Rebecca Senior
@rebeccasenior.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Durham University. Born and bred in the #HappyValley. Lover of #microclimate ecology, R and GIS, plus dogs🐶 and fell running 🌄🏃♀️
10 days left to apply for this postdoc with Andy Suggitt at
@northumbriauni.bsky.social, plus @tnewbold31.bsky.social at UCL & myself @durham.ac.uk! Integrating #microclimate into global #biodiversity models to understand climate*land-use interactions 🌍🌡️🌳
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
@northumbriauni.bsky.social, plus @tnewbold31.bsky.social at UCL & myself @durham.ac.uk! Integrating #microclimate into global #biodiversity models to understand climate*land-use interactions 🌍🌡️🌳
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
work4.northumbria.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
10 days left to apply for this postdoc with Andy Suggitt at
@northumbriauni.bsky.social, plus @tnewbold31.bsky.social at UCL & myself @durham.ac.uk! Integrating #microclimate into global #biodiversity models to understand climate*land-use interactions 🌍🌡️🌳
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
@northumbriauni.bsky.social, plus @tnewbold31.bsky.social at UCL & myself @durham.ac.uk! Integrating #microclimate into global #biodiversity models to understand climate*land-use interactions 🌍🌡️🌳
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
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everything is terrible but MY FAVORITE CONFERENCE IS BACK
Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026
mark your calendars!!!
#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026
mark your calendars!!!
#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
July 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
everything is terrible but MY FAVORITE CONFERENCE IS BACK
Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026
mark your calendars!!!
#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026
mark your calendars!!!
#speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
An opportunity not to be missed! The indomitable @thenaturedave.bsky.social advertising a fully funded 5-year PhD and 2-year postdoc (soon) at Rutgers in the US. I loved my time living in NJ & this is a chance to join what will no doubt be a fearsomely amazing lab. Apply or share!
(Plz share) We're hiring! 5-year PhD student to join our new lab at Rutgers University. Broadly, exploring how climate change impacts terrestrial species, ecosystems and biodiversity – compute, field, or lab! See here:
ecoclimateglobal.org/join/
(hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)
ecoclimateglobal.org/join/
(hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)
Join the Lab
Current Opportunities Please see below for current and upcoming opportunities to join the group. We always welcome inquiries from motivated potential members with research interests that fit our group...
ecoclimateglobal.org
August 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
An opportunity not to be missed! The indomitable @thenaturedave.bsky.social advertising a fully funded 5-year PhD and 2-year postdoc (soon) at Rutgers in the US. I loved my time living in NJ & this is a chance to join what will no doubt be a fearsomely amazing lab. Apply or share!
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New for all microclimate enthusiasts!
A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.
Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.
Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
How to set up your own microclimate network
Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organize…
the3dlab.org
August 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
New for all microclimate enthusiasts!
A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.
Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach.
Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
Folks who run undergraduate ecology field courses in the UK - where do you go? I know the @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social centres are popular. Any others? (Ideally in N England or Scotland).
August 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Folks who run undergraduate ecology field courses in the UK - where do you go? I know the @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social centres are popular. Any others? (Ideally in N England or Scotland).
Thrilled to share this OA paper (with code!) for designing #microclimate sensor networks. Led by @thenaturedave.bsky.social & @jlembrechts.bsky.social, plus Stijn Van de Vondel, Eric Greenlee, and former @durham-university.bsky.social student, Kian Hayles-Cotton
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A workflow for microclimate sensor networks: Integrating geographic tools, statistics, and local knowledge
Wireless environmental sensors have become integral tools in environmental and conservation research, offering diverse data streams that complement tr…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thrilled to share this OA paper (with code!) for designing #microclimate sensor networks. Led by @thenaturedave.bsky.social & @jlembrechts.bsky.social, plus Stijn Van de Vondel, Eric Greenlee, and former @durham-university.bsky.social student, Kian Hayles-Cotton
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Just got the final proofs of my book💓
Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!
I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years
I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪
Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!
I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years
I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪
August 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just got the final proofs of my book💓
Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!
I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years
I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪
Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!
I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years
I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪
That's a wrap! Thank you to the wonderful attendees of our inaugural @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social field event with @northwildlife.bsky.social and with support from @britishecologicalsociety.org . I have learnt loads & met many excellent people working on #rewilding in the region! 👍🌱
July 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
That's a wrap! Thank you to the wonderful attendees of our inaugural @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social field event with @northwildlife.bsky.social and with support from @britishecologicalsociety.org . I have learnt loads & met many excellent people working on #rewilding in the region! 👍🌱
Last talk of the #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social event by Rosie McCallum @newcastleuni.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social talking about #BNG in the North East
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@britishecologicalsociety.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Last talk of the #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social event by Rosie McCallum @newcastleuni.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social talking about #BNG in the North East
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@britishecologicalsociety.org
After great intro on drones by @camgoodhead.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Graham Holyoak from @northwildlife.bsky.social, now onto Duncan Hutt to talk about the Rothbury Estate at our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social event @britishecologicalsociety.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
After great intro on drones by @camgoodhead.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Graham Holyoak from @northwildlife.bsky.social, now onto Duncan Hutt to talk about the Rothbury Estate at our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social event @britishecologicalsociety.org
Now moving onto the @northwildlife.bsky.social #rewilding project at West Chevington, former open cast coal mine
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
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@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
July 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Now moving onto the @northwildlife.bsky.social #rewilding project at West Chevington, former open cast coal mine
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
Next up on #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding -@sahranhiggins.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk . Great talk about the RB monitoring framework and early work from pilot studies.
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@northwildlife.bsky.social
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
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@northwildlife.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Next up on #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding -@sahranhiggins.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk . Great talk about the RB monitoring framework and early work from pilot studies.
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@northwildlife.bsky.social
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@northwildlife.bsky.social
Tom Jameson from @forestresearchuk.bsky.social kicks off our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @britishecologicalsociety.org event, organised by @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social. Exciting couple of days coming up!
July 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Tom Jameson from @forestresearchuk.bsky.social kicks off our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @britishecologicalsociety.org event, organised by @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social. Exciting couple of days coming up!
I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
May 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
Absolute pleasure to contribute to this @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper out yesterday, cooked up at the Species on the Move (SOTM) Conference in 2023.
Takeaway: species on the move under climate change can move along many gradients and dimensions, at multiple scales!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Takeaway: species on the move under climate change can move along many gradients and dimensions, at multiple scales!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Reimagining species on the move across space and time
Climate change is already leaving a broad footprint of impacts on biodiversity, from
an individual caterpillar emerging earlier in spring to dominant plant communities
migrating poleward. Despite the ...
www.cell.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Absolute pleasure to contribute to this @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper out yesterday, cooked up at the Species on the Move (SOTM) Conference in 2023.
Takeaway: species on the move under climate change can move along many gradients and dimensions, at multiple scales!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Takeaway: species on the move under climate change can move along many gradients and dimensions, at multiple scales!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Update!! We have extended the deadline to 4th May and we're now inviting applications from anyone working on rewilding in North England or South Scotland. If that sounds like you, please apply to join us in July!
Are you a practitioner or academic working in rewilding in North East England?
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society
A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in the North East of England.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
April 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Update!! We have extended the deadline to 4th May and we're now inviting applications from anyone working on rewilding in North England or South Scotland. If that sounds like you, please apply to join us in July!
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I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends April 25! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
jobs.helsinki.fi
April 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends April 25! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Less than 1 week left to the deadline. Get those applications in!
Are you a practitioner or academic working in rewilding in North East England?
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society
A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in the North East of England.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
April 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Less than 1 week left to the deadline. Get those applications in!
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We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
March 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
meb-network.com/meb-2026/
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
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Reminder! ✨ Paid 6-week summer internships with UKCEH!
➡️ Are you a student looking for hands-on research experience?
➡️ Work on topics relevant to global environmental challenges
📅 30 June – 8 August 2025
📍Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford
Deadline 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...
➡️ Are you a student looking for hands-on research experience?
➡️ Work on topics relevant to global environmental challenges
📅 30 June – 8 August 2025
📍Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford
Deadline 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...
March 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reminder! ✨ Paid 6-week summer internships with UKCEH!
➡️ Are you a student looking for hands-on research experience?
➡️ Work on topics relevant to global environmental challenges
📅 30 June – 8 August 2025
📍Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford
Deadline 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...
➡️ Are you a student looking for hands-on research experience?
➡️ Work on topics relevant to global environmental challenges
📅 30 June – 8 August 2025
📍Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford
Deadline 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...
Last year I published a paper showing how many threatened species are lacking documented conservation actions. New paper just out and led by @ashsimkins.bsky.social shows that when conservation interventions *are* in place, it works!
*Positive news* Despite global declines in biodiversity, we find conservation has driven improvements in >100 species. This suggests with greater resource allocation to more species, conservation can halt and reverse biodiversity loss! First PhD paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
March 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Last year I published a paper showing how many threatened species are lacking documented conservation actions. New paper just out and led by @ashsimkins.bsky.social shows that when conservation interventions *are* in place, it works!
Reposted by Rebecca Senior
Just a few days left to apply for this #pdra position 👇 if you like #forests, #ecology, #lidar and #coding, come and join us!
I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge.
Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲
Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/
#pdra #forests #lidar
Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲
Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/
#pdra #forests #lidar
Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Our new paper and software tool PointsToWood is out! Led by Harry Owen and Targeted at high performance for small branches, PointsToWood performs #deeplearning enabled leaf-wood semantic segmentation of high resolution #TLS point clouds. 🌿 🌲 🌳
👇performance on unseen tropical data
👇performance on unseen tropical data
March 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Our new paper and software tool PointsToWood is out! Led by Harry Owen and Targeted at high performance for small branches, PointsToWood performs #deeplearning enabled leaf-wood semantic segmentation of high resolution #TLS point clouds. 🌿 🌲 🌳
👇performance on unseen tropical data
👇performance on unseen tropical data
Are you a practitioner or academic working in rewilding in North East England?
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society
A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in the North East of England.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
March 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Are you a practitioner or academic working in rewilding in North East England?
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
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Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
March 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool