Super fortunate to speak at this year’s Reef Conservation UK conference today on behalf of Blue Ventures. It’s been a fantastic day of learning and wonderful to meet fellow conservationists! #RCUK2022

Breaking news: one of the creatures you’re so afraid of loves cake so now you can’t be afraid of them anymore.

Any salticid/Jumping spider specialists out there who can help ID this handsome and cryptic sand dweller? #SpiderTwitter

Ever fancied exploring your local marine wildlife but don't know where to start? Start here with our rock pooling guide with Marine Conservation Society and Inka Cresswell youtube.com/watch?v=H1pd2j…

This is so sad: theguardian.com/world/2023/jan… In 2019 we showed that billions of insects likely develop in this region before migrating to Europe to fertilise the soils and pollinate the plants. It would be devastating if these insects were lost. Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

“Three-quarters of insect species are insufficiently represented by protected areas”. New research from Shawan Chowdhury (শাওন চৌধুরী) @iDiv UQ News UFZ Universität Jena and colleagues. cell.com/one-earth/full…

We've just published the genome of a pied hoverfly, Scaeva pyrastri. She is a voracious aphid predator & pollinator & so is v useful for agriculture. Amazingly, she also migrates from N Europe to potentially sub-Saharan Africa each Autumn! Darwin Tree of Life wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-83

Every autumn vagrant emperors can be seen in northern Italy. Nobody knows where they come from, and sometimes they form huge swarms, like the one that came to Tornio in 2015 #DragonflyMigration video.repubblica.it/edizione/torin… via Repubblica

Really enjoyed teaching these PhD students during the Natural Environment Research Council-funded course ‘Introduction to #Phylogenetics’ at Natural History Museum, led by Suzanne Williams, co-taught by @Ronaldffs @tendersombrero Ollie White Anne Ashwini V Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🦎🧬🙋🏾‍♀️ Bonnie Webster Peter Olson Aidan Emery

An excellent #BlueRecovery beach day today! Thanks so much to our amazing #Falmouth team and to everyone who joined in!! 👏 Thanks to the Princess Pavilion for looking after us wonderfully and the The National Lottery Heritage Fund London & South for supporting our Blue Recovery project.

PhD kick-off on the Isle of Arran, colab-ing with Arran Coast and testing out our BRUVs, ROV, vibro-corer and day grab ahead of more field work with Convex Seascape Survey. Read more below!

Come along this Saturday 28th October at Princess Pavilions Falmouth!

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

Excellent! Meet Anasaitis milesae sp. n., new to Cornwall, new to the UK, and new to science! Much Thanks to Dmitri Logunov for the help with it! wsc.nmbe.ch/refincluded/17… BAS Cofnod Graeme Lyons @chalkspring Finley Hutchinson

Data from the Blue Recovery Project shows we have recorded a total of 11,800 individual species. We also recorded 310 species from our original database, and later, we moved on to i-Naturalist and recorded an additional 492 species.

We’re back at @FSC_Millport for 🎬2 of the Great British Bioturbationathon as part of Convex Seascape Survey. Soon, we’re heading out on the Actinia to grab our bioturbation stars. This year, we’re using C13 enhanced algae to trace the distribution of organic matter in the sediment 🌟

I adore this animal! She's a raft spider, Dolomedes fimbriatus from Whixall Moss Marches Mosses BogLIFE. She floats on the surface waiting for her prey and can even jump high off the surface to escape predators like frogs! If it's windy, she will put her legs in the air and sail! 📸3

What coastal creatures will you find in @RockPoolProject's mobile rock pool? 🔎 Learn all about Cornwall's fascinating sea life this half term. Plus, get creative in Make & Take and collect stamps on our Museum trail. Find out more: buff.ly/3Ujd4Sp

This male marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) was just caught by Olly and Jamie (Oliver Poole & Jaimie Barnes ). Usually they have eyes of deep maroon, but this one has golden green eyes. Any idea Dr Erica McAlister Steven Falk ?

If anyone happens to be travelling on an Avanti West Coast pendolino train, I would be greatly appreciative if they could look under seat 05 in carriage B. I left a harddrive full of recent #insectmigration fieldwork photos in this homemade Laptop case. 😭 Thank you very much!