Joanna Bagniewska

"Ask Me About Science!" Got some time and want to engage your community? Grab a whiteboard, find a seat with foot traffic, and see what unfolds! "Hello! Im a friendly neighborhood scientist, and I work on Linsert area of expertise and practice]. Ask me about science!" written on a whiteboard

What if every scientist spent one afternoon a month just talking about science with strangers?

Last week, I had the pleasure of hearing @beccmel2.bsky.social speak about in-person engagement for @standupforscience.bsky.social.

How can you do that in your community? Try a whiteboard!

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Butts, butts, butts! #WorldWildlifeDay butts - and the best one of them belongs to a dragonfly. What's so special about it? I explain in this here video.

For more animal butt facts, buy my book (or just ask me).
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Big shoutout to the @morethanadodo.bsky.social, where the greatest filming happens.

Ah yes - like conservation biology conferences where the last talk before lunchtime tells you to never eat seafood, and then guess what's on the table?

It's World Wildlife Day, so the perfect moment to pencil a talk into your calendars.

9 March, at @morethanadodo.bsky.social we will host @danchallender.bsky.social from @biology.ox.ac.uk, talking about the elusive, endangered and no doubt enchanting pangolins.

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Dr Seuss Day: 'Without Oxford University, we don't get Dr Seuss' To coincide with Dr Seuss Day, the BBC looks back at how Oxford University helped create the icon.

It's #DRSeussDay! Dr Seuss started a doctorate at @ox.ac.uk, but left after a year. Had he stayed longer, he might have become Dr Geisel rather than Dr Seuss.
Oh, the places you'll go...

A great piece on Theodor Geisel in Oxford:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Graduate School at Oxford Lifelong Learning The Graduate School facilitates a stimulating and enriching learning and research environment for both internal and external graduate students and postgraduate researchers.

Research skills sessions for postgraduates - apply here: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/gradua...

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These hybrid sessions are primarily aimed at doctoral students but all postgraduate researchers external to the University are welcome to attend. All sessions can be attended either in Oxford or online. Sessions for March/April 2026: Academic Reading: Approach and Critique Writing an Abstract Improving Your Presentations Writing Your Methodology Research Interviews: Styles and Techniques

Want to
🧪 improve research skills and boost your confidence?
🎓 get a taste of the Oxford experience?

The Graduate School in @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is offering research skills sessions for external postgraduate students in March-April (hybrid format). Apply (link below)!
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Bengal slow loris, Nycticebus bengalensis, from Laos with 6-week-old baby. Photo: Helena Snyder, Wikimedia Commons

Can slow lorises rescued from the pet trade be translocated and released?
Not easily.
Out of 9 tracked lorises in the study, only 2 survived beyond 6 months. Four were fatally attacked by other lorises. Released lorises showed signs of chronic stress.

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Next Tuesday we'll be @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social for a book launch 🎉

Join our expert panel to explore 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan' and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'. Register at bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch

#Bamiyan #Barmakids #documents #manuscripts

The paper is neat, but can we please appreciate the fact that it's written by a Daniel, Daniele and Daniela? And John, who surely should have been swapped out for a Danielle.

BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship - BirdLife International Are you seeking a career in conservation science and have a particular interest in seabirds or understanding species extinction risk? The BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship could be for you.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We are looking for an emerging scientist with an interest in #seabirds and #conservation for a 🌟new scholarship position🌟

⏱️Deadline: 13/03/2026
🐧Fixed term 12 months, 35 hrs/pw
📌Cambridge/ Hybird

Come join our fantastic team!

Full #job details ➡️ tinyurl.com/BLIemergings...

Scientists Discover Colossal Spider Web in Stinking Cave YouTube video by The New York Times

Footage of the World Wide(st) Web - in a smelly cave in the Balkans.

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youtube.com/shorts/8yhOF...

The colonial spider web in Sulfur Cave, is home to a mixed colony of Tegenaria domestica and Prinerigone vagans. A. Side view; B. frontal view. The swarm of adult chironomids is visible near the cave stream. Photo A: Marek Audy.

Biggest spider web in the world: the area of a flat.

Found in a sulphur-smelling cave in the Balkans, this ~100m² spongy web is maintained by two species of solitary 🕷️. The 110K inhabitants feed on midges, probably because they can't see the other spiders.

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subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/1623...

Spirits vs spirits.

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35 years of ideas and impact ✨
IF Oxford is your grassroots regional platform for curiosity, creativity & STEM culture — connecting research, business, arts and neighbourhoods through discovery 💭 Do you have science, innovation or bold ideas to share? If so, #GetInvolved → if-oxford.com/get-involved

Well, well, well - Bluesky *IS* professionally useful, especially for someone running a social media workshop tomorrow.

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I love wearing this colour.

Handwritten note saying: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear.

Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...

So, hang in there, #academicsky!
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Joanna (R) and a llama.

Probably the floofiest professional meeting you will see on here today.

College fellow (r) and a llama at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social. That's a llot of lls.

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A visual of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, saying "Men can do science too".

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

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Visual by Jan Bajtlik

Oskar Kindvall, Francesca Froy, Thomas Hesselberg, Joanna Bagniewska

How can planners and urban designers best promote biodiversity at the urban scale?

FREE Online Lecture 📅 10.03.26 18:15 GMT

How to best connect up urban nature? Join Oskar Kindvall, Francesca Froy, Thomas Hesselber and myself to find out.

Sign up: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/online...
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If the Met Gala happened underwater...

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They are two different species.
The American one is the Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana. Looks strange, but generally a nice guy.
The Aussie one is the brushtail possum,Trichosurus vulpecula. Looks cute, but is lethal for NZ birds.

You are referring to the Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana, native to North America. The articles are about the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, native to Australia and brought to NZ for fur farming.

Possums The possum is one of the greatest threats to our natural environment.

Here's a short outline from NZ govt: www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests...

I don't catch possums - the one time I've been to NZ was some 15 years ago... But I did see a lot of possum socks there!

The birds of New Zealand have not evolved with mammalian predators - many are flightless and ground nesting, and their populations are being hammered by cats, ferrets and possums that have been brought over by humans.

Photo of a Virginia opossum

Oh there are plenty - they just usually go by *O*possum.

Oreos and uppers: inside the research to get the last 1% of predators To achieve Predator Free 2050, every last individual predator needs to be caught – and the final few are often the hardest.

Cinnamon and chocolate: a combination to die for.

Brushtail possums, invasive in NZ, can normally be trapped easily. But the most trap-shy animals are a problem: how to target the last few?

Turns out, special edition cinnamon Oreos. More addictive than drugs.

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predatorfreenz.org/research/ore...

Popularising science! Otherwise it'd be "zaludnienie nauki".