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Join us on 3rd Dec for an online masterclass - PhD proposal and funding 101.

Our experts will discuss the main funding schemes available and offer advice on how to decide your next move. They will also cover the ideal PhD proposal structure and key things to include.
October 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Over the next two weeks, our climate scientists will be playing an important role at #COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference that is being held in Brazil.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Join the GSI for our next talk with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore, UCL, social anthropologist and author of "Roadkill", who will discuss how we can move towards a car free future and sustainable transport for all.

Email [email protected] to confirm your attendance.

#GSIExeter #ClimateAction
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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PhD studentship available. Please repost.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Dr Jonathan Bennie has taken up the ESI Challenge of the Month for November 2025.
Tune in to listen to his (hybrid) talk "Shifting grounds: rethinking conservation in an age of rapid climate change."

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#esiChallengeOfTheMonth
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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as well as finding quicker better & more creative ways to build positive visions of environmentally just #futures.

#renewparliament2025 | #renewbiodiversity | #isnatureforall?
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November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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In today’s #Biodiversity Parliament we will hear from a number of our practitioner partners, how they think about & are tackling #environmental #justice, as well as the challenges faced.

#renewparliament2025 | #renewbiodiversity | #isnatureforall?
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November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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“As the global community faces increasingly complex environmental and climate challenges, UNESCO Biospheres serve as models for enhancing local governance in sustainability and social-ecological resilience."

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Legal flexibility helps UNESCO Biospheres boost nature conservation and human wellbeing, study shows
The legal flexibility associated with UNESCO Biosphere Reserves has helped communities to become more involved in conservation, new analysis shows. The focus on less prescriptive regulations allows th...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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the complexities of #politics & power & the importance of #nature #connectedness.

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This is a title card for the RENEW Biodiversity Parliament 2025 - Is Nature for All? The card has a painting of a person connected to the earth which, flourishes on one side and on the other is scorched with heat. The painting is by Ria Poole
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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New paper: Aqueous potentially ecotoxic metal(loid)s in a tropical mining-affected river system: sources and environmental and human health risks.

Authors: John Kennedy Okewling, Matthew Eyre & Karen A. Hudson-Edwards.
(First paper from John's PhD research👏)

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October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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New publication in @microbiologysociety.org "Seaweed exposure modulates Escherichia coli plasmid conjugation rate."

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#AMR #AntiMicrobialResistance #seaweed

Authors: David Sünderhauf, Macaulay Winter, Jasmine Ramshaw, Emily Stevenson and Michiel Vos.
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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New publication in @jappliedecology.bsky.social "Artificial light at night alters earthworm communities and soil aggregation" by Jiaqing Cai, Jonathan Bennie, Maisy Inston and @kevinjgaston.bsky.social

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October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Scholarships up to £10k available to international MSc students starting in Sept 2026 💸

Submit a 300 word statement to apply. Deadline 15th Jan 📅

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Good luck! 🍀
Exeter Excellence Scholarships. Applications open for round 1 2026/27. University of Exeter Cornwall. Background photo of four students sat around the University of Exeter rock on Penryn campus with leafy green threes in the background. Who can apply? You must be an international fee paying student. You must have an offer to study in 2026/27 academic year. Awards of £3000, £5000 or £10000 are available. To apply submit a short personal statement. Deadline: 15th January 2026
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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24th October: Want to be inspired by real stories of recovery and collaboration? Don’t miss the panel “Recovering Nature on Land”, where conservation leaders will share how they’re restoring habitats, protecting species, and bringing landscapes back to life!🌱

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October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#BlackHistoryMonth

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October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I wrote a piece for The Conversation that came out today focused on our new study but also in general about mixtures of drugs in the environment and what that could mean for AMR -

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Growing cocktail of medicines in world’s waterways could be fuelling antibiotic resistance
Every flush sends traces of our medicines into rivers. When antibiotics mix with common drugs like painkillers or hormones, bacteria can evolve to resist treatment.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The second round of the Sustainability Projects Fund is still open for applications!
Open to all University of Exeter staff and students on all campuses (*students must apply with a faculty or staff sponsor).
Deadline: 21st Oct 2025. Apply now!
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October 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Interested in just, sustainable food systems? Sign up for the Exeter Food newsletter for news, events, opportunities and resources: forms.office.com/e/7FEYZtV025

Here’s the September issue: createsend.com/t/r-085D9467...

#FoodStudies
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October 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Registration closes on 28 October. Limited funds are available for @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk investigators living in Cornwall for overnight stay in Bristol.

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October 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Fun to be part of this with the two Pieters + team. Double the Pieter, double the insight into forest microclimate monitoring
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Fibre-optic cables (also used for internet) can be used as a novel means of continuous measurements of #forest #microclimate in space and over time, at 25-cm spatial and 1-minute temporal resolution

New paper @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social:
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September 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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POSITIVE NEWS 🗣️

Green turtles move from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Least concern’ on the IUCN Red List, thanks to decades of hard work by conservationists globally.

Read the full assessment - iucnredlist.org/fr/species/4615/285108125

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October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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For the first time, how mixtures of commonly used medications, which end up in our waterways and natural environments, might increase the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been shown in new research from @ecehh.org

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“Cocktails” of common pharmaceuticals in our waterways may promote antibiotic resistance
New research has shown, for the first time, how mixtures of commonly used medications which end up in our waterways and natural environments might increase the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria. When humans or animals
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October 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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This focused lecture explores decolonial approaches to African and Black material cultures, embodied heritages, natural resources, law, and extractive legacies shaped by Africa–Europe entanglements.
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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BHM
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October 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Researchers are asking Cornish communities to help trace the region’s forgotten history of seaweed eating. A new ‘seaweed eating archive’ aims to preserve Cornwall’s coastal food heritage.
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Help researchers track the fascinating history of seaweed eating in Cornwall
Researchers need the help of communities in Cornwall to help trace the fascinating history of seaweed eating. There has been a seaweed culinary revival in recent years, but people have eaten it for th...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM