I just emailed my MP through the #CleanWaterNow campaign 🌊 calling for a new water law to stop pollution and restore rivers, lakes and seas. Every voice matters – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/clean...
Excited to be at #BES2025 this year, come and see my poster if you’re also in Edinburgh this week!
Our 2nd Hull Rewild Cluster paper is out! 🌱 It explores how rewilding can be embedded in policy, born from a BES workshop at the University of Hull. Bridging research & governance.
📖 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#Rewilding #ConservationPolicy #BES
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🎤 Excited to speak at #PintOfScience in Hull on May 20! I’ll be sharing how restored saltmarshes in the Humber Estuary store carbon & help tackle climate change. Come for the science, stay for the pint 🍻 👉 pintofscience.co.uk/event/carbon... #BlueCarbon #ScienceCommunication
More and more, the ideas of rewilding need to expand into the coastal and marine environments. The processes and practical application are a bit differnet from terrestrial envrionments, but still essential practices to helping out nature naturally
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
An interesting read about relationships between ecologists, farmers and climate change. Especially with regards to the EU's carbon removal framework.
www.euronews.com/green/2024/0...
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Bit of brain fun
I had a fantastic time at my first EGU and did my presentation to a room full of amazing blue carbon scientists. Going to all the other talks on all of geography was fascinating, and really made me feel like a proper biogeogapher, not just a sneaky biologist!
Genetically engineered “dire wolves” are not a true return from extinction—they’re a new species. Rewilding should prioritize ecosystem function and restoring natural balance, not scientific spectacle. Read our full post on this from the Hull Rewild Cluster! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs.
The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.
The first paper I'm a co-author on is out! Have a look at our definition of marine rewilding and discussion around how marine rewilding is similar and different to terrestrial
#rewilding #marinebiology #paper #journalarticle #science #nature
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
EGU Abstract for my poster is out!
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
It turns out setting up your Google Scholar profile when you get your first citable thing on there is the most exciting thing in the world! Who knew
They are also necessary and hugely important when we're missing so many of our other native herbivores. So, it is absolutely a density and numbers problem; they aren't evil all on their own!
My first Skype a scientist was last week! After struggling with teaching this was an absolute joy. A bunch of 7-year-olds convinced me anyone can find outwardly boring topics endlessly fascinating, and I'm just as disappointed as them that I don't (yet) have a pet (my favourite question) 10/10
Happy #RewildingDay!
Had the joy of celebrating with my first class in Kilkenny, Ireland, via Skype a Scientist! We explored nature bouncing back, my saltmarsh rewilding research, and (of course) debated bringing back woolly mammoths. 🦣😂
Their curiosity gives me so much optimism for the future! 💚
Today in good rewilding news: return of the Bison
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tribal-bison...
Devastated that I didn't already know this... time to get all my caps out from summer storage
Photo of Darwin with the quotation “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”
A relatable icon. #DarwinDay
#goodnews Today's little bit of good news
I think it's always more complicated than an outright ban, but Grouse shooting can be massively negative to wildlife so does need discussing and more regulation. If you agree, give the petition a sign!
#wildlife #petition #nature
Study finds microplastic contamination in 99% of seafood samples‼️
The peer-reviewed study detected microplastics in 99%, or 180 out of 182, samples of seafood either bought at the store or obtained from a fishing boat in Oregon, USA.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
With all the terrible news, I found a positive climate story. Some US states are fighting against Trump and continuing the climate battle, in New York, California, and even some red states.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Red = lowest ecological integrity.
Ireland has the great honour of being probably *the* most ecologically trashed nation in all Europe. 🏆 🏆 🏆
January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
🌿 Seagrass Smuggling, Lynx Liberation, and the Bison Blitz? 🦫🦅 Hull Rewild Cluster Post!
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
It was a huge privilege being awarded my kings scout award at fire and ice this year, surrounded by all the people that helped make it happen! Couldn’t have been better, so huge thanks to the people that planned it 🎆🎇🔥❄️
From the Hull Rewild Research Cluster on the illegal release of Lynx in the Scottish Highlands:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
