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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 25/09/2026

Really interesting discussions about the differences between skills employers and academics value most (and whether things like adaptability and problem-solving really are different, or just differently framed...)

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fantastic showing from bakers, from Pablo's grandmother's cake recipe to the runner-up cheesecake from @lindindin.bsky.social! My vote went to Sarah for the delicious vegan apple crumble slice 🍎

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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 · 15/09/2026

Started going to the gym with Pablo & it pains me to be on campus at 8am, but at least the chat is good when you train with ecologists! Now my life has been improved by knowing that the Arabian sand boa exists 😂

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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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University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks to @ecologybarnett.bsky.social, @ruth-wright.bsky.social , @oscarjessup.bsky.social, Pablo and Alex for putting up posters and helping update the displays around the department today, ready for the new semester!

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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 · 10/08/2026

@zarahpattison.bsky.social sent me information from #BornFree about the animals being kept (often completely unsuitably) in the UK ...with the climate changing, I wonder how many of these could have self-sustaining populations if they escaped 🤔 www.bornfree.org.uk/dwamap/

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Dangerous Wild Animals Map

Are there dangerous wild animals living near you? Check our map to find out!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When you sit down in the evening to relax by the telly and find you're still researching people's attitudes towards invasive non-native species... 😂 Interesting to compare the 🇬🇧 #WildBoar 🐗 debate to the 🇺🇸 #FeralHog situation where no pigs ever had native populations! 🐖 @lastweektonight.com

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Feral Hogs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I've been expanding my understanding of the possibilities of conservation culturomics recently by reading outside my discipline and I have read some "interesting" papers... But I was really impressed by the clarity and transparency of this #HCI research on #SentimentAnalysis of films 📽️ by Jon Chun 👏

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Frontiers | MultiSentimentArcs: a novel method to measure coherence in multimodal sentiment analysis for long-form narratives in film

Affective artificial intelligence and multimodal sentiment analysis play critical roles in designing safe and effective human-computer interactions and are i...

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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 · 25/07/2026

Probably still is, I haven't heard of any action taken on it

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When your family know you work with online content about invasive non-native species, you'd be surprised how many of your messages are local news stories... 😂 Not good news for #JapaneseKnotweed management in #Warrington 😞 @warringtonguardian.bsky.social

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Warrington is a hotspot for the UK's 'most invasive plant'

WARRINGTON has been named as a top hotspot for Japanese knotweed.

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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 · 17/07/2026

Been playing #Metaflora 🌻 by #TrainwreckLabs 🌵 While I've learnt that my #plant 🌳 #taxonomy is terrible, it's definitely improving! 🌾 With a new plant to guess each day, 🌲 it's a fun way to learn for any budding biologist, naturalist or environmental scientist: flora.metazooa.com/play/game?co... 🌹🌴🌷

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Another fascinating @gbnnsss.bsky.social webinar for #INNSweek, this one about coordinating #biosecurity in #Caribbean 🇬🇧 overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands and #Monserrat 🏝️ Missed it? Catch up here: youtu.be/LGRpj6P1Ujs?...

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Coordinating biosecurity across the Caribbean UKOTs

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Informative #INNSWeek webinar on the #biosecurity work taking place in #Bermuda 🦎🐜 Brilliant to hear how solutions are being found to multiple issues at once, like using removed invasive trees for biochar and fencing 🪵👏 Missed it? Catch up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG3K...

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Bermuda’s Biosecurity

YouTube video by GB NNSS

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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 · 08/07/2026

Have seen these guys talk a few times now and I love noticing the little tweaks they make to make their presentations better every time! 👏

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Great @gbnnsss.bsky.social webinar from my supervisor @inadehn.bsky.social for #INNSWeek, with super up-to-date information about the spread of invasive #garden #plants in the UK and Europe and how #CitizenScience can help! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fA...

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Using citizen science to prevent future spread of invasive non native plants

YouTube video by GB NNSS

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🌺 Invasive Rhododendron ponticum is choking Scotland’s native woodlands & costing taxpayers millions. 🌱 But it’s still sold in garden centres & used as rootstock. ☣️ We want a ban. Send pics to scottishcampaigns@woodlandtrust.org.uk if you see it on sale. 🙏 #MairTreesPlease #INNSweek #BePlantWise

A table showing that R ponticum is highly damaging to the environment and still available to buy in the UK. It sits alongside an image of a R ponticum label in a garden centre. Credit WTML.

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What an inspiring break in my day! I loved hearing about how Julie connected her ideas about the different places she had experienced, from China to Svalbard... 🇨🇳🇩🇰

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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 · 12/06/2026

Had a lovely time at Iapetus Conference this week and got some very kind feedback about the graphics on my slides, clarity of my presentation and accuracy of my timekeeping 😊 Great to catch up with everyone and hear what they've been working on!

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ruth-wright.bsky.social @ruth-wright.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Really appreciated the chance to talk to Jazz about moving from using stats skills as a tree specialist to using them as a bird specialist 🌳🦆 to discuss teaching roles with Dan Chapman 👩‍🏫 and to speak to other Iapetus PhDs about placements!

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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 · 13/05/2026

Delighted to have had the opportunity to present some of my work analysing the drivers of internet search interest in 🇬🇧 biological invasions 🐜🐚🦀🌿 at the International Young Researchers Conference on Invasive Species #IyrCIS youtu.be/xVmFDupFvdM?...

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𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 in UK invasive non-native species

YouTube video by IYRCIS Conference

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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 · 15/04/2026

I wrote in my research notes, when Arthur did his first BES seminar introducing himself in 2024, that I would like to hear more details on his research - and now I have!

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