New paper alert! Sterol content of pollen directly influences solitary bee development & indicates that Osmia larvae are efficient in accumulating sterols or can biosynthesise or modify them, which challenges previous studies. @rbgkew.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial #bees. In this work, led by Tovah Kashetsky, specialist 🐝s were more hesitant to continue interacting with novel stimuli. Check out the #OA paper in @behavecol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/behe... #ProudCoSupervisor

We are looking for a very short (6 mo) researcher post for helping us to do experiments with bees, flowers and tiny robots,! The post would be suitable for a recently graduated PhD student or someone between jobs. The post will be announced formally in the new year. Informal queries welcome by email

Our survey of #bees & #wasps visiting #soybean flowers is out: doi.org/10.4039/tce..... This work shows most 🐝s visiting soy🌼s carried soy pollen. #Bumblebees & ground-nesting 🐝s were the most common 🌼visitors suggesting that management practices supporting these #pollinators will benefit 🇨🇦growers

The #ProPollSoil project has officially got underway, coming together to explore two big questions: How does the health of our soils shape the fate of #pollinators? And how do pollinators influence #soil health? Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/21/c... #bees #biodiversity #MissionSoil

We're really looking forward to this talk from Serian Sumner this Friday. Join us online or inperson, with a book signing and drinks reception aftwards. @waspwoman.bsky.social Reserve your seat now! bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil. Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿 🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...

For #EntSoc2025 folks interested in insect responses to extreme weather, Neal Williams and I are hosting a session, "Hot Bees" in D133/134. We'll focus the methods and tools we can use to understand how heat waves impact wild pollinators across ecological scales. Join us! 🌡️🐝💨🌼

Our recently opened World of Wasps exhibition hopes to reveal the unseen lives of wasps. Speaking to @cnn.com, Professor Seirian Sumner (@waspwoman.bsky.social) gave her top five reasons why we should all love wasps as much as she does.

We're hiring two PhD and two postdoc positions! Interested in pollinators, soils, agroecology, pesticides? Then come and work with us and with collaborators and all over Europe! stanleyecologylab.org/vacancies #findaphd Please share!

Today is #WorldBeeDay, which is a real reason to celebrate these wonders of nature! #Canada is a very large, diverse country. Our efforts have confirmed almost 1030 species (www.beesofcanada.com/species), and this list continues to grow.

In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e... #pollinators #biodiversity

No voter card? No problem! Here’s what you can use instead to vote.

Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators. 📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025 📅 Start date: June 1, 2025 💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Exciting opportunity to bee-come the new Assistant or Associate Professor in Apiculture/Honey #Bee Biology @uofguelph.bsky.social 🇨🇦. Assessment of applications will begin on April 16. Full info about the faculty position & application process: careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Please share widely!

🐝 3-year Postdoc position 🐝 Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys. 📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025 💃Vibrant city 🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷 🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau @leverhulme.bsky.social

New study: #CropDiversification can help pollinators without taking land out of agricultural production, but only some #pollinator species may benefit. We highlight mechanisms on the spatial and temporal #diversity of crops. Led by Thijs Fijen @w-u-r.bsky.social

Michener’s 2007 “The Bees of the World” is a landmark for the study of bees: 7 families, 21 subfamilies, 58 tribes, 443 genera, and 927 subgenera of extant bees were recognized. Many changes have occurred since, as shown in the graph. #beesoftheworld #bees #classification #taxonomy #nomenclature

I have a new PhD opportunity with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social at Royal Holloway University of London on the effect of tree diversity on nutritional and chemical diversity of pollen and nectar resources for bees in the forest understory - deadline 20th January 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

"The University of Guelph is searching for a strategic leader to serve as its next University Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of library services at one of Canada’s top comprehensive universities. " www.kbrs.ca/Career/17327...

New paper "Avenues towards reconciling wild & managed #bee proponents" led by Alex Beaurepaire. Hopefully a useful addition to discussions about the risks posed by managed bees to wild bees, highlighting knowledge gaps that hinder development of evidence-based policies: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

📣 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...

One of the most alarming things about this study on the effect of pesticides on native bees is that some bumblebee queens (Bombus impatiens) preferred pesticide-contaminated soil when looking for a site to spend the winter. 🧪🪲🪳🌎 🚜🕳️🐝❄️ OA 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

2025 New Zealand Native Bee Calendars Now Available! We worked with participants of all ages to create 16 beautiful collages that capture the importance of planting a diverse assortment of flowers to feed native bees of Aotearoa. Order here! jandtlab.com/bee-creative... @zoologyotago.bsky.social

Windsor Library tonight Wednesday 4th Dec. 7.00pm I'll be giving a free talk: It's a Wild Life: Tales from Television.

Hear more about Dr. Sabrina Rondeau's important new research showing that #bumblebee queens prefer pesticide-contaminated soils when choosing their underground hibernation sites in this recent CBC Quirks and Quarks interview with Bob McDonald: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... #Pollinators

PhD opportunity! Dr. Michelle Dileo and myself are recruiting a PhD student to study #pollinator adaptive capacity to #climatechange. Interested in #bees or #butterflies, #genomics, landscape #ecology? Based in 🇨🇦. michelledileo.wordpress.com See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋

Find out more about @bumblebeehaviour.bsky.social's amazing research examining the movement patterns of #bumblebee queens using radio tracking to reveal fascinating insights into their behaviour across different landscapes & help guide vital conservation efforts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv34...

📢 NEW PhD opportunity: Peatlands, plants, and pollinators. This exciting project will use population genetics & landscape info to inform conservation management strategies for the endangered Large Heath butterfly across Scotland's peatlands. 👇🏼 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please Share. Postdoc available with me on Pollinator Microbiomes. To develop/engineer microbial communities that protect bees from stressors. Collaborating with Quinn McFrederick (UCR) & Marc-Emmanuel Dumas (Imperial). www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jobs/description/index.php?jobId=21816

Check out how we are using high speed cameras to study how and why some bees use vibrations to shake flowers and extract their pollen. Here is our latest work. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Did you know we can track the movements of bumble bees using radio technology? This research reveals fascinating insights into their behaviour across different landscapes and helps guide vital conservation efforts. 🧪🌎🐝

Huge congratulations to my mentor Prof. @larschittka.bsky.social on being awarded the highly prestigious Founders' Memorial Award by @entsocamerica.bsky.social and delivering a excellent lecture to honour the pioneering work of Dr. Charles Turner, a founding father of comparative animal cognition

Huge congratulations to Dr. Sabrina Rondeau on winning the Ecology & Environment category of the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists. Read more about her impactful research in "Digging below the surface: hidden risks for ground-nesting #bees": www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #Pollinators

If you're still @ #EntSoc24 today please come along to hear about @bumblebeehaviour.bsky.social's exciting recent radiotracking work examining the behaviour of #bumblebee queens searching for overwintering sites in autumn & nest sites in spring (rm222A @14:55) @entsocamerica.bsky.social #Pollinators

If you missed Dr. Sue Chan’s poster on cucurbit pollen collection and use by squash #bees (Xenoglossa pruinosa) at #EntSoc24, feel free to check out the @jpollecol.bsky.social open access paper instead: doi.org/10.26786/192... @entsocamerica.bsky.social

Fantastic symposium on the Biology and Conservation of Solitary, Ground-nesting #Bees happening in rm 130 @ #EntSoc24 @entsocamerica.bsky.social. Great talks with more to come. Thanks to Alex Harmon-Threatt, Bryan Danforth and Michael Ulyshen for organizing

Very excited to #bee in sunny Phoenix for the @entsocamerica.bsky.social annual meeting to discuss all things entomological #EntSoc24

Step right up! The call for membership in the various species specialist subcommittees of COSEWIC is open until December 11... The best committee(s) ever! www.cosewic.ca/index.php/en...

Central to Halloween celebrations,🎃s are entirely dependent on insect #pollinators for reproduction. To find out more check out Dr. Susan Chan and my study on pollen partitioning in a Cucurbita crop pollination system with reference to the wild squash #bee: doi.org/10.26786/192... #HappyHalloween

Job Alert! New postdoc position in our lab investigating cognitive biases in wild bumblebees. Thanks to Wild Animal Initiative for the funding. Position for 31 months. Deadline: December 9th. Please apply/boost #PostdocJob #AcademicJobs #Bees jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

How does exposure to commonly encountered #pesticide residues in soil during hibernation affect #bumblebee queens? Find out more about size-dependent lethal and sublethal effects of pesticide exposure in soil from Dr. Sabrina Rondeau and my new-ish paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... ⚠️🐝👑

🚨New paper out in @Ecology_Letters from Neal Williams and me! 📰 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Here's a quick rundown of what we did, and what we found... 🧵👇

New study led by @janeansharkey.bsky.social reports 7 new #bee species records for 🇨🇦 from collections made in tallgrass prairie & oak savanna habitats in S. Ontario. More evidence why studying & conserving #insects in these vulnerable habitats is so important: journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/es...

Great video on bees and pollination by Jeff Karron! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQsn... #bees #pollinators #botany #ecology #biodiversity

I was looking for an #Entomology Starter Pack but I couldn't find one - so I started to build one! It's already morphing into more of a list of invertebrate aficionado/lovers. Did I miss you? Aplogies! Reply to this post and I'll remedy that! #StarterPack #Invertebrate go.bsky.app/7CaCbMC

I tried to build a starter pack for researchers in ecology sensu lato. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/2MdGeqi I can add more people and spread it around.