📢 Opportunity for a PhD studentship at the University of Stirling BES Stirling

Soil carbon and biodiversity response to Scottish Highland rewilding

iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/s…

Talk accept for British Ecological Society and registered to be there IN PERSON! Expect tales of Finnish beavers, biodiversity benefits and mosquito-inspired hysteria BES Aquatic Ecology

Can anyone recommend another cycling club membership that provides insurance for cycling commuters? Don’t want to pay British cycling another penny.

In the latest edition of British Ecological Society The Niche, it poses the question “how hard can insects bite?” But doesn’t answer the question! Does anyone know?!?

We were discussing this in our lab meeting this week Patrick Cook Callum Dunleavy Nigel Willby Rachel Steenson Kelsey Wilson Flora Rendell-Bhatti

Mountains and vistas all around! Beautiful views from the Black Mount and the red deer starting to rut.

JOB ALERTS!
We have two vacancies for tenured lectureship positions in Global Change Biology (stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-…) and Environmental management (stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-…).
Please pass on and get in touch if interested!

Stirling Outdoor Ed BES Stirling Lauren Ferguson
I'm sure there's some fantastic recent graduates who'd be perfect for this role with Scottish Wildlife Trust. scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/job/falkirk-ra…

Other roles: scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/about-us/worki…

Experimenting this year by creating a learning agreement between staff and students. Now we just have to stick to it!

Some really cool natural history in this paper.
The oldest semi-aquatic beaver in the world and a new hypothesis for the evolution of locomotion in Castoridae
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

4 new (open ended) lectureships in BES Stirling. 2 adverts out in Plant Sciences, Environmental Genomics. 2 more coming soon in Environmental Management (teaching & scholarship) and Global Change Biology. Lovely dept to work in + you get to live in Scotland! stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-…

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Cool job alert 🚨
Research technician working in field- & lab-based ecology.
Details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/CSZ380/res…
Post till 31-12-26
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I'm always happy to discuss our research on beavers and aquatic biodiversity!

An interesting new pond paper by Dr Peter J. Gilbert and others:

'Organic carbon in British lowland ponds: estimating sediment stocks, possible practical benefits and significant unknowns'

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In comparison to a non beaver-created wetland. Much easier!

When crossing a beaver dam, one must exercise balance, grace and poise… can somebody let Nigel Willby know this??

I’m going to leave this squashed mozi on my glove as a message to all the other bastards out there!

The thing that makes beaver wetlands biodiverse is the patchiness, some bits are really monotonous and other parts are an amazing mess. Disturbance (or lack of it) is key.