Amanda Callaghan

I wandered lonely as a cloud
#lonelycloud #titchfieldhaven

Species list from our Devon field course

Near the end of our undergraduate biodiversity fieldcourse in Devon. Lots of species and much fun had #universityofreading

Murder on the car roof @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @hatbirder.bsky.social #robberfly #Machimus?

It’s graduation day!!! Congratulations to all our students #graduation

Charles Lyell was a famous geologist who had a strong influence on Darwin. He was interested in taphonomy and studied dried samples of mud with bird tracks and rain drops. We are lucky to have some of these featured (Figure 20) in his famous Principles of Geology! @colezoology.bsky.social

What if we measured progress not just by income or life expectancy - but by how well we live with the rest of nature?

A major new paper proposes the 'Nature Relationship Index (NRI)' - a bold rethink of development metrics.

Here’s why it matters.👇
#NatureRelationshipIndex #GlobalThreads

@colezoology.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky!! Looking forward to seeing cool specimens. In the meantime here we are with Norman the elephant.

Happy Summer Solstice 2025 to all my pagan friends. Summer is officially here.

Please may I have one?

Deep sympathy. Our neighbour decided to completely landscape their garden (it took a year) with diggers as we were trying to deliver online university lectures during lockdown.

Fossicking along the Fleet always results in small treasures!! Move over Lyme Regis.

Oooh, see you there

Don’t just sit there, eat them!!!!!!

Found a stunning Harlequin ladybird larva on my garden but it wasn’t interested in eating my greenfly. @hatbirder.bsky.social

Charnia

We have been waiting for this to happen. Hopefully an isolated incident. West Nile virus killed many elderly people in the US.
#arboviruses
#mosquitoesinBritain

I love your art - your recreations all have a spark of personality

Our most common urban mosquito, Culex pipiens, is carrying Usutu virus in Southern England, killing blackbirds. These mosquitoes breed in standing water, so you could be growing them in your garden.
#climatechange
#mosquitobornevirus
#gardenbirds

Weymouth and Chesil Beach looking magnificent at the weekend #lovedorset
#seathrift

Ammonites, belemnites, beautiful crinoids and a tooth of some kind (?) from Oxford Clay
#JurassicCoast
#Tidmoorpoint
#fossilhunting

Why just draw a frog when you can build one?
#historyoflifeonearth
#practicalclass
#zoologyuniofreading

These large oil beetles from Andalusia, Spain, are beautiful! Cool enough that they are a bit dozy. #springtimeinSpain #beetles @hatbirder.bsky.social

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#lectureshipzoology
#universityofreading

40 million year old molluscs are easy pickings from the Barton clays at Barton on Sea, Hampshire.
#fossils #fossilmolluscs

More palaeo models have arrived for teaching and Cole Museum of Zoology display! Thanks to Bruce Currie. Eurypterid, Brachiopod, Rangeomorph
paleozoo.com.au #palaeoteaching
#UniofReading
#Historyoflifeonearth

Flappy flappy flappy

Finally got to visit the Great Bustards on Salisbury plains. Probably the heaviest flying birds on the planet. Saw a group of 12 males displaying. greatbustard.org

How many frogs do you need?

Early fish practical today, I do love my models. #historyoflifeonearth #earlyfish #palaeozoology