The MERL wins again (sorry to my employer @nhm-london.bsky.social)! And their Bluesky Hog is just the thing for a pig-loving 80th birthday New Year celebration which was stressing me out!
26.11.2025 17:31 β π 30 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Oh #DinoConUK 2026 is on my birthday!! I'm going to have to try and wrangle a holiday.
14.11.2025 10:54 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
NHM Postgraduate Showcase
Come along to the NHM to learn more about postgraduate study at the museum!
Interested in postgraduate study @nhm-london.bsky.social? There's a showcase coming up on 27 Nov 2pm to 5pm GMT. Find out about our programmes & meet current students. Sign up for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/nhm-postgraduate-showcase-tickets-1848134021609 I had an amazing MSc & PhD here - never left!
11.11.2025 11:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
π£ Excited to advertise a new @treesdla.bsky.social CASE PhD project exploring the effects of forest diversity on soil fauna with ecoacoustics. Supervised by me, @evolecollab.bsky.social and Carlos Abrahams @soilacoustics.bsky.social. Apply by December 17th! π³π²ππ§π€ www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...
25.10.2025 08:00 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Sad to be missing out this year π’ double booked with Conchological Society meeting I'm hosting. Hopefully I can catch up with recordings.
02.11.2025 15:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Soil Ecology Group - British Ecological Society
Understanding the vital ecosystem services provided by soil
We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
30.10.2025 08:57 β π 35 π 22 π¬ 0 π 0
Smart cutting system used by female sawflies could transform surgery and reduce patient harm
Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have unlocked the secret behind how female sawflies make specific cuts to plantsβa discovery that could revolutionize surgical instruments and dramatically reduce ...
Another superb example of #biomimicry reinforcing the intrinsic significance of protecting all biodiversity including the newts, bats & invertebrates demonised as barriers to development by Rachel Reeves
As this study demonstrates one day they may literally save your life.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
29.10.2025 14:52 β π 16 π 7 π¬ 0 π 2
Yep!
28.10.2025 11:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I shot mine across the room once, anxiety clenched rather than laughing. Definitely possible!
28.10.2025 11:21 β π 30 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0
A quote from the article. Text reads: "The decline of soil biodiversity has visible and growing consequences. The science is clear, the frameworks exist, and the need for action is urgent."
.@cmarin.bsky.social and 127 co-authors present a global call to strengthen national #SoilBiodiversity action, in an #OpenLetter to policymakers at 27th meeting of the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social SBSTTA taking place in PanamΓ‘ City this week.
π nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SBSTTA27
20.10.2025 12:27 β π 23 π 19 π¬ 1 π 2
Outreach, Culture & Education SIG Event 2025
Submit your abstracts on insect outreach and citizen science for a chance to share your research at the event.
β° Abstract deadline extended - join the programme by submitting your research by Friday 24 October π¦
Join us at our Outreach, Culture & Education SIG to network with like-minded people and plan your next outreach venture.
π National Museum Scotland
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22 Nov 2025
Register now π½
20.10.2025 11:44 β π 4 π 6 π¬ 1 π 2
Orthoptera Special Interest Group (SIG) 2025
Join us at The Natural History Museum, London for the Royal Entomological Societyβs annual Orthoptera meeting about grasshopper and cricket research, conservation, recording and more.
Our Orthoptera Special Interest Group (SIG) provides a forum for the discussion of all aspects of research and outreach involving Orthoptera, including behaviour, physiology, acoustics, ecology and taxonomy. The programme includes around ten short talks, with posters and livestock presented during refreshment breaks. The meeting is followed by an optional supper and drinks in the NHM common room.
We welcome contributions from all enthusiasts, students, academics, and other professionals.
Donβt miss the #OrthopteraSIG 2025 on 5 Nov at @nhm-london.bsky.social π¦
Enjoy talks, posters & live specimen displays, and a buffet dinner option at our friendly informal forum to share research across behaviour, acoustics, taxonomy, ecology & more.
Submit your abstract and register now π½
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16.10.2025 12:03 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Plus my MSc and 2/3 of my PhD tutors didn't get any of the money from my fees or scholarships because they don't work for the institution my degree was awarded by, I guess it went on journal access fees, admin etc. π€·ββοΈ they tutor because that's what scholars do.
16.10.2025 13:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yeah! Again an invertebrate wins!
15.10.2025 10:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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. Weβve 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 β π 192 π 57 π¬ 8 π 7
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 π§΅
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
19.09.2025 18:54 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
AES AGM and Members' Day 2025 - YouTube
The 2025 AGM and Members' Day was held as part of Cambridge University Zoology Live Insectopia! This included talks, behind the scenes tours, live insects to...
π¦ Our AGM & Members' Day was buzzing! We teamed up with @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camzoology.bsky.social for Zoology Live: Insectopia - talks, tours & insects galore ππ¦
π₯ Missed it? Watch the talks: bit.ly/AGM2025Talks
πΈ Highlights: bit.ly/InsectopiaRecap
π Whatβs next: www.amentsoc.org/eventsπ·οΈ
30.08.2025 12:22 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Sillitoe Distinguished Research Leader, Economic Geology:South Kensington
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...
29.08.2025 15:05 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Wow now there's an identification course I never thought I would see! The Tanyptera Project is a gem.
18.08.2025 09:15 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
National Environmental Monitoring Conference - British Ecological Society
The NEMC returns for its second year focusing on: From insight to impact: building the UK environmental monitoring community
Save the date: 15 Dec | πEICC, 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:
π www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati...
30.07.2025 11:17 β π 8 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
Join a Family-Friendly Nature Hunt at the Natural History Museum this July | Natural History Museum
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 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
πͺ² Love #insects? Got art, photos, science projects or specimens to share? Book a space at the #aesfair Annual Exhibition β 27 Sep 2025 Kempton Park Racecourse, Surrey! Exhibitors get free entry! πDetails + booking form: www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/01112 #amentsoc
13.07.2025 20:19 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 0 π 2
Oh wow, yeah! Adults both fluffy though.
10.07.2025 19:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 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 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Some are stellate, glandular, forked, simple or branched. What are? I hear you ask! Hairs! This weekβs 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 β π 104 π 32 π¬ 5 π 3
PhD student in the Sumner Lab at UCL CBER, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment
RES Student Representative
Lover of all things Hymenoptera!
DinoCon is the UKβs largest Palaeontology themed convention celebrating all things prehistoric. Dino may be in our name, but we welcome all aspects of palaeontology, not just dinosaurs!
https://www.dinocon.co.uk/
The home of Kew Science π©βπ¬
π±Collections
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πMore: linktr.ee/kewscience
πConservation, research, and #SciComm
πPrincipal Investigator @solomonrdavid.bsky.social
πCo-authored by the #GarLab Team
Views our own
https://garlab.org
Professor of Ecology at Royal Holloway University of London | Forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning | Plant-herbivore interactions | Methods and applications of meta-analysis in ecology
A science-driven conservation charity, creating a future where nature and wildlife thrive together.
https://www.zsl.org/
Understanding belowground biodiversity, its structure, functions and interactions in terrestrial ecosystems.
Check out https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plant-soils-ecosystems-group/ to learn more and get in touch.
Celebrate October by posting arachnids and spiders with the tag #Arachtober. I am jciv, a macro photographer living in South Texas, USA, who loves spiders. At the moment, I am posting mainly stereographic 3D macro photos. πΊπΈπΈπ·οΈ
https://arachtober.com
Art. Archaeology. Biomimicry. Birding. Botany. Conservation. Cymraeg. Entomology. Food. Foraging. Gardening. Health. Herbalism. Horticulture. Music. Natural History. Ornithology. Permaculture. Philosophy. Politricks. Spirituality. Sustainability + more
Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs π¦
Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. π biodiversitylibrary.org
Director, Environmental Bioinformatics Group at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss. Chair, European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social). #biodiversity #genomics www.rmwaterhouse.org
The place where your nature photos impact science & conservation around the world. Free, nonprofit, & community-powered. πͺ²ππΏ
Open-acces scholarly publisher known for its data & semantics publishing innovations & tools.
Developer of the ARPHA publishing platform.
Consortium member at multiple Horizon Europe-funded projects.
Website: https://pensoft.net
Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) publishes scientific outputs across the research cycle starting from the Research Idea.
Offers open-science collections to project consortia.
Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by ARPHA.
Website: riojournal.com
Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs. I also run the @evoldir.bsky.social bot.
EU-Funded #101059592 | π https://b-cubed.eu
B-Cubed aims to transform biodiversity monitoring into an agile process to empower policymakers to address the impacts of #biodiversity change.
@Jordan.Chetcuti
(he/him)
#Bee #Bird #Landscape #Researcher @aarhusuni.bsky.social #Ecology agent-based modelling #GIS #RemoteSensing Habitat asso/SDM's
Former @tcddublin.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social, Forest Research
Uni Leeds, Hawaii & Stirling
Peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative research at the interface between plants, society, and the planet.
Professor of Soil Ecology at UST-Chile.
Editor-in-Chief Intl. Mycorrhiza Society Newsletter. Lead: South American Mycorrhizal Res. Network.
Editor: Fungal Ecology; IMA Fungus; Plant People Planet; J. Sust. Agric. Environ.
https://cesar-marin.com/
