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Jenn Rose

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Basque and Bermuda bees | PhD candidate #BC3research • @sarelab.bsky.social | conservation, systematics, biodiversity 🐝🌿

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Sep 6

My MSc thesis is now published! Exploring the genomics of Bermuda’s leafcutter bee 🇧🇲🐝 doi.org/10.1111/icad...

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · 1h

Happy #WorldMushroomDay 🫶🏼🍄✨

Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 1h

To celebrate #WorldMushroomDay, here's a Lingzhi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum). #SciArt by E Ovsiannikov from Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde des Russischen Reiches (1857). Digitised for #BHLib by Harvard University Botany Libraries @harvardlibrary.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43058694 🍄 🧪

Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · 2h

I look forward to it as well! I figure it will be updated soon...

Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · 4h

The article above mentions just Simpanurgus phyllopodus and Dufourea minuta.

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · 4h

"Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species..."

Is anyone familiar with what species? I can't find a full summary list online. Thanks in advance 🐝🌿

Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 October 2025 (IUCN) – Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Sp...

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning | Egun on 🌿

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · 6d

#Hedera attracts an array of pollinators this time of year, many of which we often overlook like the potter wasp Delta unguiculatum. [📍Tolosa, Gipuzkoa]

Side view of potter wasp pollinating Ivy

View of tolosa in the background with Ivy in the foreground

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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 8d

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...

Joining the lab

2-year Postdoctoral position on VALOR EU-project: We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators (VALOR; The candidat…

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · 11d

The bees have been busy here this summer 💪

Ainhoa Magrach @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social · 11d

We’ve got baby Megachile! 🐝💚 Tiny leafcutter bees are busy building their leafy cradles – nature’s little architects at work. #Pollinators #LeafcutterBees #Biodiversity @sarelab.bsky.social

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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 15d

Join us Nov 14th for #YSF2025, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics.

Abstract submission closes Oct 25th!

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2fvmmthc

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Young Systematists’ Forum

Young Systematists’ Forum An exciting setting for postgraduate students and early postdoctoral researchers to present their work to a scientific audience interested in taxonomy and systematic…

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pooter 💯

Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Aug 15

On the last day of fieldwork, #Gorbeia presented me the weirdest fly. I don’t know much about it except that it’s in the family Acroceridae. #FlyFriday 🪰

Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Aug 4

Carpets of #Colchicum montanum flowering in #Gorbeia 🌸

Colchicum montanum flowers in an alpine meadow in Gorbea natural park in the Basque Country

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Aug 1

Sunset view of Aiako Harria from the home office 🌝

View of Aiako Harria at dusk, light on the tips with a cloudy backdrop.

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Alejandro Núñez @alexnunez23.bsky.social · Jul 25

Description of a new bee species from the Iberian Peninsula. With this addition, the number of Hoplitis species recorded in the Iberian fauna reaches 50.
#wildbees #Hoplitis
sea-entomologia.org

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Jul 19

Some company while sampling… [Macroglossum stellatarum pollinating Cirsium eriophorum 🌸] #nationalmothweek #gorbeaNP

Macroglossum stellatarum hawk moth pollinating Cirsium

Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Jun 24

Polyommatus sp. resting on one of my favorite flowers, Eryngium bourgatii [photo from last August]. 🦋

Polyommatus butterfly species resting on Pyrenean Eryngo

Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Jun 20

Reverse homesick, I like that phrase :-)

Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Jun 20

Congrats, Phil! 🙌🏼

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Jun 17

It's currently pollinator paradise at one of my favorite survey sites in #Gorbeia. 🐝🌞🌿
[Osmia emarginata(?) on Lotus corniculatus, Bombus pascuorum on Teucrium pyrenaicum]

Limestone landscape with diverse floral in between spaces

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Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC @ebdonana.bsky.social · May 20

🐝 Hoy es #DíaMundialDeLasAbejas 🐝

¿Sabías que la abeja de la miel es solo una entre +22.000 especies? La mayoría son solitarias y no producen miel, pero son clave para los ecosistemas y la producción de alimentos

Conocerlas es el primer paso para protegerlas. 👇

Abejas silvestres: las grandes desconocidas que sostienen la vida - Delegaciones CSIC

delegacion.andalucia.csic.es

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · May 16

@aranzadi.bsky.social #sugebizi 🐍 www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Seoane's Viper (Vipera seoanei)

Seoane's Viper in April 2025 by Jenn Rose

www.inaturalist.org

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · May 8

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4)
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center

The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · May 2

Putting the longhorn in longhorn beetle 🪲 [Morimus asper, 📍Artikutza]

Longhorn beetle with one long antenna and one broken in half. Moving along mossy surface.

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Jenn Rose @jdrose.bsky.social · Apr 24

Beautiful viper (Vipera seoanei) out and about at today’s field site. #Gorbeia

Body shot of vipera seoanei in a marshy grass habitat

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Nerea Montes @nermonper.bsky.social · Apr 11

‼️🎬 Check out my video for the contest #YoinvestigoYosoyCSIC, where I explain my thesis and our research on pollinators! Don't forget to like it and share, each time you do it you make a wild be happier 🐝🌸
@ebdonana.bsky.social
@csicdivulga.bsky.social
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VI ed. Yo investigo. Yo soy CSIC: Polinder

YouTube video by Departamento de Postgrado y Especialización - CSIC

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