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UCL People and Nature Lab

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Interdisciplinary research and teaching partnership at UCL's East Campus, working towards solutions to a more sustainable relationship between People and Nature. Part of CBER, www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/gee/peopl…

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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New Summer School for students interested in Biodiversity-based careers! Join us for four days of workshops, next-gen skills training and interactive careers talks this (late) summer
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Leo Fordham @leofordham.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I am absolutely thrilled to share my first chapter, published today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Results are summarised in the thread below, or you can read it OA here doi.org/10.1111/1365... @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social 1/7 🧪
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Resource supplementation later in the colony cycle improves real‐world bumblebee colony survival
Our findings suggest that B. terrestris colonies became food-limited towards the end of their colony cycle in early summer. We suggest ecological intensification through planting native wildflower sp....
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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Found in the People and Nature lab garden!
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Freshwater Izzy @freshwaterizzy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
UCL People and Nature Lab are looking for partner organisations from the conservation sector for Nature Smart Challenge 2026! Could you be one of them? Please open the image for info, and share widely! @ucl-pnl.bsky.social
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We are looking for partner institutions within the conservation sector for Nature Smart 2026. Could you be one of them? @izzybis.bsky.social
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
UCL students who love life on Earth take to the stage to perform their first ever comedy sets, under the brilliant guidance of PNL’s Izzy Bishop! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Sustainable Stand-up - YouTube
UCL students who love life on Earth take to the stage to perform their first ever stand-up comedy sets! Sustainable Stand Up trained students from across UCL...
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Would any UK ecology/geosciences colleagues be able to help with this? Please re-post
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
PNL representatives including MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering student Kei Pang brainstorming Grand Challenge research ideas about planetary health with academics from the Stockholm Trio
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our guest Research Lunch speaker this week was Lily Xu, visiting from Oxford to talk about her fabulous work using AI to predict wildlife poaching patterns and direct rangers to the right places. A really fantastic talk!
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Find out what we're all about in the Faculty of Life Sciences at UCL.....
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UCL Faculty of Life Sciences @ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Faculty of Life Sciences was honoured to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to the People and Nature Lab at UCL East yesterday. Find out more about The Princess Royal's visit and the ecological technologies she was introduced to while there: www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences...
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Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visits the People and Nature Lab at UCL East
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
HRH the Princess Royal visiting the People and Nature lab last week
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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...
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Awards | ZSL
ZSL's programme of science and conservation awards recognises outstanding contributions
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Kate Jones 🦇 @profkatej.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Excited to find out what birds are visiting the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social Garden Lab thanks to @djdunc.bsky.social @raspberrypi.com #AI #BirdNET www.iot.io/blog/2025/02...
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Dr Joanne Littlefair @jlittlefair.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Lives of Frogs — it's real! #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity Available in all good book shops (and probably some bad) from 20th May 🧪 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
The author of a new book on frogs holding a copy, showing the cover which depicts a fantastic poison frog (Ranitomeya fantastica) carrying a tadpole on its back.
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Last week our MSc students learnt about camera trapping in their Technology for Nature lectures, and here they are putting their expertise to work in the QE Olympic Park
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Yesterday our PNL MSc students heard guest lecturer Steve Andrews share a CEO perspective on what makes a successful idea in the environmental industry. In universities we often seek originality, but it’s only one part of the puzzle.
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Erin Connolly @erinconnolly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Happy to be back in the Mara, training community conservancy rangers to maintain a #cameratrap grid for wildlife monitoring + research. 📸 We’ll soon start pilot testing Akili (projectakili.ai) an open-source, end-to-end conservation data management platform from Wildlife Protection Solutions 🦓📊
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
PNL PhD student Ben Williams at TEDx London, sharing insights from his PhD on AI-led monitoring of coral reef habitats. Great example of the many exciting potential applications of AI in conservation, and congratulations on the talk Ben!
Ben behind a TedX logo with a diver in the background
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UCL Faculty of Life Sciences @ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"If we actually want to get back to thriving nature ... we also need to change our production, our consumption, our supply chains, we need to restructure the way in which we go about our business as a society." Professor Dame E.J. Milner-Gulland (University of Oxford) speaking at UCL East yesterday.
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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A new year check of the sensors in the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social nature smart garden - Lora devices all happy and pond is looking full again - wondering if this is rain or manually filled?
An ultrasonic depth sensor monitors pond depth on a green roof at UCL East
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Dr Joanne Littlefair @jlittlefair.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The latest from a lab collaboration @ucl-pnl.bsky.social with Molly Williams (Nature Metrics/ UWarwick) and Sam Poultney (West Sutherland Fisheries Trust) - we worked on detections of vulnerable Arctic charr in a rapidly warming landscape: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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From anecdotes to evidence: Environmental DNA detection of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus L.) at the southern limit of its circumpolar range
The urgency of rapid species monitoring is at an all-time high due to the increasing threat of climate change to global ecosystems, in particular freshwater habitats. Fish such as Arctic charr, Salve...
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New paper led by PNL's Izzy Bishop! Citizen scientists- plus PNL's MSc Ecology and Data Science students- are assessing water quality worldwide through #FreshWaterWatch protocols. Check out the results of 30,000+ monitoring events here: doi.org/10.5334/cstp... Spoiler: Europe doesn’t perform well!
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Today at 11- join us if you're interested in MSc opportunities!
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Job alert! We are looking for researchers interested in the interconnectedness of ecosystems, climate change and human/wildlife health - ‘One Health’ approaches- to join the People and Nature Lab at UCL East. Deadline 4th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI276/l...
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Lecturer/Associate Prof - Biodiversity, Climate Change & Health at UCL
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer/Associate Prof - Biodiversity, Climate Change & Health opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Join us online on Thurs 9th/Tues 14th to hear about our MSc courses in #Ecology and #Biodiversity at UCL, including MSc Ecology and Data Science, MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering, MSc Ecology, Climate Change and Health, MSc Biology and Global Change and MRes Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation 👇
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Interested in a PhD in the People and Nature Lab? There's a webinar for potential applicants to the TREES DLA on Friday 20th December. Sign up for updates here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk
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Home | UCL Trees
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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
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Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Our People and Nature lab seminars can be viewed on YouTube! Here's Dr Paul Woodcock talking about "How can nature in the UK recover, and how will we know if it has?" youtu.be/2MzU294RIZE?...
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People & Nature Lab Seminar - Dr Paul Woodcock: "UK Nature Recovery"
YouTube video by UCL CBER
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Dr Peggy Bevan @peggybevan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
SHOWING NOW AT UCL East: some brilliant compositions by BBC Young composer award winners, using nature sound clips from the Biome Health Project. Played on a very special Icosahedral (21 sides!) Speaker! Go check it out! 🎶🦜🦐🐘 @ucl-pnl.bsky.social
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London Infection & Ecology Network @lien-london.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanks everyone who came to our first event at NHM! We had fantastic talks from Kate Jones (@profkatej.bsky.social), Sarah Hill, Andres Valenzuela-Sanchez & Natalie Imirzian, from zoonoses and viral genomes, to frogs and drones. We're back in February at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social - watch this space 🦟
Natalie Imirzian talk - "Disease from the sky: using remote-sensing and machine learning to identify risky landscapes for pathogen spillover"Sarah Hill talk - "Genomic tracking of virus spread in animal populations"Kate Jones talk - "Ecosystem approaches to forecasting infectious disease"Andres Valenzuela-Sanchez talk - "Impact of infectious diseases on wildlife population dynamics: a case study of Darwin's frogs and the chytrid fungus"
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
PNL researcher Joanne Littlefair explains how national networks for monitoring air quality could also be capturing eDNA of plants and animals. On Arte today for francophones www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...
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Récolter l’ADN de l’air pour protéger la biodiversité - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Des scientifiques ont découvert dans des stations de mesure de la qualité de l’air des traces d’ADN d'animaux, de plantes et même de champignons. Une technique qui pourrait révolutionner la surveillan...
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Congratulations to the People and Nature Lab’s Beni Kellenberger on Map Of Life RA’s 2nd place (of 300 teams) in the extraordinary 5year XPRIZE rainforest competition!
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Today! Join us online using the "full details" QR code
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UCL People and Nature Lab @ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Tomorrow's People and Nature Lab seminar is by Tom Denton who leads the bioacoustics project Perch at Google DeepMind. Tom will talk about about next-generation bioacoustic monitoring, including threatened animal/population management and ecosystem health monitoring. 22nd November 2pm at UCL East
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Trees DLA @treesdla.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🌱Announcing TREES! 🌍The Training, Research & Equity in Environmental Sciences Doctoral Award led by UCL will train future environmental scientists with a focus on sustainability, EDI, and interdisciplinary research. Learn more at www.trees-dla.ac.uk #TREES #EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability #EDI
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