More drilling in the North Sea would be a catastrophic mistake for Labour - locking us into high bills, and betraying their climate ambitions. If they’re serious about energy security, the answer is to double down instead on renewables and efficiency - and lower bills for good

Heading into the Easter weekend 🐝💨 This speedy female Common carder bumblebee was captured by Stephanie Summers 📷 Have you spotted any bumblebees this week?

allevents.in/bristol/scie... Giving a public talk as part of the Science Cafe, happening on a BOAT (!!) in Bristol Harbour. I am pretty bad at explaining things accessibly, so if you want to poke fun, join! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social is out! From vision to interdisciplinary science, navigating new fields, dealing with rejection, and finding your own path ✨ 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1DGh... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemB...

Hive mind request. I’m looking for long term insect (ideally pollinator) monitoring schemes that have conducted weekly/monthly transects/counts for several years. I know of the Bee walks, UKMS, and PoMs in the UK. I would love some non-UK examples! 🐝🦋🐝🦋🐝🦋

Forget birdwatching, I’m into moth-watching: they’re fascinating and misunderstood insects | Helen Pilcher www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #mothsmatter #ukmoths

Really important work by @aclassen.bsky.social and colleagues, demonstrating the importance of long-term ecological studies - climate change will drive the disappearance of alpine meadows 🌼🌸🪻😢 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interested in understanding how bumblebees are responding to climate change? Well look no further than a competition funded PhD position with me and Rachael Dudaniec at Macquarie University, Sydney 🇦🇺 Details below ⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Well done to both @victoriamallinson.bsky.social and Kath for presenting their research at #asabspring2026 @chrisleduck.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

I recommend giving 'Garden of a thousand bees' at watch this week if youre UK based. It's a funny and entertaining watch and all about the ecology of pollinators in gardens (what's not to love). This Wednesday BBC 4 @ 8pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🌿 Amazing talk by Prof Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (@yoselin.bsky.social) on Callose & Plasmodesmata! PhD opportunity available 🚨 apply by March 26! Join the vibrant @blackinplantsci.bsky.social community!

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Digging up peat to sell as garden compost is bad for bumblebees, it releases centuries of stored CO₂ and destroys habitats – and more than 16,700 people have shown they care. Time for the Government to deliver on its promise and #endpeatsales, once and for all. #PeatFree #Gardening #ClimateCrisis

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

We are looking for a Senior Project Officer – Save Our Shrills (SOS): Somerset 🐝 🕒 Full-time, fixed term until March 2029 📍 Working from home with regular travel in and around the project area Full details: https://ow.ly/TOzl50Yf0K1

Can strongly recommend - great city to live in, fantastic colleagues in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social, only rains 96% of the time 👍

Join us! 🎉

To celebrate International Women in STEM day this year, we’ve commissioned these wonderful posters of Women associated with @bristolbiosci.bsky.social. Plan is to have them up for the whole month and to add more each year 🎉

Congratulations to @victoriamallinson.bsky.social for winning The Olivia Norfolk Prize for her research on the impact of spring cold snaps on bumblebee colonies. In 2026, Victoria, a Trust-supported PhD student, hopes to examine the impact of real cold snaps using the BeeWalk dataset.

Thank you so much @britishecologicalsociety.org for such an amazing opportunity to present my work at the BES annual meeting, and I am absolutely over the moon to have won the Olivia Norfolk Poster Prize. It is such an incredible honour and I am so thankful for this recognition 🐝🩵

Some researchers are now studying ecology without touching a single plant go.nature.com/4aRGile

Can you identify UK bumblebees and/or butterflies to a species level in the field? Or do you have strong botanical survey skills (equivalent to FISC Level 4 or higher) with the ability to recognise broad and priority habitats? See great opportunity below & please share!

Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.

Legal rights for stingless bees! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Got my hands on this amazing social insects trump card game, developed by @elvarobinson.bsky.social & her team to support inclusion bursaries for IUSSI conferences. It even has my favourite bee 😍🐝! If you want your own, for fun, outreach or teaching: www.iussi-nweurope.org/edi

Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉 I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇

We have a permanent vacancy for a lecturer in Zoology at Aberystwyth University jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/l... Deadline 14th December!

🚨 PhD position 🚨

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork

The wonderful Rox Middleton and i have a #PhD project investigating how cuticles and extracuticular waxes protect #plants from environmental stress as they age. Developmental biology, genetics, environmental signalling and physics split between Bristol and Bath. Please get in touch for more details!

During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals. Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth! Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

PhD position update. For information on the below position can be found here. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The bee-st gift for a bumblebee-lover 🐝🧩 Discover some of the UK’s bee species with this 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle from Gibsons. ♻️ Made in the UK & Europe from 100% recycled cardboard. 🎁 Share with someone who would love this. Get yours today: https://ow.ly/iCbo50XcYRi

🚨Looking for a PhD project on 🐝? look no further! ✅ "Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure" Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi Full details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

PhD position at the University of Bristol (with me!) entitled 'The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physiology, and fitness'. Fully funded and is available for UK-domiciled students of black heritage. Please reach out with any questions. tinyurl.com/5n7s8yp9

PhD position 'Does regenerative agriculture support pollinator populations?' at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with myself, Prof Jane Memmott and Dr Richard Comont at @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social. Link below. Please RT 🐝🐝🐝 bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

Review request from an MPDI journal. #AcademicSky

Wow. I did not know that Alfred Russell Wallace (co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection) wrote a book in 1904 about the biological potential for life on other planets, and I've just found this extraordinary paragraph setting out the insanity of atmospheric pollution [1/3]. In 1904!

New #PhD ad alert! Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England? Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Looking for a #PhD? Interested in #SocialBehaviour #BiologicalMarkets #Fieldwork? Want to be based in #Bristol? Check out this project with me, @ljnbrent.bsky.social & #PatrickKennedy: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 For UK-domiciled Black-heritage applicants Get in touch for more information Please #share

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

Great PhD opportunity to work with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social & me looking at floral rewards in forests. @rbgkew.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social

PhD position at the University of Bristol (with me!) entitled 'The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physiology, and fitness'. Fully funded and is available for UK-domiciled students of black heritage. Please reach out with any questions. tinyurl.com/5n7s8yp9

Our Career Development Fellowships are now for applications. This scheme provides talented early career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM with research funding and training opportunities to build a successful research career: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/caree...

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

We are delighted that our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪 is approaching! Abstract submissions now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings Date: December 18-19 Abstract deadline: October 15 Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution at KU Leuven Plenary: Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social