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Yayy 🌱🪲🐝🐌- A list of stellar ecologists and myself showed that (1) species interactions can be summarised at the guild level, except for a few critical species, (2) they occur along a continuum from positive-to-negative, and (3) they have relatively weak strength except between plants!

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A pandemic paper from my postdoc with the Williams Lab at @ucdavis.bsky.social is just out in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecology. "Predicting landscape-scale native bumble bee habitat use over space, time, and forage availability" 🐝 🌼 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

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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...

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"Across the 1705 papers, the effect of new vs. old pesticides was similar [...] There was, therefore, limited evidence that the negative environmental impact of pesticides on wider biodiversity has been reduced by the development and authorisation of novel active ingredients and formulations".

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A starter pack for those working or interested in agroecology. Lot of room for new folks. Comment below to be added. go.bsky.app/VXdYJjQ

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Join us a Doctoral student in evolutionary ecology! The PhD candidate will be part of the research group of @oysteinopedal.bsky.social and the Speciation, Adaptation and Co-Evolution (SPACE) research environment at Lund University. Please apply no later than 16 February lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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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

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Animal Ecologists!! Here’s an opportunity to help lead Journal of Animal Ecology and join a fun team of editors. Please share widely and consider applying yourself. I’m happy to answer any questions.

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Megachile centuncularis (Megachilidae) in Lotus pedunculatus (Fabaceae)

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On progress in science, a cherished hypothesis falling, and seeing your own work cited. Plus, weird, weird fish! scientistseessquirre...

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

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...

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Hey y'all. I've created an #agroecology starter pack for folks interested in how we create, manage, research, and advocate for more sustainable agricultural systems across the world. Please let me know if you'd like to be added! Currently v. short list as I'm new to Bluesky. go.bsky.app/6d3FswT

submitted 105 days ago • 36 comments

I always like to see papers that analyze commercially available pollinator seed mixes and make recommendations for their improvement! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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I have an open position (fully funded for 4 years) for a PhD candidate in a project on pollinator communities and populations in relation to forest structure and microclimate. See more, and apply here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu....

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

Feast your eyes on Sparmannia flava. Maybe the greatest melolonthine of them all. That "winter" coat though... #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Africa #Scarabaeidae #Winteriscoming

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Hey I'm teaching a Midwest bee identification workshop in March. The focus is mostly on genus-level, but we go deeper on a number of groups. For more info and to apply, see: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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#Entomologists what is your favourite indicator species and why? 🙋‍♀️I have one! Common here in temperate Europe, Bombus terrestris L. may not be everyone's favourite, but it certainly is mine!

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Grants available to grad students/postdocs working on Bombus conservation; 10K for one year. www.pollinator.org/nappc/imperi...

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Great, pivotal job at the @gundinstitute.bsky.social. Join us!

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Love Bumble bees? 🐝 Dive into pollination, microbiomes, foraging secrets, and ecosystem resilience. A starter pack for buzzing discoveries! 🌼💛 Explore here: go.bsky.app/Gq3vvkj

submitted 104 days ago • 21 comments

🐺 x 🌷 interactions! Amazing photos by Adrien Lesaffre. Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in! www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...

submitted 109 days ago • 4 comments

"...a place to observe and record how one tiny patch of our planet is changing in reaction to bigger changes happening around it." 🧪🌎 @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/ive-visited-...

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Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Arnold Arboretum https://botany.fyi/bwwf9h The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University invites early career scientists to apply for a unique opportunity to start a research career as independent postdoctoral fellow while gaining training and connections within

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Hello new followers from that bleak gray place! Reposting my first post on this site: a cyanometer, the instrument Alexander von Humboldt (among others) used to determine how blue any sky actually was

submitted 116 days ago • 14 comments

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 113 days ago • 73 comments

Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

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Plenty of insects are nocturnal, but few wasps are among them. In South Korea, Vespa binghami is one such rare nocturnal hornet, elusive and little researched, until now. A new study Vespa binghami hornets' peak activity is just before midnight, and they prey mostly on moths.

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Functional traits are used in #bee ecology, but inconsistent data standards limit large-scale research. Our new paper with @MaddieOstwald & @Mlucia_Xylo presents a roadmap for standardizing bee trait data and a dataset of 1,600+ species globally. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

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grapefruits, painted by james marion shull, 1917

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🔥 How rising temperatures threaten plant sex lives New post in @botany.one 👉 https://buff.ly/3zXRQmG Based on @aobp.bsky.social article 👉 https://buff.ly/3XKOTz8

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We have a new paper on using weight to manage and study #honeybee colonies. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #beekeeping #science #research #apidologie

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Congrats @johnmola.bsky.social! Important work for this endangered bee

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Very excited to share this paper led by @saraemery.bsky.social just out in SOTEN! We use remote sensing to show Lygus pests in CA cotton are a lot worse when nearby natural habitat is productive but dries down early, exporting pests to crop fields! a thread www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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