Join the #RussellLab @ABS2023 Animal Behavior Society in person or online! We've got some excellent talks from @Bombycoidea Annaliese Novinger Jenny Burrow (they/she) and if you stick around to Saturday, I'll be giving a talk on how microbes affect (or don't affect) bumble bee cognition!

Do you like talking about bees and flowers? Do you like a sauna, a Belgian beer or a nice campfire? Then come join us for the annual SCAPE meeting in Belgium in October with this wonderful community :) :) :) Registr deadline 1 sept scape-pollination.org/scape-2023/ SCAPE Pollination Ecology

A fun and friendly meeting on pollination biology!

Join the PollinERA team📣 On behalf of our Institute of Nature Conservation PAS (INC-PAS) colleague, we share an open #PhDposition on #pesticide-#pollinator interactions🦋 Workplace: INC-PAS & Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Krakow, Poland📌 Learn more & apply here👇 projects.au.dk/fileadmin/rks.… #PollinERATakeOff

The Secret World of Sound documentary with David Attenborough is out! I loved helping filming buzzing bees on our Solanum flowers. But the best is hearing Attenborough talking about buzz pollination and for an instant sharing screen credits with one of my nature heroes!

We dedicate our review on buzz pollination to my friend and long-term collaborator Paul De Luca, who sadly passed away last year. He was a wonderful person and a fantastic collaborator. He is much missed by all who met him. academic.oup.com/aob/article/13…

What six-legged insects live in our cities? Join Entomology Curator, Aidan O'Hanlon, for an online talk on the six-legged neighbours living in our cities!- #UrbanNatureMW #Entomology youtube.com/live/PotWMomis…

Join us for a 4-year PhD studentship on 'Why does buzz pollination evolve?' We seek a student interested in evolution, pollination, and doing experiments with bees and flowers. You can read more and see how to apply here: plant-evolution.org/wp/2024/08/08/… Deadline: 18 Sep '24. Pls RT

Excited to share this work with Mario Vallejo-Marin on buzz-pollination biomechanics. We show that flower biting behaviour is an effective strategy to transfer vibrations of the thorax to the flower via the head! 🐝💐 Find out more here: cell.com/current-biolog…

Why do bees bite flowers when buzz pollinating? Here, with Dr Charlie Woodrow and the HFSP -funded team we show that biting helps bees to increase the amount of shaking applied to flowers, potentially releasing more pollen. Free access until 5 Oct! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Our paper on how biting helps during buzz pollination is free to read. Thanks to @UU_University for providing open access fees. Buzz-pollinating bees deliver thoracic vibrations to flowers through periodic biting: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Tangled webs & spider-flowers: #Phylogenomics, biogeography & seed morphology inform the evolutionary history of #Cleomaceae New #AJB research by Theresa Saunders, @ehroalson, Russell Barrett, Elaine Françoso, Bill Baker, Dr Isabel Larridon et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany

Very happy to see our recent paper on bee biting and buzz pollination covered in Science Magazine. HFSP Dr Charlie Woodrow science.org/content/articl…

If you want to study buzz pollination, apply to a fully funded PhD studentship I am currently advertising for. Apply here before 18 September. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Head-banging bumble bees bite flowers to shake loose more pollen. Learn more: scim.ag/8ch Science Visuals

Jeff Karron and colleagues have put together an excellent video on buzz pollination in Primula (Dodecatheon). Check it out here: youtu.be/fQsnPAWQqcI

Our new nature film “Bumblebees, shooting stars and buzz pollination in the wild” uses slow motion macro video to highlight ecology of buzz pollination in #bumblebees and green sweat bees. Plus cool scenes of queens mating, grooming & nest searching youtu.be/fQsnPAWQqcI PlsRT

I am glad to share this recently published theoretical work showing that pollen release is affected by pore size and anther shape in buzz pollinated flowers!!! journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1… #buzzpollination #buzzingbees #biophysics

We are advertising two new PhD scholarships investigating invasive bumblebee ecology in Tasmania using AI and radio telemetry. tinyurl.com/55cnxrd4 Join us at Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment to study the benefits and risks posed by this globe trotting pollinator.