Nature-people-data. Likes interactions, especially ecological networks and nature-based citizen science
Oxfordshire, UK
Joined March 2014
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Do you want to record nature where it matters most?
👉 Look at decide.ceh.ac.uk/ for butterflies and moths 🦋
👉 Look at brc.ac.uk/article/targeting-… for other insects 🦗🐞🪰
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Prof Helen Roy @UKLadybirds, co-author on the study, said: “Volunteers, including through citizen science, have made many inspiring contributions to our understanding of invasive non-native species."
See the full paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Citizen science is crucial for helping detect invasive non-native species early, a Europe-wide study has found.
Researchers assessed time lags between 600+ first reports of non-native species by citizen scientists and official records by scientists.
ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/new…
ALT Harlequin ladybird on a leaf
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Are you at #BES2024? Come and find us on stand 10 to learn more about the long-term environmental data we have available through our NC-UK programme, as well as our latest #AgZero+ sustainable agriculture research
@BritishEcolSoc @NERCscience
ALT Helen Roy and Claire Wood at the UKCEH stand at the British Ecological Society conference
Great talk by @drnickisaac @UK_CEH at #bes2024 about the development of the species abundance indicator for Defra. Honest perspective on the positive ambition and challenge of doing this week. @BritishEcolSoc
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This month, as we gear towards celebrating our Silver Jubilee (25 years of A Rocha Kenya), we will be looking back at some of the milestones we have accomplished together.
#conservation #SilverJubilee #silverjubileeanniversary #celebration #watamu #WatamuKenya
Apparently there is happier social media place where the 'skies are blue' 🦋
I've joined the exodus (same @ handle over there), so likely to become even quieter on here. See you there too?
Tuyvae douglasboyesi - a newly described moth from Colombia. dx.doi.org/10.57800/faunitax…: "dedicated to a young and enthusiast British entomologist, Douglas Boyes @diarsia, who left us too early"
Sadly missed by us all @NCLNEG @UK_CEH @savebutterflies @DarrenMarkEvans @RichardFoxBC
ALT A newly described moth called Tuyvae douglasboyesi
ALT Douglas Boyes - entomologist
As @pickeletto pointed out on blu_sky... thank you to Alessandro Giusti @NHM_London for the precious gift of describing and naming it in Doug's honour.
Michael Pocock retweeted
This has to be the most remote deployment yet!
An amazing experience 🛥️🦎🐤
@AnguillaGov @UK_CEH @MAMBO_EU @InsectAIers
Michael Pocock retweeted
COP16, the UN biodiversity summit, has ended in Colombia with mixed results. Earlier, UKCEH's @drnickisaac was among those discussing why the biodiversity crisis may get less media attention than climate change.
Read more in the BBC's Future Earth: view.e.bbcmail.co.uk/?qs=e4c…
ALT COP16 Colombia Peace with Nature logo
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How can we plan, design and manage urban environments for the benefit of human health and nature? Our new paper brings together experts from different disciplines and real-world practitioners to explore key challenges and priorities doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplac… NOW WITH CORRECT LINK
Will Wright from @theriverstrust has taken the openly available #oa land cover map from @UK_CEH and summarised it but catchment to support local river Collaborative Monitoring Plans.
Presented at #wwem
ceh.ac.uk/data/ukceh-land-co…
Surrounded by amazing tech for water monitoring at #wwem, but great to see @theriverstrust talk about #citizenscience and the role of publics for gathering data and added benefits for wellbeing for people
Michael Pocock retweeted
In a time of rapid environmental change, long-term monitoring & accessible data are key.
The new @NERCscience-funded National Capability for UK Challenges programme will help the UK understand and address challenges to air, land & water.
Read more: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/new… 1/
ALT Collage of 4 images representing different environmental challenges: flooding, woodland change, biodiversity loss, air quality
Fascinating study on historical ecology - both that the bees changed behaviour, and that careful studies from 75 years ago could be repeated by @pickeletto. These bees persisted in those sites from 1940s! What a fascinating view back to the past by a wonderful naturalist
The paper arising from my MSc was published today. Also started my research masters today at @HAU_Entomology
academic.oup.com/jinsectscie…
Dealing with gaps in biodiversity monitoring data | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (ceh.ac.uk)
Blog by @BowlerDBear on doi.org/10.1111/brv.13127 with @roboyd91 @drnickisaac @callaghanct
A readable intro to solutions for working with #citizenscience data
Michael Pocock retweeted
Introducing The Boring Fund.
Alongside @Arm, we’re supporting the essential but overlooked aspects of conservation technology—the “boring” initiatives that build a more resilient and effective #conservationtech ecosystem.
Learn more and apply today: wildlabs.net/article/boring-…
Michael Pocock retweeted
Do you have a passion for dragonflies and damselflies, & share observations in any way? We are conducting a survey about dragonfly recording in the UK. Whether you are a beginner or expert, specialist or generalist, we would really welcome your input:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
NEW PAPER: Treating gaps and biases in biodiversity data as a missing data problem doi.org/10.1111/brv.13127
Gappy data is especially challenging in #citizenscience. Great work led by @BowlerDBear working out when gappiness (in space/time) matters, and best ways to cope with it
