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Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 15h

I only just leaned about the passing of Jonathan Mitchley. He was leading the EU project in which I did my PhD, and what a leader he was! And what a voice. Very sad news indeed.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unless academia learns to protect itself against AI generated papers and proposals, it will be overwhelmed, polluted and discredited by pure slop. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 receives record number of applications

The 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted.

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📖 Check out this new article! These findings show that beaver-engineering significantly enhances local biodiversity across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, even at sites with high land-use intensity 🦫 🌊 🐸 buff.ly/tMRGm82

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Evan Walker @ecologicalev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Strategically placed greenbelts in the suburbs could cool some of the world’s biggest cities by almost half a degree across at least half their area” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/08/urba...

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Urban heat's overlooked fix: Greening the land upwind of cities

A study published in Nature Cities suggests that forests placed strategically outside urban cores can lower temperatures across much of a city.

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Super important work in a great place! Snow is one of these weird drivers that escape most modelling approaches, but are key to mountain and arctic habitat dynamics 🌍

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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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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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 16/09/2026

GOOD NEWS: Bristol has become the first British city to impose a ban on the advertising of fossil fuels, airlines, cruises, fast fashion, and SUVs, on council-owned advertising space, including billboards, bus stop shelters, print and online. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Bristol becomes first British city to ban advertisements for fast fashion

Green-run council also curbing ads for airlines, cruises, fossil fuels and SUVs on its billboards and bus shelters

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Peter Santema @petersantema.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New #ornithology paper out in @ecography.bsky.social! The tendency of birds to return to the same breeding area in different years varies wildly among species. We show that breeding site fidelity is much lower in #shorebirds nesting in the #Arctic tundra than in those nesting in other habitats. 1/n

Map showing the geographic locations of shorebird populations included in the study, alongside four Arctic-breeding shorebird species with low breeding-site fidelity: Red Phalarope, Long-billed Dowitcher, White-rumped Sandpiper, and Pectoral Sandpiper.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/09/2026

"SPAIN is leading calls for the EU to tax private jets and the profits of fossil fuel companies to bankroll a Europe-wide climate resilience fund, including extra money to fight wildfires" Excellent idea, and importantly, avoids the Norway problem where widespread fossil $$ makes us ❤️🛢️

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Spain wants private jet and fossil fuel tax to fight wildfires

Spain has called for a permanent EU climate emergency response system after a summer marred by extreme heat and wildfires.

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have seen a great suggestion: replace all mentions of "environment" with "survival of our species" in public discourses. It would be fun to hear politicians say "The survival of our species is important, but not to the detriment of the economy".

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026

We haven’t just changed our weather. We’ve changed the climate in which our weather happens. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/learning-f...

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Learning from the summers of 1976 and 2026

We have changed the climate in which our weather happens

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🍁🚣🏼‍♀️Brown trees and dry riverbeds: WSL Director Rolf Holderegger explains in an interview what needs to be done after the summer of 2026. www.wsl.ch/en/news/the-... #Summer2026 #Drought #Heatwave

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'The summer of 2026 could be an eye-opener for society'

Brown trees and dry riverbeds: WSL Director Rolf Holderegger explains in an interview what needs to be done after the summer of 2026.

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We're seeking a Research Ecologist to develop & apply methods for analysing large-scale passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) datasets & to lead work on the collection/analysis of restoration & rewilding data. Apply via www.bto.org/jobs Closing date: 22 September. #Ornithology #bioacoustics

The heads of two Puffins appear above a bank. Wording above reads: We're hiring! Senior Research Ecologist: Landscape Restoration & Monitoring Science.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Climate change was the 100% cause behind the Nepal disaster. Watch this excellent video explaining the precise causes of the mountain faults that were kept together with ice acting as cement. This area’s air is warming up 5x faster than global average temperatures, melting this icy cement.

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Everything We Know About Nepal's Flood - And What Everyone Got Wrong

YouTube video by Critical Latitude

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pesticide Action Network study finds 402-433mn cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers & workers every year, incl 11,000 deaths Doesn't include longer term health issues from chronic poisoning Global pesticide use has doubled since 1990 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find

Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Some photos of the #Gironda fire (42 000 ha) in #Bordeaux I've just received from a friend. A large part of the area were homogeneous Pinus pinaster plantations. In the 21st-century climate, forest plantations need rethinking On the legacy of pine plantations doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🌍🔥🌳🔥🍁 wildfire

Burned pine plantation, with all pines aligned in rows

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Tom Fitton @tomfitton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention — no matter how much they go viral. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this? therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...

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Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fellow ecologists, any of you feel like the (depressingly) novel interest for things environmental in society make for a new race amongst ecologists to make their voice heard, even on topics they don't master? I disliked the publish or perish race, I hate the "hear me hear me hear me" talent show 🌲🌎

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.

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Ross McNally @rossmcnally.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

If you damage the weapons being used to commit a genocide you can be sentenced as a terrorist, despite not having been charged or convicted as such, while those actually committing the genocide face no accountability. The world is completely upside down. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK

Four found guilty get tougher conditions as judge says actions were ‘designed to intimidate the UK government and a section of the public’

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Anaka do amazing work - support if you can. Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks chuffed.org/project/1854...

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Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Amazing really to think just how much trouble Tommy Robinson or Farage would be in if they had called for people to sit down peacefully or spray paint a lawn to protest climate change.

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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

People are organising in Belfast to support those effected by last night’s racist violence. Whether you are near or far, please consider donating! chuffed.org/project/1854...

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Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In a functioning democracy, politicians fueling such violent hatred should be brought to justice. There's a political colour responsible in NI, and a F responsible on the next island (not to mention the T of the afforementioned colour across the ocean). Plus the work of masculinists of all kinds...

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Many Griffon vultures, one bearded vulture, one red kite and an unidentified falcon. Not bad for a 2h walk. Orchids and incredible landscapes, too.

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Off to the 2026 Andina workshop, 5 days of thinking hard with bright colleagues on predictions in ecology. Watch this space (but do not expect updates while we're retreated in a small Pyrenean village!)

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End Fuel Poverty Coalition @endfuelpoverty.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🗣️ One fossil fuel price shock costs the UK economy as much as the entire net zero pathway to 2050. And we're living through another shock right now - increases to energy bills from 1 July are proof of this. [1/3]

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Laws are deductively derived sentences that follow from theoretical preconditions, whereas rules are inductive generalizations of empirical facts which are not a result of logical necessity (Bertalanffy, 1932:23) Discuss.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/06/2026

After the extraordinary, record-breaking end to spring, climatological summer starts with low pressure, spells of rain and unseasonable winds. Why has it changed so abruptly? And how long will it last? Find out in this week’s weather forecast with Aidan👇

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Week Ahead 01/06/2026 – Low pressure all week – Met Office weather forecast UK

This is the Met Office UK Weather forecast for the week ahead 01/06/2026. After the extraordinary, record-breaking end to spring, climatological summer starts with low pressure, spells of rain and…

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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One reason why roadless areas matter for Wilderness preservation: Roadless areas provide a de facto buffer to protect Wilderness from the impacts of industrial forest management and other resource extraction occurring on nearby National Forest lands. wildernesswatch.org/why-roadless...

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Why roadless areas matter for Wilderness preservation - Wilderness Watch

We should all be deeply concerned about the most recent challenge to the integrity of America’s national forests—the proposed repeal of the 2001 U.S. Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Th...

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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A female and male sparrow stand on a wooden post. Photo by Peter S. Ranke.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📣 Just out: our new study on the 'cold blob' in the Northern Atlantic. Is that due to ocean currents bringing less heat there, or due to more heat being lost through the sea surface? Our data analysis strongly suggests it's due to #AMOC slowing. 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓 Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇

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Luca Santini @lsantinieco.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What is the relationship between population density and home range? and what are the implications in terms of home range overlap? Our latest paper tackling these questions is finally out! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @giannijacca.bsky.social @marleetucker.bsky.social

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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You know how to model biodiversity change in response to climate and land-use change? You dream of working with top climate scientists? Come work with me, @ybuckley.bsky.social and @scaldararu.bsky.social, hosted by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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Benjamin Jarrett @bjmjarrett.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

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Job Details | Bangor University Jobs

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 19/05/2026

Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org 🌎🧪

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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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More concentrated precipitation decreases terrestrial water storage - Nature

Concentration of precipitation in large events decreases land water availability, and this effect will further increase with a future warming climate.

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"Almost every major climate model points to El Niño arriving by May, with average sea surface temperatures on track to rise 1.5°C by early summer. This would constitute a “strong” El Niño, which would have serious implications for global temperatures & weather patterns. But it could be even worse"👇

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This Growing El Niño Could Irreversibly Alter Earth’s Climate, Experts Warn

Research has shown that severe El Niño events can have lasting effects on Earth’s systems—potentially locking the global climate into a warmer regime.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Such blatant profiteering from human misery is sickening. And here at home families struggle to pay bills as energy giants rake in higher profits & destroy the climate. Time for a further windfall tax now

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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher

The energy giant said it had seen an

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