Milo Phillips

Assistant Curator of Entomology for National Museums Scotland 🐝
📍Wellington/Edinburgh
He/Him | Views my own

[The National Lottery Heritage Fund @HeritageFundUK]

The Life on Earth gallery at @LeedsCityMuseum.

How do you deliver a permanent gallery in the most environmentally sustainable way? Leeds City Museum considered this and reduced their carbon footprint for a refit by about 40%. (3/7)

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

@emiialrai Open up a Waltzer tab and leave it running

[NatSCA @Nat_SCA]

Check out the round up of the top 10 NatSCA blogs of 2022, out now! https://t.co/yncUqG1Urv https://t.co/pIre4NO95Y

[Night Vale podcast @NightValeRadio]

Trying to explain to Santa that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism as he absolutely horks coal directly at my head.

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

Really wonderful getting to work on such cool research with @SKFluidLab, putting the brilliant @LeedsMuseums entomology collection to use. Them dragonfly wings are magic

[Cultural Institute @UniLeedsCulture]

There's more about Kevin and Judith's work on mourning dress and other collaborative research partnerships with Richard Rowland @LeedsPRHS and @SKFluidLab funded through the CI/@LeedsMuseums Cross Disciplinary Innovation Fund here: https://t.co/dx4Q4IYVHJ https://t.co/Dx0ew2Bhh2

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

@ThierryAaron @murphbruce @PFriedling @GeorgeMonbiot @guardianeco @dpcarrington @yinonbaron I'm afraid you got the wrong Milo! Made for an interesting lunchtime though. I'm more about the bugs 🐝

[Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. @corvidresearch]

SO CROWS ARE ACTUALLY SUPER SMART. THEY’RE LIKE PRIMATES. OR MAYBE PRIMATES ARE LIKE CROWS. ACTUALLY, ITS REALLY PROBLEMATIC TO PUT ANIMALS ON A LINEAR INTELLIGENCE SCALE BUT DID YOU KNOW NEW CALEDONIA CROWS CAN JUDGE AN OBJECTS WEIGHT BY HOW IT BEHAVES IN THE WIND

[Leeds Libraries @leedslibraries]

We are with our partners @LeedsUniEng & @LeedsMuseums at #LeedsIndustrialMuseum for Naturebots.

Join us from 1-4pm and have a go at all kinds of creative tech and learn about nature! #IngeniousAwards @EduRAEng

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

I got to spend 2 awesome days hanging with @AshWhiffin and exploring the entomology collection at @NatSciNMS. Thank you so much for having me, I miss those Maybugs and scarabs already!!

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

@emiialrai @dril Buddy I'd do it for free 🐝🐞🐛

[Leeds Libraries @leedslibraries]

Ever wanted to create your very own terrarium or find out how you can care for nature using tech & creativity?
Join us for an afternoon of experimenting and creating in the industrial setting of Leeds Industrial Museum.
Find out more: https://t.co/hE6XVgO8LY

[CIEEM @CIEEMnet]

Bill Kunin from @UniversityLeeds is summarising what we know (and don't know) about the geographic and taxonomic extent of insect declines. He notes two new research projects attepting to calibrate trends and map them to drivers - DRUID and GLiTRS #InvertebrateConference

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

My offering for #BlueBugs on #BlueMonday are these lovely little iridescent monkey beetles 🐒🐞 they're currently hiding @LeedsMuseums Discovery Centre

[ejduncan 🦋 @e_j_duncan]

Absolutely awesome morning with @miloedwardzeus and the @BiodarProject people at the @LeedsMuseums Discovery Centre - exploring the entomology collections and scoping areas for joint research - exciting prospects! 🐝🔬👩‍🔬🦋

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

@STEMwithFreya @BiodarProject @LeedsMuseums You are very very welcome! Come back any time 🐝🐜🦋

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

@libraryzo Travelling Man :)

[Ross Piper @DrRossPiper]

Not wasps
All moths

Top right is the most exquisite, a Similipepsis I caught in Tamanthi, Myanmar.

See how three of them have white or pale scales on the abdomen to enhance the illusion of a 'wasp waist'.

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

@weebeastie75 Maybe the ones we've got at the Discovery Centre, but otherwise I'll pass!

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

I keep this hornet label on my desk for a chuckle on long days. It also serves as a good reminder to spell check everything I write ever, then check it again... and then maybe one more time 🐝💩

[Milo Phillips @miloedwardzeus]

Has anyone else come across a fun typo, insect-based or otherwise?