Prof Julie Coetzee- the president of ESSA

Lecture prep for the new year coming along smashingly 💗

Fantastic presentation by our MSc student Eva Rekkers... short term recovery of phytoplankton to invasive floating plants control....does removal = recovery?! #aquaticplants2023 #invasivespecies #ecology

Tressia_Chikodza up next and gave an awesome presentation on her masters project at Centre for Biological Control Common Salvinia becomes a stronger competitor when water hyacinth is subject to biocontrol #aquaticplants2023 #invasivespecies #ecology

Great to attend the 16th int. aqu. plant symposium UAntwerpen this week....the MOZiMAC project was officially kicked off!! We are excited to explore the interaction between Mosquitoes 🦟 and (invasive) Macrophytes 🌿 💦 well be working with Centre for Biological Control 💚

I'm so excited to see this project come to life! MOZiMAC was an idea that popped up 1 week before lockdown 2020 😬 I put it away until earlier this year....we now have seed funding, a PhD, some promising pilot results and experiments running in two continents!! 🥰🤩 Stay tuned...

For the full length video (2.5 mins) go to youtube.com/watch?v=OX-Jup…… Please share! We are raising funds and awareness about our new MOZiMAC project.. Are invasive plants changing our mosquito populations?! Let's find out! #invasiveplants #mosquitoes #ecology

Love my fabulous colleagues! So awesome to be working with my former PhD lab again 🥰🥰 #positiveacademia

Tried a new discussion format today in class with Michiel Veldhuis....we set up 4 conver-stations ....each had a different challenge to protected area expansion & students got time at each station to brainstorm solutions Worked so well and nice to focus on #conservationoptimism

Had such a fun afternoon filming for Omroep NTR Focus special episode on invasive species 🌿 🦟 they let me chat away about plants, #biocontrol and #mosquitoes and made the whole experience so easy #SciComm

📢Looking forward to starting our 6-year NWA COMBINED project on interactions between #climate and #nature in the Netherlands soon with many great colleagues - 🌿🐰🐸🐝🌳More here: tinyurl.com/yzsnupt5 and tinyurl.com/4pcfx58x

Great to catch up with our Tanzanian colleagues - and meet new people - for lots of interesting discussions on #humanwildlifecoexistence and #invasivespecies 🌎

Proud day for us....our very own Michiel Veldhuis delivering his keynote talk at this year's TAWIRI conference on Human Wildlife Coexistence with a message of optimism and possibilities

ntr.nl/Focus/287/deta… Fancy learning more about invasive species? This Focus episode features many case studies from across the Netherlands (including myself chatting away about mosquitoes and biological control - enjoy!) LeidenScience ENG Leiden University Biodiversity Research Leiden University (CML) 🦞🌿🦟🇳🇱

Hey mosquito researchers! I need some help. About 25% of my Culex pipiens larvae are developing "tumors" around their anal papillae. They mold into pupae and swim a bit wobbly, but otherwise seem normal. Has anyone encountered this before? Any insights on the cause? #entomology

sometime you hear the odd "yes, but biological invasions also have benefits... " To see why this is a plain wrong argument, see our latest paper on "the costs of benefits" 👇 academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

Last few days before mat leave 😱 lectures, conferences, field work, outreach...one busy baby! Impossible without an awesome support team both at home & work so I'm very lucky 😊 Also makes a huge difference to co-lead a lab so big thanks to ✨ Michiel Veldhuis #AcademicChatter

What a #Biodiversity week! So much energy on #bendingthecurve with a Biodiversity Research Leiden University (CML) retreat, the #Leiden Biodiversity Network meeting, and the Globio symposium of PBL. So much important and inspiring research going on. We've got this!