Haydn Thomas

Arctic researcher. Lover of trees. Sleeping willow.

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

Thanks for the encouragement yesterday @BBCOutofDoors. We did it!!

[munrosinaday @munrosinaday]

282 Summits. 1 Day. 1 (special) Club. Well done all!!

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

What a day!

[munrosinaday @munrosinaday]

Red & yellow club turned it blue.

[Nadine Thomas @nadinepthomas]

Ketchup’s got his @CarnethyHRC colours on especially for @munrosinaday 3/5 ✅

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@edinhelp Thanks - it’s outside no. 54 Kings Road

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@edinburghcounc @edinhelp this is the inside of our food waste bin on Kings Road, Portobello. There’s no lid, no signs, no information.

It’s like this every week.

Food waste is one of the biggest contributors to climate change in Scotland.

Surely this could be done better?

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@edinhelp Thanks, amazingly fast response as ever :)

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@edinhelp Yes a communal street bin

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

It may be hailing in Edinburgh, but that won’t stop Ketchup from performing his civic duty to have his photo taken on Election Day #dogsatpollingstations #Election2021 #ScottishElection

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@c_urwin @nadinepthomas 😁

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@Edinburgh_CC @portobellocc Not sure who best directed to - Boathouse Bar & Grill have just “cleaned up” their 12ft Christmas tree (lying in Kings Place since Jan) by dumping it on Portobello beach. Not sure if this counts as #flytipping, but certainly not responsible disposal

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@TeamShrub @gndaskalova @BritishEcolSoc Nice one Gergana! Sad to have missed it

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

What is life like at the cold edge of the galactic plane of global trait space?

What does that even mean??

Find out more in our latest 'behind the paper' blog post at https://t.co/QMo2Dk64ca

@TeamShrub @NERCscience @NatureComms

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@frantecol @BenBondLamberty @NatureComms @IslaHMS @annebeejay @TeamShrub @EdinburghUni @GeosciencesEd @NERCscience @TryPlantTraitDB Thanks Franciska! FYI authors are just in alphabetical order by database - we chose not to have a 'senior author' on this one.

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

Do the 'global rules' governing a plant's form and function apply in one of the most extreme environments on the planet?

From a thought experiment to an international synthesis, we test trait relationships in the cold extremes of the tundra biome.

Thanks to all involved!

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome:
https://t.co/SnNjVdrfVL

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@IslaHMS
@annebeejay
@teamshrub
@EdinburghUni
@GeosciencesEd
@NERCscience

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

@JTKerby Delightfully satisfying about sums it up

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

But seriously, if you just listen to one podcast episode this year, listen to this one.

[Coding Club @our_codingclub]

Our FREE online #DataScience @our_codingclub course is live! Join #EcoDataScience and learn about #Rstats, #dataviz, #tidyverse and more. Our self-paced course is for learners from diverse backgrounds. @DataLabScotland @EdinburghUni

https://t.co/jOCb53WurN

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

Willow wishes can come true @IslaHMS...

[Team Shrub @TeamShrub]

I always dreamed of seeing @TeamShrub research covered in @WIRED and today it happened!!! Read about our recent team paper on Arctic greening lead by @IslaHMS and @JTKerby and supported by @InsideNatGeo. Thanks @WIREDScience for covering our research!
https://t.co/T7zBNOUPB5

[Jeff Kerby @JTKerby]

Our paper on Arctic Greening Complexity - now published in @NatureClimate

Embracing multi-scale science to better understand earth's broadest biological signal of climate change.

Epitome of a collaborative effort: 40 authors across 36 institutions!!

https://t.co/tRfGdEcUt2

[Haydn Thomas @hjdthomas]

Proud to be a part of the team!

“Tundra plants act as a barrier between the warming atmosphere and huge stocks of carbon stored in frozen ground.

Changes in vegetation ... could significantly impact efforts to keep warming below 1.5 degrees”

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#ClimateCrisis

[Team Shrub @TeamShrub]

From space, satellites show a much greener Arctic than in decades past. On the ground, as the Arctic warms, plants are leafing out earlier, growing taller and expanding in cover. But, the greening seen from space doesn't always match change on the ground.
https://t.co/HS3ugU9DeH