Alexis Gkantiragas
@alexisggk.bsky.social
I study bees and live on a boat and those are the two interesting things about me
PhD Royal Holloway on landscape epidemiology of pollinator parasites
PhD Royal Holloway on landscape epidemiology of pollinator parasites
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Patron: did you carve me that owl?
Sculptor: real squinty with human feet, just how you wanted.
Patron: what…?
Sculptor: real squinty with human feet, just how you wanted.
Patron: what…?
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Patron: did you carve me that owl?
Sculptor: real squinty with human feet, just how you wanted.
Patron: what…?
Sculptor: real squinty with human feet, just how you wanted.
Patron: what…?
Reposted by Alexis Gkantiragas
This week's departmental seminar is by Prof Nazif Alic from @ihaucl.bsky.social who will discuss the relevance of polymeraze III activity to human ageing. Everyone welcome!
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This week's departmental seminar is by Prof Nazif Alic from @ihaucl.bsky.social who will discuss the relevance of polymeraze III activity to human ageing. Everyone welcome!
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Delighted to share this note on only the second British record of the #hoverfly Paragus quadrifasciatus, which @amaeda16.bsky.social, @ellileadbeater.bsky.social, and I found during a #pollinator survey of the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social garden lab. Read and share! 🧪
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) A second British record of Paragus quadrifasciatus Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae)
PDF | In short note format, we report the second UK record and the first specimen for Paragus quadrifasciatus (Meigen, 1822), found in Stratford,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
www.researchgate.net
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Delighted to share this note on only the second British record of the #hoverfly Paragus quadrifasciatus, which @amaeda16.bsky.social, @ellileadbeater.bsky.social, and I found during a #pollinator survey of the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social garden lab. Read and share! 🧪
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
The fruits of many sleepless nights of fieldwork. Great to see it published!
Worth a read for anyone interested in pollinators! :)
Worth a read for anyone interested in pollinators! :)
I am absolutely thrilled to share my first chapter, published today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Results are summarised in the thread below, or you can read it OA here doi.org/10.1111/1365... @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social 1/7 🧪
Resource supplementation later in the colony cycle improves real‐world bumblebee colony survival
Our findings suggest that B. terrestris colonies became food-limited towards the end of their colony cycle in early summer. We suggest ecological intensification through planting native wildflower sp....
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The fruits of many sleepless nights of fieldwork. Great to see it published!
Worth a read for anyone interested in pollinators! :)
Worth a read for anyone interested in pollinators! :)
Nice short new paper documenting invasive bumblebees in the Faroe islands. I have the urge to make a species distribution model for it
#ecology #bees
www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...
#ecology #bees
www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Nice short new paper documenting invasive bumblebees in the Faroe islands. I have the urge to make a species distribution model for it
#ecology #bees
www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...
#ecology #bees
www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...
Bubble? No bubble here.
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Bubble? No bubble here.
I can't help wondering how much of this decrease is due to functional (though probably uninentional?) outsourcing of emissions to other countries.
The world can’t wait for the U.S. to lead on #climate. 🌍
Regional alliances, ocean action & innovative finance must take the helm.
Great read: “How to fight climate change without the US” (Nature) 👉 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateAction #COP30 🧪🌐
Regional alliances, ocean action & innovative finance must take the helm.
Great read: “How to fight climate change without the US” (Nature) 👉 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateAction #COP30 🧪🌐
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I can't help wondering how much of this decrease is due to functional (though probably uninentional?) outsourcing of emissions to other countries.
For those of you that missed the Darwin Birthday Debate by the Centre for evolution and ecology this year they've just uploaded it !
#ecology #academicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdT...
#ecology #academicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdT...
Darwin Birthday Debate 2025
YouTube video by Centre for Ecology and Evolution
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
For those of you that missed the Darwin Birthday Debate by the Centre for evolution and ecology this year they've just uploaded it !
#ecology #academicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdT...
#ecology #academicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdT...
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Really cool concept I hadn't encountered yet - using bees to deliver fungicide treatments to plants via their flowers. It performed almost as well as spraying in this study
#science #ecology #pollinator
academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR...
#science #ecology #pollinator
academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR...
academicjournals.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Really cool concept I hadn't encountered yet - using bees to deliver fungicide treatments to plants via their flowers. It performed almost as well as spraying in this study
#science #ecology #pollinator
academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR...
#science #ecology #pollinator
academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR...
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2025 @conservoptimism.bsky.social Film Festival takes place tonight @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) from @rhulbiology.bsky.social, a co-founder of the festival, welcomes everyone. The festival is livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvW...
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
2025 @conservoptimism.bsky.social Film Festival takes place tonight @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) from @rhulbiology.bsky.social, a co-founder of the festival, welcomes everyone. The festival is livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvW...
R Script I wrote to unstack rasters. Hope someone finds it useful
I made it for the bioclim future climate rasters (www.worldclim.org/data/cmip6/c...) but it should work for anything
github.com/AlexisGGk/ma...
#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science
I made it for the bioclim future climate rasters (www.worldclim.org/data/cmip6/c...) but it should work for anything
github.com/AlexisGGk/ma...
#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science
maxent_scripts/unstack_raster_script at main · AlexisGGk/maxent_scripts
useful tools for working with Maxent. Contribute to AlexisGGk/maxent_scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
R Script I wrote to unstack rasters. Hope someone finds it useful
I made it for the bioclim future climate rasters (www.worldclim.org/data/cmip6/c...) but it should work for anything
github.com/AlexisGGk/ma...
#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science
I made it for the bioclim future climate rasters (www.worldclim.org/data/cmip6/c...) but it should work for anything
github.com/AlexisGGk/ma...
#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science
I got frustrated that Worldclim didn't have annual averages and stuff for solar radiation, wind and water vapor pressure so I did it and put it on Figshare. Hope it saves one of you the hassle!
#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science #academicsky
figshare.com/articles/dat...
#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science #academicsky
figshare.com/articles/dat...
Long term global mean, max, min and range values for wind, solar radiation and water vapor pressure
The Worldclim dataset is the most widely used set of long term bioclimatic data, with long term averages for key bioclimatic variables used in climate modelling, species distribution modelling and cou...
figshare.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I got frustrated that Worldclim didn't have annual averages and stuff for solar radiation, wind and water vapor pressure so I did it and put it on Figshare. Hope it saves one of you the hassle!
#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science #academicsky
figshare.com/articles/dat...
#ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science #academicsky
figshare.com/articles/dat...
Some R code you might find useful - it takes occurrence data from any species you specify, extracts bioclimatic data and plots the occurrence points in a PCA
github.com/AlexisGGk/us...
#programming #R #ecology #science
github.com/AlexisGGk/us...
#programming #R #ecology #science
useful_r_code/r_workshop_bioclim_pca at main · AlexisGGk/useful_r_code
Contribute to AlexisGGk/useful_r_code development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Some R code you might find useful - it takes occurrence data from any species you specify, extracts bioclimatic data and plots the occurrence points in a PCA
github.com/AlexisGGk/us...
#programming #R #ecology #science
github.com/AlexisGGk/us...
#programming #R #ecology #science
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration
September 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration
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Don't be this editor. I can't believe we still have to put up with this exclusionary sh*t in academic publishing.
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Don't be this editor. I can't believe we still have to put up with this exclusionary sh*t in academic publishing.
What the actual fuck
Don't be this editor. I can't believe we still have to put up with this exclusionary sh*t in academic publishing.
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
What the actual fuck
The "who has been married twice" really gets me lol
Twice married Nigel Farage claims the ‘most stable relationships’ are between men and women
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/16/nigel-farage-same-sex-relationships/?utm_content=1758144000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/16/nigel-farage-same-sex-relationships/?utm_content=1758144000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Nigel Farage claims heterosexual relationships are 'most stable'
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who has been married twice, has claimed the 'most stable relationships' exist between a man and a woman.
www.thepinknews.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The "who has been married twice" really gets me lol
September 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One of the things I find most frustrating about AI in education is that it means the only fair way to assess people are probably timed, in person exams. Yet, a few years ago, I would have advocated moving away from these kinds of assessments
August 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One of the things I find most frustrating about AI in education is that it means the only fair way to assess people are probably timed, in person exams. Yet, a few years ago, I would have advocated moving away from these kinds of assessments
Hymenoptera represent!
August 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hymenoptera represent!
@blog.ecosia.org.web.brid.gy
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine
#ai #ecosia
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine
#ai #ecosia
August 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
@blog.ecosia.org.web.brid.gy
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine
#ai #ecosia
Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine
#ai #ecosia
Really great free course content on species distribution modelling from @uclcber.bsky.social. Really good for the underlying theory and easy to follow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8inE...
#ecology #science
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8inE...
#ecology #science
Practice I: Biological and environmental data for Species Distribution Modelling
YouTube video by UCL CBER
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Really great free course content on species distribution modelling from @uclcber.bsky.social. Really good for the underlying theory and easy to follow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8inE...
#ecology #science
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8inE...
#ecology #science
Do not.
The water/electricity use is always going to be higher than for a normal search. Also the summaries are bad. The reason I switched back to Ecosia despite the fact that the search results are worse is specifically because it didn't use that stupid AI summary function
The water/electricity use is always going to be higher than for a normal search. Also the summaries are bad. The reason I switched back to Ecosia despite the fact that the search results are worse is specifically because it didn't use that stupid AI summary function
August 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Do not.
The water/electricity use is always going to be higher than for a normal search. Also the summaries are bad. The reason I switched back to Ecosia despite the fact that the search results are worse is specifically because it didn't use that stupid AI summary function
The water/electricity use is always going to be higher than for a normal search. Also the summaries are bad. The reason I switched back to Ecosia despite the fact that the search results are worse is specifically because it didn't use that stupid AI summary function