Optimist, ecologist & feminist~ Assistant Prof Conservation Bio @UniLeiden ~ 🌎🌿🎓 wants everyone to have a nice time Co-lead @WildCoLabLeiden
Leiden, The Netherlands
Joined July 2013
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What a #Biodiversity week! So much energy on #bendingthecurve with a @cml_biodiv retreat, the #Leiden Biodiversity Network meeting, and the @GlobioModel symposium of @Leefomgeving. So much important and inspiring research going on. We've got this!
Last few days before mat leave 😱 lectures, conferences, field work, outreach...one busy baby! Impossible without an awesome support team both at home & work so I'm very lucky 😊
Also makes a huge difference to co-lead a lab so big thanks to ✨ @michielveldhuis #AcademicChatter
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sometime you hear the odd "yes, but biological invasions also have benefits... "
To see why this is a plain wrong argument, see our latest paper on "the costs of benefits" 👇
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Hey mosquito researchers! I need some help. About 25% of my Culex pipiens larvae are developing "tumors" around their anal papillae. They mold into pupae and swim a bit wobbly, but otherwise seem normal. Has anyone encountered this before? Any insights on the cause? #entomology
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Fancy learning more about invasive species? This Focus episode features many case studies from across the Netherlands (including myself chatting away about mosquitoes and biological control - enjoy!) @LeidenScienceEN @UniLeidenNews @cml_biodiv 🦞🌿🦟🇳🇱
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Proud day for us....our very own @michielveldhuis delivering his keynote talk at this year's TAWIRI conference on Human Wildlife Coexistence with a message of optimism and possibilities
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Great to catch up with our Tanzanian colleagues - and meet new people - for lots of interesting discussions on #humanwildlifecoexistence and #invasivespecies 🌎
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📢Looking forward to starting our 6-year NWA COMBINED project on interactions between #climate and #nature in the Netherlands soon with many great colleagues - 🌿🐰🐸🐝🌳More here: tinyurl.com/yzsnupt5 and tinyurl.com/4pcfx58x
Had such a fun afternoon filming for @omroepntr Focus special episode on invasive species 🌿 🦟 they let me chat away about plants, #biocontrol and #mosquitoes and made the whole experience so easy #SciComm
Tried a new discussion format today in class with @michielveldhuis....we set up 4 conver-stations ....each had a different challenge to protected area expansion & students got time at each station to brainstorm solutions
Worked so well and nice to focus on #conservationoptimism
Love my fabulous colleagues! So awesome to be working with my former PhD lab again 🥰🥰 #positiveacademia
For the full length video (2.5 mins) go to youtube.com/watch?v=OX-Jup8H……
Please share! We are raising funds and awareness about our new MOZiMAC project.. Are invasive plants changing our mosquito populations?! Let's find out!
#invasiveplants #mosquitoes #ecology
I'm so excited to see this project come to life! MOZiMAC was an idea that popped up 1 week before lockdown 2020 😬 I put it away until earlier this year....we now have seed funding, a PhD, some promising pilot results and experiments running in two continents!! 🥰🤩 Stay tuned...
Great to attend the 16th int. aqu. plant symposium @UAntwerpen this week....the MOZiMAC project was officially kicked off!!
We are excited to explore the interaction between Mosquitoes 🦟 and (invasive) Macrophytes 🌿 💦 well be working with @RhodesUniCBC 💚
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@Tressia_Chiko up next and gave an awesome presentation on her masters project at @RhodesUniCBC Common Salvinia becomes a stronger competitor when water hyacinth is subject to biocontrol #aquaticplants2023 #invasivespecies #ecology
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Fantastic presentation by our MSc student Eva Rekkers... short term recovery of phytoplankton to invasive floating plants control....does removal = recovery?! #aquaticplants2023 #invasivespecies #ecology
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Great to attend the 16th int. aqu. plant symposium @UAntwerpen this week....the MOZiMAC project was officially kicked off!!
We are excited to explore the interaction between Mosquitoes 🦟 and (invasive) Macrophytes 🌿 💦 well be working with @RhodesUniCBC 💚
A true highlight of my year was leading this Storytelling in Science course with @meganhulscher @CStrava and @grumetifund @GeorgeLohay lots to follow up on & such a treat to see this grow
Thanks to the @UniLeiden Teaching Prize last year that made this possible...updates soon!
