Thanks to our amazing contributors we have the Spring newsletter to share with you, full of fascinating #biologicalrecording stories which we hope you'll enjoy www.nfbr.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Calling all UK PhD students with an interest in Entomology. Open now: Insect Taxonomy and Field Sampling Skills Course. It's a fully funded, residential 1 week field course in Oxford, based at OUMNH @morethanadodo.bsky.social Full details can be found at the link below. Application deadline May 9th

Any presentation that starts with a Star Trek reference has my FULL attention!! 🖖 We had an EPIC talk this morning by @pselaphacus.bsky.social on what the Life Collections team gets up to @morethanadodo.bsky.social (A LOT, is the take home message…)

I have been prompted and so you are prompted: The #CETAF E-SCoRe Award deadline is in a week! FOR: #natural collections based #researches WHO: PhD #students PRIZE: 1.000 € 💶 + 1.500 € for research trip Check this page out 👇 cetaf.org/template-act... #taxonomy

It's Wednesday afternoon and it's time for a mid week reward. Presenting the shiny blue wasp that you didn't know you needed in your life #hymenoptera #museumcollections

Delighted to be hosting @colsocbi.bsky.social today at @morethanadodo.bsky.social for a day of talks and visits to the collections. Lovely to see so many keen beetle people, with old faces and new in the audience #coleopteristsday2025

Hello, internet! Things are bad for our trans & queer friends in the US, so I teamed up with bsky's nature artists to create this pack containing 80 wallpapers and growing. 1. Donate to one of the two orgs below 2. DM me your receipt 3. I'll give you a download link Valid til the end of the month

This feels like a Chrysis moment #hymenoptera #museum #collections

Every year in January BENHS (@britentsoc.bsky.social) and LNHS jointly host the Brad Ashby Memorial Lecture. In case you missed this years fabulous talk on electrostatic ecology by @samjakeengland.bsky.social, I am pleased to report that it can be found here youtu.be/e3R5T1jVcfU?...

Our fantastic NERC DTP student finished up yesterday and I got the chance to see some of the collections that they've been working on. In a highly scientific fashion I picked out all my favorites based on objective parameters such as: bling, fluffiness, pattern & cuteness.... #hymenoptera #museum

This moth 😍 #museum #collection #lepidoptera #moth

Unsolicited insect picture for your feed

This is a nice list! And who doesn't need more bug friends?

Today, I have mostly been thinking about beetles #coleoptera

What I did today: meetings and emails What I WANTED to do today: play with bugs Goal for tomorrow: less emails more bugs 🪲

The light was beautiful in the heavy frost yesterday. Took a walk around the reservoir as the sun was setting. Fog was so thick that if it weren't for the birds, you wouldn't have known where the sky stopped and the water began

Been diary planning this morning, and wowsers it's going to be a busy year! Lots of projects at the museum and BENHS events to look forward to. Here goes it with 2025 then!

I'm very excited to give this talk in January! It's free to attend via zoom if you're interested! :)

Am feeling under immense pressure to make my first post on a new platform really cool, but that would be so out of character that I just don't think there's anyway it can happen. Please be distracted by this nice #fungus