Denise Wawman
@denisewawman.bsky.social
Bird ringer. Birder. UK Hippoboscidae Recorder (flat flies/louse flies/keds). Former NHS GP, studying flat flies & keds role as vectors and avian diseases. Bird related side projects. Natural history. Based in Oxford and on Exmoor.
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Evidence of much wider distribution of the potential West Nile virus vector, #Culex modestus, in the UK Parasites&Vectors
Evidence of much wider distribution of the potential West Nile virus vector, #Culex modestus, in the UK
Culex modestus is a primary vector of West Nile virus (WNV) in Europe, feeding on both avian and mammalian hosts. Since its rediscovery in the UK in Kent in 2010, its range has been reported throughout the coasta...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Evidence of much wider distribution of the potential West Nile virus vector, #Culex modestus, in the UK Parasites&Vectors
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Nominations are now open for the BSP CA Wright Medal (mid-career), President's Medal (early career) and for Honorary memberships! See our website: bsp.uk.net/Honours-and-...
Honours and Awards
bsp.uk.net
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Nominations are now open for the BSP CA Wright Medal (mid-career), President's Medal (early career) and for Honorary memberships! See our website: bsp.uk.net/Honours-and-...
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If you work on genomics of Lepidoptera in Europe and would like to do a short-term research exchange, you can apply for a short term scientific mission through our COST Action. See details below.
(1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the second call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the second call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If you work on genomics of Lepidoptera in Europe and would like to do a short-term research exchange, you can apply for a short term scientific mission through our COST Action. See details below.
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The first talk of the dipteristsforum.bsky.social #DipteristDay2025 was by @denisewawman.bsky.social talking about the ever-so-cute Hippoboscidae.
She provides an amusing musing about what happens when you start to ponder what’s happening in your garden…
Pox on the dunnocks!
She provides an amusing musing about what happens when you start to ponder what’s happening in your garden…
Pox on the dunnocks!
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The first talk of the dipteristsforum.bsky.social #DipteristDay2025 was by @denisewawman.bsky.social talking about the ever-so-cute Hippoboscidae.
She provides an amusing musing about what happens when you start to ponder what’s happening in your garden…
Pox on the dunnocks!
She provides an amusing musing about what happens when you start to ponder what’s happening in your garden…
Pox on the dunnocks!
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What a treat! @zoologymuseum.bsky.social Collection visit underway for @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day.
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What a treat! @zoologymuseum.bsky.social Collection visit underway for @dipteristsforum.bsky.social Dipterist Day.
It was a great meeting, with some really interesting talks, and useful discussions during the day.
And we're off! #DipteraDay2025 Opening the Day is @denisewawman.bsky.social 'Mapping the UK's flat flies - A Citizen Science Project'. A heady mix of #ornithology, #diptera and #climate change.
Recordings for the Day available on our website YouTube here:
m.youtube.com/@DipteristsF...
Recordings for the Day available on our website YouTube here:
m.youtube.com/@DipteristsF...
Dipterists Forum
Dipterists Forum promotes the study, recording and conservation of true flies in the British Isles.
Flies are amazingly diverse and varied, and studying them can be hugely rewarding. It is true that ...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It was a great meeting, with some really interesting talks, and useful discussions during the day.
They are all in good condition too. Really enjoyed my visit with @dipteristsforum.bsky.social today.
Rummaging through the @zoologymuseum.bsky.social insect collection. Here are some of the Hippoboscids collected/mounted by Francis Jenkinson, the librarian and part time entomologist!
I love multiple-pinned specimens….
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I love multiple-pinned specimens….
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social @denisewawman.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
They are all in good condition too. Really enjoyed my visit with @dipteristsforum.bsky.social today.
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It's that time of year again, Dipterists Forum 'Dipterists Day & AGM' 🪰
Nov 14th 2025- a day in the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Diptera collections
Nov 15th 2025 - Dipterists Day and AGM
For more details please go to dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
Nov 14th 2025- a day in the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Diptera collections
Nov 15th 2025 - Dipterists Day and AGM
For more details please go to dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It's that time of year again, Dipterists Forum 'Dipterists Day & AGM' 🪰
Nov 14th 2025- a day in the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Diptera collections
Nov 15th 2025 - Dipterists Day and AGM
For more details please go to dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
Nov 14th 2025- a day in the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Diptera collections
Nov 15th 2025 - Dipterists Day and AGM
For more details please go to dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...
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New #OpenAccess work in #RESMedVetEnt by @denisewawman.bsky.social, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social & A.L. Smith reports on how #CitizenScience reveals host-switching in louse flies & keds (#Diptera: #Hippoboscidae) during a period of anthropogenic change
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70029
@wileyeco.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70029
@wileyeco.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New #OpenAccess work in #RESMedVetEnt by @denisewawman.bsky.social, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social & A.L. Smith reports on how #CitizenScience reveals host-switching in louse flies & keds (#Diptera: #Hippoboscidae) during a period of anthropogenic change
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70029
@wileyeco.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/mve.70029
@wileyeco.bsky.social
More Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project results published today with Adrian Smith & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 212 host-parasite interactions, including 70 not previously reported, & a recent switch to gulls by some Louse Flies, Hippoboscidae. @btobirds.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Citizen science reveals host‐switching in louse flies and keds (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) during a period of anthropogenic change
A study of louse flies in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Ireland found 212 different interactions between Hippoboscidae and their hosts, of which 70 were previously unrecorded. No louse flies ...
doi.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
More Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project results published today with Adrian Smith & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 212 host-parasite interactions, including 70 not previously reported, & a recent switch to gulls by some Louse Flies, Hippoboscidae. @btobirds.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Another new Hippoboscidae described, this time from Singapore.
New research led by @flyliceresearch.bsky.social, based on work he started way back when he was still an undergrad, identifying 10 species (including 1 new species) of Hippoboscid flies based on surveys of bird carcasses in Singapore, highlighting the value of salvage for parasite discovery!
Avian Afterlives: Integrative Taxonomy of Hippoboscid Flies (Diptera) From Citizen‐Reported Bird Carcasses Reveals a New Species and Host–Parasite Diversity in Singapore
Biodiversity science depends on rigorous characterization of species diversity and ecological roles, yet the ecology of many invertebrate species remains virtually unknown. One pragmatic way to chang....
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October 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Another new Hippoboscidae described, this time from Singapore.
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Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃
I suppose I ought to start thinking about what I am going to talk about - flat flies I guess!
BTO talks are on waterbird monitoring, WinGS & the Heathland Birds Survey. Local speakers include Dartmoor Curlew Recovery Project 2021-2025 by Jon Avon, Mapping the UK’s Flat Flies by Dr Denise Wawman, Cornish Chough Project by Hilary Mitchell & #WildlifeGardening by @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I suppose I ought to start thinking about what I am going to talk about - flat flies I guess!
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Is it fair for grant reviewers — who are often our colleagues — to judge the legitimacy of career breaks due to personal circumstances?
go.nature.com/48yaJvF
go.nature.com/48yaJvF
Parenting, illnesses and medical commitments: the private details grant reviewers shouldn’t need to know
Is it fair for grant reviewers — who are often our colleagues — to judge the legitimacy of career breaks due to personal circumstances?
go.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Is it fair for grant reviewers — who are often our colleagues — to judge the legitimacy of career breaks due to personal circumstances?
go.nature.com/48yaJvF
go.nature.com/48yaJvF
Description of Ornithomya palmae, a new species of louse fly from the Canary Islands is published with @borjamila.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
October 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Description of Ornithomya palmae, a new species of louse fly from the Canary Islands is published with @borjamila.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
October 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
Any comments on this gull, please.
Tesco's carpark, Minehead, Somerset, UK. April 2025.
Black eye but eye-ring is yellowish.
Third winter Herring Gull that has survived avian influenza?
@tmbirding.bsky.social
Tesco's carpark, Minehead, Somerset, UK. April 2025.
Black eye but eye-ring is yellowish.
Third winter Herring Gull that has survived avian influenza?
@tmbirding.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Any comments on this gull, please.
Tesco's carpark, Minehead, Somerset, UK. April 2025.
Black eye but eye-ring is yellowish.
Third winter Herring Gull that has survived avian influenza?
@tmbirding.bsky.social
Tesco's carpark, Minehead, Somerset, UK. April 2025.
Black eye but eye-ring is yellowish.
Third winter Herring Gull that has survived avian influenza?
@tmbirding.bsky.social
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New preprint alert! We DNA barcoded 95 thousand Ghanaian arthropods, more than doubling the number of BINs (a species proxy) available online from West Africa. In doing so we’ve released a huge amount of new data to scientists studying the region 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Characterising a species-rich and understudied tropical insect fauna using DNA barcoding
Background: West Africa has high biodiversity that is relatively understudied, especially for insects. Studies of West African arthropod diversity can therefore help address important questions regard...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
New preprint alert! We DNA barcoded 95 thousand Ghanaian arthropods, more than doubling the number of BINs (a species proxy) available online from West Africa. In doing so we’ve released a huge amount of new data to scientists studying the region 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
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September 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Some stuff I learned today at #Ento25:
1. Honeybee threats to native pollinators were already known about 89 years ago in the US.
2. There is a louse fly on Nightjars, recently newly recorded in the UK.
3. Ladybirds rock (okay, I already knew that!).
@royentsoc.bsky.social
@alanknox.bsky.social
1. Honeybee threats to native pollinators were already known about 89 years ago in the US.
2. There is a louse fly on Nightjars, recently newly recorded in the UK.
3. Ladybirds rock (okay, I already knew that!).
@royentsoc.bsky.social
@alanknox.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Some stuff I learned today at #Ento25:
1. Honeybee threats to native pollinators were already known about 89 years ago in the US.
2. There is a louse fly on Nightjars, recently newly recorded in the UK.
3. Ladybirds rock (okay, I already knew that!).
@royentsoc.bsky.social
@alanknox.bsky.social
1. Honeybee threats to native pollinators were already known about 89 years ago in the US.
2. There is a louse fly on Nightjars, recently newly recorded in the UK.
3. Ladybirds rock (okay, I already knew that!).
@royentsoc.bsky.social
@alanknox.bsky.social
The cloud finally cleared a while after totality of tonight’s lunar eclipse.
September 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The cloud finally cleared a while after totality of tonight’s lunar eclipse.
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Calling all mothers trappers…. Check out this great project from @ukceh.bsky.social
Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
August 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Calling all mothers trappers…. Check out this great project from @ukceh.bsky.social
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Burnished Brass [Diachrysia chrysitis] with Parasitic Wasp takeover (I think). Interesting to watch. Any help with identification? Never seen this behaviour before. @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @timstrudwick.bsky.social
#norfolk #moths #teammoths #muchadoaboutmothing
#norfolk #moths #teammoths #muchadoaboutmothing
August 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Burnished Brass [Diachrysia chrysitis] with Parasitic Wasp takeover (I think). Interesting to watch. Any help with identification? Never seen this behaviour before. @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @timstrudwick.bsky.social
#norfolk #moths #teammoths #muchadoaboutmothing
#norfolk #moths #teammoths #muchadoaboutmothing
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Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶
August 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶