Kieran Anderson
@andersonkieran.bsky.social
Currently Misadventuring in Entomology.
Fascinated by soil dwelling invertebrates and the hymenoptera, mostly wasps. However, easily distracted by just about anything mycological, botanical or inverty.
Fascinated by soil dwelling invertebrates and the hymenoptera, mostly wasps. However, easily distracted by just about anything mycological, botanical or inverty.
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I am aware of how strange it is to be excited to find a dead hornet, take it home and stick a pin through it.
It's doesn't mean I'll stop doing it though.
It dwarfs all the other hymenopterans I have specimens of. A giant predator of the insects.
@sorbynathissoc.bsky.social
@ynuorg.bsky.social
It's doesn't mean I'll stop doing it though.
It dwarfs all the other hymenopterans I have specimens of. A giant predator of the insects.
@sorbynathissoc.bsky.social
@ynuorg.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I am aware of how strange it is to be excited to find a dead hornet, take it home and stick a pin through it.
It's doesn't mean I'll stop doing it though.
It dwarfs all the other hymenopterans I have specimens of. A giant predator of the insects.
@sorbynathissoc.bsky.social
@ynuorg.bsky.social
It's doesn't mean I'll stop doing it though.
It dwarfs all the other hymenopterans I have specimens of. A giant predator of the insects.
@sorbynathissoc.bsky.social
@ynuorg.bsky.social
I fear for all of us there comes a time, when in the dead of night unable to find the damned precise part, we must accept our lives have reached a point when we must label our nuts. #raaco
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I fear for all of us there comes a time, when in the dead of night unable to find the damned precise part, we must accept our lives have reached a point when we must label our nuts. #raaco
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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First & last flies featured in #FliesofBritainandIreland – Wasp-banded Comb-horn Ctenophora flaveolata & Deer Warble Fly Hypoderma diana. Nearing completion due late Jan/early Feb 2026. Pre-order now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
First & last flies featured in #FliesofBritainandIreland – Wasp-banded Comb-horn Ctenophora flaveolata & Deer Warble Fly Hypoderma diana. Nearing completion due late Jan/early Feb 2026. Pre-order now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
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Rare Earth will be back on air soon & in preparation for a programme on Darwin, Wallace & evolution, I found this ace example of evolutionary adaptation. The plant C. argenteum makes seeds that look & smell like dung, so dung beetles roll them away, bury them, then lose interest. Free seed planting!
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Rare Earth will be back on air soon & in preparation for a programme on Darwin, Wallace & evolution, I found this ace example of evolutionary adaptation. The plant C. argenteum makes seeds that look & smell like dung, so dung beetles roll them away, bury them, then lose interest. Free seed planting!
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The voices of trans people must be heard in Parliament.️ I’ve urged full scrutiny of EHRC’s guidance, which risks undermining their rights. Lib Dems call on the Government to protect everyone fairly and ensure people aren’t excluded from safe facilities or public life.
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The voices of trans people must be heard in Parliament.️ I’ve urged full scrutiny of EHRC’s guidance, which risks undermining their rights. Lib Dems call on the Government to protect everyone fairly and ensure people aren’t excluded from safe facilities or public life.
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The British Mycological Society are surveying all fungi recorders as part of a review on how they share their data. It would be great if anyone who records fungi could complete it (you don't have to be a prolific fungi recorder or BMS member to take part).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Fungus Recorder Online Survey
This survey is being conducted by the Biological Recording Company on behalf of the British Mycological Society.
The survey does not collect any personal or identifying information, ensuring that al...
docs.google.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The British Mycological Society are surveying all fungi recorders as part of a review on how they share their data. It would be great if anyone who records fungi could complete it (you don't have to be a prolific fungi recorder or BMS member to take part).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Hello Bluesky - The 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire is OPEN. Get up to £350 to train, run wildlife recording activities or even buy equipment! Deadline, 31st January 2026. More information here: www.hants.gov.uk/landplanning... #BiologicalRecording #Ecology
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Hello Bluesky - The 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire is OPEN. Get up to £350 to train, run wildlife recording activities or even buy equipment! Deadline, 31st January 2026. More information here: www.hants.gov.uk/landplanning... #BiologicalRecording #Ecology
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The latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE.
As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social
hantsplants.uk/floranews.php
As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social
hantsplants.uk/floranews.php
Hants Plants: a site for botanists in Hampshire (test)
hantsplants.uk
October 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE.
As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social
hantsplants.uk/floranews.php
As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social
hantsplants.uk/floranews.php
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This is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.
September 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.
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Its WORLD WASP DAY!
September 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Its WORLD WASP DAY!
WTF @royentsoc.bsky.social, the new Dolichopodidae handbook is £125!!! So much for Entomology being accessible. Will any of our societies @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social be stepping up and challenging the RES over this? #diptera #entomology
September 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
WTF @royentsoc.bsky.social, the new Dolichopodidae handbook is £125!!! So much for Entomology being accessible. Will any of our societies @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @britentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social be stepping up and challenging the RES over this? #diptera #entomology
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Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.
September 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.
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That’s what they call a landslide!
Zack Polanski absolutely steamrolls to victory in the Green Party election- 20,411 votes and beating Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns who got just 3,075 votes.
A watershed moment in left politics and for the Green Party. And hard to see how Corbyn/Sultana party now makes case for its own existence
A watershed moment in left politics and for the Green Party. And hard to see how Corbyn/Sultana party now makes case for its own existence
September 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
That’s what they call a landslide!
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‼️Zack Polanski elected leader of The Greens
September 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
‼️Zack Polanski elected leader of The Greens
This 👇
Have had multiple conversations today along the lines of:
A) six years of many of the things (but not all) that we were warning would happen have happened in six days, so far, and
B) six years of narratives and PR spin from five governments and Ofcom are not meshing well with legislated reality.
A) six years of many of the things (but not all) that we were warning would happen have happened in six days, so far, and
B) six years of narratives and PR spin from five governments and Ofcom are not meshing well with legislated reality.
Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
July 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This 👇
It’s here! Starfinder 2E in the wild! Cannot wait to play this… #RPG #Starfinder
July 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It’s here! Starfinder 2E in the wild! Cannot wait to play this… #RPG #Starfinder
The next game for the Portsmouth Pathfinder Society is up, for Sunday 27th July at Dice Portsmouth. New players always very welcome and no previous experience of a RPG or Pathfinder is needed. warhorn.net/events/pompe... #Pathfinder #PathfinderSociety #RPG
PFS2 6-03: Godsrain in a Godless Land | Warhorn
Sun 27/7 11am-4:30pm (GMT+01) at Dice Portsmouth. Rahadoum is a land that abhors the gods, and while the death of Gorum was cause for celebration there, the Godsrain that followed brought only uncerta...
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July 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The next game for the Portsmouth Pathfinder Society is up, for Sunday 27th July at Dice Portsmouth. New players always very welcome and no previous experience of a RPG or Pathfinder is needed. warhorn.net/events/pompe... #Pathfinder #PathfinderSociety #RPG
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You need to take a look at this bug I saw in the park last night. Look at it! What a weirdo! I’m obsessed! It’s called a Long-Necked Ground Beetle and I can’t believe we’re neighbors.
July 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
You need to take a look at this bug I saw in the park last night. Look at it! What a weirdo! I’m obsessed! It’s called a Long-Necked Ground Beetle and I can’t believe we’re neighbors.
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New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10)
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
Big data, changing taxonomy, and ghost records: permanent preservation of collected specimens is essential for insect monitoring
Abstract. Successful long-term biodiversity monitoring requires consistent identification of all specimens, both those newly collected and those collected
doi.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10)
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
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I think this deserves to be the nature photo of the year!
Echthromorpha agrestoria
Echthromorpha agrestoria paikasta 9M62+WHX, Rossing, Namibia toukokuu 4, 2025 07:44 käyttäjältä Chantelle Bosch
inaturalist.laji.fi
July 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I think this deserves to be the nature photo of the year!
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Have you recorded wildlife?
An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg
An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg
Microsoft Forms
forms.cloud.microsoft
July 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Have you recorded wildlife?
An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg
An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg
Due to some technical issues, the plug broke, this is a bit delayed, but our first Light Trap at Portsmouth Natural History Musuem is away! #Entomology #Lepidoptera #Moths
July 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Due to some technical issues, the plug broke, this is a bit delayed, but our first Light Trap at Portsmouth Natural History Musuem is away! #Entomology #Lepidoptera #Moths
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I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
journals.plos.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
So I'm doing a thing, and GM'ing my first game of @paizo.com's Pathfinder Society at the excellent Dice in Portsmouth. And even better, it involves Wasps! What else could you possibly want! Come play Pathfinder with us, newbies very welcome. #Pathfinder #Wasps warhorn.net/events/pompe...
PFS2 6-12: The Burning of Greensteeples | Warhorn
Sun 13/7 11am-3pm (GMT+01) at Dice Portsmouth. Within the heart of devil-cursed Cheliax, Greensteeples Manor, home of the illustrious Jeggare line, secretly stands as the only stronghold of the Pathfi...
warhorn.net
July 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So I'm doing a thing, and GM'ing my first game of @paizo.com's Pathfinder Society at the excellent Dice in Portsmouth. And even better, it involves Wasps! What else could you possibly want! Come play Pathfinder with us, newbies very welcome. #Pathfinder #Wasps warhorn.net/events/pompe...