Lauren
@scigirl02.bsky.social
Recent graduate from the University of Reading MSc by Research Entomology program. When I’m not studying insects, I’m usually reading, writing, drawing, playing the violin, or playing Daggerheart with my friends!
Seeking my next scientific opportunity!
Seeking my next scientific opportunity!
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Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to all my followers
December 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to all my followers
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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
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-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
October 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
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Last year our field trip to the legendary Wytham Woods was marked by heavy rain. This year it was raining...ladybirds! 🐞☔
Reasonable numbers of 7-spot and 10-spot ladybirds heading for overwintering sites, though both swamped by an extraordinary abundance of Harlequins. @ukladybirds.bsky.social
Reasonable numbers of 7-spot and 10-spot ladybirds heading for overwintering sites, though both swamped by an extraordinary abundance of Harlequins. @ukladybirds.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Last year our field trip to the legendary Wytham Woods was marked by heavy rain. This year it was raining...ladybirds! 🐞☔
Reasonable numbers of 7-spot and 10-spot ladybirds heading for overwintering sites, though both swamped by an extraordinary abundance of Harlequins. @ukladybirds.bsky.social
Reasonable numbers of 7-spot and 10-spot ladybirds heading for overwintering sites, though both swamped by an extraordinary abundance of Harlequins. @ukladybirds.bsky.social
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A better world is possible
According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.
Just the start.
Common sense.
Just the start.
Common sense.
October 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
A better world is possible
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My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST
September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST
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We and our insects are on our way to @royentsoc.bsky.social 25! Team Reading Entomology checking the precious cargo at Euston station. One slight casualty of mad taxi dash across London but nothing a bit of glue can't fix...
September 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
We and our insects are on our way to @royentsoc.bsky.social 25! Team Reading Entomology checking the precious cargo at Euston station. One slight casualty of mad taxi dash across London but nothing a bit of glue can't fix...
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This is the best advice for how to be better at ANYTHING in TTRPGs. Be a fan of the other people and their roles. Love the other PCs. Admire the DM and get excited for their work. Geek out over the stuff your friends at the table are doing and want them to be happy!
Everything else will work out.
Everything else will work out.
August 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is the best advice for how to be better at ANYTHING in TTRPGs. Be a fan of the other people and their roles. Love the other PCs. Admire the DM and get excited for their work. Geek out over the stuff your friends at the table are doing and want them to be happy!
Everything else will work out.
Everything else will work out.
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Warlock of course!
I’m always thinking about a deluxe version of DND bugs with more classes, and after a long time of chaos and intense work among shows I’ve finally got some time to finish it! Which one would you choose? 💚🐛🐞🐝🪲
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Warlock of course!
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No kings in this country!
...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑
...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑
July 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
No kings in this country!
...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑
...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑
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Hollyhock weevil season
June 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Hollyhock weevil season
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Jealous of all my colleagues getting their Daggerheart preorders in today! I missed my window 😭
May 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Jealous of all my colleagues getting their Daggerheart preorders in today! I missed my window 😭
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My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST
May 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST
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A wonderful week for undergraduate Entomology teaching at Reading whether in the labs or out on campus
May 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A wonderful week for undergraduate Entomology teaching at Reading whether in the labs or out on campus
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I just wanna play Daggerheart all day
a boy and a girl standing next to each other
ALT: a boy and a girl standing next to each other
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April 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I just wanna play Daggerheart all day
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My garden has not one, not two, but THREE BEE FLIES
I feel as happy as this one :)
I feel as happy as this one :)
April 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My garden has not one, not two, but THREE BEE FLIES
I feel as happy as this one :)
I feel as happy as this one :)
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NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
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Beefly and Brimstone in our garden #inverts #spring #wildlifeuk @ukwildlifepodcast.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Beefly and Brimstone in our garden #inverts #spring #wildlifeuk @ukwildlifepodcast.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
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Me every time I meet a fellow author/artist/comic creator that I follow online IRL:
March 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Me every time I meet a fellow author/artist/comic creator that I follow online IRL:
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I like big bugs and I cannot lie
February 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I like big bugs and I cannot lie
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Alfred Waterhouse - architect for @nhm-london.bsky.social - also designed Foxhill House in Reading as his home. Now part of the University of Reading campus it was a comfortable destination for our @unirdgento.bsky.social data analysis 'away' day this week!
February 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Alfred Waterhouse - architect for @nhm-london.bsky.social - also designed Foxhill House in Reading as his home. Now part of the University of Reading campus it was a comfortable destination for our @unirdgento.bsky.social data analysis 'away' day this week!
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My inspiration for wanting to be an ecologist was Aragorn (yes LOTR). When I first read the books, I was fascinated that he just KNEW what all the plants were and how to use them for battlefield medicine. I wanted that skill. I'm nowhere close but a little more every day.
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My inspiration for wanting to be an ecologist was Aragorn (yes LOTR). When I first read the books, I was fascinated that he just KNEW what all the plants were and how to use them for battlefield medicine. I wanted that skill. I'm nowhere close but a little more every day.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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‘Everyone has their favourite phylogeny’ - @waspwoman.bsky.social talking wasps
‘ Bees are wasps that have forgotten to hunt
Ants are wasps that have forgotten to fly’
@royentsoc.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social
‘ Bees are wasps that have forgotten to hunt
Ants are wasps that have forgotten to fly’
@royentsoc.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
‘Everyone has their favourite phylogeny’ - @waspwoman.bsky.social talking wasps
‘ Bees are wasps that have forgotten to hunt
Ants are wasps that have forgotten to fly’
@royentsoc.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social
‘ Bees are wasps that have forgotten to hunt
Ants are wasps that have forgotten to fly’
@royentsoc.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social