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Pygmy long-fingered possum and glider leap from fossil record to life in New Guinea forest - New Zealand News Beep Late at night a few years ago a villager approached a group of mammal-watchers in the remote forests of West Papua, holding a peculiar possum.

Pygmy long-fingered possum and glider leap from fossil record to life in New Guinea forest

https://www.newsbeep.com/nz/315657/

Late at night a few years ago a villager approached a group of mammal-watchers in the remote forests…

Grateful to have had the chance to work with Kazakhstan through @unepwcmc.bsky.social - a new geography for me and what a beautiful one!

The cover of the Finance Plan - "Supporting Kazakhstan in achieving national goals under the Global Biodiversity Framework through spatial planning and financing strategies".

How can countries fund enhanced conservation in #OECMs? Some options in the Finance Plan for the Protected and Conserved Areas of #Kazakhstan - just out at wcmc.io/KAZ-finplan . More SPACES work, all in collaboration with @acbk.bsky.social and @undp.org

In other queries, how am I am formulating phrases so competently today?

A yellow tulip on the Kazakh grasslands - surrounded by distant mountains. Photo by Brett Wilson, the lead author of this report.

How are countries are recognising conserved areas alongside protected areas? Both included in the CBD #30x30 target. Here's a new review on #OECMs in practice, emerging from our SPACES work in #Kazakhstan . wcmc.io/KAZ_SPACES_R...

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

A cartoon image of a brown long-eared bat with some headphones. The text reads 'Volunteer Bat care Helpline'.

🦇 We are looking for volunteers for the Volunteer Bat Care Helpline, in which volunteers will answer calls from members of the public who have found grounded, injured or lost bats.

More information and how to apply here: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...

Bridging Conservation and Cultural Rights: Lessons Learned from Zolokere, Malawi - NEA Initiative By Alice Kammwamba and Lilian Chimphepo Nestled along the boundary of Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve, the community of Zolokere lives adjacent to the protected area, which was established in 1977 to…

When conservation meets cultural rights🌿

A recent Human Rights-based assessment, as part of the Malawi National Ecosystem Assessment, highlights how conservation can be strengthened when grounded with human rights.

Read more about the lessons from Zolokere, Malawi🔗

📢 Job Alert: Monitoring officer

I am looking for an experienced ornithological fieldworker to join the team this spring to lead on the monitoring of Black tailed godwits at WWT Welney.

Closing date: 6 March 2026

Apply ➡️

vacancies.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/77...

🔔Just a quick reminder!

The open postdoctoral researcher position is still waiting for the right candidate. 🧪

🕒 Apply by: 01.03.2026

Feel free to share with your network or reach out if you have questions!

see www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

@uni-goettingen.de
@agrarunigoe.bsky.social

Analysis in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, and the Northeastern Pacific, based on 702,037 estimates of biomass change from 33,990 fish populations recorded between 1993 and 2021. www.maraujolab.eu/2026/02/25/o... @shaharchaikin.bsky.social @jdgonzalezt.bsky.social

BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship - BirdLife International Are you seeking a career in conservation science and have a particular interest in seabirds or understanding species extinction risk? The BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship could be for you.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We are looking for an emerging scientist with an interest in #seabirds and #conservation for a 🌟new scholarship position🌟

⏱️Deadline: 13/03/2026
🐧Fixed term 12 months, 35 hrs/pw
📌Cambridge/ Hybird

Come join our fantastic team!

Full #job details ➡️ tinyurl.com/BLIemergings...

Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps - Nature Communications Bees are crucial for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems, yet rigorous estimates of their species’ richness are lacking. This study estimates taxonomic gaps for bees around the world and provides a ...

New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Placements for PhD Students We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.

Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? I’m offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social to build on @forest-protection.bsky.social research on pest and pathogen risks to trees 🪲🪾🦠🪾 Apply by 13th March! www.kew.org/science/training-and-education/placements-for-phd-students

Atlantic Puffin at Hornøya, Norway

New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

🚨The political effects of X's feed algorithm, in Nature: " .. initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."

Reminder that the deadline to apply for this great role as BSBI Wales Officer is midnight on Monday 23 February.
Interested?
Apply here:
bsbi.org/about/people...
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This week's EGI seminar will be given by Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social of @nhm-london.bsky.social on his long-term work quantifying effects of plastic pollution on seabirds. Seminar in @biology.ox.ac.uk at 3.30 on Friday - all welcome & streamed live: details below ⬇️

Number of academics working in the UK falls for first time Some universities reduce staff teams by more than a fifth after year of cutbacks and job losses, new data show

I was lucky when I got my first faculty job to join a sector that was still growing in the UK. ECRs are navigating a more difficult career path now if they want to remain in UKHE.

Hiring for 3 positions: Research Assistant, Field Research Coordinator, and Postdoc I am looking to hire 3 people into my lab this year. I am still doing the paperwork to get the jobs officially posted but I want to send the word out and screen potential applications right away. R…

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

A Manx shearwater chick being weighed in a plastic bowl on weighing scales.

⚠️ There's just one week left to apply for both our Research Grants and Training Grants ⚠️

Deadline for both is 28th February!

More details can be found on our website here: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants

text says "hold me like marchantia holds water", the pic is a lecture slide show marchantia archegoniophore holding water

text says "my love for you is as abundant as rubisco", with a protein structure of rubisco

text says "my love for you is liek apical meristems.. it keeps on growing", pic shows shoot and root apical meristem

text says "call me a xylem cell, because i would die for you"

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions.
Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

We're trialling something new this year at the BSBI - an activity designed to support absolute beginner botanists with identifying *and* recording their first ever 100 plants in 2026 🌿

If you know anyone that might like to take part then please spread the word:

bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

Of the total global finance flows with direct negative impacts on nature, private finance accounts for around two-thirds ($4.9 trillion).

Read more in the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

Could you become BSBI's new Wales Officer, helping support the network of botanists across Wales & leading our Priority Plants in Wales Project?
You'd be helping to conserve rare & beautiful wild plants, like this lovely Radnor Lily.
For more details & how to apply, visit:
bsbi.org/about/people...

🌱 New Grant Opportunity for ECRs in Asia!
The #IAVS Asian Regional Section has launched a Small #Grant Scheme to support MSc/PhD students & early career researchers in advancing high-quality #vegetation science.
🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2026 (23:59CET)
Apply & learn more:
🔗 www.iavs.org/page/AsianRe...

Fully Funded PhD Opportunity – J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during transition to rewilding | Research | Teesside University J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during transition to rewilding | Research | Teesside University Application Deadline: 13/03/2026 5:00PM Anticipated Interview Date: 17/03/2026 Staff name: Dr Ambroise Baker Start date: Successful applicants will be expected to start in May or October 2026. This PhD project aims to study early management interventions during the transition from agriculture to rewilding, with a special focus on the provision of bird habitat and resources, such as seeds and invertebrate abundance.

Fully Funded PhD Opportunity – J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during transition to rewilding | Research | Teesside University

J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during…

Conceptual graphic of the project aims. Depicted is a schematic of the root economics space (RES) with added exudation traits (Work Package 1: integrating exudates into the root economics space). The lower, brown-colored half of the background shows labels such as soil nutrients, soil pH, and soil moisture, with arrows (effects) pointing toward the RES (Work Package 2: environmental filtering of exudation strategies). The upper, green-colored half shows labels such as productivity, carbon cycling, greenhouse gas, and nutrient cycling, with arrows (effects) pointing from the RES toward this area (Work Package 3: effects of exudation strategies on ecosystem functions). Pictograms of a cow, a tractor, and a fertilizer bag signify land-use effects that mediate these interactions.

We are searching for a PhD student!

Are you curious and excited to unravel how #root #exudation varies between species, how this relates to the root economics space and if and how it explains ecosystem functioning and species distribution in #grasslands?

I'm hiring a technician! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

An 80% role in a 4-yr BBSRC project and hopefully beyond. Looking for someone to support the @socialfluids.bsky.social 🧪our ants 🐜 and our projects.

Looking for someone kind + conscientious + reliable who takes pride in a job well done.