Three circular leaves bound together. This must be Glyphotaelius pellucidus living in the #Djanogly pond Lakeside Arts Enviro Sci-Bio UoN Life Sciences @aardvarknsefce One of our native #caddis flies that make a home out of detritus depending on species. Royal Entomological Society

Tom Hartman Insect Week UoN Life Sciences UoN Science Nottingham Research Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN Royal Entomological Society It's day 3 of Insect Week and today we have an optical microscopy image of the scales of a blue morpho butterfly's wing! #InsectWeek23

Tragedy at the university lake. Heart-breaking numbers of dead fish. Too hot? Low oxygen? Toxic runoff from the rains? I do not know.

Thank you to Simon Moore and host Tom Hartman for a comprehensive and invaluable fluid preservation course at UoN Life Sciences this week. It was great to make new connections and, hopefully, some happy specimens 🦎🐍🐠🐙🦐🐌

The countdown to the opening of Green Unseen an exhibition celebrating plants and looking at microscope images. @aardvarknsefce Uni of Nottingham Press Office UoN nmRC Enviro Sci-Bio UoN Life Sciences The RHS @Botanygeek Microscope World Quekett Microscopy

As well as writing two books at the moment I've also got some fishy merch on the way in the form of calendars , playing cards and posters which will be available in October

Hi #fish identifiers. I've recently been repairing a fish found in one of the UoN Life Sciences freezers 10 years ago. It was not frozen! Can anyone confirm what species it is? A crocodile ice fish? @NatSCA Uni of Nottingham Press Office Natural History Museum

150-year-old plant specimens rescued from a skip and microscope slides found in forgotten cupboards UoN Life Sciences are taking centre stage at the 'Green Unseen' exhibition Lakeside Arts UoNBiosciences Full story➡️tinyurl.com/yfbr8myd

Sherwood Forest Up Close! The exhibition of my work runs for another week at Worksop Library (finishing 18.10.23). Here we see the compound eye of a hornet, produced with a x20 microscope lens mounted on my camera. It's good fun to see the giant print. #macrophotography

Whoops. It might help to include an image alongside the plea for help in identifying it. Can any #fish biologist confirm what species of ice fish this is?Natural History Museum NatSCA AntarcticaNewZealand antarctica.gov.au Thanks thebpiuniofnotts The Bearded Tit's Podcast

Agreed spread of contributions from around the botany sphere. The RHS KewGardens @aardvarknsefce Natural History Museum The Linnean Society of London

A smorgasbord of earth stars and puffball on our thebpiuniofnotts ID course .

Very excited to see how the 3d print of our Tasmanian Devil skull looks like compared to our American crocodile. The thebpiuniofnotts 3d scanning is going well.NatSCA Natural History Museum @aardvarknsefce The Linnean Society of London

The sad face emoji crab. Found by one of our thebpiuniofnotts students,Victor, at BridlingtonEastYorks beach. Along with Jack Perks It looks like a porcelain crab, but what is making the face? @aardvarknsefce Crustacean The Linnean Society of London Natural History Museum UoN nmRC NatSCA

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan… Our special professor thebpiuniofnotts MSc has found a fungus new to the UK. He finds many species new to Nottinghamshire while on Uni of Nottingham Press Office Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN campus and @NottinghamParks Highfield Park. @aardvarknsefce NatSCA Natural History Museum The RHS

This dead red Gurnard turned up in a squid from the fishmongers. Used my insect pinning skills to prepare it for preservation. thebpiuniofnotts @aardvarknsefce NatSCA Natural History Museum Jack Perks Archaeology Nottingham Nigel Larkin

I’ve often wondered if ospreys ever make this mistake and now I know the answer. This bird has picked up a highly venomous Portuguese Manowar jellyfish.

Hi everyone, but particularly MSc in Biological Photography and Imaging thebpiuniofnotts I am bidding to have a stand at the BBC WIld ISles concert trch.co.uk/whats-on/bbcco… in March. Happy to showcase what you are up to. Let me know. UoN Careers University of Nottingham Alumni Uni of Nottingham Press Office

A big shout out to the estates dept uon for mowing around the #beeorchid outside the UoN Life Sciences Enviro Sci-Bio building on main campus. A real thrill to see it just close to all the earthworks @aardvarknsefce Uni of Nottingham Press Office

I haven't posted for a while, but today was extraordinary. A long lost set of lockers in a chemical waste depositary was opened and inside were 6 crates worth of fluid preserved zoological and botanical material. Uni of Nottingham Press Office NatSCA @aardvarknsefce Nigel Larkin