Brinna Barlow

Entomologist, diver, travel enthusiast.
Currently studying a PhD at @HKUSBS with @Lou_A_Ashton focused on forest succession & invertebrate food-webs. She/her.

[Brinna Barlow @ento_the_wild]

I'm dipping to blue-sky. Find me @ento-the-wild.bsky.social

[Brinna Barlow @ento_the_wild]

I have just had my first thesis chapter "Predation, but not herbivory, decline with elevation in a tropic rainforest" accepted for publication 🎉🎉🎉 #phdchat #phdlife

[Brinna Barlow @ento_the_wild]

@Rbonifacii @UoE_Behaviour @Taxonomy_Hero So glad this is out!!!

[Rosa Leena Bonifacii @Rbonifacii]

Just published! Our new paper questions the hypothesised link between progressive provisioning and social evolution by demonstrating potential insurance advantages to group living in a mass-provisioning wasp @UoE_Behaviour @ento_the_wild @Taxonomy_Hero
https://t.co/oEjDRATGmi

[Veganella 🥦 @Veganella_]

For all the “isolated incident” people.

#Pignorant #Vegan #GoVegan

[Ryan @ImRyanBlue]

Damn that's wild, I wonder if there was any kind of collective life changing, traumatic event that happened that made them this way?

[Api:Cultural @apiculturalLdn]

So far evidence for competition between managed honey bees & wild bees has always thought to be indirect competition for resources. Now evidence is emerging that in areas of high honey bee density & reduced flower availability honey bees are actually robbing wild bees of pollen.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Scientists: It's not our job to protest or make a fuss, our role is just to provide the information to decisionmakers and trust that they'll use it to make wise decisions on behalf of us all

Decisionmakers:

[Rudy @rudraksh9]

Oystercatcher wading through the waves of knots last Monday at RSPB Snettisham @Natures_Voice #snettisham #waders #BirdsSeenIn2023 #birdwatching

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.

The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no.

Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die.

You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.

Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."
We are at our best when we serve others.

Be civilized.

Credit: Ira Byock.

[Bernoid @bernoid]

Stunning little chunk of cladonia & moss.

[Michael Doe @Maratus_spider]

Turreted Wrap-around Spider - Dolophones turrigera
Woy Woy Bay NSW Australia

[Dr. Jonathan Cybulski @joncybulski]

Tri-isotope analysis of tooth enamel!
Excited our publication is finally out in the "Food Webs and Stable Isotopes" special addition at #frontiers.

Thanks again for the wonderful collaboration Tina and Jenn! https://t.co/qid3eDeMUL

[Brinna Barlow @ento_the_wild]

We made the list 🇭🇰 #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow

[Edgar McGregor @edgarrmcgregor]

🧵Since it is becoming hard to keep track, here is a list of countries/municipalities that have seen catastrophic flooding in the first 11 days of September 2023:

- Greece
- Turkey
- Libya <--- *thousands feared dead*
- Brazil
- Hong Kong
- Shanghai
- Spain
- Las Vegas

[Brinna Barlow @ento_the_wild]

We're at 1.5 but I feel we're seeing 2-3 degree consequences in some areas already. . .

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

#ClimateChange: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?

#ClimateCrisis is no longer a looming threat – people are now living with extreme weather events. There is still everything to fight for - reducing emissions now means we could stay below 2˚C.

https://t.co/fdWPHR2mjh

[Dr. Akito Kawahara @Dr_Akito]

Found this Giant Leopard Moth at the local city park yesterday. Common beautiful species! Hypercompe scribonia

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

TWITTER! I want you to go out of your way this weekend and find a bug and post it here! 🐛👇🏼

Let’s start appreciating the smaller things in life! 🐞🐜🦋🐝

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“As the world goes through what some believe to be its hottest year on record, emperor penguin populations in the Antarctic are suffering catastrophic losses, with no chicks surviving the spring of 2022 in four of five colonies observed for a new study.” https://t.co/82IRKTFhPg

[Tracey-Leigh Prigge 👩🏻‍🔬🧬🧪🇿🇦🇭🇰 @TraceyPrigge]

Qualifying seminar done and research scheme submitted ✅ Glad that’s done!!! 😅😊