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🚨 We’re hiring! Join our team at Forest Research and help shape the future of our forests 🌿
We have a range of exciting roles available — from ecology and fieldwork to finance, project management, and internal communications:
🔬 Scientist – Forest Ecology (Hampshire)
🌱 Forest Research Worker (Haldon Forest Park)
💼 Finance Administrator x2 (Hampshire or Edinburgh)
📊 Project Specialist (Hampshire or Edinburgh)
🗣️ Internal Communications Manager (Hampshire or Edinburgh)
📅 Deadlines: 18–26 May 2025
📍 Various UK locations
👉 Find out more and apply now: https://t.co/eaITGw9FV7
#ForestResearchJobs #EcologyCareers #JoinOurTeam
🍂This new study is the first to investigate how various leaf biomechanical traits can affect leaf-litter decomposition trajectories, advancing our understanding of how litter decomposability is controlled by leaf functional traits👇#functionaltraits
https://t.co/rk8GGcSMhj
📣 Calling all PhD students 📣
Want to learn how to translate research into impact? Applications for the BES POST Fellowship are now open for real-world experience working within the UK parliament to support the use of research evidence.
🗓️ Apply by 11 June
Find out more here: https://t.co/2a0G9e10qT
Tree functional strategies and soil microbial communities regulate forest ecosystem services 🌲
Provides important information on which functional groups may be planted to promote particular bundles of ecosystem services 💭
🔗 https://t.co/hrwz7Amdr6
🌿Our new study in @NaturePlants: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitats—not closed #forests🐎🌳🔆🌸Highlights need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & avoiding uniform dense #reforestation🌳☀️🦬https://t.co/VevD9d3XQ7
Ready to take the next step in your forestry career?
We’re offering 12-month student placements for those studying forestry or a related discipline.
Contribute to Scotland’s woodland creation goals and gain hands-on experience. Find out more: https://t.co/8pWH0CCZBf
Interested in advancing understanding of the ecology and evolutionary consequences of novel communities in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems? 💭
Proposals for our new cross-journal Special Feature with @PaN_BES and @JEcology are now open! 👇
https://t.co/B4ArtwP2Be
What's the best way to maximise #biodiversity in #forests, and does it work with every tree monoculture?
See the global results from #DiversiTree@JamesHuttonInst featured in our end-of-project report.
🌱 Have your say in the future of biodiversity action!
@IPBES is calling for requests & suggestions to shape its work programme up to 2030. Whether you're a government, NGO, researcher or Indigenous community, your input matters!
📅 Deadline: 31 May 2025
🔗 Submit here: ...
Check out our new interdisciplinary paper on early detection strategies for invading tree pests. Providing the first surveillance map for emerald ash borer incursions into the UK.
https://t.co/AFBrlczdDE @Rothamsted@UniOfYork@Forest_Research@uniofwarwick
Top forestry job!
Less than a week to submit your application for the post of Director of Policy & Practice at @scotforestry.
Help us shape the future of forestry policy in Scotland! Closing Date 6th April.
➡️https://t.co/hDiOBbUTOs
🌳 Opportunity Alert! 🌳
The @royal_forestry Viking Bursary offers up to £2,000 for higher education students to fund original research. Topics include climate change impacts, tree disease, and drought recovery.
Apply here: https://t.co/yt8QAkHLjg
📅 Deadline: 1 May
🌳Published🌳
#Tree#mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between #plant & microbial communities & #soil organic C stocks at local scales in a temperate #forest https://t.co/fVpVzaXpdN
🌳 Join Future Trees Trust as a Board Member! 🌳
Who We're Looking For:
Experts in forestry, environmental conservation, business strategy, finance, marketing, community engagement, or fundraising. Your skills can drive our mission forward!
Apply now: https://t.co/3HGlDKDWpa
Two fully-funded PhD scholarships @BangorUni in conservation social science. Deadline 5th May.
If you have conservation scientists, geographers, economists, sociologists in your network do share. Details in thread below (1/?)
https://t.co/YJHkyDc5LF
Working alongside the @ForestryComm, we've launched a virtual work experience programme on @springpod that gives young people the chance to explore the diverse range of careers available in forestry.
Help us by sharing this programme with your network 👇
https://t.co/wbkk9mAWzF
Happy International Forest Day 2025!🌲🌳Here are some of the committee's favourite forests to celebrate - though it is hard to choose!
First up, Sabina sends this picture from Nepal, where a beautiful forest thrives right beside the highway connecting Nepal and China.
Henny sent a picture from a forest of which she has many fond childhood memories (a conventionally managed, but nonetheless beautiful, beech forest in Germany).