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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This fur belongs to... Charlie! We stand in solidarity with every animal used by the fur trade whose voice cannot be heard and call on Parliament to stop the import and sale of fur in the UK. Add your voice: www.furfreebritain.uk/fur-belongs/ #FurFreeBritain

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I suggested this paper and, talking to Pablo about how names like "patriot eagle" stuck in the mind, I can't help wondering if animals will be next in Trump's renaming spree... Will the Canada lynx become the America lynx? 🤔

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Enjoyed practising my Italian with the videos in Marco Morbidelli's @neobiota.pensoft.net 2026 conference ePoster! Check it out here to find out the impacts of #raccoon invasions on native 🇮🇹 #crayfish populations: api.ltb.io/show/ACSLK 🦝

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Love this eye-catching (literally! 👀) @neobiota.pensoft.net conference 2026 poster summary image from Berit Michler of #ProjektWaschbär 🦝 check out the ePoster stack here: api.ltb.io/show/ACSNJ

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Great idea from Ian Lim Han Yan: including a #feedback form as part of a @neobiota.pensoft.net ePoster stack 👏 Clever to use the online format for professional development (I'll magpie this idea!) & warming to see researchers put themselves out there for constructive feedback: api.ltb.io/show/ACQWZ

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's not *the* most important part of a poster, but I absolutely loved the #Ludwigiapeploides -inspired colour scheme on this @neobiota.pensoft.net poster by Marije Kovačević 🇭🇷 Check out the whole ePoster stack: api.ltb.io/show/ACRQY

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Honoured to connect with the lovely Akanksha Ingale from the University of #Turku 🇫🇮 through the @neobiota.pensoft.net 2026 conference and explore her exciting work on perceptions of #InvasiveSpecies 🌿 Check out her ePoster reviewing the global perceptions literature here: api.ltb.io/show/ACQXA

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Really impressed by the data visualisation from this @neobiota.pensoft.net conference ePoster by Henrique Couto 🇵🇹 Explore the poster here: api.ltb.io/show/ACSMC excited to follow the work on lepidopteran distribution! 🦋

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Really enjoyed exploring the posters at @neobiota.pensoft.net Conference, but nothing has brightened my day more than this funny, informative video from the LIFE RIPARIAS poster (api.ltb.io/show/ACSLR) 🇧🇪 Silly Charles thinks he'll catch a big fish! What will he do when he gets a crayfish instead? 😂

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What drives online interest in #InvasiveSpecies? Today is my & @zarahpattison.bsky.social's @neobiota.pensoft.net conference presentation exploring this! See the poster here: api.ltb.io/show/ACSLU With @ananovoaperez.bsky.social @inadehn.bsky.social @acmill.bsky.social @drheatherprice.bsky.social

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#UofStirling Tuesday seminars starting off strong for the new semester with a talk from postdoc Marly Samuel on participatory research methods to understand young people's relationships to Lake Chilwa 🇲🇼 Sparked lots of ideas on studying public attitudes & what we can learn from intercultural work!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Lovely badger watching at #FallsOfClyde with @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social & Jamie, who'd never seen a real live #badger before! 🦡 Bonus, one sett is in plantation #woodland so they use that area to educate people about the differences between there & the restored broadleaf woodland next to it 🌲🌳

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lovely to get outside for lunch with @emilyinthepond.bsky.social and others from my office to catch up with Shubham and wish him all the best for his placement in Germany 🇩🇪 Can't believe he'll only have 6 months of PhD research left when he comes back ❕

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Food for thought in #Perth, #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ...never noticed the text on this sculpture before! "Native Plants Foreign Plants Growing Together In my Garden" A complicated topic at a time when native UK plants are struggling in the drought down south & Mediterranean plants are thriving in our climate 🤔

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's a win for invasive non-native species awareness on this week's #GreatBritishSewingBee as Anna prints #HimalayanBalsam on her Made To Measure fabric & constructs a narrative comparing biological invasions to foreign fashion taking over the 🇬🇧 wool trade!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Only 2 large whites and a small white in this weekend's #ButterflyConservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount by the Forth, but I like to think some time sat out in the ☀️ will help my ACL surgery recovery along 🩼 and there were SO MANY good dogs in the park! 🐕

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

@natreswales.bsky.social 🏞️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 have created a useful video on #biosecurity measures to reduce the spread of invasive non-native species while dog walking 🐕‍🦺 Check it out here and share: www.canva.com/design/DAHML...

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

PhD forum finished early so I took @drheatherprice.bsky.social's advice to get outside for 15 minutes - just enough time for a @savebutterflies.bsky.social #BigButterflyCount! Ringlets and speckled woods counted on the #UofStirling campus 🦋

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Another fascinating #INNSWeek webinar was "Marine Invasive Non-Native Species - What Can We Do About Them?" from @naturalengland.bsky.social 🦀 The recording of this great overview of current 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 marine invasives and volunteer management can be accessed by emailing @gbnnsss.bsky.social 🐚

Orange sheath tunicate Botrylloides violaceus: photo credit Dan Blackwood, US Geological Survey

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Disappointing show from the #butterflies at #FlandersMoss this weekend: only 2 small whites & 1 meadow brown in the 4 counts we did 😞 Still lots to see, though 🦎 + Fellow environmental scientist, Sophie, & I met a lovely guy, Alasdair, & had a chat about wildlife ID & natural spaces accessibility 👩‍🦽

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What a beautiful day! Wishing I was back at the beach in #StAndrews with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social but been busy inside most of the day 💭🏖️🐚🦀

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's Invasive Non-Native Species Week and yesterday @gbnnsss.bsky.social hosted a great #webinar on recent INNS #research with Helen Roy of @ukceh.bsky.social 👏 The webinar will be available to watch back here: www.nonnativespecies.org/what-can-i-d... #INNSWeek

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The @iapetusdtp.bsky.social conference #ceilidh was SO much fun - what a great way to get everyone interacting and show the students from English universities some Scottish culture! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thanks for organising 😊

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Competing at #Trampoline League this weekend took me to #Kettering for the first time, where I was proud coach to Jamie 🥈on double mini trampoline! We visited Boughton House & the #ladybirds were thriving, including 16-spots and (unfortunately) harlequins 🐞 Fantastic #biodiversity in the #gardens 🪲🌹

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Lovely to catch up with other PhD students and friends over brunch today and try out the seasonal apple pie matcha at HBW (although I feel like apple pie is an autumn seasonal flavour, not spring? 🍂🌸)

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The #YellowLeggedHornet (a.k.a. #AsianHornet) has already been spotted this year in South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire! Please report any suspected sightings via the Asian Hornet Watch App or online reporting form 👁️👁️

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

PhD forum prsentation featuring stylish slide #design (as always) from @parisitoid.bsky.social 😃

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Really enjoyed getting to know Guillaume and finding out about his incredible free diving adventures, as well as contemplating the importance of colonial legacies in global invasive species assemblages in this afternoon's seminar!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The life of a #PhD researcher... They can't even take you on a nice family walk without you sticking your hands in a pond to try to ID some #pondweed 😂

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The festive period wouldn't be complete in my family without some mashed potato snowmen... But this year, there has been a mashed potato biological invasion! Can you identify the UK #InvasiveSpecies? 🤣⛄

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I hadn't been to Five Rivers before but the mushroom chat was very tasty and it was lovely to chat to everyone - especially Neil, who made the trip from Jura to be there and had great stories about the island and about his research!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I had a lovely time tutoring my final undergraduate practical of the year on food webs! We used an R shiny app to visualise a coastal ecosystem food web and I enjoyed chatting to students about how they thought additional species, competition etc. would affect the model!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Super @stir.ac.uk Biological and Environmental Sciences seminar this week from now-DOCTOR Neil McDonald (congratulations! 🎉) about #ClimateAnxiety among undergraduates - an important thing to consider for anyone teaching in #HigherEducation 🎓

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Wouldn't necessarily have expected that one of the really engaging talks in this semester's #UniversityOfStirling BES Tuesday seminars would be about #REF but I learnt so much about how academia works from @matttinsley.bsky.social 😃 🎓

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Bridget Rusk did a brilliant presentation last week at the University of Stirling about her research placement with @scottishwater.bsky.social - I really enjoyed getting the industry perspective!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Super interesting talks by Sonam Rinzin and Mark Pitt at this week's @iapetusdtp.bsky.social seminar! Lovely to hear from colleagues about completely different environmental topics :)

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Fantastic @iapetusdtp.bsky.social training and induction session last week - lovely to meet the new cohort and explore #Durham and its many bookshops!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Fantastic talk on Tuesday from Alastair Skeffington and Laura Corral on circadian clocks in phytoplankton! Love to see the collaboration and it was super engaging for non-specialists in the field such as myself

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Great showing from #UniversityOfStirling Biological and Environmental Sciences at the #MacMillanCoffeeMorning today! Thanks to Eileen Tisdall for organizing and to all who baked and donated (especially the vegan miso chocolate brownies and apple crumble muffins!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Huge problem with #HimalayanBalsam at this time of year and a sad number of #InvasiveSpecies cultivated in the gardens at #WestonPark in #Shropshire 😭 Still a fun day out, but could do with some more invasives education!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Very excited to find "Don't Pack a Pest" stickers and leaflets at #ConquerTradingPost in #Keswick - super eye-catching branding and such an important message!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

There's still time to submit records for the #BigButterflyCount 🦋 It only takes 15 minutes and contributed valuable data to @savebutterflies.bsky.social 🙂 I've been looking around #Stirling and #York! Small whites seem to be dominating for me this year 🤍

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

#HarlequinLadybirds and #Buddleia out in force this week in #York (alongside other #InvasiveSpecies and #NonNativeSpecies like Himalayan balsam and monkeyflower)

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I've been wondering about the impact of #HolmOak #QuercusIlex recently... @gbnnsss.bsky.social have assessed it as low risk, but my parents have just had it removed from overrunning their new garden and I found this sign on the island of Košljun 🇭🇷 which describes it as "overgrown" with holm oak

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

On holiday, but still hunting down #InvasiveSpecies ( #SarraceniaPurpurea and #LantanaCamara ) at #Zagreb #BotanicGarden 🪏 Fantastic place with friendly staff and only €1 for students! 🇭🇷

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Took some undergrads to take part in @therockpoolproject.bsky.social #InvasiveSpeciesWeek #Bioblitz in #Burntisland and #StAndrews in #Fife 🦀 Such a lovely day and no invasive species identified (except the pampas grass growing in the leisure centre car park!) 🐚

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The #RiverTay is lovely for a picnic and a wild swim at this time of year, but we need to look after it! We picked up a whole plastic bag of #litter from the sandbanks (the bag was also litter) and found some #InvasiveSpecies on our trip...

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Inspiring couple of days at the International Young Researchers Conference on Invasive Species (IYRCIS), hearing from other #ECR #InvasiveSpecies scientists and seeing the work they're doing on social aspects of #BiologicalInvasions 🐎 including a fab keynote from Franco Bostal on #FeralHorses

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#InvasiveSpecies including buddleia spotted along the train line from #Dundee to #Stirling 🛤️ I don't think muntjac deer populations have officially reached the Tay yet, but nobody told the deer that...

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