Ecology Podcast

In this special International Women’s day edition of the BES podcast, Senior Assistant Editor Ivy talks with Michaela Guo Ying Lo, Chair of the Equity and Diversity for all Genders in Ecology (EDGE) network at the BES, which looks at addressing challenges relating to gender inequity and more within the field of ecology. They discuss what the EDGE network has been working on and its future plans, as well as the various challenges gender minorities may face as ecologists.
You can learn more about the EDGE network here:
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join-the-edge-network/
And read the resource page for women in ecology here:
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/resources-for-women-in-ecology/

In this podcast, People and Nature author Marilisa Herchet talks to Publishing Assistant Anna Nisbett about her article “Mental health benefits of urban green—A systematic review and meta-analysis of 56 pre-post control experiments”.

Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70250

In this podcast, People and Nature author Fritha West talks to Publishing Assistant Anna Nisbett about her article “Social and cultural considerations for the restoration of ‘lost’ tree species: The fall and rise of elm”.
Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70206
Read the Winter 2023 Niche piece here: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/the-swing-tree-on-childhood-memory-and-tree-species-loss/

In this podcast, People and Nature author Fritha West talks to Publishing Assistant Anna Nisbett about her article “Social and cultural considerations for the restoration of ‘lost’ tree species: The fall and rise of elm”.

Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70206
Read the Winter 2023 Niche piece here: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/the-swing-tree-on-childhood-memory-and-tree-species-loss/

In this episode, Methods in Ecology and Evolution author Margot Belot talks to publishing assistant Hannah about her article 'High-throughput information extraction of printed specimen labels from large-scale digitization of entomological collections using a semi-automated pipeline'

Margot's article introduces a tool that can be used to automatically real the labels of museum specimens, helping to catalogue and digitise their vast collections

Read the full article here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210x.70235

And a blog post about the work: https://methodsblog.com/2026/02/10/from-trowels-to-tensorflow-bridging-the-gap-between-ancient-past-and-digital-future/