New to Bluesky - wondering if anyone has any info on records of breeding for Clifden Nonpareil in the Northeast? Found this impressive caterpillar looking to pupate amongst a stand of Aspen in Newcastle!! Thinking fraxini - one of the most northerly breeding records for UK??! @nenature.bsky.social

New meta-analysis: #Pollinator responses to distance from #crop field boundaries depend on pollinator taxa, crop type, and adjacent agri-environment habitats. Smaller field sizes can foster pollinators within crop fields. 🦋🐝🌾 #agroecology #conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

The global food system is increasingly at risk from shocks. Using network science, we provide a framework to examine both the direct and indirect effects on major crop types and suggest ways for increasing resilience. Thanks to @royalsociety.org for funding & @chathamhouse.org for collaborating.

Can development actually improve biodiversity? 🌿 Natalie Duffus explains Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)—how it’s measured and what it could mean for invertebrates and ecosystems. Watch the full talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhSL... @britentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

It's that time of year again! and much like the Flower Crab Spiders, Spider Spies is coming out of hibernation and running a second year. So if you want to be involved in investigating these colourful spiders and their flower using habits head over to our website foragingecology.com/spider-spies/

This morning I was interviewed on BBC Radio Gloucestershire and Newcastle on the BGB regarding the new guidance on birdfeeding and my favourite places to bird in the North East! You can listen on BBC sounds from 7am on Glocs and 8:20 on Newcastle 🐦‍⬛🪿🦆🦉

🎨 Picture This: Someone Like Me transforms Newcastle University research into vibrant illustrated artworks at the Great North Museum: Hancock. A student‑led exhibition showing that research is for everyone — and that “someone like you” can be part of it. 👉 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

🚨 New journal launch! We're ecstatic to announce #ApproachesInEntomology - a new #OpenAccess journal focused on methods, tools and innovation across #InsectScience, designed to support transparency, reproducibility, and practical advances in the field. Read more 🔽 buff.ly/tNTmujq @wiley.com

Don't miss this fantastic exhibition at Great North Museum: Hancock! Picture This: Someone Like Me transforms Newcastle University research into illustrated artworks, encouraging visitors to feel curious about research and to see themselves as part of it too. Read more >> bit.ly/4t0t8YN

NEW PAPER: Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction doi.org/10.1111/2041... led by Will Dawson @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

⏰ Abstract Deadline this Saturday! 🌿 Why should you attend the RES #StudentForum? ✔️ Present your own research ✔️ Attend expert talks ✔️ Join wellbeing sessions ✔️ Meet peers from across the globe 📍 Newcastle University – 30–31 March 🔗 buff.ly/yQsZcMK @newcastleuni.bsky.social #SF26

We are a go! The student forum will be held at my very own Newcastle University this year, and we've got some cracking talks from some brilliant entomologists lined up for the key note spots, some fab workshops and as always we'll have the ENTOquiz! So please send your abstracts over #entomology

Ever considered joining the #RESAgForestEnt team? Are you an active researcher in the field? There are a few days left to apply to join our team as Editor-in-Chief! Think you might fit the bill? ⬇️ www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunities/eic-afe-2026/ Deadline: 31 January 2026 @royentsoc.bsky.social

FREE NEW EVENT!!! 🕷️ Join us on Friend, Foe, or Freeloader? The Flower Crab Spider webinar on 2nd June. @envirosyment.bsky.social explores how Misumena vatia hunts on flowers—and how you can get involved in the research too! 🌍 🧪 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915221742... @britishspiders.bsky.social

Great new research shows that light pollution prevents activity in the critical twilight period (just after sunset) in a moth and spider species. 🕷️🦋💡- this calls for mitigations targeting this critical time period. Read more in our dispatch: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Please consider filling this in for Tom Smith, an MPhil researcher at the University of Wolverhampton, if you have seen an alpine newt preying on/being prayed upon by another amphibian! UK only!

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#TeamNEG 🥳

If you work in this area (road safety, lighting specialists, ecologists) then please join our Knowledge Network (information below)

Last year I wrote this for Transgender Awareness Week because of the challenges I've faced in my institution. Sharing it again as this week we celebrate trans identities and remember those who have been targeted for being themselves www.britishecologicalsociety.org/five-steps-t...

Time to rethink nature conservation? 🌍 Senior ecologists, including our own @dmevans.bsky.social, are calling for an ecosystem approach as the only way to halt the vanishing of UK wildlife and protect the ecosystem services that nature provides 🌱 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/time-to-reth...

Join our group @nclneg.bsky.social for this cool PhD project! 🔊🐦🌿🪰 Looking for impactful research, opportunities for personal and professional development, and a great research culture? Consider applying! ⬇️

⏰ 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 🔽

📣🐞 Vacancy for a @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Representative! 🐞📣 Join @idrisadams.bsky.social & @envirosyment.bsky.social for one of the best opportunities around! Contribute to the RES and organise events, such as the renowned Student Forum Deadline: 5/10/25 www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Not only will you be getting first hand experience in how societies are run behind the scenes but all the connections and opportunities that come will the role are unmatched! @idrisadams.bsky.social and I will be ready to bring you up to speed on everything to do with the position! 🪲🐝🐞

📣🐞 Vacancy for a @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Representative! 🐞📣 Join @idrisadams.bsky.social & @envirosyment.bsky.social for one of the best opportunities around! Contribute to the RES and organise events, such as the renowned Student Forum Deadline: 5/10/25 www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

It’s the end of #EcoNet2025 and what better way to celebrate than an exploration of Bamburgh Castle and walk on the beach

Back home after a wonderful week! Learning so much about metabarcoding 🧬thanks to the workshop organized by @nclneg.bsky.social, followed by inspiring plenaries, talks & posters! Loved catching up with 🫶🏼friends & meeting new generation of net ecologists. Already looking forward to the next one in 🇧🇷!

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡 At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image. Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work. More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV... #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is seeking ten taxonomic specialists in Collembola or any of the following insect orders - Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera! graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral...

Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋 The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽

North-bumble-land Walk complete! 🐝 🐝 1,070 bumblebees counted 🔎 15 species recorded 🥾 84 miles walked A huge thank you for your support & donations for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! Notebook is full of sightings for @nenature.bsky.social's #NorthEastBeeHunt! www.justgiving.com/page/charlot...

We’re pleased to see the interp board that we produced with @dmevans.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social installed at Palace Leas! 3 weeks ago, we visited the site & witnessed a student poster go up. Thanks to Made By Landmark & #nclfarms staff. bit.ly/PalaceLeas @bensjhawthorne.bsky.social 🌎

Come and join us in Newcastle for a wonderful gathering of network ecologists! This year our theme is 'Network Ecology in the Anthropocene' and our plenary speakers include Jane Memmott and Paulo Guimarães. Symposium tickets are an absolute bargain, especially for students.

Having had time to digest the new BNG consultation, I am *astounded* at the proposed changes to the small sites metric (SSM). If the changes are implemented, the SSM could apply to developments up to 49 dwellings/1ha - affecting a lot of developments! 1/ consult.defra.gov.uk/defra-biodiv...

🚨WHERE ARE THE CRAB SPIDERS?🚨 If you spot any crab spiders on flowers, help out @envirosyment.bsky.social by sending in photos and, even better, live spiders! This will help inform her important research on the weird and wonderful interactions between invertebrate predators and plants!

Seen a Flower Crab Spider? Get that camera out! 📸 By taking a few pics (potentially sending a sample), you could contribute to some really cool science, led by @envirosyment.bsky.social! And if you’ve never seen one, now is the time! Check out the handy thread below for ID help 🔍 #SpiderSpies 🌼🕷️🌿🕵️

It is such an impressive experimental design - I’m glad I could help with setting up! 💡🪲🌿 I’m already looking forward to seeing the results!

We had a great time last week putting up experimental lamp posts at one of the university's experimental farms for @miacroftento.bsky.social's upcoming artificial light experiments! We even had a mining bee digging its hole near ours - perhaps setting up their own lamp posts! 💡🐝

There's still time to show your support for insect #ConservationScience with #BigGive. Your generous donations will support the next generations of the #LargeBlue in the UK & beyond 🦋 Double your impact before midday 29 April 🔽 buff.ly/lyGUtQ7 @gloswildlife.bsky.social @biggive.bsky.social

Top genome scientists to map DNA sequence of invertebrate winner 2025

So excited to be joining the RES in this position, and looking forward to meeting and working with so many people at conferences and beyond!

And just like that, my final PhD student conference is over! So glad I finally got to present at the @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Forum as a delegate—and thrilled to receive a prize for my talk (as the cheesy smile shows). Huge thanks to everyone who made it such a great event 🐝 #SF25

RES Student Forum 2025 over and out! Plenty of great science and great people 🕺🏼 we couldn’t have done it without the help from the @royentsoc.bsky.social, the plenary speakers, and of course the delegates #SF25 🦋

Will, @envirosyment.bsky.social and @bensjhawthorne.bsky.social are having a great time at the @royentsoc.bsky.social #SF25 this week! Be sure to say hello if you're there! 🪱🕷️🐝 #StudentForum2025Squad

🐞 Spread the word! Registration and abstract submission are now open for our annual conference, #Ento25! Join the entomological community in-person or online this September, with opportunities to present your work, meet new contacts and build collaborations 🔽 buff.ly/tKyJIbN

🐞🐝 Today is the last day for in-person registration of the @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Forum 2025!! 🐝🐞 We have excellent speakers, a great venue (clock the museum tour), and some really exciting research being shared. See you there!

A great day out leading a young(ish) birding day out. 52 species with the highlights being Bittern, Barn Owl, Ring-necked Duck and Scaup. Hopefully we've got a few new bird nerds!

📢 Abstract submission deadline is today 🦋 Share your research with your peers at the Student Forum. All #InsectScience abstract submissions welcome. Submit your abstracts by 17:00 (GMT), 7 Feb 🔽 https://buff.ly/4b0ORbz #SF25 @uniofreading.bsky.social