MASS WOODLICE MIGRATION!!😁 Although woodlice like relatively damp conditions, they cannot withstand immersion in water and, after flooding, they will tend to move up to find drier overwintering spaces...💚
Guys. GUYS.
🚨 I've accepted the pos. of Junior Researcher on the
@BBC
Natural History Unit Development team 🚨
I did it😶
6 week placement starting end of the month.
I get to work in wildlife television, in media + writing.
Nervous. Excited. Wow🤩
#dreamjob
#thisistheNEWS
🚨GINORMOUS NEWS🚨...MY ARTICLE IS OUT IN BBC
@WildlifeMag
🤩🤩🤩 when I was little I'd get my issues from the library bc I couldnt afford a subscription...NOW IVE WRITTEN A 3 PAGE SPREAD FOR THEM...this article took 10 hrs worth of interviews. I'm without words rn...
#Diversity
Good morning Twitter...little bit of trans love from me and my partner amidst a lot of pain for trans people right now. We deserve love. We deserve it all. I deserve it. You deserve it. 🏳️⚧️
#TransAwarenessWeek
One of the best ways to kick off
#8Outof10Bats
with this adorable pantaloon bee. They get their name as females, like this, have exaggerated pollen brushes on their hind legs. Huge thank you to
@whistling_joe
for the footage and to
@GoWildForBees
for voicing the story!
So...
My name is Jasmine Isa Qureshi.
I finally changed my name to something that validates me and really makes me feel comfortable and happy. And in true Me fashion I wrote a little something on why I did it and what it means to me...🐌🌿💜🦋🦄💋🇵🇰🏳️⚧️
🚨HUGE LIFE UPDATE🚨
Wow.
This is both exhilarating and absolute terrifying to write.
I know it'll get hate. It'll get anger.
But it's the MOST WONDERFUL thing that's EVER happened to ME.
This is a prescription.
Arrived today.
For hormone treatment.
My hormone treatment.
Starting my new role today as a researcher for
@netflix
at Wild Space Productions on a really cool animal-ey (obviously) project hehe THE OFFICE HAS SO MANY PLANTS 🥺🌱
I've been on hormones for 9 months now WOW time flies by 🥰 its been absolutely incredible to feel so much happier in my own skin and to understand my own body so much more...here's to affirming therapy and allowing people control of their own bodies🏳️⚧️
#transpride
OK...did anyone expect this...because I didn't....🐋🐬 honoured to be gracing the pages of
@attitudemag
alongside these wonderful human beings talking about the ocean!!!
One of the best ways to kick off
#8Outof10Bats
with this adorable pantaloon bee. They get their name as females, like this, have exaggerated pollen brushes on their hind legs. Huge thank you to
@whistling_joe
for the footage and to
@GoWildForBees
for voicing the story!
We are part of nature. That's one of the most important things to understand when conserving or protecting it. It should be protected for the sake of itself but also bc u are protecting yourself and others.
Omg I love this!! add a GoPro to your head too and we're in business 🤩
@Lucy_Lapwing
more
#naturecraft
ideas? 😛
#365DaysWild
...u mayyy have to stand there for a while b4 anything happens mind u😂
I am an ecologist. An activist for nature and the environment. A trans, non-binary, Pakistani, muslim woman in STEM. Are there any scientists who will like this and support my plea for us to band together and push back against the untruth & bigotry that science is being used for.
Really happy to announce I'm the new
@AFONature
Engagement Officer 😊 super excited to start work raising more awareness to the natural world, organising wildlife centred events for EVERYONE no matter who you are and changing the future 💚
#engagement
#awareness
#wildlife
#nature
This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read...so I'm reading it again! Such powerful words and intricate descriptions, half of me wishes I could write something like this and the other half just wants to meet
@NaturalistDara
and have a chat about wildlife 🥰🦋💚
I didn't even think I was going to make it to graduation. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the wonderful, kind and generous people here for allowing me to spend time and actually enjoy myself and the experience, I loved it and as is expected there will be many more photos
I quit my job.
I'd call it honorable discharge but I discharged myself and honour had nothing to do with it.
Mental health had everything to do with it. I've struggled with mental health for years...I've managed it and forged a career despite that. But I was falling.
Good morning all, I proudly present this clip I found, which may change the minds of those of you who don't like spiders, and if it doesn't, provides those of us who adore the 8 legged teddy's (me, myself, etc.) with hours of entertainment and joy 🥰🕷
On today's "I work as a wildlife researcher so I know cool animal facts" list: Mountain Hares change colour because they can SENSE the LIGHT CHANGE - as days get shorter in winter, a light sensitive protein in the Hares eyes, known as melanopsin, slows the melanin production
🌱ANNOUNCEMENT🌱 I'm now on the Advisory Committee for
@RSPBEngland
- I'm honoured, but also aware of the responsibilities of this, and hope that i can provide a link to the board rooms that influence this charity, and the spaces and people it manages! 🏳️⚧️✊🏽🌱
You think I wanna be tweeting about how to fight for the basic rights I deserve all day??? About how to dismantle oppression that shouldn't even exist?? NO I WANT TO POST PICTURES OF MOTHS AND BEETLES AND TALK ABOUT HOW COOL SPECIATION IS !! We are forced to become activists.
Domestic cats and dogs destroy native populations of birds and small mammals and damage the ecosystem of an already ecologically starved Uk and shouldn't be roaming around outside without supervision or a leash. I love them both but it's true.
The face of someone who just gave a talk to 30 - 40 queer school kids about wildlife and transness and is so excited and happy about the future of transness these children ARE SO SMART AND AWESOME 💚🏳️⚧️🤎
Guys.
Representation is amazing and empowering!!
Someone reached out to me to say thank you for inspiring them when I took over the
@WildlifeTrusts
Insta bc they'd not seen non binary rep in the sector before! I'm so happy rn😊✊🏽
#representation
#nature
#diversity
#wildlife
Guys GUYS I'm gonna be performing poetry at the Natural History Museum next week IM SO HONOURED AND EXCITED and in March IM GONNA BE SPEAKING THERE AGAIN aaaaa
As the light fades...don't forget the adventures we had...
The long dead husks of 2 Spider Crabs sitting on the beach. I like to think they were friends in a past life, and this was their last journey together...
#ocean
#adventure
#story
#marine
#crabs
Lovely to meet you
@MeganMcCubbin
🥰 so cool to finally meet in person after seeing your ever inspiring journey through the natural history lens and to witness the opening of
@HawkConservancy
new bird of prey hospital 👏🏽🦅💚
#EidMubarak
to all and I mean ALL💚 Yesterday I had a gathering of friends over to celebrate queer style, and not only was it the first time I've ever celebrated it truly as myself, it felt so refreshing and validating💕
#QueerEid
This lil queer will be heading to London on Wednesday with a group of other young activists to speak to the London mayor's team about rewilding London and making nature more accessible ✊🏽💚
#rewildlondon
#accessibility
#diversity
OK the cats out of the bag, I've announced this at too many talks not to officially say it - I'm very VERY excited to reveal I've signed with
@thegoodagency
and I'm writing a book!!! Mommas gonna be an author!!! 🦋🐝🏳️⚧️💚✊🏽
OK I'm mad. Im SICK to death of being erased from the south Asian community because I'm trans and queer. I'm sick of being erased from the Muslim community bc I'm trans and queer. I'm sick of being erased. I'M ALL OF THESE. WE EXIST. I EXPERIENCE THE SAME ISSUES AND MORE.
Look at all of us! Next generation of leaders, our leaders and our guidance, all beautiful POC and minorities ✊🏽💚🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌿
#NHMExplorersConference2021
As my public profile gets larger the transphobes get bolder it seems...just got to remind myself that whatever they say that I and no other trans person owes anyone any answer or explanation of our lives or actions
I think we really need to teach people that letting your cats and dogs outside without a leash is ecologically BAD. They're not part of the ecosystem, we domesticated them and they don't fit any longer.
Sincerely, A Cat Person x
Thanks to 4 delayed trains I'm late on my first day!!! But I've arrived and it's...so...beautiful *sniff* *inwardly freaks out* *outwardly seems calm*
#firstjob
#nature
#wildlife
#tv
#bristol
When I was 9 I used to turn the lights on in my room at night and open the window. Then I'd wait. In a few minutes the walls would be covered in insects: moths, hoverflies, Craneflies, the odd disorientated Maybug or beetle. God I was in heaven.
...
Am I wierd🤔
#entomologynerd
Got my proof for Gathering! So happy that my essay, "Nature is Queer. We could learn a thing or two from that.", is being published in this beautiful collection of women of colour in nature for
@404Ink
pre-order on their website!
NEWS📢 On Friday I'll be travelling into London to attend a Climate Policy workshop in Parliament, facilitated by Ed Milibands office - I was invited as this session will focus on nature and access to conservation, hopefully to ensure the right people get a say in our future!
Still pinching myself that im travelling to Bristol tomorrow 🥴 and even more so cos its for a job in wildlife television😶12yr old me would be properly freaking out rn, never EVER thought I'd actually get a job like this back then
#newjob
#wildlife
#nature
#bristol
#filmmaking
It's been over 2 months since I've been on hormones...the euphoria has been beautiful. Ofc its been hard. But the challenges are born of a heteronormative society trying to make me conform, and not from being trans. I love being trans🏳️⚧️✊🏽
#TransIsBeautiful
Here it is!! 😊😁 Super proud to share my article I wrote for
@AFONature
on my journey and my love of wildlife and how I got here 💚 I put a lot of emotion into writing this old thing so please have a look 🙏🏽😊
#writing
#Diversity
#journey
#marinebiology
🤘🏽First Day Done🤘🏽 lemme just say twas the BEST DAY! the people are so wonderful, the projects are AWESOME and I'm so excited to continue working here🥰 now time for some dinner and I believe a little explore of
#bristol
😃 suggestions?
#newjob
#bbc
#wildlife
#researcher
#werk
And so it begins🥺🥺🥺 this is something that's been turning over and over in my head for about a year, but I hadn't been able to reconcile my thoughts over it. Writing the article helped me to fully understand what it is I wanted 💜
#trans
ok...deep breath...for
#InternationalWomensDay
I wrote for
@gaytimes
on how I've unlearnt toxic womanhood, and reconciled my queerness and femininity, to finally accept myself...as a trans non binary girl. it's taken a while, but I'm ready for they/she.
We definitely don't give the blue whale enough credit for being the biggest animal that has EVER lived.
Seriously.
Millions of years of evolution, atmospheric change, creature dimorphisms and we have the largest animal of all time alive in our waters today...that blows my mind.
I've had to keep my mouth shut for agesss now but I'm SO happy to be in Teeny Tiny Creatures with Chantelle and Rory on
@CBeebiesHQ
alongside
@Chan_Naturelle
!
At
@WeymouthSEALIFE
chatting ALL about STARFISH ⭐🌊
Out on Dec 16th🐚
Get to know Teeny Tiny Creatures with our full size presenters! 😂
NEW presenter - Chantelle Lindsay and
@RedKingCraw
🙌
Plus lots of guests inc.
@DrAmirKhanGP
and
#BBCSpringwatch
's
@Kaulofthewilduk
helping out! ❤️
Weekdays from next week at 4pm then on iPlayer 🐛
Catching up with
@8outof10bats
bc I had work....I am absolutely blown away.
This is what we can do. Beautiful brown London voices talking about nature, their love of it, their passion, their poetry, their change...brb gonna cry🥹👏🏽🌿
@citygirlnature
@Kaulofthewilduk
Kam-BU🌿
Dungeness is probably one of my favourite places to be on the planet. An incredibly beautiful, dystopian world filled with both life and death, this shoot was an absolute thrill to be part of...
#SeaOurFuture
Some more pics from Teeny Tiny Creatures with Chantelle and Rory on
@CBeebiesHQ
- this was SUCH fun to film, and I remember making some awful jokes but the crew laughed so that's a win right 😂 tune in on 16th Dec we're chatting STARFISH⭐🥰
I will talk a LOT later about how the event went and how amazing it all was but for now I just have to SING praises to the roof for
@ThenSheAppears
for fighting for and putting together an event that so fantastically and seamlessly brought together so many aspects of people's
The Queens death should NOT be overshadowing the issues of our rising energy crisis, taxes on the poor and especially climate change and the awful, climate denying new government we've got.
Yes someone died, let her family grieve but stop saying its more important.
The car is packed. Im packed. We're on the road. I'm fighting for my life with a skateboard that seems hell bent on killing me in the seat next to me. I must make a film with my Best Wildlife Bits: Portsmouth Edition. This is it. Bristol and new adventures here we come...
Today is
#NationalComingOutDay
and I think we should all remember that whilst coming out is wonderful and beautiful and freeing, a lot of people don't have the priveledge of coming out yet, but their existence as
#queer
people is still valid. I wasn't able to figure out who I was
When someone's first reaction to climate change is, "overpopulation is the problem...people need to stop having kids...there are too many people on earth...", this is a BIG red flag for me. Studies have shown that poorer countries with larger pop. produce much less CO2 emissions-
So you can upload kids sketches to this site and it'll bring them to life - pretty cute right?...except I uploaded one of mine and now I probably won't be sleeping tonight...or ever again...
Im more excited for this than anything else right now omg 😍😍😍 FINALLY a show that captures another side of these fantastic animals and doesn't just show them as killing machines 👏🏽 also FEATHERED T REX BABY AAAAA
#PrehistoricPlanet
Advertising again, I am open for work! Jasmine here, I'm a marine scientist, researcher, journalist and poet. My work revolves around natural history, storytelling, wildlife, insects, diversity and queerness. I give workshops, seminars, identify bumblebees, and I'm 5"4...
What. A. Day.
Fantastic.
Powerful.
Euphoric.
Passionate.
We are united. We are unstoppable. We are the wrath of millions of unspoken voices, the passion of millions of breaths, the thundering footsteps of millions strong.
System Change.
Not Climate Change.
We can do this✊🏽🖤💚
Tonight I was reminded that as a Pakistani Indian trans non binary woman....I am not only worthy of love and respect...my culture and my heritage is royalty and beauty beyond what any whiteness could offer me🥰🙏🏽
I have yet to see a Nudibranch (sea slug) in the wild, I'd love to someday, I mean just look at them!! What a fantastic, wierd little thing🥺😍 beautiful, almost alien 🤩
ok...deep breath...for
#InternationalWomensDay
I wrote for
@gaytimes
on how I've unlearnt toxic womanhood, and reconciled my queerness and femininity, to finally accept myself...as a trans non binary girl. it's taken a while, but I'm ready for they/she.
Excited to reveal a NEW PROJECT🐝
Through 2021,
@BumblebeeTrust
will provide FREE resources to help people spot their local bumblebees, grow bee-friendly plants, and spread the word about bees💛
#BeeTheChange
and sign up below for your FREE resources🐝
Yo everyone I'm writing a book about my transness and natural history. Oh and queerness. Oh and unlearning. Oh and insects. Oh and race and religion and gender. If you could support me through this and share this or share my work so people get to see read it I'd love you x1000 🐝
🍃I'm leading my first ever writing retreat!!!🍃
I'm so SO excited that next week I'll be leading a day long retreat at Seven Sisters Country Park, focusing on writing and nature🌱 and it centres POC!!!
Tickets and info below!
Seems to be SO hard to make people understand that by making EVERYTHING more accessible, comfortable and safe for the most vulnerable persons in society, it AUTOMATICALLY becomes all of this for EVERYONE.
Welcome back
@BBCSpringwatch
💚 fun fact: I tweeted about you guys so much about 2 years ago the bbc natural history unit gave me a job as a researcher 😂🙈 crazy fan energy and I don't regret any of it 🌱
Bit sweaty.
Not only bc tonight I'm headlining as a poet in London for the first time.
But also...
My mum's coming.
This is a lady who hasn't seen me in over a year since I left. She's never met the out trans me.
And she's about to be intro'd via queer radical poetry...gulp.
Just a random thought but wow. I remember being a small, sad fresher, not too sure of where I fitted in the world, dancing my tears away...flash forward and I'm proudly queer, rediscovering my identity, working for the
@BBC
NATURAL HISTORY UNIT WHAT how did that happen! Published
You love to preach about the environment, you love to be the face of swifts and their safety...these marches are calling for the safety and security of Palestinians being burned alive, trapped under rubble and shot at in their homes whilst they dance. You ignorantly speak about
@_celia_bedelia_
I almost can't believe the fact that "vaginal wall / ovarian cysts" are a GOOGLE AWAY...if they HAVE searched it up then they STILL think wrangling together a couple of words will make it make sense, and if not...these are the people defending femininity?? These people 🙄
Ey up I'm on
@CBeebiesHQ
chatting to
@Chan_Naturelle
about the wonderful world of Starfish at
@WeymouthSEALIFE
🤩⭐🥰 It was an absolute pleasure and so lovely I wish I could do it all again...especially the dance at the end that I've practiced for now 🤔 have a look on iplayer💚