📣 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! 🌳🌲🐜🎧🎤 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...

Webinar for MATs, local authorities & councils: Explore the National Education Nature Park Map, see how schools are improving biodiversity & learn how to support them 🌱 📅 3 Dec | 🕐 13:00–13:45. Sign up! #EducationNaturePark #Biodiversity www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/webinar-mats...

Sad to be missing out this year 😢 double booked with Conchological Society meeting I'm hosting. Hopefully I can catch up with recordings.

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!

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...

[email protected] 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 Panamá City this week. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SBSTTA27

⏰ Abstract deadline extended - join the programme by submitting your research by Friday 24 October 🦋 Join us at our Outreach, Culture & Education SIG to network with like-minded people and plan your next outreach venture. 📍 National Museum Scotland 📅 22 Nov 2025 Register now 🔽

I am one of more than 100 signatures on an Open Letter to strengthen national soil biodiversity action through coordination and harmonization 🪱🌱@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social @cmarin.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #soil #soilbiodiversity #policy #environment

Don’t miss the #OrthopteraSIG 2025 on 5 Nov at @nhm-london.bsky.social 🦗 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 🔽 🔗

Join us in celebrating Arachtober by sharing your #spider and other #arachnid photos all month. #Arachtober has spread around the web. We’ve 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.

It’s the @amentsoc.bsky.social annual fair & I’m here with the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Lots of great fly talk & some great exhibits including these from some of the younger members of the AmEntSoc - aren’t they great? #entomology

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 🧵 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🦋 Our AGM & Members' Day was buzzing! We teamed up with @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camzoology.bsky.social for Zoology Live: Insectopia - talks, tours & insects galore 🐛🦗 🎥 Missed it? Watch the talks: bit.ly/AGM2025Talks 📸 Highlights: bit.ly/InsectopiaRecap 🔍 What’s next: www.amentsoc.org/events🕷️

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...

Wow now there's an identification course I never thought I would see! The Tanyptera Project is a gem.

Save the date: 15 Dec | 📍EICC, 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: 🔗 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati...

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...

🪲 Love #insects? Got art, photos, science projects or specimens to share? Book a space at the #aesfair Annual Exhibition – 27 Sep 2025 Kempton Park Racecourse, Surrey! Exhibitors get free entry! 🐜Details + booking form: www.amentsoc.org/events/listings/01112 #amentsoc

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are NOW due AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

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!

The National #EducationNaturePark programme is supporting global biodiversity research. Join our webinar on Wed 23 July 15.30-16.00 BST to find out how! Featuring me & other researchers @nhm-london.bsky.social www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/webinar-studying-biodiversity-gains-across-education-estate

Some are stellate, glandular, forked, simple or branched. What are? I hear you ask! Hairs! This week’s 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

This is also why I love working @nhm-london.bsky.social

A few spots left for our #EducationNaturePark co-development day this Friday 11th July in Exeter! 🌿💻Explore how computing & climate/nature education can connect. Free to join + lunch!📍Info & sign-up: www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/take-part-ou...

@flygirlnhm.bsky.social saw this thread and thought of you

'In an open letter coordinated by Purpose Disruptors, @cleancreatives.bsky.social & @creatives4climate.bsky.social, more than 60 advertising agencies, each with over 1,000 employees, urged the Government to treat fossil fuel ads like tobacco marketing, citing parallels in tactics used &public harm'

Come and talk to me and others about #insects this Saturday!

Cute new slug drops!

On Saturday I will be helping run minibeast hunts in a heatwave 🫠

So excited for this!

Are you interested in teaching computing in schools? Join me and other #EducationNaturePark colleagues in Exeter on the 11th July for a computing resources co-development day. Lunch provided! www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/take-part-ou...

Our new pre-print exposes how the global link between poverty and biodiversity is rooted in colonial exploitation of biological resources. 🌎🌐 #decolonisingconservation #conservation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join #Insect enthusiasts across the globe and #StandTallForTheSmall from 23-29 June 🐞 Planning an event during #InsectWeek 2025? Submit it to our website for more people to see it 🔽 buff.ly/F97fD2s Need inspiration? Visit our handy guide 🔽 buff.ly/Gf7zXba

Big day... My book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History #Museums is published TODAY.🤩 Over the last 20+ years of working in these incredible institutions, I've noticed some surprising things about them, and this book shares some of these "secrets", as an insider's guide.🧵

🌿 London educators! Join free in-person training to explore the #EducationNaturePark. Learn about curriculum links, site mapping & biodiversity surveys. Open to all teachers & school staff!📍Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/o/national-education-nature-park-partnership-71326322563 #OutdoorLearning

Just had a meeting gate crashed by an AI notetaker which hilariously captured us complaining about its presence 🤣

All of this year’s Christmas presents solved as it’s due out in November… @pelagic.bsky.social @georgemcgavin.bsky.social pelagicpublishing.com/products/the...

I've tried a lot of fruits it seems...

🌿Join us for the Education Nature Park Spring Term Round-up on Wed, March 26 at 4 PM GMT to hear from students and discover what our scientists have been up to with the data collected. Don't miss this inspiring event! #EducationNaturePark www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/webinar-spring-term-round

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Did you miss the #YoungVerrall at #SISF2025? Discover the fascinating relationships between plants & insects in this talk for ages 7-11 with the brilliant @drbclunie.bsky.social - Thank you again for delivering the Lecture, Ben! Watch on @amentsoc.bsky.social's YouTube: youtu.be/xGtsES0xmWI?...

I'm speaking on my @nhm-london.bsky.social community science #earthworm research in a free webinar with @biologicalrecording.co.uk on 24 March, sign up here: 🪱 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/earthworm-...

"Too many scientific organizations, from national academies of science to learned societies and universities, have not taken practical action on climate... We therefore also outline a vision for how scientists can reform our scientific institutions to become powerful agents for change."

In the interest of "protect your joy," here's the story of how a silly thing I said in a meme group has now raised almost $30,000 for rainforest conservation. www.southernfriedscience.com/at-least-74-...

We’ve landed on Bluesky - just in time for our 90th anniversary! 🎉🦋 The Amateur Entomologists’ Society has shared its passion for insects since 1935, from butterflies to beetles - and even fabulous flies! 🦟 Follow us for news on our events, books, journals & more. 🐞🦗 #amentsoc #Entomology #BugClub

✨ We have EIGHT amazing summer internships with our National Capability for Global Challenges scheme! Work with UKCEH scientists on topics like ozone pollution, modelling, satellite imagery, soil health & more. 🔗 Apply by 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... 🧪🧵 1/ Please share widely!

Stop what you are doing and watch some baby slugs develop and hatch! 😍 Hidden Pearls by Aryah Nagarajan youtu.be/HkU1fyaV2NM?...

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Rudy says I shouldn't be working on a Sunday... (it's not 'proper' work).