Thanks, Josie, for running such a great workshop! So many great discussions and exciting things to come! 🐟🕸️🏞️

Josie South@josiesouth.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This week was full of training, workshops and seminars. @leopoldadrianus.bsky.social taught the group ecomorphology, @ecoinvasions.bsky.social gave an insightful lecture on context dependent invasion impacts

We've really enjoyed having @maximuminsect.bsky.social join us for #EcoNet2025, #Ento25 and for a joint group meeting with @nclneg.bsky.social! See you soon, Max!

Network Ecology Group - Newcastle University@nclneg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thanks to Max Tercel for chairing a session at #EcoNet2025 and for giving a talk to us and @foragingecology.bsky.social at our joint group meeting on Monday

I had a great time talking to #Ento25 about peer review! We even had them peer reviewing some mock papers and they all did exceptionally well!

Royal Entomological Society@royentsoc.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Workshops are underway at #Ento25 with EiC of Agricultural & Forest #Entomology @jordancuff.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social leading on The Priorities and Pitfalls of Good #PeerReview 🐛 #Glasgow #Education #Research #Science #Insects #InsectScience #Publications #PhD #STEM #RESAgForestEnt

Another month of fieldwork and fun here in FERG! We’ve had some exciting adventures to conferences and courses, some new articles and protocols and more! 🏞️📃🧪 Check out our latest news post and subscribe on our homepage for email updates! foragingecology.com/2025/09/04/f...

FERG News September 2025

Another month of fieldwork and fun here in FERG! Alongside all of the various field experiments well under way, we’ve had some exciting adventures to conferences and courses, some new article…

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Thanks to Max Tercel for chairing a session at #EcoNet2025 and for giving a talk to us and @foragingecology.bsky.social at our joint group meeting on Monday

What a buzzing time at #EcoNet2025! Was thrilled to get to share some of my PhD work and to meet so many lovely researchers! Thanks so much to all the organizers. @foragingecology.bsky.social with a strong showing and a prize winning talk by @beatricedale.bsky.social 🐝🌳

Check out what Rosy's up to in the field! Some great samples on their way back to Newcastle soon! 🤩🕷️🕸️

Rosy Christopher@envirosyment.bsky.social · last yr.

Come and do some fieldwork with me! #entomology #spiders #arachnology #womeninstem #fieldwork

What's going on in FERG?! Find out in our monthly news post! foragingecology.com/2025/06/08/f... Some incredible updates and photos from the group, including new papers, fieldwork antics and outreach programmes! There's even a foraging logic puzzle to have a go at.

FERG News June 2025

It’s been another busy month, with plenty of fieldwork underway, some new faces and some nice new outputs! Read below for all of the recent updates, some other things we’d like to share…

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After such a great response to #spiderspies yesterday and so many people sharing it, I've already had 6 responses in just one day, and 3 people have requested sample kits! So I'll be making a trip to the post office this afternoon to get those sent out to people 🕷️✉️ spider mail here we come

Further information about the scheme can be found here foragingecology.com/spider-spies/ along with links to our recording form. Please feel free to ask me any questions about the scheme, the spiders or the work I'm doing with them!

Spider Spies

Welcome to Spider Spies! Flower crab spiders (Misumena vatia) love to live in flower verges, which are great for pollinators, biodiversity buffer zones and natural pest control. We want to find out…

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🚨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!

Rosy Christopher@envirosyment.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.

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! 💡🐝

What beautiful scenery! 🤩 Lots of exciting things ahead for Broghan!

Broghan Mareighd Erland@broghanmerland.bsky.social · last yr.

The woodpasture at Hepple Wilds really was showing off its early spring best for laser scanning! Can’t wait to return with @jordancuff.bsky.social in the summer for a final set of 🌳🕷️🪻data for my PhD. So excited for the collaboration as part of my work with @foragingecology.bsky.social

Also found some great carabid #beetles up here, although this one was not so happy and did try to make a meal out of my finger 🪲 Fairly certain this is a pterostichus but not sure on the species so will be sending over to @chrisfoster.bsky.social and the recording scheme

We're really excited about these new article types! Share your perspectives on the impact of policy on insects in agriculture and forestry! 📃🐝🐛 Publish new methods and applications of methods from other fields! 🧪🪲💻 Check out the updated guidelines and keep eyes peeled for more updates to come!

RES Publications@respublications.bsky.social · last yr.

We are delighted to announce the launch of several new article types in #RESAgForestEnt, creating a space for innovative new formats, including methods, applications & ‘policy insights’ articles More info here🔽 buff.ly/96XpoYf @jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social

Massive congrats to @envirosyment.bsky.social for being selected as the next @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Rep! 🎉🎓🪲

Rosy Christopher@envirosyment.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

Welcome to Bluesky, Broghan! 😃🚁🌳

Broghan Mareighd Erland@broghanmerland.bsky.social · last yr.

Introduction time! Hi, I’m Broghan a PhD student at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🇨🇦in🇬🇧 I study 🌳 #carbon and 🪻 #biodiversity in UK #agroforestry systems. A particular focus is on remote sensing of structural and multispectral diversity of vegetation as they relate to foraging ecology.

Hello all ☺️ I start new accounts with a quote that’s meaningful to me: “Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used–not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.” - Elizabeth Gaskell #ethics

Really wonderful talk from Chris on his journey through ecology and his current work. Will definitely be sending him and the carabid recording scheme all the carabid data from my master's work last year!

Royal Entomological Society@royentsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

A warm welcome from all of us here at @uniofreading.bsky.social, all geared up and ready for the RES Student Forum 2025 🦋 Introducing our first Keynote, Chris Foster, with his talk: Going to ground: engaging students (and everyone) in carabid recording and research 🪲 #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

It is truly an honour to be shortlisted for the Elton Prize! Reflecting on this paper for the blog was really nice - we had such a great time writing it and it's driving so much of what we're doing in @foragingecology.bsky.social! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks

Nutrients influence the structure and complexity of ecological networks by driving interactions but remain poorly integrated into networks. Integrating nutritional data into networks may significantl...

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Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · last yr.

Jordan Cuff provides the story behind his paper, “Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton Prize 🕷️ animalecologyinfocus.com/jordan-cuff-... @JordanCuff.bsky.social

Great @sciencesncl.bsky.social Ecosystems PGR Seminar from our very own Will Dawson today about his PhD work using ecoacoustics and metagenomics to construct soil trophic networks! 🔊🪱🧬

Great journal club today with friends from @nclneg.bsky.social! We talked about this excellent paper from Heger et al. in the latest issue of @oikosjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/oik.... A great discussion on the importance of philosophy in ecology and how it informs and shapes our work!

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science – a time to celebrate the incredible women that lead and drive our research! @envirosyment.bsky.social, @miacroftento.bsky.social, Broghan and Yiran, our research and the group are what they are thanks to you and your expertise and dedication!

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Great to see our very own Broghan featured here, getting ready to fly her drone! 🚁🌳

Newcastle University@newcastleuni.bsky.social · last yr.

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re celebrating the incredible women in our community! From research labs to to the field, they’re shaping the future and paving the way for more to follow 🔬✨ #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #WeAreNCL

A great day was had by all! It's a joy working with such a great group of scientists, entomologists and beyond!

Rosy Christopher@envirosyment.bsky.social · 2y ago

Had a fantastic time scoping out potential field sites at cockle park and Nafferton farms with the @foragingecology.bsky.social team yesterday. Definitely got me excited for the field season ahead, and some great #fungi finds too, with Jelly ears and witches butter

@bensjhawthorne.bsky.social et al. review the integration of DNA metabarcoding with traditional insect monitoring methods in agriculture. Molecular analysis presents many distinct benefits, but also some challenges that require careful consideration and expertise. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

My co-authors and I propose the need for year-round monitoring of biocontrol interactions to enhance our understanding of predator-pest dynamics, but this will demand various methodological innovations and considerations, for which we provide guidance. doi.org/10.1111/afe....

In an editorial, we summarise the articles within the special issue and provide a synthesis on the overarching themes and concepts, which include the various emerging technologies underpinning significant advances, alongside some conceptual changes in how and when we monitor. doi.org/10.1111/afe....