Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata @ento-ea.bsky.social Experimental and applied entomology - Scientific journal of the Netherlands Entomological Society @nev.nl with research papers and reviews. #entomology #biocontrol 🪲🦋🪰🐜🐞🐝🪳🦗🦟🐛
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15707458
Craig Postlethwaite @craigpnature.bsky.social Here for birds, beetles, and lichens mainly. Occasionally gets excited about whisky, rugby and guitars. Very often found fishing.
Treasurer for Paisley Natural History Society. 
Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social Ecologist, Palynologist (pollen expert) quite good at Botany, Entomology & Mycology. Conservationist. Ex School Teacher, Ex Forensic Scientist.
Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social Entomologist, documenting patterns of beetle diversity (especially histerids & staphylinoids); University prof sharing systematics with the next generation; popular science writer (Under One Canopy); would rather be in the field.
Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social Ants, fossils, beer, macro photography. Drone mapping & GIS. Science PhD. Bambu Labs P1S. He/him, will also respond to “Oi you!”. AuADHD - if I seem over familiar in posts etc. that is probably why. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Merops Field Centre @meropsfieldcentre.bsky.social Mediterranean Ecology Research Observatory for Practical Skills
Field studies organisation located in the south of France
Created by Dr Sophie Mowles and Dr Fabrizio Manco
https://merops.eu/
@sophiemowles.bsky.social
The Species Recovery Trust @speciesrecovery.bsky.social Giving a helping hand to some of the UK’s most endangered species 🪲🐌🌿
linktr.ee/speciesrecoverytrust
katsuraito.bsky.social @katsuraito.bsky.social Entomologist (Acarologist) & Professor in Kochi University. Studying how spider mites adapt to seasonal environments and avoid predators. Enjoy drawing, sake, and hanging out. https://sites.google.com/site/fdasfdadsjal/Home
James Witts @jdwitts.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeoecology/Interim Curatorial Assistant in Fossil Echinoderms @nhm-london.bsky.social Fossil wrangler (& how we use them to understand the future), big fan of southern high latitudes. Ferroequinologist. Views my own.
British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social Interested in all the natural world has to offer, with a particular focus on Birds, Moths and Butterflies. Also quite keen on Fungi, Plants, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish and Insects. Did I leave anything out? Supporting #BirdsSeenIn2026
People's Trust for Endangered Species @ptes-org.bsky.social We're working to ensure a future for endangered species and habitats worldwide. www.ptes.org. #BringingTheWildBackToLife
Donate to our latest appeal 🐿️ https://bit.ly/supportbriddlesford
Img: Gail Johnson
GLiTRS @glitrs.bsky.social GLobal Insect Threat-Response Synthesis (GLiTRS). A project aiming to develop a comprehensive and predictive assessment of the pattern and consequences of insect decline.
Foot It @footit.bsky.social Go birding by foot from your house in January. Record the number of species you see and post on the Bluesky!
Chris Braban @chrisfbraban.bsky.social Atmospheric/environmental scientist working at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, lives in Edinburgh, views my own
Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social Forest & tree ecology, woodlands, tree seeds and regeneration, the phenomenon of masting. New interest in wild (& rewilded) woodland. First love = tree rings, soulmate = tree seeds
Uni of Liverpool, UK
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/andrew-hacket-pain
Benjamin Wildermuth @bmwildermuth.bsky.social Arthropod ecology in different ecosystems. (Functional) diversity, community composition, trophic niches, plant-animal interactions, temporal & spatial patterns
https://www.idiv.de/staff/benjamin-wildermuth/
Debbie Alston @debbie1alston.bsky.social Early retired ecologist, nature enthusiast and conservation volunteer now living in Sussex. Botany, butterflies, birds and mammals mostly. Monty Python and Michael Palin fan.
Tanyptera Project @tanyptera.bsky.social Promoting Invertebrate Recording & Conservation in North West England - Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside & Greater Manchester 🐝🐞🕷
https://linktr.ee/TanypteraProject
Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) @ect-uk.bsky.social We are an ecology charity that preserves long-term experiments (LTEs) to understand how environmental changes affect different habitats over long timescales. #LongTermExperiments #Ecology
https://www.ecologicalcontinuitytrust.org/
UK Environmental Change Network @ukecn.bsky.social A network of organisations & people making regular measurements of air, soil, water, animals & plants at UK sites since 1992. Our data & instrumented research sites support science to determine how & why the natural environment is changing | Web: ecn.ac.uk
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social Collaborative biodiversity conservation. Professor of Conservation Ecology at UEA (personal account). Father, optimist. Pronouns: he/him
The Gibster @thegibster.bsky.social Pan-species naturalist.
Becoming increasingly restless.
Don't believe the hype.
David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social 
Abby Williams @abbyevewilliams.bsky.social PhD student studying bird evolution 🦜🦋🧬islands, genomics, conservation
Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social Doctor of Decay. Palaeontologist studying the dark art of taphonomy: how squishy animals become fossils. Lecturer of Invertebrates and deputy curator of Cole Museum at University of Reading. Loves 🐙♥️ (he/him).
Eleanor Jackson @eleanorjackson.com Postdoc at Uni of Oxford. Mostly community ecology & tropical forests 🌱
eleanorjackson.com
Idris Adams @idrisadams.bsky.social PhD student in the Sumner Lab at UCL CBER, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment
RES Student Representative
Lover of all things Hymenoptera!
Helen Parish @helenlparish.bsky.social Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
@WorcCollegeOx @UniRdg_History
Dr Joanna Clare Dobson @joannacdobson.bsky.social Writer of creative nonfiction; researcher in the environmental humanities. Based in Sheffield, lover of allotments and trees. joannaclaredobson.com
https://wreckageandshimmer.substack.com/
The Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland @colsocbi.bsky.social A society promoting, researching and recording the 4,000+ beetle species on Britain and Ireland. 🪲 Events, field meetings and networking...🪲🪲
Website: https://www.colsoc.org/
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
The Cole Museum of Zoology @colezoology.bsky.social The Cole Museum is based at the University of Reading and is home to thousands of zoological specimens, primarily used in teaching and research. For more info visit: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/cole-museum/
English Folk Dance and Song Society @efdss.bsky.social The national organisation for folk music, song and dance in England. Based at Cecil Sharp House
RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social By choosing to publish, read & review papers in our journals, you are helping the Royal Entomological Society invest in meaningful entomology that supports the understanding, development & future of insect science.
Follow the RES at @royentsoc.bsky.social
Ben @benjyhere.bsky.social First and foremost, biodiversity: Frogs; Snakes; Bees but the wild kinds; Birds but not a twitcher. Occasional politics, of the woke, pro-Join #EU kind. Si j'avais le choix, je serais à Toulouse. SW London. Crepuscular.
Will Langdon @wlangdon12.bsky.social Assistant Conservation Officer for Epping Forest. PhD on the effects of nitrogen pollution on insects, particularly likes butterflies and moths.
Readifolk 🎶🪕🎻🪗🎵 @readifolk.bsky.social Making Sunday night Folk Music night in Reading UK since 1982.
Visit 🌐 www.readifolk.org.uk to find out more and 🌐📻🛜 readifolkradio.bsky.social our weekly podcast brought to you by members of the club.
Nynke Blömer @nynke-b.bsky.social Researching Bumblebees and Honeybees | PhD researcher at University of Cambridge 🌸🐝CASE partner with @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
News Editor for BBKA News @bbka.org.uk
Co-founder of Pollinator Ambassadors
She/Her
Madeleine Fabušová @fabusovam.bsky.social PhD researcher at Newcastle University to try and understand how we can mitigate the impacts of light pollution! 💡🦋 keen moth-er, naturalist and trainee bird ringer:)
📍North East, UK (mostly)
🐜Editor-In-Chief of @entobitescomms.bsky.social
Network Ecology Group - Newcastle University @nclneg.bsky.social Information about ecological networks, papers and news from the group led by @dmevans.bksy.social at Newcastle University, UK
Ayman Asiri @aasiri.bsky.social Senior Scientist at The Allerton Project. Interested in entomology & ecological disease. PhD spent researching the role of smell in honeybee disease transmission 🐝
Ben Hawthorne @bensjhawthorne.bsky.social PhD Student @ Newcastle University | he/him | Entomologist
#Ecology #LGBwiththeT #PrideInEnto
🪲🧬🏳️🌈
Rosy Christopher @envirosyment.bsky.social Molecular entomology PhD student NCL @ForagingEcology 🕷️🧬 • RES Student rep 🪲 • First gen • She/They • #NeurodivergentinSTEM #PrideinEnto
Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social Historian& Sociologist of Science at KCL | Historical Climatology & Glaciology | Former Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Keynote Speaker, Alice in Wonderland Expert & Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
Lisa Williams @lisawilliams30.bsky.social Wildlife enthusiast and amateur entomologist specialising in bees and flies. Aerialist, vegan, nature girl, music lover. RSPB & Bumblebee conservation volunteer, NBN award finalist 2024.
Benny Hawksbee @bennyhawksbee.bsky.social Larval stage entomologist; focused on hymenoptera (bees and wasps, primarily) but also very interested in diptera (flies) and lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
Former sea turtle biologist.
Nominative determinism
Tristan Bantock @britishbugs.bsky.social Ecologist/Entomologist
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social Ecologist. Meadows, mires & meres. Wetland beetles, fen creation, Teesside birds. Against Trump, Putin & Farage.
Jamie Thompson @jamiet-42.bsky.social FLS. Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Reading. Recipient of the Irene Manton Prize for best botany PhD 🌵. Studies plants mostly. Ex chef 🧑🍳
Dr Victoria J Burton @soilscholar.bsky.social Postdoc at Natural History Museum London - boosting nature in education. Fan of soil beasties! Amateur Entomologists' Society Trustee & Membership Administrator. She/her 🌈
Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social Ecologist, birder, entomologist, botanist and bat botherer. Born in Liverpool and returned via circuitous route. I block dickheads on sight. Compost the rich.
The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social Conservation charity bringing everyone together for the love of trees 🌳
JNCC @jncc.bsky.social The UK’s statutory, scientific authority on nature. We work across land & sea for nature, for people & the planet.
Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social Nature recovery. Writer. Chair Natural England. Fellow CISL. Chair Cool Earth. Council Member Fauna & Flora. Former Friends of the Earth, Wildlife Trusts, WWF, BirdLife International. www.tonyjuniper.com
environmentjob @environmentjob.co.uk The UK's busiest environmental jobs website. Find our latest jobs here!
@millington.bsky.social @millington.bsky.social 
Landscape Ecology UK @landscapeecologyuk.bsky.social The UK chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Promoting understanding and application of landscape ecology - the study of interactions between structure and function of physical, biological and cultural components of landscapes.
Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social Professor and Head of the Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Berlin. Taxonomy, robotics, AI, imaging and nanopore sequencing for biodiversity discovery at scale.
Ian Carter @iancarter67.bsky.social Galloway-based naturalist and author: Rhythms of Nature | Human, Nature | The Red Kite | The Red Kite’s Year | The Hen Harrier’s Year | Wild Galloway
https://pelagicpublishing.com/collections/ian-carter
https://www.whittlespublishing.com/Wild_Galloway
The European Bar Guide @europeanbarguide.bsky.social theeuropeanbarguide.com
Your Guide to the Greatest pubs and bars in Europe! ✨ 🍻
John Beaufoy Publishing @jbpublishing.bsky.social Publisher. Natural History, Diving & Underwater, Travel & Adventure, History. Oxford, UK.
https://linktr.ee/jb_publishing
Amateur Entomologists' Society @amentsoc.bsky.social We’ve been sharing our passion for insects since 1935. As a UK charity, we’re here to make entomology exciting and accessible to all - especially amateur enthusiasts and young nature lovers. Our Bug Club helps kids discover the amazing world of minibeasts.
Vikki Rose @vikkirose56.bsky.social PhD student studying moths & butterflies (lepidoptera) and hedgerows. #teammoth 🐛🦋
Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social Carnivores-Ungulates-Large landscapes
Movement-Habitat-Connectivity
Research Professor-Vilnius University
Research Associate-Nelson Mandela University (George)
Founder @fatbear-bio.bsky.social
https://fattebert.weebly.com/
Heidi Smith @heidi-lemoulin.bsky.social Trying to live gently in France at Le Moulin de Pensol 🇫🇷. Apprehensive about the end of the world. Loves nature, horses, dogs, liveable planet. Evangelical rewilder. 🌿🎼
Moonrakers @moonrakersband.bsky.social 4-piece folk band, based in Oxford UK.
Tom Cameron @ecoevoenviro.bsky.social Professor of Applied Ecology @EssexLifeSciences Ecology of harvested species, their habitats and it's restoration. Family. Dogs. Wild Food. Nature.
WayneS @wsnatureandfossils.bsky.social Nature. Happier outside.
Photographer - mainly macro 🐞🪲🐌
Fossil hunting and preparation
Website.... Dorsetmacrophotography.co.uk
Joss Carr @josscarr.bsky.social Entomologist, naturalist and obsessed biological recorder in the UK. Prolific on iNaturalist. Will talk your ear off about charismatic bias. Junior Naturalist at the Biological Recording Company with an MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation.
UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @pomscheme.bsky.social A partnership working with many volunteers to gather data on insect pollinator populations in the UK. Led by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Find out more at https://ukpoms.org.uk/
Sofia Gripenberg @sofiagripenberg.bsky.social Associate Professor in Ecology at University of Reading.
Community of Arran Seabed Trust @arrancoast.bsky.social A charity that works to ensure shared responsibility for the protection and restoration of our seas.
Check out our website https://www.arrancoast.com/ for Community action, education, research and lots more 
Gavin Broad @gavinbroad.bsky.social Wasps. Curator at the Natural History Museum. Opinions my own, unless they’re wrong.
Lee Dillon MP for Newbury @leedillonmp.bsky.social Liberal Democrat MP for Newbury. Passionate about housing, the NHS, and supporting local communities. 
wetconservatrix (Claire Smith) @wetconservatrix.bsky.social PhD researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant (AFHEA) at the Cole Museum of Zoology. (She/her)
Talk to me about Things In Jars!
(Particularly if they're in propylene phenoxetol or liquid paraffin!)
Bruna Roqué @bruna-roq.bsky.social Natural History Illustrator 🦋
I'm passionate about natural history collections, documentaries, wildlife in general and birds in particular! 🐦⬛
OM System & Zeiss Nature Ambassador
www.brunaroque.com
Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social Ecologist (invasive species, freshwater biodiversity, bioinvasions, aquatic ecosystems) | Professor of Biology, McGill University | Director of the Bieler School of Environment | My lab account: @ricciardilab.bsky.social
Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social 🐦 Birder/Nature geek
🫎 Rewilding champion
🦫 Lead Ecologist & Science Communicator
@kneppwilding.bsky.social
Gaia Mortier @gaiamortier.bsky.social Parasitic
Stable isotope ecologist studying ectoparasites (mostly lice, fleas, ticks) and thylacines - PhD at University of Reading
Fan of everything with 6 or more legs
Graphic design is my passion ✨ www.gaiamortier.com
Jo Brydon-Dickenson @jo-bd.bsky.social PhD student researching trans life in Edwardian London. Also does folk music on moothie and Northumbrian smallpipes.
Rob Stoneman @robstoneman.bsky.social Director of Landscape Recovery at the Wildlife Trusts. Into politics, anything to do with the natural world, hiking, birding, good food and Leicester City FC.
Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social Maven and a firm believer in reasoned discussion as the solution to all things (unless the other side is just wrong!).
Mike Morecroft @mikemorecroft.bsky.social Ecologist, conservationist, head of Climate Change Science at Natural England. Visiting Prof at Reading University. President John Ray Initiative. All views my own.
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Jordan Rainey @jordanrainey.bsky.social Entomologist | Rove beetle taxonomy & systematics | Museum collections & biodiversity | PhD exploring beetle-termite relationships 🪲
https://jordanraineyento.wordpress.com
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordan-Rainey
ACE Space Newbury @acespacenewbury.bsky.social Venue hosting live music, art exhibitions, classes and other events in Newbury, Berkshire, UK. https://acespace.org.uk/
Forest Research @forestresearchuk.bsky.social Research agency for the Forestry Commission.
Scientific services to support sustainable forestry.
Charlie Outhwaite @charlieouthwaite.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Institute of Zoology, ZSL. Research focus: macroecology of insect biodiversity change.
James Rowland @jamesrowland23.bsky.social Ecologist. Interested in insects, plants, mosses, and lichens.
Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social #RussellLab studies #bees #behaviour #microbes & #flower #evolution @MissouriState https://therusselllab.net/
| #PUI | #SciComm #DiversityInSTEM #BLM #WomenInSTEM #Humanities | he/him
@bookishbeck.bsky.social @bookishbeck.bsky.social 
Dan Fernbank @decarbdan.bsky.social Energy & Sustainability Director, @uniofreading.bsky.social. Director, Reading Community Energy @readingenergy.bsky.social
Views are my own
#EnergySky
Claudia Watts @violetbeetle1.bsky.social Ecologist, entomologist, natural historian and wildlife data handler. Former language teacher in many countries, including Ukraine 🇺🇦 Views my own.
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
EURING @euring.bsky.social European Union for Bird Ringing - co-ordinating organization for European bird ringing schemes. Promotes research, data sharing and technical co-operation.
Website: https://euring.org
Eurasian African Migration Atlas: https://migrationatlas.org
Matt Greenwell @mattgreenwell.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Reading working on plant-insect interactions in tropical forests 🌿🪲
Lover of all things wild with a bias towards butterflies 🦋
Fieldwork blog: https://mattgreenwell.wixsite.com/ecology
Rob Yorke @robyorke.bsky.social environmental/rural commentator, curator, moderator, unaffiliated https://robyorke.co.uk/curate-convene-moderate/ | sharing research with a pithy twist and pic🧪
Stephen Moss @stephenmossauthor.bsky.social Naturalist, author, broadcaster, academic. TEN BIRDS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (Faber) shortlisted for 2023 Wainwright Prize & published in ten countries.