Lera Miles
@leramiles.bsky.social
Nature and climate. Work @unepwcmc.bsky.social on nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation. She/her. Sheffield/Cambridge. Views my own.
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Lera Miles
@leramiles.bsky.social
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Starting a thread of starter packs in nature and clîmate
To learn more about OECMs for #biodiversity conservation, see this webinar Tues 9 Dec 2025, 10:00 CET. Including info from @unepwcmc.bsky.social @protectedplanet.bsky.social
iucn.org/events/webin...
iucn.org/events/webin...
Beyond Protected Areas / За пределами охраняемых природных территорий
Join the upcoming 1Health4Nature webinar: Beyond Protected Areas, understanding the role of Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) Присоединяйтесь к предстоящему вебинару 1Health4Nat...
iucn.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
To learn more about OECMs for #biodiversity conservation, see this webinar Tues 9 Dec 2025, 10:00 CET. Including info from @unepwcmc.bsky.social @protectedplanet.bsky.social
iucn.org/events/webin...
iucn.org/events/webin...
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🚨 New brief!
What are Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) and how are they important to businesses? 🏞️
Our experts have developed a brief, introducing OECMs for a business audience. Download the full document here 📑 : tinyurl.com/3bs4fy7t
What are Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) and how are they important to businesses? 🏞️
Our experts have developed a brief, introducing OECMs for a business audience. Download the full document here 📑 : tinyurl.com/3bs4fy7t
December 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🚨 New brief!
What are Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) and how are they important to businesses? 🏞️
Our experts have developed a brief, introducing OECMs for a business audience. Download the full document here 📑 : tinyurl.com/3bs4fy7t
What are Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) and how are they important to businesses? 🏞️
Our experts have developed a brief, introducing OECMs for a business audience. Download the full document here 📑 : tinyurl.com/3bs4fy7t
Open-access paper, 15 emerging issues in #biodiversity conservation - some familiar and some brand new stuff for me (light penetration into the oceans is decreasing?)
A horizon scan of biological conservation issues for 2026
A horizon scan of biological conservation issues for 2026
We present outcomes from our 17th horizon scan of issues potentially impacting global biodiversity conservation in the next decade. Issues are novel, or represent a significant step-change in impact,…
www.cell.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open-access paper, 15 emerging issues in #biodiversity conservation - some familiar and some brand new stuff for me (light penetration into the oceans is decreasing?)
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Prints are available. Everything currently 50% off on Redbubble, apparently.
You would also be helping to recompense the Temu theft since I can't do anything about it (I can't even get the relevant page to load, perhaps owing to some regional restrictions). 🥲
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/5918...
You would also be helping to recompense the Temu theft since I can't do anything about it (I can't even get the relevant page to load, perhaps owing to some regional restrictions). 🥲
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/5918...
Pudgy Horse Lascaux Tribute 1 by Himmapaan | Redbubble
A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio Natural Formation watercolours, handmade from Cretaceous rocks by Mary Sanche.
www.redbubble.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Prints are available. Everything currently 50% off on Redbubble, apparently.
You would also be helping to recompense the Temu theft since I can't do anything about it (I can't even get the relevant page to load, perhaps owing to some regional restrictions). 🥲
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/5918...
You would also be helping to recompense the Temu theft since I can't do anything about it (I can't even get the relevant page to load, perhaps owing to some regional restrictions). 🥲
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/5918...
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Only hours left to help @derbyswildlife.bsky.social purchase Middleton Moor and restore it for wildlife and people. Please chip in or share if you can.
Middleton Moor £1.2 Million Appeal | Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has been given a once-in-a-generation opportunity to purchase Middleton Moor.
www.derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Only hours left to help @derbyswildlife.bsky.social purchase Middleton Moor and restore it for wildlife and people. Please chip in or share if you can.
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Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
www.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
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Interested in doing a PhD on #zoonotic diseases & #wildlife trade within a #politicalecology approach? Look no further, @geofrancismasse.bsky.social seeks a potential candidate to be based at @durham.ac.uk 👇
Call PhD Proposals related to Political Ecologies of Conservation, Infectious Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, One Health, and Wildlife Trade
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
#politicalecology #humanenvironmentgeography
Please share and pass on to potentially interested people.
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
@findaphd.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Interested in doing a PhD on #zoonotic diseases & #wildlife trade within a #politicalecology approach? Look no further, @geofrancismasse.bsky.social seeks a potential candidate to be based at @durham.ac.uk 👇
Installed Pathos - Nethack Codex. Several late nights later, uninstalled. Way too good an implementation!
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Installed Pathos - Nethack Codex. Several late nights later, uninstalled. Way too good an implementation!
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You can read the Business and Biodiversity Assessment Primer in all UN languages! 🏡🌍
The #BizBiodiversity Assessment will provide critical information to best measure the dependencies and impacts of business on nature. 🧪
👉 Read it here: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
The #BizBiodiversity Assessment will provide critical information to best measure the dependencies and impacts of business on nature. 🧪
👉 Read it here: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
You can read the Business and Biodiversity Assessment Primer in all UN languages! 🏡🌍
The #BizBiodiversity Assessment will provide critical information to best measure the dependencies and impacts of business on nature. 🧪
👉 Read it here: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
The #BizBiodiversity Assessment will provide critical information to best measure the dependencies and impacts of business on nature. 🧪
👉 Read it here: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
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🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.
The IUCN tulip specialist group are volunteers working to assess conservation status of these excellent flowers. They'd like your help to buy some badges. #tulips #iucn #redlist gofund.me/af025b34c
Donate to Expert group members pin badges, organized by Brett Wilson
Hi,
We are the IUCN SSC Wild Tulip Specialist Group (WTSG). We work to understand wil… Brett Wilson needs your support for Expert group members pin badges
gofund.me
October 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The IUCN tulip specialist group are volunteers working to assess conservation status of these excellent flowers. They'd like your help to buy some badges. #tulips #iucn #redlist gofund.me/af025b34c
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MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
October 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳
Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Please share it around!
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🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power
We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before
🧵
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/7
We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before
🧵
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/7
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power
We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before
🧵
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/7
We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before
🧵
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/7
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The Global Framework on Chemicals Fund will launch its second call for applications on 30 September 2025.
Join the event to learn more about the #GFC & its Fund, priorities, application forms & other guidance.
▶️ 30 September, 10:00 CEST
📆 tiny.cc/GEN30Sep25
Join the event to learn more about the #GFC & its Fund, priorities, application forms & other guidance.
▶️ 30 September, 10:00 CEST
📆 tiny.cc/GEN30Sep25
September 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The Global Framework on Chemicals Fund will launch its second call for applications on 30 September 2025.
Join the event to learn more about the #GFC & its Fund, priorities, application forms & other guidance.
▶️ 30 September, 10:00 CEST
📆 tiny.cc/GEN30Sep25
Join the event to learn more about the #GFC & its Fund, priorities, application forms & other guidance.
▶️ 30 September, 10:00 CEST
📆 tiny.cc/GEN30Sep25
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Want to do a postdoc with our group on something related to biodiversity conservation, policy, and the environment? Reach out - applications are open for the Donnelley fellowship! yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...
Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Environmental Fellowship
The Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellowship supports postdoctoral fellowships for research in biodiversity or a combination of biodiversity with conservation and public policy. The Fellowship was created to...
yibs.yale.edu
September 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Want to do a postdoc with our group on something related to biodiversity conservation, policy, and the environment? Reach out - applications are open for the Donnelley fellowship! yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...
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The Pollinator Academy is an online platform that provides tools and training to help strengthen your knowledge of the taxonomy of European pollinators. Follow us and visit our website to find out more! #PollinatorAcademy #Pollinators #Taxonomy #Bee #Hoverfly #Butterfly Pollinatoracademy.eu
September 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The Pollinator Academy is an online platform that provides tools and training to help strengthen your knowledge of the taxonomy of European pollinators. Follow us and visit our website to find out more! #PollinatorAcademy #Pollinators #Taxonomy #Bee #Hoverfly #Butterfly Pollinatoracademy.eu
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023
Müller et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Müller et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023
Müller et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Müller et al 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spogomi! Finally a sport I could get behind. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
‘It’s only going to get bigger’: Australia embraces the Japanese game that turns rubbish into sport
Caitlin Cassidy competes in Australia’s World Cup spogomi qualifier, a fun event that’s really about raising environmental awareness, in Manly
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Spogomi! Finally a sport I could get behind. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
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The magic of a resurrected #ghostpond just 3 years on. Nearly 30 wetland plants & Great Crested Newt where there was ploughsoil. This lost #pond was filled in >100 years ago but still had a viable seedbank 1.5 m below the field surface. The most successful form of ecological restoration known?
August 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The magic of a resurrected #ghostpond just 3 years on. Nearly 30 wetland plants & Great Crested Newt where there was ploughsoil. This lost #pond was filled in >100 years ago but still had a viable seedbank 1.5 m below the field surface. The most successful form of ecological restoration known?
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NEW: Ash dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has found.
🎞️ Hear from lead author @fionaseaton.bsky.social
🌳🧪 1/
🎞️ Hear from lead author @fionaseaton.bsky.social
🌳🧪 1/
August 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
NEW: Ash dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has found.
🎞️ Hear from lead author @fionaseaton.bsky.social
🌳🧪 1/
🎞️ Hear from lead author @fionaseaton.bsky.social
🌳🧪 1/
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Europe is heading for a sad record: the largest burned area in decades.
www.climatechangepost.com/news/europe-...
www.climatechangepost.com/news/europe-...
Europe is heading for a sad record: the largest burned area in decades
www.climatechangepost.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Europe is heading for a sad record: the largest burned area in decades.
www.climatechangepost.com/news/europe-...
www.climatechangepost.com/news/europe-...