We started the mark recapture project of florivores in Latnjajaure. Bombus lapponicus is so far the most common and truly beautiful but a species which previously was really rare at this elevation.

Moving this to the top of my reading list

This must stop! We need a full arms embargo and sanctions now, so this killing with impunity ends. Our new Canadian govt and PM need to speak up! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

RESEARCH PAPER 🔬 „Given the similar #insect #biomass and #abundance between the two habitat types, #Natura 2000 areas do not seem to broadly benefit flower visitors more than #urban wastelands.“ - Theodorou et al. (2025) @wilosterman.bsky.social Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment! Key take-homes🧵 1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.

📢 New study: Insect Biomasse & abundance were similar in protected areas & urban wastelands, but 🐝wild bee diversity was higher in urban areas! Protected areas (Natura 2000) may need targeted management to support pollinators. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @wilosterman.bsky.social

Our study is finally out on the conservation of pollinators 🐝🦋: Protected areas (Natura2000) do not outperform urban wastelands in support pollinators and pollination in central Germany. 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Ice crystals today in the forest around Gothenburg in Sweden. How cool aren’t they?!

How cool arent these Vaccinium trees and their blueberry-flowers in Canary Islands? Canary island strawberry tree ☀️ Arbutus canariensis

New timeline, same problems, same solution

Oh my oh my! What a hero!

A friend mentioned honey bee waggle dance to me recently and I had to tell them the bad news about that literature: numerous key papers appear to be fraud. So here is me sharing the bad news with you too. Extensive blog post by the hero sleuth, Laura Luebbert, and @lpachter.bsky.social:

After taking the course Statisticaö rethinking, it would be really interesting to know what Richard McElreath thinks about this paper about replications in experiments 🙏. @rmcelreath.bsky.social

A special moment was spotting one of the rarest plants in Sweden ”Gentiana purpurea”. One single population in the country with 5-20 individuals flowering per year. Would be great to know more about the pollination of the species - at this time a single individual flowered

Pollination by wolves 😳😳😳

Join us in a couple of hours if you want to discuss some fun topics on polyploid genome evolution!

#OpenAccess in #AJB! #SocietyJournal #LeafShape #Climate #HerbariumSpecimens

My first Ph.D paper is out on polyploidy and evolution of sexual systems in angiosperm plants!

📢Second chapter of my PhD thesis is out. We assessed whether we can use species occurrence 🌍 to study community responses to climate change 🌡️ Check it out to see if it actually works! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #GBIF @suzetteflantua.bsky.social

🚨Yet again we use the incredible #ITEX experiment to increase knowledge about warming effects on tundra ecosystems. Despite a moderate 1.4 °C increase in air temperature, we see a persistent increase ecosystem respiration (CO2) by 30%. Read the full story here: disq.us/t/4o1y0d1

@naturealexk.bsky.social is kicking off RestPoll in Lund @restpoll.bsky.social

Please share! Three-year postdoc in #plant #ecology & ecological #synthesis in the EDGE lab @goteborgsuni 🇸🇪 Love plants and data? Please apply! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

Yay! I'm so excited that the first paper of my Ph.D. is now online! Lags in the response of plant assemblages to global warming depend on temperature-change velocity @suzetteflantua.bsky.social #PhD #research #academic

Open PhD position on grassland global change ecology in my new group at Uni Würzburg land use climate change aboveground belowground multitrophic interactions Gut content metabarcoding Field work GCEF Great collaborators Apply by October 29th www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/gce/aktuelle...

People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen. www.wired.com/story/x-isra...