PhD studentship: if you’re interested in parasites 🦠 and bees 🐝 check out this PhD position with me, Mat Fisher and Rhys Farrer Application deadline 13 June. Please read ad carefully for eligibility findaphd.com/phds/project/l… Royal Holloway RHUL Biology

Looking for a fully funded PhD in conservation zoology/ecology (UK-students only)? Check out this project with me and Rudy Riesch at RHUL Biology to work on Nature Recovery in collaboration with Surrey Wildlife Trust.

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#DYK bumblebees have distinctive features, including being very hairy, having a rounded body shape and flying haphazardly? 🐝

Don't forget you have until Friday to submit your photos of bumblebees on flowers to help our research with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust:
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Learn more about solitary bees! 🐝

Often overlooked but vitally important pollinators, they also have some of the coolest names in the bee world (Dark-winged Blood Bee anyone?) 🌸

Find out more here:
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📸 via @stevenfalk1 - @pollinatorplan #ForNature

Training camps in Spain are the perfect opportunity to spot a whole new collection of bees to watch out for ... Spotted on my balcony my first xylocopa spp 🐝💙

Our Optimow 2024 booklets are heading out...
Keep an eye out for yours in the post if you've signed up and if you haven't yet, sign up before it's too late #citizenscience #pollinators

📢 📢 Are you an undergraduate student looking for an exciting summer internship to do research on honeybee behaviour and viral infections? 🐝🦠 Apply for an EASTBIO REP to join the FABLab and work with the amazing Tesni 🐝 and the #bees ! Eastbio DTP School of Biological Sciences Details ⬇️

Just one more week to sign up to help with my citizen science project OPTIMOW! The work will add to 2yrs of data on pollinator conservation all from your back garden 🦋🐝
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If you stare at your grass you will be amazed the great pollinators you might #citsci

Fantastic day out catching, IDing, and weighing some springtime 🐝🐝🐝 with Nynke B

Very excited to see what comes of all the hard work!

#bombus #bees #pollinators

Educators can register now for a free 30-minute quiz about insects for 7-11 year olds, from STEM Learning in collaboration with RES for #InsectWeek24 , online on 28 June.

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STEM Learning

Get out in the garden or local park this weekend and see how many different bees you can see. Tip: some will be foraging in blossoming fruit trees, others will be nesting in the ground. Red mason bees may emerge from bee hotels. Happy bee spotting! Martha Kearney Ed Phillips

Spend your summer with us, learning insect ecology & conservation. Paid summer interships available! Our project is on bumblebee conservation with the Agroecology group, associated with the RestPoll project and Bumblebee Conservation Trust. Apply by 3rd May. nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/programme/reps

Please consider getting involved in this valuable research - finding the best mowing regimes for insects. I did this last year - not complicated nor time consuming #CitizenScience

We've hit triple digits for our sign ups!! Please share with any friends or family or groups in the UK

It's been a whirlwind 8 days... I've had to embrace a nomadic life between my MA graduation, Royal Entomological Society student forum and #SCCS24! I had the opportunity to talk about my bees & their disease not once but twice 🐝🦠 and met lots of inspiring people at both #SF24 #sccs2024

Thank you to all our delegates and volunteers for coming out into the rain to take the all important group picture 📸! What a smiley bunch! 😁

Second stop in my nomadic week, the royal entomological society student forum!! Some great talks so far 🐛🐝🦋🪲🦗

Huge congratulations to our awesome colleague Jasmin Paris for making sporting history as the first woman ever to finish the Barkley Marathons.

#BM100 #ultrarunner #smalleuropeanwoman
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The enthusiasm & responses I've got from the Optimow recruitment are brilliant. People are helpful, keen to engage and ask about the topic #citsci #citizenscience #pollinators #bees 🐝🦋
If you want to join my group of amazing volunteers in this project: forms.gle/VUi5hZ9ZdbAKVh…