Terry O'Connor

Simulium reptans, this is a male with large facets at the top of the eyes and smaller ones below. Females feed on mammals including humans

Simulium reptans, male with large and small facets to the eyes; females feed on mammals inc. humans.
Anyone ecologists needing help with diptera backlog from this year? Or planning lots of diptera work next year, please contact me if I can help.
Please share, ta!
www.dipteraid.co.uk

First sighting of the new @candlestickpress.bsky.social Ten Poems about Owls, at the preview eve of the brand new @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social in York.

They probably think he's the leader of evil Nastistan.

I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.

There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.

You lovely BlueSky lot, eldest has spent the day HUGELY enjoying taking pictures at the British Museum and wants to start editing them on a computer/trying out a proper camera. Any advice for getting started? He’s 12, but very good at computers and etc & has immense focus when interested in things.

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

But we do already pay for plumbers. We pay for them to do training in FE and via apprenticeships.

Photo of a total station survey in progress with the text "Historic England. The Professional Edit. Expert updates for heritage professionals. Sign up today"

Historic England has launched a newsletter for the heritage sector. Despite the image there's no landscape survey in the first issue, alas, but lots of climate stuff plus a Roman villa...

You can sign up here (today, or indeed any day): webmail.historicenglandservices.org.uk/k/Historic-E...

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

Staggering if true.

Weird, eh? My abiding memory of D la R was seeing my straightlaced, small-world mother in happy tears throughout. Just great, glamorous fun, and the man could time a joke perfectly.

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

Saw him live at Margate Winter Gardens when I was, dunno...12 maybe? Hilarious. His sidekick in that show was a tiny Scot called Ronnie Corbett. No idea what became of him.

An image of a Stock Dove. It has a grey head, a black eye and an iridescent green sheen on its neck. It's body is grey and it has a pink breast.

(1/) Although Stock Dove is also associated with woodland, it can often be found feeding on arable farmland. This sometimes overlooked species has increased across the UK in recent years. @btobirds.bsky.social JNCC RSPB Science #Ornithology #CitizenScience

Favourite #WorldBookDay moment ...
Asked a hall full of children if any of them knew what a Dalek was ... girl RAN up to the stage and announced ... it's a small onion but strong. Cut it and you'll cry.

Me: .... thinking ...
Me: .. still thinking ...
Finally ...
... Garlic.

Figure 3 from the manuscript: Detail of the FN3-11-T93-5-1 specimen and the identified bite damage. White arrows indicate areas of taphonomic interest. Lower panels present 3D models obtained using confocal microscopy of the 4 tooth pits included within this study (A n = 1, B n = 1, C n = 2). Photos of the Hippo femur were taken by María Higueras Muñoz, figure created by L.A. Courtenay.

1/4 New recommendation: Courtenay et al. (2026). Computational simulations of potential Pachycrocuta bite damage based on a ~1.2 Ma ravaged hippopotamus femur from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain). V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🏺🧪🦣

Men studying a dragon

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Team Miles for MND Help Team Miles for MND raise money to support My Name'5 Doddie Foundation

My cousin Charlotte and her friends are cycling hundreds of miles across Scotland, for the Doddie Triple Crown, raising money for research and support for MND patients.

If you could help at all, donating or sharing this link, they - and I - would be so grateful.

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The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:

Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺

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Do you think he actually teaches his students that if their great-grandparents came from somewhere they have an 'ancestral' claim to the area's prehistoric artefacts?

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

Family cycling along a grassy path in a sunny countryside field with sheep grazing nearby.

The Ure Dales Landscape Recovery Project is working to restore upland habitats, boost wildlife and support sustainable farming. There is also an access plan being developed to create better walking, cycling and transport options. Have your say 👇

👉 https://ow.ly/Cjqe50Yp2Nn

📸 Paul Harris

people who need to claim asylum should be able to claim it, the process should be swift, easy and humane, and because we as a nation are a safe country, we should provide asylum to to people who need it.

Are you UK based and need funding for radiocarbon dating? Spring has sprung, which means it is time for the next deadline for NEIF applications! Please get in contact asap to discuss your project. Deadline 25th March; www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

She's following the Moshe Dayan doctrine of 'get in the retaliation first'.

Relatively so, but the vigorous lick pressed numerous buttons at random, so we had to wipe down the TST and set up all over again.

BirdWatch Ireland CEO Andrew Kelly & BTO CEO Juliet Vickery are sitting at a table outside smiling as they get ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.

RSPB Chief Executive Beccy Speight & BTO CEO Juliet Vickery are sitting together at a table in the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge holding pens ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.

BTO CEO Juliet Vickery & Scottish Ornithologists Club President Ruth Briggs are sitting at a table smiling and holding pens ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.

BTO CEO Juliet Vickery & Welsh Ornithological Society Chair Anne Brenchley are sitting at a table together looking down and holding pens as they get ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31. Wildlife and nature themed artwork hangs on the wall behind them.

1/ Five leading charities forge partnership for bird conservation for the Bird Atlas 2027–31! 🐦 But what is the Bird Atlas? ⬇️🧵 #Ornithology

@btobirds.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @birdsinwales.bsky.social

A little reported fact is that the Iranian frigate destroyed 2000 miles from the combat zone was carrying ZERO AMMUNITION (a condition of the exercise it was invited to participate in).

The ship was, by any definition, defenceless.

Much like the 80+ sailors left to drown.

Infamy.

My equivalent was a cow in Orkney that patiently watched us set up a TST, then as soon as backs were turned it strolled over and firmly licked the entire keypad and screen. Words were had.