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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Whenever I attempt to write 'big' I automatically type 'bog'. I guess that's what comes from 40 years working in wetland science!

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Sarah Watts @sarahwatts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

📢We're recruiting for an exciting new mountain woodland #PhD on "Mountain birch genetics & recovery in Scotland"! Full funding is guaranteed for this project involving molecular genomics & high-altitude field experiments at #Corrour & Mar Lodge. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Mangroves "soak up vast amounts of planet-warming gases": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Mangroves are very carbon dense (carbon per unit area) but cover a tiny area globally, and the size of their total carbon store (density x area) is a small fraction of that in peatlands bbcnewsi.bsky.social

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Joseph Holden @prof-joseph-holden.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Another great paper from Resti Salmayenti's PhD now out showing that peatland restoration & conservation management reduces tropical peatland fires (esp. during stronger El Nino). Free access here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @andybairdj.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

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Tropical Peatland Restoration Reduces Fire Occurrence

Hotspots density in restored peatlands reduced significantly by up to 2.6 km−2 compared to matched unrestored peatlands in 2019 Deep wells show greater hotspot reduction and cover a larger area, ...

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#ElanValley peatland restoration survived despite being surrounded by recent fire. Thanks for photo Elan Valley Trust. It shows your impactful work restoring wet peatland habitat as part of #WalesPeatlandAction efforts Funded by Welsh Government @natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social

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Alice Milner @alicemmilner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Peatlands store more carbon than the world's forests yet fundamental questions remain unanswered. Today we publish 50 priority research questions, identified by 467 participants from 54 countries #PeatQuest #Peatlands www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Pleased to be part of the team on this new paper.

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A whole month later and this garbage is still online. You would have thought that the authors and MDPI might be keen to quickly set things right. Seemingly not.

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A new peat paper in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social enaccess.bsky.social Problem is, it's chock-full of AI generated references, including several papers with my name on that don't exist. How did the reviewers not spot this? www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/16...

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sometimes it's good to take a day or two and immerse yourself in your data sets and think slowly and deeply about what they might mean. Too often our time is fragmented, our thoughts rushed - the enemy of understanding.

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Received an email from Wiley today about their new-ish journal River onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2750.... Can't quite believe that, of 38 associate editors, only five are women. What were they thinking?

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River

Click on the title to browse this journal

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2025 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! We encourage the #peatland community to give each of these wonderful papers a read. The winner will be announced on December 11th. #PeatPaper

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our latest #PeatPaper published in Hydrological Processes and led by MSc student Maia Moore! “Ecohydrological Controls on Post-Fire Sphagnum Moss Recovery in Boreal Shield Peatlands” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Paul J. Morris @peatbloke.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...

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Lorna Harris, PhD @lornaharris.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New on Peatpedia - an attempt to demystify #peatland carbon stores, sinks, and other gassy issues! open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

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Peatland carbon – the facts

Demystifying peatland carbon stores, carbon sinks, and other gassy issues

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Just accepted a request from Hydrological Processes to review a paper. I am the *25th* person to be approached. The previous 24 have turned down the request to review. No wonder some papers are a long time 'in the system', much to our frustration. Peer review can't go on like this.

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

For over 15 years the McMaster Ecohydro Lab has awarded the #NobelPeatPrize to the authors of the best peatland or peat paper of the year. It’s that time of year again where we review papers and finalize a list of nominees. Do you have a fave paper for 2025 you would like us to consider?

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

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Joseph Holden @prof-joseph-holden.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Fab work by our PhD student Resti Salmayenti who has published her first thesis paper in Environmental Research Letters showing how drainage and land cover interact to affect fire occurrence in Indonesian peatlands. Our paper is open access here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We have been described as "THE BEST NGO THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT" Please help by following us & reposting!!!

A stunning dreamy planty pond. Pond covered in pondweeds

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Josh Dean @joshfdean.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Check out our new paper: "Peatland pools are tightly coupled to the contemporary carbon cycle" A short thread and some site photos! doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

This week I examined a PhD. I was paid £210 for doing so. I estimate the true cost for my time is > £2000. The candidate is an overseas student who pays very high fees. Where does all the money go? (A rhetorical question!)

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

‘Why are some peatlands resilient to climate change and others not?’ Fully-funded NERC PhD studentship with me and Paul Morris at the University of Leeds. Please re-post. Details: panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/why...

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Mike Waddington 🇨🇦 @peatofmind.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

The McMaster Ecohydrology Lab presents the 2023 #NobelPeatPrize nominees! The winner will be announced at the end of November from Nobel, Ontario. #PeatPaper

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Ooops; I see I forgot to remove the X/Twitter hashtags from the first post in the thread!

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

5/5 Funded by UK Natural Environment Research Council, and an amazing congopeat.net team effort!

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

4/n The new model will now be run into the future to simulate how management and climate change might affect the Congo peatland carbon store over the next 50-100 years.

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

3/n The new model, constrained with field data, is able to reproduce the distinctive age-depth curve from the peatland, including the ‘ghost interval’, and reveals that the peatland likely lost over 6 m of peat over a period of ~3000 years during climatic drying.

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

2/n In the paper we use a new version of the DigiBog model to simulate carbon accumulation and loss from a Congolese peatland, building on the work reported in our earlier open access Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

1/n New open access #PeatTwitter #PeatPaper: “Simulating carbon accumulation and loss in the central Congo peatlands” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

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Rebekka Artz @artzrebekka.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Hi. If anyone is looking for a PhD on Understanding the Resilience of Restored Peatlands to New Climate Extremes, and you are UK-based, we have an open position. Please feel free to get in touch for more info on apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

One week left to apply for this 5 year PhD/graduate teaching assistant role at University of Liverpool. My PhD project is: "Unravelling the true climate effect of peatland restoration" Lots of fieldwork opportunities on glorious bogs! Link👇 my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

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Andy Baird @andybairdj.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Some blue sky over a peatland for my first post 😀 Caribou Bog in 2007

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