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Nigel Raine
@nigeleraine.bsky.social
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Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation, Professor at the University of Guelph. 🐝 Studies wild #pollinator #behaviour, #ecology & #conservation. 🦋 🇨🇦🇬🇧 He/him/his https://1in3mouthfuls.org
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jeffollerton.bsky.social
The #ProPollSoil project has officially got underway, coming together to explore two big questions: How does the health of our soils shape the fate of #pollinators? And how do pollinators influence #soil health?

Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...

#bees #biodiversity #MissionSoil
Connecting soils and pollinators: the ProPollSoil project kicks off in Germany!
The ProPollSoil project officially got underway on 1st October, and this week (16th–20th November) our consortium gathered in Freising, Germany, for the kick-off meeting hosted by the Technical Uni…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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naturerecovery.bsky.social
We're really looking forward to this talk from Serian Sumner this Friday. Join us online or inperson, with a book signing and drinks reception aftwards. @waspwoman.bsky.social Reserve your seat now! bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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benscharmin.bsky.social
🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿

🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Doctoral Candidate Soil–Pollinator Interactions and Soil Health
www.lss.ls.tum.de
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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jhemberger.bsky.social
For #EntSoc2025 folks interested in insect responses to extreme weather, Neal Williams and I are hosting a session, "Hot Bees" in D133/134. We'll focus the methods and tools we can use to understand how heat waves impact wild pollinators across ecological scales. Join us! 🌡️🐝💨🌼
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social
Our recently opened World of Wasps exhibition hopes to reveal the unseen lives of wasps. Speaking to @cnn.com, Professor Seirian Sumner (@waspwoman.bsky.social) gave her top five reasons why we should all love wasps as much as she does.
Everyone hates wasps. But this scientist wants us to love them. | CNN
If you think wasps only exist to spoil summer picnics, Professor Seirian Sumner is here to set you straight.
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August 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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darastanley.bsky.social
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!
Vacancies | ecology
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June 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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corysheffield.bsky.social
Today is #WorldBeeDay, which is a real reason to celebrate these wonders of nature! #Canada is a very large, diverse country. Our efforts have confirmed almost 1030 species (www.beesofcanada.com/species), and this list continues to grow.
May 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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jeffollerton.bsky.social
In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e...
#pollinators #biodiversity
Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination – a new review just published
When we think of pollination, we often picture bees buzzing around flowers or butterflies flitting from bloom to bloom. This relationship between plants and pollinators is one of the most well-know…
jeffollerton.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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eslfairy.bsky.social
No voter card?
No problem!
Here’s what you can use instead to vote.
If you don't have a voter information card, bring one piece of ID with both your name and home address. Government-issued • Ontario driver's licence • Ontario motor vehicle permit (plate or vehicle portion) • Ontario photo card • Property assessment notice from Municipal Property Assessment Corporation • Child tax benefit statement • Income tax notice of assessment • Social Insurance Number confirmation letter • Statement of Employment Insurance Benefits Paid T4E • Statement of Old Age Security T4A (OAS) • Any document showing both your name and home address issued by the Government of Canada/Ontario Educational or financial • School admission letter • School transcript or report card • Tuition/fees statement • Bank account or credit card statement • Cancelled personalized cheque • Cheque stub, pay receipt or T4 issued by a person's employer • Insurance statement • Residential mortgage, lease, or rental statement • Signed loan or financial agreement with a financial institution • Document showing campus residence issued by the office or officials responsible for student residence at a post-secondary institution Other • CNIB card or card from another registered charitable organization that provides services to persons with disabilities • Hospital records showing a person's name and home address • Letter of Confirmation of Residence • Utility bill (hydro, water, gas, telephone, cable TV, public utilities commission) • Property tax assessment or bill from a municipality in Ontario • Any other document showing both your name and home address issued by: • a municipality • a government agency • or certified by a court in Ontario
February 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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naturealexk.bsky.social
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...
February 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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shokosugasawa.bsky.social
🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Image of a PhD position advert entitled "PhD studentship in Brain, Brawn, and Bugs: cognitive and physical factors of insect dexterity" with images of a praying mantis and a bumblebee foraging.
February 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
nigeleraine.bsky.social
Exciting opportunity to bee-come the new Assistant or Associate Professor in Apiculture/Honey #Bee Biology @uofguelph.bsky.social 🇨🇦. Assessment of applications will begin on April 16. Full info about the faculty position & application process: careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Please share widely!
February 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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chrisleduck.bsky.social
🐝 3-year Postdoc position 🐝

Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys.

📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025
💃Vibrant city
🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷
🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau

@leverhulme.bsky.social
Lestrimelitta robber bees standing on the entrance tube Melipona flavolineata stingless bee guards standing on their nest entrance tube
January 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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catrinwestphal.bsky.social
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
Crop diversification for pollinator conservation - Landscape Ecology
Context Intensive agriculture drives insect decline impacting insect-mediated ecosystem services that support production. Crop diversification shows promise in increasing crop productivity and enhanci...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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corysheffield.bsky.social
Michener’s 2007 “The Bees of the World” is a landmark for the study of bees: 7 families, 21 subfamilies, 58 tribes, 443 genera, and 927 subgenera of extant bees were recognized. Many changes have occurred since, as shown in the graph. #beesoftheworld #bees #classification #taxonomy #nomenclature
January 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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philstevenson.bsky.social
I have a new PhD opportunity with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social at Royal Holloway University of London on the effect of tree diversity on nutritional and chemical diversity of pollen and nectar resources for bees in the forest understory - deadline 20th January 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...
Effects of forest diversification on floral reward production for pollinators | TREES DLA
The herb layer in forests has a large potential to provide nectar and pollen for pollinators, but forest management practices such as planting tree species mixtures vs monocultures can affect floral r...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
January 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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samanthabrennan.bsky.social
"The University of Guelph is searching for a strategic leader to serve as its next University Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of library services at one of Canada’s top comprehensive universities. "

www.kbrs.ca/Career/17327...
University Librarian
University Librarian
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December 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
nigeleraine.bsky.social
New paper "Avenues towards reconciling wild & managed #bee proponents" led by Alex Beaurepaire. Hopefully a useful addition to discussions about the risks posed by managed bees to wild bees, highlighting knowledge gaps that hinder development of evidence-based policies: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
December 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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ellileadbeater.bsky.social
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...
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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juliakoricheva.bsky.social
📣 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & @philstevenson.bsky.social within @treesdla.bsky.social on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 🧪🌍 Apply by 20 Jan www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...
Diagram showing how tree species diversity can influence understory plants through changes in microclimate which in turn affects phenology and nectar and pollen quantity and quality. This may affect pollinator visits and plant fitness
December 7, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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dezene.me
One of the most alarming things about this study on the effect of pesticides on native bees is that some bumblebee queens (Bombus impatiens) preferred pesticide-contaminated soil when looking for a site to spend the winter. 🧪🪲🪳🌎

🚜🕳️🐝❄️

OA 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Digging below the surface: Hidden risks for ground-nesting bees
Hidden risks for ground-nesting bees
www.science.org
December 4, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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thewasplady.bsky.social
2025 New Zealand Native Bee Calendars Now Available!

We worked with participants of all ages to create 16 beautiful collages that capture the importance of planting a diverse assortment of flowers to feed native bees of Aotearoa.

Order here!
jandtlab.com/bee-creative...
@zoologyotago.bsky.social
BEE Creative Calendars!
Our BEE Creative Team worked with school groups and workshop participants of all ages to create 16 beautiful collages that capture the importance of planting a diverse assortment of flowers to feed…
jandtlab.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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georgemcgavin.bsky.social
Windsor Library tonight Wednesday 4th Dec. 7.00pm I'll be giving a free talk: It's a Wild Life: Tales from Television.
George's Dream - image of George McGavin in a hedge surrounded by insects . Created by Anne Riley.
December 4, 2024 at 12:29 PM
nigeleraine.bsky.social
Hear more about Dr. Sabrina Rondeau's important new research showing that #bumblebee queens prefer pesticide-contaminated soils when choosing their underground hibernation sites in this recent CBC Quirks and Quarks interview with Bob McDonald:
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... #Pollinators
December 3, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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inlewis.bsky.social
PhD opportunity! Dr. Michelle Dileo and myself are recruiting a PhD student to study #pollinator adaptive capacity to #climatechange. Interested in #bees or #butterflies, #genomics, landscape #ecology? Based in 🇨🇦. michelledileo.wordpress.com
See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋
A close up image of a yellow flower with a bee foraging in the centre of the flower. A human hand is partially visible, keeping the flower as still as possible. Photo of PhD position advertisement on pollinator adaptive capacity to climate change
November 27, 2024 at 4:07 PM