Wrote a little something on hot damselfly sex lives, if you're into that kind of thing medium.com/insectsandth... #bugsky #nature #scicomm #climatechange #insects

The cup fate of #lufc sealed nice and early.

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

"...and in the "French story of the year" category..." 77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market. france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...

The last few years haven't been too kind to the insect #protein industry. Speaking at a @royentsoc.bsky.social event, analyst Corentin Biteau said leaders have been overstating #sustainability and profitability all along, with a radical refocus needed farmingfuturefood.com/analyst-warn... #farming

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI initiative to “discover it all, protect it forever.”

Don't think I've ever seen a hairbrush lounging in a bush before, so here's the curio for your pleasure #shrubbery #ispy

“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.” — @miquai.bsky.social

Said a very grudging farewell to magnificent #Bosnia and Herzegovina last week, after a couple of months among the myriad mountains, meadows and sinkholes. Met a whole bunch of interesting #conservation people, and I'm hoping to tell their stories soon. #nature #scicomm #wildlife

Shell companies for snail farms. Just beautiful.

Bosnia's last warm days and it's a mad, colourful #pollinator sugar scramble. #bugsky #buttersky #beesky #BiH

"Well done for trying": the homeopathy of compliments when tentatively attempting a new language

Utterly incredible story. The non-human world will not be subdued, despite our best efforts. #nature #wetlands #plantsky

Same story - 2 very different takes. Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.

The game that Association Football has been waiting for #Gibraltar #internationals

I've written this banger about the early years of Greenland's very first two social wasps, if you can excuse the horrendous/ hilarious AI image that goes with it medium.com/insectsandth... #Greenland #wildlife #bugsky #invasivespecies #waspsky

Magnificent, ominous skies at FK Sarajevo v Zrinjski Mostar. Who needs fans in the ground anyway #groundhopping #Bosnia #Skysky

A friendly fungus pumps out chemicals that can stop a major crop pathogen in its tracks. The @rothamsted.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk findings could be the first step towards a new generation of #sustainable fungicides. farmingfuturefood.com/soil-fungus-... #agritech #farming #food

Free to read from Issue 2 — Make Football Shit Again Richard Finn needs to get a few things off his chest about the Premier League. Thankfully, he’s got an idea to save us all. thesquareball.net/leeds-united/make-football-shit-again/

NEWS:🌾 First rice trials in the UK! UKCEH scientists are growing cold-hardy rice on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Nine varieties, four mini paddies and a big question: can rice thrive in UK conditions? buff.ly/wYnH1DE 🧪 🧵 1/

Nature is healing

Coming to you live from the #Sarajevo derby. #Groundhopping

"Researchers have discovered a plant that attracts pollinating flies by mimicking the odour of half-eaten ants." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oilseed rape is a crop under pressure,but Swiss scientists have found that growing it along with a bean can effectively take on its complex of pest beetles🪲🌱🪲 farmingfuturefood.com/intercroppin... #farming #arable #sustainability

I just don't think these particular #ultras have put much thought into their fearsome name. #terraceculture #gangevil

Cleansing your timeline with a heron. Love a good heron. #birdsky

#Shroomscrolling the late afternoon away. These beauties all seen in #Bosnia and Herzegovina

Meet my new best mate, a real mantis of the people #Bugsky

As much as I would love these to be the real weekly numbers for my insect blog, there's evidently a bug-focused #AI scrapeathon at work. Urgh. #bugsky #scrapesky

Urgent declaration issued to halt UK insect declines Well timed call to arms to reverse major ongoing insect declines😔🐛🦋🐜🐝🪲🕷️ From @Buglife @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social And supported by @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social And many others geographical.co.uk/wildlife/urg...

“We crave certainty, especially in the face of tragedy, & are quick to weave disparate facts into a coherent, & often sinister, narrative.” —Francis Gavin #history #historians

We all need a bit of #bloomscrolling right now, I'd say. These pretties are from Bosnia and Herzegovina #floraofbluesky #BiH

Coming to you live from the Bosnian second tier, for, y'know, reasons #Groundhopping #BiH #Tuzla

A sun-bleached, ghostly Edin Dzeko throws his weight behind a paté brand, #Sarajevo. #BiH

Look at this crazy thing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolution by automotive selection. Scientists in the Galápagos discover yellow warblers living near traffic exhibit the bird version of "road rage." www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/evol...

A couple of shots from Trebevic/ #Sarajevo for the Lepidoptera lovers #bugsky #buttersky #mothsky #BiH

Phenomenal bit of Google Translatery here in #Bosnia #Forbidden

This is a great day for knowing which #lufc fans to mute on Bluesky. #deadlineday

A project in Spain is bringing Przewalski’s horse to a sparsely populated region to help stem out-of-control fires and boost the local economy. Rewilding Spain is attempting to rebuild ecological roles in the region to boost biodiversity and mitigate fire outbreaks.

Amphibian sticker on toilet cistern, Banja Luka, #Bosnia. More of this sort of thing. #frogsky

I wrote about anthrax hanging about, waiting to resurface, and what can be done about it. environment.ec.europa.eu/news/histori... For @scicommsuwe.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu #scicomm #healthnews #research

Danny Dyer seems to have established a powdered dairy product sideline in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

🦏 The natural history of beetles Edinburgh: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. [Source]

The new project, which aims to map and describe pollen, could impact pollinator health, and in turn, the food humans eat that depend on pollination. news.wsu.edu/press-releas...

🦋 New UKCEH research with @naturalengland.bsky.social and @btobirds.bsky.social shows the positive impacts of agri-environment schemes (AES) on butterflies. Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social 🧵🧪 1/

The only thing that spending part of your life living in London gives you is the ability to predict the speed and direction of Londoners' movements, allowing you to avoid being a hapless trampled provincial.

Have also heard very good things about this one #filmsky

A handful of scientists have started to train their ears to the worms, grubs and roots underground. They were not prepared for what they heard.

One for all the crane fly fanatics out there #bugsky #flysky