@felix-pym.bsky.social
🔬Palaeoecologist at the University of Exeter | 🌎 NERC GW4+ DTP PhD researcher | Interested in the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions 🦣
Reposted
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposted
Britain is a rainforest nation.
Britain’s PM is currently in a rainforest in Brazil.
Why isn’t he drawing the links between tropical & temperate rainforests, supporting Brazil’s fund, and setting out plans to restore Britain’s rainforests?
Me for BBC Radio4 The World Tonight, last night:
Britain’s PM is currently in a rainforest in Brazil.
Why isn’t he drawing the links between tropical & temperate rainforests, supporting Brazil’s fund, and setting out plans to restore Britain’s rainforests?
Me for BBC Radio4 The World Tonight, last night:
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Britain is a rainforest nation.
Britain’s PM is currently in a rainforest in Brazil.
Why isn’t he drawing the links between tropical & temperate rainforests, supporting Brazil’s fund, and setting out plans to restore Britain’s rainforests?
Me for BBC Radio4 The World Tonight, last night:
Britain’s PM is currently in a rainforest in Brazil.
Why isn’t he drawing the links between tropical & temperate rainforests, supporting Brazil’s fund, and setting out plans to restore Britain’s rainforests?
Me for BBC Radio4 The World Tonight, last night:
Reposted
Your October #RewildingWins are here 🍂
The weather may be getting colder here in Britain but the rewilding successes continue to hot up!
Scroll down to read all about them👇
🧵1/7
The weather may be getting colder here in Britain but the rewilding successes continue to hot up!
Scroll down to read all about them👇
🧵1/7
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Your October #RewildingWins are here 🍂
The weather may be getting colder here in Britain but the rewilding successes continue to hot up!
Scroll down to read all about them👇
🧵1/7
The weather may be getting colder here in Britain but the rewilding successes continue to hot up!
Scroll down to read all about them👇
🧵1/7
Reposted
Intriguing study just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Patrick Arnold & Michi Hofreiter @unipotsdam.bsky.social showing hippos might have still been roaming central Europe in the last ice age www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦛#quaternary
Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial
Late Pleistocene hippo fossils (Hippopotamus amphibius) from Europe have generally been associated with the last interglacial period (Eemian, 129–115 …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225012059🧪🦛#quaternary
October 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Intriguing study just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Patrick Arnold & Michi Hofreiter @unipotsdam.bsky.social showing hippos might have still been roaming central Europe in the last ice age www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦛#quaternary
Reposted
🚨PhD offer 👩🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
September 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🚨PhD offer 👩🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇
Reposted
I'll be speaking at the upcoming RAINFORESTS FUTURES event in Exeter on 2nd Oct, an evening of talks about the future of temperate rainforests in the Westcountry. Other speakers from the Woodland Trust, Natural England & Thousand Year Trust
Tickets here: www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/rai...
Tickets here: www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/rai...
September 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I'll be speaking at the upcoming RAINFORESTS FUTURES event in Exeter on 2nd Oct, an evening of talks about the future of temperate rainforests in the Westcountry. Other speakers from the Woodland Trust, Natural England & Thousand Year Trust
Tickets here: www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/rai...
Tickets here: www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/rai...
Reposted
That’s a wrap on #WildSummitUK!
A huge thank you to all our incredible speakers, everyone who came together to deliver this wonderful event, & to all of you for joining us in Bristol or online🙌
We're leaving with a renewed sense of urgency & hope for nature, & can't wait for the next steps🌱
A huge thank you to all our incredible speakers, everyone who came together to deliver this wonderful event, & to all of you for joining us in Bristol or online🙌
We're leaving with a renewed sense of urgency & hope for nature, & can't wait for the next steps🌱
September 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
That’s a wrap on #WildSummitUK!
A huge thank you to all our incredible speakers, everyone who came together to deliver this wonderful event, & to all of you for joining us in Bristol or online🙌
We're leaving with a renewed sense of urgency & hope for nature, & can't wait for the next steps🌱
A huge thank you to all our incredible speakers, everyone who came together to deliver this wonderful event, & to all of you for joining us in Bristol or online🙌
We're leaving with a renewed sense of urgency & hope for nature, & can't wait for the next steps🌱
Thoroughly enjoyed attending the first @wildsummituk.bsky.social 🍄🌿🦇
The panel discussions were a particular highlight — full of insight, passion, and importantly, hope.
I’m walking away with a deeper understanding of the challenges, solutions, and successes surrounding nature recovery in the UK 🦫
The panel discussions were a particular highlight — full of insight, passion, and importantly, hope.
I’m walking away with a deeper understanding of the challenges, solutions, and successes surrounding nature recovery in the UK 🦫
September 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed attending the first @wildsummituk.bsky.social 🍄🌿🦇
The panel discussions were a particular highlight — full of insight, passion, and importantly, hope.
I’m walking away with a deeper understanding of the challenges, solutions, and successes surrounding nature recovery in the UK 🦫
The panel discussions were a particular highlight — full of insight, passion, and importantly, hope.
I’m walking away with a deeper understanding of the challenges, solutions, and successes surrounding nature recovery in the UK 🦫
Freshly split sediment cores from my recent lake coring fieldwork in Colombia 🇨🇴
Layer by layer, the sediments preserve many clues, including past climate, large herbivores, and human activity. I am excited to discover what stories they hold 🦥🌿🔥
Layer by layer, the sediments preserve many clues, including past climate, large herbivores, and human activity. I am excited to discover what stories they hold 🦥🌿🔥
August 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Freshly split sediment cores from my recent lake coring fieldwork in Colombia 🇨🇴
Layer by layer, the sediments preserve many clues, including past climate, large herbivores, and human activity. I am excited to discover what stories they hold 🦥🌿🔥
Layer by layer, the sediments preserve many clues, including past climate, large herbivores, and human activity. I am excited to discover what stories they hold 🦥🌿🔥
It was a privilege to share my research at the @nhm-london.bsky.social this week and explore connections with my interest in rewilding as an environmental solution 🦬🌿
Thankful for the opportunity to connect with other researchers across the NERC GW4+DLTP and visit an 'old friend' 🦥
📸 Regan Mudhar
Thankful for the opportunity to connect with other researchers across the NERC GW4+DLTP and visit an 'old friend' 🦥
📸 Regan Mudhar
June 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
It was a privilege to share my research at the @nhm-london.bsky.social this week and explore connections with my interest in rewilding as an environmental solution 🦬🌿
Thankful for the opportunity to connect with other researchers across the NERC GW4+DLTP and visit an 'old friend' 🦥
📸 Regan Mudhar
Thankful for the opportunity to connect with other researchers across the NERC GW4+DLTP and visit an 'old friend' 🦥
📸 Regan Mudhar
Reposted
If you're looking for graduate opportunities related to the Pleistocene extinctions, megafaunal impacts on ecological resilience, or the timescales of ecological recovery from perturbations, I'd love to support a Simons Fellowship applicant. Please reach out! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
www.simonsfoundation.org
June 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If you're looking for graduate opportunities related to the Pleistocene extinctions, megafaunal impacts on ecological resilience, or the timescales of ecological recovery from perturbations, I'd love to support a Simons Fellowship applicant. Please reach out! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
This week, I'm at a NERC freshwater ecology course at the Natural History Museum. Coincidentally, a paper on the rise and fall of giant sloths has been published. Standing beside the museums Megatherium is a poignant reminder of the loss of a fascinating species 🦥
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This week, I'm at a NERC freshwater ecology course at the Natural History Museum. Coincidentally, a paper on the rise and fall of giant sloths has been published. Standing beside the museums Megatherium is a poignant reminder of the loss of a fascinating species 🦥
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted
Big new study on sloth diversity and evolution just out in Science conclude that the unique, massive loss of big, terrestrial and semi-arboreal sloth species within 15-5 thousands years ago was casued by people, not climate www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences... #extinction #megafauna #sloths
Ancient Humans Hunted 20-Foot-Tall Sloths and Likely Caused the Mammal's Extinction
Sloth size and habitat shifted multiple times over the past 35 million years, but human hunting likely drove the slower, larger species to extinction.
www.discovermagazine.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Big new study on sloth diversity and evolution just out in Science conclude that the unique, massive loss of big, terrestrial and semi-arboreal sloth species within 15-5 thousands years ago was casued by people, not climate www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences... #extinction #megafauna #sloths
• Two-toed sloth ✅️🦥
• First independently led lake coring fieldwork ✅️🚣♂️🇨🇴
#Palaeoecology #Megafauna #Sporormiella #SCF #Colombia
• First independently led lake coring fieldwork ✅️🚣♂️🇨🇴
#Palaeoecology #Megafauna #Sporormiella #SCF #Colombia
April 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
• Two-toed sloth ✅️🦥
• First independently led lake coring fieldwork ✅️🚣♂️🇨🇴
#Palaeoecology #Megafauna #Sporormiella #SCF #Colombia
• First independently led lake coring fieldwork ✅️🚣♂️🇨🇴
#Palaeoecology #Megafauna #Sporormiella #SCF #Colombia
The journey has begun. Off to Colombia for PhD fieldwork, with the aim of collecting sediment cores to uncover more clues about the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. Fingers crossed the lake has some exciting stories to reveal—and maybe a giant ground sloth or two! 🦥🌿🇨🇴
April 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The journey has begun. Off to Colombia for PhD fieldwork, with the aim of collecting sediment cores to uncover more clues about the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. Fingers crossed the lake has some exciting stories to reveal—and maybe a giant ground sloth or two! 🦥🌿🇨🇴
Reposted
Happy #WorldRewildingDay 🌎
Rewilding offers a powerful solution to the interconnected climate and nature emergencies – but it’s a solution we must all work on together.
Rewilding offers a powerful solution to the interconnected climate and nature emergencies – but it’s a solution we must all work on together.
March 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Happy #WorldRewildingDay 🌎
Rewilding offers a powerful solution to the interconnected climate and nature emergencies – but it’s a solution we must all work on together.
Rewilding offers a powerful solution to the interconnected climate and nature emergencies – but it’s a solution we must all work on together.
Reposted
🔬🌍The late-Quaternary #extinctions led to novel #herbivore assemblages worldwide🦏🦣
🌿47–64% of today’s assemblages are functionally novel
🔥Large areas w/ novel assemblages have #biome states sensitive to these changes, eg via #fire
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
#NovelEcosystems #Defaunation #Vegetation
🌿47–64% of today’s assemblages are functionally novel
🔥Large areas w/ novel assemblages have #biome states sensitive to these changes, eg via #fire
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
#NovelEcosystems #Defaunation #Vegetation
The Late‐Quaternary Extinctions Gave Rise to Functionally Novel Herbivore Assemblages
We find that 47% of assemblages are functionally novel, indicating that fundamental changes in herbivore impacts have occurred across the world. On 20% of land, functionally novel herbivore assemblag....
doi.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
🔬🌍The late-Quaternary #extinctions led to novel #herbivore assemblages worldwide🦏🦣
🌿47–64% of today’s assemblages are functionally novel
🔥Large areas w/ novel assemblages have #biome states sensitive to these changes, eg via #fire
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
#NovelEcosystems #Defaunation #Vegetation
🌿47–64% of today’s assemblages are functionally novel
🔥Large areas w/ novel assemblages have #biome states sensitive to these changes, eg via #fire
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
#NovelEcosystems #Defaunation #Vegetation
Reposted
Interested in the recent prehistoric #megafauna #extinctions - then sign up here: cassyni.com/events/Pp9Mi... (Real World Challenges Seminar Series by Cambridge Prisms) 🦣🐘🌍🏹❄️
February 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Interested in the recent prehistoric #megafauna #extinctions - then sign up here: cassyni.com/events/Pp9Mi... (Real World Challenges Seminar Series by Cambridge Prisms) 🦣🐘🌍🏹❄️
Reposted
What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
January 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
Reposted
🐴 PhD Opportunity: Wild Horses & Fire Dynamics 🔥
@econovoau.bsky.social invites applications for an exciting PhD project exploring the ecological impacts of wild horses on fire dynamics and ecosystem functionality in sagebrush ecosystems.
More information here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican....
@econovoau.bsky.social invites applications for an exciting PhD project exploring the ecological impacts of wild horses on fire dynamics and ecosystem functionality in sagebrush ecosystems.
More information here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican....
Impact of Wild Horses on Fire Dynamics and Ecosystem Functionality in a Novel Ecosystem
phd.nat.au.dk
December 12, 2024 at 12:16 PM
🐴 PhD Opportunity: Wild Horses & Fire Dynamics 🔥
@econovoau.bsky.social invites applications for an exciting PhD project exploring the ecological impacts of wild horses on fire dynamics and ecosystem functionality in sagebrush ecosystems.
More information here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican....
@econovoau.bsky.social invites applications for an exciting PhD project exploring the ecological impacts of wild horses on fire dynamics and ecosystem functionality in sagebrush ecosystems.
More information here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican....
Reposted
𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿?
The Scottish Rewilding Alliance have put together a pathway to help Scotland become a #RewildingNation - urging the Scottish Government to commit to restoring 30% of our land & seas for nature recovery.
Add your signature: www.rewild.scot/charter
The Scottish Rewilding Alliance have put together a pathway to help Scotland become a #RewildingNation - urging the Scottish Government to commit to restoring 30% of our land & seas for nature recovery.
Add your signature: www.rewild.scot/charter
December 5, 2024 at 10:01 AM
𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿?
The Scottish Rewilding Alliance have put together a pathway to help Scotland become a #RewildingNation - urging the Scottish Government to commit to restoring 30% of our land & seas for nature recovery.
Add your signature: www.rewild.scot/charter
The Scottish Rewilding Alliance have put together a pathway to help Scotland become a #RewildingNation - urging the Scottish Government to commit to restoring 30% of our land & seas for nature recovery.
Add your signature: www.rewild.scot/charter