Fergus Blyth

Zoology MSci (Hons) graduate now seeking opportunities and experiences in the ecology sector. Outdoor enthusiast. Views my own.

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@brubaker_ingrid @SNSC2024 @ThinkUHI @NatureScot Was great hearing about your research! Nice to see some more social-science focused aspects of nature research represented at the conference

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@brubaker_ingrid @eRA_Curator @Rothamsted @SNSC2024 @ThinkUHI @NatureScot Thanks! It's a tip I picked up last year - makes such a difference for networking!

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

Really enjoyed presenting my work from my placement year working with @eRA_Curator at @Rothamsted at #SNSC2024 and hearing about other brilliant Scottish Nature research! Thanks so much to @SNSC2024 @ThinkUHI @NatureScot for hosting and organising, hope to be back next year!

[Scotland's Nature Student Conference 2026 @SNSC2026]

@fergus_blyth also brought a poster for his research (and taught us that a glue stick is a last minute saviour for poster updates 🤫🫡)

[Scotland's Nature Student Conference 2026 @SNSC2026]

More carbon! @fergus_blyth talked to us about soil carbon loss and gain, in the context of rewilding 🍃 can we use this as a measure of rewilding success? #SNSC2024

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

Had a great time presenting yesterday at @ThinkUHI and @NatureScot's @SNSC2024 conference and hearing some fascinating talks. Looking forward to getting stuck into day 2 soon! #SNSC2024

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@JMBecologist I might be interpreting this incorrectly so apologies, but it's not so much recovery as a chance establishment of the tree? The Sycamore Gap example shows how a solitary individual is vulnerable and so is the ecosystem it supported as no other individuals can pick up the slack.

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

Can't stop looking at this - when I took this photo at Corrour it felt remote, but the wider perspective is on a whole other level. Definitely somewhere worth ticking off the bucket list!

[Friends of the West Highland Lines @FWHLines]

Mark Fielding’s image showing how remote Corrour Station is!

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@Right_2Roam It's something you take for granted in Scotland and then takes you by surprise in England. However, I think the different landscapes do play a large role in it too. It's a lot easier to advocate a right to roam if the landscape is a moorland, not arable farmland.

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@NeilSalter4 @IanCarter67 @Jemimasgarden How would a rescue reduce local interbreeding? Would you be releasing the animal in a different environment? And if you remove the animal from the gene pool via rescue, how is that reducing interbreeding? Surely it is simply reducing the size of the gene pool?

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@IanCarter67 Someone who rescues an animal they perceive to be in distress obviously has a care for the natural world, and that is to be encouraged. I suppose the issue is: how do we combine that passion with action that is beneficial to a wider ecosystem, not just one animal? (2/2)

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@IanCarter67 I think there is an under discussed element of anthropomorphic projection in this - we might perceive an animal to be in distress if we are comparing it against human emotion. An animal that isn't moving could simply be resting briefly, not injured or sick (1/2).

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@Bruce_Adamson @UofGlasgow @UofGLaw Congratulations Bruce! Welcome to the Glasgow University family!

[Rothamsted Long-Term Experiments @eRA_Curator]

New valuable datasets for changes in 75 years of soil fertility in response to contrasting farming systems; long-term grass, long-term arable, switching one to the other and arable-leys @Rothamsted #soilcarbon #fairdata #soilscience - see the next two tweets for the vital links..

[Rothamsted Research @Rothamsted]

At our North Wyke and Harpenden sites, you're never far from beautiful nature and world-leading research!

#phd #phdlife #postgrad #stem #stemcareers #agriculture #plantpathology #entomology #academia #research

[Tom Diserens @tomdiserens]

The ecological impact of wolf reintroduction to Britain. A wolf ecologist’s view🧵.

Wolf reintroduction to Britain is again a hot topic in the media. So I want to share what we know about the wolf’s ecological impacts in a model European system, Białowieża Primeval Forest.

[Fergus Blyth @fergus_blyth]

@tomdiserens Would love to read more on this. I recently wrote a lit review for uni that examined factors influencing human attitudes towards returning wolves in Europe and its implications for Scotland, and many of the points you mention came up during my reading. Excellent thread 👍