Ben Hawthorne

Deadline extended!! 15/10/25

Student Representative vacancy 2025 - Royal Entomological Society The Royal Entomological Society is recruiting one new volunteer to be a Student Representative. The 1-2 year role includes helping to organise the annual Student Forum with RES staff, and providing up...

📣🐞 Vacancy for a @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Representative! 🐞📣

Join @idrisadams.bsky.social & @envirosyment.bsky.social for one of the best opportunities around! Contribute to the RES and organise events, such as the renowned Student Forum

Deadline: 5/10/25

www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Not only will you be getting first hand experience in how societies are run behind the scenes but all the connections and opportunities that come will the role are unmatched!

@idrisadams.bsky.social and I will be ready to bring you up to speed on everything to do with the position! 🪲🐝🐞

⭐ Providing a student perspective is invaluable to the Society. You can relay the voice of student members to help improve the experiences of them and future members

⭐ Benefits include making connections, developing key skills, fully funded attendance to Student Forums, and support to attend Ento

Student Representative vacancy 2025 - Royal Entomological Society The Royal Entomological Society is recruiting one new volunteer to be a Student Representative. The 1-2 year role includes helping to organise the annual Student Forum with RES staff, and providing up...

📣🐞 Vacancy for a @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Representative! 🐞📣

Join @idrisadams.bsky.social & @envirosyment.bsky.social for one of the best opportunities around! Contribute to the RES and organise events, such as the renowned Student Forum

Deadline: 5/10/25

www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

It’s the end of #EcoNet2025 and what better way to celebrate than an exploration of Bamburgh Castle and walk on the beach

Back home after a wonderful week! Learning so much about metabarcoding 🧬thanks to the workshop organized by @nclneg.bsky.social, followed by inspiring plenaries, talks & posters! Loved catching up with 🫶🏼friends & meeting new generation of net ecologists. Already looking forward to the next one in 🇧🇷!

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡

At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.

Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.

More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is seeking ten taxonomic specialists in Collembola or any of the following insect orders - Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera!

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Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access…

Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋

The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽

North-bumble-land Walk complete! 🐝

🐝 1,070 bumblebees counted
🔎 15 species recorded
🥾 84 miles walked

A huge thank you for your support & donations for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social!

Notebook is full of sightings for @nenature.bsky.social's #NorthEastBeeHunt!

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A student academic poster containing a lot of text that is titled: Combining multiple entomological traps with metabarcoding to maximise species detection.

Five people stand by the interpretation board outside at Cockle Park Farm: two on the left, and three on the right, all who look and smile at the camera.

Darren Evans presents a slice of cake cut from the shown chocolate cake as he smiles at the camera.

Photo of Darren Evans with his side to the camera as he puts up the student poster into the casing at Cockle Park Farm.

We’re pleased to see the interp board that we produced with @dmevans.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social installed at Palace Leas!

3 weeks ago, we visited the site & witnessed a student poster go up. Thanks to Made By Landmark & #nclfarms staff.
bit.ly/PalaceLeas @bensjhawthorne.bsky.social 🌎

Come and join us in Newcastle for a wonderful gathering of network ecologists! This year our theme is 'Network Ecology in the Anthropocene' and our plenary speakers include Jane Memmott and Paulo Guimarães. Symposium tickets are an absolute bargain, especially for students.

Having had time to digest the new BNG consultation, I am *astounded* at the proposed changes to the small sites metric (SSM). If the changes are implemented, the SSM could apply to developments up to 49 dwellings/1ha - affecting a lot of developments! 1/ consult.defra.gov.uk/defra-biodiv...

🚨WHERE ARE THE CRAB SPIDERS?🚨

If you spot any crab spiders on flowers, help out @envirosyment.bsky.social by sending in photos and, even better, live spiders! This will help inform her important research on the weird and wonderful interactions between invertebrate predators and plants!

Seen a Flower Crab Spider? Get that camera out! 📸

By taking a few pics (potentially sending a sample), you could contribute to some really cool science, led by @envirosyment.bsky.social! And if you’ve never seen one, now is the time! Check out the handy thread below for ID help 🔍

#SpiderSpies 🌼🕷️🌿🕵️

It is such an impressive experimental design - I’m glad I could help with setting up! 💡🪲🌿 I’m already looking forward to seeing the results!

Mia and Ben with one of the posts

One of the fully set up posts

We had a great time last week putting up experimental lamp posts at one of the university's experimental farms for @miacroftento.bsky.social's upcoming artificial light experiments! We even had a mining bee digging its hole near ours - perhaps setting up their own lamp posts! 💡🐝

There's still time to show your support for insect #ConservationScience with #BigGive. Your generous donations will support the next generations of the #LargeBlue in the UK & beyond 🦋

Double your impact before midday 29 April 🔽
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@gloswildlife.bsky.social @biggive.bsky.social

That looks incredible! 🪲

Top genome scientists to map DNA sequence of invertebrate winner 2025 Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life team say genomes offer invaluable insight into how species will fare under climate crisis * Voting is now open! Vote for your favourite here “We are following the “invertebrate of the year” series with bated breath,” began the email that arrived in the Guardian’s inbox last week. Mark Blaxter leads the Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life programme, a project that sequences species’ DNA to understand the diversity and origins of life on Earth. But far more importantly, Blaxter and his team are superfans of our invertebrate of the year competition and have offered to map the genome sequence of whoever wins this year. Continue reading...

Top genome scientists to map DNA sequence of invertebrate winner 2025

So excited to be joining the RES in this position, and looking forward to meeting and working with so many people at conferences and beyond!

And just like that, my final PhD student conference is over! So glad I finally got to present at the @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Forum as a delegate—and thrilled to receive a prize for my talk (as the cheesy smile shows). Huge thanks to everyone who made it such a great event 🐝

#SF25

RES Student Forum 2025 over and out!

Plenty of great science and great people 🕺🏼 we couldn’t have done it without the help from the @royentsoc.bsky.social, the plenary speakers, and of course the delegates

#SF25 🦋

Will, @envirosyment.bsky.social and @bensjhawthorne.bsky.social are having a great time at the @royentsoc.bsky.social #SF25 this week! Be sure to say hello if you're there! 🪱🕷️🐝 #StudentForum2025Squad

Abstract submission and registration are now open for Ento25 - advertisement featuring a Violet Leaf Beetle (Chrysolina strumi), photo (c) Tyler Redford 2024

🐞 Spread the word!

Registration and abstract submission are now open for our annual conference, #Ento25!

Join the entomological community in-person or online this September, with opportunities to present your work, meet new contacts and build collaborations 🔽

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🐞🐝 Today is the last day for in-person registration of the @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Forum 2025!! 🐝🐞

We have excellent speakers, a great venue (clock the museum tour), and some really exciting research being shared. See you there!

Thank you for a fantastic day, Sophie! I’ve been Bittern by the birdwatching bug

A great day out leading a young(ish) birding day out. 52 species with the highlights being Bittern, Barn Owl, Ring-necked Duck and Scaup. Hopefully we've got a few new bird nerds!

Announcement for the 2025 Student Forum, held on 31 March – 1 April at University of Reading. Abstract deadline: 17:00 (GMT), 7 February

📢 Abstract submission deadline is today 🦋

Share your research with your peers at the Student Forum. All #InsectScience abstract submissions welcome.

Submit your abstracts by 17:00 (GMT), 7 Feb 🔽
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#SF25 @uniofreading.bsky.social