I am in Brest for the European Conference on Restoration Ecology #SERE2026 to present our new paper "Drivers of invertebrate community assembly during ecosystem restoration"! Friday 11:45 in Amphi F. If you or anyone you know is around - give me a shout! :) @restorationecology.bsky.social

🪲! New paper alert ! 🌳 "Drivers of invertebrate community assembly during ecosystem restoration" analyses over 18,000 arthropods from 858 species. We explore how habitat characteristics and trophic guilds impact invertebrate diversity in restoring woodlands and grasslands: doi.org/10.1111/rec....

Drivers of invertebrate community assembly during ecosystem restoration

Restoration practice largely focuses on facilitating species recovery through resource provisioning and habitat connectivity, with less attention to how trophic interactions structure assembling comm...

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Who writes this shit?

Looking for a furnished room/flat near Kingussie, or Aviemore for 3 months (May-July). I'm starting a work placement at the Highland Wildlife Park, helping with their invertebrate reintroduction programme! Happy to discuss details. Please drop me a message if you know anything, or share this post 🙏

“If we are to persuade society to take conservation seriously, we must … present it as the selfish, pragmatic goal of sustaining the conditions for human civilisation and other life on Earth” Our Survival Ecology paper, not the UK Govt Nature Security Assessment www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...

I'll be presenting some stuff about bugs in restored landscapes, and how they might have more in common with wolves than you might think. Anyone around? #BES2025

My first paper!! If you wanna know about woodland creation 🌳, beetles 🪲, and the effects of agriculture 🚜 - go here! doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... #BeetleEcology #WoodlandCreation #Conservation #Research #FirstAuthor #Ecology

Learn to use Pantheon to analyse invertebrate data & inform conservation! Join us at the Natural History Museum, London on 20 Aug. With specialist tutor @kitenet.bsky.social . £80. Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1372660337... @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social #conservation #ecology

Understanding Invertebrate Assemblages

Learn how to use Pantheon to inform invertebrate conservation and understand habitats with tutor Martin Harvey.

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Coming to a cinema near you... #Inverts #Invertebrates #Entomemeology

When you convince your office to rear an Elephant Hawk Moth and experience the joy and beauty of metamorphosis... But Amblyjoppa proteus has other, more sinister plans. #Invertebrate #Invert #Parasitoid

This is why I have no money

Get your stigma out for the bees. #Invertebrates #Inverts #Bees

My sweet child, where has the other half of your mouth gone? #Invertebrates #Inverts #Insects #WeevilWednesday

Stop. Admire the bee fly. Look at how it flies with absolutely no grace whatsoever. Observe how it unites bee and fly lovers everywhere without effort. Where is it going? What has it seen? With no honey to make, it has a lot of free time. #Invert #Invertebrate #Bee? #Fly #Insects

When a bunch of entomology students find a beetle. It was probably terrified. #RoyalEntomologicalSociety #RES

How management and creation of woodland can benefit biodiversity 🌳🌼🦅🐛 www.forestresearch.gov.uk/publications...

Just another foodie influencer documenting their meal before turning the restaurant into a nursery. Classic. #Invert #Invertebrate #macro #macrophotography #insect #weevil #beetle

Stop punishing yourself for not being as sustainable as possible. www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

Energy sector shifts climate crisis responsibility to consumers

The energy sector is creating a myth that individual action is enough to address climate change, University of Sydney research claims. Read more.

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Local harvestman discovers that having eight legs doesn't help carry the weight of perpetual misidentification by humans. #bugs #macro #Inverts #Invertebrates #opilione

when you're pretending to mind your own business but you're actually watching all the drama unfold at the next table #macro #macrophotography #insects #bugs

Fuck. Off. This is a Tory talking point picked up by the so-called "left" Labour. As a former consultant, here's what you need to do: streamline your shit application process for licenses. NatureScot has already managed this - why not Natural England?? news.sky.com/story/angela...

Angela Rayner says newts can't be more protected than people who need housing

Wildlife from newts to bats have held up planning decisions over the years, and the Labour government has said enough is enough as it seeks to get Britain building over the course of this parliament.

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Four records I submitted to iRecord in May 2020 have only now just been accepted as correct. 4.5 years. And it was birds! This is why people have dirfted to iNaturalist - even if it is just amateur identification.

Dipped a toe into the limelight with this production from Woodlands TV on the leaf cycle. Had great fun filming it. Following in the footsteps of @georgemcgavin.bsky.social? Time will tell 😂 youtu.be/-dqkMb7iIYk?...

The Leaf Cycle and its Role in the Woodland Ecosystem

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I just completed @infohackit.bsky.social's 12-month design course, which is definitively one of the most valuable things I have done for my career. If you're an academic with even a slight interest in science communication, I would recommend it in a heartbeat.

When I come across a paper from a supervisor 5 hours deep into a literature search #phd #academia

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