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Harry Siviter

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Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. PI of the Bee Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation lab. He/him. 🐝 siviterharry.wixsite.com/harrysivit…

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Anna Wilkinson @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come and work with us.... jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Human Animal Interactions
Lecturer salary starts from £38,784 per annum.Senior Lecturer salary starts from £44,746 per annum.The School of Natural Sciences at the University of Lincoln seeks to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lec...
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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.
Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏
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Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Come and join us! 🐝
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Most of the UK is farmland – and bumblebees are struggling to find enough food on it 🐝🍽️ New research from 20 English farms shows that pollen and nectar levels are far too low for bumblebees to thrive. Leo Fordham and Prof Elli Leadbeater tell us more in our guest blog: ow.ly/2coK50Zu6xA
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 05/08/2026
Ants normally use about 24% of their energy for brain functions, but when food-deprived, this percentage nearly doubles to 45%. Preferential energy allocation to the brain has previously been found in humans and other mammals. In PNAS: ow.ly/kVkU50ZwbrB
Ant brain slice captured with fluorescence microscopy.
CREDIT: Isabella Muratore, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Tom Collett’s new book “Insects and How They Navigate Their World” is out and seemingly the pdf is free 👀 (for me anyway) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Insects and How They Navigate Their World
Discover how insects navigate using vision, memory and cues from nature. A clear, engaging look at ants, bees, and the remarkable abilities of tiny brains.
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Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New dispatch in @currentbiology.bsky.social on one of the most interesting pesticide papers this year. It turns out honeybee queens can offload pesticide load to their eggs. Read my review here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... or the full paper here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🐝🐝🐝
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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm delighted and honoured to share that I've taken on the role of Editor-in-Chief of Animal Cognition! This journal has shaped how we think about cognition across species. Huge thanks to Debbie Kelly for 10 years of vision and leadership, and for all her guidance during my time as associate editor.
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Lovely to have @itvnews.bsky.social West here today filming the lab and the bees 🐝
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Elinor Lichtenberg @dremlichtenberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New grad student opportunity in my lab (PhD or MS)! Part of a USDA grant determining impacts of ranch management on #pollinators, plants, and soil microbes. Details: cos.unt.edu/biology/lich... 🌎👩🏿‍🔬🌐
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Opportunities
Interested in joining the Lichtenberg Lab? See below. The Lichtenberg lab is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive environment to trainees from diverse backgrounds.
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
📢 Heads-up: I'm currently finalising the job description for a 30-month postdoc modelling visual abilities in these very gorgeous and very dead creatures! If you're interested, please get in touch - anticipated start is late 2026/early 2027 and the project combines great colleagues in UK + S Korea!
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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) @crab-exeter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thanks to our colleagues from around the world who signed the Open Letter against redundancies in CRAB. The letter surpassed 700 signatures in just over 1 wk. We hope execs will now see the harm they are doing to the University of Exeter's global reputation. sites.google.com/view/save-cr...
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As of 2026-07-14, this open letter has been signed by 754 people Signatories include 198 Professors and members of 11 National Academies, including 12 Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS) Signatories a...
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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!
Logo of a gosling looking up at a bee on its beak. "Behaviour" underneath.
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Beyond proud of @atal-pande.bsky.social, whose first PhD chapter is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Atal shows that spiders that use their vision to hunt have convergently evolved similar eye arrangements, which imply lots of resampling of frontal space www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders
Vision is one of the most important senses used by animals and contributes to fundamental behaviors, including foraging, navigation, and mate detectio…
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Call for Proposals: Advances in Areawide Pest Management in Agroecosystems The Journal of Economic Entomology is seeking proposals for a special collection highlighting technological advances to support sustainable agriculture & IPM through AWPM: academic.oup.com/insect-scien... @academic.oup.com
The graphic includes white text on a textured blue background that says “Journal of Economic Entomology. Call for Articles: Advances in Areawide Pest Management in Agroecosystems. Proposal Deadline: July 12.” Below, there is the ESA logo and in the bottom right, there is an image of a boll weevil.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I've always made sense of the world by looking closely at nature. I finally have somewhere to write about it. Welcome to Lessons from Animals. open.substack.com/pub/lessonsf...
Illustrated banner with hand-drawn natural history sketches of animals and plants on a cream background. The title "Lessons from Animals" appears in the centre above the subtitle "Finding wisdom in the natural world."
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🚨We're recruiting for a Commissioning Editor 🌱Join us in playing a vital role in bringing new ideas to Applied Ecology 🌏Commission new Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives and Policy Directions as part of a global team 🔎Find out more below: apply.workable.com/britishecolo...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Honoured & humbled to have won the global #KeystoneAward for 'Outstanding Teaching & Mentoring' www.keg.com/keystone-awa... A HUGE thank you to all the amazing #ECRs I have been privileged to work with & who wrote such heart-felt testimonials 🙏 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social
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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H
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This campaign needs you now
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡
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Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens
Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity
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ASAB @asab.org · 03/06/2026
There are four positions to join ASAB council beginning 2027: Ordinary Member, Membership Secretary, Communications Officer and Social Media Officer. Statements and nominations are due June 20! www.asab.org/opportunities
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Opportunities — ASAB
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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork
Great tit standing on a branch. 
Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Link broke, but now alive again here! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate (Fixed Term)
A postdoctoral Research Associate post is available with Professor Stephen Montgomery's Research Group in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. This position is part of a recently ...
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Rachel Parkinson @rachelparkinson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
New paper: MetaBeeAI🐝 an AI pipeline for structured evidence extraction from biological literature A very fun project involving a large interdisciplinary group. I learned so much and am very happy to see this out! If you're interested in using it: metabeeai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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MetaBeeAI: An AI pipeline for structured evidence extraction from biological literature
The volume and complexity of scientific literature are expanding rapidly, making it increasingly difficult to extract and synthesize information acros…
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Choose your weekend spirit bumblebee 🐝 1. Sleeping 💤 2. Seeing friends/family 💚 3. Going out 🌳 4. Working hard 💼 5. Chilling ☮️ 6. Staying in 📺 Is there a spirit bumblebee missing? Let us know! 🎥 Helen King, Chloe Headdon, Julz Sellars, Tom Luck, Steve Darling
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Barbara Tschirren @btschirren.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.
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Tom Timberlake @tomtimberlake.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Pollinators matter for human health!🐝 Our new @nature.com paper traces links from wild pollinators>crops>nutrient intake & income of families in rural Nepal—showing how pollinator declines threaten health & livelihoods, but also how farmers can help manage these risks doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Have you ever seen a bumblebee in woodland? 🐝🌳 New research shows that differences in bumblebee vision could explain why some species can thrive in the shade of a forest. Dr Océane Bartholomée shares what this means for bumblebee conservation in our guest blog: ow.ly/AIVB50YRMLF
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
An immunostaining section through a Heliconius brain. Staining and imaging by Dr Max Farnworth.
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
May is a special month for UK bumblebees 💛 👑 Some of these rare and less common queens will emerge from hibernation. Already active queens will produce their first daughters – the workers. 🎱 For the Big Eight, some queens will produce their first workers while others will welcome new males.
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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
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6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
North American sweat bees change color depending on the surrounding humidity. It might be a more widespread phenomenon among insects. www.sciencenews.org/article/humidit…
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Sweat bees turn a greenish color in muggy weather
North American sweat bees change color depending on the surrounding humidity. It might be a more widespread phenomenon among insects.
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Vengamanaidu Modepalli @venky-vnm.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Interested in miRNAs, early animal evolution, and RNA biology? We’re recruiting a BBSRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Associate @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #Postdoc #microRNA #RNAbiology Apply by 14 May 2026. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 20/04/2026
This #PhilTransB theme issue, organised by @ellileadbeater.bsky.social and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social, explores how and why animal minds have evolved to be so different from one another: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Join the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and help protect Wales’ rarest bumblebees on the Carmarthenshire Coast 🐝 We’re recruiting a Welsh-speaking Cynefin i Wenyn Senior Project Officer to lead habitat creation, volunteer coordination, training, and monitoring. 💼 ow.ly/gP3Z50YGowX
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Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Only a few more days left to apply for this PhD position 🐝
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We are looking for a Conservation Projects Manager (Species Recovery) maternity cover 🐝 It’s an exciting time to join the team and be part of our species recovery work. See our vacancy page for the full details: ow.ly/gKk750YFEIH
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Victoria Mallinson @victoriamallinson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Sleepy bees keeping themselves warm in the lab 💤 🐝 In the first phase of my next PhD project investigating interactions of cold snaps and pesticides on colony growth and recovery - watch this space! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bumblebees #bumblebeeresearch #pesticides #climatechange
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
⏰Time running out - deadline 19th April - to apply for funded #PhD: 🪶Quantifying animal movement patterns & behavioural interactions in a changing world 👥Joint with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #SimonGriffith #MacquarieUniversity #modelling #birds #mammals #Australia ℹ️ tinyurl.com/343acaev
Dwarf mongoose group in South AfricaZebra finches on wire in Australia
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
More drilling in the North Sea would be a catastrophic mistake for Labour - locking us into high bills, and betraying their climate ambitions. If they’re serious about energy security, the answer is to double down instead on renewables and efficiency - and lower bills for good
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Heading into the Easter weekend 🐝💨 This speedy female Common carder bumblebee was captured by Stephanie Summers 📷 Have you spotted any bumblebees this week?
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
allevents.in/bristol/scie... Giving a public talk as part of the Science Cafe, happening on a BOAT (!!) in Bristol Harbour. I am pretty bad at explaining things accessibly, so if you want to poke fun, join! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Science Cafe, Dr Max Farnworth, University of Bristol talk on Butterfly brains and navigation
Find tickets & information for Science Cafe, Dr Max Farnworth, University of Bristol talk on Butterfly brains and navigation. happening at MV Balmoral, Bristol, EN on Tue, 07 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm BST...
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 30/03/2026
🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social is out! From vision to interdisciplinary science, navigating new fields, dealing with rejection, and finding your own path ✨ 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1DGh... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemB...
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Meet the PI / Episode 3 / Anna Stöckl
Spotify video
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Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hive mind request. I’m looking for long term insect (ideally pollinator) monitoring schemes that have conducted weekly/monthly transects/counts for several years. I know of the Bee walks, UKMS, and PoMs in the UK. I would love some non-UK examples! 🐝🦋🐝🦋🐝🦋
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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Forget birdwatching, I’m into moth-watching: they’re fascinating and misunderstood insects | Helen Pilcher www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #mothsmatter #ukmoths
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Forget birdwatching, I’m into moth-watching: they’re fascinating and misunderstood insects | Helen Pilcher
According to new research, distinguishing between the UK’s 2,500 species could halt cognitive decline – so my brain could not be happier, or healthier, says science writer Helen Pilcher
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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Really important work by @aclassen.bsky.social and colleagues, demonstrating the importance of long-term ecological studies - climate change will drive the disappearance of alpine meadows 🌼🌸🪻😢 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?
A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems
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