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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Looking forward to this one! @envirosyment.bsky.social has a great project with hat we should all be getting involved in!

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 16/01/2026

Turning wildlife sightings into powerful data 🐝🌿 Every iRecord submission supports research and conservation nationwide. Join iRecord 101 with @earthwormuk.bsky.social Brown (Thu 2 Apr 2026) and learn how to get started or level up. 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1734876575... @ukceh.bsky.social

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I don’t understand why environmental organisations all seem to now want to sell clothing and tat. Surely we should be leading by example and not pushing the production and sale of more unnecessary products. Want to be sustainable? Shop in charity shops, don’t buy more new clothes!

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Before you press “Submit”… are your biological records really ready? Record Cleaner is a FREE tool that checks species names, taxonomy, locations and more—flagging issues before verification. Join our FREE intro webinar on Monday, 2 Feb 2026: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976877829... @ukceh.bsky.social

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The strangest discovery in biology this decade? Messor ibericus queens produce TWO species of offspring. They eject their own DNA and clone males of another ant species. Talk by @selfishmeme.bsky.social, 29 Jan 26: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1970355572... @britentsoc.bsky.social @lnhs.bsky.social

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Who lives here? If you said Wood Ants, you’re right—but did you know another species shares their nests? Join Prof. @elvarobinson.bsky.social to explore the secret life of the Shining Guest Ant, an ‘uninvited houseguest’. Register here (for FREE!): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1664001195...

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Driver ants form some of the largest colonies of any animal on Earth, with up to 20 million individuals. And yet, surprisingly little is known about them. Join Dr @maximuminsect.bsky.social and explore how research is shedding light on these fascinating ants: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1675100022...

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Bioacoustic data is increasingly popular for monitoring birds – but how can we use it to its full potential? Join our FREE ecoTECH webinar with Wilder Sensing on best practice in bird bioacoustics. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1668406923... 🧪 #bioacoustics #birds @wildersensing.com

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’m running Biological Recording 101 on 20 January at Lesnes Abbey Lodge, London. Join me to explore how to turn wildlife sightings into valuable conservation data & get hands-on with iRecord. 🧪 🌍 Tickets from £25 More details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1682508431...

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The Biological Recording Company are offering 50% off the Earthworms of the UK & Ireland entoLEARN course that I developed (was £20, now £10 with the code). Just use the code worm50 at checkout. The code is valid until 30th June 2025. courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/ento... #earthworms

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 26/05/2025

Interested in earthworm ID? Join the Earthworm Identification workshop on 12 July 2025 at Gosforth Nature Reserve. Learn to identify British earthworms with specialist @earthwormuk.bsky.social. 📍 Gosforth Nature Reserve 🔗 www.nhsn.org.uk/events/earth... #Ecology #SoilLife #Earthworms

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Calendar blocked out. Can’t wait!

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🌿 Discover the Spleenworts of the UK! 🌱 Join Henry Miller for an online deep dive into Asplenium ferns—ID tips, habitats & rare species! @royalbotanicgarden 📅 14 Oct 2025 | 💷 £10 | 📍 Online Limited spaces—book now! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ferns-of-t...

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🐸💧 Want to create a wildlife pond & attract frogs, dragonflies & birds? Join us on 27 Feb for a FREE webinar and learn how to design, plant & maintain a thriving pond habitat. 📅 90-min event | Expert talk + Q&A 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1253217329... #WaterForWildlife

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Last night during a Zoom training webinar about rare earthworms, I got tongue tied and asked people to put their questions in the twat.

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Where does iRecord data go? How does iNaturalist verification work? What recording app is best for bird observations? These are some of the questions I’ll be covering in this upcoming webinar. @nbntrust.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-wild...

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Using Wildlife Observation Apps

Delve into the pros and cons of using various wildlife observation apps for recording wildlife.

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I communicate news about my earthworm research and courses/events through the National Earthworm Recording Scheme Bulletin. It's free and open to all, so subscribe to the e-newsletter here: shorturl.at/ruMNY 🪱 🧪 🌍 #earthworms #science #invertebrates #biologicalrecording #soilbiodiversity #SciComms

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National Earthworm Recording Scheme Bulletin Sign Up Form

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DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A 2mm long cocoon found under pine trees in Brede High Woods this morning. Wondering if it might be an earthworm cocoon, something like Lumbricus terrestris? Any helpful thoughts welcomed. @earthwormuk.bsky.social @frankashwood.bsky.social @soilscholar.bsky.social #UKWildlife #HighWeald

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Great day surveying #earthworms on farms in the Chilterns. We surveyed two fields on each farm, giving the farmer the choice of what they’d like to see compared. Farm 1 wanted to see 3rd yr cover crop vs 1st yr. Farm 2 was ploughed vs min till. 🧪 🚜 🌍 #ecology #soils #invertebrates #agriculture

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The Fried Eggs Worm was only described to science in 2009! The large adults are found living freely on the forest floor, with juveniles found up in the trees (one per tree)! 🧪 🌏 #earthworms #annelida #biology #invertebrates 🪱 photos.chienclee.com/image/I00002....

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Fried Eggs Worm (Archipheretima middletoni) | Luzon, Philippines | Chien C Lee Wildlife Photography

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Created a little starter pack for earthworm research, conservation and applications. Let me know in the comments if you’d like to be added and your study area if not obvious from your profile! 🪱 #earthworm #earthworms #crassiclitellata #soilbiodiversity #soilecology go.bsky.app/BCmLoAa

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A little unpublished study I did on 4 farms showed no significant difference in worm counts between spring barley fields and neighbouring habitat (grassland and hedgerow). Species diversity, however, was significantly lower in arable. My thoughts in comments below. 🧪 #earthworms #soil #ecology

Box ts showing the comparison of earthworm abundance and earthworm diversity for arable and neighbouring habitats. Earthworm abundance shows no significant difference. Earthworm species diversity is significantly lower in arable habitats compared to neighbouring habitats. Sample size is 4 farms (each with an arable and neighbouring habitat sampling point).

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

There’s still spaces on my upcoming Earthworm Sampling Days…

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

How do we identify earthworms? People assume it is based on colour and size, but to differentiate between UK species we look at features such as the prostomium, make pore, clitellum, tubercula pubertatis and setae spacing. 🧪 #earthworms #annelida #taxonomy #worms #biology #naturalhistory

Illustration of an earthworm showing morphological features such as the prostomium, male pore, clitellum, tubercula pubertatis and setae.

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Even within the UK scientific community, I see a lot of pseudoscience and misinformation regarding ecological categories of earthworm. I wrote this article to bring together the research for naturalists. 🧪 #earthworms #ecology #soil #biology #annelida www.earthwormsoc.org.uk/earthworm-ec...

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 13/11/2024

It’s all in the eyes! The eye arrangement in freshwater leeches is key to separating organisms into families. How many eyes are present? Where are they located? 🧪 #leeches #hirudinea #annelids #naturalhistory #SpeciesID #biology #taxonomy @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

Table displaying different eye arrangements for the 5 families of freshwater leeches in the UK.

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 14/11/2024

Recording species observations generates invaluable #biodiversity data. This short video explores what components are needed to create a biological record. 🧪 #naturalhistory #wildlife #nature #species #science #biology youtu.be/DgUwJu9Iptk

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What is a Biological Record?

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Did you know, there's earthworms that aren't truly 'earth' worms, because they LIVE UP IN TREES!! 🌳🪱 Here's a European 'corticolous' (tree-living) species, Dendrobaena attemsi. They can be found in organic pockets up in canopies, which they reach by using little spines on their bodies to climb! 🧪

A photograph of a grey and pink earthworm on a piece of decaying wood.

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 29/10/2024

Great day sampling #earthworms today at the University of Greenwich. As well as collecting specimens from varied microhabitats to create a site species list, we undertook two soil pit transects to compare the #earthworm communities in amenity grassland and a wildflower meadow. #soilbiology #worms

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 31/10/2024

Our Earthworm ID course at the Natural History Museum today. Colour and size are not reliable features, so we use features such as the head type, setal spacing, tubercula pubertatis location/shape and male pore location. 🧪 How many species do you think we have in the photo below? #earthworms

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 03/11/2024

Back in Dec 2022, I published a blog promoting a new webinar series that I was launching. entoLIVE aimed to make a difference and open up invertebrate research to new audiences. Looking back, I'm really proud of how far it has come! @royentsoc.bsky.social biologicalrecording.co.uk/2022/12/05/m...

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Making Invertebrate Science Accessible

entoLIVE is a webinar series that aims to make a difference and open up invertebrate research to new audiences.

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 04/11/2024

How do you identify earthworms? In the UK we are lucky in that most ID can be done from external features. A lot of the ID is to related to counting the segments that a feature appears on, with the type of head, shape of the tubercula pubertatis and setae spacing also important. #earthworms

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 05/11/2024

Earthworms (Crassiclitellata) are segmented #worms (Annelida). This understudied class of #invertebrates also includes #leeches, bristle worms (e.g. lugworms and ragworms) and pot worms (including ice worms). Annelids are represented across marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. #science

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