I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

Great to see elephant hawk moths (Deilephila elpenor) back in our yard, enjoying some fresh nectar from gardenia flowers! #teammoth #Pollinators

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

【注目プレスリリース】見た目がよく似た送粉昆虫でも運ぶ花粉の種類や比率は大きく異なる / 筑波大学 https://research-er.jp/articles/view/156508

Our new paper out! By comparing body pollen carried by diverse insect pollinators visiting the same Ligustrum flowers, we found striking variation not only among major pollinator groups, but also within them — even between males and females of the same bumble bee species. Free view: rdcu.be/fj68l

Nearly complete global phylogeny of all 289 bumble-bee spp.— a large-scale synthesis combining nuclear genes, COI, genomes, and ancient DNA into a single BEAST2 framework. #Bees #Bombus

Happy to share that our latest research, led by Kohei Terada, "Heterospecificity of body pollen varies across and within trait-based groups of pollinators," has just been published in Arthropod-Plant Interactions. Read here (free online view): rdcu.be/fj68l or doi.org/10.1007/s118...

Peter H. Raven, co-author of "Escape and Radiate" coevolution with Paul Ehrlich, and then President and Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden for almost four decades, passed away April 25: www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/peter-raven

Just saw a queen Bombus diversus diversus looking for a nest site. Lady, you brightened my day! #Bees

【注目プレスリリース】先んずれば花色を制す ―「先客」を確保した地味な花は派手な花にも負けずハチを惹きつける― / 京都大学,筑波大学 https://research-er.jp/articles/view/154063

Congratulations, Kentaro on this great achievement and on earning your PhD!

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ Kentaro Takagi investigated realised flower constancy as an adaptive strategy where pollinators balance the effort of recalling information with travel costs in various environments🐝 buff.ly/ITNR5ov 🧪🌍️

Paul Ehrlich and The Bet "Markets don’t work when the things we care about don’t have market prices." legal-planet.org/2026/03/19/p...

Bumblebees often choose flowers based on the presence of other bees rather than color alone, suggesting social cues can outweigh visual attraction in pollinator foraging decisions. doi.org/hbsjc2

www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-... doi.org/10.1111/1365... @britishecologicalsociety.org

Excited to learn that our flower constancy paper is shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize, Functional Ecology’s award for early career researchers. Congratulations, Kentaro Takagi! #Ecology #Bees #AnimalBehaviour #FlowerConstancy buff.ly/Te56j18

Some flowers aren’t the flashiest, but they can still get a crowd. Our study shows less colourful flowers can attract as many pollinators as bright ones by getting early visitors—a floral “bandwagon effect” like a popular restaurant drawing the next wave of customers. bit.ly/4aq7WVL #Ecology #Bees

📰Published📰Conveying a sense of buzz: how plain flowers benefit from early pollinators in winning followers🐝 buff.ly/ldxNWh9 🧪🌍️

Our new paper is out! Here’s the lay summary. #Ecology #Pollination #AnimalBehavior #SocialInformation #FloralEcology #BandwagonEffects #Bumblebees

Some flowers aren’t the flashiest, but they can still get a crowd. Our study shows less colourful flowers can attract as many pollinators as bright ones by getting early visitors—a floral “bandwagon effect” like a popular restaurant drawing the next wave of customers. bit.ly/4aq7WVL #Ecology #Bees

The findings found that managed stingless bees can “markedly enhance coffee production” www.gcrmag.com/brazilian-be...

Review in #ProcB - Flower constancy in #pollinators: a bouquet of agendas shapes interactions among mutualistic partners #OpenAccess @chrisleduck.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

I am looking for a PhD working on tracking trait changes in insects/spiders at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity change @leibnizlib.bsky.social and the University of Hamburg. Apply here: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

2026 Happy New Year!

Earlier on the expedition we found the most beautiful flower, and here, my friends, is the biggest: Rafflesia arnoldi seen in full bloom today in the Sumatran jungle. This is the largest flower on earth and one of the greatest wonders of the natural world.

Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort! We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

#Viewpoint: Exploring the importance of aromatic #plants' extrafloral volatiles for #pollinator attraction Kantsa et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

🐜 Ants on flowers A meta-analysis shows protective ants reduce flower visits, especially by bees, but usually do not harm plant reproduction. Effects depend on nectary location and visitor type. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #SciComm 🧪 #Ecology #Pollination

"The fate of pollen in two morphologically contrasting buzz-pollinated Solanum flowers" by Vasquez-Castro et al. freshly published! doi.org/10.26786/192...

A new review gives us a deeper understanding of the evolution of plant-pollinator interactions! A brilliant critical review of the Grant–Stebbins model of how plants evolve by Kathleen Kay and Bruce Anderson just published. Read more about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/12/a...

See last article on "The cognitive side of communication in social insects", just published in @TrendsCognSci . Free access under this link! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Scott Loarie talks about #iNaturalust at #TED | The surprising power of your nature photos www.ted.com/talks/scott_... #Wildlife #CitizenScience #Conservation #Biodiversity

Is the Most Effective Pollinator Principle a zombie idea? How do plants adapted to one pollinator shift to another without traversing an adaptive valley? How should we measure fitness in pollinator selection studies? We explore these questions and more in a new review doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Even more fascinating after reading ‘Birds and flowers’ book by @jeffollerton.bsky.social #BirdPollination #Generalists #Ecology

🐦🐝 In Banksia menziesii, excluding birds cut fruit set, seed viability, and genetic diversity, while inbreeding rose. Honeybees moved plenty of pollen but increased selfing. Birds proved the most effective pollinators, with genetic gains that may drive bird-pollinated flowers. bit.ly/4fuAz58

Are specializations evolutionary dead ends? Morrison et al. reveal that in bird carotenoid evolution, continuity and stability are two sides of the same coin. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

We have a unique opportunity for a junior researcher, PhD student or postdoc, to use a revolutionary technique for mineral nutrient imaging and tracing in plants. Please re-post! Interested candidates should apply through the portal at the link below: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!