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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Great morning doing some outreach, kick sampling for @ljmuofficial.bsky.social STEM partner local high school showing them the importance of carrying out ecological monitoring of a local river at Croxteth Park. #inspirenextgen #ecology #environmentalscience #LJMU #outreach

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Excited to be representing LJMU @ljmuofficial.bsky.social who are co-hosting the British Science Festival 2025 starting next week. Tickets are still available come along and see what we are doing 😊 #BritishScienceFestival2025 #BSF #marineecology #outreach www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

All set up and ready for the Mowgli Dog Show #mowglidogshow claremont farm representing @ljmuofficial.bsky.social school of Biological and Environmental Science and school of engineering 😀

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Very excited to be coming to #icmbxii in Portugal to give a talk on my lionfish research in October @marinebioinvasions.bsky.social #invasivespecies #marinebio #FRR #lionfish

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Such a brilliant addition for all to see what is happening around the world. Nice job folks 👏 #invasionecology #inns

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

What a fab #ASABSPRING2025 meeting. Thoroughly enjoyed being a part of such a wonderful conference at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

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ASAB @asab.org · 25/04/2025

Thank you to all the organizers and volunteers who made #ASABSpring2025 happen! An especial shout out to Susanne Zajitschek and @islabotting.bsky.social for all your extraordinary work. It was a truly wonderful conference! 👏🏻 Thanks also to @ljmuofficial.bsky.social for hosting us in Liverpool!

A collage with the volunteers in blue t shirts, Susi at worn at the computer and Isla with her knees up in the auditorium

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

First set of Flask talks Day 2 #ASABSPRING2025 @asab.org @ljmuofficial.bsky.social were excellent, looking at sleep behaviour in fish, species network structures, parental care, behaviour plasticity of honey bees, social inheritance and using Python for animal movement

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Great set of morning talks on day 2 of #ASABSPRING2025 @asab.org @ljmuofficial.bsky.social from Axelle Delaunay on allomaternal care in elephants; Holgate Fourie investigating social bonds in birds; Maria Favero looking at pollution in brine shrimp and James Brooks invesitgating drumming in chimps

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Day 2 @asab.org ##ASABSPRING2025 meeting at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social started with a great plenary from Dr Rhaia Mashoodh on how parental care can shape the evolution of molecular genetic variation in animals.

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Today is the first of a three day conference here at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social for ##ASABSPRING2025 meeting. What a fantastic start to this meeting with a welcome talk by committee organiser Dr Susi Zajitschek. Very proud to play a small part in the organising of this conference #animalbehaviour

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Great start to the @asab.org #ASABSpring2025 meeting here at LJMU @ljmuofficial.bsky.social with a great talk by Dr Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films, along with great conversation with Prof @peterfalkingham.com and chair Camilla Affleck! #ljmu

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Back home in Northern Ireland for Liverpool John Moores University @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Applicant Day. Such a wonderful experience getting to meet potential new students and their families. #inspired #nextgeneration #HiltonHotelBelfast #LJMUNIAppDay25

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Manus Cunningham @manuscunningham.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Yesterday I was welcomed back to @ljmuofficial.bsky.social by the legendary @monicamcc.bsky.social to give a lecture and practicals on marine #microplastics. I spent a year of my PhD at #LJMU and it was surreal to be back after 5 years. I’ve missed it so much! Thank you Kostas, Jon and Monica!

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Delighted to have been awarded a small pot of funding from MGS to investigate the impact storms have on the spread of invasive species #funding #inns #pollution #increaseofstorms

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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Great morning with Sixth Form College giving a lecture and info on what ljmuofficial.bsky.social have to offer. Such a welcoming school and my favourite thing about outreach, getting to engage with students getting ready for the next step of their future into higher education #LJMUoutreach #STEM

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Society for the Study of Marine Bioinvasions @marinebioinvasions.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐂𝐌𝐁 𝐗𝐈𝐈! 𝐃𝐫. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 is a Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland).

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Ana Nunes @analuisanunes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

One-quarter of freshwater fauna is threatened with extinction! 🐟🦐🦀 Urgent call to action! Big shout out to many of my IUCN colleagues who published this in Nature today! search.app/vr9eKsczjAXM...

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One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction - Nature

A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We are 90 people in this #bioinvasions starter pack! I bet that we are more here! If you work on biological invasion/related areas, please comment on the post below and I will add you. Also, please repost so more people sees the call ⭐ Starter packs the best way to find people working on a topic

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