@soilscholar.bsky.social
Postdoc at Natural History Museum London - boosting nature in education. Fan of soil beasties! Amateur Entomologists' Society Trustee & Membership Administrator. She/her 🌈
Black and white line art of a jumping spider surrounded by morning glory flowers with text Arachtober 2025.
Join us in celebrating Arachtober by sharing your #spider and other #arachnid photos all month. #Arachtober has spread around the web. We’ve created a basic site at Arachtober.com to explain what this is all about. Banner by @ashleymbradford.bsky.social, inspired by my recent linocut artwork.
01.10.2025 00:06 — 👍 192 🔁 58 💬 7 📌 7
It’s the @amentsoc.bsky.social annual fair & I’m here with the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Lots of great fly talk & some great exhibits including these from some of the younger members of the AmEntSoc - aren’t they great?
#entomology
The Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework is a linked sequence of steps defined by the standards that each step adopts within a set of well-defined needs, principles and ethical guidelines (center). Every monitoring workflow would achieve an overall standard rating (potentially tiered) based on the standards adopted in each step. The monitoring workflow is implemented (right) once the necessary resources, human capacity, technologies, and data architectures have been adopted. A tiered approach allows countries to start with simpler methods and progressively adopt more sophisticated ones as capacity grows. These standards need not be costly or infeasible to adopt, but they do need to be defined a priori to create trust and confidence in the trends reported.
Are you tracking developments in #biodiversity monitoring and its applications?
We wrote a paper on addressing the challenges:
Data to Decisions: the Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework (BMSF). Creating a cycle of trust from field data to policy reports 🧵
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
🦋 Our AGM & Members' Day was buzzing! We teamed up with @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camzoology.bsky.social for Zoology Live: Insectopia - talks, tours & insects galore 🐛🦗
🎥 Missed it? Watch the talks: bit.ly/AGM2025Talks
📸 Highlights: bit.ly/InsectopiaRecap
🔍 What’s next: www.amentsoc.org/events🕷️
Apply now! Sillitoe Distinguished Research Leader in economic geology, Natural History Museum - working with the Resourcing the Green Economy Research Theme. Deadline 17 October 2025
jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Wow now there's an identification course I never thought I would see! The Tanyptera Project is a gem.
18.08.2025 09:15 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Save the date: 15 Dec | 📍EICC, Edinburgh
The National Environment Monitoring Conference 2025 from @britishecologicalsociety.org, UKCEH and @ukeof.bsky.social
From Insight to Impact: Building the UK Environmental Monitoring Community
Learn more:
🔗 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati...
Join my colleagues & I on Mon 28 July from 11am for a #bioblitz to celebrate the first year of the reopening of the @nhm-london.bsky.social Gardens! I'll be rummaging in the leaves for minibeasts! www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office...
24.07.2025 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🪲 Love #insects? Got art, photos, science projects or specimens to share? Book a space at the #aesfair Annual Exhibition – 27 Sep 2025 Kempton Park Racecourse, Surrey! Exhibitors get free entry! 🐜Details + booking form: www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/01112 #amentsoc
13.07.2025 20:19 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱
Abstracts are NOW due AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️
Submit an abstract 👇
globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/
Oh wow, yeah! Adults both fluffy though.
10.07.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My sister found a Puss Moth caterpillar in our willows today and I'm really jealous as I thought they must be in there. Such amazing beasties!
10.07.2025 18:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The National #EducationNaturePark programme is supporting global biodiversity research. Join our webinar on Wed 23 July 15.30-16.00 BST to find out how! Featuring me & other researchers @nhm-london.bsky.social www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/webinar-studying-biodiversity-gains-across-education-estate
10.07.2025 17:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some are stellate, glandular, forked, simple or branched. What are? I hear you ask! Hairs! This week’s challenge is to find a hairy plant, the hirsuter the better and examine its trichomes! Post your bristly pics using the hashtag #hairyplants for #Wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm
09.07.2025 06:58 — 👍 104 🔁 32 💬 5 📌 3This is also why I love working @nhm-london.bsky.social
08.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A few spots left for our #EducationNaturePark co-development day this Friday 11th July in Exeter! 🌿💻Explore how computing & climate/nature education can connect. Free to join + lunch!📍Info & sign-up: www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/take-part-ou...
07.07.2025 10:49 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@flygirlnhm.bsky.social saw this thread and thought of you
02.07.2025 11:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'In an open letter coordinated by Purpose Disruptors, @cleancreatives.bsky.social & @creatives4climate.bsky.social, more than 60 advertising agencies, each with over 1,000 employees, urged the Government to treat fossil fuel ads like tobacco marketing, citing parallels in tactics used &public harm'
02.07.2025 08:49 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 2Come and talk to me and others about #insects this Saturday!
24.06.2025 14:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Cute new slug drops!
24.06.2025 12:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On Saturday I will be helping run minibeast hunts in a heatwave 🫠
19.06.2025 11:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So excited for this!
18.06.2025 10:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are you interested in teaching computing in schools? Join me and other #EducationNaturePark colleagues in Exeter on the 11th July for a computing resources co-development day. Lunch provided! www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/take-part-ou...
16.06.2025 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our new pre-print exposes how the global link between poverty and biodiversity is rooted in colonial exploitation of biological resources.
🌎🌐 #decolonisingconservation #conservation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Join #Insect enthusiasts across the globe and #StandTallForTheSmall from 23-29 June 🐞
Planning an event during #InsectWeek 2025? Submit it to our website for more people to see it 🔽
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Need inspiration? Visit our handy guide 🔽
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The cover of Nature’s Memory – a green snail shell on a black background
Big day... My book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History #Museums is published TODAY.🤩
Over the last 20+ years of working in these incredible institutions, I've noticed some surprising things about them, and this book shares some of these "secrets", as an insider's guide.🧵
One joined me for lunch in my garden today 😃 my neighbour possibly wondered what I was shouting about 😆
04.04.2025 18:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🌿 London educators! Join free in-person training to explore the #EducationNaturePark. Learn about curriculum links, site mapping & biodiversity surveys. Open to all teachers & school staff!📍Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/o/national-education-nature-park-partnership-71326322563 #OutdoorLearning
27.03.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just had a meeting gate crashed by an AI notetaker which hilariously captured us complaining about its presence 🤣
26.03.2025 11:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
