Claire Carvell
@clairecarvell.bsky.social
Exciting NEW PhD just advertised, using @pomscheme.bsky.social data - full details here! ⬇️🐝🪰🐞
PhD opportunity!
Want to help protect UK pollinators and shape real biodiversity policy? This project with @ukceh.bsky.social & University of Reading puts you at the heart of major ecological questions. blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
Want to help protect UK pollinators and shape real biodiversity policy? This project with @ukceh.bsky.social & University of Reading puts you at the heart of major ecological questions. blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
CR2026_46 – Crocus DLA
blogs.reading.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Exciting NEW PhD just advertised, using @pomscheme.bsky.social data - full details here! ⬇️🐝🪰🐞
The Springline Project - a unique collaboration between ecologists, artists and local communities to create this stunning 10-metre mural that we revealed to a packed audience in Cholsey on Friday! Thank you to everyone who made this happen #MendtheGap @annadillon.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Springline Project - a unique collaboration between ecologists, artists and local communities to create this stunning 10-metre mural that we revealed to a packed audience in Cholsey on Friday! Thank you to everyone who made this happen #MendtheGap @annadillon.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
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What an amazing legacy from the Cholsey Springline project! Glad to have been there for the unveiling and to talk to people about Berkshire #moths from the project's events. Huge congratulations to @clairecarvell.bsky.social @annadillon.bsky.social + Becky, Vicky & everyone else who made it happen
So thrilled to witness this 10 metre long artwork by Anna Dillon and Becky Carrozza at the launch of the Springline Project. Absolutely mesmerising artwork of the very highest standard. Proud to have been involved and also to have pulled the sheet off!
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What an amazing legacy from the Cholsey Springline project! Glad to have been there for the unveiling and to talk to people about Berkshire #moths from the project's events. Huge congratulations to @clairecarvell.bsky.social @annadillon.bsky.social + Becky, Vicky & everyone else who made it happen
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Our analysis identifies risks at country scale, for finer spatial analysis (e.g. to infer local #biodiversity impacts) more resolved crops and pesticides usage data are needed. Check out the Land Cover plus: Fertilisers and Pesticides map www.ceh.ac.uk/data/ukceh-l... for a fine resolution example.
UKCEH Land Cover plus: Fertilisers and Pesticides
By combining information on cropping patterns from UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Crops with national survey data on pesticide and fertiliser use, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has created two data p...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Our analysis identifies risks at country scale, for finer spatial analysis (e.g. to infer local #biodiversity impacts) more resolved crops and pesticides usage data are needed. Check out the Land Cover plus: Fertilisers and Pesticides map www.ceh.ac.uk/data/ukceh-l... for a fine resolution example.
Mapping spatial and temporal patterns of pesticide risk to #pollinators and other #inverts across England - I’ve enjoyed working on this important new resource for research into past changes and future risks from @francescamancini.bsky.social and @ukceh.bsky.social 👏 🐝👇
A paper in Environment International led by me and Melanie Gibbs and a team of @ukceh.bsky.social scientists provides spatio-temporal maps of the risks of #pesticides to terrestrial #invertebrates. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
Redirecting
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October 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Mapping spatial and temporal patterns of pesticide risk to #pollinators and other #inverts across England - I’ve enjoyed working on this important new resource for research into past changes and future risks from @francescamancini.bsky.social and @ukceh.bsky.social 👏 🐝👇
Great opportunity to present @pomscheme.bsky.social collaborative research with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at #BGEconnects. DNA-based transformation will only be possible with continued national-scale sampling, curated archives, data infrastructure and collaboration with taxonomists.
♨️Live #BGEconnects
@clairecarvell.bsky.social and @marakat.bsky.social talked about DNAbarcoding for large-scale #insect community biomonitoring: “DNA-based species discovery can indeed transform taxonomic uncertainty from a barrier into a structured pathway for improved biodiversity intelligence.”
@clairecarvell.bsky.social and @marakat.bsky.social talked about DNAbarcoding for large-scale #insect community biomonitoring: “DNA-based species discovery can indeed transform taxonomic uncertainty from a barrier into a structured pathway for improved biodiversity intelligence.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Great opportunity to present @pomscheme.bsky.social collaborative research with @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at #BGEconnects. DNA-based transformation will only be possible with continued national-scale sampling, curated archives, data infrastructure and collaboration with taxonomists.
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NEWS:🌾 First rice trials in the UK!
UKCEH scientists are growing cold-hardy rice on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Nine varieties, four mini paddies and a big question: can rice thrive in UK conditions?
buff.ly/wYnH1DE 🧪
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UKCEH scientists are growing cold-hardy rice on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Nine varieties, four mini paddies and a big question: can rice thrive in UK conditions?
buff.ly/wYnH1DE 🧪
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September 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
NEWS:🌾 First rice trials in the UK!
UKCEH scientists are growing cold-hardy rice on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Nine varieties, four mini paddies and a big question: can rice thrive in UK conditions?
buff.ly/wYnH1DE 🧪
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UKCEH scientists are growing cold-hardy rice on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Nine varieties, four mini paddies and a big question: can rice thrive in UK conditions?
buff.ly/wYnH1DE 🧪
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The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝
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We're leading a review of long-term UK terrestrial & freshwater monitoring for NERC. This will help identify priorities for an adaptable & flexible UK environmental monitoring network for the future
Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...
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Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We're leading a review of long-term UK terrestrial & freshwater monitoring for NERC. This will help identify priorities for an adaptable & flexible UK environmental monitoring network for the future
Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...
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Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...
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Wonderful to see the sustained effort in FIT Counts coming into @pomscheme.bsky.social for 2025! Running the survey throughout the season will allow us to look at insect responses to shifts in weather patterns and flowering times, as the dataset builds. Please keep the counts coming in 👏🐝🪰🐞
We're on track for our highest ever total of FIT Counts this year 👏🎉 - a huge thank you to everyone taking part 🙏 And there's still a month to go! All counts up to the end of September will add to the data for this year and help us monitor changes in #pollinator numbers.
August 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Wonderful to see the sustained effort in FIT Counts coming into @pomscheme.bsky.social for 2025! Running the survey throughout the season will allow us to look at insect responses to shifts in weather patterns and flowering times, as the dataset builds. Please keep the counts coming in 👏🐝🪰🐞
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Target flowers for FIT Counts at the moment include heathers, Ivy, Buddleia & thistles, but if you don't have any of those nearby it's fine to use other flowers - see the FIT Count guides at ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts and give it a try over the bank holiday 👍
August 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Target flowers for FIT Counts at the moment include heathers, Ivy, Buddleia & thistles, but if you don't have any of those nearby it's fine to use other flowers - see the FIT Count guides at ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts and give it a try over the bank holiday 👍
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The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe
August 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe
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The latest UK Hydrological Outlook forecasts river flows and groundwater levels for August to October.
Though recent rainfall helped ease drought pressures in some parts of the country, river flows elsewhere remain unusually low.
📽️ Hear from UKCEH hydrologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social
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Though recent rainfall helped ease drought pressures in some parts of the country, river flows elsewhere remain unusually low.
📽️ Hear from UKCEH hydrologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social
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August 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The latest UK Hydrological Outlook forecasts river flows and groundwater levels for August to October.
Though recent rainfall helped ease drought pressures in some parts of the country, river flows elsewhere remain unusually low.
📽️ Hear from UKCEH hydrologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social
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Though recent rainfall helped ease drought pressures in some parts of the country, river flows elsewhere remain unusually low.
📽️ Hear from UKCEH hydrologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social
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The theme for yesterday's #WildFlowerHour was #PollinatorPals - check the tag for some great examples of pollinators in action, from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social, and if you've enjoyed watching pollinators have a go at counting them with a PoMS FIT Count ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
August 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The theme for yesterday's #WildFlowerHour was #PollinatorPals - check the tag for some great examples of pollinators in action, from @wildflowerhour.bsky.social, and if you've enjoyed watching pollinators have a go at counting them with a PoMS FIT Count ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
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NEW: Your PoMS Insights - if you sent in a FIT Count in 2024-25 you may have had an email from us with feedback on how your results compare to the overall totals, and to thank you for your participation - and hopefully encourage you to keep adding new counts! More info: ukpoms.org.uk/news/insights
August 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
NEW: Your PoMS Insights - if you sent in a FIT Count in 2024-25 you may have had an email from us with feedback on how your results compare to the overall totals, and to thank you for your participation - and hopefully encourage you to keep adding new counts! More info: ukpoms.org.uk/news/insights
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Scientists from the Royal Horticultural Society have reviewed and updated the RHS "Plants for Pollinators" list, and volunteers at RHS gardens are using PoMS FIT Counts to gather further data on insects visiting flowers www.rhs.org.uk/science/arti...
RHS Scientists reveal new Plants for Pollinators
<p paraeid="{daec1255-0ffe-4986-8fec-1703aba0a51a}{94}" paraid="1969349820">The expanded 2025 list now includes over 10,000 plants, with evidence-based plant choices to benefit all kinds of pollinator...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Scientists from the Royal Horticultural Society have reviewed and updated the RHS "Plants for Pollinators" list, and volunteers at RHS gardens are using PoMS FIT Counts to gather further data on insects visiting flowers www.rhs.org.uk/science/arti...
Lovely lunchtime #FITcount on knapweed outside the office at @ukceh.bsky.social Wallingford. Good to see a brown argus butterfly land in my quadrat too! The wildflower diversity in our meadow has really held well despite the lack of rain. @pomscheme.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Lovely lunchtime #FITcount on knapweed outside the office at @ukceh.bsky.social Wallingford. Good to see a brown argus butterfly land in my quadrat too! The wildflower diversity in our meadow has really held well despite the lack of rain. @pomscheme.bsky.social
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A great day at RHS Garden Rosemoor discovering #pollinators with RHS staff and volunteers. The rain held off for two fun #FITcount sessions, Scabious and Fennel buzzing with insects in the Cottage Garden! #BeesNeedsWeek2025
July 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A great day at RHS Garden Rosemoor discovering #pollinators with RHS staff and volunteers. The rain held off for two fun #FITcount sessions, Scabious and Fennel buzzing with insects in the Cottage Garden! #BeesNeedsWeek2025
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Looking forward to joining colleagues at @rbgkew.bsky.social tomorrow for #BeesNeedsWeek2025 - find out about #bees & other #pollinators + have a go at a Flower-Insect Timed Count to help monitor what's happening #BeesNeedsWeek. See details on the Kew website at www.kew.org/kew-gardens/...
July 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Looking forward to joining colleagues at @rbgkew.bsky.social tomorrow for #BeesNeedsWeek2025 - find out about #bees & other #pollinators + have a go at a Flower-Insect Timed Count to help monitor what's happening #BeesNeedsWeek. See details on the Kew website at www.kew.org/kew-gardens/...
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Thanks to everyone who came to see us in the @ukceh.bsky.social stand or #Biodiversity Bimble at #Groundswell. Lots of inspiring chat on insect monitoring within regenerative farming systems, plus a #FITCount on white clover in the showground 🐝😍☀️
July 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to see us in the @ukceh.bsky.social stand or #Biodiversity Bimble at #Groundswell. Lots of inspiring chat on insect monitoring within regenerative farming systems, plus a #FITCount on white clover in the showground 🐝😍☀️
Busiest ever #FITcount with 42 insects visiting this gorgeous Euphorbia seguieriana in my garden! Lovely to see so many tiny white-faced Hylaeus bees, ruby-tailed wasps and others, wasn’t sure what to do when a social wasp started preying on the small flies I had just counted @pomscheme.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Busiest ever #FITcount with 42 insects visiting this gorgeous Euphorbia seguieriana in my garden! Lovely to see so many tiny white-faced Hylaeus bees, ruby-tailed wasps and others, wasn’t sure what to do when a social wasp started preying on the small flies I had just counted @pomscheme.bsky.social
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Last week we held a workshop at Oxford Island Nature Reserve on the shores of Lough Neagh with @daera-ni.gov.uk staff, volunteers, placement students and the All-Ireland #Pollinator Plan team discussing all things PoMS! Species rich meadows provided a great opportunity for #FITCounts too #Insectweek
June 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Last week we held a workshop at Oxford Island Nature Reserve on the shores of Lough Neagh with @daera-ni.gov.uk staff, volunteers, placement students and the All-Ireland #Pollinator Plan team discussing all things PoMS! Species rich meadows provided a great opportunity for #FITCounts too #Insectweek
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The UK PoMS Annual Report 2024 is out now, celebrating the start of @royentsoc.bsky.social #InsectWeek!
Huge thanks to all who have contributed. Read lots more in the thread below 👇 and find the full report here ukpoms.org.uk/reports
Huge thanks to all who have contributed. Read lots more in the thread below 👇 and find the full report here ukpoms.org.uk/reports
June 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The UK PoMS Annual Report 2024 is out now, celebrating the start of @royentsoc.bsky.social #InsectWeek!
Huge thanks to all who have contributed. Read lots more in the thread below 👇 and find the full report here ukpoms.org.uk/reports
Huge thanks to all who have contributed. Read lots more in the thread below 👇 and find the full report here ukpoms.org.uk/reports
Colours in the garden are still so vibrant in this evenings light. Watching hummingbird hawk moths visit the Linaria. Was I the only one to miss this AI feature automatically coming into smartphone photos?!
June 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Colours in the garden are still so vibrant in this evenings light. Watching hummingbird hawk moths visit the Linaria. Was I the only one to miss this AI feature automatically coming into smartphone photos?!
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The sun is shining for #FITcounts this weekend! On Sunday @pomscheme.bsky.social team enjoyed introducing families to the insect life on our community meadow, as part of The Springline Project @chilternsnl.bsky.social #MendtheGap We’d love to hear of other community events where you are 🐝☀️
June 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The sun is shining for #FITcounts this weekend! On Sunday @pomscheme.bsky.social team enjoyed introducing families to the insect life on our community meadow, as part of The Springline Project @chilternsnl.bsky.social #MendtheGap We’d love to hear of other community events where you are 🐝☀️