Luke Lythgoe

Weekdays communicating biodiversity genomics @sangertol @darwintreelife, weekends wandering the Fens 🦆🌿

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

From 94 Iberian lynx in 2002 to over 2,000 today. Still "vulnerable" - with potential risks from climate change - but an important milestone towards a wilder Europe. https://t.co/ZVA5NuwTAD

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

Sometimes I really miss Canada news...

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

A cougar that was roaming around a residential neighbourhood in Maple Ridge was taken away in handcuffs over the weekend, and is now in a safer place https://t.co/mcSNrUZBWO

[Darwin Tree of Life Project @darwintreelife]

Our first #GenomeNote for a mollusc, and the first from a specimen collected by @thembauk - the grey top shell (Steromphala cineraria)🐌🌊

Thanks to @PaddyAdkins, Robert Mrowicki, @joannaharleysci, @MarClim_UK & @SangerToL🧬

Read more @WellcomeOpenRes:
https://t.co/lq7bV0Nmxh

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

Full parasitoid wasp article coming soon on the DToL website...

[Darwin Tree of Life Project @darwintreelife]

Our first parasitoid wasp #GenomeNote for #DarwinTreeOfLife - Ichneumon xanthorius 🐛🐝

Huge thanks to @GenomeWytham @OxfordBiology @BroadGavin @NHM_Science @SangerToL and everyone involved in sequencing this #genome🧬

Read how we did it @WellcomeOpenRes
https://t.co/nkPOyaVuOk

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

Opportunities like this make me wish I had the skills of a taxonomist. Would love to spend a weekend on a hillside rummaging around for arthropods 🐝🐞🪲🪳🐛🦗

[Darwin Tree of Life Project @darwintreelife]

We're looking for expert #taxonomists (amateur or professional) to help us ID some of the 70,000 species we're collecting for #DarwinTreeOfLife 🔬

Fancy a taxonomic trip to southern Scotland with @BFTWidlife? Read the poster linked below for more info!🧬

https://t.co/WkZqb0mF8z

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

Really enjoyed compiling this article. The job's easy when you just ask 9 scientists to say something interesting about one of their favourite species...

[Darwin Tree of Life Project @darwintreelife]

With a new season of #DarwinTreeOfLife fieldwork just around the corner, our scientists reflect on some species collected last year which they're excited to see full #genome sequence data from in 2022! 🧬

@GenomeWytham @TheBotanics @NHM_Science @thembauk

https://t.co/Rk9lWVGpPz

[Emma Gilchrist @reporteremma]

Here we are, on the hottest day ever recorded in Canada, and the B.C. gov is still viewing forests primarily as a source for timber — not as stores of carbon, refuges for wildlife, flood prevention infrastructure or natural air conditioners. #bcpoli

https://t.co/pVxmMIOiR4

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

#WhoKnew fact of the day: red admiral #butterflies used to be called "red admirable" butterflies. Nothing to do with big-hatted seamen.
https://t.co/9XrGgfAoRs

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

It took a while to get my head around the different #COVID variants out there, and the mutations that make them more dangerous. Thankfully, I've done the work so everyone else can just read this:
Via @GCPPPorg
https://t.co/XOHHeS63hX

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

"It is unclear why the elephants are moving north." Do they know something we don't?
#elephantsinthecity #citybreak

[Reuters @Reuters]

Herd of wild elephants approaches Chinese city after 500km journey https://t.co/wwanEf6gtw

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for $760,000 (£538,000)

The piece of internet history has more than 880 million views https://t.co/ShVYqYtJnt

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

So, I've been trying to learn a bit more #Spanish by reading news on @bbcmundo. Mind-blower of the day: Spanish speakers call the Queen "Isabel II".

(Obviously many of them have their own queen too... her name is Letizia)
#anglocentric #britsabroad

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

Before #COVID struck, the whole world's #pandemic preparedness was written up as "fundamentally weak". I took a look at how that assessment played out during this crisis, and the mistakes to avoid in future. Via @GCPPPorg
https://t.co/lf7bgwhIhq

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

Looking forward to seeing these majestic beasts in Kent #2022

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Map shows the world’s remaining wilderness. Dark blue = terrestrial. Light blue = marine. Source: https://t.co/EtNlSbuyBh

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

Very excited to see these #WhiteTailedEagles being reintroduced in spots all over the UK now. They became #extinct here, with the last British-bred bird shot in #Shetland in 1918. Reintroductions have been happening since the 1960s, starting in #Scotland. Now they're in #Sussex!

[Isabella Tree @isabella_tree]

Amazing photo of a white-tailed eagle flying over @kneppsafaris yesterday taken by one of our volunteers, John Hamilton. It circled with our white storks before flying up high, and on. @ProjectStork @RoyDennisWF #rewilding

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

Ironically, it took a while to research and write my latest article: on the merits of acting fast during #Covid #pandemic.
Published via @gcppporg
https://t.co/gApHm9F5JI

[Luke Lythgoe @ljlythgoe]

#Brexit was a very stupid idea with damaging consequences (as I wrote ad nauseum for 3 years), but even I draw the line blaming it on the failure of another very stupid idea - the #europeansuperleague.
https://t.co/CxTDVwnEo7

[Rewilding Britain @RewildingB]

While just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests, the "reintroduction of a small number of species could restore up to 20% of the world’s land to ecological intactness". #ReadytoRewild #rewilding https://t.co/gB86SFf9mV