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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Tried something a bit different this weekend, science stand up comedy! It was definitely a challenge to re-write my normal spiel into a comedic script, but I loved the experience and it felt great to get some laughs

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Snapshots of different shaped leaves and flowers from my native garden 😍

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Always get the urge to post sky photos here for some reason

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I appreciate all the nature I'm surrounded by where I live in the city. But heading into the bush this week made me realise that one thing I miss is big trees (and I mean really big, old trees). So we made sure to give this karri tree a hug ❤️🌳

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The beaches in south west WA are paradise. And you never know who you might meet!

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I wasn't really in the right headspace for social media at #ESAus2024 but seeing and sharing stories with so many old friends (and being in Melbourne!) really filled my cup. It was a good reminder that Ecologists are my people and that I'm so grateful to be able to work in this space!

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Now #ESAus2024 @lizzylowe.bsky.social unpacks the social barriers to environmental problems... Namely insecticides! - People really hate bugs. - They love to spray them. This horrifies Lizzy (and me TBH) #ESAus2024 How do we stop people spraying insecticides? It's a social problem.

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Roll up roll up!! Ahead of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESAus2024, and at @euanritchie.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I to have made a starter pack: go.bsky.app/2A8GiTX Please reply if you identify as a woman working in #ecology and #conservation in Australia/NZ so I can add you! 🌏🧪

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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Help us understand how conspicuous butterflies are by playing this game! mferickson.github.io/findbutterfly/

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Find The Butterfly

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Weekends are for dog walks on the beach

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Why don't ALL academics just decide to spend December submitting papers for review, and January reviewing them. Then we get the whole peer review mess over and done with and we all start the year with a few more publications under our belt #winwin 😆

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Found a chunky weevil on my walk today 😁

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Now's the perfect time to support Bush Heritage, I love buying their cards as Xmas presents each year. They're gorgeous AND they go towards protecting Australian ecosystems www.bushheritage.org.au/get-involved...

bushheritage.org.au

Buy a gift card

If you need a present for someone who cares about the environment, there’s no better choice. Not only does the recipient get a beautiful card , but…

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I love public art, there's nothing quite like it to connect people with place, especially when it portrays local species Found these in Preston Beach, WA this weekend

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Saw so many cool spiders on my bushwalk today! Most exciting was an aggregation of Christmas spiders, with one black colour morph in the midst! (Normally they're black, yellow and white)

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There was a fantastic question on Triple J science hour this morning: If you were at a dinner party with Darwin, what would you ask him? 🤔 I've settled on: a) do you think the species concept is still valid? b) Why did you hate Albany?!? (a great explanation here: www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03...)

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There are so many fascinating creatures that live right under our noses This wrap around spider has a "twig" structure on its abdomen that gives it the most amazing camoflauge (when sitting on a branch and not some meddling human 😆)

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I always love seeing people's science tattoos!! How about a sub-tread for octopus tattoos 😆 here's mine! 🐙

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hmmm Bluesky seems to like posts about academic burnout... It IS just like the old twitter 😍🤣

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

After a week teetering on the edge of burnout I promised myself a weekend without work. I didn't quite keep it, but I did get in a lot of what I need to build me back up Beach, bushwalks and boardgames

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I've reached the age/stage of life where I'm simply obsessed with trees. This silver princess caught my eye yesterday 😍

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Nothing quite like finding a peacock spider on the walk to school

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Amazing displays on "form and function" at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe. You could run a full 1st year biology unit with this content!

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

After 4+ years working remotely it's SO good to have an office again. Nothing like invertebrate posters and Lego to make sure that your work space is a happy place

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Found a hairy pie dish beetle today! Apparently the "dish" helps protect against arthropod predators. I guess the hair does too?

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

@cataranea.bsky.social so good to find you on bluesky! Gives me hope of building up something like the community that used to exist on twitter... I just shamelessly scrolled through your follower list and followed all the familiar faces 😍

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

This is the BEST scicomm. It even has descriptions of the species, where they live and their behaviour 😍 I would pay very good money for this set... ideas.lego.com/s/p:24ee3527...

ideas.lego.com

Jumping Spiders

What is it?Jumping Spiders are one of the cutest spiders in the world. They belong to the family Salticidae, and are the largest family group of ...

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

First day of work at Edith Cowan Uni today!! I was very happy to see they have one of my favourite spiders on campus!! ❤️🕷️

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

I'm a terrible entomologist 😶 I was today years old when I found out that Sawflies are Hymenoptera! I've been fascinated by the larvae for most of my life and only JUST thought to learn about the adults. They're like 🐝 but with 🐛 babies 🤯

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Was excited to find one of my favourite little spiders today, the crabbiest of crab spiders! (Cymbacha sp.)

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Where's the blue sky feed where we just post pictures of blue skies?

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

This awesome podcast reminded me how much I've always wanted to study scorpions!! 🦂🦂🦂🦂🦂 www.alieward.com/ologies/scor...

alieward.com

Scorpiology (SCORPIONS) with Dr. Lauren Esposito — alie ward

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I've been noticing the tell tale signs of leaf cutter bees in my garden, and today I found one making her nest! Nothing gets me quite so excited as #backyardbiodiversity

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

If you followed me on twitter you'll know I post a lot of random bug pics. To keep on brand, here's a cool weevil I found

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Celebrating my 100th iNaturalist observation! Now to go through my camera reel and add all the ones I've missed in the last year....

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

I can't wait to read this, I've always wondered why there isn't more written about Maria Sibylla Merian! 🦋👩🏻‍🔬

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Peacock spider turned up in my kitchen today! They're everywhere! 😍

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Entomologist on holiday 🪰🦋🕷️🪲

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Christmas spiders!! 😍😍😍 This is my first summer in WA for 10 years, so excited to see more of these (people worry that there are less of them around these days, just like Christmas beetles!)

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

This is a very unpopular take, but I HATE Halloween. The sight of shops filling with flimsy plastic decorations and piles of lollies fills me with dread & it feels like it's getting worse I spent ages today picking up party string in my local bushland. How is selling things like this even allowed?

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

On tonight! Tanya Latty and I will be representing the little critters in our presentation for Birdlife Australia. I'm trying to resist the urge to post photos of 🕷️ eating 🐦... Come join us! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f1505a...

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Invertebrates Australia is a new NGO I'm involved with, and it's really exciting to be connected with others so passionate about invert conservation. If you'd like to join us, now's a great time! Our members only online event is this weekend invertebratesaustralia.org/membership

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

It was so exciting to attend the 1st Western Australian Colloquium of Arachnology this week. Catching up with MQ lab mates and old friends, + hearing about cool spider research took me back to the good ol' days! 🕷️

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I've got to say, it's SO nice to see so many familiar faces here, I thought I had lost my online science people, but this gives me hope!

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Another little peacock spider from my place. Happily sitting on my front door ready to welcome visitors 🥹

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Dr Lizzy Lowe @lizzylowe.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Testing this platform in the only way I know how... here's a cool spider I found! (It's a Spikey peacock spider 😍)

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