Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded
Letter to the Editor
Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded: A good start would be to extend funding for the amazing STRI Arthropod Inititiative striresearch.si.edu/yves-basset-...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
16.10.2025 16:21 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
New video for #RESEcolEnt
This one was a lot of fun to make and a really interesting paper to read!
19.03.2025 12:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It's so powerful, I love it!
26.02.2025 14:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A small building in front of a railway line, painted with the words el oro de Panama es verde
El oro de Panama es Verde - The gold of Panama is green π³π΄π±
My favourite bit of graffiti welcoming me back to Panama for another three months in the forest
26.02.2025 14:35 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Science and snacks: Escaping the enemy
We'll bring the science, you bring the snacks.
I'm giving a talk on my work and what I get up to in the rainforest this evening at @ri-science.bsky.social
Really excited to be back at the Ri - six years π² after my time there as an intern!
www.rigb.org/whats-on/sci...
19.02.2025 12:30 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Happy to see one of my Panama Ph.D. chapters finally out today in Ecology (doi.org/10.1002/ecy....) and Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (doi.org/10.1002/bes2...). This work explores how insect and fungi respond to a widespread disturbance in lowland tropical forestβlightning π©! (1/8)
28.01.2025 16:35 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1
A collection of pinned butterflies from the UK in a glass topped display box
A pulled out drawer display box filled with large, black, white and yellow butterflies
A glass topped display box filled with pinned Hawkmoth specimens
Teaching Lepidoptera ID with @unirdgento.bsky.social today.
A chance for me to brush up on my moth skills but mostly a good opportunity to have a look through the amazing pinned collection we have here π¦
11.02.2025 16:18 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Here's a little video I made for the current issue of Ecological Entomology πͺ² #ResEcolEnt
06.02.2025 09:14 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A thriving natural world is the foundation of economic growth and vital for health and wellbeing. Language that pits these against each other is unhelpful and deeply concerning.
Nature is not a blocker to growth.
The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?π
30.01.2025 13:10 β π 300 π 150 π¬ 12 π 10
A meeting room with a large table in the middle and chairs around the table. On the wall looking over the table is a large picture of Charles Darwin
A painting of Charles Darwin with a gold painted frame
Also, it turns out that lab meetings at Oxford are a bit more intense than at Reading with this guy in the meeting room
30.01.2025 13:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A view of a museum inside an old building, looking down from the floor above. The museum is filled with cabinets of natural history specimens and animal skeletons
A ball covered in lots of different green pinned insects including butterflies and beetles
Multiple balls covered in pinned insects. Each ball has different coloured insects, two blue, one black, one green
Our lab group meeting with collaborators at Oxford this week ended up with a quick trip to @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Their display on insect colour was truly beautiful π¦πͺ²
30.01.2025 13:13 β π 21 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
Large Blue butterfly, photo by David Simcox, Conservation Project Manager at the Royal Entomological Society
RES has joined Bluesky!
We are excited to share fascinating science, news, events & more. To start, weβre featuring the #LargeBlueButterfly π¦
Our #Conservation Science team recently published ground-breaking findings on the dispersal rates of this #EndangeredSpecies π½
https://buff.ly/3Wz5QLU
27.01.2025 13:52 β π 295 π 72 π¬ 10 π 3
A blue damselfly sitting on a finger
Close up image of a pinned metallic blue wasp with a large red eye and long ovipositor
Common blue butterfly sitting on a plantain seed head
A metallic blue jewel beetle with a red stripe across it's back
A few favourites from home and away for this year's #BlueMonday #BlueBugs campaign
1 Azure Damselfly, UK
2 Wasp (ID tbc) - part of our current insect rearing project in Panama. π· credit Marleny Rivera
3 Common Blue, UK
4 Jewel beetle, Panama
20.01.2025 13:26 β π 23 π 5 π¬ 3 π 0
Ending 2024 with a NYE trip to RSPB Ham Wall and thousands of starlings coming in to roost
#UKWildlife
31.12.2024 17:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yellow gorse flowers
Red dead nettle flowers at the top of a green leafy plant
Single, pink herb-robert flower at the end of a stem with pale green leaves
23 species in flower on a slightly damp #NewYearPlantHunt including herb-robert, my favourite little wildflower πΈ
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
29.12.2024 16:32 β π 24 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
If you have experience of psoriasis or are interested to learn more, please follow the link or QR code to the short survey, thank you!
My BSc student is doing a final year project on Psoriasis: The Silent Impact on Health and Society, if you have experience of this condition or are interested to learn more, please follow the link or QR code to the short survey, thank you!
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17.12.2024 22:53 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Looking up at bright yellow flowers in the canopy of a tropical tree
A small motorboat parked next to a smaller canoe at the edge of a swamp-like pool
A large moth on a wall with a hand below for size comparison. The moth is as big as the hand
Accomodation booked β
Preparations for next year's fieldwork in Panama are underway. Time for another three months of trees, boats and bugs π
18.12.2024 10:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What is Eco-Anxiety and How Does it Affect the Future of Entomology?
Eco-anxiety is a chronic fear of environmental disaster, and entomologists often find themselves face to face with the effects of climate change.
Eco-anxiety is a chronic fear of environmental disaster, and entomologists often find themselves face to face with the effects of climate change, as changing distributions of insects create increased risks of food insecurity, disease outbreaks, and threats to biodiversity.
17.12.2024 16:42 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!
09.12.2024 10:25 β π 34 π 43 π¬ 1 π 2
Have a browse of our #PhD projects advertised for an Autumn 2025 start date: www.findaphd.com/phds/crocus-...
Including opportunities to be hosted at our partner organisations @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, @ukceh.bsky.social, @britgeosurvey.bsky.social, and @nocnews.bsky.social (continued)
06.12.2024 16:20 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
I'm a little late to the migration so as an introduction I'm an insect ecologist at the Uni of Reading πͺ²
I've been lucky enough work in some amazing places which I write about here: mattgreenwell.wixsite.com/ecology/fiel...
And share photos of here: www.instagram.com/matts_field_...
01.12.2024 17:58 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Postdoc at Uni of Oxford. Mostly community ecology & tropical forests π±
Research fellow at the University of St Andrews π³οΈβπ β’ Evolutionary and sensory ecology in π¦+ π¦ β’ He/him β’ I also make YouTube videos. Link here: https://youtube.com/@benitosexplenations?si=zpMANThrSJv_efM0
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We are a public #research center creating knowledge to address #climatechange, restore #nature and reverse #biodiversity loss.
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Outreach Manager, King's College London @kingsnmes.bsky.social
Churchill Fellow // Answering science questions in The Week Junior Science+Nature.
Passionate about science education and communication, and widening access to the world of STEM.
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Ecologist & botanist studying moths, butterflies (lepidoptera) & hedges. #teammoth ππ¦
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Insects, especially butterflies; conservation, global change, mountains; working at natural sciences museum in Madrid; Ecological Entomology editor; gone birdwatching with my dog.
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Entomological Society of Canada
Associate Professor in Ecology at University of Reading.
By choosing to publish, read & review papers in our journals, you are helping the Royal Entomological Society invest in meaningful entomology that supports the understanding, development & future of insect science.
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Research Scientist working with vector-borne diseases, Culicoides midges, mosquitoes and horseflies. Interested in outreach, livestock diseases, zoonotic diseases, parasitology, welfare, entomology & ecology.
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Public Speaker | Polymath | ErdΕsβBacon No 8 | #histsci #sts #scicomm #envhist #histmed
Showcasing new research from the publishing portfolio of the Ecological Society of America, the world's largest community of ecologists @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
I talk about, write about, and photograph backyard bugs and wildlife. Conservation starts at home. π‘
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The UKβs statutory, scientific authority on nature. We work across land & sea for nature, for people & the planet.
PhD researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant (AFHEA) at the Cole Museum of Zoology. (She/her)
Talk to me about Things In Jars!
(Particularly if they're in propylene phenoxetol or liquid paraffin!)
Conservation biologist with focus on botanics and entomology. I love macrophotography of all fauna & flora but especially of insects and spiders. Pics & opinions are my own.
Based in Switzerland. She/her
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