Mark Gurney

Hello world, nice to meet you. Here you’ll find birds, insects, plants, and other things I like. Working on weevils. #LowCarbonBirding #LGBTStem 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

[Mark Gurney @MarkGurn]

Pittas are one of my favourite things. Bouncy and bright, they lighten up any dull winter day. Here are nine of them arranged, controversially, in approximate order of splendidness.

[Mark Gurney @MarkGurn]

African birds colonising Europe. This is one of the most interesting things I have read this year, in @ArdeolaJournal by Ernest Garcia. https://t.co/0WeTAaOwee

[Monte Neate-Clegg @MHCNeateClegg]

🚨Really excited to share our new preprint on the multi-dimensionality of climate-driven shifts! Species have many nested spatial and temporal thermal gradients along which they could shift, but which will they choose? Big thanks to a great team! #SOTM https://t.co/oPGg6VD2hU

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

[Mark Gurney @MarkGurn]

@PKBook22 That looks right. The adults of this year are hatching out now, but they are less easy to find than in the spring .

[Insect Conservation and Diversity @InsectDiversity]

Newly published research on rapid selection for increased #dispersal rates by the #endangered #butterfly #Phengaris (#Maculinea) arion across #RestoredLandscapes

Read the #EarlyView here⬇️
https://t.co/psUMnv6Qbh

@RoyEntSoc @WileyEcolEnt
#OpenAccess #LargeBlue #reintroduction

[Bill Sutherland @Bill_Sutherland]

The most remarkable story I have covered: the origin of oak mildews is astonishing. Also fascinated by how they make mature trees more susceptible to drought and hinder woodland regeneration. More videos: https://t.co/qXegaJOJzl

[Andrés Cuervo | amcuervo.bsky.social @amcuervo]

seems like the proposal for a new name to the northern giant hummingbird (Patagona chaski) was unnecessary, and is now been 'synonymized' by a century-old name: peruviana

The late Ecuadorian ornithologist Fernando Ortiz Crespo was right (I highly recommend his 1974 paper)

[Martí Franch @MartiFranch]

11 - 16.06.2024
Ballester
Alpine Swift
Tachymarptis melba

[Paul Dufour @PaulDufour80]

If, like me, you find it fascinating that small migratory birds reach altitudes of 5,000 or 6,000m when crossing ecological barriers, check out our new preprint. We equipped 16 nocturnal migratory species with multi-sensor loggers to study their migration: https://t.co/ZygJlXD7iQ

[Dr Marcus Rhodes @MarcusWRhodes]

As an ecologist specialising in species' responses to climate change, I am deeply troubled by growing calls pushing for assisted colonisation. Whilst well meaning, this concept is built on a very outdated understanding of how species interact with climate. https://t.co/4GW26us6s4

[Mark Gurney @MarkGurn]

@BSBIscience Nice to see the adult reared out as confirmation.

[Marky Mutchler @MarkyMutchler]

No more typos & some bonus sonograms…tada!

[Mark Gurney @MarkGurn]

@BrianE_Cambs @BrianLaney2 Looks like Otiorynchus singularis.

[Mark Gurney @MarkGurn]

@Willowglass12 @chriscx5001 @DerwentBirder @Mightychub @DaNES_Insects It is a broad-nosed weevil, Attactagenus plumbeus.

[Phil Atkin @RamonesKaraoke]

Bat Detector is now live on the App Store! Free forever, no ads. Connect an inexpensive USB microphone and your iPhone / iPad device becomes a full-featured bat detector and ultrasonic recorder with real-time time-expansion. @_BCT_

[Dr Christopher Madan 🐘🧠💻 (he/him) @cMadan]

"A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact rankings."
https://t.co/IVXjvGqUDI

[Andy J. Green @drAndyGreen]

Empirical results show dispersal proxies fail to predict actual dispersal. Greater progress may lie in employing innovative measurement of actual dispersal in the field. These words COULD be about seed dispersal, but are from a new aquatic insect paper👉 https://t.co/pPCkKj1rBa

[Mark Gurney @MarkGurn]

@PKBook22 Scolytids are not within my expertise, I’m afraid.

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

Seawatch update: 16,210 Common Terns, 3,104 Arctic Terns, 48,BlackTerns, 154 Little Terns, 51 Arctic Skuas, 7 Pomarine Skua, 2 Bonxie etc up to 17.00

[Ian Carter @IanCarter67]

A thread on inappropriate (re)introductions. It’s a little long (sorry) and perhaps a little grumpy (sorry again). Arguing against the work of others is rarely a good look, especially as we are all, essentially, on the same side, but… 1/21