Anthea Lacchia PhD

A small bird with iridescent green feathers sits upright on a thick branch. Its body is mostly green with some white and brown on the underside, and it has a straight black bill. The background is softly blurred with hints of yellow and green.

Buff-tailed Coronet is a great Andean hummingbird with little white boots. #Colombia

#birds #nature 🌿

#scicomm #researchcomms #sciencecommunication #thegoodscienceproject… | Anthea Lacchia, PhD Thrilled to finally hold the printed booklet that accompanied the 'Prism of Research' conference on research culture, held at Imperial College London on 2 April! Writing this booklet was a r...

🙏 Thanks for organising Mary Ryan, Stephen Webster and colleagues!

Dr Anthea Lacchia (@anthealacchia.bsky.social) on the wonderful PRISM booklet 👉 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... /ends

US-funded ‘social network’ attacking pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation v-Fluence halts operations after widespread backlash over private portal profiling environmental health advocates

US-funded ‘social network’ attacking pesticide critics shuts down after Guardian investigation

- v-Fluence halts operations after widespread backlash over private portal profiling environmental health advocates

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A clam with a spring attached to the shell. The spring has a magnet placed above a sensor.

Hardly new info, but BSky should know:

Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.

🧪🌏🚰

CDC officials ordered to remove pronouns from mail signatures, per new memo I obtained

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

A love-hate relationship: Ireland’s rhododendron problem Should one of Ireland’s most invasive species be a tourist attraction?

In the last article in our Soil Invaders series on the impact of invasive plants in Ireland, led by @anthealacchia.bsky.social, I ask:

Should one of Ireland's most invasive species be a tourist attraction? #Rhododendron

My latest on invasive species for @investigates.thejournal.ie

Thank you Helen! It would be lovely to have you on a walk 😊🌸

Latest by @anthealacchia.bsky.social in her multi-part series on the impact of invasive species:

Fight against invasive plants costing councils millions and may never end Invasive species are destroying the environment and cost local authorities over €8.5 million in just four years.

Over the past six months, @anthealacchia.bsky.social has been looking into invasive plants for @investigates.thejournal.ie

The first article in her investigative series, SOIL INVADERS, is out now and reveals that their management cost local authorities over €8.5 million in just four years:

Fight against invasive plants costing councils millions and may never end Invasive species are destroying the environment and cost local authorities over €8.5 million in just four years.

Revealed: Invasive species are destroying the environment and cost local authorities over €8.5 million in just four years.

Read the first part in our series on the impact of invasive plants across Ireland here: http://jrnl.ie/6592448t

New investigation out tomorrow!

Science and health reporter @anthealacchia.bsky.social has been examining invasive species in Ireland

Here's preview of what we're publishing (article out just after midnight)....

Link to poem: www.consilience-journal.com/issue-19-cit...

Honoured to have a poem
about moths published in the latest issue of Consilience among such beautiful work 🦋

Labour tops manifesto assessment on climate, the three largest parties all fail | Friends of the Earth Campaigners call for would-be Taoiseachs to be challenged on their party’s failure in Leaders’ Debate The Labour Party has come out on top in 

Are you curious how the climate policies of political party manifestos stack up ahead of 🇮🇪 #ge24 next week?

❌ The three major parties - Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and Fine Gael all failed our assessment
✅ the Labour Party came out on top

www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/labour-...

“we silence the song of the Earth. We live in a much quieter world than even 50 years ago, there is 60% less buzzing, croaking, roaring, scuttling, blooming, singing and erupting life. Planet Earth is increasingly threadbare; it seems E. O. Wilson was right.” [We live in the Age of Loneliness.]