Such an eloquent way to put it - thanks for sharing! I hope you’re well

Colour plate of range of Hemiptera in and out of water from Sketches of British Insects, London, Groombridge, 1888; Image of young woman in formal Edwardian dress; text quote.

Before #freshwater #bioacoustics - Dr. Kathleen Carpenter @aberuni.bsky.social @biomcgill.bsky.social seemed to be contemplating the idea in her textbook? - Life in Inland Waters (1928) - for @wildaudiojack.bsky.social

#FridayFlashback #envhist #womeninscience #historyofscience #insects #Notonecta

A funky Pholcid from Mexico. I had no idea that there were Cellar spiders with weird heads. Weird heads are one of my favourite features a spider can have. Modisimus sp.

#Pholcidae #CellarSpider #iNaturalist

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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

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Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

How do you protect tigers in one of the world’s least accessible countries? 🐅

Dr Joshua Elves-Powell explores threats to Amur tigers and leopards in North Korea using local ecological knowledge from defectors.

28 January, 4-5PM: tinyurl.com/ucl-amur

#UCLGeography #AmurTiger #LeopardRecovery

Some glacial rivers are turning toxic. Here’s why. (uk) - Tromsø Educational Film Festival (TREFF) Deep within the Peruvian Andes, the Cordillera Blanca is home to one quarter of the world's tropical glaciers. Glacial meltwaters in this region help to sustain a valley inhabited by more than 200,000...

Happy to announce that one of my videos has been selected for the Tromsø Educational Film Festival!

result.uit.no/treff/some-g...

#scicomm #glaciers #climate

Thanks so much to ASAB and the #ASABwinter2025 organisers for a cracking conference. Not sure why I’m so excited here, I guess the yoghurt and granola had just been served…

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Well finally.... a long overdue return to the Erasmus programme.

Some really excellent news for UK students wishing to study in Europe, and for European students wishing to study in the UK. The potential for broadening the scheme is also a great move.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

For your freshwater Friday delight... we're thrilled to present a deep dive with @carlsayer.bsky.social, Prof of Limnology & Freshwater Ecology at UCL, into the fascinating world of #GhostPonds, and their potent power for ecological and palaeoecological regeneration:

www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/gh...

My poster: Sounds of the Underground 🎙️🎶🪱🐜 is on display at #esa2025 !! Come learn about how we monitored soil fauna communities using acoustic techniques ☺️ Poster 21!! @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Deadline extended untuil the 25th of Nov.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Are you working with emerging technologies in freshwater monitoring?

-Remote sensing
-Drones
-Underwater video / audio
- eDNA
- Robots
- & more...

Submit an abstract to our session at @aslo.org '26 in Montreal, Canada and join the discussion via: www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/

Cool colossal squid captured on film for the first time in the dark depths of the Southern Ocean!

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper!

Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025.

See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

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Spotify is running ICE advertisements and refuses to address it. Might be because their founder is basically another Elon Musk.

It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Are you working with emerging technologies in freshwater monitoring?

-Remote sensing
-Drones
-Underwater video / audio
- eDNA
- Robots
- & more...

Submit an abstract to our session at @aslo.org '26 in Montreal, Canada and join the discussion via: www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/

Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests - Communications Earth & Environment Cretaceous amber from the Ecuadorian Napo region provides exceptional evidence of a resinous forest ecosystem and diverse arthropod fauna in equatorial Gondwana, as revealed by integrated analyses of ...

Some really cool new insect and plant fossils from a ~112-million year old forest. Lots of neat pictures and analysis at the link. And it includes a fossil of one of my favourite insect orders, the caddisflies (Trichoptera). 🪲🪳🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Water policy is getting a shakeup in response to outcry at the state of our freshwaters. Including small waters like ponds, streams and ditches in the upcoming Water Reform Bill can bring clean water back to our landscapes.

👉 freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/small-waters-water-...

🎙️ New BBC podcast: Digital Dolittles – Talking to the animals? 🐘🦉

Featuring UCL’s Prof. Kate Jones @profkatej.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social and UCL's PhD students, exploring how tech is changing the way we listen to nature 🌍✨

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Jane Goodall in forest habitat standing with a chimpanzee in her arms, as she purses her lips as if to kiss the chimpanzee.

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall.

She was a force for nature, tirelessly advocating for the protection and restoration of our natural world.

Her presence will be sorely missed." - Tanya Steele, CEO WWF UK.

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Truly inspiring! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab

Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇

www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

Here are last nights Aurorae spotted from outside #Montreal and in the #easterntownships, #Sherbrooke!!

A suprise indeed, but a welcome one!

#Aurora #northernlights #astronomy #astrophotography

A starter pack for people & organisations that love #ponds! Whats not to love!!!

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The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions Species and ecosystems are changing rapidly in response to human actions, but how does this compare with the deeper past? We review and compare the current extinction event to those over the last 66 ...

Quote: "Available evidence suggests that the ongoing extinction episode still falls a long way short of the devastation caused by the bolide impact 66 Ma, but that it has likely surpassed most other Cenozoic events in magnitude"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Posts about scientific research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on Twitter. More importantly, you're far less likely to get sexist or racist replies.