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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-op…

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!

'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

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-words-…

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/meeting/member…

Join us for a screening and discussion of the verbatim play Three Words for #Forest on 27 November More: shorturl.at/Qh5yT

📢 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

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

📢 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

❗️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

Tracy Valentine @HuttonES @JamesHuttonInst describes the Grieves House Tillage Trial which looks at the effect of reduced tillage cover and cover cropping #barleyad25

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

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

PhD opportunity: Peatlands, plants, and pollinators - An informatics approach to protecting natural capital at The James Hutton Institute on FindAPhD.com

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

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

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

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