Oliver Wilson
@olijwilson.bsky.social
Lecturer in Geography at the University of Lincoln. Plants, people and climate change, past, present and future. Also husband, dad, and 3D Pollen Project guy.
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Oliver Wilson
@olijwilson.bsky.social
· Feb 10
Hi Bluesky! 👋 I'm a researcher interested in plants, people and climate changes in the past, present and future - with a particular focus on Araucaria forests in Brazil and elsewhere. I also run the 3D Pollen Project (3dpollenproject.wixsite.com/main) because pollen is cooler than you think!
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Happy World Albatross Day!!
Did you know that the world’s oldest known wild bird is an albatross!?
After her mate disappeared a few years ago, we thought Wisdom, a now 74 year old Laysan Albatross who breeds on Midway Atoll, was done breeding bc they mate for life.
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#ICCB2025
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Did you know that the world’s oldest known wild bird is an albatross!?
After her mate disappeared a few years ago, we thought Wisdom, a now 74 year old Laysan Albatross who breeds on Midway Atoll, was done breeding bc they mate for life.
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#ICCB2025
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Have you ever wondered just how big an albatross is?
Wonder no more; meet Jessica Alba, the life-sized albatross! This beauty is for outreach and hauled around by my buddy who works for @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social in the Pacific.
Albatross mate for life, do courtship dances and are majestic!
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Wonder no more; meet Jessica Alba, the life-sized albatross! This beauty is for outreach and hauled around by my buddy who works for @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social in the Pacific.
Albatross mate for life, do courtship dances and are majestic!
🧪
June 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Happy World Albatross Day!!
Did you know that the world’s oldest known wild bird is an albatross!?
After her mate disappeared a few years ago, we thought Wisdom, a now 74 year old Laysan Albatross who breeds on Midway Atoll, was done breeding bc they mate for life.
1/2
#ICCB2025
🧪
Did you know that the world’s oldest known wild bird is an albatross!?
After her mate disappeared a few years ago, we thought Wisdom, a now 74 year old Laysan Albatross who breeds on Midway Atoll, was done breeding bc they mate for life.
1/2
#ICCB2025
🧪
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It was great to meet with pupils and parents from local schools to chat about 3D pollen and landscapes for the University of Nottingham Family Discovery Day! 🔥🌱🌼🌲
School of Geography proudly represented by Gary Priestnall, myself and Alastair Wills 💪🏼
School of Geography proudly represented by Gary Priestnall, myself and Alastair Wills 💪🏼
June 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It was great to meet with pupils and parents from local schools to chat about 3D pollen and landscapes for the University of Nottingham Family Discovery Day! 🔥🌱🌼🌲
School of Geography proudly represented by Gary Priestnall, myself and Alastair Wills 💪🏼
School of Geography proudly represented by Gary Priestnall, myself and Alastair Wills 💪🏼
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Just trying to cope with the madness, losing myself in a soothing XRM scan of a pennycress flower. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Just trying to cope with the madness, losing myself in a soothing XRM scan of a pennycress flower. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social
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If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
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Thought-provoking conversations about how #participatory research can be best conducted to answer the right questions, for the right reasons for the most desirable outcomes. Focusing on #land management across the uk but with global impact
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Thought-provoking conversations about how #participatory research can be best conducted to answer the right questions, for the right reasons for the most desirable outcomes. Focusing on #land management across the uk but with global impact
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
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Love this story - the sacred (religion) providing sanctuary for the sacred (nature). Some of these trees protected by Chinese temples are thousands of years old
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thousands of endangered trees preserved for centuries inside Chinese temples
Survey uncovers the rich biodiversity protected at sacred sites.
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Love this story - the sacred (religion) providing sanctuary for the sacred (nature). Some of these trees protected by Chinese temples are thousands of years old
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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When a language dies, so does a way of knowing the land. When traditions are erased, ecosystems lose their stewards.
Help us amplify the voices that sustain the planet. Read stories of biocultural diversity at terralingua.org
#WorldEnvironmentDay #BioculturalDiversity
Help us amplify the voices that sustain the planet. Read stories of biocultural diversity at terralingua.org
#WorldEnvironmentDay #BioculturalDiversity
June 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
When a language dies, so does a way of knowing the land. When traditions are erased, ecosystems lose their stewards.
Help us amplify the voices that sustain the planet. Read stories of biocultural diversity at terralingua.org
#WorldEnvironmentDay #BioculturalDiversity
Help us amplify the voices that sustain the planet. Read stories of biocultural diversity at terralingua.org
#WorldEnvironmentDay #BioculturalDiversity
War often seems to bring new kinds of pollution (nuclear fallout in WW2, Agent Orange in Vietnam, depleted uranium in the first Gulf War), and it seems that one lingering environmental effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be spent fibre optic cables from drones - probably a global first.
Birds on the front lines weave their nests from fiber optics. Photo by the 12th Azov Brigade.
June 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
War often seems to bring new kinds of pollution (nuclear fallout in WW2, Agent Orange in Vietnam, depleted uranium in the first Gulf War), and it seems that one lingering environmental effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be spent fibre optic cables from drones - probably a global first.
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In daylight, this Cape Fuchsia blossom is purely yellow. UV light reveals a different color dimension, including the teal markings (invisible to us!) that point pollinators to the nectar within.
Off to do a podcast – stay tuned, if you're into that sort of thing!
#flowers #photography
𝑃ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑠
Off to do a podcast – stay tuned, if you're into that sort of thing!
#flowers #photography
𝑃ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑠
June 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In daylight, this Cape Fuchsia blossom is purely yellow. UV light reveals a different color dimension, including the teal markings (invisible to us!) that point pollinators to the nectar within.
Off to do a podcast – stay tuned, if you're into that sort of thing!
#flowers #photography
𝑃ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑠
Off to do a podcast – stay tuned, if you're into that sort of thing!
#flowers #photography
𝑃ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑠
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Photosynthesis is the most important reaction on Earth. In most plants, leaves are the primary solar collectors & sugar-makers. But leaves are vulnerable to herbivores. As #defense, some plants use chemicals; others use physical defenses, like this Solanum pyracanthos #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
June 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Photosynthesis is the most important reaction on Earth. In most plants, leaves are the primary solar collectors & sugar-makers. But leaves are vulnerable to herbivores. As #defense, some plants use chemicals; others use physical defenses, like this Solanum pyracanthos #Solanaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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Is it hot right now in the UK?
New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal.
istheukhotrightnow.com
Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.
New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal.
istheukhotrightnow.com
Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.
May 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Is it hot right now in the UK?
New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal.
istheukhotrightnow.com
Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.
New interactive website allowing anyone to explore live temperatures hour-by-hour across the UK, and whether they are cool, warm or hot relative to normal.
istheukhotrightnow.com
Built by @roostweather.bsky.social.
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Nigella flowers are starting to bloom in the garden and they are magical 💙
May 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Nigella flowers are starting to bloom in the garden and they are magical 💙
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Over 5.5 millon records available! This is really something 😊
NEW! You can now access MILLIONS of our dried plant & fungal specimens via our new Data Portal!
The official release comes as we continue to digitise our entire collection, some of which were collected by Chares Darwin himself! 🌿
Read more & check it out 🧪 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #PlantScience
The official release comes as we continue to digitise our entire collection, some of which were collected by Chares Darwin himself! 🌿
Read more & check it out 🧪 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #PlantScience
May 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Over 5.5 millon records available! This is really something 😊
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People & Nature Can Thrive Together.
🌍🧍♀️🌎🌲🌏🍄🌐
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🌍🧍♀️🌎🌲🌏🍄🌐
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems
In the context of climate change, biodiversity decline and social injustice, reciprocity emerges as a way of living and being in this world that holds transformative potential. Concepts of recipro...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
People & Nature Can Thrive Together.
🌍🧍♀️🌎🌲🌏🍄🌐
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🌍🧍♀️🌎🌲🌏🍄🌐
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This is a cool thread and article on the ethnoprimatology (relationships between humans and other primates) of the Paiter-Suruí people in the Brazilian Amazon 👇🐒
#MEIOAMBIENTE 🐒 | Pesquisa investiga conhecimento tradicional de indígenas sobre primatas.
Saiba mais sobre o estudo de etnoprimatologia do povo indígena Paiter-Suruí no 🧵:
Saiba mais sobre o estudo de etnoprimatologia do povo indígena Paiter-Suruí no 🧵:
May 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is a cool thread and article on the ethnoprimatology (relationships between humans and other primates) of the Paiter-Suruí people in the Brazilian Amazon 👇🐒
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Pilot Whale
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
May 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pilot Whale
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay!
www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...
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Important piece on the still largely overlooked story of deforestation (and forest degradation) in the Gran Chaco - and their devastating social-ecological impacts: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A cemetery of trees’: vast green expanses turned to dust as loggers plunder South America’s Gran Chaco
Jaguars, giant armadillos and ocelots among species threatened by shrinking habitat in one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Important piece on the still largely overlooked story of deforestation (and forest degradation) in the Gran Chaco - and their devastating social-ecological impacts: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A few years ago at forecasting conference, a climate researcher made the good point that motivating action will face an additional barrier in places like UK, because on average it will become nicer, warmer place over next decade or so (I.e. April sunny photos in papers) - then much worse, of course
Nothing really captures the risk of deadly levels of heat leading to thousands of excruciating fatalities quite like a nice snap of two people enjoying the lovely weather under an umbrella.
May 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A few years ago at forecasting conference, a climate researcher made the good point that motivating action will face an additional barrier in places like UK, because on average it will become nicer, warmer place over next decade or so (I.e. April sunny photos in papers) - then much worse, of course
It was great yesterday to learn about the latest initiative from the amazing @mapbiomas.bsky.social project: 38+ years of land cover change around Brazil's archaeological sites! 🌎🏺🛰️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZb...
Find out more on their website (brasil.mapbiomas.org/2025/04/29/a...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZb...
Find out more on their website (brasil.mapbiomas.org/2025/04/29/a...)
Territórios com história: cobertura e uso da terra em sítios arqueológicos no Brasil
YouTube video by MapBiomas Brasil
m.youtube.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It was great yesterday to learn about the latest initiative from the amazing @mapbiomas.bsky.social project: 38+ years of land cover change around Brazil's archaeological sites! 🌎🏺🛰️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZb...
Find out more on their website (brasil.mapbiomas.org/2025/04/29/a...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZb...
Find out more on their website (brasil.mapbiomas.org/2025/04/29/a...)
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O povo Kaingang conta uma história sobre a gralha azul e a araucária. É uma história linda que chegou a virar livro pelas mãos do Vehn Táhn, liderança da retomada em Canela.
🇧🇷Gralha-azul
🌎Cyanocorax caeruleus
Conservação:Quase Ameaçada
A gralha-azul é uma ave passeriforme da família Corvidae.
📷 Frodoaldo Budke
🌎Cyanocorax caeruleus
Conservação:Quase Ameaçada
A gralha-azul é uma ave passeriforme da família Corvidae.
📷 Frodoaldo Budke
April 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
O povo Kaingang conta uma história sobre a gralha azul e a araucária. É uma história linda que chegou a virar livro pelas mãos do Vehn Táhn, liderança da retomada em Canela.
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"You may be thinking, How are trees DEI, exactly? Well, for starters, there are over 73,000 tree species on Earth, which is, frankly, way too much diversity."
"Trees are cultural Marxism. Improving Americans' 'mental and physical health' by making cities 'more pleasant places to live'? Nice try, commies."
We’re Eliminating All Urban Tree Plantings Because Trees Are DEI
This year, as cities around the world commemorate Earth Day, we, the Trump administration, will instead be celebrating America—the only part of the...
buff.ly
April 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"You may be thinking, How are trees DEI, exactly? Well, for starters, there are over 73,000 tree species on Earth, which is, frankly, way too much diversity."
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Absolutely true. UN says above 20% tree canopy cover makes it a forest
London has over 8.4 million trees with canopy cover of c.21%. It is one of the world’s largest urban forests
Those trees are doing an awful lot of good stuff
Goal should be every* urban area has at least 20% tree canopy cover
London has over 8.4 million trees with canopy cover of c.21%. It is one of the world’s largest urban forests
Those trees are doing an awful lot of good stuff
Goal should be every* urban area has at least 20% tree canopy cover
April 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Absolutely true. UN says above 20% tree canopy cover makes it a forest
London has over 8.4 million trees with canopy cover of c.21%. It is one of the world’s largest urban forests
Those trees are doing an awful lot of good stuff
Goal should be every* urban area has at least 20% tree canopy cover
London has over 8.4 million trees with canopy cover of c.21%. It is one of the world’s largest urban forests
Those trees are doing an awful lot of good stuff
Goal should be every* urban area has at least 20% tree canopy cover
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He's being subject to this exclusively for political opinions, as far as I know there's no claim that he committed a crime. If this is not the work of an authoritarian regime, I don't know how to describe it.
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
April 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
He's being subject to this exclusively for political opinions, as far as I know there's no claim that he committed a crime. If this is not the work of an authoritarian regime, I don't know how to describe it.
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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...