Thrilled to share our new paper “Comparative genomic analysis of a metagenome-assembled genome reveals distinctive symbiotic traits in a Mucoromycotina fine root endophyte arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus” in BMC Genomics! 🥳 bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #Mycorrhiza #Mucoromycotina

Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) season the UK 🍄

Congrats to Jamie Smith @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social on a great #ento25 talk presenting his PhD work on the dramatic effects of even mild heatwaves during the larval stages (simulating the 2022 UK heatwave) on fertility in mason bees. Wish I could have been there in support!

Good luck to all presenting at #ento25! Members of our lab talking today - @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social at 1615 on heatwaves and bee fertility - and Matthew Chambers at 1645 on mason bee provisioning. Find them at the poster session too where they are presenting our poster! Gutted to be missing it!

The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official... 2025 was an average year for butterflies. See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇 https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025

Happy #WorldBeeDay

Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r... Apply if you are enthusiastic about: - experiments on insects which get pregnant - relevance of evolution to public health - a vibrant city & research environment

Another #FungiFriday for my #fungifriends from the Peruvian Amazon 🍄

#FungiFriday for my #fungifriends from the Peruvian Amazon

A great opportunity to do a fully funded PhD at the fantastic Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity in York, with @inesismartins.bsky.social and @cmbeale.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Climate drives long-term landscape and rapid short-term promoter evolution in the Western Canaries lizard, Gallotia galloti https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628907v1

Climate change is driving global extinction risks, with 1.6% of species threatened at 1.3°C of warming and risks escalating to 29.7% at 5.4°C, according to a new meta-analysis in Science encompassing more than 30 years of research. Read more:

We want you to work with us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences: bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A starter pack of people working on thermal biology or metabolic theory. Presently a very short list, but I know y'all are out there - please tell me if you'd like to be added! (Or if you'd like to be taken off) go.bsky.app/nHLZbD

More Redsky this morning... Lincoln, UK

Red Mason Bees, Osmia bicornis. On a Wild Strawberry in our back garden. 6th May 2024. bwars.com/bee/megachil...

AUSTRALIA EXTREME HEAT WAVE A short but very intense heat wave is kicking off in Australia in the States of South Australia,Queensland,Victoria and New South Wales with temperatures expected >45C ,even 47C in some areas. Minimums can locally stay above >33C. Follow the updates here...

📣 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & @philstevenson.bsky.social within @treesdla.bsky.social on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 🧪🌍 Apply by 20 Jan www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

We are far from conserving migratory butterflies. Our new paper shows that current protected areas are inadequate for 👉84% of migratory butterfly species in at least one season 👉45% of species in all seasons. (1/7) doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Incredible time at the British Ecological Society’s Annual Conference in Liverpool. I was honoured to give my first conference talk, sharing some of my recent research. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social