There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats

Protecting the bees is political: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Great piece.

New paper: we modelled how pollinators grooming their bodies between visits affects pollen transfer between plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Journal of Statistical Ecology is on Bluesky! A new journal at the interface between ecology and statistics jse.centre-mersenne.org Published in diamond open access

Eight EU-funded research consortia warn that Europe risks a crisis if it fails to halt pollinator loss. Their solution: a roadmap to reverse wild pollinator decline and protect managed bees. @butterfly-project.bsky.social @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social butterfly-europe.eu/eight-eu-fun...

What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Biotic interactions biogeography: A framework for understanding how species interactions shape biodiversity patterns across scales 🧪🌐https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003813

It's that time of year when the JIFs are out. Over-reliance on it fuels integrity risks like papermills & fraud. Everything is connected! Join us in shifting the focus from venue prestige to merit. Explore RRA resources & course: sfdora.org/reports/ & bit.ly/DORA-Intro-Course

Our new paper is out! We explore differences in #individual plant-pollinator #networks to understand how population processes influence the assembly of species #interactions. Check it out! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mismo género,pero sus tamaños y fenologías son distintos. Anthophora hispanica vuela pronto en Doñana, de gran tamaño, patrulla flores de Erophaca baetica en mañanas frías de febrero. Anthophora bimaculata vuela en abril y mayo forrajeando flores de boragináceas entre otras. @ebdonana.bsky.social

After some internal discussion, we published our genAI lab guidelines: bartomeuslab.com/2026/06/15/g...

Please Use AI

Sin pena de cárcel para los activistas que arrojaron pintura atemperada al Congreso. A cuatro de los acusados se les ha impuesto una pena de 12 meses de multa a razón de cuatro euros diarios. Los otros cinco, que solo se manifestaron, han sido absueltos.

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

We are hiring a new postdoc to join our team! 🐝👀🧬 Learn more about the position here: www.bc3research.org/en/job_offer...

Última oportunidad de este año en Matasgordas (P.N.Doñana) para fotografiar a esta Dasypoda dusmeti ♀︎ (Melittidae) recogiendo polen de las pocas Armeria gaditana (Plumbaginaceae) que tenían flores. Aún le quedan unos cuantos viajes que hacer hasta el nido y vuelta. Suerte 🐝🌸 @ebdonana.bsky.social

Are you interested in flowering plants, pollinators or Alps? Plant Ecology Group at ETH Zürich is looking for a PhD student! I can warmly recommend the group! The meadows of the study area are simply amazing to anyone interested in biodiversity! Application DL 30.6. @ethz.ch @usyseth.bsky.social

🌼 Plantar flores silvestres está bien, pero mejor si ayudan a los polinizadores 🐝 @abejassilvestres.bsky.social, la Sociedad Gaditana de Historia Natural y @ebdonana.bsky.social, han publicado una guía gratuita que reúne cerca de 200 especies autóctonas www.revistaquercus.es/noticia/9378...

What have we actually learned from empirical applications of Modern Coexistence Theory? We reviewed 84 studies from the last two decades to find out. Read our new synthesis in Ecology Letters here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

🤔 Can you beat AI in predicting insect populations around the world? Take our challenge! The choice of strategy is yours: you can use the trends shown in our interactive challenge, or you can guess randomly. 🔗 Try it here: pollinators-antenna.eu/forecasting

No hace falta cambiar de género para encontrar grandes diferencias: incluso entre especies del género Eucera el tamaño corporal y sus colores pueden variar notablemente. Hembras y machos enfrentados de Eucera rufa y Eucera elongatula recogidos en el Espacio Natural de Doñana. @ebdonana.bsky.social

#EBDSeminars 🔹 Conserving species interactions for the maintenance of ecosystem function in a changing world 🔸Joanne Benett. Charles Sturt University 📅28th May, 13:00 CEST youtu.be/etuPACrKB_c

🌿 VALOR fieldwork at the border between Doñana National Park and nearby strawberry crops - where @ebdonana.bsky.social researchers are recording plant-pollinator interaction networks across different habitat types.🪻🐝 #VALORfocalregions

HISTORY IS COMING: 40c IN EUROPE This will arguably be the harshest spring heat wave in European history We can see up to 40C in Spain,35C in Central Europe for days. Thousands of records will be pulverized in Spain,Portugal,France,Benelux,UK;SCandinavia,Germany,Alps,Czechia,..

¿Qué podemos hacer para frenar la extinción de las abejas? www.eldiario.es/andalucia/la... @ebdonana.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social

Really cool paper with many applications to conservation.

En el Día Mundial de las Abejas, protegerlas es proteger nuestro futuro. Reducir el uso de pesticidas, cuidar sus hábitats y defender la biodiversidad no es opcional. Sin abejas, nuestros ecosistemas y nuestra alimentación estarían en riesgo. 🐝🌼 @ebdonana.bsky.social #WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees

What if the key to ecological assembly is not equilibrium, but feasibility? A beautiful paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social Serguei Saavedra reviews the Feasibility principle as a unified predictive framework across scales. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

🐝🌸 Hoy se celebra el Día Mundial de las Abejas y queremos poner el foco en la crisis de los polinizadores. La pérdida y fragmentación de hábitats, la agricultura intensiva y el aumento de la población de la abeja de la miel están acelerando su declive. 🔗 www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

Paper out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1438...! Can an #invasive plant disrupt #pollination in just days? Our study shows that #HimalayanBalsam reduces effective pollen transfer to the native Stachys sylvatica by 80% within 4 days. Visits are not always pollination! @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org 🌎🧪

Ciencia y bares. No es mala mezcla. Este 18, 19 y 20 de mayo tenemos estas cositas por Sevilla. 🍻🧑🏻‍🎓👩‍⚕️ #pint26sev

Este finde es el @biomaratonflora.bsky.social 🌲🌿, y qué mejor momento para aprovechar a documentar la biodiversidad de sitios poco explorados! Echa un ojo a las zonas menos conocidas cerca de tu ubicación aquí ⤵️ geosabina.com/iberfill/

Good policy from arxiv: AI-spawned misconduct - hallucinations, plagiarism, or evidence of using an AI to write “your” article - will get authors a one-year ban and the requirement that future submissions must be published at a reputable peer-reviewed place. Don’t waste people’s time with dreck.

Thyreus histrionicus (Apidae) sobre Scabiosa atropurpurea (Dipsacaceae), género cleptoparásito de abejas de su propia familia, como Anthophora, Amegilla o Eucera. Bebe un trago de néctar mientras espera a su víctima a la que seguirá al nido. Vado del Quema (Aznalcazar) @ebdonana.bsky.social

rOpenSci has been very influential and helped me to be better at open and reproducible research. I still remember my first workshop at ESA 2012 (or 2013?), where they introduced me to git! Happy 15th anniversary!

Big BeeMachine update! 🐝✨ BeeMachine can now identify 1,184 kinds of flower-visitors, including 999 bee species — a huge jump from the previous 354. See the full list at beemachine.ai/page/about #citizenscience #pollinators #AIForGood #biodiversity #bees

Hive mind: I'm on the hunt for any practitioner reports, policy docs, restoration frameworks, or applied conservation reports that explicitly use plant–pollinator interactions or ecological networks in practical conservation/restoration/rewilding? (Not scientific research) 🐝🌻

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

¡Actualizamos la lista de abejas silvestres de Canarias! En nuestro nuevo trabajo publicado en Zootaxa reconocemos 146 especies (¡60 de ellas endémicas!) y confirmamos a las islas como un punto caliente de biodiversidad en la Macaronesia y Europa. 🧵👇 polinizadoresdecanarias.org/actualizacio...

Día a día nos esforzamos por mejorar e implementar buenas prácticas editoriales que ayuden a construir una ciencia más inclusiva, ética y equitativa. Seguiremos mejorando para lograr una mayor transparencia. Aquí nuestra reflexión en el blog de la @eco-aeet.bsky.social: blogaeet.org/2026/05/05/l...

Feliz día! Que los bucles os acompañen!! 💻

What a Monday! 🐝 Excited to share two new papers on pollinators: 1️⃣ Exploring the wild bees of the Canary Islands in @Zootaxa. 🔗 doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5802.2.3 2️⃣ High bee nutritional standards but low flexibility in modern agro-ecosystems in Ecological Entomology 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/een.70096

La guía de plantas para polinizadores que necesitábamos la acaba de hacer @abejassilvestres.bsky.social 😍😍 🌿 www.abejassilvestres.es/resources/pl... 🌿

More than 60º in India... this is getting really bad... :(

🐝🌸¿Qué plantas podemos usar para ayudar a los polinizadores silvestres? La Asociación Abejas Silvestres ha elaborado esta guía para ayudar a la ciudadanía a elegir qué especies plantar en sus macetas para ayudar a las abejas y otros polinizadores. ➡️ www.abejassilvestres.es/plants-guide...

Since ChatGPT came online in late 2022, grant application numbers across 12 UK and EU funding bodies have increased by *57%*. For MSCA fellowships the number is *+142%*. I do believe that what we’re doing is insane and that we need to stop doing it IMMEDIATELY. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

¡Nuevo estreno! ¿Quieres ayudar a las abejas? Planta flores silvestres: aportan alimento a las abejas silvestres y otros polinizadores, y mejoran el suelo y el clima. Valen balcones, jardines o campos. Pero… ¿qué plantas elegir? Os ayudamos con esta lista. 👉 www.abejassilvestres.es/resources/pl...

Give it a try, is quick, is fun, and you learn how challenging is prediction in Ecology!