Philip Amies
@amiesphilip.bsky.social
Interested in history, earth science, biology.
Reposted by Philip Amies
Middlewick extended preview
YouTube video by The Wildlife Channel
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Philip Amies
Very happy to see the last and my favourite article of the PhD out in @funecology.bsky.social! We show how an invasive moth can alter plant-frugivore interactions in the Mediterranean dwarf palm🦋🏝️🍒🐐
@imedea.bsky.social @annatraveset.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@imedea.bsky.social @annatraveset.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trait‐mediated effects driven by an invasive herbivore alter functionally diverse plant–frugivore interactions
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Very happy to see the last and my favourite article of the PhD out in @funecology.bsky.social! We show how an invasive moth can alter plant-frugivore interactions in the Mediterranean dwarf palm🦋🏝️🍒🐐
@imedea.bsky.social @annatraveset.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@imedea.bsky.social @annatraveset.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Philip Amies
New study on factors influencing collisions of Red Kite Milvus milvus with wind turbines: findings suggest that turbines with rotor diameters <90m and clearances > 60m may pose a lower relative threat to Red Kites. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
New study on factors influencing collisions of Red Kite Milvus milvus with wind turbines: findings suggest that turbines with rotor diameters <90m and clearances > 60m may pose a lower relative threat to Red Kites. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Reposted by Philip Amies
🌸Check the newly published article ‘Contrasting effects of pollinators on the pollination success of floral morphs of a distylous bowl-shaped flower’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @j-valverde.bsky.social 🧵(1/10)
👉 doi.org/qc2r
@ebdonana.bsky.social
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #AoBpapers
👉 doi.org/qc2r
@ebdonana.bsky.social
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #AoBpapers
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🌸Check the newly published article ‘Contrasting effects of pollinators on the pollination success of floral morphs of a distylous bowl-shaped flower’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @j-valverde.bsky.social 🧵(1/10)
👉 doi.org/qc2r
@ebdonana.bsky.social
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #AoBpapers
👉 doi.org/qc2r
@ebdonana.bsky.social
#PlantScience #PollinationBiology #AoBpapers
Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.
While the Mersey Barrage is a risk to birds, not so much for Ruddy Shelducks unless things have change more than I imagine.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
While the Mersey Barrage is a risk to birds, not so much for Ruddy Shelducks unless things have change more than I imagine.
Reposted by Philip Amies
Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Reposted by Philip Amies
Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA. Stop saying that they discovered DNA! This was done by another guy you probably haven't heard of! And therein lies a story. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
Before Watson and Crick in 1953 Came Friedrich Miescher in 1869
Abstract. The story of genetics typically omits the original discovery of the molecular nature of DNA: Friedrich Miescher's 1869 discovery of the substance
academic.oup.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA. Stop saying that they discovered DNA! This was done by another guy you probably haven't heard of! And therein lies a story. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
Reposted by Philip Amies
The continuing mismeasure of people makes it to PNAS - and poorly applied genomics will not fix the confounding of family wealth, other environmental variables and genetics. A zombie idea likely popular with far-right types. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The scientific literature has seen a resurgence of interest in genetic influences on human behaviour and socioeconomic outcomes. Such studies face the central difficulty of distinguishing possible causal influences, in particular genetic and non-genetic ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The continuing mismeasure of people makes it to PNAS - and poorly applied genomics will not fix the confounding of family wealth, other environmental variables and genetics. A zombie idea likely popular with far-right types. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reposted by Philip Amies
Where are they now? More than 10 years on from the initial revelation, it still blows my mind that Shetland’s phalaropes winter in the Pacific (map from Brooke’s ‘Far From Land’). Yet they are short-distance migrants compared with Arctic Terns… #BirdingScotland
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Where are they now? More than 10 years on from the initial revelation, it still blows my mind that Shetland’s phalaropes winter in the Pacific (map from Brooke’s ‘Far From Land’). Yet they are short-distance migrants compared with Arctic Terns… #BirdingScotland
Reposted by Philip Amies
Evolution of molecular communication in the permanent Azolla symbiosis
#TansleyInsight by Büyüktaş et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
#TansleyInsight by Büyüktaş et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Evolution of molecular communication in the permanent Azolla symbiosis
#TansleyInsight by Büyüktaş et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
#TansleyInsight by Büyüktaş et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#plantscience
If you ever visit Holme next the Sea and look at the 'grazing marsh' a polder (embanked and drained saltmarsh created in 1860) these are the owners
Robinson
Robinson
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you ever visit Holme next the Sea and look at the 'grazing marsh' a polder (embanked and drained saltmarsh created in 1860) these are the owners
Robinson
Robinson
Seahenge 2 image taken in 2025, near the site of excavated Seahenge 1.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Seahenge 2 image taken in 2025, near the site of excavated Seahenge 1.
Document which will help with understanding condition assessments.
publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Document which will help with understanding condition assessments.
publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/...
How you can use DEFRA Magic map to see the most recent condition assessment on an SSSI you are interested in.
magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.html
magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.html
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
How you can use DEFRA Magic map to see the most recent condition assessment on an SSSI you are interested in.
magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.html
magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.html
Reposted by Philip Amies
More evidence dispelling the seed bank myth that falsely leads practioners to believe that it's an insurance policy against distruptive disturbances to old-growth communities--disturbances that often deliberately prescribed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Seed rain and seed banks cannot supply missing diversity to the aboveground flora in reconstructed prairies
Seed-based restoration is a viable method for alleviating the loss of tallgrass prairies by creating new assemblages of prairie flora. Despite using diverse inputs of native seeds, restoration effort...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
More evidence dispelling the seed bank myth that falsely leads practioners to believe that it's an insurance policy against distruptive disturbances to old-growth communities--disturbances that often deliberately prescribed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Reposted by Philip Amies
And this is the best prairie research I've seen in a few years. This is exactly how to investigate fire effects, because not all fires are equal. Annual fires are more variable in their effects and generally less intense than less frequent fires. #prairie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Fire Frequency Driven Increases in Burn Heterogeneity Promote Microbial Beta Diversity: A Test of the Pyrodiversity‐Biodiversity Hypothesis
Fire is a common ecological disturbance that structures terrestrial ecosystems and biological communities. The ability of fires to contribute to ecosystem heterogeneity has been termed pyrodiversity ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
And this is the best prairie research I've seen in a few years. This is exactly how to investigate fire effects, because not all fires are equal. Annual fires are more variable in their effects and generally less intense than less frequent fires. #prairie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Blysmus compressus, vulnerable in 2005, endangered 2025. It was recorded at Holme in 1991, took some persistence to get permission to go and look for it after 2010, abundant in a small area, people then became interested. Twenty plus years unrecorded on a NNR.
bsbi.org/wp-content/u...
bsbi.org/wp-content/u...
bsbi.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Blysmus compressus, vulnerable in 2005, endangered 2025. It was recorded at Holme in 1991, took some persistence to get permission to go and look for it after 2010, abundant in a small area, people then became interested. Twenty plus years unrecorded on a NNR.
bsbi.org/wp-content/u...
bsbi.org/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Philip Amies
A new Red List for Vascular Plants in Great Britain has just been published - the first update for twenty years 🌿
So what is a Red List, and why does it matter? What does this new report tells us about the state of Britain’s flora?
So what is a Red List, and why does it matter? What does this new report tells us about the state of Britain’s flora?
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A new Red List for Vascular Plants in Great Britain has just been published - the first update for twenty years 🌿
So what is a Red List, and why does it matter? What does this new report tells us about the state of Britain’s flora?
So what is a Red List, and why does it matter? What does this new report tells us about the state of Britain’s flora?
Reposted by Philip Amies
Tom seems to have captured the moment that a Redshank is shaking the salt out of its nares (nostrils).
Waders operating in salty conditions have salt glands, near their eyes, that remove excess salt.
Waders operating in salty conditions have salt glands, near their eyes, that remove excess salt.
#WaderWednesday ‘Sneezy’ to identify this Redshank on the Northumberland coast. @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @wadertales.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Tom seems to have captured the moment that a Redshank is shaking the salt out of its nares (nostrils).
Waders operating in salty conditions have salt glands, near their eyes, that remove excess salt.
Waders operating in salty conditions have salt glands, near their eyes, that remove excess salt.
Reposted by Philip Amies
Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
Reposted by Philip Amies
Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron.
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
Tim Farron calls for rethink over plans to reintroduce sea eagles to Cumbria
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has written to the Lake District National Park Authority, raising concerns about the impact the potential reintroduction of sea eagles will have on sheep farms i...
www.wfelibdems.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron.
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...