Pollinator conservation, for better or worse, is one if the public's top concerns right now. It's an issue deeply intertwined with the climate crisis, food security & sustainabilitu of ecosystems. Using bees to garner support to do work in the broader issues is smart.

Yesterday, my boyfriend has obtained his PhD of Bioscience engineering, with a topic of mycotoxins in maize. To quote the jury: 'The thesis and presentation are of superior quality'. Couln't be more proud! You inspire me to try to reach as high in my PhD ❤️ @jonasvandicke

Male Southern Migrant Hawker (Aeshna affinis) up close from July 2020. A feast of colour for the eyes... literally. British Dragonfly Society BDS Scotland The British Nature Guide NatureUK Kent Wildlife Trust BBC Springwatch Megan McCubbin Mike Dilger 💚 BBC Wildlife

a PhD can be very versatile. For example: I just called to Manhattan NY from Belgium, on a friday evening, to order a dry ice delivery to an adress in Brooklyn, NY. 🤷‍♀️

I am currently structuring my data from a citizen science project that I organised in the summer of 2020; and I just discovered that one of the bees was caught next to Broadway Street in NYC! Crazy how bees can nest in the craziest places, if they want to.

This week i'm in Marseille catching the Asian (and invasive) bee species Megachile sculpturalis! It's quite challenging to see them foraging because they often fly quite high on (non-native) trees. Here is a male flying on a 'goldenrain' tree, native to eastern Asia.

Love it or hate it, but social media is a great tool for science! I could try to ID a bee for hours without succes, or post it in a bee facebook group and get the right answer within minutes. Sharing knowledge is so important! And 'non-scientists' sometimes even know better!

I said yes!!!!!!!! 💍 🥰✨ Someone asked me if I was STILL working on that paper I started three years ago. ❤️

LinkedIn tempting me when I'm getting too stressed with PhD life

Why spend 4 minutes doing something in Excel when you can do it in R in 4 hours?

My very first paper as first (co)-author! This opinion/review was an interesting dive into a few of the many ways agriculture affects bees, and a big step towards the realization of my PhD 🐝 The impact of mass-flowering crops on bee pathogen dynamics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last weekend, I got the chance to take kids and adults into the miraculous world of bees, at the 'Nerdland' science festival. Together with some colleagues, i developed games showing the diversity of bees and flowers, and the many ways bees are threatened.

It was so great to see how the kids were amazed about bees and the whole world behind it 🐝🌼❤️

"My PhD was planned like this from the beginning" x.com/wasattempt_/st…

I see this every day, you too?

interesting to see where literature reading while writing a discussion takes you. For example, to the ISS!

that's fine, i can wait until 4500, maybe by then my PhD Thesis will finally be written...