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Rebecca Senior

@rebeccasenior.bsky.social
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Associate Prof at Durham University. Born and bred in the #HappyValley. Lover of #microclimate ecology, R and GIS, plus dogs🐶 and fell running 🌄🏃‍♀️

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Dr Jess Fisher @jessjessfisher.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
On May 11th, the @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social will host policy and advocacy lead Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social from @rewildingbritain.org.uk, speaking about a rewilding guide for community groups 🦫🌳🦬 Register for the webinar here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/rewi...
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Rewilding SIG Webinar Series - British Ecological Society
Join the Rewilding SIG for this months session on rewilding for communities, exploring creating 'an oasis of optimism' within ecological recovery.
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Early 🎄🎁: TWO interdisciplinary, funded PhDs! One w me as lead - ecosystem & human health outcomes of Biodiversity Net Gain w @northwildlife.bsky.social & Dr Auriba Raza @glasgow.ac.uk. Other led by Dr Katrin Prager @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social looking at nature markets for small-scale organic growers
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🚨Fun PhD! 🚨 Fieldwork in UK botanical hotspot - Upper Teesdale - cool tech (telemetry, drones, LiDAR) & microclimate modelling to understand land-use*climate interactions. With me & Sean Twiss @durham.ac.uk, Sarah Greenwood @stir.ac.uk & CASE partner @naturalengland.bsky.social Link: rb.gy/vex2tm
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is a truly insane (in a good way!) and much needed piece of work. Well done @krystofchytry.bsky.social et al.!
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
10 days left to apply for this postdoc with Andy Suggitt at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, plus @tnewbold31.bsky.social at UCL & myself @durham.ac.uk! Integrating #microclimate into global #biodiversity models to understand climate*land-use interactions 🌍🌡️🌳 work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
everything is terrible but MY FAVORITE CONFERENCE IS BACK Species on the Move - Sun Moon Lake - Taiwan - April 20-24, 2026 mark your calendars!!! #speciesonthemove #speciesonthemove2026
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
An opportunity not to be missed! The indomitable @thenaturedave.bsky.social advertising a fully funded 5-year PhD and 2-year postdoc (soon) at Rutgers in the US. I loved my time living in NJ & this is a chance to join what will no doubt be a fearsomely amazing lab. Apply or share!
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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
New for all microclimate enthusiasts! A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach. Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
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How to set up your own microclimate network
Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organize…
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Folks who run undergraduate ecology field courses in the UK - where do you go? I know the @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social centres are popular. Any others? (Ideally in N England or Scotland).
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thrilled to share this OA paper (with code!) for designing #microclimate sensor networks. Led by @thenaturedave.bsky.social & @jlembrechts.bsky.social, plus Stijn Van de Vondel, Eric Greenlee, and former @durham-university.bsky.social student, Kian Hayles-Cotton www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A workflow for microclimate sensor networks: Integrating geographic tools, statistics, and local knowledge
Wireless environmental sensors have become integral tools in environmental and conservation research, offering diverse data streams that complement tr…
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Just got the final proofs of my book💓 Available on Amazon worldwide next week Very exciting! I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪
book cover of the book "A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing" by Martin A. Nunez
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
That's a wrap! Thank you to the wonderful attendees of our inaugural @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social field event with @northwildlife.bsky.social and with support from @britishecologicalsociety.org . I have learnt loads & met many excellent people working on #rewilding in the region! 👍🌱
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Last talk of the #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social event by Rosie McCallum @newcastleuni.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social talking about #BNG in the North East @britishecologicalsociety.org
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
After great intro on drones by @camgoodhead.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Graham Holyoak from @northwildlife.bsky.social, now onto Duncan Hutt to talk about the Rothbury Estate at our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social event @britishecologicalsociety.org
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Now moving onto the @northwildlife.bsky.social #rewilding project at West Chevington, former open cast coal mine @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Next up on #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding -@sahranhiggins.bsky.social @rewildingbritain.org.uk . Great talk about the RB monitoring framework and early work from pilot studies. @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @northwildlife.bsky.social
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Tom Jameson from @forestresearchuk.bsky.social kicks off our #ExploringTheScienceOfRewilding @britishecologicalsociety.org event, organised by @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social & @northwildlife.bsky.social. Exciting couple of days coming up!
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Absolute pleasure to contribute to this @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper out yesterday, cooked up at the Species on the Move (SOTM) Conference in 2023. Takeaway: species on the move under climate change can move along many gradients and dimensions, at multiple scales! doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Reimagining species on the move across space and time
Climate change is already leaving a broad footprint of impacts on biodiversity, from an individual caterpillar emerging earlier in spring to dominant plant communities migrating poleward. Despite the ...
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Update!! We have extended the deadline to 4th May and we're now inviting applications from anyone working on rewilding in North England or South Scotland. If that sounds like you, please apply to join us in July!
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Julia Kemppinen @juliakemppinen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I am recruiting a doctoral researcher to conduct research on tundra plants and microclimates 🌱🌡️💧❄️ Call ends April 25! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
Doctoral Researcher, Biodiversity Change
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Less than 1 week left to the deadline. Get those applications in!
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Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference @mebconf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️ meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Reminder! ✨ Paid 6-week summer internships with UKCEH! ➡️ Are you a student looking for hands-on research experience? ➡️ Work on topics relevant to global environmental challenges 📅 30 June – 8 August 2025 📍Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford Deadline 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...
Group of people sitting outside eating lunch, and the text Summer Internship Programme 2025 Apply Now!
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Last year I published a paper showing how many threatened species are lacking documented conservation actions. New paper just out and led by @ashsimkins.bsky.social shows that when conservation interventions *are* in place, it works!
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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Just a few days left to apply for this #pdra position 👇 if you like #forests, #ecology, #lidar and #coding, come and join us!
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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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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Are you a practitioner or academic working in rewilding in North East England? Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
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Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society
A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in the North East of England.
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Need a laugh? Here are this week's best academia and science funnies I found. #AcademicSky 🧪
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Call for proposals! 📢 We're launching a cross-journal special feature with @peopleandnature.bsky.social and @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social discussing 'Twenty years of evidence-based conservation: progress, promise, and future directions' 🌏 🧪 Get involved here:
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Want to list all packages used in you R project ? 👉 Here is the #CESAB rdeps #R pkg frbcesab.github.io/rdeps/ 🔑 Principles: 1️⃣ Identify all external pkg used in a project (package, compendium, website, etc.) 2️⃣ List them in the DESCRIPTION file Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 ! 🧪🌐 #rstat
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The moment you've all been waiting for! "Ten practical guidelines for #microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems". Our #OA paper now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social led by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social and #SoilTemp core group besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems
Most biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem processes on land take place in microclimates that are decoupled from the climate as measured by standardised weather stations in open, unshaded locations....
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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I'm happy to use my first #Bluesky post to announce that there's now a shiny app for the endotherm model of the #NicheMapR package bioforecasts.science.unimelb.edu.au/app_direct/e...
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Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Curious how forest microclimate and soil microbes drive carbon cycling in a changing climate? 🌡️🌳🍄We're offering a 4-year PhD position at @mycopat.bsky.social, SLU-Uppsala. A cool new project in collaboration with @linegreis.bsky.social Apply now or help spread the word! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A quantitative #global assessment of #climate change #extinctions: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate change extinctions
Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...
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Millicent Harding @millicentharding.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
On my way to my first @britishecolsoc.bsky.social conference! Excited to chat about the more ecological side of my work so if you want to hear more about forest expansion into Arctic tundra in Fennoscandia and how scale is important for understanding this drop by!
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Martin Mokros @mokros.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🚨 PhD Opportunity Shape the future of precision forestry! Join an exciting project integrating mobile laser scanning & AI to revolutionise forest management. @UCL + @qmul.ac.uk + @Forest_Research Within @treesdla.bsky.social Apply now! 🌳👉 bit.ly/41rmoc6 #lidar #Forestry #AI
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
My @bsky.app is inexplicably full of cats. So. Many. Cats. Friends, I am a DOG person 🐕🐶 Please post pics of dogs for me to like so I can retrain whatever algorithm is filling my newsfeed with cats 🙏
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Nathalie Pettorelli @pettorelli.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Attending the BES annual meeting next month, and interested in rewilding? - join the rewilding career workshop on Wednesday 13.15 - meet rewilding specialist interest group members on Wednesday 18.00 - attend the thematic session on rewilding and uncertainty on Friday 10-12
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Sara King @sarakinguk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Fantastic #rewilding opportunity here!
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