GJGamble
banner
gjgamble.bsky.social
GJGamble
@gjgamble.bsky.social
Naturalist, Myrmecologist, Conservationist, Environmentalist, Writer, Painter, Runner. Founder of Sence Corridor Tree Sparrow Project. Patch Birder. Ants 🐜. Born in 347ppm.
Reposted by GJGamble
Congrats to @allegralove.bsky.social & @alexisheckley.bsky.social on their co-first authored paper on the eco and evo basis for the landscape of disgust! Excitingly, this is the first first authored paper from my new(ish) lab! Congrats Allegra and Alexis!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Taking cues from ecological and evolutionary theories to expand the landscape of disgust | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Behavioural avoidance of parasites in the environment generates what is known as the ‘landscape of disgust’ (analogous to the predator-induced ‘landscape of fear’). Despite the potential for improving...
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 5, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
Fieldfare - Guardian of the Apple.
Since early November I have been putting out an apple for this bird - it has defended the fruit against all-comers.
Even in Storm Darragh, it only left it's post during the very worst of the tempest.
What a thrush - Best mates....
#ukbirds #ukwildlife
December 10, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Letting loose and working on some new Autumn landscapes. This one is a work-in-progress. #art #landscape #Nature #Environment #painting #autumncolour #Autumn #Leicestershire #acrylic #canvas
November 24, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
Marasmius hudsonii- Holly Parachute 🍄📷 #FungiFriends
November 20, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
Ever wonder: do ants sleep? In the latest student blog post, Diya writes about ants' sleeping habits -- and what college students have to learn from them! hmcbee.blogspot.com/2024/11/an-a... #ants @harveymudd.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
"Your garden is a protest. It is a place of defiant compassion. It is a space to help sustain wildlife and ecosystem function while providing an aesthetic response that moves you[...]Your garden is a protest for all the ways in which we deny our life by denying other lives." Benjamin Vogt
November 21, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
4 #Entomology #StarterPacks have filled!

go.bsky.app/Fq2CQNw
go.bsky.app/7CaCbMC
go.bsky.app/JVRwhS1
go.bsky.app/2nEuqKX

Drive for Five!

Nominate widely: grad students, early career, colleagues around the world, equity deserving
#entomología
#entomologie
#Invertebrate
#Arthropod

🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
Wow. Right. We need more Entomologists. Now!!
The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied!

#SciComms #Science #Taxonomy

🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018

@natureportfolio.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
Just been reading about beetle larvae that eat frogs and toads for my new book, "Despicable Insects". Wonderfully gruesome. gilwizen.com/epomis/
Epomis beetles – insect response to amphibian tyranny - Gil Wizen
Epomis is a genus of ground beetles with a fascinating biology: using unique behavior, their larvae are able to hunt and prey on amphibians.
gilwizen.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Working on something a little out of my comfort zone with this evening Egret painting. Lots to do (I think) but it's a start... #Nature #Wildlife #Art #Painting #acrylics #Canvas #wetlands #Birds #Birding #Environment #Conservation #LittleEgret
November 17, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
DELIGHTED to see Dartmoor naturalist & artist John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social posting here!

John's posts are interesting, informative, and highly visual.

His youtube channel is brilliant: www.youtube.com/channel/UCdI...

Please welcome & follow John - and repost this, if you would.
Good numbers of butterflies on the coast path at Prawle Point, Devon this afternoon. Lots of Small Coppers, Large Whites and Red Admirals plus a few fresh Walls Lasiommata megera
November 16, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
By day, I work in Engineering. In 2017 I picked up a camera and started learning about birds and bugs and all sorts of animals. There are plenty I used to be afraid of that I now think are amazing. Biology is a gd miracle. So, if you're afraid, go observe. It could completely change your world.
November 16, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Is there a UK Wildlife/Environment/Science/Conservation starter pack? If so, can anybody let me know or maybe even add me to it? I need an easy way to find all my old X folk! #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation #Biodiversity #environment #ClimateCrisis #Ecology
November 16, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Reposted by GJGamble
Hi @moderation.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app

Hannah Bourne-Taylor uses her social media accounts to campaign for Swift bricks to be installed in new buildings. We who follow her on other platforms are bemused by the "content warning" on her Bluesky profile. Please could you help?
First bird of my day: the tick tick tick of the garden robin, like the pips on the radio, conducting the dawn in the shadows. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
November 16, 2024 at 3:58 PM
To kick off my BlueSky adventure, I made the short trip to see the Thornton Reservoir Long-tailed Duck this morning, and what an elegant little bird he was too! #Birds #Birding #Leicestershire #VC55 #Wildlife #Nature #Happy
Fashionable late again to see the local Long-tailed Duck at Thornton Reservoir, Leicestershire yesterday #vc55birds #ukbirding #lumix #leica #leicestershire #longtaileduck
November 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM