Is your back garden a pollinator hotspot? 🌸🐝 New research shows flower-rich gardens can be powerful refuges for urban pollinators. Join Emma Plant from @glasgow.ac.uk on 22 Apr 2026 for a FREE entoLIVE to learn more. 🌍 🧪 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1964456916... @royentsoc.bsky.social #pollinators

Last chance to book 🌿 Join the Wildlife Gardening Virtual Symposium 2026 on 14 Jan for cutting-edge garden science — from ponds & pollinators to fungi and urban mammals, with expert speakers from across the UK. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1419239717... @jeffollerton.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social

In an attempt to finally break even on these trans ferns and clear some space in my flat, I'm running a January sale for the pin versions. For the rest of the month, you can get them for £10 instead of the higher price I usually charge for this full 3d moulding canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4312...

Starting the Work Thoughts for the new year! ... ... *cleans the bath* *sets up mum's new computer* *rearranges all the tea*

A very warm season's greetings to all humans from #PrehistoricPlanet Nanuqsaurus. Merr Chrismas #paleoart #dinosaur #Christmas #meme

Brief trip to Manchester - was going to take a Humourous Series of photos of me pointing at bees, but it was very, very wet. So just the big one at Picadilly.

Wasps! What are they good for? Absolutely Everything, (Say it again) Listen to our latest podcast with @waspwoman.bsky.social Seirian Sumner, who will be sure to change the way you view these creatures, critical to our ecosystems.

I should probably put up a christmas wreath or something visible from the front of the house, because it really is starting to look like IN THIS HOUSEHOLD WE CELEBRATE ONLY HALLOWEEN 🎃 (Spooky Window = up until mid November 😆)

I need a t-shirt / handheld sign for the train saying "It's a dust allergy" or "this is a week after the cold stopped, the cough is Lingering".

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

*Somebody* has a slightly infected claw and has been subjected to so many Indignities today. It would not be donut time if he didn't keep licking said Indignities.

Why is my BANKING APP doing a 'wrapped'?? Go away 😖

Lots of laceweb spiders making their homes in the old mortar of #wollaton park boundry walls. Plus plenty of moss, lichen and small plants making use of the surfaces. Gracefully-aging masonry = urban biodiversity habitats!

Bothering my cat, saying 'you are made of exploded dead stars! Exploded dead stars and CRIMES!" while I fuss his chin. Normal morning behaviour.

Swapped my podcast app (in the bin with you, spotify), and have thus lost track of what I've already listened to. @ologies.bsky.social roulette it is!

Free online talk, tonight, book asap on Eventbright: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/saving-our...

If you have a student, anywhere in the world, who would like and entomological society membership please have them come on over to our entopoc.org website to sign up for up to three free memberships per student!

You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

With Girlguides and the WI announcing that the new laws are forcing them to exclude trans girls and women, it seems like a good time for any cis women who haven't signed Not In Our Name yet to do so. Stand with our sisters. notinourname.org.uk

We are mothers, daughters, friends and colleagues who stand together in support of trans people. Not In Our Name. Read our full statement here: notinourname.org.uk/trans-exclus...

Manged to pick up the current cold during travelling about (thanks, trains) and OOF it has knocked me over this week. Just had to lie on the floor breathing Deliberately after a 10min sneezing marathon. Considerably more unpleasant than my last round of covid. Do not recommend. Wear yer masks, gang.

New "Bugs Matter" survey update seems to show ongoing and rapid insect decline, based on bug splats on cars. @KentWildlife

Trying to be more Visible professionally. Updating LinkedIn really drains the energy outta your brain, doesn't it?

Tiny child thinking one day I will be big enough to snack on the butterfly 🖤 #EmotionalSupportSpood

It's almost the weekend! 🥳 If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨 Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!! drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...

Do you have 10 minutes to help an @edinburghnapier.bsky.social MSc student complete her final research project? Please consider letting us know your opinions towards herring gulls, by completing this short questionnaire tinyurl.com/tfntmfbk Thank you!

Happy Halloween! 🎃 This is a piece I’ve did before but wanna try a different background color. Orange and black insects lining up for the spooky season! 🧡🖤

thank you to the bugs

> Fetching emails from third-party accounts into your Gmail account, with POP, will no longer be supported. I hate Google. If you work for Google, I hate you.

Many thanks to @richardfisher.bsky.social for this lovely article on my #urbangeology rambles! www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Why are some apples as sweet as honey while others make your face pucker? 🍎 Dive into the chemistry behind apple sweetness, tartness, and aroma in this graphic! 👉 Read more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/16/a... #ChemSky 🧪

Whoop, whoop! The new queer wildlife documentary 'Second Nature,' narrated by the inspirational Elliot Page, will premiere in New York on Saturday. 🐠🏳️‍⚧️🐧🌈🐘 It looks awesome; check out the teaser. Hopefully it will be available in the UK soon. www.secondnaturedoc.com #lgbtq #nature #film #PrideInSTEM

📨 Plants, People, Planet is delighted to announce Open Letters! We invite groups of experts to present bold and succinct calls to action to those in positions to elicit and enact change. Find out more about the new format 👇 www.newphytologist.org/news/announc... #PlantScience

I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)! Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

Settled in for the @ukbms.bsky.social 50th Anniversary conference 🦋 Got my #citizenscience hat on today; used to work with this fairly closely back in the @jncc.bsky.social days!

🎉 Just 2 days to go until the UKBMS 50th Anniversary Conference! 🦋✨ There's a great programme lined up - ukbms.org/sites/defaul... and we can't wait to welcome the volunteers, researchers and butterfly‑enthusiasts from across the UK. Last chance to book www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...

I was featured on @rootsandall.bsky.social podcast this week, talking about #entomology, #wildlifegardening and whatever else danced across my brain while I was chatting😉 Check out my episode here - plus loads of back catalogue of previous episodes: rootsandall.co.uk/podcast/turn...

🐠🔊 What noise does a fish make?  Researchers have developed a new tool that combines 360° video with spatial audio to identify fish by their sounds. The result is the most extensive library of natural fish sounds ever published,  including many that have never been identified before. 🌍🧪

A print run of 50 of my '26 calendars will be on pre-order in my Etsy shop tmrw (Thurs) from 8pm UK time. I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them alters brain biochemistry & is likely to trigger dopamine release in your brain &...cont'd in following post 🧵

It's officially 𝐁𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡! 🦇What do you most appreciate about bats?

So sad to hear that Jane Goodall has passed away - a life well lived in promoting the understanding and conservation of our fellow inhabitants of our one wild and precious planet.

He's trying his bset

so here it is folks, with one day to spare the complete #SciArt collage of critters for #invertober2024 by @fossilforager.bsky.social and now I have a fresh clean slate to start the 2025 list! which hopefully is done before September 2026...

I am working on a really cool project - a pop up science and art shop in Swindon! We are looking for researchers to run public engagement activities in this space from 25th Oct - 1st Nov. If you are interested, please get in touch via my website contact form: www.sarahcosgriff.com/contact

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November. If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look. They welcome donations too.

🎵bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug 🎵Mr bugman 🎵cent me a pede 🎵give him some feet that are many indeed

Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Does anyone have any guides etc they'd recommend for getting better at mobile phone photography? Real beginner stuff - I have no photography background, but I'm sure I should be able to make this S24 take better bug photos than it does.