@ruth-wright.bsky.social
PhD in public awareness and perceptions of invasive species, University of Stirling
I especially enjoyed the discussion of how Georgina Page set up the peatland in the greenhouses (with a little help from friends!) at the University of Stirling in her recent BES seminar 🥼🌱 iapetus.ac.uk/iapetus_stud...
Georgina Page
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November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I especially enjoyed the discussion of how Georgina Page set up the peatland in the greenhouses (with a little help from friends!) at the University of Stirling in her recent BES seminar 🥼🌱 iapetus.ac.uk/iapetus_stud...
Wouldn't necessarily have expected that one of the really engaging talks in this semester's #UniversityOfStirling BES Tuesday seminars would be about #REF but I learnt so much about how academia works from @matttinsley.bsky.social 😃 🎓
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Wouldn't necessarily have expected that one of the really engaging talks in this semester's #UniversityOfStirling BES Tuesday seminars would be about #REF but I learnt so much about how academia works from @matttinsley.bsky.social 😃 🎓
Bridget Rusk did a brilliant presentation last week at the University of Stirling about her research placement with @scottishwater.bsky.social - I really enjoyed getting the industry perspective!
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Bridget Rusk did a brilliant presentation last week at the University of Stirling about her research placement with @scottishwater.bsky.social - I really enjoyed getting the industry perspective!
Super interesting talks by Sonam Rinzin and Mark Pitt at this week's @iapetusdtp.bsky.social seminar! Lovely to hear from colleagues about completely different environmental topics :)
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Super interesting talks by Sonam Rinzin and Mark Pitt at this week's @iapetusdtp.bsky.social seminar! Lovely to hear from colleagues about completely different environmental topics :)
Fantastic @iapetusdtp.bsky.social training and induction session last week - lovely to meet the new cohort and explore #Durham and its many bookshops!
October 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Fantastic @iapetusdtp.bsky.social training and induction session last week - lovely to meet the new cohort and explore #Durham and its many bookshops!
Fantastic talk on Tuesday from Alastair Skeffington and Laura Corral on circadian clocks in phytoplankton! Love to see the collaboration and it was super engaging for non-specialists in the field such as myself
October 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Fantastic talk on Tuesday from Alastair Skeffington and Laura Corral on circadian clocks in phytoplankton! Love to see the collaboration and it was super engaging for non-specialists in the field such as myself
Great showing from #UniversityOfStirling Biological and Environmental Sciences at the #MacMillanCoffeeMorning today! Thanks to Eileen Tisdall for organizing and to all who baked and donated (especially the vegan miso chocolate brownies and apple crumble muffins!
September 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Great showing from #UniversityOfStirling Biological and Environmental Sciences at the #MacMillanCoffeeMorning today! Thanks to Eileen Tisdall for organizing and to all who baked and donated (especially the vegan miso chocolate brownies and apple crumble muffins!
It's #AsianHornetWeek and a great time to brush up your knowledge of the #InvasiveSpecies #YellowLeggedHornet so you can recognise and report if you see one 👀 tracking their spread by recording sightings on the #AsianHornetWatch app can make a huge difference!
September 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It's #AsianHornetWeek and a great time to brush up your knowledge of the #InvasiveSpecies #YellowLeggedHornet so you can recognise and report if you see one 👀 tracking their spread by recording sightings on the #AsianHornetWatch app can make a huge difference!
Huge problem with #HimalayanBalsam at this time of year and a sad number of #InvasiveSpecies cultivated in the gardens at #WestonPark in #Shropshire 😭 Still a fun day out, but could do with some more invasives education!
August 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Huge problem with #HimalayanBalsam at this time of year and a sad number of #InvasiveSpecies cultivated in the gardens at #WestonPark in #Shropshire 😭 Still a fun day out, but could do with some more invasives education!
Very excited to find "Don't Pack a Pest" stickers and leaflets at #ConquerTradingPost in #Keswick - super eye-catching branding and such an important message!
August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Very excited to find "Don't Pack a Pest" stickers and leaflets at #ConquerTradingPost in #Keswick - super eye-catching branding and such an important message!
There's still time to submit records for the #BigButterflyCount 🦋 It only takes 15 minutes and contributed valuable data to @savebutterflies.bsky.social 🙂 I've been looking around #Stirling and #York! Small whites seem to be dominating for me this year 🤍
August 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
There's still time to submit records for the #BigButterflyCount 🦋 It only takes 15 minutes and contributed valuable data to @savebutterflies.bsky.social 🙂 I've been looking around #Stirling and #York! Small whites seem to be dominating for me this year 🤍
#HarlequinLadybirds and #Buddleia out in force this week in #York (alongside other #InvasiveSpecies and #NonNativeSpecies like Himalayan balsam and monkeyflower)
August 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
#HarlequinLadybirds and #Buddleia out in force this week in #York (alongside other #InvasiveSpecies and #NonNativeSpecies like Himalayan balsam and monkeyflower)
Behind the times here, but I finally got a moment to listen to Becky on the radio and it was fab! Science communication as fun and exciting as it should be!
Warning - shameless self(wasp)-promotion coming up: On Wednesday I got to do a duet about wasps and how great they are with Greg James on the Radio 1 Breakfast show. You can listen here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... at about 38 minutes in.
Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James - 29/05/2025 - BBC Sounds
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July 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Behind the times here, but I finally got a moment to listen to Becky on the radio and it was fab! Science communication as fun and exciting as it should be!
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June 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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I've been wondering about the impact of #HolmOak #QuercusIlex recently... @gbnnsss.bsky.social have assessed it as low risk, but my parents have just had it removed from overrunning their new garden and I found this sign on the island of Košljun 🇭🇷 which describes it as "overgrown" with holm oak
June 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I've been wondering about the impact of #HolmOak #QuercusIlex recently... @gbnnsss.bsky.social have assessed it as low risk, but my parents have just had it removed from overrunning their new garden and I found this sign on the island of Košljun 🇭🇷 which describes it as "overgrown" with holm oak
On holiday, but still hunting down #InvasiveSpecies ( #SarraceniaPurpurea and #LantanaCamara ) at #Zagreb #BotanicGarden Fantastic place with friendly staff and only €1 for students! 🇭🇷
June 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
On holiday, but still hunting down #InvasiveSpecies ( #SarraceniaPurpurea and #LantanaCamara ) at #Zagreb #BotanicGarden Fantastic place with friendly staff and only €1 for students! 🇭🇷
Took some undergrads to take part in @therockpoolproject.bsky.social #InvasiveSpeciesWeek #Bioblitz in #Burntisland and #StAndrews in #Fife 🦀 Such a lovely day and no invasive species identified (except the pampas grass growing in the leisure centre car park!) 🐚
May 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Took some undergrads to take part in @therockpoolproject.bsky.social #InvasiveSpeciesWeek #Bioblitz in #Burntisland and #StAndrews in #Fife 🦀 Such a lovely day and no invasive species identified (except the pampas grass growing in the leisure centre car park!) 🐚
The #RiverTay is lovely for a picnic and a wild swim at this time of year, but we need to look after it! We picked up a whole plastic bag of #litter from the sandbanks (the bag was also litter) and found some #InvasiveSpecies on our trip...
May 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The #RiverTay is lovely for a picnic and a wild swim at this time of year, but we need to look after it! We picked up a whole plastic bag of #litter from the sandbanks (the bag was also litter) and found some #InvasiveSpecies on our trip...
Lovely to catch up with Alice this week - really enjoyed the talk and how it was tailored to what would be interesting to the cohort based on our career stage and varied subject specialisms! 🦆🦅🦉🐦⬛
Today I spoke about systematic maps, abundance models & the achievement that presenting is in itself - to the wonderful @iapetusdtp.bsky.social students & co in sunny Scotland at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social 🏴🌞
May 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Lovely to catch up with Alice this week - really enjoyed the talk and how it was tailored to what would be interesting to the cohort based on our career stage and varied subject specialisms! 🦆🦅🦉🐦⬛
It’s #HedgehogWeek !
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Hear from one of our fantastic patrons and hedgehog-superfan, the wonderful Twiggy !
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Hear from one of our fantastic patrons and hedgehog-superfan, the wonderful Twiggy !
May 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Inspiring couple of days at the International Young Researchers Conference on Invasive Species (IYRCIS), hearing from other #ECR #InvasiveSpecies scientists and seeing the work they're doing on social aspects of #BiologicalInvasions 🐎 including a fab keynote from Franco Bostal on #FeralHorses
May 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Inspiring couple of days at the International Young Researchers Conference on Invasive Species (IYRCIS), hearing from other #ECR #InvasiveSpecies scientists and seeing the work they're doing on social aspects of #BiologicalInvasions 🐎 including a fab keynote from Franco Bostal on #FeralHorses
So interesting to see how species' traits might be used to inform #InvasiveSpecies management decisions in the future!
Harnessing traits to predict economic impacts from biological invasions
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Harnessing traits to predict economic impacts from biological invasions
Biological invasions stand among the main anthropogenic threats to ecosystems globally while causing multitrillion-dollar impacts. Surprisingly, while…
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May 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So interesting to see how species' traits might be used to inform #InvasiveSpecies management decisions in the future!
#InvasiveSpecies including buddleia spotted along the train line from #Dundee to #Stirling 🛤️ I don't think muntjac deer populations have officially reached the Tay yet, but nobody told the deer that...
May 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
#InvasiveSpecies including buddleia spotted along the train line from #Dundee to #Stirling 🛤️ I don't think muntjac deer populations have officially reached the Tay yet, but nobody told the deer that...
Really disappointed to hear that @rspbscotland.bsky.social have standardized their menu and got rid of their fantastic range of vegan cakes! We would make the trip just for the vegan-friendly cafe, but I guess we won't be back (without our own picnic at least!) 😢🌱
April 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Really disappointed to hear that @rspbscotland.bsky.social have standardized their menu and got rid of their fantastic range of vegan cakes! We would make the trip just for the vegan-friendly cafe, but I guess we won't be back (without our own picnic at least!) 😢🌱
Massive thanks to Thiago and everyone who made the BES Symposium happen! Here I am, presenting my work on factors affecting online interest in invasive non-native species 🐞 - and thanks @emofthewoods.bsky.social for the photo ☺️ 📷
April 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Massive thanks to Thiago and everyone who made the BES Symposium happen! Here I am, presenting my work on factors affecting online interest in invasive non-native species 🐞 - and thanks @emofthewoods.bsky.social for the photo ☺️ 📷