Steve
@stevetypesstuff.bsky.social
Ants, fossils, beer. Drone mapping & GIS. Science PhD. Bambu Labs P1S. He/him, will also respond to “Oi you!”. AuADHD - if I seem over familiar in posts etc. that is probably why. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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These wood ants are edge specialists... but not all edges are equal. Jacob Podesta used a decade of population expansion data to show that wood ants spread more quickly along certain edges, depending on the edge orientation. Currently available open access here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
These wood ants are edge specialists... but not all edges are equal. Jacob Podesta used a decade of population expansion data to show that wood ants spread more quickly along certain edges, depending on the edge orientation. Currently available open access here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Up close with a pygmy mole cricket, Neotridactylus apicalis. Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station, Texas.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Up close with a pygmy mole cricket, Neotridactylus apicalis. Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station, Texas.
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Ahhh happy Sunday night everyone. The wonderful @nhcooper123.bsky.social and @joshlukedavis.com thought it wise to ask me to talk about my fav specimens…
Enjoy. @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social
Enjoy. @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social
Exciting new episode today is SPIKY, featuring our first ever guest the incredible @flygirlnhm.bsky.social. Spoiler alert - there may be some flies! m.youtube.com/watch?v=8si6...
Our first guest brings a powderpuff with wings | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep14
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
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November 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ahhh happy Sunday night everyone. The wonderful @nhcooper123.bsky.social and @joshlukedavis.com thought it wise to ask me to talk about my fav specimens…
Enjoy. @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social
Enjoy. @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social
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The genus name for American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, means "bearded ant", and it refers to a basket of hairs on the underside of the head that helps these desert ants carry dry sand.
Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas.
Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas.
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The genus name for American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, means "bearded ant", and it refers to a basket of hairs on the underside of the head that helps these desert ants carry dry sand.
Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas.
Monahans Sandhills State Park, Texas.
Happy 75th birthday to Wisdom 🎂
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy 75th birthday to Wisdom 🎂
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The Government makes a lot of money from this grubby and miserably cancerous industry...
Gambling - an industry out of control doing enormous damage to individuals and communities.
How much suffering (and NHS costs) could be saved, how much #PublicHealth improved, if no advertising at all?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
How much suffering (and NHS costs) could be saved, how much #PublicHealth improved, if no advertising at all?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK gambling firms spent ‘astronomic’ £2bn on advertising last year
Calls for Rachel Reeves to increase taxes in budget as estimate outstrips duties collected from online casinos
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The Government makes a lot of money from this grubby and miserably cancerous industry...
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Lookie lookie! What’s this? Only the fantastic LNHS journal, The London Naturalist!
‘How can I get one?’ I hear you ask.
Join our lovely society - only £20/year. Then you get this, The London Bird Review and our quarterly newsletter! Join now! www.lnhs.org.uk/index.php/jo...
#NaturalHistory
‘How can I get one?’ I hear you ask.
Join our lovely society - only £20/year. Then you get this, The London Bird Review and our quarterly newsletter! Join now! www.lnhs.org.uk/index.php/jo...
#NaturalHistory
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Lookie lookie! What’s this? Only the fantastic LNHS journal, The London Naturalist!
‘How can I get one?’ I hear you ask.
Join our lovely society - only £20/year. Then you get this, The London Bird Review and our quarterly newsletter! Join now! www.lnhs.org.uk/index.php/jo...
#NaturalHistory
‘How can I get one?’ I hear you ask.
Join our lovely society - only £20/year. Then you get this, The London Bird Review and our quarterly newsletter! Join now! www.lnhs.org.uk/index.php/jo...
#NaturalHistory
It sounds like #COP30 has descended into a farce.
Fossil fuel countries demanding that fossil fuels not be mentioned.
Fossil fuel countries demanding that fossil fuels not be mentioned.
a cartoon of a penguin sitting on a dumpster fire
Alt: a cartoon of a penguin sitting on a dumpster fire
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November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It sounds like #COP30 has descended into a farce.
Fossil fuel countries demanding that fossil fuels not be mentioned.
Fossil fuel countries demanding that fossil fuels not be mentioned.
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PhD position - How jumping spiders see
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
PhD position - How jumping spiders see
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
- Put cute spiders on trackballs!
- Program fancy automated experiments!
- Do cutting edge research!
- Hang out in beautiful Italian cities!
- Be supervised by a super nice chap!
Like invertebrate behaviour and computation stuff? You'll love this.
Link in 🧵
So many wonderful fossils at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social but who can ignore the allure of fossils collected by Darwin on his travels on HMS Beagle.
#Darwin
#HMSBeagle
#Fossils
#Evolution
#Darwin
#HMSBeagle
#Fossils
#Evolution
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
So many wonderful fossils at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social but who can ignore the allure of fossils collected by Darwin on his travels on HMS Beagle.
#Darwin
#HMSBeagle
#Fossils
#Evolution
#Darwin
#HMSBeagle
#Fossils
#Evolution
Nuthatch (Sitta europaea - yes, I had to look that up) is one of my favourite UK birds.
Sleek and very pretty without being flashy. Hops down tree trunks head first!
#UKbirds
Sleek and very pretty without being flashy. Hops down tree trunks head first!
#UKbirds
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Nuthatch (Sitta europaea - yes, I had to look that up) is one of my favourite UK birds.
Sleek and very pretty without being flashy. Hops down tree trunks head first!
#UKbirds
Sleek and very pretty without being flashy. Hops down tree trunks head first!
#UKbirds
Escaping the decorating for an afternoon (actually while wood primer dries) we walked down the chalk ridge to Aldbury (where they filmed Thursday Murder Club).
#UKwoodland
#BeechTrees
Beech leaves golden orange on the ground, winter trees skeletonised against the cold winter sky.
#UKwoodland
#BeechTrees
Beech leaves golden orange on the ground, winter trees skeletonised against the cold winter sky.
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Escaping the decorating for an afternoon (actually while wood primer dries) we walked down the chalk ridge to Aldbury (where they filmed Thursday Murder Club).
#UKwoodland
#BeechTrees
Beech leaves golden orange on the ground, winter trees skeletonised against the cold winter sky.
#UKwoodland
#BeechTrees
Beech leaves golden orange on the ground, winter trees skeletonised against the cold winter sky.
On my way to the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social tonight and in the Grand Arcade shopping centre I noted some lovely fossils in the floor: an ammonite in section showing the chambers and a belemnite in section showing the phragmocone.
#UrbanGeology
#fossils
#UrbanGeology
#fossils
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
On my way to the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social tonight and in the Grand Arcade shopping centre I noted some lovely fossils in the floor: an ammonite in section showing the chambers and a belemnite in section showing the phragmocone.
#UrbanGeology
#fossils
#UrbanGeology
#fossils
That’s one pi$$ed off cricket! Sound on!
SOUND ON.
Instead of a photo, here's a short video from Borneo. Normally I don't condone handling of wildlife, but something was obviously stuck beneath our truck. You might say we were a bit surprised about what our guide pulled out...
Instead of a photo, here's a short video from Borneo. Normally I don't condone handling of wildlife, but something was obviously stuck beneath our truck. You might say we were a bit surprised about what our guide pulled out...
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
That’s one pi$$ed off cricket! Sound on!
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Bad news for all species involved.
The EU-Mercosur trade deal will be a disaster for rainforests and other natural ecosystems in South America, as well as the climate. Every environmentalist should be fighting this.
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IFJ probe 'undermines' EU-Mercosur trade deal, says IFA
The Irish Farmers' Association has said an investigation carried out by the Irish Farmers Journal in Brazil undermines arguments by the European Commission that the EU-Mercosur trade deal should be ap...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Bad news for all species involved.
There are a few specialised plants that have evolved to live in peat bogs. Botanic gardens sometimes still grow these in peat. Even in that setting they are working on substitutes like composted bark.
Really not needed for geraniums
When you buy compost look for ‘peat free’, avoid if not labelled.
Really not needed for geraniums
When you buy compost look for ‘peat free’, avoid if not labelled.
Sign the petition asking the Government to finally end peat compost sales with legislation in 2026 - no more delays. It’s been a long and tiring road to get peat compost banned and we need your signatures and shares now more than ever to get it done. actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
There are a few specialised plants that have evolved to live in peat bogs. Botanic gardens sometimes still grow these in peat. Even in that setting they are working on substitutes like composted bark.
Really not needed for geraniums
When you buy compost look for ‘peat free’, avoid if not labelled.
Really not needed for geraniums
When you buy compost look for ‘peat free’, avoid if not labelled.
My wife (teacher, educator, drinker of coffee) laughed a lot when I read this out in bed.
There is however a serious point about the ‘leaders’ of the world here. These people get to decide your children’s future!
There is however a serious point about the ‘leaders’ of the world here. These people get to decide your children’s future!
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My wife (teacher, educator, drinker of coffee) laughed a lot when I read this out in bed.
There is however a serious point about the ‘leaders’ of the world here. These people get to decide your children’s future!
There is however a serious point about the ‘leaders’ of the world here. These people get to decide your children’s future!
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Be honest, could you tell this was a diorama?
Haus der Natur in #Salzburg uses many tricks to make viewers believe they're seeing a wild scene: high-quality #taxidermy, outstanding background painting with perspective to give depth, and hiding the point where the painting meets the 3D foreground. 🐐
Haus der Natur in #Salzburg uses many tricks to make viewers believe they're seeing a wild scene: high-quality #taxidermy, outstanding background painting with perspective to give depth, and hiding the point where the painting meets the 3D foreground. 🐐
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Be honest, could you tell this was a diorama?
Haus der Natur in #Salzburg uses many tricks to make viewers believe they're seeing a wild scene: high-quality #taxidermy, outstanding background painting with perspective to give depth, and hiding the point where the painting meets the 3D foreground. 🐐
Haus der Natur in #Salzburg uses many tricks to make viewers believe they're seeing a wild scene: high-quality #taxidermy, outstanding background painting with perspective to give depth, and hiding the point where the painting meets the 3D foreground. 🐐
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If you know the tropical ant genus Holcoponera, you know they are not all that fuzzy. But this Colombian species, Holcoponera pilosa, is positively frizzy compared to its congeners.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If you know the tropical ant genus Holcoponera, you know they are not all that fuzzy. But this Colombian species, Holcoponera pilosa, is positively frizzy compared to its congeners.
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Here's a different species, from Ecuador.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Here's a different species, from Ecuador.
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Giving a talk in Yorkshire so I got to spend a few days catching up with auld pals at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social, like this absolute belter of a Middle Jurassic theropod dinosaur footprint (Megalosauripus - Hudson et al, 2023) from Yorkshire 🦖
(equally lovely to see some of my fav human pals too 🖤)
(equally lovely to see some of my fav human pals too 🖤)
November 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Giving a talk in Yorkshire so I got to spend a few days catching up with auld pals at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social, like this absolute belter of a Middle Jurassic theropod dinosaur footprint (Megalosauripus - Hudson et al, 2023) from Yorkshire 🦖
(equally lovely to see some of my fav human pals too 🖤)
(equally lovely to see some of my fav human pals too 🖤)
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Francophones, looking for a translation of 'Souillard' – the late medieval name of a Very Good Dog. It clearly has 'dirty' or 'grubby' connotations, but how best to translate it? Google focuses its modern meaning of a sink plug-hole but I don't think that was meant in the C15! Please RT!
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Francophones, looking for a translation of 'Souillard' – the late medieval name of a Very Good Dog. It clearly has 'dirty' or 'grubby' connotations, but how best to translate it? Google focuses its modern meaning of a sink plug-hole but I don't think that was meant in the C15! Please RT!
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A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi parasitoid wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 29.7.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi parasitoid wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 29.7.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
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Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK