Dr Chris Hatcher

Biologist, drummer and pizza lover

[Loughborough University @lborouniversity]

Researchers from Loughborough and @uniofglos have uncovered how sundews become more carnivorous in certain habitats 🌱

They alter the density of their leaf tentacles and the uptake of nitrogen from prey to thrive in different microhabitats.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/EK4FIW9EwG

[Functional Ecology @FunEcology]

📰Published📰 Carnivorous sundews are more carnivorous in high-light bog microhabitats that are not also nutrient-rich

https://t.co/jdLtVU90Nx

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

@DrJonMillett Really interesting work here! Fungal symbiosis may also help explain the number of unannotated metabolites we found that are likely to have a role in plant carnivory.

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

@robsrw Snap? Footpath in Loughborough this week

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

@DrSueMoss That hogweed is.

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

Lightning just set off the fire alarm. That’s new!

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

Great session today with prospective ⁦@uglosbioscience⁩ students covering all things from carnivorous plant evolution to drones and microscope skills in ecology

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

Blimey, I bet the peat corer was heavy coming out of this one

[Alice Milner @alicemmilner]

Many #peatlands have a few metres of peat below the surface & are important carbon stores. But this site in Greece-Tenaghi Philippon-has nearly 200m of peat accumulated over >1 million yrs! Our new @NatureComms paper highlights valuable information we can learn from #peat records

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

@AdamHartScience My first thought is go back to timed written essays. It seems that isn’t a novel idea…

https://t.co/4pSnCYEvd9

[Lucy Clarke @DrLucyClarke]

Beautiful frosty day in South #Wales looking at @glosgeog and @GlosEcolEnvSci FieldTrip sites

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

I love starting my working day like this 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Prof Anne Goodenough @Dockling83]

Field site recce visit with @DrLABest, @biohatcher and @JuliaWE88 today for undergraduate teaching and postgraduate research projects. Lovely to see a fine herd of Longhorn cattle being used for grazing as a surrogate for the extinct aurochs 🐮

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

“I have come to Antarctica to receive post and count penguins… and I’m all out of post” https://t.co/daRkYOVOYn

[Dr Jonathan Millett @DrJonMillett]

What? Are you serious. "doing the right things" A huge unfunded tax giveaway to the top 1% is "doing the right things"? Biggest tax cuts in 50 years when public sector are breaking due to under-funding is "doing the right thing". What a bizzare thing to say.

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

@uglosbioscience @AdamHartScience

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

@mattreevesLA @heavenlyblue007 @m_giacchino Throw it

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

@AdamHartScience

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

The butterfly that drinks caterpillars alive…

Challenge: find a more enticing article title about science https://t.co/iKVtH7ir3g

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

It has now been changed 🎉

[Dr Chris Hatcher @biohatcher]

⁦@AdamHartScience⁩ should I tell them about the photo or should you? @bbc

https://t.co/V1RNgKWWIb