When you sit down in the evening to relax by the telly and find you're still researching people's attitudes towards invasive non-native species... 😂 Interesting to compare the 🇬🇧 #WildBoar 🐗 debate to the 🇺🇸 #FeralHog situation where no pigs ever had native populations! 🐖 @lastweektonight.com

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I've been expanding my understanding of the possibilities of conservation culturomics recently by reading outside my discipline and I have read some "interesting" papers... But I was really impressed by the clarity and transparency of this #HCI research on #SentimentAnalysis of films 📽️ by Jon Chun 👏

Frontiers | MultiSentimentArcs: a novel method to measure coherence in multimodal sentiment analysis for long-form narratives in film

Affective artificial intelligence and multimodal sentiment analysis play critical roles in designing safe and effective human-computer interactions and are i...

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Best @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount yet along the hedgerows of the #Wells-Next-The-Sea and #Walsingham light #railway 🦋

It's a win for invasive non-native species awareness on this week's #GreatBritishSewingBee as Anna prints #HimalayanBalsam on her Made To Measure fabric & constructs a narrative comparing biological invasions to foreign fashion taking over the 🇬🇧 wool trade!

Only 2 large whites and a small white in this weekend's #ButterflyConservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount by the Forth, but I like to think some time sat out in the ☀️ will help my ACL surgery recovery along 🩼 and there were SO MANY good dogs in the park! 🐕

When your family know you work with online content about invasive non-native species, you'd be surprised how many of your messages are local news stories... 😂 Not good news for #JapaneseKnotweed management in #Warrington 😞 @warringtonguardian.bsky.social

Warrington is a hotspot for the UK's 'most invasive plant'

WARRINGTON has been named as a top hotspot for Japanese knotweed.

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@natreswales.bsky.social 🏞️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 have created a useful video on #biosecurity measures to reduce the spread of invasive non-native species while dog walking 🐕‍🦺 Check it out here and share: www.canva.com/design/DAHML...

PhD forum finished early so I took @drheatherprice.bsky.social's advice to get outside for 15 minutes - just enough time for a @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount! Ringlets and speckled woods counted on the #UofStirling campus 🦋

Another fascinating #INNSWeek webinar was "Marine Invasive Non-Native Species - What Can We Do About Them?" from @naturalengland.bsky.social 🦀 The recording of this great overview of current 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 marine invasives and volunteer management can be accessed by emailing @gbnnsss.bsky.social 🐚

Disappointing show from the #butterflies at #FlandersMoss this weekend: only 2 small whites & 1 meadow brown in the 4 counts we did 😞 Still lots to see, though 🦎 + Fellow environmental scientist, Sophie, & I met a lovely guy, Alasdair, & had a chat about wildlife ID & natural spaces accessibility 👩‍🦽

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The Big Butterfly Count 2026 is here and butterflies need our help! 🦋 From now until 9 August, spend just 15 minutes outside counting the butterflies you see and help us take nature's pulse. The best part? Anyone, anywhere can take part. Count yourself in 👉 https://butrfli.es/3SVFepj

Been playing #Metaflora 🌻 by #TrainwreckLabs 🌵 While I've learnt that my #plant 🌳 #taxonomy is terrible, it's definitely improving! 🌾 With a new plant to guess each day, 🌲 it's a fun way to learn for any budding biologist, naturalist or environmental scientist: flora.metazooa.com/play/game?co... 🌹🌴🌷

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Another fascinating @gbnnsss.bsky.social webinar for #INNSweek, this one about coordinating #biosecurity in #Caribbean 🇬🇧 overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands and #Monserrat 🏝️ Missed it? Catch up here: youtu.be/LGRpj6P1Ujs?...

Coordinating biosecurity across the Caribbean UKOTs

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Informative #INNSWeek webinar on the #biosecurity work taking place in #Bermuda 🦎🐜 Brilliant to hear how solutions are being found to multiple issues at once, like using removed invasive trees for biochar and fencing 🪵👏 Missed it? Catch up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG3K...

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What a beautiful day! Wishing I was back at the beach in #StAndrews with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social but been busy inside most of the day 💭🏖️🐚🦀

Have seen these guys talk a few times now and I love noticing the little tweaks they make to make their presentations better every time! 👏

University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences@uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Helen Pruzina, @ruth-wright.bsky.social and Shubham Pawar on their Iapetus Conference talks! A special shout out to Shubham for presenting on his birthday! 🥳

Great @gbnnsss.bsky.social webinar from my supervisor @inadehn.bsky.social for #INNSWeek, with super up-to-date information about the spread of invasive #garden #plants in the UK and Europe and how #CitizenScience can help! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fA...

Using citizen science to prevent future spread of invasive non native plants

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🌺 Invasive Rhododendron ponticum is choking Scotland’s native woodlands & costing taxpayers millions. 🌱 But it’s still sold in garden centres & used as rootstock. ☣️ We want a ban. Send pics to scottishcampaigns@woodlandtrust.org.uk if you see it on sale. 🙏 #MairTreesPlease #INNSweek #BePlantWise

What an inspiring break in my day! I loved hearing about how Julie connected her ideas about the different places she had experienced, from China to Svalbard... 🇨🇳🇩🇰

University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences@uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This week, we were honoured to welcome Julie Forgues to present her letter to #Svalbard, "Dear Svalbard, why did I come back?" about her experiences on an artistic residency in the #Arctic and how #art, science and place are linked 🐻‍❄️

It's Invasive Non-Native Species Week and yesterday @gbnnsss.bsky.social hosted a great #webinar on recent INNS #research with Helen Roy of @ukceh.bsky.social 👏 The webinar will be available to watch back here: www.nonnativespecies.org/what-can-i-d... #INNSWeek

The @iapetusdtp.bsky.social conference #ceilidh was SO much fun - what a great way to get everyone interacting and show the students from English universities some Scottish culture! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thanks for organising 😊

Had a lovely time at Iapetus Conference this week and got some very kind feedback about the graphics on my slides, clarity of my presentation and accuracy of my timekeeping 😊 Great to catch up with everyone and hear what they've been working on!

Iapetus DTP@iapetusdtp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We launched into the final day with another line-up of great doctoral speakers #Iapetus #StudentConference

Really appreciated the chance to talk to Jazz about moving from using stats skills as a tree specialist to using them as a bird specialist 🌳🦆 to discuss teaching roles with Dan Chapman 👩‍🏫 and to speak to other Iapetus PhDs about placements!

University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences@uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Ecology and Conservation Science #Research Group recently welcomed Jazz Rhoades of @btobirds.bsky.social, Rachel Cooper-Bohannon of Bats Without Borders and Robbie Whytock of Okala to discuss #careers 👩‍🔬 thanks for joining us!

Competing at #Trampoline League this weekend took me to #Kettering for the first time, where I was proud coach to Jamie 🥈on double mini trampoline! We visited Boughton House & the #ladybirds were thriving, including 16-spots and (unfortunately) harlequins 🐞 Fantastic #biodiversity in the #gardens 🪲🌹

Delighted to have had the opportunity to present some of my work analysing the drivers of internet search interest in 🇬🇧 biological invasions 🐜🐚🦀🌿 at the International Young Researchers Conference on Invasive Species #IyrCIS youtu.be/xVmFDupFvdM?...

𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 in UK invasive non-native species

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Lovely to catch up with other PhD students and friends over brunch today and try out the seasonal apple pie matcha at HBW (although I feel like apple pie is an autumn seasonal flavour, not spring? 🍂🌸)

I wrote in my research notes, when Arthur did his first BES seminar introducing himself in 2024, that I would like to hear more details on his research - and now I have!

University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences@uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week's internal seminar was a fascinating insight into Arthur Broadbent's #research on understanding the combined effects of winter thawing and summer droughts on #soil fungal communities and carbon storage in the 🇦🇹 #Alps 🏔️

The #YellowLeggedHornet (a.k.a. #AsianHornet) has already been spotted this year in South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire! Please report any suspected sightings via the Asian Hornet Watch App or online reporting form 👁️👁️

Anna Kurop gave a lovely seminar on research into #Quaternary sea level changes in the #OuterHebrides this week! It was especially nice to see Anna's personality and enthusiasm shining through when talking about #FieldWork experiences 👏

PhD forum prsentation featuring stylish slide #design (as always) from @parisitoid.bsky.social 😃

University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences@uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our #PhD forum recently ran a seminar in response to feedback that members of BES would like to know more about what we do! Thanks to everyone who engaged - we had some interesting discussions about interaction through the social committee 🍻, use of the coffee room ☕ and the role of remote working 👩‍💻

Really enjoyed getting to know Guillaume and finding out about his incredible free diving adventures, as well as contemplating the importance of colonial legacies in global invasive species assemblages in this afternoon's seminar!

University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences@uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Massive thanks to Guillaume Latombe from @edinburghuni.bsky.social for a thought-provoking seminar about #modelling #BiologicalInvasions scenarios and considering what kind of future we want to build to minimise #InvasiveSpecies spread alongside trade and ethical development!