It’s been an honour to feature in @sydney.edu.au newest brand campaign celebrating 175 years! 🧡 Showcasing the diversity in marine sciences🪸🐠
Fellow PhD student Monique Webb and I are pictured alongside Dr Eleanor Clara Gyarfas, the University’s first female PhD graduate🔬
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In the latest @nhm-london.bsky.social Science blog, I share what it’s like to be the Urban Biodiversity Officer at the Centre for UK Nature – from training others in wildlife ID to exploring how urban greenspaces can help nature thrive.
🌱🦋 Check out the full blog here:
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What do you do if you’re stung by a nettle? 🌵
Our whole lives we’ve been told that dock leaves are the cure - but is there any science to it?
NHM scientist @shathuki.bsky.social has the truth in this week’s #SurprisingScience - but be warned, it might hit you right in the childhood. 🤕🩹
Getting up to some fun with the @nhm-london.bsky.social digital team! 📹
Keep an eye out on the NHM YouTube channel for their Surprising Science series for some stinging nettle and dock leaf facts🍃
Come join us at the Natural History Museum for the Urban Nature Network Conference this February! 🪲🌻Bringing together professionals and enthusiasts in the urban nature field for a day filled with talks, workshops, tours and networking! 🫱🏻🫲🏾🌱
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Check out my blog on the highlights of the BES conference🌟🌱, now live on the Urban Nature Network, here:
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@britishecolsoc.bsky.social
An amazing week at the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Liverpool! 🌱🐝 Exceptional talks and workshops, particularly the tour on ecology’s roots in enslavement led by Prof Carl Larsen!
And grateful to reunite with my BES family❤️
#BES24
Exciting start to #BES24 @britishecolsoc.bsky.social in Liverpool🌱🐝
What an honour to be invited to the carol service at Westminster Abbey by the patron of the Natural History Museum, the Princess of Wales! 🎄🌱
Exciting day touring the Tank Room with NHM Senior fish curator, Rupert Collins 🐟 Exciting to see my first Greenland shark🦈 and a specimen from Sri Lanka collected in 1929! 🔍
We understand more about sharks and rays than ever before, but they remain among the most threatened vertebrates. Declining fast, says new report.👇
As part of our strategy, we're helping implement shark management reforms in 10 key geographies across the globe. www.wcs.org/our-work/wil...
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