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laurabosco.bsky.social
Conservation Ecologist in ornithology, climate change, landscape- and agroecology based in @nathist.bsky.social, @helsinkiuni.bsky.social 🇫🇮 President @scbeurope.bsky.social AE @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social
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Open letter by scientists: 31 organizations and 2262 individual signatories call EU policymakers to Revive the Green Deal. The planetary crisis risks millions of people in the EU, billions globally. Weakening a key instrument to tackle the crisis is unwise! Read here: zenodo.org/records/1486...

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Abstract submission for SCCS 2025 Sweden is now open! Come participate in a friendly student conference on Conservation Science in Sweden, 18-22 August

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Happy International Day for Women and Girls in Science! Fantastic women scientist are working in the my research group @nathist.bsky.social @helsinki.fi! Please have a look at what kind of research topics they have: youtu.be/ugiyHy86taw It is a privilege to work with you! #womeninscience #minätutkin

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Happy International Day for Women in Science! I am studying elevational shifts of birds across European mountains 🏔️ I work with incredible women working on different topics linked to birds and climate change, check out what we are doing in @hkilabornithology.bsky.social ⬇️ @nathist.bsky.social

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The web-pages of our research group @hkilabornithology.bsky.social @nathist.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social have been updated, incl. a video about our work. Please have a look! www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... youtu.be/ugiyHy86taw

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Good news from India. And reminder that vulture killer Diclofenac is still authorised for veterinary use in Europe despite the evident risk to wildlife. www.birdlife.org/news/2025/01...

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Deadline prolonged to 31.1.2025: please help us distributing this call for a postdoc, to help improve the policy tools that can then support the restoration of landscape features in agricultural lands. Thankx!

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Sirke Piirainen from HelLO defended her thesis entitled 'Modelling changes in occurrence probabilities and abundances of species in the Antropocene based on multi-source environmental data'. Download the thesis from: helda.helsinki.fi/items/c9c94a... @nathist.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

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Silmästä silmään! / Take a good look at the spider's eyes! Portraits of spiders are on display in the café of the Natural History Museum. www.helsinki.fi/fi/luomus/uu...

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Dear President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & EVP @teresaribera.bsky.social, Scientists are deeply concerned about the gradual rollback of the Green Deal. On behalf of >2000 scientists, please see our Open Letter calling to restore its ambition: zenodo.org/records/1427... Please could you meet us?

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🌍 Calling all early-career researchers! Join the Conference of Society for Conservation Biology - Italy Chapter! L'Aquila (IT) 6-9 May 2025 🗓 Don't miss this chance to share your research and make new connections! 🌱 Full details: scbitaly.org/ecr-2025/ #ConservationBiology @scbeurope.bsky.social

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EC turns #GreenDeal into Grey Deal? 🧐 Deregulations of #CAP, dropping #SUR (Pesticide Regulation), and recent amendments of #DeforestationRegulation,... (list goes on) Join our Open Letter to reinstate a true Green Deal now: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign is in letter Please share

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Join SCB and our network of passionate individuals committed to safeguarding wildlife and wild places. Create meaningful connections, get reenergized and inspired and broaden your views through engaging with fellow conservationists. conbio.org #biodiversity #scicomm #conservationscience #consci

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#Climatechange causes species to shift towards poles, what is best known for the breeding season. But what happens in #winter, and are shifts similar across different habitats? Our #NewPaper tackles these questions: rdcu.be/cQFIJ @yanjiexu.bsky.social Purabi Deshpande @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

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We looked into the effects of habitat area, fragmentation and vegetation density on insect communities in vineyards and found that habitat area and local vegetation density outweigh fragmentation effects 🪲🐝🪳🍇🌿 @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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#birds got smaller under #climatechange during past half century - but patterns vary along spatioclimatic gradient: Birds got smaller at higher latitudes due to stronger T increases - but S birds adapted faster to T #warming read full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Happy Women's Day 2024 🤍 BES journals are celebrating their female AE: International Women’s Day 2024: Ecological Solutions and Evidence appliedecologistsblog.com/2024/03/08/i... @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social #naistenpäivä #WomensDay2024

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EC turns #GreenDeal into Grey Deal? 🧐 Deregulations of #CAP, dropping #SUR (Pesticide Regulation), and recent amendments of #DeforestationRegulation,... (list goes on) Join our Open Letter to reinstate a true Green Deal now: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign is in letter Please share

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In our STOTEN_journal paper we show how landscape structure mediates #bumblebee colony viral dynamics🐝🗺️ ➡️landscape heterogeneity lowers viral loads ➡️habitat diversity & connectivity support colony development read full OA article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Importing some old posts from you-know-where to this space as a way of introducing what my research is about ⬇️ ⬇️

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More research news from earlier this year: What does climate change do to ecological communities? 2/3 of European 🐦 communities shifted to cooler areas during the last 30 years and large obstacles, e.g. 🏔️s & 🌊s, guided these shifts. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Pic by @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

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New paper out on arctic & common terns in Finnish archipelago @Ornis Fennica Enzo Degot did a fantastic job monitoring tern breeding success & predation pressure during his internship! ➡️full text: ornisfennica.journal.fi/article/view/1… @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social , R Wistbacka, K Kaasalainen

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We are excited to be joining the conservation community on Bluesky. Regular news on European conservation research and policy will follow, stay tuned!

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