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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🌊 The September issue is out now! 👉️ buff.ly/FQvy8Dl This month's cover image depicts "Sphagnum capillifolium: a hummock forming moss of oceanic blanket bogs." Image credit: Jonathan Ritson. Read the article by Lynn et al.👉️ buff.ly/881HjHe

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Joshua Lynn @biogeo-josh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Job alert: Post-doc position working with Filipa Cox and me working on mycorrhiza and plant traits. Contact us for more information! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Research Associate in Plant-Mycorrhizal Interactions:Oxford Road

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Summary of our mini-review in the @journalofecology.bsky.social. Our work explores the extremes of cation availablity from the oceanic bogs of the Falklands to the the Sudeten mountains where concentrations are two orders of magnitude lower. jecologyblog.com/2026/07/16/e... @biogeo-josh.bsky.social

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Exploring the extremes of cation availability

Jonathan Ritson, who worked at the University of Manchester during this research, discusses his article: Cation responses to global changes alter ecological processes in ombrotrophic systems In bog…

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Joey Pickard @bootlegbryos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... There is a new role out for the Welsh National Peatland Action Programme (NPAP) for all you peaty people who are looking for a role in GIS/Remote Sensing/Modelling. Lots of very positive peatland action in Wales and a great time to get involved!

An aerial view of Cors Fochno, a raised bog in mid wales. The picture is advertising a job as specialist advisor for modelling and remote sensing

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@peatblogger.bsky.social @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com I used this company during my PhD - you could specify mesh size and they'd sell you little bags that you just needed to sew along one edge when you'd put your veg in: Filtrations Technik (Germany)

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Welsh ‘Bogfather’ wins prestigious Lindsay award #PeatConf26 @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social. Dr Peter Jones said he dedicates his work protecting and restoring peatlands for the benefit of future generations. naturalresources.wales/about-us/new... @natreswales.bsky.social @futuregencymru.bsky.social

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Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) @ect-uk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Our next #webinar will feature @peatymike.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social talking about the Migneint Bog #LTE in #Wales that has been going since 2011. Register for it: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE... #Peatbog #Restoration 🌏

Webinar 15 Years of Research at the Migneint Bog Peat Re-wetting Experiment in Snowdonia. Friday 26 June 2026 12:30-1:30pm. Photo of a white man sitting down and leaning forwards smiling at the camera outside. Text underneath: Dr Mike Peacock University of Liverpool.

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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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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Thankfully, society publishing offers a phenomenal alternative with high ranking, high visibility journals that reinvest any profits in the society's activities. In BES's case this is their amazing ecological grant schemes, >50% of which go to applicants in the global south.

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

... unfortunately, too often the answer to this is ultimately the shareholders of a large company that relies on the unpaid labour of scientists to maintain their eyewatering profit margins.

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Minor work update in that I am joining the @britishecologicalsociety.org Journal of Applied Ecology as an associate editor. Photo of my applying some ecology in preparation for the journal role. 'Who benefits?' is a great starting point when thinking about journal choice for a paper and...

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Full write up on linked in of a recent tour of the Snake Pass wildfire. Key messages Rewetted areas acted as refugia but not fire breaks Mowing heather did create fire breaks but more recently mowed patches created problems with smouldering fires www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Yes, we'll be looking to publish as we go through a mix of NRW evidence reports and peer review journals. The underlying species surveys will also be publicly available as well as broader mapping data via peatlands of Wales map and data portal

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Hi Mike, the detail behind these policies do indeed include trials and assessment of interventions. The national peatland action programme has evidence and monitoring teams that are now nearly fully recruited and we are building trials into our restoration delivery as we speak

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

An interesting day at Hafod Elwy with @peatlandcymru.bsky.social colleagues surveying recovery at a forest to bog restoration site. Rapid colonisation of sphagnum cuspidatum is great to see in the pools with hummock forming species also doing well!

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Otherworldly sphagnum waterfall cascading over a ledge. Out sampling with @biogeo-josh.bsky.social

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Daffodil season down the allotment

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I've seen this before - there's a free stock image library with a load of mislabelled sphagnum/polytrichum... I imagine it's claimed another victim!

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

An enjoyable day on Cors Fochno has ended with me being treated for suspected Lyme disease. Occupational hazard, I guess, but we did get to see some impressive sphagnum pools!

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Training. I was giving him training in spotting poor equipment fitting. All deliberate.

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Back from Aviemore after organising field training in winter environments. Note the colleagues behind bowing down to my superior crampon technique

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Make a difference! Join the dynamic and successful NPAP team, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon Submit by 1/3/26 £41K to over £44K swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor.... Welsh verbal skills required to deal with our valued partners. @natreswales.bsky.social #GreenJobs #jobs #Wales #environment

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Happy elfcup season to all who celebrate

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience Karen Wilkinson, Survey and Monitoring Team Leader for the Peatland Programme is one of the #WomenInScience contributing to future generations, aiming for #HighNatureLowCarbon through #WalesPeatlandAction. @natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Finally updating contact details and affiliations - now "lead specialist advisor" for peatlands at Natural Resources Wales. Get in touch if you want to develop research proposals in Wales. We have sites of ongoing and future restoration, friendly people and so much data...

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natreswales.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🌱 Today we’re launching our State of Natural Resources Report - our biggest assessment of the health of Wales’ natural environment. Read our report on our website, together with Bridges to the Future, created in collaboration with @futuregencymru.bsky.social More 👉 orlo.uk/50hdT

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Check out our new article in The Conversation highlighting strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals 💦 🌱🚜 @peatymike.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-to-cut-h...

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How to cut harmful emissions from ditches and canals – new research

Ditches and canals can be climate heroes.

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Make a difference! Can you turn complex ecological data into clear insights for Wales Peatland Action? Become our Specialist Peatland Biodiversity Metric & Reporting Advisor! £42K-£46K+ Closes 28/01/26 swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor... #jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #HighNatureLowCarbon

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

First update from STOTEN in a while. Yet none of these ongoing issues are obvious from STOTEN's homepage. I'd be annoyed if I had been unaware and published with them in the past year.

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

There is also a suggestion that best quality peatlands will still actually be developed on, if this is 'unavoidable' by which I assume we mean 'most profitable'

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Yeah, I've got more time for a discussion of tradeoffs (see East Anglia and food security / offshoring emissions for details) or indeed that some heavily degraded systems are actually unrestorable but some of the arguments in here are off, or rely on a reinterpretation of the term 'irreplaceable'

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It's at the bottom of the document: Dr Andy Mills of OWC, a wind energy consultancy

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Yes, they are arguing that peat is restorable, therefore they should be allowed to degrade it. But also that degraded peat should be built on rather than restored. A lot of argument over the semantics of the word 'irreplaceable' ignoring the context of biodiversity offsetting where it came from.

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Final data downloads from the GGR-Peat Featherbed site. As well as the weather station we have 54 dipwells logged at 15 min resolution for four years = 7.5 million data points!

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Data starting to come in from our Bezos Earth Fund project looking at sphagnum and methanotrophy. If nothing else we had fun playing with the bubble columns!

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Fantastic job: Specialist Advisor in Peatland Habitat Monitoring. Join the dynamic Wales peatland team to lead ecological survey & monitoring elements. £41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... @natreswales.bsky.social #GreenJobs #environment #Wales

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Make 2026 the year you become our Specialist Advisor in Peatland Hydrology! Join the dynamic Wales peatland team as technical lead for peatland hydrology monitoring. £41K-£44K+ p/a. Closing 14/12/2025. Go for it! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... #jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #Wales

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New analysis of 1960s land use maps, many created by schoolchildren and students, reveals fresh insights on the timing and extent of habitat losses caused by post-war agricultural intensification and urban growth in England and Wales. www.ceh.ac.uk/press/maps-c... 🧪 1/ #maps #LandUse

A split image showing Canford Heath, Dorset: left side features a 1960s land utilization survey map with color-coded zones; right side displays a present-day satellite view, highlighting urban development over former heathland.

A historical land use map of Downham Market, Norfolk from the 1960s, shaded to show various land types like arable, urban, and woodland.

Four digitised maps showing land cover changes in Wolverhampton, England from 1930 to 2020, highlighting shifts from broadleaved woodland and grassland to arable land and urban areas.

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@PeatlandCymru @peatlandcymru.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Want a breath of fresh air? Join the peatland team! 3 perfect posts to make a positive difference monitoring the success of the peatland restoration programme expanding Wales-wide. Salary £36,246 - £39,942. Closing 3/12/2025. Go for it! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... #GreenJobs #Wales

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hobo u20. Don't get the fancy Bluetooth version with paired barometric top unit... They are not watertight which is a key feature for a water table logger

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Looking for a PhD in environmental science? I will soon have an advert out for a project at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with @ukceh.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk. "Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands" All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Wrapping up the GGR-Peat project just in time before the gas collars were subsumed into sphagnum hummocks!

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Anyone need some Exetainers? I have a few boxes expiring end Dec 25!

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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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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The most intriguing door sign in the University of Manchester. Sadly, the door is locked. These are private holes in the floor.

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Remnants of a lowland raised bog. Left is still under agricultural production, right at ~50cm higher was abandoned in the 60s. Just under 1cm lost per year.

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Jonny Ritson @jpritson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Full results in prep- just wanted to show off some of the more dramatically successful pools!

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