Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

This thread is a delight.

So happy with this one!

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

Resharing my post from earlier this week, just in case you're working on your syllabus and want to give a think about how you're going to be dealing with AI with assignments. scienceforeveryone.science/how-i-am-thi... 🧪

Congratulations to Ada Clarke who had an excellent master’s defence today. She was an absolute pleasure to work with! Forgot pictures but found this lovely bag in Sweden as a gift.

Just like that my sabbatical in Sweden is done! Sad to be leaving but looking forward to adventures ahead!

A meta-analysis found that high-density managed honeybee populations can: 👉disrupt local biodiversity🌏 👉reduce pollinator richness🧪 👉alter plant-pollinator relationships🐝 ...all with minimal benefits to crop yields! Calls for evidence-based hive density guidelines 📑 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

I'm so excited to share my master's research! Do pollinators change their foraging behavior depending on floral and ambient temperatures? Do flowers that thermoregulate experience higher rates of pollinator visitation? Check it out below! 🏵️

It is with great sadness I have pinned the tab for D2L once again (sabbatical ending sad face). To be clear I do like teaching but educational software and admin, well let's just say I haven't missed that part!

♻️🆓: A functional view of flower–pollinator trait matching. A commentary on ‘Mismatching explained: constricted corolla tubes in Roscoea elevate the nectar’ doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Did u know?Some pollinators we know less about than others. This amber & black beauty is a Rose Sawfly. Sawflies aren't flies,but are related to bees, wasps & ants.They're approx 600 species in the UK & 1000's,world wide. The adults feed on nectar & pollen,making them excellent pollinators. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🪲🌍🐜🐝

Did you know that bisexual flowers are perfect? Botanists do. My latest pin celebrates the fact that 90% of flowering plants have individual flowers with both male and female parts. Botanists call these 'bisexual' or 'perfect' flowers. Please share! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Wahoo I made a phone wallpaper! byjessicaelena.gumroad.com/l/bunnies-ph...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Keep in mind that this is a list appropriate for Europe (some invasive plants in NA) but great to see this!

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

“York University scientist Sheila Colla remembered as a fierce advocate to save wild bees. Colla, 43, died Sunday of cancer. She successfully fought for the rusty-patched bumblebee to become the first bee listed as an endangered species in Canada and the U.S.” www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...

A major sabbatical accomplishment: learning to do stranded knitting (two colours)! Still need to block but it is done!

I will not buy any more ceramic in Sweden. I will not buy any more ceramic in Sweden before ending my sabbatical. I will not buy… why always so temping?!

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦 everyone, and in particular to every Acer sp. 🍁 tree across this amazing country. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47727

Will you be at #CSEE2025 next week? @bgmerkle.bsky.social and I have a couple of open spots in our workshop on Teaching and Mentoring Scientific Writing! Sunday 6th, 1-3 p.m. You *may* still be able to register on the conference website; if not, please just contact me for details.

Interested in trying out life as a scientific #editor? Based in the UK? Background in #PlantScience? The @plosbiology.org crew is expanding (again!), so a place in our lovely team might be for you...

These are fabulous!

So good to have this!

I often forget this...but for me it really does help. Actually got some bits written. Now for a short break.

When my focus is completely shot and I really need to do something, I sometimes remember the trick I learned from the old Twitter: set a timer for 30 minutes and just do the thing until the timer goes off. It really does help. Here’s me beginning again.

When my focus is completely shot and I really need to do something, I sometimes remember the trick I learned from the old Twitter: set a timer for 30 minutes and just do the thing until the timer goes off. It really does help. Here’s me beginning again.

My gosh it is hard to write about my career and how I should be promoted, with all of...this going on...

From the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Apart from the overwhelmingly largest cause of population declines - habitat loss and destruction - what are the other big killers of birds? A reason to consider keeping cats inside.🪶🌎

If you're involved with fieldwork in any way, you may want to check out these resources we made last year for LGBTQ+ inclusive fieldwork (even if you don't think any LGBTQ+ people are involved!) inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride/

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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!

This is a simple way to visualize warming.

I love watching @lajeunesselab.bsky.social talk about meta-analysis - so inspiring. At ESMARConf2025 he explores teaching meta-analysis in a world with AI resources to help students youtu.be/vOVhHnI2Ylc?... @eshackathon.bsky.social

Some great butts!

Can I really have been doing this long enough to go up for full professor?! Apparently yes. And that baby I had during my PhD is soon 16 so there’s that.

Mostly knitting but yes

This is beautifully written and I identify with so much of it! Had a fun walk with Steve in the Swedish nature this spring where we were both asking "what is that" about a plant that looked familiar and both having no idea :)

Foxgloves stand in sentinel ranks brightening a gloomy Sunday and drenching it in colour. These two #Lanvin gowns of c1911 could take their place amongst the blooms and blend beautifully. Dogs add character to the scene #thekyotocostumeinstitute #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

need to get our foxglove work published and then I'll have work on both species. Beautiful!

Always so exciting to start a new project, happy to be contributing to this nice and beautiful work!

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

When I was in my twenties, I was repeatedly denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I might “meet a man who wants kids”. I was left completely disabled, forced to undergo six surgeries, multiple blood & iron transfusions to preserve a diseased uterus for a HYPOTHETICAL child. 🧵

Antique shopping today and found this amazing vernal wall tile with my study species, fireweed. I’m already regretting leaving it although it is heavy and a bit hard to bring with everything else…

🌱🌻Finally out! All ICIPS PIs had their say in a seminal 31 page review on the evolution of land plant sexual reproduction. With lots of fine figures to share! Thanks to @icips.bsky.social and @dfg.de for funding our work. #PlantScienceResarch, #PlantEvoDevo rdcu.be/elOeI

Somebody somewhere 😇 Needs flowers tonight