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Tim Blackburn
@mothyblackburn.bsky.social
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Professor of Invasion Biology at UCL. Amateur father, birder, moth-er. Mainly post wildlife photos, occasionally science and politics. Author of The Jewel Box, winner of the ZSL Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 1h
Basically trying to see the "winter" species that I just don't get at home. NWM would be a nice bonus.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 2h
A mild evening on the Surrey heath with @photography-aj.bsky.social yesterday, with lots of moths on the wing. 13 species included some candidates for Northern Winter Moth (retained for further investigation), loads of Winter Moth, several Mottled Umber and an early Pale Brindled Beauty. #TeamMoth
Perhaps a Northern Winter Moth? The hindwings were very pale, and it was otherwise rather large and pale. Or is it a November agg?! Anyway, retained for a definitive answer... Female Winter Moth found by Andy on a birch trunk One of several Mottled Umber moths seen, this one posed nicely on some dead oak leaves. Pale Brindled Beauty moth an oak trunk. Much more commonly seen in the early months of the year, but sightings in November are not unknown.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 5h
Not necessarily…!

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 17h
Like the Bornean rainforest here…

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 17h
Not really but a hoped for species has appeared (subject to confirmation).

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 19h
Almost as soon as the light when on. Up to 9 species so far…

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 20h
Here we go again… already a Satellite. #TeamMoth

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 1d
About a year ago I bought a Paramo Helki on the recommendation of @stevedudley.bsky.social, and am very happy. Have just ordered some Cascada trousers.

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn, Mark Priestley

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d
You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
PERSONAL FINANCE No prudence: it just got harder to retire if you're in your forties or fifties Kwasi Kwarteng The inside story of the mini-budget disaster Photo of Kwarteng and Truss Faisal Islam > Economics editor @faisalislam › 25 September 2023 The term "mini budget" will be forever toxic in British politics. So disastrous was then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's September 2022 statement - which included £45bn of unfunded tax cuts - that its long shadow still stretches over our economics and politics.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 1d
You're in good company... (@invasionecology.bsky.social)

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 1d
Yep, and of course only about 2/3 of that for fast chargers in France...

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 1d
Sigh. And particularly galling for us EV drivers without the ability to charge at home.

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn

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Tannis Davidson @tannisdavidson.bsky.social · 1d
Fabulous talk today by @idrisadams.bsky.social in @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social all about why we should all love wasps - especially solitary wasps 🐝! #WaspLove #WorldOfWasps
Speaker Idris Adams, PhD student at UCL CBER Sumner Lab in front of slide presentation screen showing images of the work of an entomologist.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 2d
Rush hour looks hectic there, Steve.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 2d
Interesting… I assume the site I’d be trying.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 2d
A definite target for 2026…

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 3d
I'm just trailing you with 1018 life (aggs all resolved) and 722 year, but 108 lifers (31 macro) this year so catching up...

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 3d
there are so many people you wish would just go away and they don’t and meanwhile good people die all the time and those fuckers just carry on infesting the world anyway here’s a kestrel
It’s perched on top of something or other, with a beady look in its eye. Brown plumage warmed by low sun.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 3d
Slender Pug and... Old Lady?

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 3d
🤢

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 3d
What almost a million gets you in London. "The property requires a program of refurbishment."

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn

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Sarra Manning @sarramanning.bsky.social · 3d
They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead
www.rightmove.co.uk

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 4d
"And the Oscar goes to..."

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 4d
That's a lovely Dart, Dave.

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 5d
COP30 BREAKING NEWS: The likely final text of the "global mutirão" has been published, ahead of the closing plenary

Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line

unfccc.int/sites/def...

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 6d
Just double checking before I reposted. I see a fair few crossing the Tamar in autumn but nothing like this.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 6d
Perfectly normal British country scene... #BioInvasions
macstronach.bsky.social Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 7d
A video from earlier in the autumn during some particularly heavy Pheasant migration in Highland! #highlandbirds

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 6d
Amazing - thank you!

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 6d
🐈 What's TikTok good for? Examining which arthropods are hunted by cats.

🌍 Social media have become an increasingly useful resource in ecological research.

🪲 We now know that cats kill arthropods from 14 different orders.

🧪 Study:
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Social media highlights the overlooked impact of cats on arthropods
The impact of domestic cats on vertebrate biodiversity is unequivocal; however, we still know little about their effects on arthropods. By analysing over 17,000 photos and videos from social media p...
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 6d
Is that real Peter?!