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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Big news: I've started a new job as Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity & Conservation @tcddublin.bsky.social! Very excited for this new chapter featuring more polar ecology research, new great colleagues, and extended collaborations across Ireland and beyond 🌿🌲🌱

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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Good news! Applications for the 2026 Fi Wi Road Internship are still open. An exciting opportunity for Black and mixed-Black heritage geography students, the Fi Wi Road project supports you to build networks, develop your voice, and gain experience. Apply by 20 April 👇 bit.ly/4undzvM

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IASC_Arctic @iasc-arctic.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

ICARP IV Final Reports are out! Released at #ASSW2026 in Aarhus, the reports highlight key Arctic research gaps and priorities for the next decade—guiding researchers, policymakers & funders. Full reports: icarp.iasc.info/publications...

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Publications - ICARP IV - ICARP IV Documents and Publications - International Conference on Arctic Research Planning - ICARP

For ICARP IV, a process initiating in 2022 will culminate at the ICARP conference to be convened in Boulder Colorado, USA in 2025.

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Happy #PolarPride 2025! Celebrate diversity and the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science!

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Happy #PolarPride2025!! As always a really important day in the polar calendar for inclusion and celebration. Unfortunately it is looking like I won’t be able to make the celebrations in person @geogdurham.bsky.social but hoping the rest of the dept has a great day celebrating!! 🐻‍❄️🐧🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Mark your diaries - It's Polar Pride on November 18th! Celebrate the achievements of LGQBTIA+ people in STEM and in polar science, and work to make work places more inclusive and supportive, and to challenge barriers and discrimination #polarpride #LGBTQinSTEM

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Excited to have travelled to Greenland for the first time! I have landed in Sisimiut for the first part of Greenland Science week as part of the IASC Terrestrial Working Group funded project CONTACT. I’ve literally never been before so it’s been really fun visiting Sisimiut so far!

Photo of Sisimiut airport in bright blue in the middle of the photo

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Gareth Phoenix @garethphoenix.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🚨Calling all U.K. Arctic terrestrial scientists. "UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop" to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research. Info and registration link here 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Interested in doing an internship with us? Let us know! Find the application details here: betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/internships/

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Really fun to participate in this last week and looking forward to seeing what comes from it!

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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲 Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).

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Gareth Phoenix @garethphoenix.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Job alert 🚨 Technician post in soil carbon at the University of Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social supporting natural capital assessment in South Yorkshire, UK jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

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Technician: Research

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Few updates from the field! Found 3/4 original DART (?) OTC plots. No. 4 has been loosely identified so will track that down. Both supervisors came out to see all the work I’ve been doing in Abisko! I gave a tundra talk and an outreach talk at Naturum Abisko! I got a lovely book as a thank you.

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Had basically all the weather possible in Abisko including the most amount of waterlogged tundra I’ve ever seen but very special to find these trees near the treeline limits.

Photo of two trees in a rocky tundra landscape

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

After an absolutely heroic 38 hr journey up to Abisko we have finally made it! Looking a lot cooler than last time I was here! 🌲❄️🌳

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SAFE treeline @safe-treeline.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Can’t believe it has all come around so quickly! Big thank you to the Andrew Croft Memorial fund, @rgsibg.bsky.social, and Durham for funding this trip! 🌲🌳🛰️

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

And we are headed to Abisko! Excited to be going back up and catching up with people from last year. Also very excited to meet all those new! I’ll be giving a Tundra talk on the 17th June at ANS and an outreach talk on the 21st at Naturum Abisko!

Two people with 6 duffel bags piled on luggage trolleys

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Ellie Honan @elliehonan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The first paper of my PhD (and my first first-author paper!) is out now in Marine Biology 🌊 🎆 We tracked snow petrels in a season of extreme weather and little sea ice in east Antarctica❄️ read more on our #ANTSIE webpage here: www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/

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Thale Damm-Johnsen @thale.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Hot off the press! A new study on snow petrel tracking from coastal Droninng Maud Land, Antarctica, by the wonderful @elliehonan.bsky.social! Read the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... And a summary here(including an epic fieldwork video): antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/s...

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The foraging distribution and habitat use of chick-rearing snow petrels from two colonies in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica - Marine Biology

The polar sea-ice zones are highly productive and seasonal habitats that support large populations of vertebrate predators. In the Antarctic, snow petrels (Pagodroma nivea) are regarded as highly ice-...

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Erin McClymont @erinmcclimate.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

What do sea-ice associated seabirds do during a season with little sea ice? Results from GPS tracking on snow petrels is now published, led by @elliehonan.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu @leverhulme.ac.uk details here: www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/ 🧪🐙

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Herbivory Network @herbivoryn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Do you have a background in vegetation mapping from satellite and drone images and you have experience conducting fieldwork in the Arctic? Apply for this amazing position with #GINR by June 9! 🌿🗺️https://herbivory.lbhi.is/2025/06/05/job-opportunities-with-ginr/

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Job opportunities with GINR – The Herbivory Network

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Brandon Samuel Whitley @brandonswhitley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Please share widely! We have been running this course for 3 years now, and this is our fourth iteration! We also offer a mini grant program and mentorship opportunities! Check it out and sign up here: evobiocrashcourse.github.io

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Evolutionary Biology Crash Course

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SAFE treeline @safe-treeline.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Not thrilled about the mosquitos 🦟🦟 but very excited to be heading back to Abisko this summer to start the field season in a month!

A landscape photo looking towards Abisko village and Lake tornetrask

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SAFE treeline @safe-treeline.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This season absolutely wouldn’t be possible without the support of Durham Biosciences, @geogdurham.bsky.social, Pro:NE, @rgsibg.bsky.social, and Millie’s longest term fieldwork funder/supporter (has been funding her fieldwork since her masters!) the wonderful Andrew Croft Memorial Fund

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SAFE treeline @safe-treeline.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Excited to be all confirmed for the 2025 SAFE field season! We will be spending 6 weeks out and about across the Fennoscandia Arctic treeline looking at all things trees and shrubs 🌲🌳🛰️📏 Our team of three will be going out to Abisko, Sweden first and then departing for Norway and Finland!

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today between 16:15 - 18:00 I’ll be presenting my poster on climate change impacts on the Fennoscandian treeline! Come along to hear all about the trees and shrubs 🌲🌳🛰️🗾

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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸 Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Summer 2024 was the first season of my PhD fieldwork in Kevo/Abisko (@safe-treeline.bsky.social) and it was beyond anything I’d ever experienced in the subarctic or anything my supervisor had any experience of!

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Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Excited to share that our new paper “Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years” has been published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science! See the open-access paper from doi.org/10.1038/s416... Short thread 👇

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Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Excited for my first time at #EGU25 and come see my poster!! 🌲🌳 Climate change impacts on the Arctic forest-tundra ecotone - present and future 📅 Thursday 1st May, 16:15-18:00 (CEST), Hall X1, X1.5 Abstract: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We are currently offering offer up to five Student Support Scholarships of £1,000 each for applicants beginning a Masters (MA or MSc) by Research ('MRes') degree in the Department in 2025/26. For more details👉 tinyurl.com/yf5k7d47

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Graham Earp scholarships - Durham University

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Anna Virkkala @annvirkk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

First circumpolar maps of aboveground tundra biomass at 30 m resolution 💪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... These new estimates show that in total tundra plants (above-and belowground) store around 8 Pg C while the upper 30 cm soils store ca 53 Pg C.

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Next generation Arctic vegetation maps: Aboveground plant biomass and woody dominance mapped at 30 m resolution across the tundra biome

The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, placing tundra ecosystems at the forefront of global climate change. Plant biomass is a fund…

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Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research @bnzlter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Bonanza Creek LTER is seeking a post-doctoral fellow! The position focuses on synthesizing long-term ecological data to study alternate successional trajectories in the boreal forest and explore their implications in a changing climate. Find out more and apply at careers.alaska.edu/jobs/post-do...

A researcher stands in a forest and writes data on a clipboard.

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SAFE treeline @safe-treeline.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We started fieldwork last summer in Abisko, Sweden where we sampled an elevational gradient from the forest edge but missed out on getting to the treeline edge!

Island treeline looking towards the Čuonjávággi

Forest edge looking back towards roughly Abisko National Park

Millie hiking up towards the field sites with a bag and the Andrew Croft Memorial Fund pennant on the bag of her bag. She is wearing hiking clothes

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Finally recovered from a full on 3 days of all things arctic vegetation science at the CAVSI workshop! Great to meet loads of other ECR’s working on similar things and looking forward to the next steps #ASSW2025

Group at Arctic vegetation scientists all in a photo

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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 25/03/2025

Thanks for booking with Vega-C, Biomass, your flight details are confirmed! #VV26 🚀

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SAFE treeline @safe-treeline.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Throwback to spending 3 weeks sampling around Kevo, Finland as part of my 1st field season for SAFE which was very kindly funded by INTERACT TA and helped by the lovely @thale.bsky.social Also learnt that 30’C was possible at 70N! 😱😱

Green shrubby tree covered hill over looking border between Finland and Norway. Woman in blue coat is flying a drone.

Woman lying down in dwarf shrubs with GPS and tape measure on ground. Vibe is tired!

Woman walking out of Kevo Subarctic research station

Trying the famous Norwegian petrol station hot dogs in Karasjok. Woman smiling holding hot dog!

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 18/03/2025

🌳 Ready for the final checks! 🌳 #Biomass is now in the cleanroom at Kourou, French Guiana, where preparations are under way for its launch at the end of April. 🌳 @esaearth.esa.int’s forest mission will provide invaluable insights into Earth’s forests and the carbon cycle. 🧪🌍

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Biomass out of the box

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SAFE treeline @safe-treeline.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This work is lead by @millicentharding.bsky.social and is her PhD work at Durham University across Biosciences and Geography The first field season of this work was funded by INTERACT Transnational Access, the Andrew Croft Memorial Fund, and the Alpine Garden Society

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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Please go follow @safe-treeline.bsky.social to see what myself/my lovely field assistants get up to! This is mainly the work from my PhD I will also be posting some content from last years field season in the meantime 🌲🌳🛰️

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 13/03/2025

Our much-anticipated Undergraduate Summer School is back! If you are an undergraduate student studying an ecology-related degree and enrolled in British or Irish Universities, join us in Surrey for an activity-packed programme that will help you develop essential, practical ecology skills.

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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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

Image shows leaf (black) wood (red) separation by PointsToWood on an unseen tropical forest dataset from Cameroon. Even though we only trained on European forest data, the diversity and high quality of our training dataset results in excellent performance in other biomes.

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