They’ve been seen here before, but despite doing surveys for my PhD for two years and two years volunteering this is the first time I’ve seen a clouded yellow in MK! @theparkstrust.bsky.social
Dr Willow Neal 🏳️🌈
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Conservation ecologist (They/Them). Butterfly PhD. https://sites.google.com/view/willow-neal-phd/ https://www5.open.ac.uk/scholarship-and-innovation/esteem/projects/themes/access-participation-and-success/evaluating-lgbtq-awarding-gap-and-supporting-our
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
CNN@cnn.com · 2mo ago"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
In December, the Govt will decide if it will renew the glyphosate licence until 2041… • That’s 15 more years of impacts on worms, bees, soils and run-off into ponds and rivers, and glyphosate in your food. Sign Garden Organic’s petition NOW to ban this dangerous herbicide #GrowersAgainstGlyphosate.
Kinda mind blowing that it’s been 6 years since doing plant taxonomy as part of my MSc. Would have rather not done it during lock down on my own, but loved it nonetheless!
📢2 great jobs in #NatureRecovery at Butterfly Conservation, closing soon! Conservation Manager Wales, and Project Manager with PeacePlus Nature project in Northern Ireland. Challenging & exciting roles putting you at the heart of efforts to save butterflies & moths. butterfly-conservation.org/jobs 🦋
UKBMS volunteers have walked a total of >1.5 million kilometres since 1976 at more than 7,600 sites to produce this incredible dataset. That’s the equivalent of walking 40 times around the world – or to the moon and back twice. Latest annual results: www.ukbms.org 3/3
Sad but unsurprising results. Also amazing to see the community dedication for so many records! My research in #urban #butterflies found a few specialists in MK, making urban nature even more important future conservation and reducing biodiversity loss.
UKBMS@ukbms.bsky.social · 6mo agoUKBMS results out today! Results from fifty years of butterfly monitoring! The UKBMS data reveals declines in 33 species over the last 50 years. Check out the full story below butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo... And the full 2025 statistics can be found here: jncc.gov.uk/our-work/off...
WEEK ONE! The UKBMS surveys officially kick off today 🎺 🥳 🦋 If you're taking part, check the weather and choose a good day for your survey this week - temps above 13degrees, sun and light winds are best. Weeks run from each Wednesday to the following Tuesday this year. Good luck!
New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️🧬 The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: May 8, 2026 Start: Autumn 2026 (Czechia) More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
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One of the excluded systematic reviews is the York systematic reviews commissioned as part of the Cass Review itself. NHS England excluded from its evidence review a systematic review produced for the very process this evidence review is supposed to implement. It's a joke.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 7mo agoThe reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
Are you an relatively new to field ecology and data collection? Or are are you supervising students? Our guide for effective field data collection is now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We also include a printable poster with a visual overview of the guide doi.org/10.1111/2041...
I’ll be doing my talk at @niscifest.bsky.social at 4pm today. A few of my colleagues are here too, with the first speaker starting in 15 mins! Come along if you’re interested. #NISF #NorthernIreland #Ecologi
Come to Hamburg and do a PhD on insect/spider traits with me!
In a few weeks I’ll be talking about #biodiversity loss, ecological restoration and urban #butterflies including the restoration work we are doing at the @openlivinglabs.bsky.social at the Northern Ireland science festival in Belfast! #NISF. It’s free! nisciencefestival.com/event/how-to...
How to turn urban spaces into wildlife havens | NI Science Festival
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LAST CALL 🐞 The #ForestInvertebrates SIG brings together research on trees, invertebrates & urban ecosystems. 📅 5 March 📍 Hyde Park Learning Centre 🌱 Optional field visit on 4 March Submit your research abstracts by 5pm today (30 Jan) for a chance to join the programme 🔽
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Utterly ridiculous. Segregated ponds is a new low. Glad this was stopped.
Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 8mo agoBREAKING: WIN 🏳️⚧️ 💥 The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged. Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.
I can’t stop buying #tarantulas any time I want… #Vitaliuschromatus. She must have been pretty thirsty!
From soil to canopy, urban trees support rich invertebrate life 🌿 Join our #ForestInvertebrates SIG on 5 March 2026 for interdisciplinary talks, research case studies & discussion. 📝 Abstracts welcome – Deadline 30 January 🚶 Optional field visit: 4 March 👉
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Buying one new tarantula after a decade really opened the flood gates… unbelievably addictive hobby. Welcome slings of #Birupes simoroxigorum and #Dolichothele rufoniger #tarantula #spider #bugsky. Will stop buying them soon/probably/eventually…
Nice to be starting 2026 with our new paper with @sei.org on making #CitizenScience biological recording more inclusive @savebutterflies.bsky.social doi.org/10.5334/cstp...
Increasing Inclusivity in Biological Recording in the United Kingdom: Progress to Date and Future Priorities | Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
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Creeping over the edge waiting for the cricket… I love this #spider, it’s so colourful and active #tarantula #Chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
Well colour me suprised, turns out no one cares except massive bigots. Who knew. 👇🏻
Not In Our Name (NION) Women@nionwomen.bsky.social · 9mo agoUseful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
Had an amazing new years visiting friends in Dorset and playing with a drone out at the New Forest!
Prepping the December catch for genetic #sequencing. Most of this plate is the bug Trioza urticae, which are found in nettles and we have absolutely loads at the living labs! Interesting to see their numbers grow over the past few weeks— maybe this is the peak? #nature #entomology #genomics #BIOSCAN
This was such an excellent listen. As someone from a #workingclass background I really related to this!
ENDS Report@endsreport.com · 10mo agoOur latest podcast on being working class in the environment sector is live⚡️ with - 🐦⬛ RAVEN networks' Nadia Shaikh 🏗️ ISEP's chief Sarah Mukherjee 𖣘 WCCA founder Emma River-Roberts and 🍃 @britishecologicalsociety.org 's SEED co-lead Dr Ciara Dwyer 🎧 Listen now pod.fo/e/368517