Job(s) alert! DICE Kent is hiring 3 lecturers in conservation as part of major research expansion. Come and join us in sunny Kent! Happy to answer any informal questions from prospective applicants. Deadline 6 May '24.

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

We are advertising three new lectureships on our £8.3 million E3 'Sharing Space for Nature' initiative.

2 Lecturers in Conservation Science - jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

1 Lecturer in Marine Conservation - jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

Deadline to apply is 6th May

Any academic researchers available over the next five days and need paid work? Pls RT

Just over two weeks left to apply for the 2025 Leventis African Biodiversity Fellowships!

Apply at bit.ly/Leventis2025.

Thanks to ICCS intern, Minori, for creating this graphic 😃

🦁🌍 With World Wildlife Day focusing on digital innovation in conservation efforts, find out how Amy Hinsley of our Wildlife Trade programme uses machine learning in her research.

#WWD2024 #ConnectingPeopleAndPlanet

Three amazing women working on wildlife trade wrote this and it is so interesting!

I’ve been at the CMS CoP this week in lots of great events about saiga - see here for a summary of how this meeting has been going: theconversation.com/migratory-anim…

🚨New Paper🚨A systematic survey of online trade in the caterpillar fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis Oryx by Reshu Bashyal David Roberts Greenhood Nepal DICE Kent School of Anthropology & Conservation, Kent 🐛🍄💵🖥️ doi.org/10.1017/S00306…

Our wild yew tree conservation work is featured by South China Morning Post Bibek Bhandari.

LINK - scmp.com/week-asia/peop…

This initiative is supported by Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) EDGE of Existence with advisory support of Amy Hinsley Diogo Veríssimo diogoverissimo.bsky.social #taxling

Now is the time to apply for the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership 2024/25 or to recommend the programme to an aspiring conservation leader in your networks! We have multiple full scholarships available, so please don't be put off by financial constraints

My OII Halloween lecture, applying NLP and Bayesian statistics to the occult mysteries of the undeciphered 15th century Voynich Manuscript, now online: youtu.be/nl7QRWIRcSk?si…

📣 NEW PAPER 📣 Great to see this out, led by rising star Faqih Akbar as part of his Save Our Seas project in Karimunjawa National Park. Provides important baseline info on #RhinoRays which can be used for MPA planning & fisheries mgmt. #sharkscience

publish.csiro.au/MF/MF23101

📢 Job alert! (senior)Lecturer in ecology & conservation University of Brighton (my maternity cover). Apply by 26 Oct. Join a passionate friendly team within The Living Coast UNESCO Biosphere bordering South Downs National Park. Any questions get in touch! bit.ly/3tvwz0d #ecologyjobs #conservationjobs #academicjobs

The Japan Times covers #orchid obsession:
How science and smuggling meet in a global trade japantimes.co.jp/environment/20…

w/ Reshu Bashyal Amy Hinsley

Excited to see this work, a couple of years in the making and still under peer review, by Amy Hinsley, me, and colleagues covered by New Scientist. Wildlife Trade Oxford Internet Institute ICCS WildCRU, Oxford EJ Milner-Gulland Dan Challender University of Oxford

New Scientist piece on latest research 'Early-warning of trends in commercial wildlife trade through novel machine-learning analysis of patent filing' led by Amy Hinsley & Joss Wright. Currently in review. institutions.newscientist.com/article/239726… w. EJ Milner-Gulland.

Story on our new preprint looking at 50 years of wildlife-related patents, including for rhino, pangolin and sturgeon. We found increasing patent-filing (even for illegal products) and diversification of product types. Still in peer review but here: researchsquare.com/article/rs-336…

Yes! My last two grant applications were rejected (100% of my grant applications this year), and I’ve had a paper, which is also my favourite paper I’ve ever written, rejected three times in the past four months.

#DidYouKnow that #orchids comprise about 75% of CITES-listed species?

Happy International #OrchidDay ! 🀣

Come and find me at my poster at #ICCB2023 if you’re interested in women’s roles and influence in wild meat systems. Looking forward to some interesting chats!