Researching the life of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter, pioneering #freshwater ecologist in #Wales @AberUni #womeninscience #ecology https://t.co/wFlgkMKBvM

Nightjars are mysterious birds which can dissolve into a forest using bark-like camouflaged plumage. With a flat head, large black eyes and a wide gape, it feeds on insects, often moths caught at dusk ✍️Catherine Duigan

#Efemérides | En 1891 nace la ecóloga y limnóloga Kathleen E. Carpenter. Su investigación se centró en los efectos de la contaminación minera en organismos acuáticos. #COBCM #divulgación

Memories can become obscured over time by the mists of the Irish Sea. Are my childhood recollections of visits to Wales from Ireland real or imagined? ✍️Catherine Duigan

🔬Ar Ddiwrnod Rhyngwladol Menywod a Merched mewn Gwyddoniaeth, rydym yn tynnu sylw at arddangosfa o Oriel Wyddoniaeth Wolfson. 💧Roedd Kathleen Carpenter yn arloeswr wrth greu diagram bwyd dŵr croyw. ➡️Cefnogi'r https://t.co/b039Bx6TvH #MenywodAMerchedMewnGwyddoniaeth #HenGoleg

Delivering research impact - having your research used in a museum exhibition is a very special reward and gift for future generations - it will be such a thrill to see these plans materialise - diolch yn fawr @OldCollegeAber @AberUni #WomenInScience #Wales

Colour, texture, light - the joy of small things at Cors Goch @North_Wales_WT #BoxingDay

Looking forward to spending more time under a #Bluesky

Thick, natural woodland lines the banks and islands of Lough Derg, Co Tipperary. A picture of how most of Ireland once was. Nature needs, we need, SO much more of this. #Rewilding 🌍

A shared #heritage - a souvenir view of Llyn #Peris by George Robson chosen for inclusion in wonderful @NGIreland "In Real Life" celebration of #nature #biodiversity #landscapes #environment #Ireland #Wales #IrishSea #Llanberis #tourism #Tuesday 🎨 https://t.co/JMu7cLjTDu

Happy #TombTuesday folks 🎉 Here is the fabulous Poulnabrone chambered tomb on the #Burren limestone of County Clare. An incredible, famous - if diminutive - #Neolithic sacred site 🥰 📷 My own, August 2023

What a quote praising the returning WW1 soldiers for their academic study in Botany @AberUni . One can't help think that studying plants must have had a healing effect on them after the horrors they had experienced.

Next time you put on some waders to do some #wetland #ecology remember their origins and the men who died wearing them - originally designed for #WW1 trenches #RemembranceDay2024 #rememberancesunday #TrenchWaders #mud #PPE

We want to say a massive THANK YOU to all of our trustees for contributing their time, effort, and experience to make the Trust what it is today. 💚 #TrusteesWeek You can find out who our trustees are here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/AZdycN5DKS

#WeWillRememberThem - the men who returned from the mud and horror of the #WW1 trenches to study #botany with diligence and distinction @AberUni @AberDLSAGB @Aber_LLL #RemembranceDay2024 #LestWeForget #Poppies #nature #wellbeing #Wales #RemembranceSunday

Abstract Art? No, the surface of a Yellow Fever mosquito egg! The species attaches its eggs to manmade material shipped all over the world. This adaptation has helped its spread, and by extension diseases such dengue fever across the globe #Museum30 #Abstraction

Fabric embroidered installation by US artist Judy Chicago, 2020 #WomensArt

#otd On this day in 1878🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 palaeontologist Dorothea Bate was born in Carmarthen, #Wales. In 1902 she discovered in a cave in the Kyrenia hills in Cyprus a new species of dwarf elephant, which she named 'Elephas cypriotes'. https://t.co/bjftXZ1zsN 📷1934; unknown photographer.

Today, Wildlife Trust Wales presented at the Welsh Rivers Summit in Cardiff, attended by the First Minister for Wales. Our rivers across Wales, such as the River Wye, are dying, and urgent action, particularly on farm pollution, is needed to save them 🌊💧

‘Essential to act now’ to prevent chaotic climate breakdown, warns UN chief