Cameron Goodhead

PhD Student @CEGDurham studying effects of rewilding on habitat structure🌳 & microclimate 🌡️| Keen climber, surfer & wildlife photographer 📸

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@ACBowland @Trends_Ecol_Evo Congrats Anna! Saw this in the Guardian earlier, so cool!

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#Aurora over Durham Cathedral tonight

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@LauraCECampbell @Chomicki_G @phylonatworks @Dan_nesbit13 @adriaexists Congrats Laura! 🎉

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@Christophe_Patt @JonathanPDrury @Lancaster_LT @LauraCECampbell @CEGDurham @DurBiol Woo congrats Christophe! 🥳

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

So @TheGreenParty now have 4 seats - as many as the revolting Reform party are forecast to get. So why in god’s name is @BBCNews rabbiting on about Reform still and not talking about extraordinary Green performance??

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Green Party have successfully won all four of their target seats, despite an original exit poll prediction of just two

[Damian Carrington @dpcarrington]

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me…
🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

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@thereal_jayhay @MerlinHanbury Thanks Jessica!

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A fun return to my old stomping grounds in the stunning Bodmin Moor temperate rainforests at Cabilla Cornwall last month.
So good to be back!
@MerlinHanbury

[Nick Deere @NicolasJDeere]

Thrilled to share our new @DICE_Kent research on fire impacts - hot off the press🔥 in @PNASNews

Working with @BorneoNature & using 16-years of data, we examined the ecological impacts of fire and potential for recovery in Indonesia's tropical peatlands🧵1/10

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Beautiful photo of Gracia and family! 🦧

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@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog I agree it doesnt tell full picture. But doesn't need to be a hard accept/reject. We can acknowledge that it can provide insights into differences in local biodiversity, but loses meaning comparing environmentally different sites eg grouse moor v hay meadow, UK v Switzerland etc

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@AndrewGilruth @Alexander_Lees @stuartpengs Not at all. But as has been continuously highlighted, we shouldn't be comparing environmentally different countries (like the blog does), but instead with what has been lost compared to baselines within the country (eg the biodiversity intactness index)

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@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog Right I may stop here then as you’re clearly not reading what I am saying. What I said is that comparing species richness between environmentally similar sites is valid. It is fine to compare, say, RSPB Minsmere to surrounding areas. It is not fine to compare to an alpine meadow.

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@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog It is definitely more valid when eNGOs say that their site has X species more than the surrounding landscape, rather than saying that because Switzerland has less fish than the UK we are actually doing great for biodiversity.

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@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog I'm not saying species count is a useless metric. It can be useful - although still is not the only one we need. I more meant the way the data were used in the blog is very flawed. It also becomes more flawed when the differences between compared sites increase e.g. btw countries

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@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog There's loads more issues with it and is the reason it is a mere blog post and not an actual published dataset..

Very ironic that you are using this to bash eNGOs for being misleading with data.

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@AndrewGilruth @stuartpengs @turbotechdog 3) The data doesn't account for any differences in monitoring resources across countries. Eg Slovenia is down as only have 400 plant species - compared to neighbours Austria (2,578), Croatia (4,288).
UK has excellent monitoring and reporting schemes.