A spot of self promotion - but I am proud of this - not me but our groups focus on #people and their relationship with nature and #wildlife - whether it's the public - business or in this case the local ecological knowledge of oystermen in restoring #nature 🦪🐟🦆

Leading Essex ecologist Prof Tom Cameron of School of Life Sciences, University of Essex has become a billboard star at one of Britain’s busiest train stations.

Professor Cameron features in nature's Where I Work campaign celebrating scientists from across the globe.

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We might be missing our winter birds but there's still plenty out there to see and hear
Join us for our Warbler Wanders beginners birdwatching walks this May half term and discover more about our summer coastal birds
More info and booking here northkent.birdwise.org.uk/bird-wise-even…
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Please share- Ecology lecturer post!
Join the UGlos Bioscience team - a great post to develop teaching and research.
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHI559/lec…

Curlew was recorded as being lost in the Victorian drainage of circa 1850, returning as drains failed maybe by 1930s, then lost again as drains replaced maybe 1970s.

Lapwing, once a familiar sight, birds breeding in spring sown arable and wetlands.

Wasn't expecting to find my first Breckland curlew chicks of the season today. They're roughly 10-days-old meaning that the adults began laying during the third week of March!!!!

“[O]ur new global study has some good news: we provide the strongest evidence to date that nature conservation efforts are not only effective, but that when they do work, they often really work,” write Joe W Bull & Jake Bicknell.

theconversation.com/nature-conserv…

1. Living in North Wales, it might surprise some to hear we have virtually no deer. I know of a small herd of fallow and that's about it I think. In hundreds of nights out with thermal, never seen one. Given most of the headlines we see now over deer in UK it's about ...

If you work with aquatic organisms – in research, aquaculture, recreational angling, commercial fishing –you will want to read these articles ICES Robert Arlinghaus Steven J. Cooke Ben Diggles NOAA Fisheries Cefas @fishoceanscan EU Maritime & Fish @faofish- tinyurl.com/43uzmhfp

This is a better article than one light take from the headline - it's a fair piece and interesting - from the headline one might think it says farmers or consumers don't care - indeed farming animals does not mean you don't care.

#Volunteering Opportunity | Conservation Breeding Unit Horticulturalist 🌿

We're seeking a part-time volunteer to help support the Conservation Breeding Unit over the bird breeding season, while core staff members are field based.

Find out more: ow.ly/lPEb50RqYUO

Sounds good, fairly disappointed to not have recieved an acknowledgement or reply to a simple straightforward yes/no question submitted by email to Adam Fox 4 Essex Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner on policy position - voting tomorrow - my vote depends on this!

✨🌊 New paper alert!! 🌊✨
I’m very pleased to announce that we have just published the first paper for my PhD in PeerJ Publishing ! peerj.com/articles/17091/
We compare the cost-effectiveness of two marine biomonitoring techniques, eDNA and BRUV, along the Sussex coast. #Marine #eDNA

Thick algal mats already starting to form over Langstone Harbour. These kill the underlying invertebrates.

These are formed by excess nutrients. The water companies blame agriculture when it’s likely to be both and their contributions varying geographically and temporally.

We've announced more details about what's in store for you at this year's #SummerScience Exhibition. Take the Great Ape Challenge to discover how human language evolved, shrink to atomic scale in VR, hear the sounds of melting Antarctic ice and much more. bit.ly/4aRJo5Z

A very large WillowTit clutch found by a keen fieldworker near Durham.
We can only find one other example of a C11 in our TyneTees Study area Elemore Dr Willow tit South Shields Birder North East Breeding Birds Paul Tout ERIC NE Prof Tom Cameron

🌊 Check out this article recently published in Nature 'Ecologists: don’t lose touch with the joy of fieldwork' by BIMS member, Chris Mantegna. 🌍 Explore the importance of hands-on experience in ecology and reconnect with the great outdoors. Link in bio! 🌊

Russians just sent ballistic missiles to destroy coastal tourist sites in Odesa right now.

Just mass murder in broad daylight, zero military objective.

COMING UP: BBC Essex Sport Extra with Rob Jelly III BSc from 6pm features...

🎾 #Tennis fundraiser in #Dunmow for British Heart Foundation.
🏎 Ginetta juniors from Fox Motorsport.
🤸‍♀️ Courtney Tulloch on silver medal at the European Championships.
🏀 Essex Rebels Basketball playoff win.