Andy Purvis
Co-lead of the Biodiversity Futures Lab and PREDICTS project at the Natural History Museum and Imperial College in London, UK. Working for a nature-positive future with an ADHD present. Views my own. He/him.
- If anyone is still on what-was-so-much-better-when-it-was-Twitter, *why* have you not yet left?
- Reposted by Andy PurvisAmazing to see the scale of #IPBES 12th plenary under the UK host. Despite the US pulling out of this globally important initiative, navigating #biodiversity, #climate change and development challenges, there is support from across the world to ensure IPBES delivers. @yesiuoy.bsky.social @ipbes.net
- Reposted by Andy PurvisI'm proud of many things in my life - the publications, the projects, the people I've worked with - but sometimes you nail a tricky parking manoeuvre and I feel we don't celebrate those often enough.
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- Reposted by Andy PurvisNature is the "ultimate foundation" for the economy, the King has told global experts meeting in Britain to discuss the decline in biodiversity. Charles told delegates at an @ipbes.net meeting that nature is "vitally important" and underpins the climate, food, water and air we rely on.
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- Whitworth Hall is *packed* for @marycreagh.bsky.social at a DEFRA event at #IPBES12
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- Reposted by Andy PurvisAstrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, reminded delegates of @ipbes.net’s role as a "beacon of knowledge on #biodiversity when science and knowledge are under strain and voices of disinformation are sometimes louder than facts.”
- True, but worth bearing in mind that lots of the most widely-used reports - like those from @ipbes.net and @ipcc.bsky.social - have undergone multiple rounds of open peer review
- So I appear to be in the minority here 😂 #IPBES12
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- Reposted by Andy Purvis🌿 Working in ecology, biodiversity or wildlife conservation? Join our webinar exploring the open‑access Nature Park Map and how schools across England are taking action for nature recovery 📅 11 Feb, 16:00–16:45 🔗 www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/webinar-expl...
- Ooh it’s filling up after the coffee break… #IPBES12
- Steve Polasky and the other co-chairs are giving us the background of the @ipbes.net Business and Biodiversity Assessment at #IPBES12. These poor people are about to start days of exhausting line-by-line negotiation of the text with the Parties
- Reposted by Andy Purvis⏳ Tomorrow, #IPBES12 begins in Manchester, UK! Over 6 days, representatives of >150 member Governments will consider for approval the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report. 👉 Follow us for live updates as science meets policy and evidence meets action. Learn more: ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
- And we’re off! @ipbes.net Stakeholder Day is up and running, with Plenary starting tomorrow
- Reposted by Andy PurvisI was a postdoc at Harvard (in human evolutionary biology) from 2010 to 2012 and it’s grim how many men I interacted with during that time are popping up in the Epstein files trying to prove disgusting evo-psych theories about women *shudder*.
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- 53 years ago today, I visited @nhm-london.bsky.social. I drew this in my school story book, and wrote about (mostly) what I ate for lunch.
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- Welcome to Bluesky @justinephraimisip.bsky.social! Justin's just submitted his PhD thesis on how the impact of land-use and related pressures on insects varies among clades and is mediated by traits. Now he's doing a short postdoc on @glitrs.bsky.social, finishing off some papers on insect decline
- Super new #OA meta-analysis, led by the terrific Grace Skinner and Joe Millard of @glitrs.bsky.social and out today in @natcomms.nature.com: effects of invasive alien species in insects doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- First global analysis of its kind, led by UKCEH, has shown the impacts of invasive alien species on insects. The study found the non-native animals & plants on average reduce abundance of terrestrial insects by 31% and species richness by 21%. www.ceh.ac.uk/press/insect... 🧪 1/ #biodiversity
- Reposted by Andy Purviswikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
- I try to spend my mornings on work that requires the most focus. Which means it's usually around about now that I take my first look at the news and ask myself: what's that man gone and done *now*?
- New #CitizenScience paper in @bmc.springernature.com Ecology & Evolution, led by @soilscholar.bsky.social: Why did/didn't people participate in #EarthwormWatch? (unedited version not yet with figures in the pdf though) link-springer-com.ezproxy.nhm.ac.uk/article/10.1...
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- *This* is leadership. And @davidobura.bsky.social is so obviously right: turning your back on facts doesn't make them go away
- “We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. — @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair
- Reposted by Andy Purvis“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪 IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
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- Reposted by Andy PurvisEcologist here, we know plenty about the diversity of life, and as the @britishecologicalsociety.org we actively support the inclusion of trans people alongside all the many ways of simply being human. Dawkins does not represent or speak for us.
- Reposted by Andy PurvisHigh-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
- Reposted by Andy PurvisI’m really upset about this as a Guiding member for over 30 years. We’ve always welcomed trans girls and made a safe space for them. Not sure this will make any difference but if you can sign please do: c.org/SR6NcW46B7
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- Applications are OPEN for a #PhD project with @nhm-london.bsky.social's brilliant Adriana De Palma & Sara Contu from and Ferran Pujol of @uor-research.bsky.social: Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems for Warehousing Worldwide Biodiversity Data. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #deadline 19th January!
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- Lovely link-up between @josephtobias.bsky.social's #Avonet and the #PredictsProject, with @nhm.org's @patrickawalkden.bsky.social among the authors
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- Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - new #OA @nature.com paper with @patrickawalkden.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social, combining #PredictsProject with #Avonet doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- That's *slow* delivery (esp for the run-up to Xmas)
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- Excited to be underway with the @ipbes.net #2ndGlobalAssessment. So excited that I'm even wearing the same fleece 😀
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- Reposted by Andy PurvisTropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- So I read this as 'parents'...
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- Reposted by Andy PurvisOur 1st Biodiversity Science-Policy 'starter pack' is now full (150 accounts). Access at: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪at://did:plc:q5dy2sxcoahc6hjkx4wv2ind/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3liol3iabr42y
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- The line between “Hear no evil” and “Speak evil” can be a very fine one. (H/t @jcsvenning.bsky.social)
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- Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?
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- Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
- More than their self-confidence, I envy them for their lack of climate anxiety
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- I’m really glad I read this thread: @mishellbaker.bsky.social’s wisdom and perspective are amazing
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