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Rosy Christopher

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Molecular entomology PhD student NCL @ForagingEcology 🕷️🧬 • RES Student rep 🪲 • First gen • She/They • #NeurodivergentinSTEM #PrideinEnto

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · May 19

Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · 6d

Not only will you be getting first hand experience in how societies are run behind the scenes but all the connections and opportunities that come will the role are unmatched!

@idrisadams.bsky.social and I will be ready to bring you up to speed on everything to do with the position! 🪲🐝🐞

Ben Hawthorne @bensjhawthorne.bsky.social · 6d

📣🐞 Vacancy for a @royentsoc.bsky.social Student Representative! 🐞📣

Join @idrisadams.bsky.social & @envirosyment.bsky.social for one of the best opportunities around! Contribute to the RES and organise events, such as the renowned Student Forum

Deadline: 5/10/25

www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Student Representative vacancy 2025 - Royal Entomological Society

The Royal Entomological Society is recruiting one new volunteer to be a Student Representative. The 1-2 year role includes helping to organise the annual Student Forum with RES staff, and providing up...

www.royensoc.co.uk

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Aug 21

This was my final straw today, thought I could perfectly consolidate these samples into one box, but my ability to hold it together at the end of this field season is being tested

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Aug 3

So it's been a minute, July was busy! I finished up my Cornwall fieldwork, drove 500 miles back to the north, had some leave, did my night time spider surveys, graduated from my master's in cardiff, had one car die and bought my first car in my own, and then started my candy stripe spider fieldwork

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 24

It's #insectweek !! Here's some of the Flower Crab spiders I've seen this field season, but don't forget to submit your photos to foragingecology.com/spider-spies/

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 13

The awaited day two of field work! Come with me to collect in my community data sample and do some nectar sampling 🕷️🌼

#fieldwork #comewithme #flowers #spiders #entomology #arachnology #phdlife #phdstudent #womeninstem

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 12

If you're finding them elsewhere that's also great information!

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 12

Glow worms

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 12

What is spider spies? Speaking a bit about the project, what goes into the kits, and what your participation goes towards!

Link for the page: foragingecology.com/spider-spies/

#communityscience #arachnology #entomology #womeninstem #research #spiders #networkecology

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 6

Come and do some fieldwork with me!

#entomology #spiders #arachnology #womeninstem #fieldwork

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is the kind of Jurassic park I'd be keen for

Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Jun 5

Imagine, if you will, a field of buffalo-sized beetle lumps calmly grazing

Shiny coppery lump of warty leaf beetle, grazing on an oak leaf, facing you

Side view of the creature grazing on the leaf. Just a copper pellet shape, tiny legs barely peeking out

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · Jun 5

A very well matched and green cucumber spider, Araniella, tucked away by it's web @britishspiders.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 5

Such beauties, I'm always amazed by just how green they are

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 5

oh that is good to know! I will make sure they are secured next time, sorry for that inconvenience

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 5

Also there was a fee? Did the post office say why? Sorry to ask just want to see if that will be a consistent problem

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 5

That's amazing to hear! But yes the weather hasn't been great down in Cornwall either

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Jun 5

#EmotionalSupportSpood 🥹

Had to dig up some old spood pics for a friend, found this Phidippus richmani lad 🖤

Phidippus richmani male jumping spider giving an "I cm large spood" display; he's got his fancy 1st leg pair spread wide like an airplane, showing off his impressive floof. The 1st segment of his 1st leg pair have large tufts of floof, soft grey-green below and a bright white streak above. His face has two dark red stripes just outside his two large eyes, and below has vertical white bands which make it look like he has teeth. He's on an oak twig, doing his display at you

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 5

Ask away!

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 5

It was absolutely rammed and gorgeous, with so many pollinators! The bumblebees were loving it. Here's the full clip🐝🪻

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 4

Welcome to my PhD...

#entomology #spiders #arachnology #womeninstem #neurodivergentinstem

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 4

Hi Wayne! Looking forward to talking soon!

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 3

and working out how one records a voiceover for a fieldwork based Tiktok/reel, hey #PhDs are about learning but safe to say I've picked up a lot of skills I wasn't expecting just in the first 9 months

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · Jun 3

Back in the field this week after some very turbulent weather, the spiders are still kicking though!

I've now received records across 8 counties for #spiderspies including records from both England and Wales, this weeks task is learning some programming for a nice interacting map for the website!

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · May 29

It's always a joy but the tiniest bit frustrating when I find these guys away from my fieldsite. I spent all afternoon walking fields searching to find one female, and then I'm just walking around my parents farm checking on foals and spot this bright yellow #misumena

#arachnology #spider

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Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · May 28

Despite the dismal weather down here in Cornwall, I managed to get out to sample this afternoon and found this beauty! This one had the reddest abdomen stripes I've seen yet

#spiders #arachnology

Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social · May 28

They're brilliant, I'm working on Flower Crab spiders, so have a real soft spot for them

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