine
Naturalists for Palestine is a call from individuals and organisations in the UK nature sector to stand for an end to the genocide in Gaza, and to the suffering and oppression of the people of Palesti...
naturalistsforpalestine.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Really excited to hear about this initiative ‘Naturalists for Palestine’, sign up everyone!
naturalistsforpalestine.org
naturalistsforpalestine.org
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Really glad to see this exciting and fun work from my PhD out - huge thanks to @janehillyork.bsky.social @cmbeale.bsky.social and Dr Blanca Huertas! Next summer, going to go to Sulawesi to link two of these regions with present day surveys! 🦋
Really nice paper from @tiff-ki.bsky.social & co. shows no overall decline in butterfly species richness in Sulawesi over 166 yrs, but changing communities with endemics & forest specialists declining. Short-term trends unreliable measures of long term. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🌏
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Really glad to see this exciting and fun work from my PhD out - huge thanks to @janehillyork.bsky.social @cmbeale.bsky.social and Dr Blanca Huertas! Next summer, going to go to Sulawesi to link two of these regions with present day surveys! 🦋
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Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...
Why most conservation projects fail to learn
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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September 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...
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It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
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September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community 🏳️⚧️
We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm.
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm.
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community 🏳️⚧️
We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm.
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm.
notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
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What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.
🦊 Reimagining habituation: The case for a reciprocal and contextual understanding ➡️ buff.ly/6rbtYxu
@livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social
@livwildlab.bsky.social @ethanddoney.bsky.social @vdonfrancesco.bsky.social @hannalp.bsky.social @csandbrook.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
What do we mean when we say that carnivores and other wildlife are "habituating" to people? Who actually habituates to whom? Is this bad or god? Who decides? All of this and more in our new paper, expertly led by @ethanddoney.bsky.social, out now in @peopleandnature.bsky.social.
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🌿 Numbers aren’t the whole story. A new perspective piece highlights how qualitative approaches—like interviews, storytelling, and participatory methods—can uncover why conservation efforts succeed (or don’t).
📚Read more from Sharkey et al at doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
#Conservation #Science
📚Read more from Sharkey et al at doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
#Conservation #Science
The value of qualitative approaches to impact evaluation in biodiversity conservation
We provide a conceptualization of qualitative approaches to impact evaluation in conservation and draw on case studies to illustrate the value of qualitative approaches.
doi.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🌿 Numbers aren’t the whole story. A new perspective piece highlights how qualitative approaches—like interviews, storytelling, and participatory methods—can uncover why conservation efforts succeed (or don’t).
📚Read more from Sharkey et al at doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
#Conservation #Science
📚Read more from Sharkey et al at doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
#Conservation #Science
🆕 Publication alert! I’m excited to share a new paper I co-authored, just published in a special issue of Conservation Science and Practice:
👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🆕 Publication alert! I’m excited to share a new paper I co-authored, just published in a special issue of Conservation Science and Practice:
👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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📢Protest
Static demo
Sat 26 Apr | 1PM
St Helen’s Square, York
This event is organised by York LGBT forum
We're deeply disappointed by today's Supreme Court ruling defining "woman" by biological sex.
Static demo
Sat 26 Apr | 1PM
St Helen’s Square, York
This event is organised by York LGBT forum
We're deeply disappointed by today's Supreme Court ruling defining "woman" by biological sex.
April 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢Protest
Static demo
Sat 26 Apr | 1PM
St Helen’s Square, York
This event is organised by York LGBT forum
We're deeply disappointed by today's Supreme Court ruling defining "woman" by biological sex.
Static demo
Sat 26 Apr | 1PM
St Helen’s Square, York
This event is organised by York LGBT forum
We're deeply disappointed by today's Supreme Court ruling defining "woman" by biological sex.
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Another interesting project awarded last year was Transparent tusks: Open research practices in ivory research by @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social
Molly's work brought to light stories of the ivory trade, a challenging area for open and inclusive practice, through interdisciplinary outreach activities 🐘
Molly's work brought to light stories of the ivory trade, a challenging area for open and inclusive practice, through interdisciplinary outreach activities 🐘
Another reminder of our Open Research Awards, open for submissions until 28 April 📅
Celebrating projects and initiatives at York which engage with the practices and principles of open research 📖
This year we're offering 9 x £400 prizes, with thanks to @ukri.org Enhancing Research Culture funding 🏆
Celebrating projects and initiatives at York which engage with the practices and principles of open research 📖
This year we're offering 9 x £400 prizes, with thanks to @ukri.org Enhancing Research Culture funding 🏆
York Open Research Awards 2025 - Open Research at York - York Wiki Service
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April 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Another interesting project awarded last year was Transparent tusks: Open research practices in ivory research by @molly-rc-brown.bsky.social
Molly's work brought to light stories of the ivory trade, a challenging area for open and inclusive practice, through interdisciplinary outreach activities 🐘
Molly's work brought to light stories of the ivory trade, a challenging area for open and inclusive practice, through interdisciplinary outreach activities 🐘
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Join us for the new CASCADE webinar series! In our opening webinar on 21st March, we will be joined by Sarah Chaytor (CAPE) and Nils Bunnefeld (@eklipse-europe.bsky.social) to discuss how to improve linkages between academia and policy.
Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/Avv4aXfE4H
Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/Avv4aXfE4H
March 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Join us for the new CASCADE webinar series! In our opening webinar on 21st March, we will be joined by Sarah Chaytor (CAPE) and Nils Bunnefeld (@eklipse-europe.bsky.social) to discuss how to improve linkages between academia and policy.
Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/Avv4aXfE4H
Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/Avv4aXfE4H
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Engaging day exploring the pressing issues around #climate finance, #nature positive development, future foci and how links between Government and universities can help to navigate multiple future challenges @yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Engaging day exploring the pressing issues around #climate finance, #nature positive development, future foci and how links between Government and universities can help to navigate multiple future challenges @yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
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Eight interdisciplinary PhD opportunities open @anthropocenebio.bsky.social !
We're recruiting fully-funded (home fees) PhD students for a Sept 2025 start.
Interested in exploring the ways in which human activity enhances as well as diminishes biological diversity? Check out our projects across a range of disciplines, from mycology to rewilding: tinyurl.com/mtedknp9
Interested in exploring the ways in which human activity enhances as well as diminishes biological diversity? Check out our projects across a range of disciplines, from mycology to rewilding: tinyurl.com/mtedknp9
December 13, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Eight interdisciplinary PhD opportunities open @anthropocenebio.bsky.social !
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Net Zero needs behavior change.
For decarbonization, we need to understand how to enable and encourage green choices (fairly).
That’s means shifting: how we heat our homes, how we travel, and what we eat and consume.
Don’t ask me, check the latest IPCC report ⬇️
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
For decarbonization, we need to understand how to enable and encourage green choices (fairly).
That’s means shifting: how we heat our homes, how we travel, and what we eat and consume.
Don’t ask me, check the latest IPCC report ⬇️
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
November 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Net Zero needs behavior change.
For decarbonization, we need to understand how to enable and encourage green choices (fairly).
That’s means shifting: how we heat our homes, how we travel, and what we eat and consume.
Don’t ask me, check the latest IPCC report ⬇️
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
For decarbonization, we need to understand how to enable and encourage green choices (fairly).
That’s means shifting: how we heat our homes, how we travel, and what we eat and consume.
Don’t ask me, check the latest IPCC report ⬇️
🔗 www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
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hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
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November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨
I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity!
Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED
I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity!
Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED
November 28, 2024 at 8:11 PM
🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨
I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity!
Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED
I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity!
Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED
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CASCADE is now here, and definitely worth following if you're interested in how #UKHE can help contribute to global conservation targets! 🌍
We're now on Bluesky! Help us develop a community on this platform by following and sharing with your networks🌊🌍
#biodiversity #KMGBF #CASCADE
#biodiversity #KMGBF #CASCADE
November 27, 2024 at 9:19 AM
CASCADE is now here, and definitely worth following if you're interested in how #UKHE can help contribute to global conservation targets! 🌍
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we are recruiting a PhD student to work on illicit and unregulated conservation translocation (e.g. #beaverbombing, unregulated release of 'native' butterflies), particularly the conservation and policy aspects. Funded by NERC, in collaboration with Natural England. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/eco...
Ecological and conservation implications of illicit and unregulated species translocations - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Ecological and conservation implications of illicit and unregulated species translocations Conservation translocations – the movement of species to establish new populations, or bolster existing one...
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November 25, 2024 at 5:27 PM
we are recruiting a PhD student to work on illicit and unregulated conservation translocation (e.g. #beaverbombing, unregulated release of 'native' butterflies), particularly the conservation and policy aspects. Funded by NERC, in collaboration with Natural England. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/eco...
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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...
November 25, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...
Thoroughly enjoyed my time at York St Peters primary school recently, so I wrote a quick #blog about the refreshing #conservation enthusiasm that filled the day ✨👩🏫
Read here: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
@uniofyork.bsky.social @uoyopenres.bsky.social
Read here: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
@uniofyork.bsky.social @uoyopenres.bsky.social
Inspiring young conservationists
Molly Bown visits a York primary school to talk about the topic of her PhD research.
www.york.ac.uk
November 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed my time at York St Peters primary school recently, so I wrote a quick #blog about the refreshing #conservation enthusiasm that filled the day ✨👩🏫
Read here: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
@uniofyork.bsky.social @uoyopenres.bsky.social
Read here: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
@uniofyork.bsky.social @uoyopenres.bsky.social
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▪️ Open postdoc position ▪️ 🔎🧬🐘
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA.
Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson
Please RT!
Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA.
Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson
Please RT!
Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 12, 2024 at 8:51 PM
▪️ Open postdoc position ▪️ 🔎🧬🐘
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA.
Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson
Please RT!
Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA.
Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson
Please RT!
Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
🔊 Looking forward to participating in the inaugural SCB online Conservation Social Science Conference on Weds Nov 20th!
⏰: 11:00 🇺🇸 | 16:00 🇬🇧 | 00:00 🇨🇳
#BehaviourChange #SocialScience #ConsumerDemand #IWT
⏰: 11:00 🇺🇸 | 16:00 🇬🇧 | 00:00 🇨🇳
#BehaviourChange #SocialScience #ConsumerDemand #IWT
November 17, 2024 at 10:42 AM
🔊 Looking forward to participating in the inaugural SCB online Conservation Social Science Conference on Weds Nov 20th!
⏰: 11:00 🇺🇸 | 16:00 🇬🇧 | 00:00 🇨🇳
#BehaviourChange #SocialScience #ConsumerDemand #IWT
⏰: 11:00 🇺🇸 | 16:00 🇬🇧 | 00:00 🇨🇳
#BehaviourChange #SocialScience #ConsumerDemand #IWT
I’ve been invited to St Peter’s School in York today to talk to the KS2 students about all things elephants and wildlife crime 🐘
It’s a challenging topic for anyone, esp. 6/7 year olds! Looking forward to seeing their posters and hearing about what they have learnt on their trafficking course.
It’s a challenging topic for anyone, esp. 6/7 year olds! Looking forward to seeing their posters and hearing about what they have learnt on their trafficking course.
November 15, 2024 at 11:58 AM
I’ve been invited to St Peter’s School in York today to talk to the KS2 students about all things elephants and wildlife crime 🐘
It’s a challenging topic for anyone, esp. 6/7 year olds! Looking forward to seeing their posters and hearing about what they have learnt on their trafficking course.
It’s a challenging topic for anyone, esp. 6/7 year olds! Looking forward to seeing their posters and hearing about what they have learnt on their trafficking course.