Madeleine Fabušová
@fabusovam.bsky.social
PhD-ing at Newcastle University to try and understand how we can mitigate the impacts of light pollution! 💡🦋 keen moth-er, naturalist and trainee bird ringer:)
📍North East, UK (mostly)
📍North East, UK (mostly)
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Madeleine Fabušová
@fabusovam.bsky.social
· Nov 24
To introduce myself, I'm a keen naturalist, fond of moths, but excited by everything! When not frolicking outside, I'm working towards my PhD w/ @nlcneg.bsky.social and other fantastic supervisors, studying how we can mitigate the impacts of light pollution. Here is to sharing science and nature!
A day out for our office- a bunch of ecologists looking for wild goats, fungi and birds. Doesn't get much better than that!
First flocks of fieldfares too. Attempt at fungi ID in alt- happy to hear any suggestions!
First flocks of fieldfares too. Attempt at fungi ID in alt- happy to hear any suggestions!
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A day out for our office- a bunch of ecologists looking for wild goats, fungi and birds. Doesn't get much better than that!
First flocks of fieldfares too. Attempt at fungi ID in alt- happy to hear any suggestions!
First flocks of fieldfares too. Attempt at fungi ID in alt- happy to hear any suggestions!
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interested in mitigating the impacts of light pollution? Join the Knowledge Network! #ALAN
We're leading work on evidence synthesis across biodiversity, road safety and energy impacts and we need your help!
Read more below and join us: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/our-rese... 💡
We're leading work on evidence synthesis across biodiversity, road safety and energy impacts and we need your help!
Read more below and join us: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/our-rese... 💡
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Interested in mitigating the impacts of light pollution? Join the Knowledge Network! #ALAN
We're leading work on evidence synthesis across biodiversity, road safety and energy impacts and we need your help!
Read more below and join us: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/our-rese... 💡
We're leading work on evidence synthesis across biodiversity, road safety and energy impacts and we need your help!
Read more below and join us: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/our-rese... 💡
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
iapetus.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Come join our lab and explore the fascinating bird ecoacoustics 🐦🔊
PhD advert below!
PhD advert below!
PhD opportunity - Listening to Food Webs: Ecoacoustic insights into Bird Predator–Prey Networks in Changing Landscapes, with @btobirds.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk and @sciencesncl.bsky.social
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
iapetus.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Come join our lab and explore the fascinating bird ecoacoustics 🐦🔊
PhD advert below!
PhD advert below!
Swifts, the wonderful summer visitors, screeching through the skies. Also, birds in huge decline. It's been wonderful to be involved in the Durham Swift City project with @durhamwildlife.bsky.social, providing more nesting habitats for swifts! See more here: www.durhamwt.com/blog/mary-an...
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Swifts, the wonderful summer visitors, screeching through the skies. Also, birds in huge decline. It's been wonderful to be involved in the Durham Swift City project with @durhamwildlife.bsky.social, providing more nesting habitats for swifts! See more here: www.durhamwt.com/blog/mary-an...
I often spend many hours reading about arthropods and much other fauna and flora. But nothing quite beats seeing them thrive in my soil 🪱
October 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I often spend many hours reading about arthropods and much other fauna and flora. But nothing quite beats seeing them thrive in my soil 🪱
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
Project Psyche is featured in a new article out now on @spectrum.ieee.org! Check it out to get an insight into the efforts of @ebpgenome.bsky.social and the milestones achieved during the fieldtrip of #ProjectPsyche and @10klepgenomes.bsky.social to the Italian Alps 🦋
Whole Genome Sequencing Will Transform Our Understanding of Life. The Earth BioGenome Project is using cutting-edge tech like long-read sequencing to map the DNA of 1.8 million organisms. Researchers anticipate major discoveries in evolution and medicine.
Mass-Scale Genome Sequencing Will Change Our Understanding of Life
The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.8 million species. It's one of the most ambitious science projects ever, and it will revolutionize biology
spectrum.ieee.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Project Psyche is featured in a new article out now on @spectrum.ieee.org! Check it out to get an insight into the efforts of @ebpgenome.bsky.social and the milestones achieved during the fieldtrip of #ProjectPsyche and @10klepgenomes.bsky.social to the Italian Alps 🦋
Shining the light on amphibians 🐸 check out this great pre-print below!
🚨🚨Our new preprint on #amphibians and #lightpollution
Review on #ALAN effects on most threatened vertebrates 🐸🐸
#frogs #skyglow #darknight
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Review on #ALAN effects on most threatened vertebrates 🐸🐸
#frogs #skyglow #darknight
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Amphibians under artificial light at night: Current knowledge, conservation challenges and future directions
Amphibians have evolved under predictable light–dark cycles, with most species relying on darkness for foraging, reproduction, and predator avoidance. Introduct
papers.ssrn.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Shining the light on amphibians 🐸 check out this great pre-print below!
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
It's the first #MothFaceFriday of #Leptember
So here's the tiny head, broad shoulders and thick torso of the Northern/oak Eggar.
These moths always give me body-builder vibes!
Have a pumped weekend #TeamMoth - don't overdo it on the protein shakes!
So here's the tiny head, broad shoulders and thick torso of the Northern/oak Eggar.
These moths always give me body-builder vibes!
Have a pumped weekend #TeamMoth - don't overdo it on the protein shakes!
September 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
It's the first #MothFaceFriday of #Leptember
So here's the tiny head, broad shoulders and thick torso of the Northern/oak Eggar.
These moths always give me body-builder vibes!
Have a pumped weekend #TeamMoth - don't overdo it on the protein shakes!
So here's the tiny head, broad shoulders and thick torso of the Northern/oak Eggar.
These moths always give me body-builder vibes!
Have a pumped weekend #TeamMoth - don't overdo it on the protein shakes!
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
📣 New research, including @savebutterflies.bsky.social #citizenscience data, shows winners & losers across >1200 insect species in Britain since 1990. Urbanisation identified as major driver of decline for moths, ladybirds & hoverflies www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍 🦋🐞🦗🪲🐝
September 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
📣 New research, including @savebutterflies.bsky.social #citizenscience data, shows winners & losers across >1200 insect species in Britain since 1990. Urbanisation identified as major driver of decline for moths, ladybirds & hoverflies www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍 🦋🐞🦗🪲🐝
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK
Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
September 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Join us in Newcastle in September for EcoNet! Registrations open until Monday!
FINAL CALL. Registration closes Monday 18th August
EcoNet2025: VII Symposium on Ecological Networks 3-5 September 2025
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ncl.ac.uk/.../events/e...
PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 150 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT
Call for talks and posters closes 20th June.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ncl.ac.uk/.../events/e...
PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 150 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT
Call for talks and posters closes 20th June.
August 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Join us in Newcastle in September for EcoNet! Registrations open until Monday!
Queen bees bite flower leaves and they bloom quicker! Who knew! Read more on our newest EntoBites blog post below ⤵️
entobites.blog/2025/08/13/f...
entobites.blog/2025/08/13/f...
Did you know that queen bees bite leaves of flowers and they bloom quicker as a result? 🐝🌼
Read about this fantastic research by Flury et al. 2025 in our new blog, written by Molly Walker!
entobites.blog/2025/08/13/f...
Read about this fantastic research by Flury et al. 2025 in our new blog, written by Molly Walker!
entobites.blog/2025/08/13/f...
Flowers unseen? Call the queen!!
When plants reproduce, the pollen is produced by the male organs, anthers, to fertilize the egg. This pollen is dust that can be moved to the female organ by wind, water or by animals. Since the up…
entobites.blog
August 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Queen bees bite flower leaves and they bloom quicker! Who knew! Read more on our newest EntoBites blog post below ⤵️
entobites.blog/2025/08/13/f...
entobites.blog/2025/08/13/f...
A wonderful Elephant hawk moth caterpillar (Deilephila elpenor) was stumbling along the path on my walk yesterday! Always a delight to see such a huge caterpillar! #MothMonday #TeamMoth #MothsMatter
August 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A wonderful Elephant hawk moth caterpillar (Deilephila elpenor) was stumbling along the path on my walk yesterday! Always a delight to see such a huge caterpillar! #MothMonday #TeamMoth #MothsMatter
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
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 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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
The front of my flat is by no means the most biodiverse place. Yet, the cinnabar moth caterpillars are making the most of it!! Nice to know the adult I saw in June was rather busy! #teammoth #mothsmatter @savebutterflies.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The front of my flat is by no means the most biodiverse place. Yet, the cinnabar moth caterpillars are making the most of it!! Nice to know the adult I saw in June was rather busy! #teammoth #mothsmatter @savebutterflies.bsky.social
From beautiful #moth trapping locations to sampling Alpine meadows filled with butterflies 🦋 and learning about sample preparation 🧬, I had the best week on the @10klepgenomes.bsky.social field trip! Huge thanks to all the entomologists, #COST10KLepGenomes, #LepEu and @projectpsyche.bsky.social!
July 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From beautiful #moth trapping locations to sampling Alpine meadows filled with butterflies 🦋 and learning about sample preparation 🧬, I had the best week on the @10klepgenomes.bsky.social field trip! Huge thanks to all the entomologists, #COST10KLepGenomes, #LepEu and @projectpsyche.bsky.social!
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
The Big Butterfly Count 2025 is here and butterflies need our help 🦋🚨
This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved.
No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️
Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved.
No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️
Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
July 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The Big Butterfly Count 2025 is here and butterflies need our help 🦋🚨
This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved.
No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️
Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved.
No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️
Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
You don't need to be a butterfly expert to get involved in the #BigButterflyCount 🦋🔎
Use our free identification guides for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help you.
Download them and take part here 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
Use our free identification guides for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help you.
Download them and take part here 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
July 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
You don't need to be a butterfly expert to get involved in the #BigButterflyCount 🦋🔎
Use our free identification guides for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help you.
Download them and take part here 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
Use our free identification guides for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help you.
Download them and take part here 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
Reposted by Madeleine Fabušová
....and following our last post here's Madeleine @fabusovam.bsky.social out on Eilean nan Ròn as well. What a place, and what amazing birds!
Thanks to the seabird ringing grant from @btobirds.bsky.social, I spent an incredible week Eilean nan Ròn, advancing my ringing skills! We managed to catch and ring storm petrels, shags, few gull chicks and more! Huge thanks to BTO and the team! All birds ringed under licence
@sophiesww.bsky.social
@sophiesww.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
....and following our last post here's Madeleine @fabusovam.bsky.social out on Eilean nan Ròn as well. What a place, and what amazing birds!
Thanks to the seabird ringing grant from @btobirds.bsky.social, I spent an incredible week Eilean nan Ròn, advancing my ringing skills! We managed to catch and ring storm petrels, shags, few gull chicks and more! Huge thanks to BTO and the team! All birds ringed under licence
@sophiesww.bsky.social
@sophiesww.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Thanks to the seabird ringing grant from @btobirds.bsky.social, I spent an incredible week Eilean nan Ròn, advancing my ringing skills! We managed to catch and ring storm petrels, shags, few gull chicks and more! Huge thanks to BTO and the team! All birds ringed under licence
@sophiesww.bsky.social
@sophiesww.bsky.social