Gustav Clark
@gustavc123.bsky.social
Naturalist - plants, insects, molluscs. Not birds, not butterflies.
Ex IT, ex chemist, ex many things, but beetle ID will probably keep me fully occupied until I die.. But I do love cutting scrub and fixing fences.
UK white cis male he/him trans ally
Ex IT, ex chemist, ex many things, but beetle ID will probably keep me fully occupied until I die.. But I do love cutting scrub and fixing fences.
UK white cis male he/him trans ally
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Gustav Clark
@gustavc123.bsky.social
· Nov 28
I'm here to keep in touch with how people in the scientific world are thinking. I'd love to see more chemistry and maths on here. And taxonomy. Biodiversity means nothing if you can't distinguish your dandelion micro-species.
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That's a lot of money, but after 2 day's campaigning its almost 1.5% there. The big money takes a bit of thought.
September 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
That's a lot of money, but after 2 day's campaigning its almost 1.5% there. The big money takes a bit of thought.
I just found this on Substack. It's from Washington DC. Apart from Limax spp I have never heard of this behaviour before. It loks liek an Oxychilid.
substack.com/@teresakusch...
substack.com/@teresakusch...
Teresa Kuschan (@teresakuschan)
Noticed this tiny snail shell suspended by two gossamer threads from the suet cage.
I’ve come upon leaves “levitating” by invisible silk-threads before, but never before a little shell.
substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I just found this on Substack. It's from Washington DC. Apart from Limax spp I have never heard of this behaviour before. It loks liek an Oxychilid.
substack.com/@teresakusch...
substack.com/@teresakusch...
It'll Be Fun, They Said so I read on, and on, and didn't want to stop. Which is quite a recommendation from me.
jesspan.substack.com?r=643jr1&utm...
jesspan.substack.com?r=643jr1&utm...
It'll Be Fun, They Said | Jess Pan | Substack
Writer in London working at a tiny indie London bookshop + latest news from my book - Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes. Click to read It'll Be Fun, They Said, ...
jesspan.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It'll Be Fun, They Said so I read on, and on, and didn't want to stop. Which is quite a recommendation from me.
jesspan.substack.com?r=643jr1&utm...
jesspan.substack.com?r=643jr1&utm...
Plant en Zo
plantenzo.substack.com?r=643jr1&utm...
plantenzo.substack.com?r=643jr1&utm...
Plant en Zo | Femke de Jong | Substack
At Plant en Zo I talk about the science behind plants and things connected. Click to read Plant en Zo, by Femke de Jong, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
plantenzo.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Plant en Zo
plantenzo.substack.com?r=643jr1&utm...
plantenzo.substack.com?r=643jr1&utm...
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Sure I'll share...anything to take down MTG! 💙
June 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sure I'll share...anything to take down MTG! 💙
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@bsbibotany.bsky.social excellent email from Kevin Walker on the need to plan future work. Upgrading all the local tetrad surveys to monad will fill in the next few years.
April 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
@bsbibotany.bsky.social excellent email from Kevin Walker on the need to plan future work. Upgrading all the local tetrad surveys to monad will fill in the next few years.
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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.
April 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.
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Starmer is against restoring Freedom of Movement.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
April 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Starmer is against restoring Freedom of Movement.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
@bsbibotany.bsky.social Ddb is intermittently failing to import from the recording app. I have about 8 records that won't move across since yesterday pm, despite re-editing them.
April 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
@bsbibotany.bsky.social Ddb is intermittently failing to import from the recording app. I have about 8 records that won't move across since yesterday pm, despite re-editing them.
The Anglican Church excelling itself
April 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Anglican Church excelling itself
Here in Derbyshire the Wood Anemones are a bit scarce, but a week ago I found this little shy creature, near Ashbourne
March 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Here in Derbyshire the Wood Anemones are a bit scarce, but a week ago I found this little shy creature, near Ashbourne
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Important. You can plant a load of seed to regenerate facsimile species rich grassland but you don't get back the full ecosystem with all its invertebrates for a very long time - 75yrs here. But this assumes all the needed invertebrates have somewhere nearby to come back from!
Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return..
phys.org/news/2025-03...
phys.org/news/2025-03...
A long wait for pollinators: Restored grasslands need 75+ years for full biodiversity recovery, study finds
Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return. Kobe University's finding underscores the importa...
phys.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Important. You can plant a load of seed to regenerate facsimile species rich grassland but you don't get back the full ecosystem with all its invertebrates for a very long time - 75yrs here. But this assumes all the needed invertebrates have somewhere nearby to come back from!
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I would imagine there are many more like these that are eyeing up other alternatives. There will be an ripple effect for the entire world to choose something else than starlink.
🇺🇦🇵🇱🇺🇸“Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year. The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.”
- Radosław Sikorski
- Radosław Sikorski
March 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I would imagine there are many more like these that are eyeing up other alternatives. There will be an ripple effect for the entire world to choose something else than starlink.
Two of my real role models
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4mi2...
To mark #IWD25 National Museums Scotland have produced this video of me and @ashwhiffin.bsky.social talking about insects, moths, recording and museums and the legacy of Alice Blanche Balfour (1850-1936). #MothsMatter @savebutterflies.bsky.social
To mark #IWD25 National Museums Scotland have produced this video of me and @ashwhiffin.bsky.social talking about insects, moths, recording and museums and the legacy of Alice Blanche Balfour (1850-1936). #MothsMatter @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Collecting moths: biodiversity in East Lothian
YouTube video by NationalMuseumsScotland
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March 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Two of my real role models
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✊Ukraine and China have signed an agreement to expand the list of Ukrainian agricultural exports to China,
By the way, China is a reliable ally. From day 1, they have faithfully been supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
By the way, China is a reliable ally. From day 1, they have faithfully been supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
March 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
✊Ukraine and China have signed an agreement to expand the list of Ukrainian agricultural exports to China,
By the way, China is a reliable ally. From day 1, they have faithfully been supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
By the way, China is a reliable ally. From day 1, they have faithfully been supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
There is some hope
March 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is some hope
'Sell America'
Cavorting has a price:
“Musk may be able to attend cabinet meetings, but at the end of the day, Big Oil runs the Republican party and Trump has no interest in supporting the clean energy transition. That doesn’t bode well for [Tesla] trying to outcompete” China.
www.ft.com/content/809c...
“Musk may be able to attend cabinet meetings, but at the end of the day, Big Oil runs the Republican party and Trump has no interest in supporting the clean energy transition. That doesn’t bode well for [Tesla] trying to outcompete” China.
www.ft.com/content/809c...
What Tesla’s tarnish tells us about America Inc
Elon Musk’s company, like the US itself, seems like a sell
www.ft.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
'Sell America'
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Trump seems to have done what no one else has been able to
Unite the political left & right - against him
Unite the political left & right - against him
March 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Trump seems to have done what no one else has been able to
Unite the political left & right - against him
Unite the political left & right - against him
I guess it's been said before, but @marstrina.bsky.social is spot on here, and we haven't learnt the lessons yet
We spent 10 years, give or take, being told to "repeat after me" on a variety of contested issues that were deemed uncontestable. Opinions on minor political controversies achieved the status of firing offences. Mobs of self-appointed censors rampaged on Goodreads & Instagram, distorting 》
March 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I guess it's been said before, but @marstrina.bsky.social is spot on here, and we haven't learnt the lessons yet
Is this news? It has always be the big mammals, the butterflies and the orchids that get the attention. The exception seems to be the UK SSSI designation, which perhaps because it is habitat-oriented does capture e,.g. wax-cap fungi. Of course that doesn't mean money.
Most global #conservation funds go to larger, charismatic animals, leaving critically important but less fashionable species, like amphibians and algae, deprived, a 25-year study has revealed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Most conservation funds go to large vertebrates at expense of ‘neglected’ species
Study shows funding bias towards animals like rhino while other endangered species including amphibians and algae disregarded
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Is this news? It has always be the big mammals, the butterflies and the orchids that get the attention. The exception seems to be the UK SSSI designation, which perhaps because it is habitat-oriented does capture e,.g. wax-cap fungi. Of course that doesn't mean money.
MAGIC has stopped working for me.
For those who don't know it, MAGIC is the mapping tool for everything environmental. It has been upgraded, it still works on my phone, but on my laptop is stalls at the opening screen.
For those who don't know it, MAGIC is the mapping tool for everything environmental. It has been upgraded, it still works on my phone, but on my laptop is stalls at the opening screen.
February 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
MAGIC has stopped working for me.
For those who don't know it, MAGIC is the mapping tool for everything environmental. It has been upgraded, it still works on my phone, but on my laptop is stalls at the opening screen.
For those who don't know it, MAGIC is the mapping tool for everything environmental. It has been upgraded, it still works on my phone, but on my laptop is stalls at the opening screen.
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The moment Estonia disconnected its power grid from Russia has been shared online. A historic step toward energy independence. ~NOELREPORTS
February 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The moment Estonia disconnected its power grid from Russia has been shared online. A historic step toward energy independence. ~NOELREPORTS