I just passed my Confirmation exam, which means I am on track to finish my PhD at Oxford in the next year!🎊 Soon I will be looking for a new project: Suggestions for opportunities & work relating to evolution, ecology, conservation, research, sci comm, etc. much appreciated!

RT @BenGoldsmith: It is beyond belief that highly destructive bottom trawling (or any commercial fishing at all really) is permitted in “ma…

RT @OxfordBiology: Underground intelligence: Are plant-fungi networks about collaboration or competition? 🌳📢🍄📢🌳 A new study has investigat…

RT @OurWorldInData: Around the world, 10 cows, 47 pigs, and 2,400 chickens get killed for meat every second. Recent estimates suggest that…

I like to exercise my free will by regularly taking my cat on the train with me

RT @juliet_turner6: This enormous lichen (Tree Lungwort/ Lobaria pulmonaria) is an indicator of ancient temperate rainforest, of which only…

Very happy to be back in my natural habitat for a few days this week 📍The mossy ancient rainforests of North Wales, Eryri/ Snowdonia National Park

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I’m not planning to leave X, but I decided to try Bluesky too. Follow me if you like!

Papua New Guinea has withdrawn from Cop29 in protest of the big emitting countries failing to act as they have promised. “We will no longer tolerate empty promises and inaction, while our people suffer the devastating consequences of climate change.”

RT @OurWorldInData: You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local. Transport…

@Giacomuzzi61448 The article is not about invasive species

In the U.K., populations have declined by as much as 75% since year 2000. Urban hedgehogs seem to be faring better than those living in rural areas. What does this say about the way we manage the countryside? #farming #ecology #wildlife

@thealiocha @IlGrandeBelzoni @deantweetman The U.K. is one of the few countries in the world with no large predators. If everyone else manages to cope with their presence, why can’t we? And why are you more concerned about deaths by bear attack than by the astronomically high rates of traffic-related deaths?

@thealiocha @IlGrandeBelzoni @deantweetman I never claimed that 100% of US forests are wild. I used the US as an example because they still have large wild animals including bears in their forests, which you seemed to suggest would be too dangerous for us to possibly live with.

@skdh You’re absolutely right. I also like to be comfortable. Do you think that increased frequency of extreme weather events such as heat waves & floods, food scarcity, disease outbreaks, and pollution resulting from environmental damage would be comfortable or uncomfortable?

@BilNaylor_ @deantweetman There are ways we can live much more sustainably and only require a fraction of the land we currently use e.g.

@thealiocha @IlGrandeBelzoni @deantweetman Absolutely. In the US, the number of people killed by bears each year is <1. In comparison, the number of people killed in traffic incidents is around 43,000, and there are around 22,000 deaths by homicide. Would you walk your kids through a city?