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Paul Cross

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Pollinators; Lecturer in the Environment; Politics; Hiking; Radiohead; Folk music; Beekeeping; Butterflies and Moths and Border Collies but not all in that order...

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Assessment of trawling impacts on 10 Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa (e.g. cold-water corals) across New Zealand waters show that 30 years of trawling reduced VME area by 20.8 %, with losses up to 40.7 % in some bioregions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Geography at Bangor University @bugeography.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Researcher Spotlight Dr Rebecca Jones Food Geographer: Rebecca's research explores the the intersection of food experiences and place-making Read more here research.bangor.ac.uk/en/persons/r... Meet Our Staff
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Wolfgang Wüster @wolfgangwuster.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
How many mamba species are there? Find out from our new paper: Phylogeny and species delimitation in an iconic snake genus: the African mambas (Serpentes: Elapidae: Dendroaspis) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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Phylogeny and species delimitation in an iconic snake genus: the African mambas (Serpentes: Elapidae: Dendroaspis)
Abstract. The African mambas (Dendroaspis) comprise an iconic genus of four large-bodied, highly venomous elapid snakes: the black mamba (D. polylepis) fro
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I think that was my favourite as well. I wanted to walk into the painting and live there!
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Fab. Looks like a Peter Greenaway prop
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Today is launch day for our friend @nicwilson.bsky.social whose fabulous book 'Land Beneath the Waves' is attracting so much interest. Hope you have a great launch event NIc!
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Fabulous evening @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @naturelark.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @chiffchat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @paulcross.bsky.social @amandatuke.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social
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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Oh my word! Botanist about to explode! Just unboxed my presentation copies of Urban Plants & I’m as giddy as a bee in a bellflower. It’s a beautiful thing, from the gorgeous Carry Akroyd cover to the photos kindly provided by many lovely people. Hope you enjoy it www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
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Dave O'Brien @daveob66.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Some of the 100+ Marsh Fritillaries I saw today at Finglandrigg Wood NNR near Carlisle. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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Bangor Uni Sciences @bangoruniscience.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New Queen* in the hive today! A result of supercedure whereby bees select a new queen without swarming. Our Conservation MSc students get to learn about beekeeping and this is the first time we've seen this on a field visit.(*with dot) 👑👩‍🎓 @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Nice study. A future subject for a book for @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
What a fabulous outfit of amazing CLM students and @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fabulous final day of fieldwork for MSc Conservation & Land Management students, assessing changes in dune vegetation communities at Aberffraw. Lots of wonderful plants, some swimming, and a bit of a grass-fest @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniscience.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Burnet Rose (Rosa pimpinellifolia)Dune Pansy (Viola tricolor subsp. curtisii)Sand Soft-brome (Bromus hordeaceus subsp. thominei) and Sand Cat's-tail (Phleum arenarium) on right
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Bangor Uni Sciences @bangoruniscience.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Bracken control, the field trials, with @paulcross.bsky.social
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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
They also decided to test a novel method of bracken control, concluding that it was very effective, sustainable and fun, if a bit disorienting #students #MenWiilBeBoys #EndOfTerm @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Students completing a great day in the meadows of @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Quadrats, sweep netting and beating trays for the MSc Conservation and Land Management. #What'snottolike @bangoruniscience.bsky.social bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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Bangor Uni Sciences @bangoruniscience.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Our @bangoruniversity.bsky.social 'MSc Conservation and Land Management' students are on a week's field course. You can't leave them alone for a second! 🤹😂 #learningthroughplay Join us and @paulcross.bsky.social! bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Bangor Uni Sciences @bangoruniscience.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our postgraduate #Conservation students have completed a grand trip out, not bad eh? Join us! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @studyinwales.bsky.social bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr... @paulcross.bsky.social @juliajones.bsky.social (thanks Dr Freya St John for vid)
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Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez): www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/tesla-is-m...
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Tesla Is More Vulnerable Than You Think
How to cost Elon Musk $100 billion.
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Relaxation of management intensity promotes butterfly communities in mountain grasslands... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Relaxation of management intensity promotes butterfly communities in mountain grasslands
Semi-natural mountain grasslands are currently threatened by either land abandonment or management intensification, which calls for evidence-based rec…
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Massimo Martini @entomassi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Paper alert! I'm happy to share that my first research paper has been published! 🐝🌸 Road verges can support #pollinators but their potential for preserving representatively diverse and even communities is limited, due in part to high densities of non-native plants. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Maria Johansson @mariajohansson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Fires have destroyed nearly 11 million carbon offset credits in California's program. The buffer pool had only set aside a little more than six million credits to compensate for losses from wildfire. Those six million credits were meant to last for 100 years. carbonplan.org/research/buf...?
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Lucy Wallace - arranwildwalks.com @snoweider.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Great news! Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped
Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Here's a wild image from the #Antarctic Peninsula for: #InternationalMountainDay2024 #InternationalMountainDay #IMD2024
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN
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British Beekeepers Association @bbka.org.uk · 07/12/2024
December 7th is the feast day of St. Ambrose, patron saint of Beekeeping an candle makers. The Latin phrase for “honey” is “Ambrosia” or the food of the gods, thus the origin of St. Ambrose’s name. christianapostles.com/st-ambrose/
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)
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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 04/12/2024
Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!
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Reuben Singleton @bordersnaturalist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Some extraordinary photos in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Particularly liked this one of Eros blue butterflies in China. Photographer - Haiyong Cai. #nhm #butterflies #wildlifephotography
Eros blue butterflies, China
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
'Rich need to pay forward for the next kid'.
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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 29/11/2024
Yes, and this will also affect our evidence synthesis mechanisms. When AI generated papers (maliciously or otherwise) start making their way into IPBES or IPCC reports, we'll have a credibility crisis that we simply cannot afford. 🧪
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 29/11/2024
🌱🌎 Soon our volunteers will distribute (for free) 45,000 native trees grown in Ireland to hundreds of people who will plant and care for them. Growing today for a greener tomorrow! freetrees.ie
Tall trees viewed from below with mass underneath, and showing crown shyness.
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Congratulations Trevor!!
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hunting - by East Sussex artist and printmaker, Annie Soudain #art #printmaking #owls #birds #birdart #linocut
Barn Owl hunting over reeds
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project - "Wildlife can recover, and quickly, if we just give it a little space and let nature work her magic" #RestoreNature www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
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Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’
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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Amazing fossil alert. Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach… 🧪 #evolution #paleontology
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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This new study suggests that high-quality old grassland may be particularly good at supporting pollinators because diverse food sources provided by such grassland provide additional health benefits. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... | Pornon et al. @funecology.bsky.social
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Species‐rich old grasslands have beneficial effects on the health and gut microbiome of bumblebees
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Acermendax @acermendax.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Quand Didier Raoult est dans le journal *Science* ce n'est pas en tant qu'auteur, c'est en tant que sujet de honte de la recherche française. #JeSuisUnGrandChercheur www.science.org/content/arti...
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Unearthed university investigation found research ethics failings at French medical institute
Studies conducted by Didier Raoult and colleagues flouted French and international ethical standards, report concludes
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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
There are ~22,000 #moths in Australia but only half have been scientifically described to date. Far from being drab or boring, their diversity is amazing as this account will try to show #mothsmatter #teammoth
Moths attracted to a UV light
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Painted in 1905, 'View from Lejre,' bears witness to Vilhelm Hammershøi's lesser known fascination for landscape painting. By now living at Strandgade 30, the Copenhagen apartment that was the subject of his most famous interiors, Hammershøi took time to also paint the surrounding countryside.
Painted in 1905, 'View from Lejre,' bears witness to Vilhelm Hammershøi's lesser known fascination for landscape painting. By now living at Strandgade 30, the Copenhagen apartment that was the subject of his most famous interiors, Hammershøi took time to also paint the surrounding countryside; Lejre is a village west of Copenhagen, not far from the coast.
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katemortimer.bsky.social @katemortimer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#spotthecollie
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Paul Cross @paulcross.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A really interesting paper. Good work.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
'Village on a Hill, Capri,' was painted by Frederic, Lord Leighton when he visited the Italian island in 1871. In the distance are the ruins of the Villa Jovis (the Roman palace, built by Emperor Tiberius in AD 27) and the church of San Michele alla Croce is to the left.
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Nigel Raine @nigeleraine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Huge congratulations to Dr. Sabrina Rondeau on winning the Ecology & Environment category of the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists. Read more about her impactful research in "Digging below the surface: hidden risks for ground-nesting #bees": www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #Pollinators
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Daniel Bailey @danielbailey99.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sometimes it's instructive, to see the context of where we are now vs the conditions that allowed agriculture and civilization to develop.
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