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Susan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @drsusan.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning! GULP!

Blue jay on a platform feeder with its crop full of peanuts!

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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 13h

Want to conserve #birds, #mammals and other vertebrates? Then don’t forget their #insects. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper explores the many ways vertebrates depend on insects — for food, shelter, protection and much more. I’ve written about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/30/w...

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Want to conserve birds and mammals? Then conserve their insects – our new paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity sets out the details

It’s sometimes easy to forget quite how much of the living world depends upon insects. That might seem an odd thing for someone who has spent much of his career studying insects and their relations…

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend the 2027 Evolution meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. Submit your application by November 1st! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

The San Juan coastline. Text: Evolution 2027, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 25-29. Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: November 1.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The way many if not most people respond to women coming forward with sexual assault allegations shows me that they don’t want sexual violence to be exposed. They want victims to be silent. They don’t want to deal with or even have to hear the truth. This is rape culture.

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seattle pets @seattlepets.bsky.social · 10h

Thackery Binx 🐈 Cat (Bombay) 📍 Green Lake (98103)

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 10h

"Check your flood risk" is good advice everywhere. An underappreciated point I've seen is that while it may be great to live on high ground, but if you have to go through flooded areas to get anywhere you still have a big problem.

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 9h

No alt text but it's so important I need to repost. How to avoid sexual assault: a quick and easy guide - goes through six steps involving you not, well, sexually assaulting someone.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 13h

One of the biggest obstacles to trans inclusivity in fieldwork is uncertainty. Here's a video of me talking about it but you can also read about it at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 10h

I'm a survivor, and sooooo many women I know have stories like mine. It is so common. It starts in middle school, and you never age out. So much anger and grief for all of us.

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Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bixi rides to be free on Quebec election day montrealgazette.com/quebec-elect...

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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 10h

3D printed pollen is a great way to captivate an audience of ecologists. Thanks to Limi Mao for the seminar with props!

A large spiny ball (like a hollow pufferfish) painted in orange-pink.

Four large pollen grains in yellow, pink, and orange. The one I'm holding is particularly peculiar with spines and indents like a deflated football. I'm told it is a Taraxacum pollen grain.

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Adam Bentham @adamrbentham.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 Please share! 🚨 I'm recruiting a fully funded 4-year Gatsby Sainsbury PhD studentship at Durham! 🌱🤖 Designing plant immune receptors from scratch, combining AI protein design with structural biology and plant immunity. If you're interested please get in touch! benthamlab.org shorturl.at/U2PdV

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Bentham Lab — Durham University

Bentham Lab, Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, Durham University. Structural biology and de novo protein design applied to host-pathogen interactions, plant immunity, and neglected tropical d...

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 16h

Go behind the book. Watch @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social read an exclusive extract of 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction', one of this year's standout history books. 🎧 You can read more on our website. ⬇️ bit.ly/47otGPo

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10h

You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 9h

Linking genomic variation to floral trait adaptation across species boundaries #TansleyReview by Acoca-Pidolle et al. @carriewessi.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Examples of floral trait divergences between sister species adapted to different pollination modes.

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 10h

New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com ! We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415... Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️ 1/8

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh my goodness, this is so important to have!!!

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Rowan Kuminski @rowankuminski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My regular reminder that if you or someone you know is a Catalan ecologist and would be willing to answer questions about linguistic experiences for my PhD, I would really appreciate it! You can also message me privately on here to express interest or with any questions!

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hummingbirds have a special talent: the ability to hover. They can access flowers that have no perch or landing pad. It makes for photogenic feeding! 📷: Sappho sparganurus on Iochroma (or relative) by Naturalist Tours CC0 #ornithophily #Salvia #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a colorful (green, orange and black) hummingbird feeding from pendulous, tubular blue flowers. The photo catches the bird with its beak pointing straight up and its wings outstretched. The broad, long tail is pointing downward.

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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

60 people, a whole concocted panic because 60 people, who've been waiting years, were scheduled to have surgery this year

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Raven of @theravenof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it hasn't even PEAKED yet? are we serious right now.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love how Jewelweed flowers look like a big mouth, in this case chomping on a bumble bee. It’s almost like an oddly shaped Pac-Man #birds 🌿 #BeeButt #NativePlants

A large fuzzy black and light yellow bee has its back half hanging out of an orange flower like a mouth. It even looks like it has lips!

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

. @greateranglia.bsky.social if I booked wheelchair ramp assistance, you gave me a short connection, and you're holding my next train for me as the first was late... could your staff at least bother to meet me at my inbound train or on the platform to make sure I actually get on my second train??!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Three fun finds in the house in early September - Eremocoris fenestratus, Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa), and the invasive (!) Western Conifer Seed Bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis). Happy for the first two at least!

A blurry photo of a small brown, black, and white bug standing on a white background. The bug is oval shaped with long black legs and the first pair of legs has very thick femora. The head is black and is triangle-shaped with bulging eyes and long thin antennae which are blurry. The wings are brown with black and white spotting.

A Square-spot Rustic moth stands on a dark grey tiled surface with its wings partially open. The body is fuzzy and medium brown and the two visible legs are furry and medium brown. The forewings are reddish brown with two conspicuous pale dots surrounded by a faded black patch. The hindwings are white with a faded dark grey border.

A Western Conifer Seed Bug stands on greyish green subway tiling with white grout, facing downwards and seen from above. The head is long and thin with very long thin antennae coming from it. The legs are long and thin and medium brown, with the hind pair of legs having ornate spines and expanded tibiae. The wings are medium brown with white zigzag markings and dark brown wing membranes, and the abdominal edge is banded in dark brown and cream.

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#InsectThursday with #pollinator friends! A speckled wood #butterfly and a #ladybird sharing a warm leaf yesterday lunchtime, with the bramble leaf starting to change to autumn dress! @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire

A speckled wood next to a harlequin ladybird

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A fossil whale molar with lace-like latticework of acetate salt, from the 30 myo Makah Formation of Washington; ?Fucaia buelli. I didn't rinse this one long enough, after the acid bath and the white stripes are acetate salt; I photographed this before spot-cleaning and consolidating this tooth. 🐋🦖🧪

$A multicuspate molar of a fossil whale with brown enamel and a lace-like lattice of calcium acetate salt infilling fractures in the enamel.$

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Nick @rookman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A few hours at Lavernock after work watching the beautiful charm of goldfinch feeding in the long grass. plenty of blackcap,willow warbler, chiffchaff, goldcrest ect. Also nice to see the jays more often on my last few visits. Really enjoying this spot ATM. #birdingwales #birds🪶 #NatureTherapy🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

This image shows a juvenile European goldfinch perched among wildflowers. The bird displays light brown plumage on its body and head, with distinctive vibrant yellow and black accents on its wings.

A juvenile European goldfinch perches on a wild plant stem while feeding on purple flowers in a sunny meadow. The bird features light brownish-grey plumage on its head and body, distinctly highlighted by vibrant yellow flashes and black-and-white patterns across its folded wings.

A juvenile European goldfinch perched on a slender, thorny branch, looking to the right with its beak slightly open.

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CM @manchesterbirder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A good evening walk on Cutacre today to see what migrants the earlier showers have landed. Juvenile Whinchat with a flock of Stonechats, two juv Wheatears, a covey of 7 Grey Partridge and a hunting Hobby the best. #ukbirding #birds

A young Wheatear perched on a concrete block

Young Whinchat perching on a hogweed stalk

Underside of a Hobby clutching a bird it has caught

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@seattletimes.com Still waiting to hear from you about why I can't login to access my subscription that I'm paying for whilst living overseas... any chance you read your "Contact" page messages ever?

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

wait on this paper about mimicry and deception the 2 first authors names are KIDYOO

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hey @seattletimes.com - any chance you'll fix your Cloudflare 403 issue that keeps your overseas subscribers from logging in as of a week ago and prevents us from reading articles we're paying to read? I've reached out via your Contact webform and no reply or even an acknowledgment of the problem.

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Unclear how it's allowed/legal for @greateranglia.bsky.social to run a two hour service with zero working toilets (one still up but we've been told it will go down soon and it's not the accessible one)? 4/5 out of service, seriously? Good job I had a go at the station!

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sad when the pharmacist is so incredibly exuberantly grateful to one for waiting an hour (30 minutes after she wasn't with a patient) for a complex controlled medication situation to be sorted and for being polite and friendly about it. "Sad" because of what it implies about her other patients...

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Alex Diaz-Papkovich @alexandr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How does human genetics research live in the information ecosystem? Is it misused? Misrepresented? In my paper with @sramach.bsky.social, we tackle this question with 25 years of Wikipedia data, AI chatbot responses, and pages from Grokipedia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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From Wikipedia to AI: Measuring 25 years of synthesis of human genetics research in the public-facing information ecosystem

Genetics research frequently intersects with ethnicity, nationality, and race, making it uniquely vulnerable to misrepresentation. Yet, 25 years after the initial sequencing of the human genome, there...

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Hate will never win - but wow does it hurt sometimes. Sending so much love to the Berlin queer community right now, especially the friends and family of the person killed and those injured. (context: yes, someone drove a car into a Pride event. not joking. they've cancelled the parade.)

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EDSisSUCHaMESS @edsissuchamess.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.” -Herophilos

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I voted! Don't forget if you're eligible to vote (sigh) and live in Norfolk, UK, that you should vote too! We have a by-election for our Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC): www.norwich.gov.uk/your-council...

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Police and Crime Commissioner by-election — 16 July 2026 | Norwich City Council

A by-election will take place on Thursday 16 July 2026 to elect a new Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner.

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There's also this! My given name (Kelsey) was pretty gender-neutral when I was born (far less so after the boom in naming girls Kelsey in the 1990s). I still use it and like it for this reason!

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I participated and you might want to too!

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Got this terrible photo of Xanthogramma pedissequum at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen yesterday - mainly excited as never seen Xanthogramma before and this makes my 28th genus of Syrphidae photographed! (see my photos arrange taxonomically at flickr.com/photos/plant...)

A black and yellow hoverfly is perched on some dead grass stems partially hidden underneath some green grass stems. This hoverfly is black overall with a large head and eyes (partially hidden), a black thorax with yellow side stripes, yellow legs, and a black abdomen with triangular yellow marks and interrupted bands further down.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

After submitting your comment: CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES “Congress can override the rule through the appropriations process. They can write into statute a requirement to follow peer review and best scientific practices. In this way, Congress can stop the attacks on science.”

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Some more fun back garden minibeasts on our ragwort forest (still no mosquitoes on the ragwort): Andrena hattorfiana (very unusual for Norfolk, esp. the red form! but pretty sure of ID), Araniella sp. building her web, Syritta pipiens, and Stictopleurus prob. abutilon.

A large mining bee is seen foraging on a flower of Ragwort. The flower is a yellow daisy-like flower with ray florets and spiky disc florets. The bee is black overall with red markings on her abdomen and very fluffy pale-haired hing tibiae for collecting pollen. Her wings are folded over her back and she is seen from the side.

An orb weaver spider is seen spinning a web against some blurry ray florets of Ragwort. The spider has a pale brownish green body and short legs and a very large, spherical bright green abdomen with a red dot near her spinnerets. She is seen from below.

A small hoverfly is seen on a flower of Ragwort with other flowers in the background. The yellow flower has long ray florets and spiny disc florets in the middle which she is perched on. Her body is black with pale greyish white markings and her wings are folded over her back. Her most obvious feature is a hugely thick hind femur which is marked in black and red and has black spines coming out of the bottom.

A true bug is seen perched on yellow ray florets of Ragwort surrounding a brown central cluster of disc florets. The bug is brownish greenish grey with long legs and four-segmented long antennae. Its wings are translucent greenish grey and folded over its abdomen, whose edges are green with brown spots.

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Some more hoverflies in the back garden on Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris): Syritta pipiens, Sphaerophoria sp. (females cannot be ID'd to species normally), Scaeva pyrastri, and Episyrphus balteatus! Can you tell I love hoverflies?

A Syritta pipiens hoverfly stands on a yellow flower of Jacobaea vulgaris (Ragwort). The fly has a large head with big red eyes, a black and grey thorax, and a spotted black, orange, and grey abdomen. Its clear wings are held above its abdomen. The front two pairs of legs are yellow and thin, while the back pair is yellow and black with a very thick femur which has several black spines on it.

A Sphaerophoria hoverfly stands on a yellow flower of Ragwort with more flowers in the background. This hoverfly is long and thin, with a head with large red eyes and a yellow face, a brassy bronze thorax with yellow side stripes, and a long narrow abdomen striped in black and yellow. Her transparent wings are held away from her body.

A Scaeva pyrastri hoverfly is seen perched on a flower of Ragwort with more flowers in the background. This hoverfly has a puffed up silvery face with large red eyes that meet at the top and a brassy silvery thorax. Its abdomen is black with pairs of white curved lines on each segment. The transparent wings are held away from the body.

A low resolution photograph of an Episyrphus balteatus (Marmelade Hoverfly) perched on a green leaf against a blurry green background. The hoverfly has large red eyes that meet at the top, a brassy bronze thorax with subtle striping, and an orange abdomen with black stripes and mustache-like bars. The transparent wings are held away from the body.

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Good day for accidental insects at the GP surgery and on the way home... 10-spot Ladybird, some Dor Beetle, a Nymphalid caterpillar (caterpillar ID book arrives tomorrow!), and an Agriphilia straminella crambid (grass) moth.

A tiny ladybug is seen from above standing on a blue floor with black spots. The ladybug has a pair of reddish-orange wing covers (elytra) over its abdomen with black spots and a white thorax with more black spots. The photo is blurry.

A Dor Beetle is seen from above standing on bare grey cement. This beetle is oval-shaped and shining blackish blue. The legs are all held stiffly out from the body and are thick and spiny. The wing covers (elytra) have longitudinal grooves in them and overall the beetle is very smoothly round.

A nymphalid butterfly caterpillar is seen against a white person's finger and skin, partially standing on the finger but with its front half reaching out for the next surface. It has rows of spiny protrusions along its body which are greyish white in color. Between these are orange yellow rings in the back two thirds and greyish white rings in the front two thirds. Its eyes are large and reddish brown.

A crambid (grass) moth is seen from the side perched on some brick and mortar. The moth is long with wings that come along its back held in a roof type posture. It has very long palps coming out of its head, held straight out, that are furry and brownish. The eyes are bright blue with a black dot. The legs are brown and held out from the body, as are the long antennae. Its wings are tan-brown with white streaks and black dots at the wing edge.

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