Vicky Temperton
Professor of plant ecology, lover of biodiversity and ecological restoration, especially in open landscapes; cosmopolitan.🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇩🇪
- A very insightful article urging us professors to step a few steps ahead of the students in terms of book reading and to wait until they catch up and catch the flame. I have been rather positively surprised myself recently when teaching a course where we analyse books on nature, wilderness etc...
- Our latest statement from the natural climate solution advisory committee (#WBNK), that put simply, recommends giving degraded moorland that could be rewetted, special status legally, so it gets priority over other interests. We can't move moorland!
- Stellungnahme: WBNK ist dafür, das „überragende öffentliche Interesse“ für die #Moorwiedervernässung einzuführen. Damit Moore den Raum erhalten, den sie für ihre Klimaschutzwirkung brauchen. www.wissenschaftlicher-beirat-fuer-natuerlichen-klimaschutz.de/veroeffentli... #ANK #NatürlicherKlimaschutz
- We need to be able to move faster in rewetting degraded moorland. The German natural climate solutions (#ANK) project OptiMuM is providing the assessment of what works in terms of Shagnum moss reestblishment and carbon drawdown from the atm, so results can be transferred to other moorland.
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- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A very eloquent analysis by Monbiot. Make sure you read this. Being ultra wealthy does seem to create billionaire brains that are unable to imagine life from any other perspective but their own. #Montbiot
- justiceandconservation.com/so/abPfKR0nB... A really well written blog post about the values people hold in relation to #grassland restoration. A key outcome of our Grassworks project, asking what leads to success in grassland restoration.
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- www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Go Australia! Facing up to the future. Proud of you.
- www.theguardian.com/environment/... Together we can do way more. Some positive stories amidst the insanity of today's world.
- Are you a scientist? If so, make sure you read this.
- Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
- Fully agree @james bullock.
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- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is a smooth story. Of the paralell channels, we seem to be all living in, in today's world. Nature stampede back through the crack in the door. Let's keep opening that door. Nature is our ally in the current fight with our own selves, with our ape nature.
- Did you rather despair of the ecological restoration potential models of Bastin et al. Science 2019? Them check out our more inclusive and realistic global model. It's not perfect, but it's better, and the implications are important. Am going to buy an e car faster than I had thought.
- RiP Andrea Gibson. andreagibson.org/boomerang-va....
- Reposted by Vicky TempertonWe see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall. Does he *really* not know better? Or assume his readers won't? 🧵1/5
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- Einfach diesen genialen Artikel lesen. Die Riege der weissen älteren Herren, die absolut gar keine Verantwortung, für ihr und unser Verhalten annehmen wollen, wächst Tag für Tag. Stellen Sie sich vor, wir würden unseren eigenen Haushalt, unser zu Hause so behandeln. Wie sähe das aus?
- Das »nur zwei Prozent der globalen CO2-Emissionen«-Argument reflektiert nicht nur Verantwortungslosigkeit, Rücksichtslosigkeit und Ignoranz, sondern auch eine extreme Kurzsichtigkeit. Wer die Gründe dafür noch nicht verstanden hat: Bitte den Artikel lesen! ⬇️ www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
- Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change | Nature Communications share.google/tGonDK25Iymd... The epitome of an innovative idea: applying Taylor's Law to understanding the variability of disturbance events in forests. Important paper!
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- This is so true. I saw a BBC documentary some years ago, showing that parts of the brain associated with empathy are triggered by reading books (much more than scrolling). Reading Shakespeare activates more sparks in our brains than other writers. Isn't this fabulous? Read books, read Shakespeare!
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- Nice.
- The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe - ScienceDirect As we are not (yet) managing to alter our lifestyles away from overwhelmingly productivist to something sustainable, the choice is becoming birds or more stuff. I vote for birds, flowers, butterflies. Please repost.
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- So proud of everyone who showed up to #BudapestPride. Such a strong statement. We will not be silenced. We are here to stay, and we do actually have a lot better lives than the far right lot, despite the injustices we suffer for being the other. It's more alive and more fun being #LGBTQ* ...
- Clever disarming of the true agenda. My body is my body.
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- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is a great story of how reality is being distorted, when the real division is between the 1 % who own 50 % (half the land!) in England. In Germany there really is more of a divide between rural and urban and between former East and West.
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- Luxembourg is attracting attention on prime-time TV in France, thanks to @anAmericaninLuxembourg. Well deserved for Lux, maybe not what you want with a view to over- tourism. I never really thought about Lux having special water tower architecture. .. www.virgule.lu/luxembourg/e...
- Climate action certainly must start at home. The EU restoration law for a start is part of the Green New Deal and the EU BD strategy. By finding synergies, real synergies, we can do a lot of good things for our future. Is the #EUCommission getting cold feet with all the right wing pushback?
- blog.campact.de/2025/06/**af... Wanna hear some good news? The far-right AfD party is not managing to win quite a nr of local elections. This is barely reported but is just as important to know as the bad news. Keeping fighting fascists.
- VIENNA CALLING: I so wish I could be attending this meeting of the Viennese Oekocampus Wien this weekend. I look forward to hosting the network of German speaking Universities for Biodiversity Initiative next year at Leuphana though. @School_of_Sustainability
- 2 days to go :)) Netzwerktreffen @netzwerk-hib.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vicky TempertonMusk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
- Most special day on island of Hiddensee in the Baltic yesterday. I have never seen so much Rhinanthus (serotina) anywhere. Carpets of yellow across the pastures. Plus bedstraw broomrape, Orobanche caryophyllacea.
- A good analysis of how having the precarious feeling at work is a club quite a few different groups have had for quite a while. White men have now joined the club, partly, and think it is a new one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- www.theguardian.com/environment/... Such a cool idea and almost becoming a reality. Why is the #labourgovernment blocking this now? I am seeing noticeably fewer swifts here in N Germany this year.
- www.facebook.com/share/p/15Sc... This is incredible. Spot on. So eloquent, so powerful. What is this amazing man's name?
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- www.facebook.com/share/v/16b7... Isn't it a sweet irony that an original part of the Magna Carta, the world's first written constitution stating that the king is not just allowed to do anything he wants, has been discovered right now?
- Fab news. The consent pop ups are a nuisance and we're not even protecting our data. Thx for fighting for this.
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- Check out the Gran Chaco. Dissapoearing as we speak. A marvellous biodiversity jewel in South America. Being converted to soya and palm monocultures and intensive livestock grazing. For our greedy love of hamburgers. Are we really this sad as a species? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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- Amazing that so many musicians are being silent as though nothing drammatic is going on. Kudos to one of my favourite pianists #AndrasSchiff.
- www.theguardian.com/environment/... Another groundbreaking view. I see what Friederike Otto means. If you see what the autocratic government's are doing, it underlines her points fully. They are trying to strengthen patriarchal extremes. Dismantle equality and justice.
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- If there is one thing you read over the next days, make sure it is this brilliant article by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on end times fascism. I think they've hit the spot. It means the majority of us who are not nihilists and love our earth need to act. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is the true test for Europe. Is the #EuropeanCommission going to do more than express concern, as Orban dismantles basic human rights? #Europe, #LGBTQ #EuropeanParliament
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- Just found out about this huge font of biodiversity info. Freely accessible.
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- Reposted by Vicky TempertonOur study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature! Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Congrats on this important and fascinating paper @benjamindelory.bsky.social and co!
