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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 6d

Hello Bluesky - The 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire is OPEN. Get up to £350 to train, run wildlife recording activities or even buy equipment! Deadline, 31st January 2026. More information here: www.hants.gov.uk/landplanning... #BiologicalRecording #Ecology

A selection of wildlife and plant ID guides on white background with a hand lens, sound recorder, notebook, bat detector and binoculars.

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 11d

The latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE.

As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

hantsplants.uk/floranews.php

Hants Plants: a site for botanists in Hampshire (test)

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13d

This is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.

Microscope image in side view of a point-mounted black wasp, with smoky black wings and pink abdomen, against a neutral gray field background.

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 13d

I’d rather keep it public here, as this isn’t an issue unique to me, so the answers are better in a forum thats accessible.

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 13d

It’s rubbish value for money BENHS provides access to a library, a fantastic journal with regular articles focused on supporting ID’ing British species, field meetings, etc. At nearly same price with the RES, you get a discount and electronic access to Antenna, it’s very little in comparison.

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 13d

Fantastic news that associated memberships qualifies for the discount, I didn’t know that, but yes at the moment £16 can be prohibitive, compared to for example BENHS membership, at about a £10 more.

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 13d

Why is the PB release delayed following the HB and e-book publication? Seems designed to channel sales to the more expensive editions. What will the PB price be? Will the RES ensure that the info about the PB is communicated at the same time as the HB releas?

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 13d

That’s useful to know, there wasn’t any information that there would be a paperback release, it’s not listed on the CABI page for the release for example, will you add that asap, otherwise there’s a risk people will buy the HB thinking it’s the only physical option

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 16d

Yup, that’s my guess.

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 16d

Its easy for the RES to promote itself with hollow words in the strategy 2025-2028, but sad to see when it comes to actions the RES is going backwards
#entomology #diptera

Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 16d

How does this square with the stated aims of the Strategy 2025 - 2028 in seeking to advance the themes from the Grand Challenges for Entomology, especially tackling the taxonomic deficit and bridging the gap between professionals and amateurs. While locking away a key works behind unaffordable cost?

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 16d

RES membership is already expensive, prohibitively so for some, so if your already struggling to afford RES membership already, its a bit twisted to say, well you just need to join to get a discount. #entomology #diptera

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 16d

Nothing in your response deals with why you've doubled the price of this book compared to other similar length books, like the Mycetophilidae or Ichneumon handbooks. #entomology #diptera

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International Society of Hymenopterists @hymenopterists.bsky.social · 18d

Its WORLD WASP DAY!

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · 19d

WTF @royentsoc.bsky.social, the new Dolichopodidae handbook is £125!!! So much for Entomology being accessible. Will any of our societies @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social be stepping up and challenging the RES over this? #diptera #entomology

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25d

Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · Sep 2

That’s what they call a landslide!

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Sep 2

Zack Polanski absolutely steamrolls to victory in the Green Party election- 20,411 votes and beating Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns who got just 3,075 votes.

A watershed moment in left politics and for the Green Party. And hard to see how Corbyn/Sultana party now makes case for its own existence

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Green Elects @greenelects.world · Sep 2

‼️Zack Polanski elected leader of The Greens

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · Jul 30

This 👇

Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · Jul 30

Have had multiple conversations today along the lines of:
A) six years of many of the things (but not all) that we were warning would happen have happened in six days, so far, and
B) six years of narratives and PR spin from five governments and Ofcom are not meshing well with legislated reality.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 30

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.

Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.

www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · Jul 30

It’s here! Starfinder 2E in the wild! Cannot wait to play this… #RPG #Starfinder

Most of the image is filled by a boom, Starfinder Second Edition Player Core, with another similarly coloured book partially visible on the left hand side, against a dark and blue background.

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Kieran Anderson @andersonkieran.bsky.social · Jul 20

The next game for the Portsmouth Pathfinder Society is up, for Sunday 27th July at Dice Portsmouth. New players always very welcome and no previous experience of a RPG or Pathfinder is needed. warhorn.net/events/pompe... #Pathfinder #PathfinderSociety #RPG

PFS2 6-03: Godsrain in a Godless Land | Warhorn

Sun 27/7 11am-4:30pm (GMT+01) at Dice Portsmouth. Rahadoum is a land that abhors the gods, and while the death of Gorum was cause for celebration there, the Godsrain that followed brought only uncerta...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Jul 18

You need to take a look at this bug I saw in the park last night. Look at it! What a weirdo! I’m obsessed! It’s called a Long-Necked Ground Beetle and I can’t believe we’re neighbors.

A freaky ass beetle with a long long black neck and a orange body with black spots

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Zach likes bees @zachportman.bsky.social · Jul 14

New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10)

doi.org/10.1093/aesa...

Big data, changing taxonomy, and ghost records: permanent preservation of collected specimens is essential for insect monitoring

Abstract. Successful long-term biodiversity monitoring requires consistent identification of all specimens, both those newly collected and those collected

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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · Jul 12

I think this deserves to be the nature photo of the year!

Echthromorpha agrestoria

Echthromorpha agrestoria paikasta 9M62+WHX, Rossing, Namibia toukokuu 4, 2025 07:44 käyttäjältä Chantelle Bosch

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · Jul 10

Have you recorded wildlife?

An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg

Microsoft Forms

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