#RSPB

RSPB Scotland

RSPBScotland

Scotland needs an ambitious, coherent strategy on peatland restoration to reach this habitat’s full potential to tackle the nature & climate crisis. Scottish Government is leading the UK in investing in

Tim Bonner

CA_TimB

Three points1) Becky is right about language of ‘rewilding’ alienating farmers (as I’ve been pointing out for years)2) ‘Rewilding’ is utterly meaningless & 100% interchangeable with ‘conservation’3) The RSPB asking

RSPB Science

RSPBScience

Hurrah – the crane is making a comeback! The UK population is now at its highest level in more than 400 years. Its population is now estimated at over 200

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

Virus antigenic evolution is not the same thing as bacterial antibiotic resistance. Intuitions from one may not apply to the other, for a variety of reasons One of many reasons

Beth

savourydeets

Ah, I see Americans are bitching about people in the UK letting their cats go outside.Firstly, even the biggest UK bird charity agrees they have little to no impact on

Dr Suzanne Moss 🌱🏳️‍🌈

DrSueMoss

Assuming that this will be necessary before too long, there are a wealth of resources out there to help teaching and to support an interest in nature* through learning outdoors

Chris Nadeau

cpnscience

(1/4) Could evolution INCREASE the negative impacts of climate change on biodiversity? Computer models suggest YES. Our new experiments support the key process driving this surprising pattern: eco-evolutionary priority effects.

James Rule

Palaeo_JRule

New paper: Discovery of the first southern monk seal, 𝘌𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, changes everything we know about true seal evolution! My 3rd PhD paper @royalsociety 1/7: @

Dr Richard Kirby

PlanktonPundit

1) Interesting barnacle facts: In order to mate, barnacles have to settle within a penis-length of each other as they live glued to a rock and so they cannot move

Daniel Bolnick

DanielBolnick

Today some co-authors and I published a "correction" removing our names as authors on a paperhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1852This unusual move deserves explanation despite continuing moves by a coautho

Stu Royall

stu_bot3000

My favourite species of birds are the ones named by people who clearly hate birds. (thread) Sick of their shit *Sean Bean voice* Why even go into this line of

Magnus Davidson

DavidsonMagnus

I found this last night of Viscount Thurso describing an area of flow in Caithness during a late 80's Lords sitting on the Nature Conservancy Council which finds its way

Tom Finch

tomfinch89

A thread about our new paperhttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.137851/ This work was motivated by an interest in how land can be better used to deliver everything we'd like it to deliver - including,

Lee Schofield

leeinthelakes

HEDGE THREAD. Sadly, there are a great many hedges in #Cumbria that look like this. I'm not sure it's even fair to call this a hedge really, though it certainly

Lev Parikian

LevParikian

Morning everyone. Day 30 of #TwitterBirdsong and it’s the last day of Corvid Corner.https://twitter.com/LevParikian/status/1355074763413204995 Say hello to the raven. This could take a while. Because ravens have a huge and

Douglass Rovinsky, PhD

DSRovinsky

My second PhD paper is out: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1537 @royalsocietyIn it we reveal that the thylacine, the famous extinct Australian icon, was only about half as big as once thought - not

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