Lyric Palmer

Zoology MSci student at @sussexuni with a passion for #scicomm | Sharing conservation content alongside photos from my wildlife adventures

[Emily Thrift @EmilyZoologist1]

My research with @PNouvellet and @MathewsFiona has indicated that entanglement from plastic litter and netting is killing large numbers of hedgehogs each year in the UK. Read more about this research in the link. @SussexUniPress #hedgehog #conservation #plastic

[Maidstone Museum @MaidstoneMuseum]

Join us at Maidstone Museum for The Wild Escape on Saturday 22 April! Create your favourite wild animal, add it to our landscape of habitats and talk to an expert to find out how you can help nature thrive for the future.

Read more here: https://t.co/vfqxn4ngMD

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

It's time to rise up against this dangerous #AttackOnNature . We need another Peoples Walk for Wildlife - can you help ? We need specialist expertise - please watch the video and if you can assist please email [email protected] . Thank you .

[Bat Conservation Trust @_BCT_]

On Tuesday an article written by Viscount Matt Ridley entitled “Bat surveys benefit only one species — bat surveyors” was published in The Times. We replied and a shortened version of our response was published in The Times today. Here is the full version:

[Emily Thrift @EmilyZoologist1]

How can you help this #PlasticFreeJuly? How about read our research! https://t.co/tSNbtVEgej This shows for the first time that 4 out of 7 of our native UK small #mammals we tested were found to have #microplastics in their faeces. @hedgehogsociety @MathewsFiona @BBCScienceNews

[Megan McCubbin @MeganMcCubbin]

It’s not comfortable to watch but it’s vital we open our eyes. If we never look, we will never know and nothing will ever change. And it has to change.
This horrific cruelty needs to be shared. How these people sleep at night, I’ll never know. #BBCPanorama @animal_equality

[Eleanor K. Tinsley @ektinsley]

Can’t believe it’s been a month since my hedgehog research @TrentUni!

Thank you to my supervisor @L_J_Moore, funders @ACO_Industrial and @PTES, and my wonderful team @M_J_Mitchell_ , Emma Brown, and @PalmerLyric! 🦔

#wildlife #conservation #research #hedgehogs

[Lyric Palmer @PalmerLyric]

Tune in this afternoon to hear me chatting about our exciting work helping to protect hedgehogs 🦔

[Lauren Moore @L_J_Moore]

Tune in to @BBCYork at 2.10pm today to hear about our @PTES-funded work into why we've been looking into hedgehogs using road tunnels, how and what we've found so far!

[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

Now is peak peat buying season - DON'T DO IT! Buy peat free compost, or make your own, for the sake of our precious planet. Pls RT
https://t.co/pTGOUaRcmA

[Froglife @froglifers]

Pond pumps damage tadpoles & newts. Do you really need a pond pump? (oxygenating plants will do the trick). If you do, make sure the mesh around the pump is very fine so pondlife isn’t sucked up – look how tiny this tadpole is! @PondRiverStream @Natures_Voice

[🏕Sussex Renters’ Union @SussexRU]

*TW: violence*
Horrific + sickening. @SussexUni explain immediately why your security staff are involved in disgusting use of force against your students. 1st you bring them back to unsafe campus for rent. Then you ignore their serious financial/welfare concerns. Now this:

[Isabella Tree @isabella_tree]

While the world celebrates Rewilding Day it seems astonishing that @HorshamDC is still considering building over a unique nature corridor that would link rewilding at Knepp with St Leonard's Forest and beyond #savewestgrinstead @KneppSafaris #rewilding

https://t.co/DTO1C0UOQp

[Sussex Hedgehog Friendly Campus @UoS_Hedgehog]

HELP US TO HELP HOGS!
Hedgehogs are continuing to decline in the UK and so we are fundraising for British Hedgehog Preservation Society. By making a donation you will also be helping University of Sussex achieve bronze accreditation! #hedgehog

https://t.co/TkuJFOyAY2

[Sam Helle 🐾🐅 @samanthaiam]

Embarrassing to see unpaid 6+ month wildlife positions hitting the job boards again this hiring season. At this point, just say “privileged and wealthy encouraged to apply.”

[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

Our government has authorized use of neonicotinoids on sugar beet - so we can pollute the environment with insect-killing neurotoxins while growing a food with zero nutritive value. Whatever happened to Gove's "Green Brexit"?
https://t.co/Kx8XKyR20u

[Lyric Palmer @PalmerLyric]

Are you are a student or staff member at a UK college or perhaps have kids of school age? If so, I would highly recommend signing up to this fab campaign! Sussex Uni joined in February & we have found it thoroughly enjoyable.

[Hedgehog Friendly Campus @HogFriendly]

We're back with a big update for 2021...

@HogFriendly is expanding to Primary Schools & Colleges this year, thanks to generous @hedgehogsociety funding!

If you want to join in the fun at your school or college, email [email protected] to join the waiting list 🦔

[Mammal Society @Mammal_Society]

The main threats to the #RedList status of the Nathusius' pipistrelle are:

🐾 Climate change
🐾 Collision with wind turbines and offshore development in their migratory path

[Lyric Palmer @PalmerLyric]

What actually causes coral bleaching? Bleaching happens when the corals expel algae that live in their tissues! Sadly, after such events, the diversity of #fish can decrease.

Read more: https://t.co/04t6a4zlA5

Image source: @NOAA @GBRFoundation @seasave #2020EBE

[Lyric Palmer @PalmerLyric]

At a recent seminar I attended @DamienFarine discussed the 3 components that make up group formation: attraction, alignment and repulsion.

Read more about this topic here: https://t.co/mPtcz5xCZU

📹: Starling Murmuration

#animal #behaviour #murmuration #2020EBE

[Lyric Palmer @PalmerLyric]

Chemical #pesticides are causing damaging effects to the environment and the herbivorous “pests” which they target are quickly gaining resistance. To sustainably combat our global food crisis we must switch to using more natural methods such as #biopesticides.

#2020EBE #food