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Matt Greenwell
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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
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Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded: A good start would be to extend funding for the amazing STRI Arthropod Inititiative striresearch.si.edu/yves-basset-...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Insect biodiversity monitoring must be expanded
Letter to the Editor
www.nature.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
mattgreenwell.bsky.social
New video for #RESEcolEnt

This one was a lot of fun to make and a really interesting paper to read!
March 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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El oro de Panama es Verde - The gold of Panama is green 🌳🌴🌱

My favourite bit of graffiti welcoming me back to Panama for another three months in the forest
A small building in front of a railway line, painted with the words el oro de Panama es verde
February 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I'm giving a talk on my work and what I get up to in the rainforest this evening at @ri-science.bsky.social

Really excited to be back at the Ri - six years 😲 after my time there as an intern!

www.rigb.org/whats-on/sci...
Science and snacks: Escaping the enemy
We'll bring the science, you bring the snacks.
www.rigb.org
February 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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kane-lawhorn.bsky.social
Happy to see one of my Panama Ph.D. chapters finally out today in Ecology (doi.org/10.1002/ecy....) and Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (doi.org/10.1002/bes2...). This work explores how insect and fungi respond to a widespread disturbance in lowland tropical forest—lightning 🌩! (1/8)
January 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
mattgreenwell.bsky.social
Teaching Lepidoptera ID with @unirdgento.bsky.social today.

A chance for me to brush up on my moth skills but mostly a good opportunity to have a look through the amazing pinned collection we have here 🦋
A collection of pinned butterflies from the UK in a glass topped display box A pulled out drawer display box filled with large, black, white and yellow butterflies A glass topped display box filled with pinned Hawkmoth specimens
February 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Here's a little video I made for the current issue of Ecological Entomology 🪲 #ResEcolEnt
respublications.bsky.social RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · Feb 5
See what else is in the new #RESEcolEnt Vol. 50 Issue 1
👀resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652311/2025/50/1
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February 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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britishecologicalsociety.org
Nature is not a blocker to growth.

The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍
A thriving natural world is the foundation of economic growth and vital for health and wellbeing. Language that pits these against each other is unhelpful and deeply concerning.
January 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Our lab group meeting with collaborators at Oxford this week ended up with a quick trip to @morethanadodo.bsky.social
Their display on insect colour was truly beautiful 🦋🪲
A view of a museum inside an old building, looking down from the floor above. The museum is filled with cabinets of natural history specimens and animal skeletons A ball covered in lots of different green pinned insects including butterflies and beetles Multiple balls covered in pinned insects. Each ball has different coloured insects, two blue, one black, one green
January 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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royentsoc.bsky.social
RES has joined Bluesky!

We are excited to share fascinating science, news, events & more. To start, we’re featuring the #LargeBlueButterfly 🦋

Our #Conservation Science team recently published ground-breaking findings on the dispersal rates of this #EndangeredSpecies 🔽
https://buff.ly/3Wz5QLU
Large Blue butterfly, photo by David Simcox, Conservation Project Manager at the Royal Entomological Society
January 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A few favourites from home and away for this year's #BlueMonday #BlueBugs campaign

1 Azure Damselfly, UK
2 Wasp (ID tbc) - part of our current insect rearing project in Panama. 📷 credit Marleny Rivera
3 Common Blue, UK
4 Jewel beetle, Panama
A blue damselfly sitting on a finger Close up image of a pinned metallic blue wasp with a large red eye and long ovipositor Common blue butterfly sitting on a plantain seed head A metallic blue jewel beetle with a red stripe across it's back
January 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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At the Doñana field station near Seville Spain, speed limit signs include information about the stakes involved.
January 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Ending 2024 with a NYE trip to RSPB Ham Wall and thousands of starlings coming in to roost
#UKWildlife
December 31, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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23 species in flower on a slightly damp #NewYearPlantHunt including herb-robert, my favourite little wildflower 🌸

@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Yellow gorse flowers Red dead nettle flowers at the top of a green leafy plant Single, pink herb-robert flower at the end of a stem with pale green leaves
December 29, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Excited by the idea of using #AI for #biodiversity #conservation? Interested in developing practical tools to mitigate human-wildlife conflict? Check out this #funded #PhD with me and @roboyd91. Deadline 27th Jan, get in touch with any Qs!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Early-Warnings of Human-Wildlife Conflict at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 27, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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deepasena.bsky.social
Another opportunity for a PhD. with me & @drunkennorris.bsky.social at Reading University &
@nhm-london.bsky.social on combining AI & museum specimens to contribute to biodiversity conservation.
Check link below & apply if interested
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD #AI #Biodiversity
Quantifying Species Distributions and Changes in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot using Museum Specimens and AI at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Quantifying Species Distributions and Changes in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot using Museum Specimens and AI at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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drmgoeswild.bsky.social
My BSc student is doing a final year project on Psoriasis: The Silent Impact on Health and Society, if you have experience of this condition or are interested to learn more, please follow the link or QR code to the short survey, thank you!
bit.ly/4iVd3j9
If you have experience of psoriasis or are interested to learn more, please follow the link or QR code to the short survey, thank you!
December 17, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Accomodation booked ✅ Preparations for next year's fieldwork in Panama are underway. Time for another three months of trees, boats and bugs 😁
Looking up at bright yellow flowers in the canopy of a tropical tree A small motorboat parked next to a smaller canoe at the edge of a swamp-like pool A large moth on a wall with a hand below for size comparison. The moth is as big as the hand
December 18, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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Eco-anxiety is a chronic fear of environmental disaster, and entomologists often find themselves face to face with the effects of climate change, as changing distributions of insects create increased risks of food insecurity, disease outbreaks, and threats to biodiversity.
What is Eco-Anxiety and How Does it Affect the Future of Entomology?
Eco-anxiety is a chronic fear of environmental disaster, and entomologists often find themselves face to face with the effects of climate change.
entomologytoday.org
December 17, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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manusaunders.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Insect Conservation and Diversity Early Career Entomologist Award winners: Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar and Lindsey Kemmerling! Great to see the outstanding research being done by early career insect ecologists around the world! 🌏🧪 www.royensoc.co.uk/res-journal-...
RES Journal Early Career Entomologist Awards 2021-2023 - ICAD - Royal Entomological Society
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021-2023 Royal Entomological Society Journal Awards. Insect Conservation and Diversity is a Royal Entomological Society journal that uniquely combines insect div...
www.royensoc.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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charlieouthwaite.bsky.social
I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!
December 9, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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Have a browse of our #PhD projects advertised for an Autumn 2025 start date: www.findaphd.com/phds/crocus-...

Including opportunities to be hosted at our partner organisations @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, @ukceh.bsky.social, @britgeosurvey.bsky.social, and @nocnews.bsky.social (continued)
December 6, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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I'm over two years behind, but I've finally got round to writing up my fieldwork diary from my first trip to Panama back in 2022 🌴

mattgreenwell.wixsite.com/ecology/post...
Panama 2022 - Week 1
Day 0 - 21st September 2022 The journey began the night before with the 11:00 pm coach to Heathrow. My flight wasn’t until 6:00 am the following morning, but the early coaches only started running at ...
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December 4, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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I'm a little late to the migration so as an introduction I'm an insect ecologist at the Uni of Reading 🪲

I've been lucky enough work in some amazing places which I write about here: mattgreenwell.wixsite.com/ecology/fiel...

And share photos of here: www.instagram.com/matts_field_...
December 1, 2024 at 5:58 PM