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Chiara Benvenuto
@cbenvenuto.bsky.social
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Evolutionary behavioural ecologist born on the Mediterranean Sea, in love with aquatic organisms. Coffeeholic. I like to see the world through camera lens, to get it in focus. 🐟🦈🦐🦀 Sexual systems-sequential hermaphroditism-biodiversity
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Out of the window. Moments of despair reading the news, but outside a brand new day is ready.
Silhouette of Manchester's skyscrapers in an orange sky Silhouette of Manchester's skyscrapers in an orange sky, with sunrise
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The “Circular Seabird Economy”: great paper and amazing figures!!!! Have you seen it @alice-risely.bsky.social @amyleedale.bsky.social @rominassbatista.bsky.social @vixfranks.bsky.social @dannihinchy.bsky.social? Congrats to the authors!!!
Figure 3: Seabird impacts on adjacent marine ecosystems. Nice representation of temperate and tropical habitats, with increased primary production, nutrient enrichment, fish biomass, adn more in the presence of seabirds
October 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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River Irwell on campus: who knew there were so many 3-spine sticklebacks, minnows, stone loaches and signal crayfish (sigh) @naiarasales.bsky.social @lobsterlucy.bsky.social @vitaustin.bsky.social @gleneth93.bsky.social @sambarrett97.bsky.social @amyleedale.bsky.social @vixfranks.bsky.social 🐟🦀
Dorsal view of a stone loach (Barbatula barbatula) Lateral view of a stone loach (Barbatula barbatula) Small tank with sticklebacks, stone loach and minnows A juvenile invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus
October 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Relaxing near the water: give me your best pose and vibe! 🦆🥱
Canadian goose on the pavement along the canal, with wings a bit open. Seems quite comfortable Canadian goose on the pavement along the canal, standing on one leg. Not sure that is very comfortable Sleepy duck, on the pavement along the canal, with wings a bit open Two ducks sleeping
October 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Thinking science at the pub with @jajatisoil.bsky.social... Sometimes this is the best way to develop great research ideas!
October 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Updating lecture for tomorrow and look who I found in my photos! Such a cutie! Carcinus maenas is native to the Mediterranean Sea. This curious littel one was photographed in Rapallo, Liguria! #LaMiaLiguria #MediterraneanSea 🦀🦑
On the rocky shore, in a little rockpool with water, just the curious eyes of a green crab peek out to see who is there! Barnacles in the background.
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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We were discussing this plant with the students in Uganda: flowers of Lantana camara change colours when pollinated, which we found a great example of signalling for pollinators. But we did not realise the impact of this plant outside its native range!
Flowers of Lantana camara are yellow whne they open (and they are not pollinated) and become pink when pollinated. in the photo an inflorescence with multiple coloured flowers
September 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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We found this on the shore of Lake Victoria #Uganda! I was a bit confused till I found this amazing website: www.flickr.com/photos/jroch.... Thanks John Rochester, now I know this is a cormorant pelvis bone! @micmanta.bsky.social @salforduni.bsky.social
an elongated, narrow, and lightweight skeletal structure, highly fused with the vertebral column, with many holes
September 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Last Tuesday was our summer away day @salforduni.bsky.social to discuss research priorities & ideas at RHS Garden Bridgewater! @jajatisoil.bsky.social @helenwhitehead1.bsky.social @alice-risely.bsky.social @amyleedale.bsky.social @thisisarijit.bsky.social @andymiah.bsky.social @gleneth93.bsky.social
A big group of people, posing for the camera, in the sun, at the RHS Bridgewater gardens!
August 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Small things that make me happy. Grazie mamma! #Details #SeaHouse 🐟
Hand made table doily, shaped like a fish, orange and blue
July 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Yesterday was a great day! @jjackman27.bsky.social succesfully defended his viva! Supervisors (@naiarasales.bsky.social @shrewgod.bsky.social Ilaria Coscia, Peter Robins, Andrea Drewitt, Andy Wolfenden & me) are super proud. Many thanks to the examiners @owenwangensteen.bsky.social & Mariana Lima
Jake holding his thesis with the internal and external examiner
July 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Sleeping beauty 🦢
A swan sleeping on the river Irwell
July 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Second #InvasiveSpecies of my trip home, Paysandisia archon (the South American palm borer moth): so many of them in front of Genova Brignole station... 😞🌴🦋#LaMiaLiguria
A palm borer moth, on a palm, with brown forewings red hindwings with black and white spots
July 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Never met before: beautiful but invasive! Percnon gibbesi: has it been recorded in Liguria already? 🦀🦑🐙#LaMiaLiguria #InvasiveSpecies #MediterraneanSea
Percnon gibbesi, feeding on algae, easily recognizable by the yellow rings at the joints of its long thin legs (spider-like)
July 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Genova la Superba #LaMiaLiguria #MediterraneanSea
View of the Bigo, the panoramic lift located in the Porto Antico area, designed by architect Renzo Piano.
June 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Siesta. Family portrait (1 female with 5 boarlets and 1 with 3), plus one juvenile. Rapallo #MediterraneanSea #LaMiaLiguria
2 females, with 8 striped boarlets and one juvenile, sleeping on the river San Francesco, in Rapallo. The boarlets were born a few days apart, last week
June 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Echinoderms, the spiny-skinned creatures. Look at the details of the common sun star (Crossaster papposus) ... just incredible! Millport, Scotland, with @lobsterlucy.bsky.social
Details of the centarl disk of the common sunstar (Crossaster papposus)
April 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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More questions than I ever get when I talk to students. Excellent job @lobsterlucy.bsky.social explaining your MRes on lobsters 🦞🦞🦞🦞Thanks!
April 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Look me in the eyes.... Millport, Scotland 🦀🐟@lobsterlucy.bsky.social
Squat lobster's eyes, Munida rugosa, close up Scallop's eyes, Pecten maximus, shiny, looking out from the open shell Sea scorpion's eye,Taurulus bubalis
April 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The small things...
White and yellow freesias in a small blue perfume bottle, with a ray of sun on them
April 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Here it is, in all its spendor! The black swan
Cygnus atratus, in Salford Quays. A reminder that nothing is ever completely back or white!
April 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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It made me think of the University of Western Australia and the wonderful time I spent there (too long ago)! @ceb-uwa.bsky.social
Logo of teh University of Western Australiam with a black swan on it
April 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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What a nice surprise! A black swan in Salford Quays! 🦢
A swan, black plmage, red beak with a white stripe, such a beauty Black swan with beak in the water
April 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Batteries richarged 🔋🐟🦀 #LaMiaLiguria Thanks #MediterraneanSea and family!
Punta Pagana and the Portofino promontory on the right and a sailing boat on a calm sea San Michele di Pagana in the backround, stunning turquoise sea and a red agave flower in the forefront Calm sea in the evening, with pinkish clouds and a peaceful atmoosphere, in Rapallo Mediterranean flora: maritime pine, bird of paradise in full blossom (Strelitzia) and a dark-pink flowered bush
April 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Love is in the air! Cormorants #LaMiaLiguria
April 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM