Ecological Sciences Department, James Hutton Institute
Joined June 2015
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Mar 31
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3 Dec 2025
Only one week to go until our Hutton Hub Open Day!
📍Location: The Hutton Hub, Craigiebuckler campus, Aberdeen
📅Date: Wednesday 10th December
🕒Time: 4-7pm
🔗 Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/community…
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28 Nov 2025
We are opening our doors this Christmas, with local communities invited to attend our Open Day at The Hutton Hub in Aberdeen!
📍Location: The Hutton Hub, Craigiebuckler campus, Aberdeen
📅Date: Wednesday 10th December
🕒Time: 4-7pm
Come and explore our amazing new facility!
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28 Nov 2025
'Complex' was one of our '3 words for forest' following yesterday's film screening and discussion in our new Hutton Hub facilities, and in collaboration with @deeheddon
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6 Nov 2025
We are hosting a FREE screening in our Immersive Suite this month at the Hutton Hub, Aberdeen.
'Three Words for Forest' is a play recording about interviews with forestry specialists, screening Thursday 27th November, 10-2pm.
Reserve a spot here! eventbrite.co.uk/e/three-wor…
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ES James Hutton retweeted
13 Nov 2025
During a recent debate on Scottish rivers in @ScotParl @Audrey4ASNK highlighted our work on the decline of pearl mussels, and @JamesHuttonInst commitment to making the population more resilient to extreme climate events.
scottishparliament.tv/meetin…
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28 Oct 2025
Join us for a screening and discussion of the verbatim play Three Words for #Forest on 27 November
More: shorturl.at/Qh5yT
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16 Jul 2025
📢 Don’t miss Prof Lorna Dawson (@Soilfit) on #ScotlandTonight this Thursday.
🔬 A fascinating look at the role of #soil in justice, science and Scotland’s future.
🕗 8:30 pm | 📺 @STV
If you miss it, you can catch up with the episode here: ow.ly/nPgx50WpURK
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Fruit for the Future 2025 starts tomorrow at the @JamesHuttonInst
Join us for an afternoon filled with:
🚶Insightful tours
🫐Field demos
🌿 Meet our breeders
🍓Fresh fruit tasters
🕒3–6PM| The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie
#FruitForTheFuture2025
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ES James Hutton retweeted
17 Jul 2025
📢 Our economic impact report shows that in 23/24 for every £1 of @scotgov funding, we delivered more than £15 in value for the #UKEconomy, with £9 retained in Scotland
Local impact
✅ £40M in #Dundee
📍 £22M in #Aberdeen
💼 2,575 UK jobs supported
More: ow.ly/OV0i50WqGvG
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ES James Hutton retweeted
20 Feb 2025
❗️Don't forget to submit your abstracts for Rhizosphere 6 before 23:59 BST on the 28th of February. Just over one week to go ❗️🌿
#Rhizosphere
@JamesHuttonInst
@HuttonES
rhizo6.org/home
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ES James Hutton retweeted
7 Feb 2025
Tracy Valentine @HuttonES @JamesHuttonInst describes the Grieves House Tillage Trial which looks at the effect of reduced tillage cover and cover cropping #barleyad25
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ES James Hutton retweeted
27 Jan 2025
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Rob Brooker as Executive Director of #Science, effective from 1st March.
A plant #ecologist with more than 25 years of research experience, he is currently Head of @HuttonES.
More: bit.ly/4axGgga
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ES James Hutton retweeted
9 Dec 2024
Exciting new PhD opportunity on #ants #genes #dispersal🐜
EastBio - Genetic control of dispersal in ants: the role of supergenes at The James Hutton Institute on FindAPhD.com
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11 Nov 2024
PhD opportunity: Peatlands, plants, and pollinators - An informatics approach to protecting natural capital at The James Hutton Institute on FindAPhD.com
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ES James Hutton retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Great to have Rob Brooker, head @HuttonES quoted in this @guardian piece:
🗣️Without action, our planet will be further depleted in the decades to come. We will have more hungry people living in a world with a less stable #climate, and more extreme weather events”
#COP16Colombia
21 Oct 2024
Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning theguardian.com/environment/…
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ES James Hutton retweeted
2 Oct 2024
Social scientists at Forest Research need leaders of community tree nurseries to take part in a survey to discover how the sector is developing. 🌱👩🌾
Take part: ow.ly/ueXu50TzRfZ
This research is part of the #TreesOutsideWoodlands programme. @TheTreeCouncil @ForestryComm
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ES James Hutton retweeted
28 Jun 2024
Scientists have witnessed "#evolution in action" with a group of common #mushrooms known as bonnets (#Mycena).
The study, supported by @HuttonES, found some #Arctic bonnets had the largest fungal #genomes ever discovered! 🌱🍄
More: bit.ly/4cEWQuf
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14 Jun 2024
Our @HuttonES researcher collected samples for #eDNA analysis on Ben Buie, Mull last week.
Revisiting vegetation plots set up in the 1970s to investigate how #climatechange and nitrogen pollution are impacting #alpine vegetation and #soil biodiversity.
#Fridayinthefield
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