Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialAndy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Your big data is only a big data set because a whole bunch of people did the insignificant, unworthy of your time, not important enough to publish, effort to build & maintain collections over the years, which you then scooped up into your dataset for a proper "big picture" study. <6/n> 414729
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialGuardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 12/04/2026A messy garden is a glorious garden. We need to stop tidying, titivating and paving them over | Emma Beddingtontheguardian.comA messy garden is a glorious garden. We need to stop tidying, titivating and paving them over | Emma BeddingtonI’ve just watched another of my neighbours rip up everything green and growing around their home, writes Emma Beddington. It’s enough to make David Attenborough weep 03011
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 22/03/2026A lifer, the non-native but interesting Arcitalitrus dorrieni - Landhopper or Lawn Shrimp, found under damp wood in the NE corner of Liberton Cemetery Edinburgh 18/02/26. Verified on iNat. Dark, pingy and difficult to photograph! @persmiseth.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social 170
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 15/03/2026#wildflowerhour Some from a Spring walk around the farm today🙂 1201
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 01/02/20262026 Herp Workers Meeting in Glasgow. #HWM26. Lovely to be back and catch up with many herpy folk after an absence of a few years. Meeting strangely absent from #Bluesky. Correctly georeferenced incidental Birdtrack and iNat records a bonus. 030
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026@btobirds.bsky.social Will you be doing a Birdtrack 2025 summary for users this year? A highlight of my annual recording efforts historically and always gratefully received🙂 110
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialBirdTrack @birdtrack.bsky.social · 16/01/2026The International Swan Census takes place this weekend, 17-18 January. If you record any Bewick's or Whooper Swans in BirdTrack, we would greatly appreciate if you could add details on the number of adults and juveniles, habitat and location pinpoint #ukbirding Whooper Swans by Sarah Kelman / BTO 03713
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialNFBR @nfbr.bsky.social · 15/01/2026forum.inaturalist.org/t/guidelines...forum.inaturalist.orgGuidelines: - Best Practice for Using iNaturalist in the UK:Best Practice for Using iNaturalist in the UK A practical, optional guide to help your observations integrate smoothly with the UK biological recording system This guidance is entirely optional. You... 12215
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialMark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Sunday book review: Pan-species Listing by @graemelyons.bsky.social Publisher: @pelagic.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/01/04/s... "Hardly anyone has the knowledge to write this book & even fewer could write it so well!" 26829
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialNorfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Rare plants often turn up in restored Norfolk farm #ponds: Translucent Stonewort (Nitella translucens), Tassel Stonewort (Tolypella intricata), Bladder Sedge (Carex vesicaria) & Marsh Speedwell (Veronica scutellata). Very special species usually confined to nature reserves 111321
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 09/01/2026🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England! 4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September. Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk. Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪 16188
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Want to build your own environmental sensors? Join FDRI’s free Environmental Sensing Workshop 16 - 17 Feb 2026 at Chess Catchment. Build & test hydrological sensors w/ @imperialcollege & us! Travel & accommodation funded. Apply: f.mtr.cool/fajftaotue 048
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Water sampling and thermistor change at #UKUWMN site Old Lodge in Ashdown Forest today. Added value iNat records including what is probably Craterellus undulatus/Pseudocraterellus undulatus depending on who you ask. Rarely recorded apparently and kind ID from @ljantos 070
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialTrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action! 18343
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialBart Hoekstra @barthoekstra.bsky.social · 30/12/2024We've known for a long time fireworks are a major source of sudden disturbance for birds, and published earlier work in Behavioral Ecology documenting this for the first time using the Dutch weather radars operated by @knmi.bsky.social. Read the earlier study here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...doi.orgBirds flee en mass from New Year’s Eve fireworksAbstract. Anthropogenic disturbances of wildlife, such as noise, human presence, hunting activity, and motor vehicles, are becoming an increasing concern i 1102
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialBart Hoekstra @barthoekstra.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world). Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee.... Thread below 🧵👇 48051
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/in... “On average, as a result of fireworks, 1000 times more birds take flight than on usual winter nights.” New year in the Netherlands. Knew I’d seen this somewhere so ta to @amiesphilip.bsky.social for finding it. Redwings peeping all over here just now. 110
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialEawag Aquatic Research @eawag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Our Department of Aquatic Ecology (Eco) is offering a Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100% 👉 More about the position: apply.refline.ch/673277/1300/... 024
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Wasn’t expecting to find _this_ in the local station book exchange.Had a wait long enough to look properly rather than casually glance at the usual biographies & novels.Wonder how long it had been sitting there all unloved.Rest assured it has now found its forever home🙂.Now need to find a swap. 030
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 26/10/2025On the same chalk bank as the flowering plants that haven’t read the rules in my last #wildflowerhour post, the Man Orchids are now out. Just. They were all baked off in the hot, dry spring of 2025 and none of ~30 plants flowered successfully. Fingers crossed for 2026. 0111
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 26/10/2025It has been dark for hours. Can I go to bed yet #wildflowerhour ? Here are some flowering things found today near home that were mostly not supposed to be flowering today near home. Oxeye daisy, Field Scabious, Black Knapweed and Selfheal. 1323
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Spiny Shield Bug, Picromerus bidens. 21/10/25. New for the garden. 040
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Better late than never. First Brown Hairstreak of the year in the garden today. 020
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Are you involved in freshwater biodiversity or water quality monitoring and research in the UK? We're inviting individuals and organisations to complete a survey to help us understand community needs and priorities around monitoring & research. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online... 🧵🧪 1/ 186
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialNorfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...share.google‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pondAn expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’ 59045
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Talk in Ambleside this Wed, 10/09/25. 17:00. The culmination of the 2 week NERC meiofauna short course. Details of course and staff here: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... @nhm-london.bsky.social 022
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Another of the treats from the last two weeks of aquatic plant surveys in Donegal. Sparganium natans. Aquatic, in ~1m water depth and emersed at a different site. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0182
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 20/08/202510 days in Donegal assisting Nick Stewart on EPA lake monitoring fieldwork.Lifer Eriocaulon aquaticum this morning.Great company,long days,terrible food,some truly amazing sites & a new species for Ireland,pending review of the material by Chris Preston. Potamogeton rutilus @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0142
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 09/08/2025EA lake survey fieldwork for the last 2 weeks. Didn’t anticipate finding Potamogeton lucens at all, never mind 2 days in a row, at Sywell Reservoir nr Northampton on Thurs and Crown Lakes N nr Peterborough yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @astridbiddle.bsky.social 3322
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Huge numbers of Riccia cavernosa(?) at w end of Clattercote Reservoir, Oxon, today. 3m drawdown providing lots of habitat. @astridbiddle.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social 2141
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Ermine or Water Ermine? Been here for ~10 days or so, eating Littorella uniflora. New food plant record for either? @mothyblackburn.bsky.social @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @ @savebutterflies.bsky.social 010
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialAlex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Set a dozen batologists free in Broadland & rightly anticipate a few interesting bramble records.. not a new-to-GB waterlily. Nymphaea candida has small flowers with erect petals, filaments wider than anthers & concave stigmatic disc. Leaves with anastomosing veins at edges. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 46411
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Glastonbury Glow-worm grabs glamping gong. Not that I’m biased, but best thing of the festival so far is this lady Glow-worm shining by the hedge right next to the caravan. Onto iNat, if you want to trace the caravan. #GlastonburyFestival #Glow-worm 250
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Today at home. Welsh Chafer by the pond,female Gasteruption jaculator scouting the bricks, baby Shieldbugs on Iris and an Elephant Hawk Moth that found its way into the house. 060
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Today’s finds. My first ever Clearwing and it didn’t involve a lure. 6-belted at the Green Street Green butterfly bank, Bromley.Adonis Ladybird rescued from the neighbours’ paddling pool and the porch Woodpigeon babies coming on apace. iRecorded or Birdtracked as appropriate. 070
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialDave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Why would you want a neat stripy boring lifeless lawn when you can have a shaggy, flower-filled paradise for pollinators? Maybe this short video will provide some inspiration! youtu.be/2SJFg3NbrFYyoutu.beTurn your lawn into a wildflower meadow!YouTube video by Dave Goulson 826879
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025The Woundwort Shieldbugs are largely ignoring their nominate host plant here and concentrating on the Aquilega seed heads instead. 050
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialJake Dalzell @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi! 11208159
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 15/05/2025WFH today. Miris striatus on the doorstep, 62! Large Red Damselfly exuviae from the Hippurus pond out front so far. The magpie checked into the lab meeting and mass Badger mastication proceeded as normal. 040
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialLin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Anthriscus sylvestris, Cow Parsley, invert associates At least 39 spp use the Cow Parsley that fringes verges & woodland margins, as a larval host. One of the earliest of the Apiaceae to flower in spring, an early pollen source for bees & hoverflies. 📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 🌱 4497
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialMartin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The @ukceh.bsky.social Biological Records Centre isn't yet on Bsky, so I'm passing on the message that there are problems with iRecord, with pages failing to load properly. It's being investigated and updates are being applied, but there is still work to do. Apologies for the inconvenience. 4319
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Hoopoe from the doorstep in Bromley this morning. 😳. Terrible phone footage. Have given it enough time to skeddaddle before sharing. On BirdTrack. @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social 120
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 03/05/2025#UKUWMN water, diatom and aquatic invertebrate sampling at Old Lodge, Ashdown Forest today. Dartford Warbler, Cuckoo, Stonechats and best of all these @bsbibotany.bsky.social 080
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The anti-bird infrastructure at Charles Darwin’s church in Downe, Bromley today. No wonder there are no Swifts screaming over the village any more. @btobirds.bsky.social @godsacre.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social 4134
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Possibly Ichneumon stramentor in the garden today. Not quite right though, and there are plenty to choose from. 020
Reposted by @eshilland.bsky.socialDave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Support Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill, scheduled for debate 25th April, which would ban local councils in England from using pesticides in public spaces. No more poison in our streets and parks! Contact your MP using the link below: pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... @sianberry.bsky.social 20314162
eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Found a freshly emerged and very fecund female Emperor Moth here last Saturday. Completely still at the top of the vegetation, but evidently firing out pheromones so it wasn’t long before a male arrived. First breeding record in Bromley for a long time I’m told. 040