The new bee documentary is out today in Disney+. Our buzzing bees did make the cut at the end! It is really nice to see the clip of how bees use previously collected nectar to pack pollen even in nectarless flowers! There are lots of other cool things in this two-part film!

The Vallejo-Marin Lab in March 2026! Top row: Anna, Baptiste, Juan, Alexie, Andrei. Bottom row: Ivan (Ågren Lab), Mylena, Thaina, Lilian, Mario.

Variability in pollen production within individual plants and their effects on pollinator visitation. New paper just out! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

New paper on seeing in air and water with compound eyes! The problem: physics The solution: physics Elegantly described with the dream team @tannermierow.bsky.social and @alexkingston.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

🌱 Check out this new #AJB Review! 🌱 Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of #desiccation tolerance in land plants By Rose Marks, R. Shawn Abrahams, & Jenna Ekwealor doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #evolution #gametophyte #sporophyte

Acabamos de publicar una clave para identificar las abejas del género Xylocopa en España. Se puede descargar en el siguiente enlace: museucienciesjournals.cat/amz/issue/24...

Spectacular March night in our little town outside of Uppsala!

The BSBI's mission isn't just about studying & recording our wild plants: it's also about helping everyone appreciate how gorgeous they are! One of the many ways we're doing this is by running online botanical illustration workshops. Check out this fab drawing by Noelin 👇 from our latest workshop!

I really enjoyed the student talks we had at the 4th Biology PhD Symposium at Uppsala University! This year we also did a tour at the Gustavianum museum. What a wonderful place!

Tetragonisca fiebrigi (Buenos Aires 🇦🇷) #bees #native #pollination #argentina

And now it is out! Even if you haven't been sweating how old tomatoes are, click for some lovely time trees decorated with plant fossils! (or if you're thinking about doing a TED analysis yourself and want to see how we pulled it off :) academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

And another freshly published article by van Kolfschoten & Vallejo-Marín: Getting hooked? Testing the function of anther spurs in Vaccinium myrtillus: doi.org/10.26786/192...

"The fate of pollen in two morphologically contrasting buzz-pollinated Solanum flowers" by Vasquez-Castro et al. freshly published! doi.org/10.26786/192...

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

Stay tuned for the release of this new documentary at the end of the month! I think our buzz pollination clip might have just made the cut!

Bruno Liljefors open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #WildlifeArt #art #wildlifepainting

💬 In the second installment of The Evolution Exchange, retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner returns to discuss how to craft a successful research proposal. Watch or read the transcript here: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

Are you an early career researcher who want to visit another lab to collaborate on a project on internal conflicts? Apply for our ECR Research Visit Grant! Deadline is April 30.

Buzzdetect, a new open‑source AI tool, uses simple microphones and machine learning to continuously detect pollinator activity. A new study shows how the tool can offer researchers and growers a low‑cost way to "listen" for bees in real time.

Please help me spread this postdoc position with me at Stockholm University, Sweden!!!! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Bumblebees of the Asian steppes - Sibiricobombus - our latest global revision of a bumblebee subgenus out today: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Matthew Pace, Associate Curator of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, was part of a team of orchid researchers who published a new paper focusing on the evolution of the leafless mycoheterotrophic orchid Stereosandra from Asia, the first genetic data ever produced for the genus.

Red-Breasted and White-Breasted Nuthatches (Sitta sp.). From A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale Univ. Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ducks #LongIslandSound #birds #BirdArt

#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡

Several years ago, I managed to come up with this blue seeded variety of beans. Since then, I've been trying to figure out how to make a blue bean with a paler color. Something like a sky-blue shade.

I am looking for someone interested in a 6-month post as research assistant, ideally to start at the beginning of March. The job is to conduct an experiment with flowers and robotic actuators to study buzz pollination. Job description and application here: uu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Free access to our paper on how plants dose their pollen when visited by buzz pollinating bees. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8WWHWE...

New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

Not a bad day for being out. This is Hammarskog natural reserve. You can ski here from Uppsala. Haven’t tried to do that yet though!

Do it! It's a great university set in a lovely city, and the Evolutionary Biology Centre is world class. The photo is genuine, not AI, and is not narrowly framed to show the only pretty part of town; Uppsala really does look like that.

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Jacaranda trees (Jacaranda mimosaefolia, Bignoniaceae) have been flowering in Nelson NZ for several weeks and I took these photos today. It's just as well I did a dissection, because what I thought was the stigma isn't. Explanation in ALT. 🇳🇿🌱 #bloomscrolling

⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

These are the champions. Four bees and one hoverfly. The five most abundant pollinators in Cazorla, which account together for ~14% of all individuals and flower visits, yet they represent a tiny 0.6% of all species (845). [Yep, no honeybee, lucky me] Their names in the response post.

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Deadline extended! You now have more time to apply for our Communicating Your Science workshop (15–17 April). Apply today and take your communication skills to the next level: genetics.org.uk/grants/comm-...

Discover eco-evolutionary assembly processes within Oceanic island systems in this perspective, published as part of our #SpecialIssue "Evolution on Islands"! 👇🧪🌍

I am convinced I recently saw a paper on heat + humidity effects on wild bees with heat waves having little effect except within the presence of altered humidity. Anyone have a reference? Or am I imagining stuff?

Special Feature: Can we predict the future of evolution? In this review, Jackson et al. dig into genomic analyses of change over time to determine if and when evolution can be forecast using genomic methods. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Here is the newest Ferris Lab preprint as promised on the genomic basis of divergence in photoperiodic flowering across and elevational gradient! See first author @jillmlove.bsky.social ‘s post below for the link. Check it out folks!!!! #Mimuluspropaganda #WomeninStem #ProudPI

Currently reading this by Otto Plath, father of poet Sylvia Plath. The son of a blacksmith, Plath emigrated from Germany to the US as a 15yr old. His grandfather financed Plath's education on condition that he would become a minister. He eventually dropped out & later became a successful scientist.

PhD opportunity in Prague, Czech Republic, to study reproductive skew in Xylocopine bees!

For #BlueMonday an electric turquoise and cerulean Blue Cuckoo Wasp from the fabulous walled garden @kneppwilding.bsky.social #bluebugs #bugsky @ashwhiffin.bsky.social @waspwoman.bsky.social

Flowers of centaury, Centaurium erythraea (#Gentianaceae). Stereo pair (instructions in ALT). #bloomscrolling 🌱🇳🇿

Hiya, I have 4 more school fact file sheets for #FossilFriday: #Tianyulong, #Darwinopterus, #Oregramma, and #Caytonia! These are really relaxing to do, and I plan on doing more plants next! I hope you like them! #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #schoolwork #publiccommunication

Just noticed that our paper is on the cover of Trends in Plant Science - that was unexpected 😅 The illustration is really cool 💙

This year, why not publish your research with a Society Journal? The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and groundbreaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience.