Julia
@juliaeco.bsky.social
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@julia_eco on X
Loves the planet & all its creatures. Database manager & content editor. Global citizen 🇪🇦 #biodiversity #WomeninSTEM #Scicomm #BeKind she/her 🌿🕊️ #nowar
@julia_eco on X
Loves the planet & all its creatures. Database manager & content editor. Global citizen 🇪🇦 #biodiversity #WomeninSTEM #Scicomm #BeKind she/her 🌿🕊️ #nowar
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📝 What 17,000 Pressed Flowers Revealed About Arctic Climate Change 🧵
doi.org/pwnc
The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
doi.org/pwnc
The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
July 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
📝 What 17,000 Pressed Flowers Revealed About Arctic Climate Change 🧵
doi.org/pwnc
The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
doi.org/pwnc
The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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I did my PhD on protected areas - the 15% of the Earth's land set aside as parks and reserves for the conservation of nature
The UK's National Parks are NOT protected areas - they don't meet the definition
Only 3% of our land does, it's a disgrace
The UK's National Parks are NOT protected areas - they don't meet the definition
Only 3% of our land does, it's a disgrace
‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts
National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I did my PhD on protected areas - the 15% of the Earth's land set aside as parks and reserves for the conservation of nature
The UK's National Parks are NOT protected areas - they don't meet the definition
Only 3% of our land does, it's a disgrace
The UK's National Parks are NOT protected areas - they don't meet the definition
Only 3% of our land does, it's a disgrace
bbc.com/news/article...
"I don't think people have any idea of how much harm the visa rules cause"
"I don't think people have any idea of how much harm the visa rules cause"
'I'm British but I can't live in my own country with my partner'
MPs in Bristol and Stroud want the government to scrap a family visa policy that separates couples
bbc.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
bbc.com/news/article...
"I don't think people have any idea of how much harm the visa rules cause"
"I don't think people have any idea of how much harm the visa rules cause"
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Interesting work from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social on the mental health impacts of climate journalism. A solid psychiatric study and some nuanced, touching personal accounts. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/despair...
From despair to purpose: Six climate reporters on how to protect their mental health
Journalists from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Denmark, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago and the UK reflect on how they cope with the anxieties of global warming.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
June 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Interesting work from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social on the mental health impacts of climate journalism. A solid psychiatric study and some nuanced, touching personal accounts. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/despair...
Happy father's day to everyone celebrating. Apparently the paternity leave in the UK is one of the worst in the developed world 🤦https://bbc.com/news/articles/cy8d3l7858zo
June 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Happy father's day to everyone celebrating. Apparently the paternity leave in the UK is one of the worst in the developed world 🤦https://bbc.com/news/articles/cy8d3l7858zo
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70% of people said science benefit people like them
73% said medical research and innovation benefit people like them
71% said new technologies benefit people like them
To Erica, this is encouraging that the public opinion of science is NOT that different than before the election
73% said medical research and innovation benefit people like them
71% said new technologies benefit people like them
To Erica, this is encouraging that the public opinion of science is NOT that different than before the election
June 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
70% of people said science benefit people like them
73% said medical research and innovation benefit people like them
71% said new technologies benefit people like them
To Erica, this is encouraging that the public opinion of science is NOT that different than before the election
73% said medical research and innovation benefit people like them
71% said new technologies benefit people like them
To Erica, this is encouraging that the public opinion of science is NOT that different than before the election
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A reminder. The budget that just passed the House slashes US scientific research by half. Please call or email your senators and tell them you do not want the NIH and NSF cut. You can find your senators contact info here: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
June 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
A reminder. The budget that just passed the House slashes US scientific research by half. Please call or email your senators and tell them you do not want the NIH and NSF cut. You can find your senators contact info here: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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From @thehill.com, “Trump orders agencies to ‘sunset’ environmental protections.”
thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
From @thehill.com, “Trump orders agencies to ‘sunset’ environmental protections.”
thehill.com/policy/energ...
thehill.com/policy/energ...
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When NW Scotland wants to trade places with the Mediterranean.
📷 1. Above Gairloch, and the view to the Quiraing, Skye.
📷 2. Above Opinan, and the view to the Old Man of Storr, Skye.
📷 1. Above Gairloch, and the view to the Quiraing, Skye.
📷 2. Above Opinan, and the view to the Old Man of Storr, Skye.
May 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When NW Scotland wants to trade places with the Mediterranean.
📷 1. Above Gairloch, and the view to the Quiraing, Skye.
📷 2. Above Opinan, and the view to the Old Man of Storr, Skye.
📷 1. Above Gairloch, and the view to the Quiraing, Skye.
📷 2. Above Opinan, and the view to the Old Man of Storr, Skye.
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This to me is astonishing. The site of Ireland's 1st breeding Cranes in centuries, could be 'developed' as a solar farm, instead of being protected for crane recovery.
"the bog with the nesting cranes is at the pre-planning stage for a solar farm"
🦉 🐦 🌎
www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...
"the bog with the nesting cranes is at the pre-planning stage for a solar farm"
🦉 🐦 🌎
www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...
One of Ireland's wildlife success stories is the return of this bird
Cranes were culturally significant in Ireland, kept as pets by nobility and may have been associated in folklore with death
www.irishtimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This to me is astonishing. The site of Ireland's 1st breeding Cranes in centuries, could be 'developed' as a solar farm, instead of being protected for crane recovery.
"the bog with the nesting cranes is at the pre-planning stage for a solar farm"
🦉 🐦 🌎
www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...
"the bog with the nesting cranes is at the pre-planning stage for a solar farm"
🦉 🐦 🌎
www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...
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"It exists, it’s happening, and you can’t erase it by not studying it.
Physician Preeti Jaggi responds to news that research into climate anxiety, rapidly growing among young people, is among the climate chg projects to be axed by NIH."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
H/T @floragraham.bsky.social
Physician Preeti Jaggi responds to news that research into climate anxiety, rapidly growing among young people, is among the climate chg projects to be axed by NIH."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
H/T @floragraham.bsky.social
Exclusive: documents reveal how NIH will axe climate studies
US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more but allow it for those on extreme weather and health.
www.nature.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"It exists, it’s happening, and you can’t erase it by not studying it.
Physician Preeti Jaggi responds to news that research into climate anxiety, rapidly growing among young people, is among the climate chg projects to be axed by NIH."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
H/T @floragraham.bsky.social
Physician Preeti Jaggi responds to news that research into climate anxiety, rapidly growing among young people, is among the climate chg projects to be axed by NIH."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
H/T @floragraham.bsky.social
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Wishing all the mothers in the world a Happy Mother's Day! 💐
🎨 from "Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen" [1774]-1855. Digitized for #BHLib by the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology @harvard.edu biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064824 #MothersDay
🎨 from "Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen" [1774]-1855. Digitized for #BHLib by the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology @harvard.edu biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064824 #MothersDay
May 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Wishing all the mothers in the world a Happy Mother's Day! 💐
🎨 from "Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen" [1774]-1855. Digitized for #BHLib by the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology @harvard.edu biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064824 #MothersDay
🎨 from "Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen" [1774]-1855. Digitized for #BHLib by the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology @harvard.edu biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064824 #MothersDay
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🎈 Happy 99th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎈
Our favourite #DavidAttenborough moment is when he featured George Shaw's 1799 description of the Platypus in his "How the Platypus made us rethink evolution" video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRV...
📖 doi.org/10.5962/p.30... 🧪 #ILoveBHL #BHLib
Our favourite #DavidAttenborough moment is when he featured George Shaw's 1799 description of the Platypus in his "How the Platypus made us rethink evolution" video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRV...
📖 doi.org/10.5962/p.30... 🧪 #ILoveBHL #BHLib
May 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🎈 Happy 99th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎈
Our favourite #DavidAttenborough moment is when he featured George Shaw's 1799 description of the Platypus in his "How the Platypus made us rethink evolution" video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRV...
📖 doi.org/10.5962/p.30... 🧪 #ILoveBHL #BHLib
Our favourite #DavidAttenborough moment is when he featured George Shaw's 1799 description of the Platypus in his "How the Platypus made us rethink evolution" video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRV...
📖 doi.org/10.5962/p.30... 🧪 #ILoveBHL #BHLib
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The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
#ILOVEBHL
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
#ILOVEBHL
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
May 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
#ILOVEBHL
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
#ILOVEBHL
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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Chairs aren't just for sitting! Apologies for the poor cropping - this was just a quick snap. Clematis montana Freda I believe but happy to be corrected 🙏☺️
May 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Chairs aren't just for sitting! Apologies for the poor cropping - this was just a quick snap. Clematis montana Freda I believe but happy to be corrected 🙏☺️
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How is Arctic flora changing on a warming planet?
Climate change is altering plant diversity in the Arctic, with some species thriving in certain areas and declining in others
👉 news bit.ly/4cVpPLR
👉 nature paper bit.ly/44mXlsd
@serradiaz.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @museuciencies.cat
Climate change is altering plant diversity in the Arctic, with some species thriving in certain areas and declining in others
👉 news bit.ly/4cVpPLR
👉 nature paper bit.ly/44mXlsd
@serradiaz.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @museuciencies.cat
April 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
How is Arctic flora changing on a warming planet?
Climate change is altering plant diversity in the Arctic, with some species thriving in certain areas and declining in others
👉 news bit.ly/4cVpPLR
👉 nature paper bit.ly/44mXlsd
@serradiaz.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @museuciencies.cat
Climate change is altering plant diversity in the Arctic, with some species thriving in certain areas and declining in others
👉 news bit.ly/4cVpPLR
👉 nature paper bit.ly/44mXlsd
@serradiaz.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @museuciencies.cat
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If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
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In an 1847 report to the British Museum, Darwin and his peers declared that "The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried out without reference to an extensive library." Still so true today... #ILoveBHL 63 million #OpenAccess pages & counting! www.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
In an 1847 report to the British Museum, Darwin and his peers declared that "The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried out without reference to an extensive library." Still so true today... #ILoveBHL 63 million #OpenAccess pages & counting! www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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Big news from the mudflats!
The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash.
That’s three times their species’ average lifespan!
Legends wade amongst us... 😎
A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg
The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash.
That’s three times their species’ average lifespan!
Legends wade amongst us... 😎
A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg
April 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Big news from the mudflats!
The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash.
That’s three times their species’ average lifespan!
Legends wade amongst us... 😎
A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg
The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash.
That’s three times their species’ average lifespan!
Legends wade amongst us... 😎
A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg
Today Amnesty International UK released a report exposing the brutal reality of the UK social security system that targets those already pushed to the margins.
DR UK has authored the section on the impacts on the Disabled community.
Please read & share widely! 👇 www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/so...
DR UK has authored the section on the impacts on the Disabled community.
Please read & share widely! 👇 www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/so...
Social Insecurity Report
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
April 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Okay, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but BHL is an absolutely VITAL resource for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. There's no other database I'm aware of that provides digital access to species descriptions dating all the way back to the 1800s and beyond.
"A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library" blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-... Important changes for BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social which can no longer be hosted at #Smithsonian and needs a new home.
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Okay, I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but BHL is an absolutely VITAL resource for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. There's no other database I'm aware of that provides digital access to species descriptions dating all the way back to the 1800s and beyond.
Me too, BHL is an invaluable resource for anyone doing any kind of natural history research!
I've downloaded literally thousands of taxonomic texts from BHL for my work over the years and probably at least a half dozen more every week. this is one of the greatest resources on the internet.
In addition to EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE
The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Me too, BHL is an invaluable resource for anyone doing any kind of natural history research!
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In addition to EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE
The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
In addition to EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE
The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it
For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s!
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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"The top ~2% largest trees account for 75% of the live tree carbon storage in the western US. This result suggests the importance of maintaining large-diameter trees in order to mitigate climate change." But Trump's recent EO plans to send them to sawmills. 🌏 www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"The top ~2% largest trees account for 75% of the live tree carbon storage in the western US. This result suggests the importance of maintaining large-diameter trees in order to mitigate climate change." But Trump's recent EO plans to send them to sawmills. 🌏 www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....