First learnt about these little predators in The Good Slug Guide by Jo Kirby last year. Amazing to see them in action. Great pics!

Pulmonaria is my favourite starter perennial if you are new to dividing plants. It's incredibly forgiving and an early source of nectar for bees (UK/Ireland).

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"All the scans, reconstructions, and 3D models will be made freely available in open repositories. That means anyone, from entomologists to curious hobbyists, could explore these ancient insects in digital space." Fantastic! #OpenResearch #Entomology

I think I finally understand what true blasphemy feels like. My favourite wholesome follow - Ian Denton's Weedy pond cam - invaded by hounds chasing a fox. Feeling sick but happy the fox seems to have gotten away today.

Conservation thread with interesting implications for protecting ground nesting birds in falling temperatures 🧵

I made a dried flower wreath for a friend coping with loss. I didn't know when I picked them that this would be their purpose but I'm glad my garden provided a way for me to express heartache for someone I care for. #WildflowerArt #DriedFlowers

".. most of the plants I added as tiny things are now large and I’ve divided multiple times to start filling the garden. " I love the amount of plastic and pesticides avoided by being patient, observant and allowing groups to naturally form in a space.

I sometimes forget that many people cannot imagine what bio-based construction looks like for the end customer, when seeing only construction site pictures. It looks exactly the same as climate-damaging construction if you want to, only without the climate damage, toxins, and all that. 🧵13

"Taken together, this study demonstrates that selective predation by nematodes reorganizes energy flow within soil micro-food webs, offering mechanistic evidence that predator-driven shifts in energy flow underpin biodiversity-function relationships in agricultural soils." #SoilFoodWeb #SoilScience

Vivid descriptions of what living with #TippingPoints looks like. 300 person village wiped out in a few moments. There is no magic technology or offset credit coming to save us We are all in the same ocean but in different boats. Climate refugees belong to all of us.

I'm currently listening to the #GreenCrime audiobook and it goes beyond highlighting environmental crime and into the heart of what severs our kinship with nature. #BookSky

Very excited that the first chapter of my PhD is now published! 🧬 We analysed ancient DNA and biomarkers directly from artefacts, showing how birch tar provides insights into past societies, technology, resources, and health. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We have so much to learn from traditional Transylvanian wood pasture management. Mixed farming communities need to be supported for their true value of working with nature and preserving food systems not just how they compete with the short term thinking of corporate agriculture.

Beautiful!

Addressing the connection between animal biodiversity declines and the carbon stored in our ecosystems can help to make smarter decisions about aligning responses to the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis. 🌐🌏 via @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it

Deadwood brings wild orchids to life: Study uncovers important carbon flux in the ecosystem... phys.org/news/2025-10...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

What amazing insights! Conservation as a Trojan horse for resource extraction, habitat fragmentation and so much more. #MordecaiOgada bringing light to the real issues (right to roam, community, equality). On the ground voices and experiences are essential for real fruitful solutions.

What are the ecological consequences of using different grazing species? In this video I discuss the issue with Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell. youtu.be/ozHdOKKtpzU?...

#OurPrehistory podcast - The American Megafauna Extinctions & their relation to other worldwide Megafauna extinctions. www.patreon.com/posts/43-ame... I enjoy the mix of academic context and storytelling from Benjy Longworth. And extra reading/maps are ❤️ #SundaySlowdown #Megafauna #Extinction

Don’t drive into floods. These photos were taken just 20 minutes apart near Bantry in Cork yesterday. As you can see in the photos during that time, the water levels rose high enough to nearly cover the car.

Origins podcast Ep - 2004 interview #JaneGoodall describes in her own words: - 1957 arrival in Nairobi, Kenya - encouragement & financial support from Louis Leakey to study chimpanzees in the wild - 1960 groundbreaking discovery that changed the way we see chimpanzees & define 'humanity' 3 yrs!

Do you sometimes see/report/handle dead wildlife as a scientist (including volunteer community scientists)? If so, do you have any strategies for dealing with the stress and grief that these encounters can cause? I'm building a toolkit for myself and for some other stressed out folks! context:

Robin’s Pincushion or Bedeguar Gall Wasp on Dog Rose in Portarlington, co Laois "Inside the gall is a group of the Bedeguar Gall Wasp larvae, each residing in their own chamber within the gall. The larvae feed on the plant tissue inside the gall." PDF Src: shorturl.at/Id502 #BugSky

Still trying to emotionally recover from losing all my plant and invertebrate photos from 2025 before I uploaded them to the national biodiversity centre. 500+ labelled to species & GPS Thoughts and prayers for recovery 🐝 Also a reminder: UPLOAD YOUR CIT SCIENCE items (I'm shouting at myself)

In 2012, a flood forced Dr Fiona Work out of her home in Edzell for 10 months. Eleven years later, the village flood group she helped form saved the community during Storm Babet. Our latest: theferret.scot/new-a...

Great Collab with @domainofscience.com & @rbgkew.bsky.social below Have to share "Surprising Map of Plants" - stuffed with so much tasty information on the origin of plant familys/groups. Every time I got lost in a complicated textbook this vid helped me recenter myself. youtu.be/ONVpFtiD-fo?...

Met a truly remarkable landowner 3 wks ago. Farm tour of hedges surrounding his fields dedicated to wild bird cover crops. He was kind enough to let me return, collect seed and observe it more closely. Surrounded by conventional farming many traditional farm birds flock to feed in the winter 1/2

Glad to see the Meadow Pippits feeding in the back fields again after not hearing them for two months. Lots of birds feeding on seeds & berries today. Co Laois Ireland #IrishWildlife #IrishBirds

I know what I'm reading next. Free downloadable action-focused "Field guide to Climate and Information Crisis"

A discarded bathroom sink base makes for a sturdy solution to keeping cats and foxes away from the food I leave out for the hedgehogs. I place the bowl at the far end, where predator paws can't grab it. When the weather turns cold, I'll move the base under the shrub to make a hibernation home.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

@gcampbellphoto.bsky.social has an amazing ability to capture moths from all the right angles. Trying to learn moth species by repetition and his images feel almost tactile. Looking forward to seeing what Irish moths pop up over winter and into 2026. Brilliant find thanks to the teammoth feed.

📢 Big River Watch starts this Friday! Download the free app, visit your local river between the 19th - 25th, and complete the short survey to tell us what you see. Be part of the movement fighting for wild, healthy, natural rivers, with #BigRiverWatch. theriverstrust.org/take-action/...

Enjoyed the latest "Re Engineer" substack from @chrisbaraniuk.com . Explores passive cooling via window shading with a nod to the High-tech vs Low-tech camps: www.thereengineer.pro/p/the-big-co... 1/2

Think I saw a barn owl hunting over the back fields this weekend. Even with no outdoor lighting it glowed a ghostly white & is my favourite nature experience in 2025! @birdwatchireland.bsky.social are there any lookalike white raptors I should be aware of? Co Laois #IrishNature #Raptors

I'd love to see this study scaled up and applied to more orchard crop settings. (Currently 3 olive orchard sites compared). Would be especially interesting to study the impact of different practises to manage that herbaceous cover on bird numbers. Great starting point imo.

@hankgreen.bsky.social did a great video on what the AMOC collapsing means in easy-to-understand (and somber) terms youtu.be/pThcIgJyNME?...

New to bluesky and #Bugsky

I think it's underappreciated that this site goes "we know you all came up with your own solution to things we don't have, and now that we have an official version we're working with your solution to combine the two"

TIL plants can 'hear' and respond with specific chemical defense mechanisms "2014 study revealed that Arabidopsis thaliana could distinguish betw. the vibrations caused by wind or harmless sounds & those created by a caterpillar chewing on its leaves." www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/this-plant-c...

If you don't know who Sam Altman is look it up. Then come back to this post so it can really sink in. I don't usually post hate but the CEO-class and tech-investor panhandlers could collectively improve the world by falling into an active volcano.

Reposting as it's the time of year to resist the cutback urge.

Unconfirmed Fungus/Gall on Dactylis glomerata (Cocksfoot) found in Portlaoise, Ireland this morning. @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social I'd throw it up on iNat but need to know if there is anything else I should be looking pls? Maybe ergot (Claviceps purpurea)?: bladmineerders.nl/parasites/fu...

Brilliantly coloured seedhead of the square-stalked St John's Wort is one of my favourite local plant and and under-rated #IrishWildflower for autumn pop. I'd love to see it in more urban gardens as it is fairly hardy, not overly competitive & gorgeous imo. #WildflowerHour #Fruits Co Laois

I'm #NotAPhotographer but seeing one of Richard Duff's bird hides in Ballyfin, Co Laois made me yearn for a few hours with a portable kettle & the right equipment to try it. Loved the invert-friendly, lichen-covered perches & mini reflection pool irishphotographyhides.com/about/ #IrishWildlfe

"To enhance food resources, diversity and abundance of diurnal pollinators, conservation management at ponds should aim for mosaics of ponds at different successional stages with a high proportion of early successional open-canopy ponds." #WildlifePonds

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Effects of #elevation and microclimatic temperatures on #butterfly–flower interaction networks in a #Mediterranean #mountain range doi.org/10.1111/icad.70008 #Lepidoptera #Microclimate #Interactions @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com