NovelEco Project

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We are seeking a dedicated and passionate research assistant to assist the Herbarium Digitisation Coordinator to continue digitisation efforts at an increased pace within our #herbarium. my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
#AcademicTwitter #Botany

From control to cohabitation: Social-ecological insights on urban wildness narratives Narratives surrounding urban green space management have experienced significant shifts in recent years. While the command-and-control approach to urb…

Our first paper of 2026 is open access: "From control to cohabitation: Social-ecological insights on urban wildness narratives". Led by @maireadod.bsky.social along with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Erik Andersson, & @marcuscollier.bsky.social : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#novelecosystems

One-Planetary-Health: Reflections on Urban Novel Ecosystems in Bogotá and Copenhagen Nordhavnstippen, a space for birds and ruderal nature, 2024. © Natalia Rodriguez-Castañeda. All rights reserved. by Natalia Rodriguez-Castañeda What do Los Cerros, Bogotá’s degraded peri-urban fore…

Yet another proud moment for me as a PhD supervisor in the @noveleco.bsky.social team! Here is the latest from Dr. Natalia Rodriguez Castañeda.
One-Planetary-Health: Reflections on Urban Novel Ecosystems in Bogotá and Copenhagen seeingthewoods.org/2025/12/18/o... #novelecosystems #onehealth

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

Britain may be 0, but Ireland is barely a shade better as one of the 10 countries with the lowest connection to nature. It's about time we get together and sort this out. Great paper by Myles Richardson @findingnature.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.

Congrats newly minted Dr. @maireadod.bsky.social!

Pic is from a 2023 visit to Trinity College (hosted by @marcuscollier.bsky.social), including @dublinsoil.bsky.social next to Dr. O'Donnell on the right side of the table on a sunny warm mid-spring day.

Very happy to report the first glimpse at the new identity for our research group—EcoVisualization Studio—which combines @mountainlegacy.bsky.social with CEDAR (Co-Lab for Ecological Design And Restoration). More soon!

Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...

Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marcuscollier.bsky.social & Megan Lynn Maurer. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth

We are hiring!
Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation at Trinity College, School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Botany! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Any enquiries, please DM me!
#academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience

Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities Urbanisation disrupts connections with nature, compromising human, biodiversity, and environmental health. Urban Wild Spaces – pockets of unmanaged and spontaneous vegetation within cities – may of...

Our new open-access paper is out. Led by Natalia Rodríguez Castañeda, with Melissa Pineda Pinto, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, @marcuscollier.bsky.social & Megan Lynn Maurer. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth

Only days before submitting her thesis, my PhD student Natalia just had her 2nd @noveleco.bsky.social paper published. 'Let it grow wild! A more-than-One-Health perspective for wild spaces in cities' is open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... #onehealth #novelecosystems

An effort to seed a revival of hedgerows in Dublin city “We're going to develop different urban trial hedgerows,” says Sophie von Maltzan. “The edible hedgerow, and the not-so-fast-growing hedgerow, and the thorn-free hedge.”

An effort to seed a revival of hedgerows in Dublin city www.dublininquirer.com/an-effort-to...

#TNOCRoundtable THE KINSHIP SERIES 🌳
The kinship with trees and forests: How can we cultivate reciprocal relationships with trees and forests?
Read and join the conversation 👉 buff.ly/gCv29Lz

#KinshipWithNature #UrbanForests #Reciprocity #DeepEcology #NatureCulture

📰 Just out in @pnas.org special issue: Elizabeth M. Cook, Yeowon Kim, Nancy B. Grimm, and Weiqi Zhou introduce how #NatureBasedSolutions can make cities more resilient.
🔗 buff.ly/KJPOGHX
#NbS #UrbanSustainability #Equity #ClimateResilience #GreenCities

We are hiring!
The School of Natural Sciences in Trinity College Dublin is seeking to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Science.
Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui..., and under 'Department', scroll to The School of Natural Sciences. Deadline: August 15th.

Great weather for doing some research on drystone wall ecology. Here, with two recently graduated students working as excellent research assistants, Órla R. Fitzgerald and Evelyn Sweeney, we are collecting some very preliminary data and testing methods.

The second ‘Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming #urban #naturebasedsolutions, led by Dr. @timonm.bsky.social‬, can be found here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10..... This was a huge effort and a key output from the excellent NATURA Project team! Also #openaccess thanks to the NSF.

I’m delighted to be part of the writing team for TWO exciting new papers published today as part of the Natura Project Network; #openaccess thanks to the NSF. ‘Nature-based solutions for #urban #sustainability’, led by Dr Elizabeth Cook, is here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #naturebasedsolutions

Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces Scientific Reports - Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces

Our latest open-access @noveleco.bsky.social paper is out! 'Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces'. We scraped social media data to show general attitudes to #urbanwildspaces rdcu.be/evHeW.

Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces Scientific Reports - Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces

Our latest paper is out!
Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces: rdcu.be/evHeW.
Led by Haider Khalid, we scraped social media to show general attitudes to #urban #novelecosystems #AI

We're hiring a Teaching Fellow for the next academic year. An applied ecologist with expertise in terrestrial field ecology and contemporary biodiversity loss/policy issues. See the TCD vacancies site or contact me for details. Please circulate, especially to PhD students nearing completion.

Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions In an era defined by urgent environmental crises and accelerating urbanization, the quest for equitable and sustainable solutions has never been more pressing. A groundbreaking study led by

Our latest open source publication is making the news!
Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions scienmag.com/advancing-mu...

Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions In an era defined by urgent environmental crises and accelerating urbanization, the quest for equitable and sustainable solutions has never been more pressing. A groundbreaking study led by

A great write-up on our recent publication led by Melissa Pineda-Pinto

@marcuscollier.bsky.social @noveleco.bsky.social

scienmag.com/advancing-mu...

🎉 Launch day! #Science2Story is here!

As 21 Biodiversa+ funded research projects wrap up, they’ve teamed up with NBSComics to transform key findings into three powerful long-form comics.

🌍 Dive into the comics 👉 nbscomics.com/science2story/

Don’t miss this great new paper about Co-creation in urban sustainability transitions just published in Urban Transformations @biomedcentral.bsky.social

Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone

Great paper by @jcsvenning.bsky.social and his team discussed in today's @irishtimes.com.
Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe. www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions - npj Urban Sustainability npj Urban Sustainability - Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions

Wonderful new paper from our amazing Dr. Melissa Pineda-Pinto and the NovelEco team: Realizing #multispeciesjustice through a capability approach to promote #naturebasedsolutions. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🌱 We use the Capability Approach as a bridge between these frameworks, tested through embodied place-based workshops in novel urban ecologies.

🌱 Our findings highlight how recognizing more-than-hunan agencies can help identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for multispecies flourishing in urban settings.

🌱 We argue for the untapped potential of novel ecologies as crucial sites for just a d biodiverse urban futures.