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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our September issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus is now freely available to read online! - including a report and 'picture special' from #IMC21 🙂 🔬 Read all the latest content here: ow.ly/FeHj50ZPCaj

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Marceline @marsintheory.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My latest video essay is live!! It's an elemental exploration of warmth, coldness, positive, negative, and neutral, explored through the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Link: youtu.be/qA1kbdyIYdA 🔥🪨💧🍃

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Pan Macmillan have revealed the cover to next year's SF release from me: The Eighth Face. Creepy clone monks living in a crashed-spaceship monastery, horrible things from the sea, a past revealed in things cast up by the tide... www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...

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The Eighth Face by Adrian Tchaikovsky

What hides beneath the waves of an alien world?A gripping sci-fi mystery from the master of the genre, Adrian Tchaikovsky, featuring rebellious clones, deep-sea

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Paul Williams @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New evolutionary tree for all of the world's bumblebee species, from (1) slow-evolving nuclear genes, (2) fast-evolving mitochondrial genes, and (3) results from genomic data, to provide a complete starting point for comparative studies of all bumblebees www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Evolutionary tree for all 289 extant accepted published bumblebee species from 93 million MCMC generations (post convergence) by BEAST 2 for two mitochondrial genes, four nuclear genes, and ge-nomic-supported group priors, with outgroups removed. Bayesian posterior support values for each node are shown with node and descendant branch colours indicating values from blue for high values to red for low values. Selected groups are indicated with larger spots: pale blue LT/LG for long-tongued Lowland Grassland species; pale green ST/MG for short-tongued Montane Grassland species; black spots for parasitic or ‘cuckoo’ species that lack workers, including the subgenus Psithyrus and B. inexspectatus, B. hyperboreus, B. natvigi. Subgenera are named in the outer grey ring. Taxon names not appearing in this figure are interpreted as synonyms (see text).

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Happy Bee Day (resin bees are the best little nuggets 🖤 )

Nugget-y black and orange bee, curled up sleeping with mandibles clamped on a dry stalk

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

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Cambridge Philosophical Society @camphilsoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

CPS Sedgwick Studentships at Anglia Ruskin University. Anglia Ruskin University and the Cambridge Philosophical Society are requesting applications for two PhD studentships. Further details and to apply: www.aru.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I told you this place is always crowded, we should’ve called for a reservation 😩

A lit-up vintage vending machine at night behind a cinderblock building at the edge of a foggy pine forest. A raccoon is crawling into the vending machine slot, reaching for a baby oppossum that’s nestled itself between the snack rows and hisses at the rescue attempt. The oppossum parent watches from atop the vending machine, accompanied by a squirrel. On the ground, a fox hungrily watches rats gathered under the vending machine.

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calalive.bsky.social @calalive.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We've been funding innovative research projects through Experiment.com, and here's one we're excited to spotlight: "Macrofungi of the California Archipelago" by Christian Schwarz and Dean Lyons. The Channel Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, but we know almost nothing about an entire kingdom of

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

They would also almost certainly be a large partner in any government that formed after the next election if they did this

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Royal Holloway @royalholloway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We're protecting the future of food 🌱 Dr Tina Steinbrecher and colleagues in Royal Holloway Biology are researching seeds to provide the world with greater food security. The fruit of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, this project is conducted with Eden Research. ow.ly/R9Rp50YrUzs

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thank you to all who attended @rhulbiology.bsky.social Postgraduate Research Symposium over the last two days. It was great to see so many fantastic talks and posters! Many thanks to @lauren-bindsch.bsky.social for leading the organization of the event

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Insects are fundamental to life on Earth, but if we want to protect them, we need people to understand and value them from an early age. 🐝 @DaveGoulson.bsky.social has a message for you. 🌱 #StandTallForTheSmall & help inspire the next generation 🔽 buff.ly/JiyJ2pq #BigGive

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This week, your support helps give young people access to nature and insect science, sparking curiosity and building the knowledge we need to protect our planet.

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Cambridge histories through blur plaques

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 24/03/2026

#PhilTransB is open to theme issue proposals in all areas of biology - a great opportunity to create a landmark publication in your field. Find out more: bit.ly/PTBproposals

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Over a mile of road white with spilled fertilizer granules, all of which will wash into nearest stream. New Place Farm, Blackboys, E Sussex

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11/03/2026

#PhilTransB is open to theme issue proposals in all areas of biology - a great opportunity to create a landmark publication in your field. Find out more: bit.ly/PTBproposals

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

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Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

@ingolfsteffan.bsky.social (who led the project) shows what factors in protected areas and the landscapes around them drive pollinator populations in Europe @safeguard-pollinators.eu final meeting - identifying drivers enable conservation actions to enhance pollinators #bee 🐝 🦋 🪰

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 15/01/2026

Fungus or a festive ornament? 🍄This small, spheroid fungus (Abortiporus biennis) was found on decaying wood, its main nutrient source, in an urban park in Nanning, China. The vivid red liquid settled on the white surface is guttation – when fungi excrete their internal liquid. 📸 Junjie Liu

Image of a pheroid fungus (Abortiporus biennis) was found on decaying wood, its main nutrient source, in an urban park in Nanning, China.

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Great news! RHUL has received Doctoral Focal Award from BBSRC to train the next generation of engineering biologists in partnership with @rothamsted.bsky.social & @uniofreading.bsky.social. The funding will see a cohort of PhD students trained across six years www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The @iussi-nwes.bsky.social that we organised this week in Leuven (18-19 December, www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings) was a success! @rmash.bsky.social and @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social delivered fantastic keynote talks and there was a great set of contributed talks and posters.

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Congrats also to Dylan Thatcher and Alexis Gkantiragas for winning the prize for best student talks and to Cassandra Uthoff and Annie Joseph for the being awarded with the best poster prizes.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Patron: did you carve me that owl? Sculptor: real squinty with human feet, just how you wanted. Patron: what…?

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This week's departmental seminar is by Prof Nazif Alic from @ihaucl.bsky.social who will discuss the relevance of polymeraze III activity to human ageing. Everyone welcome!

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The fruits of many sleepless nights of fieldwork. Great to see it published! Worth a read for anyone interested in pollinators! :)

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Nice short new paper documenting invasive bumblebees in the Faroe islands. I have the urge to make a species distribution model for it #ecology #bees www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I can't help wondering how much of this decrease is due to functional (though probably uninentional?) outsourcing of emissions to other countries.

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

For those of you that missed the Darwin Birthday Debate by the Centre for evolution and ecology this year they've just uploaded it ! #ecology #academicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdT...

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Darwin Birthday Debate 2025

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Really cool concept I hadn't encountered yet - using bees to deliver fungicide treatments to plants via their flowers. It performed almost as well as spraying in this study #science #ecology #pollinator academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR...

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

2025 @conservoptimism.bsky.social Film Festival takes place tonight @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) from @rhulbiology.bsky.social, a co-founder of the festival, welcomes everyone. The festival is livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvW...

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

R Script I wrote to unstack rasters. Hope someone finds it useful I made it for the bioclim future climate rasters (www.worldclim.org/data/cmip6/c...) but it should work for anything github.com/AlexisGGk/ma... #ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science

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maxent_scripts/unstack_raster_script at main · AlexisGGk/maxent_scripts

useful tools for working with Maxent. Contribute to AlexisGGk/maxent_scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Some R code you might find useful - it takes occurrence data from any species you specify, extracts bioclimatic data and plots the occurrence points in a PCA github.com/AlexisGGk/us... #programming #R #ecology #science

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Contribute to AlexisGGk/useful_r_code development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This is from a paper with 400 citations... #academicsky

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Royal Holloway Biology @rhulbiology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Don't be this editor. I can't believe we still have to put up with this exclusionary sh*t in academic publishing.

Text reads: So, if your manuscript is accepted, it will only be edited for future publication after we receive the certificate with proof of English language proficiency.

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Alexis Gkantiragas @alexisggk.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

One of the things I find most frustrating about AI in education is that it means the only fair way to assess people are probably timed, in person exams. Yet, a few years ago, I would have advocated moving away from these kinds of assessments

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