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It's #NationalBookLoversDay! 📚 Here's a 🧵 of just a few brilliant books written by our academics that we highly recommend. 👇

It's amphibian and reptile surveying time for our Ecological Survey Techniques students at @OxfordConted. Look at how teeny this slow worm is - only a few days old ♥ Also, our business cards rule (I'll let myself out now)! 📐

Endemic yellow-eyed penguin was chosen Bird of the Year in New Zealand. The endangered "people's penguin" goes by another, rather more boisterous name: hoiho. birdoftheyear.org.nz

Eight years ago I had the pleasure of mentoring a maths doctoral student interested in doing more #scicomm. Today, I picked up her first book from Daunt Books ♥ Huge congratulations, Dr Paula Rowińska - can't wait to get started on it properly. #mentoring #maps #womeninstem

First OxonMammals seminar of the season! Hugh Warwick talks about killing in the name of conservation at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. 🦔 🐿️🐾

There's a new release of Peergos out! This release is 10x faster in Firefox, uses 10x fewer connections, a lot less memory and runs in more configurations. github.com/Peergos/web-ui…

Does Nessie generate ecotourism revenue? Are elves subject to habitat loss? Is eating evil spirits an ecosystem service? Behold one of my favourite papers of all time Fantastic beasts and why to conserve them: animals, magic and biodiversity conservation. doi.org/10.1017/S00306…

Debate & disagreements can help #conservation, by helping us all think about our positions & what we prioritise. But that should not descend into hatred & abuse: we should all stand up against that. My piece on this - hope you agree Paula Kahumbu & others dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…