Dr Chris Clements
@expecocons.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Bristol University 🧪
Resilience loss ⚖️ Early warning signals ⚠️ multiple stressors 🏭 biodiversity change 🌍 rewilding 🦫
🔗 experimentalconservation.com
Editor at Biology Letters.
Resilience loss ⚖️ Early warning signals ⚠️ multiple stressors 🏭 biodiversity change 🌍 rewilding 🦫
🔗 experimentalconservation.com
Editor at Biology Letters.
It's that time of the year again - beautiful sunsets from the office window
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It's that time of the year again - beautiful sunsets from the office window
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
📣Job vacancy!📣
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Global Conservation
Salary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience) This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
📣Job vacancy!📣
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
🚨 Fully funded PhD alert 🚨
Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?
Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴
📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?
Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴
📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🚨 Fully funded PhD alert 🚨
Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?
Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴
📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?
Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴
📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026
🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
A reminder about this fantastic opportunity!
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A reminder about this fantastic opportunity!
🚨Looking for a PhD project on 🐝? look no further! ✅
"Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure"
Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi
Full details:
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
"Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure"
Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi
Full details:
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🚨Looking for a PhD project on 🐝? look no further! ✅
"Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure"
Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi
Full details:
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
"Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure"
Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi
Full details:
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Fantastic to welcome @trishg.bsky.social to the group today 🥳
Trisha is on an 1851 fellowship and will be working on resilience loss in savannahs with myself, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @mdekauwe.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Trisha is on an 1851 fellowship and will be working on resilience loss in savannahs with myself, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @mdekauwe.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Fantastic to welcome @trishg.bsky.social to the group today 🥳
Trisha is on an 1851 fellowship and will be working on resilience loss in savannahs with myself, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @mdekauwe.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Trisha is on an 1851 fellowship and will be working on resilience loss in savannahs with myself, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @mdekauwe.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings.
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings.
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
Here's a website that helps you switch to a greener bank.
Investments should build a better future, not destroy it.
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/banks/
Investments should build a better future, not destroy it.
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/banks/
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Here's a website that helps you switch to a greener bank.
Investments should build a better future, not destroy it.
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/banks/
Investments should build a better future, not destroy it.
makemymoneymatter.co.uk/banks/
Last couple of days left to apply for this 3-year PDRA position!
Closing date is the 26th of October
Closing date is the 26th of October
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Last couple of days left to apply for this 3-year PDRA position!
Closing date is the 26th of October
Closing date is the 26th of October
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍
Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8
#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
📢 new publiction led by @francescocerini.bsky.social in Ecology
We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬
@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬
@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high‐throughput ecological experiment
Anticipating population declines is a crucial goal of conservation ecology. Recent conceptual work suggests that populations facing growing stressors should exhibit sequential shifts in behavior, mor....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
📢 new publiction led by @francescocerini.bsky.social in Ecology
We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬
@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬
@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Listening to @empirepoduk.bsky.social whilst on a bikepacking trip through Kenya is my new stress relief
September 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Listening to @empirepoduk.bsky.social whilst on a bikepacking trip through Kenya is my new stress relief
Did you know that #microcosm experiments are cited ~ twice as often as non-microcosm experiments?! 🧪
AND
Microcosm articles and non-microcosm articles were cited in #policy documents at SIMILAR RATE 🔬
New paper from @sternetal.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
AND
Microcosm articles and non-microcosm articles were cited in #policy documents at SIMILAR RATE 🔬
New paper from @sternetal.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Contribution of microcosm experiments to conservation science
Microcosms, or miniature experimental systems, have been used to develop models and theories in ecology. However, their contribution to conservation science is unclear. We explored the application, d....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Did you know that #microcosm experiments are cited ~ twice as often as non-microcosm experiments?! 🧪
AND
Microcosm articles and non-microcosm articles were cited in #policy documents at SIMILAR RATE 🔬
New paper from @sternetal.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
AND
Microcosm articles and non-microcosm articles were cited in #policy documents at SIMILAR RATE 🔬
New paper from @sternetal.bsky.social
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
Super happy that @kerrys189.bsky.social passed her viva with no corrections!! 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!!
The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things
Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social
Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!!
The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things
Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Super happy that @kerrys189.bsky.social passed her viva with no corrections!! 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!!
The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things
Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social
Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!!
The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things
Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social
Very cool - @bessonmarc.bsky.social 's Ecology Letters paper just passed 200 citations! 🎉
Interested in biological monitoring and robotics? Check it out below
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities share.google/IxYWxgy0WS23...
Interested in biological monitoring and robotics? Check it out below
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities share.google/IxYWxgy0WS23...
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities
Monitoring living organisms with high-resolution and multidimensional is a complex and labour-intensive task, yet it is fundamental to understand and predict the dynamics of ecological communities in...
share.google
June 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Very cool - @bessonmarc.bsky.social 's Ecology Letters paper just passed 200 citations! 🎉
Interested in biological monitoring and robotics? Check it out below
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities share.google/IxYWxgy0WS23...
Interested in biological monitoring and robotics? Check it out below
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities share.google/IxYWxgy0WS23...
Great to see the new paper picking up so much traction in the press
www.theguardian.com/environment/....
www.theguardian.com/environment/....
June 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Great to see the new paper picking up so much traction in the press
www.theguardian.com/environment/....
www.theguardian.com/environment/....
Brilliant and important work from @kerrys189.bsky.social out today in @natecoevo.nature.com
What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity?
Find out here
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity?
Find out here
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
New paper!
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...
www.nature.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Brilliant and important work from @kerrys189.bsky.social out today in @natecoevo.nature.com
What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity?
Find out here
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity?
Find out here
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Artists impression of a group of sauropods grazing peacefully in the morning sun 🦕
June 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Artists impression of a group of sauropods grazing peacefully in the morning sun 🦕
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
New research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse contributes over 4 m sea-level rise with little (0.25 °C) or even no ocean warming above present
#climatecrisis
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#climatecrisis
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss - Communications Earth & Environment
The Antarctic Ice Sheet exhibits hysteresis and irreversible ice loss, with West Antarctic collapse contributing over 4 m of sea-level rise even under minimal additional warming, according to 800,000-...
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse contributes over 4 m sea-level rise with little (0.25 °C) or even no ocean warming above present
#climatecrisis
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#climatecrisis
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
June 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Field course season is upon us! Rewilding ar Knepp for the 5th time. Always a pleasure to be here, plus now they have a sauna...
🦬🐗🌳🕊️
@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
🦬🐗🌳🕊️
@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Field course season is upon us! Rewilding ar Knepp for the 5th time. Always a pleasure to be here, plus now they have a sauna...
🦬🐗🌳🕊️
@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
🦬🐗🌳🕊️
@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com
How can our future robot overlords help monitor biodiversity? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
How can our future robot overlords help monitor biodiversity? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An expert-elicitation process identifies current methodological barriers for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity, and how technological and procedural development of robotic and autonomous systems may...
www.nature.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com
How can our future robot overlords help monitor biodiversity? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
How can our future robot overlords help monitor biodiversity? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social