New evolutionary tree for all of the world's bumblebee species, from (1) slow-evolving nuclear genes, (2) fast-evolving mitochondrial genes, and (3) results from genomic data, to provide a complete starting point for comparative studies of all bumblebees www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Happy Bee Day (resin bees are the best little nuggets 🖤 )

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

Thanks to THE for publishing my article on masters funding! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uks-... #academicsky #university #studentloan

Our department now has a LinkedIn account. Follow us! www.linkedin.com/company/rhul...

Cool new paper on amphibian declines and bd www.researchgate.net/publication/...

CPS Sedgwick Studentships at Anglia Ruskin University. Anglia Ruskin University and the Cambridge Philosophical Society are requesting applications for two PhD studentships. Further details and to apply: www.aru.ac.uk/study/postgr...

I told you this place is always crowded, we should’ve called for a reservation 😩

Thrilled that the @camphilsoc.bsky.social has elected me as a fellow :)

We've been funding innovative research projects through Experiment.com, and here's one we're excited to spotlight: "Macrofungi of the California Archipelago" by Christian Schwarz and Dean Lyons. The Channel Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, but we know almost nothing about an entire kingdom of

They would also almost certainly be a large partner in any government that formed after the next election if they did this

We're protecting the future of food 🌱 Dr Tina Steinbrecher and colleagues in Royal Holloway Biology are researching seeds to provide the world with greater food security. The fruit of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, this project is conducted with Eden Research. https://ow.ly/R9Rp50YrUzs

Thank you to all who attended @rhulbiology.bsky.social Postgraduate Research Symposium over the last two days. It was great to see so many fantastic talks and posters! Many thanks to @lauren-bindsch.bsky.social for leading the organization of the event

Insects are fundamental to life on Earth, but if we want to protect them, we need people to understand and value them from an early age. 🐝 @DaveGoulson.bsky.social has a message for you. 🌱 #StandTallForTheSmall & help inspire the next generation 🔽 buff.ly/JiyJ2pq #BigGive

Cambridge histories through blur plaques

Well done!!!

A unique opportunity to join @rhulbiology.bsky.social as a Professor of Biological Sciences and Head of Department! Apply by 26 April 2026 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

#PhilTransB is open to theme issue proposals in all areas of biology - a great opportunity to create a landmark publication in your field. Find out more: bit.ly/PTBproposals

Over a mile of road white with spilled fertilizer granules, all of which will wash into nearest stream. New Place Farm, Blackboys, E Sussex

#PhilTransB is open to theme issue proposals in all areas of biology - a great opportunity to create a landmark publication in your field. Find out more: bit.ly/PTBproposals

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Proceedings of the Royal Society B is looking for guest Editors for a special issue #academicsky #biology #science royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/pages/s...

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

@ingolfsteffan.bsky.social (who led the project) shows what factors in protected areas and the landscapes around them drive pollinator populations in Europe @safeguard-pollinators.eu final meeting - identifying drivers enable conservation actions to enhance pollinators #bee 🐝 🦋 🪰

Really nice talk with some cool data on social immunity in honeybees #bees #ecology www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3kx...

Fungus or a festive ornament? 🍄This small, spheroid fungus (Abortiporus biennis) was found on decaying wood, its main nutrient source, in an urban park in Nanning, China. The vivid red liquid settled on the white surface is guttation – when fungi excrete their internal liquid.   📸 Junjie Liu

Great news! RHUL has received Doctoral Focal Award from BBSRC to train the next generation of engineering biologists in partnership with @rothamsted.bsky.social & @uniofreading.bsky.social. The funding will see a cohort of PhD students trained across six years www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new...

The @iussi-nwes.bsky.social that we organised this week in Leuven (18-19 December, www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings) was a success! @rmash.bsky.social and @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social delivered fantastic keynote talks and there was a great set of contributed talks and posters.

Congrats also to Dylan Thatcher and Alexis Gkantiragas for winning the prize for best student talks and to Cassandra Uthoff and Annie Joseph for the being awarded with the best poster prizes.

Patron: did you carve me that owl? Sculptor: real squinty with human feet, just how you wanted. Patron: what…?

This week's departmental seminar is by Prof Nazif Alic from @ihaucl.bsky.social who will discuss the relevance of polymeraze III activity to human ageing. Everyone welcome!

Delighted to share this note on only the second British record of the #hoverfly Paragus quadrifasciatus, which @amaeda16.bsky.social, @ellileadbeater.bsky.social, and I found during a #pollinator survey of the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social garden lab. Read and share! 🧪 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The fruits of many sleepless nights of fieldwork. Great to see it published! Worth a read for anyone interested in pollinators! :)

Nice short new paper documenting invasive bumblebees in the Faroe islands. I have the urge to make a species distribution model for it #ecology #bees www.reabic.net/journals/Bir...

I can't help wondering how much of this decrease is due to functional (though probably uninentional?) outsourcing of emissions to other countries.

For those of you that missed the Darwin Birthday Debate by the Centre for evolution and ecology this year they've just uploaded it ! #ecology #academicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdT...

Really cool concept I hadn't encountered yet - using bees to deliver fungicide treatments to plants via their flowers. It performed almost as well as spraying in this study #science #ecology #pollinator academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR...

2025 @conservoptimism.bsky.social Film Festival takes place tonight @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Sofia Castelló y Tickell (@sofiaatsea.bsky.social) from @rhulbiology.bsky.social, a co-founder of the festival, welcomes everyone. The festival is livestreamed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvW...

R Script I wrote to unstack rasters. Hope someone finds it useful I made it for the bioclim future climate rasters (www.worldclim.org/data/cmip6/c...) but it should work for anything github.com/AlexisGGk/ma... #ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science

I got frustrated that Worldclim didn't have annual averages and stuff for solar radiation, wind and water vapor pressure so I did it and put it on Figshare. Hope it saves one of you the hassle! #ecology #environmental #ClimateChange #science #academicsky figshare.com/articles/dat...

Some R code you might find useful - it takes occurrence data from any species you specify, extracts bioclimatic data and plots the occurrence points in a PCA github.com/AlexisGGk/us... #programming #R #ecology #science

This is from a paper with 400 citations... #academicsky

First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration

Don't be this editor. I can't believe we still have to put up with this exclusionary sh*t in academic publishing.

One of the things I find most frustrating about AI in education is that it means the only fair way to assess people are probably timed, in person exams. Yet, a few years ago, I would have advocated moving away from these kinds of assessments

Hymenoptera represent!

Really great free course content on species distribution modelling from @uclcber.bsky.social. Really good for the underlying theory and easy to follow www.youtube.com/watch?v=8inE... #ecology #science

When so much of the media rolls out the comfy red carpet for Farage, Private Eye trips him up and milkshakes him. Be more Private Eye.

Really nice talk from @britishecologicalsociety.org on biodiversity change by Maria Dornelas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee6...