Jamie Smith
@jamiesmithbio.bsky.social
PanoramaDTP PhD researcher, Solitary bee nutrition and anthropogenic change UniofHull🐝| MSc by Research, Butterfly fertility and heatwaves UniofLincoln 🦋• Thermal • Nutrition • Insects • Reproduction • Fertility • Agriculture
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Thrilled to share our new paper “Comparative genomic analysis of a metagenome-assembled genome reveals distinctive symbiotic traits in a Mucoromycotina fine root endophyte arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus” in BMC Genomics! 🥳
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#Mycorrhiza #Mucoromycotina
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#Mycorrhiza #Mucoromycotina
Comparative genomic analysis of a metagenome-assembled genome reveals distinctive symbiotic traits in a Mucoromycotina fine root endophyte arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus - BMC Genomics
Background Recent evidence shows that arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, as defined by the presence of arbuscules, is established by two distinct fungal groups, with the distinctive ‘fine root end...
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper “Comparative genomic analysis of a metagenome-assembled genome reveals distinctive symbiotic traits in a Mucoromycotina fine root endophyte arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus” in BMC Genomics! 🥳
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#Mycorrhiza #Mucoromycotina
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#Mycorrhiza #Mucoromycotina
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Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) season the UK 🍄
October 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) season the UK 🍄
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Congrats to Jamie Smith @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social on a great #ento25 talk presenting his PhD work on the dramatic effects of even mild heatwaves during the larval stages (simulating the 2022 UK heatwave) on fertility in mason bees. Wish I could have been there in support!
September 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Congrats to Jamie Smith @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social on a great #ento25 talk presenting his PhD work on the dramatic effects of even mild heatwaves during the larval stages (simulating the 2022 UK heatwave) on fertility in mason bees. Wish I could have been there in support!
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Good luck to all presenting at #ento25! Members of our lab talking today - @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social at 1615 on heatwaves and bee fertility - and Matthew Chambers at 1645 on mason bee provisioning. Find them at the poster session too where they are presenting our poster! Gutted to be missing it!
The wait is over - #Ento25 starts today!
👉 Collect your badge at the registration desk & meet the RES team 🪲
⚡ Get ready for 3 days of #InsectScience, ideas & connections!
Let’s make this conference unforgettable 🦋🐜🕷️
@UniStrathclyde.bsky.social #Glasgow #Entomology
👉 Collect your badge at the registration desk & meet the RES team 🪲
⚡ Get ready for 3 days of #InsectScience, ideas & connections!
Let’s make this conference unforgettable 🦋🐜🕷️
@UniStrathclyde.bsky.social #Glasgow #Entomology
September 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Good luck to all presenting at #ento25! Members of our lab talking today - @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social at 1615 on heatwaves and bee fertility - and Matthew Chambers at 1645 on mason bee provisioning. Find them at the poster session too where they are presenting our poster! Gutted to be missing it!
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The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official...
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
September 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official...
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
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Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r...
Apply if you are enthusiastic about:
- experiments on insects which get pregnant
- relevance of evolution to public health
- a vibrant city & research environment
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r...
Apply if you are enthusiastic about:
- experiments on insects which get pregnant
- relevance of evolution to public health
- a vibrant city & research environment
February 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r...
Apply if you are enthusiastic about:
- experiments on insects which get pregnant
- relevance of evolution to public health
- a vibrant city & research environment
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r...
Apply if you are enthusiastic about:
- experiments on insects which get pregnant
- relevance of evolution to public health
- a vibrant city & research environment
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Another #FungiFriday for my #fungifriends from the Peruvian Amazon 🍄
February 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Another #FungiFriday for my #fungifriends from the Peruvian Amazon 🍄
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#FungiFriday for my #fungifriends from the Peruvian Amazon
January 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
#FungiFriday for my #fungifriends from the Peruvian Amazon
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A great opportunity to do a fully funded PhD at the fantastic Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity in York, with @inesismartins.bsky.social and @cmbeale.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fully Funded PhD in Biology - Understanding the complexities of biodiversity change at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology - Understanding the complexities of biodiversity change at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:29 AM
A great opportunity to do a fully funded PhD at the fantastic Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity in York, with @inesismartins.bsky.social and @cmbeale.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Climate drives long-term landscape and rapid short-term promoter evolution in the Western Canaries lizard, Gallotia galloti https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628907v1
December 21, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Climate drives long-term landscape and rapid short-term promoter evolution in the Western Canaries lizard, Gallotia galloti https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628907v1
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Climate change is driving global extinction risks, with 1.6% of species threatened at 1.3°C of warming and risks escalating to 29.7% at 5.4°C, according to a new meta-analysis in Science encompassing more than 30 years of research.
Read more:
Read more:
Climate change extinctions
Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quantitative global assessment of climate change ...
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December 24, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Climate change is driving global extinction risks, with 1.6% of species threatened at 1.3°C of warming and risks escalating to 29.7% at 5.4°C, according to a new meta-analysis in Science encompassing more than 30 years of research.
Read more:
Read more:
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We want you to work with us!
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences:
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences:
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
December 17, 2024 at 12:35 PM
We want you to work with us!
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences:
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences:
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
docs.google.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:48 PM
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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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...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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...
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A starter pack of people working on thermal biology or metabolic theory. Presently a very short list, but I know y'all are out there - please tell me if you'd like to be added!
(Or if you'd like to be taken off)
go.bsky.app/nHLZbD
(Or if you'd like to be taken off)
go.bsky.app/nHLZbD
November 13, 2024 at 6:47 PM
A starter pack of people working on thermal biology or metabolic theory. Presently a very short list, but I know y'all are out there - please tell me if you'd like to be added!
(Or if you'd like to be taken off)
go.bsky.app/nHLZbD
(Or if you'd like to be taken off)
go.bsky.app/nHLZbD
More Redsky this morning... Lincoln, UK
December 15, 2024 at 7:33 PM
More Redsky this morning... Lincoln, UK
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Red Mason Bees, Osmia bicornis.
On a Wild Strawberry in our back garden. 6th May 2024.
bwars.com/bee/megachil...
On a Wild Strawberry in our back garden. 6th May 2024.
bwars.com/bee/megachil...
December 10, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Red Mason Bees, Osmia bicornis.
On a Wild Strawberry in our back garden. 6th May 2024.
bwars.com/bee/megachil...
On a Wild Strawberry in our back garden. 6th May 2024.
bwars.com/bee/megachil...
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AUSTRALIA EXTREME HEAT WAVE
A short but very intense heat wave is kicking off in Australia in the States of South Australia,Queensland,Victoria and New South Wales with temperatures expected >45C ,even 47C in some areas.
Minimums can locally stay above >33C.
Follow the updates here...
A short but very intense heat wave is kicking off in Australia in the States of South Australia,Queensland,Victoria and New South Wales with temperatures expected >45C ,even 47C in some areas.
Minimums can locally stay above >33C.
Follow the updates here...
December 15, 2024 at 3:29 AM
AUSTRALIA EXTREME HEAT WAVE
A short but very intense heat wave is kicking off in Australia in the States of South Australia,Queensland,Victoria and New South Wales with temperatures expected >45C ,even 47C in some areas.
Minimums can locally stay above >33C.
Follow the updates here...
A short but very intense heat wave is kicking off in Australia in the States of South Australia,Queensland,Victoria and New South Wales with temperatures expected >45C ,even 47C in some areas.
Minimums can locally stay above >33C.
Follow the updates here...
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📣 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...
December 7, 2024 at 8:54 AM
📣 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...
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We are far from conserving migratory butterflies. Our new
paper shows that current protected areas are inadequate for
👉84% of migratory butterfly species in at least one season
👉45% of species in all seasons. (1/7)
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
paper shows that current protected areas are inadequate for
👉84% of migratory butterfly species in at least one season
👉45% of species in all seasons. (1/7)
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
December 3, 2024 at 3:26 AM
We are far from conserving migratory butterflies. Our new
paper shows that current protected areas are inadequate for
👉84% of migratory butterfly species in at least one season
👉45% of species in all seasons. (1/7)
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
paper shows that current protected areas are inadequate for
👉84% of migratory butterfly species in at least one season
👉45% of species in all seasons. (1/7)
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Incredible time at the British Ecological Society’s Annual Conference in Liverpool. I was honoured to give my first conference talk, sharing some of my recent research. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Incredible time at the British Ecological Society’s Annual Conference in Liverpool. I was honoured to give my first conference talk, sharing some of my recent research. A huge thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social