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Benito Wainwright @benitoexplains.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Introducing the campest katydid of all time. 🦄💅🏽👸💞 Why would this animal (Arota festae) have evolved this way, other than to look utterly fabulous? We have unleashed some (slightly whacky) thoughts, now out in @esajournals.bsky.social. Photo credit: @zekerowe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 1/n

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

New in #TheScientificNaturalist from our journal "Ecology"⤵️

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

New paper out in Ecology focusing on one of the most striking insects I've ever had the privilege to see! This was a fun collaboration led by @benitoexplains.bsky.social with captivating images by @zekerowe.bsky.social

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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎 Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected? Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods? This PhD could be for you! Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH (UK or settled status applicants) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Chris Foster @chrisfoster.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Excited to have a ground beetle project @carabidaeuk.bsky.social open for applications in @crocus-dla.bsky.social. Nice mix of analysing long-term data, fieldwork and time at @forestresearchuk.bsky.social, assessing trends in woodland carabids. Please share! blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

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CR2026_58 – Crocus DLA

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Owen Lewis @owentlewis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded: A good start would be to extend funding for the amazing STRI Arthropod Inititiative striresearch.si.edu/yves-basset-... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded

Letter to the Editor

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New video for #RESEcolEnt This one was a lot of fun to make and a really interesting paper to read!

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

El oro de Panama es Verde - The gold of Panama is green 🌳🌴🌱 My favourite bit of graffiti welcoming me back to Panama for another three months in the forest

A small building in front of a railway line, painted with the words el oro de Panama es verde

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'm giving a talk on my work and what I get up to in the rainforest this evening at @ri-science.bsky.social Really excited to be back at the Ri - six years 😲 after my time there as an intern! www.rigb.org/whats-on/sci...

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Science and snacks: Escaping the enemy

We'll bring the science, you bring the snacks.

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Kane Lawhorn @kane-lawhorn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Happy to see one of my Panama Ph.D. chapters finally out today in Ecology (doi.org/10.1002/ecy....) and Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (doi.org/10.1002/bes2...). This work explores how insect and fungi respond to a widespread disturbance in lowland tropical forest—lightning 🌩! (1/8)

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Teaching Lepidoptera ID with @unirdgento.bsky.social today. A chance for me to brush up on my moth skills but mostly a good opportunity to have a look through the amazing pinned collection we have here 🦋

A collection of pinned butterflies from the UK in a glass topped display box

A pulled out drawer display box filled with large, black, white and yellow butterflies

A glass topped display box filled with pinned Hawkmoth specimens

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Here's a little video I made for the current issue of Ecological Entomology 🪲 #ResEcolEnt

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 30/01/2025

Nature is not a blocker to growth. The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍

A thriving natural world is the foundation of economic growth and vital for health and wellbeing. Language that pits these against each other is unhelpful and deeply concerning.

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Our lab group meeting with collaborators at Oxford this week ended up with a quick trip to @morethanadodo.bsky.social Their display on insect colour was truly beautiful 🦋🪲

A view of a museum inside an old building, looking down from the floor above. The museum is filled with cabinets of natural history specimens and animal skeletons

A ball covered in lots of different green pinned insects including butterflies and beetles

Multiple balls covered in pinned insects. Each ball has different coloured insects, two blue, one black, one green

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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

RES has joined Bluesky! We are excited to share fascinating science, news, events & more. To start, we’re featuring the #LargeBlueButterfly 🦋 Our #Conservation Science team recently published ground-breaking findings on the dispersal rates of this #EndangeredSpecies 🔽 buff.ly/3Wz5QLU

Large Blue butterfly, photo by David Simcox, Conservation Project Manager at the Royal Entomological Society

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A few favourites from home and away for this year's #BlueMonday #BlueBugs campaign 1 Azure Damselfly, UK 2 Wasp (ID tbc) - part of our current insect rearing project in Panama. 📷 credit Marleny Rivera 3 Common Blue, UK 4 Jewel beetle, Panama

Close up image of a pinned metallic blue wasp with a large red eye and long ovipositor

Common blue butterfly sitting on a plantain seed head

A metallic blue jewel beetle with a red stripe across it's back

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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

At the Doñana field station near Seville Spain, speed limit signs include information about the stakes involved.

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Ending 2024 with a NYE trip to RSPB Ham Wall and thousands of starlings coming in to roost #UKWildlife

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

23 species in flower on a slightly damp #NewYearPlantHunt including herb-robert, my favourite little wildflower 🌸 @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Red dead nettle flowers at the top of a green leafy plant

Single, pink herb-robert flower at the end of a stem with pale green leaves

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Dr M Goes Wild @drmgoeswild.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

My BSc student is doing a final year project on Psoriasis: The Silent Impact on Health and Society, if you have experience of this condition or are interested to learn more, please follow the link or QR code to the short survey, thank you! bit.ly/4iVd3j9

If you have experience of psoriasis or are interested to learn more, please follow the link or QR code to the short survey, thank you!

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Accomodation booked ✅ Preparations for next year's fieldwork in Panama are underway. Time for another three months of trees, boats and bugs 😁

Looking up at bright yellow flowers in the canopy of a tropical tree

A small motorboat parked next to a smaller canoe at the edge of a swamp-like pool

A large moth on a wall with a hand below for size comparison. The moth is as big as the hand

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Eco-anxiety is a chronic fear of environmental disaster, and entomologists often find themselves face to face with the effects of climate change, as changing distributions of insects create increased risks of food insecurity, disease outbreaks, and threats to biodiversity.

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What is Eco-Anxiety and How Does it Affect the Future of Entomology?

Eco-anxiety is a chronic fear of environmental disaster, and entomologists often find themselves face to face with the effects of climate change.

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Dr Manu Saunders FRES @manusaunders.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Congratulations to our Insect Conservation and Diversity Early Career Entomologist Award winners: Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar and Lindsey Kemmerling! Great to see the outstanding research being done by early career insect ecologists around the world! 🌏🧪 www.royensoc.co.uk/res-journal-...

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RES Journal Early Career Entomologist Awards 2021-2023 - ICAD - Royal Entomological Society

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021-2023 Royal Entomological Society Journal Awards. Insect Conservation and Diversity is a Royal Entomological Society journal that uniquely combines insect div...

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Charlie Outhwaite @charlieouthwaite.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!

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Crocus-DLA @crocus-dla.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Have a browse of our #PhD projects advertised for an Autumn 2025 start date: www.findaphd.com/phds/crocus-... Including opportunities to be hosted at our partner organisations @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, @ukceh.bsky.social, @britgeosurvey.bsky.social, and @nocnews.bsky.social (continued)

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Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'm a little late to the migration so as an introduction I'm an insect ecologist at the Uni of Reading 🪲 I've been lucky enough work in some amazing places which I write about here: mattgreenwell.wixsite.com/ecology/fiel... And share photos of here: www.instagram.com/matts_field_...

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