Kew Staff Vote massively against the plan to move herbarium. chng.it/hfZztxMDwR via Change.org UK

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.

Klaus Lunau opening the 5th International Symposium on flower evolution in memory of Stefan Vögel Universität Wien

🎉Thrilled to announce my tenure-track position at University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), inheriting the lab of Prof. Ted Turlings. 2 PhD positions available on #ChemicalEcology and #Sustainable #agriculture 🌽🫛🐝🐛🐞 Job details: informationecology.github.io/openpositions/

This came in the mail today: the beautiful new Palgrave Macmillan book by Tom Lathan on extinctions. With beautiful drawings by Claire Kohda. First chapter: Malaysian land snail Plectostoma sciaphilum, driven to extinction because the karst hill where it lived was quarried away 10 y ago.

I had a wonderful time joining the Pollination Symposium University of Zurich organised by Simon Aeschbacher and Florian Schiestl. So many cool discussions on pollination and evolution! Thanks Kessler Laboratory Aphrodite Kantsa, PhD Judith Trunschke Sergio E. Ramos Jeanne Tonnabel and others!

📢 Call for papers! Dr. Vanessa Kellermann & I are co-editing a Journal of Insect Physiology special issue: "Non-eusocial Bees and Pollination: Biology, Behaviour, and Physiology in Climate Change Conditions." 🐝🌍 Submit by Dec 31, 2024! More information: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

Come see a seminar summarising our recent work linking reproductive traits and species diversity, with some insights into what it's like to work on a CESAB project - tomorrow at 14:00 CET !

SEB @sebiology.bsky.social is excited to invite members to participate in launching a new podcast series that will explore the career journeys of experimental biologists. For the full job descriptions and application details, please see below. sebiology.org/outreach/seb-p…

Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) Zootaxa: mapress.com/zt/article/vie… 🔒

Paper alert 🚨! Check out what we found about how "push-pull" mixed cropping can work, mechanistically speaking... The "push-pull technology" is a mixed cropping practice that consists in cultivating a focal crop together with companion plants.

Tremenda colaboración liderada por Lirong Cai, donde evaluamos el recambio filogenético a nivel global nature.com/articles/s4155… con BioGeo Göttingen GEMA UMayor @smartenwinter.bsky.social Data Observatory

Our lab at Plant Dept Uppsala welcomed PhD student Laura Briggs to talk about buzz pollination in blueberries.

A biting buzz: Thanks to SigmaXi and New Scientist for covering our work on how bees bite flowers to transmit vibrations to flowers during buzz pollination! Dr Charlie Woodrow Plant Dept Uppsala americanscientist.org/article/a-biti…

Our review of recently evolved allopolyploid plants is out. It was very nice writing this paper with great colleagues! We dedicate this paper to the memory of Richard Abbott who contributed so much to this and many other topics in plant evolution. doi.org/10.1111/nph.20…

Mario Vallejo-Marin Fantastic review! I really enjoyed reading it!

New #TansleyReview in New Phytologist! 🌱🧬 "Natural neopolyploids: a stimulus for novel research" - a fantastic collaborations sparked by discussions that emerged from U.S. National Science Foundation sponsored Polyploidy 2023 Conference! ... Kentaro K. Shimizu　清水健太郎 Mario Vallejo-Marin Soltis Lab @UF plus others doi.org/10.1111/nph.20…

#TansleyReview Natural #neopolyploids: a stimulus for novel research Edger et al. Patrick P. Edger Soltis Lab @UF Mario Vallejo-Marin Kentaro K. Shimizu　清水健太郎 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Another nice paper modelling buzz pollination. Cool to see two separate groups in China and the US converging on using similar novel approaches to study buzz pollination! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Check out our new paper on buzz pollination. This paper was led by Yuanqing, a PhD student in Kunming. Vibration mechanics involved in buzz pollination lead to size-dependent associations between bumblebees and Pedicularis flowers sciengine.com/SCLS/doi/10.10…