Very cool (pun intended) fanning behaviour by Vespa orientalis nesting in the wall of the medieval Hospital of the Knights of St John in Rhodes #socialinsects @waspwoman.bsky.social

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

📢We’re recruiting! 🌳Assistant Professor in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation A permanent teaching-focused position in our vibrant, welcoming and intellectually stimulating academic community. Deadline: 7 September. Apply here: bit.ly/3HKtNeZ

Associate Professor position in animal physiology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (to replace me basically). An amazing permanent position at a great university! Please spread widely 🙏 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... DM if you are interested!

Thank you! And what an honour to be appointed Director of the amazing @zoologymuseum.bsky.social Sad to leave @rhulbiology.bsky.social after a wonderful 16.5 years, but very excited by this new challenge and amazing opportunity. I can’t wait to get started!

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Could swimming pools act as a vast landscape-scale pan-trap network?

I do love a good carpenter bee 🥰

Excited to be in Brussels with @planbee.bsky.social to talk about pollinators 🐝 and pesticides and ways forward for biodiversity

Love a hoopoe

Thoroughly enjoying seeing our garden table becoming a home for a population of leaf-cutter bees 🥰

🦋 Happy #PollinatorWeek from WildPosh! This week is dedicated to pollinator-related education and advocacy, celebrating the important roles that #butterflies, #bees, #moths, and other pollinators play in our ecosystems. 💡 Learn about WildPosh's work supporting wild pollinators: wildposh.eu/about

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!

A very bad video (it was windy… 🤣) of a shrill carder bumble bee queen foraging - sound on for the shrill buzz! @rhulbiology.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

Another great day of fieldwork with the beautiful shrill carder bee 🤩 @rhulbiology.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

Loving the benefits of nature restoration on our beautiful campus @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social

Lovely bee orchids on @royalholloway.bsky.social campus @rhulbiology.bsky.social

Happy 🌍 🐝 Day! Excited to work with @cminnaar.bsky.social (natural video star!) and @philstevenson.bsky.social and Xuan Feng on this project to support wild 🐝 @rhulbiology.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social o

First bee orchids began to flower at @royalholloway.bsky.social campus just in time for #FascinationOfPlantsDay 2025 #wildflowerhour

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

A beautiful cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) - May bug season is here 🥰

Great day in the field with Julia de Korab Skulska figuring out how to work with the endangered shrill carder bee 🐝 (Bombus sylvarum) @rhulbiology.bsky.social

Exciting to see our latest bumblebee 🐝 health experiment kicking off - nice work by @cminnaar.bsky.social in collaboration with @philstevenson.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social taking advantage of our beautiful biodiversity campus @royalholloway.bsky.social

Very lucky to work with these wonderful researchers! Not only did they give amazing talks and posters at our Annual @rhulbiology.bsky.social PG Symposium, they won *all* the prizes 🏆 So proud 🐝❤️ @leofordham.bsky.social @alexisggk.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @philstevenson.bsky.social

Spring-cleaning 🐜

Getting ready for this year’s big bumble🐝 experiment @rhulbiology.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social @ukri.org @philstevenson.bsky.social @cminnaar.bsky.social

ONE WEEK TO #NATURESMEMORY PUBLICATION DAY! I've got talks coming up, starting with: - Caterham Sci Fest: www.caterhamschool.co.uk/whats-on/sci... - London @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social: hunterianmuseum.org/events/natur... - Cambridge @zoologymuseum.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natures-me...

🐜 smuggling - an increasing threat to these essential ecosystem engineers? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great day exploring field sites for Julia’s Masters work with the shrill carder bumblebee, together with Jacqui and Lynn for @restpoll.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social

Wonderful evening celebrating Dr Alberto Linguadoca’s successful PhD viva 🐝 ☠️ Thanks to @darastanley.bsky.social for being an excellent external examiner! You can find Alberto’s papers here: scholar.google.fr/citations?us... @rhulbiology.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social

One of the joys of rearing 🐝 🫅 @rhulbiology.bsky.social

Love my campus in the spring @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social

Ant engineers: how team transport inspires tomorrow’s robotics📦 In this blog, Carmen Gil Hoed describes how ants team up to carry food that’s too big for one ant alone. insectessociaux.com/2025/03/20/a... #InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Ants #Teamwork #ScienceCommunication #CrazyYellowAnts

🧪 A new #bee #book just arrived, this one on covering many aspects of the European wild bee fauna, including #taxonomy, #diversity, #sampling, #conservation, #disease, and #pollination!

Hotel rooms when you go to Belgium for a Safeguard (European consortium) AGM 🐝 🪰 🦋

We are excited about our new call for applications - we offer 8 cool projects and 5 doctoral positions in Chemical Ecology! Have a look at the projects and apply! www.ice.mpg.de/296576/adver... jobs.ice.mpg.de/en/jobpostin...

This has been in the works for a while, and is not a response to recent events, but the timing couldn't be better: Canada now allows foreign students and postdocs to apply for more doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

Still time to apply - deadline March 21st. Come join us as we make our Museomics Facility - permanent lab manager position in beautiful Copenhagen 🧬

A 2-year post-doc position to work on the Fellow project, about the response of arable plant communities to gradients in agricultural practices, and their role on agroecosystem functioning (particularly the link with pollinators and beneficial insects) 🌸🐝 Position based at Cesab, Montpellier

I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic. The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations. #conservationgenetics #consgen Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

It might be of your interest: Postdoctoral Research Associate – Evolutionary Genomics & Insect Biodiversity The Strickland Lab seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher with an interest in integrative evolutionary biology to join the team. Contact them for info lynettestrickland.weebly.com

Only 2 days left to apply 👇

We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in: 1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 2) Microbiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please share!

I frequently can’t get into mayonnaise sachets either…

This is the news we deserve. “These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males 'It was not what I was expecting,' says biologist Stephanie Stack”