Sara Contu

Conservation biologist working at the NHM.
#PredictsProject and Plants Under Pressure

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

@SandyKnapp Lovely! I haven't heard them yet. Theirs is the best sounds of the year!

[Dr Victoria J Burton 🪱 @SoilScholar]

Come on work with a brilliant team @NHM_Science on a really cool co-created community science project with insects and audio data! 🪰👂🦗🎤🐝

[Adriana De Palma @adpalma]

🌱I'm hiring a research software engineer at @NHM_London! You'll need experience in Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP) in #RStats and interest in {targets}, #biodiversity loss, geospatial data @ResearchSoftEng

Job ad: https://t.co/NjDSITr59H

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

@HMRCcustomers The line doesn't work! 20 seconds in and the call gets ended. Hmrc can see the cheque is there and needs to be resent! this should be an automatic task!?? The person i talked to said yes "i am going to get this sorted for you, hold the line" and hang up! Disgrace @HMRCcustomers

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

@HMRCcustomers someone finally picks up, and as i explained i need to get a refund cheque to be sent again (i never received it), what happens??? They hang up!!! I have been for 60 minutes (!) waiting to get someone to answer that call. Please @HMRCgovuk @HMRCcustomers advise

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

@HMRCcustomers i have been trying to call this number again 03002003300 but it doesn't work anymore. Please advise

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

Lots of fun, songs, #science and #bugs stories today @jacksons_lane with *Professor Slug's, House of Bugs* show. Fun, entertaining, interactive, educational - and who knew invertebrates had so many problems? Kids loved it!

[Food and Agriculture Organization @FAO]

Food loss & waste isn’t just about perfectly good food not making it to our tables, or the money wasted when it ends up in the bin uneaten.

The real cost of lost & wasted food is far greater.

Ways to make #NotWasting a way of life: https://t.co/Pi8kBkDfof

#FoodWaste #FoodLoss

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

Planning on buying some books? If you can buy/order them here, you'll help an independent bookshop in Turnpike Lane area survive

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

#PredictsProject newsletter is out today! @NHM_Science

* New PREDICTS data now available on the NHM Data Portal https://t.co/ogPfXJnSGc

* When Science and Art meet: Econario, by amazing @T_Biersteker https://t.co/uLkwh1t3e4

You can read it all here: https://t.co/yCwe72cFW3

[Digitising the NHM @NHM_Digitise]

More #PredictsProject data is now available on @NHM_data. Over 1m observations, from 9,610 locations and representing over 7
thousands species. The data
was collated from over 100 articles that
evaluate the responses of
biodiversity to human
pressures https://t.co/M2r3VVvDoJ

[Mark Carine @mark_carine]

A bit of a surprise in the #SloaneHerbarium @NHM_Botany today as I continue with work to inventory the collection. I have never seen a folio like this before. A work of art... but difficult to count the number of specimens. And who is it?

[Dr Victoria J Burton 🪱 @SoilScholar]

The first paper from my @NHM_Science PhD research is out in @BioMedCentral BMC Ecology and Evolution! We modelled data from the #PREDICTSproject to compare how abundances of soil & above-ground organisms respond to land use & soil properties https://t.co/laaN8nUoaM

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

This is where we are at! It is terrifying that we now need to read articles like this one and worry about how to keep warm this winter! How did we get here?! https://t.co/IwwmXFS2hi

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

The Dark Side of British History You Weren't Taught in School @GeorgeMonbiot

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

I know the news have something else to cover these days..
But this is a tragedy that happened in London and it can't just be overlooked!

Chris Kaba: demand that the IOPC give a timeline of the investigation - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/PUrHIrRhai via @UKChange

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

Driving through France we saw: the amount of land used for agriculture is huge and the view breathtaking; they produce a lot of onshore wind power; since March 2022 cannabis is cultivated for medical use; there are over 100 cool wildlife bridges on motorways. #travelling #France

[Natural History Museum @NHM_London]

When art meets science 💫

Ecological artist Thijs Biersteker has created a robotic plant, driven by biodiversity data, that grows and wilts with the state of nature 🌱

The plantanoid work visualises two future worlds we all have a stake in choosing.

[Sara Contu @s_contu]

@justin_isip @NHM_London @ThenSheAppears It was a great event! Hats off to @ThenSheAppears and all organisers! The students had a super exciting day and the @NHM_London museum staff had a interesting morning to say the least! Plus it was my first time on the Flett theatre stage 😄