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Dr Jon Millett

@drjonmillett.bsky.social
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Reader in Plant Ecology. Carnivorous plants, sand dunes, peatlands, environmental change, community ecology, traits. Co-PI of Ainsdale Dune Slacks LTE (Est. 1974)

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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I’m standing for election as a British Ecological Society Trustee. BES members — you should have received your voting email. There are many great nominees, so please take time to read the statements and vote. It’s a privilege to be part of such an inspiring community of ecologists. 🌿
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Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) @ect-uk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#OTD #OnThisDay in 1974, the Ainsdale Dune Slacks #LongTermExperiment began! This #LTE looks at how rabbit & sheep #grazing affects the #dune slack #ecosystem. It is run by @drjonmillett.bsky.social & @drciaradwyer.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social ‬ Learn more: bit.ly/Ainsdale%F0%...
A groups of cows are grazing in a field, and two are looking at the camera.
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
51 years and still going strong 💪🌼🪻🌱🪱🦠🐇🐑
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Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) @ect-uk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Ainsdale Dune Slacks, #England is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek. PIs @drjonmillett.bsky.social & @drciaradwyer.bsky.social are looking at how rabbit & sheep #grazing affect the #dune slack #ecosystem. bit.ly/Ainsdale @seftoncouncil.bsky.social ‬ @naturalengland.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social 🌎
Text: LTE Site of the Week. Photo of grassland dunes with trees on the right-hand side. Text: Running since 1974. Jonathan Millett and Ciara Dwyer, Loughborough University. Icons for grassland and grazing.
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
'We expect the funding application to take around 2-3 hours to complete' 2-3 months later...
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Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) @ect-uk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Don’t miss our lunchtime #webinar next Friday when Cicely Marshall from @uniofcam.bsky.social will talk about testing Defra’s #StatutoryBiodiversityMetric using #LongTermExperiments #LTEs #Biodiversity 🌎 Register: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
Text: Webinar. Testing Biodiversity Metric Using LTEs. Friday 21 March 2025 12.30-1.30pm. Photo of Cicely Marshall smiling at the camera. 
Text next to the photo: Cicely Marshall, University of Cambridge.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🌿 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economic spectrum’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Kadeem Gilbert. 🧵 (1/6) 👉 doi.org/n986 @mechecolab.bsky.social #AoBpapers
Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economic spectrum
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The final blog from MEE as part of #InternationalWomensDay comes from our Associate Editor Graziella Iossa. Read the full post 👇 buff.ly/laKCepR
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Calling all botany/ plant science students: Just 24 hours left to get a team together for Botanical University Challenge 2025. #BUC2025 is one of the highlights of the year for students & all plant-lovers who can watch the competition live on YouTube. Don't miss out! @bucbotany.bsky.social
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We found that the carnivorous Sundews were more or less carnivorous depending on microhabitat conditions. 🌍🧪 #peatland #carnivorousplant
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Spot the incorrect AI 'fact': Bladderworts: turning to algae and pollen as a food source. Round-leaved Sundews: refusing to eat insects and instead suggesting vegetables like Brussels sprouts and kale. Sundews: becoming less interested in eating insects due to increased soil nitrogen levels.
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Birthday treat... and a win too 😊
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Cecile Gubry-Rangin @micecoevo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🔊Job offers!📢. We will have a few post-doc and PhD studentship positions to join our research team in Aberdeen. Please apply or disseminate the first one below on: 📢 Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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EASTBIO: Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change. at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change. at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Really enjoyed being part of this. Made me think, and made my brain hurt. Expertly lead by Kadeem Gilbert. Please read and comment :) (Don't know if coauthors are on Bluesky. Searching doesn't work, otherwise would tag them) @lborouniversity.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economic spectrum
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
More Sundew herbarium specimen preparation for future studies... Will be a shame to destroy these, but that's why I made them!
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
No AI generated art here, just real photos and nice science. Really pleased with this paper 😊
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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🌍💧 Peatlands in Europe - 3 key facts 1️⃣ Area: 59 million hectares 2️⃣ Coverage: : 6 % of landmass 3️⃣ Emissions: 582 Mt CO2e/year 📚For more info Check Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas moorwissen.de/news-detail/...
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This is so vitally important. Policy makers at every level need to read and act on this.
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
That image 😂
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This is such an amazing effort!
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
On the train home after an awesome #BES2024. So nice to catch up with so many people. Next year I might not leave preparing my talk until the night/morning before... But I did also say that last year 😂
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
New paper out today with Chris Hatcher in @funecology.bsky.social Sundews change how carnivorous they are depending on microhabitat variation. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Carnivorous sundews (Drosera rotundifolia) are more carnivorous in high‐light bog microhabitats that are not also nutrient‐rich
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@journalofecology.bsky.social What's your email address please... can't find one anywhere. The supplementary material link on this paper is old and no longer works: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Is supp mat not archived?!
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Nice little article in Nature on creative solutions for time-starved researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘That’s funny’: creative solutions for time-starved researchers
An immunologist and his illustrator friend reveal tips and tricks to help scientists to reach peak performance and creativity.
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The Labour government have failed us on the Environment.
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Jon Norberg @jonnorberg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The Faculty of Science at Stockholm University is recruiting up to three Assistant Professors in Biodiversity to tackle the critical global issue of biodiversity loss caused by human-driven factors such as climate change, habitat alteration and pollution. www.su.se/department-o...
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Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
📢 PhD opportunity with @georgeholmes.bsky.social, looking at the drivers and motivations, ecological impacts and policy implications of unlicensed and unregulated species translocations. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/eco...
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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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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Interested in a #phd in remote sensing of forests? Want to come work with me in Cambridge using drones and ground-based Lidar and photogrammetry? Check out this funding opportunity for the EPSRC Sensor CDT #phd #forests #remotesensing #lidar 🌳🌲🛰️⚡ www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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FindAPhD : EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World (Sensor CDT) at University of Cambridge
Apply for a PhD: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications in an Uncertain World (Sensor CDT) at University of Cambridge
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Making herbarium sheets for the first time since my degree 30 years ago, to add to some much older than me.
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Our Agents for Change series spotlights different scientists and their work. Today meet Francesca Warren, a lab assistant based in our chemical laboratories in Lancaster who is currently working with soil and earthworms! 🪱 👀 campaigns.ceh.ac.uk/agentsforcha...
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
What do people do with their small pilot studies that have an interesting result but are too small to be a full paper?
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Dr Adrian Bass @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, interdisciplinary researcher to join our new project RESPECT: Rapid Engagement with Stressed Peatland Environments and Communities in Transformation. Field & lab components working in a cross-disciplinary group. 1/2
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Is ecology ready for big code and the errors they hide? dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/i...
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Surely this isn't OK?! Why is this getting through peer review? In a Nature branded journal!
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
🚨Funded PhD Oct Start🚨 📣Resilient dunes: determining the impacts of winter flooding variability on coastal dune wetland plant communities using remote sensing. Working at the Ainsdale Dunes Living Lab to understand how to manage wetland nature recovery. details here: lboro.ac.uk/study/postgrad…
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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
🚨Vacancy!🚨 Functional Ecology is looking for a new blog #editor, with a broad interest in #animal #ecology, to help us continue delivering high-quality content on our #blog💻 We welcome applicants from any career stage, anywhere in the world!🌍 DL: 17/05/2024⏰ Full details👇 buff.ly/3Q8vR1q
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Associate Editor (Blog) - Functional Ecology - British Ecological Society
Functional Ecologists is the widely-read blog for Functional Ecology, receiving roughly 30,000 views a year. We are currently looking for a new Blog Editor, with a broad interest in animal ecology, to...
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Funded PhD opportunity using remote sensing to better understand restoration and conservation of rare and threatened coastal sand dune wetlands. Please share widely 🙂 www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Herbariums are undervalued. How do we change this?
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Dr Jon Millett @drjonmillett.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Hi
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