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Adam Hart

@adamhartscience.bsky.social
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Biologist, broadcaster and writer. Conservation science, especially southern Africa, and insects. Personal account

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Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk · 08/01/2025
🎧 Ep 218 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is out now: @adamhartscience.bsky.social returns to myth busting - we look at hibernation, how & why it happens + which animals 🦔 Plus hedgehog at John Moore Museum 📲 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... 💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com
Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast artwork Adam and Jo standing in a parkA taxidermy hedgehog (the victim of a road accident) on a wooden table The back entrance to the John Moore Museum, looking from the back gate with trees surrounding it
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Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk · 12/01/2025
📆 Incoming Diary Dates! I’m delighted to share my first three on stage events for 2025: 🎭 Fri 24 Jan: Dr Chris Laoutaris @stationerscomms.bsky.social 🦁 Sat 15 Feb: @adamhartscience.bsky.social at John Moore Museum 📗 Mon 24 Feb: @kate-werran.bsky.social at Portsmouth Book Fest jodurrant.co.uk
Headshot of Jo wearing a black leather jacket over a black dress with gold stars on Chris and Jo Jo interviewing Adam on stage  Kate and Jo on stage
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Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk · 12/01/2025
#ICYMI: My special guest in Ep 218 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is @adamhartscience.bsky.social who busts myths on hibernation. 🦔 Plus we learn about hedgehog hibernation at John Moore Museum. 📲 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... 💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Someone asked me today who from history I most admired. No question This man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_W...
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Frank Worsley - Wikipedia
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I see eating kangaroo anus in Gregg Wallace's future
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Clifford Chance, elevating the Streisand Effect into true artistry.
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Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk · 30/11/2024
We got lucky with the weather again! Lovely morning recording a new myth busting episode of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast with @adamhartscience.bsky.social - coming early in 2025!
Adam and Jo standing in an arboretum
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Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk · 30/11/2024
We got lucky with the weather again! Lovely morning recording a new myth busting episode of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast with @adamhartscience.bsky.social - coming early in 2025!
Adam and Jo standing in an arboretum
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
With legislation planned to ban trophy imports to the UK, it's time to realise real world conservation is complex, evidence needs to lead, & we need to listen to those nations that do "rather better" than us at conservation. I'm quoted in this Voice of America piece www.voanews.com/a/southern-a...
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Southern African countries in bid to fight UK anti-hunting bill
Representatives from the six nations have now requested a meeting with British government officials to discuss the issue. Mqondisi Dube reports from Botswana's capital, Gaborone
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project - "Wildlife can recover, and quickly, if we just give it a little space and let nature work her magic" #RestoreNature www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
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Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Often see videos of people getting close to hippo. I see it IRL too. A quick visual reminder of why it's best to keep your distance...
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
But every time from now on that they say "the UK public wants this import ban" (and they say this a lot) they should be reminded that the UK public also wants an export ban. So if they're going to use the UK public as their main reason to push for bans, they shouldn't get to pick and choose.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is one of them, and it tells us (1) that most UK respondents don't care much about African jobs and (2) they are just as much - or more - against domestic trophy hunting and UK trophy exports as they are against it in Africa and the imports.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I've made threads on X about all other trophy hunting surveys so far, so might as well keep it up and try it here. This survey is from July 2024, but I hadn't noticed it until now. Thread. 1/11 www.resourceafrica.net/wp-content/u...
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A fascinating story of interactions, problems and solutions www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...
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This Wasp Was Brought To Christmas Island In 2017—7 Years Later A Struggling Species Thrives
An ecological upheaval involving crazy ants killed millions of red crabs and threatened the survival of the species on Christmas Island, Australia. Now, a micro-wasp has helped restore balance.
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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The ultimate guide to #SciComm on Bluesky 🧪 #AcademicSky Use the feed to talk *about* SciComm, not to *do* SciComm. If you have an astronomy or ocean fact to share: neat! But the ppl who want to engage w you are not on the feed. Feed ppl are talking shop 1/🧵 bsky.app/profile/did:...
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ryan scharf @ryanscharf.com · 27/10/2024
Where's the starter pack for inaturalist contributors? I need an injection of citizen science
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hello birders! I'm looking for a British hawfinch expert to talk to for an ecology outreach project with the Universities of Edinburgh and York. Is there anyone here willing to chat to me about hawfinch monitoring and conservation? #ukbirding #ornithology #birds #birdingwales #birding #ukbird
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
First quick draft of a list with people I've seen here who I know to have valuable knowledge and experiences with hunting. go.bsky.app/E8snieN
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It's Friday, which means it's Wildlife Crime day @uniofglos.bsky.social - a new module this year and one that I'm hugely enjoying. Today, we're joined by a former student here who worked with the police and is now a lecturer and researcher on wildlife crime in the UK. And then we learn about ivory.
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Turgeon: dynamics of small pops of mountain ungulates. One of the most satisfying papers I've ever contributed to. > 100 pop-years of data in 3 pops, > 2K marked bighorn sheep, mountain goats. Cougar predation, pneumonia override density-dependence 🧪 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association @gunduwa.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Funding available The Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association welcomes applications for funding to conduct biodiversity conservation & sustainability projects in the Gunduwa region. For more details, visit the GRCA website, and download the GRCA 2024–30 Prospectus: gunduwa.org.au/gunduwa-pros...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The soil carbon market is going to collapse - and that's a good thing. One of the issues I explore in this week's column, about the dreamworld of climate fakery our legislators have created. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion | George Monbiot
The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hard frost this morning as I start my 33rd driving winter defrosting car with warm water. I'm still waiting for the disaster that apparently will befall me... It's quick and easy. UK winters fairly mild. Car glass very tough. Even 1980s mini metro glass survived.
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I saw this earlier. It's not news to most of us I'm sure but it never hurts to reinforce the fact that our "usual" world view is very wrong! I don't know the source so apologies for reusing without credit
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mbccohen.bsky.social @mbccohen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@adamhartscience.bsky.social This will complement my copy of #TheDeadlyBalance, and it is only $16.95. You can’t get a better deal about this controversial topic. Two thumbs up 👍👍 for making it available at such a low price.
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Continuing a run of fantastic guests, the @uniofglos @uglosbioscience module Wildlife Crime was joined by @UniofOxford @DanChallender to talk about pangolins, illegal trade and solutions. It was a fascinating session- thanks Dan!
A slide show, with students in the foreground, shows a Temminck's pangolin walking.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you ever considered buying mine and @adamhartscience.bsky.social's book but didn't, it's only EUR15 right now for the softcover version: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Trophy Hunting
This book provides the first interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the study of trophy hunting and investigates the history of trophy hunting.
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
@nikolaj-bi.bsky.social here I am
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Pleased to finally be allowed to reveal that "Trophy Hunting" by me and @adamhartscience.bsky.social is the British Ecological Society Book of the Year for 2023. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/trophy-hunti...
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Trophy Hunting named British Ecological Society book of the year - British Ecological Society
Trophy Hunting by Nikolaj Bichel and Adam Hart wins The Marsh Ecology Book of the Year, presented by the British Ecological Society.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Seems like a decent occasion for a first post on this platform. Great review of @adamhartscience.bsky.social and my book is just published. "As a study in discussing the parameters of an applied conservation topic, there are few texts that can match it."
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Glorious morning in Gloucestershire today. Undeniably autumnal, clear blue skies, damp but fresh. A good time for spider watchers. A bad time for arachnophobes!
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Just been sent yet another harrowing video showing the remains of a man half eaten by a tiger in India. A more than daily occurrence, as are leopard deaths. I explore why, and what we can do about it, in The Deadly Balance www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deadly-ba...
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Pot of gold in this case is a local school - pretty sure this rainbow ends at the science labs
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
A weird thing that keeps happening (for 15+ years now) is people contacting me and saying "I want to help raise awareness of ocean conservation through social media. But I don't know anything about ocean conservation, or have a social media audience. What should I do?" Maybe...do something else?
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Updated with new Web link www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023...
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
🧪 Some room for optimism regarding rhino, but the overall increase is still set against a background of intense poaching spilling out from SA into Namibia & Botswana. Private rhino owners bear a huge and often unacknowledged cost for antipoaching measures www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023...
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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
A big welcome to everyone new to What's Science! 🧪 There is getting to be A LOT of us and all I can really do to vet people is look at their bio & google them so please help keep an eye out for anyone spreading misinformation, or, even worse, not having fun in the feed 😤
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Some room for optimism here regarding rhino, but the overall increase is still set against a background of intense poaching spilling out from SA into Namibia & Botswana. Private rhino owners bear a huge and often unacknowledged cost for antipoaching measures www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023...
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Adam Hart @adamhartscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Hi everyone! New to here but same account name as Twitter. Follow me for SciComm, conservation, insect science, citizen science and general "stuff".
An African elephant passing close to a vehicle...don't worry, it was very chilled.
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