Very interested to find out more about IUCN Urban Alliance ‘s development of an urban nature index @rmgalt Kate E. Jones 🦇 Peter Massini #EUGIC2019

Exciting the hear that @BartlettUCL may start a module on greening the city next year!! #EUGIC2019

As a lover of sunlight, and firm believer in it’s magical health benefits, I find this very worrying ‘access to natural light is not mentioned in the World Health Organization (WHO) Healthy Cities concept, nor in any of the 17 United Nations SDGs.’ nature.com/articles/d4158…

I’ve voted! If you love bats you should too! 🦇🦇🦇

The youngest person to ever receive an honorary doctorate in the UK is 17 year old Dr Mya-Rose Craig Mya-Rose Craig who set up #Black2Nature to help engage more children from minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) in conservation. What an amazing woman! bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

This week I taught my first remote lecture. This taught me to ask for feedback regularly (don’t be a ‘talking head’) and plan in group activities so the students can connect with each other. I didn’t do these things enough and I wish I had. nature.com/articles/d4158…

What can we learn from WW2 about our response to COVID-19 now? Fascinating reflection from a team MOI Digital that my own Mum Valerie Fairbrass has been working with to digitise the WW era literature from the Ministry of Information. historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/… #covid

With urban green spaces full of people right now, the importance of urban nature feels even greater! Lovely cartoon in the latest issue of the Niche magazine from the British Ecological Society

Closing roads to make more space for people in cities is a great idea! Especially now there is less traffic on the roads. With cemeteries in Southwark Council now closed the parks are heaving! Centre for London Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan please make this happen 🙏🏼

Bats don’t like rain! 🦇 🌧 Kate E. Jones 🦇 Dr Sarah Gallacher

While the people are away the wildlife will play! Some lovely pics of a fox mum and her cub caught on camera last week. We’re looking for hedgehogs for the LondonHogWatch project, but in the meantime I’m loving spying on all the other critters that call #Catford home #se6

Bats also don’t like cold! 🦇🥶#StayHome

We're all aware of the devastating fires that have plagued the Amazon for the past two years, but what about the Brazilian Pantanal? Excited to be working with Alison Fairbrass and colleagues at USP on a new project ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/susta…

Does anyone else still get a little thrill when they see their name in print? (from our forthcoming paper with Carter Brandon, Katrina Brandon, and Alison Fairbrass - stay tuned!)

GDP is not a good measure of progress, as it doesn't account for the depletion of natural resources on which economies depend. We reviewed efforts to improve it, in an article (just published!) led by Carter Brandon, Katrina Brandon, and Alison Fairbrass journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…

My department (Cornell Department of Natural Resources and the Environment) is hiring a tenure-track faculty position: Social-Ecological Systems Scientist academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/18546 **Please rt to help us get the word out to as many people as possible.** Academic Chatter™ #Jobs

Next week I'm hosting a webinar on my latest research on #NaturalCapital reporting in the Brazilian Pantanal: thegreenforum.org/event/natural-… w/ Julia Tomei UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources See you there!

Our researchers have their own fascinating stories. Meet Alison Fairbass, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources Research Fellow in Natural Capital Marine and Coastal Ecosystems. Learn about her work ➡️ ow.ly/IXu250N1GE8 #Ecosystems #Marine #Coastal