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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋 The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽

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Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society

The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access…

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Emily Hornett @bolinabug.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Fun unexpected finding just submitted as a preprint

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

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International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The UK is very much open for business, and so is the rest of Europe. You will have to suffer a pay cut, but instead you get high-quality healthcare, no shootings and, if you choose wisely, no fascists in government.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Happy 2025 all! Hot off the press, news from the #mosquito #microbiomes and why a 'reproducibility crisis' in mosquito research might be because your #holobiont is not exactly the same as next-door's holobiont 😁 💻🧬🦠🦟 lnkd.in/dp7v-wqU

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Brilliant BBC animated report by ecologist David Goulson on the vital role of insects in our ecosystems and the real threats of declining populations

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Why insects are so crucial to life on Earth - BBC Ideas

Watch the "Why insects are so crucial to life on Earth" video at BBC Ideas. Explore other related content via our curated "Nature and us" playlist.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 28/12/2024

A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt

A dividing budding yeast cell in steel, bronze, and silver, with apatite gemstones for the chromosomes. The sculpture rests in my hand, a physical cutaway view with many cellular structures visible.

Closeup of the sculpture, centered on the spindle pole body, a tiny structure looking like a stack of pancakes from the side, embedded in the long curved nuclear membrane, tethering the spindle (a splayed bundle of silver branches each terminating in a jewel chromosome). The spindle structure is polished silver, lodged in the polished bronze of the membranes and surrounded by bronze endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and other structures.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends 187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment. Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses

Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows

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Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New preprint by butterfly wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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A place for natural history in the 21st century

Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....

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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

King’s College Cambridge has just announced a Research Fellowship on the topic of Symbiosis and/or Coevolution for early career researchers. www.kings.cam.ac.uk/about/work-a...

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Grant Hughes @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

So here is a Wolbachia starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to join or have other suggestions. go.bsky.app/FTCKEyB

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

last couple days to apply (for free! from anywhere in the world!) to the Sanger 2025 PhD Programme — Deadline: 28th November 2024 (09:00 GMT) For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

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Darren Obbard @darrenobbard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

What happens to the #genome of #bacteria as their association with the host becomes ever more intimate?🧪🦠 A lot: Expansion, pseudogenization and shrinkage, driven by reduction of phage pressure New by Stefanos Siozios, Greg Hurst &co #evolution #genomics #microbiology www.cell.com/current-biol...

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