Caught this cuckoo bumble 🐝 taking a nap on a dandelion. So cute 🥰

Learning in Ludlow #womeninSTEM

New funded MSc position University of Guelph to study potential impacts of radio transmitters on the flight #behaviour & #ecology of insect #pollinators co-supervised by Dr. Ryan Norris & me. Application deadline May 15, to start Fall 24. #Entomology #Radiotracking #Bees #Butterflies Please RT

Come join us - my dept is advertising a fixed term teaching fellow position in vertebrate biology and ecology: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Beyond thrilled to be Trinity College Dublin for Jane Stout ‘s inaugural lecture 🐝 🌼

#womeninscience

Job ad. Come and join us!

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…

If you’re interested in #bees and making lawns insect friendly, and want to be part of an exciting follow-on project, look below!

Thanks to Phil Stevenson for my first sight of Darwin’s orchid Kew Gardens after our @nerc grant kickoff meeting. What a stunning example of co-evolution! Now I just need to see its pollinator, the sphinx moth Xanthopan praedicta. Trip to Madagascar clearly needed 😉

Memories of field work in Arizona - 🍯 🐜 on display American Museum of Natural History (Myrmecocystus mexicanus)

Had a wonderful time at the new(ish) Insect exhibition American Museum of Natural History with Erica Fleishman Brilliant that so many people are learning about the importance and conservation of 🦟🦋🦗🐝🐜🐞🪲🪰

Amazing behind-the-scenes tour of plants from the Lewis & Clark expedition given by the incredible Chelsea Smith (collections manager at the Academy of Natural Sciences herbarium, Philadelphia). Go in 2026 for a collaborative exhibition reconnecting the plants with the indigenous people

Fantastic couple of days in Aberdeen with Fabio Manfredini and Morgan Morrison doing bee research, plus a lovely walk on the coast

An important 🧵 on pesticide use and 🐝 🐝

February is LGBT+ History Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Follow our rainbow timeline of books exploring LGBT+ history from the ancient world to the present day! #LGBTplusHM

You can find more LGBT+ library resources on our online reading list: rl.talis.com/3/rhul/lists/6…

After sitting on, and therefore holding up, a PhD student’s manuscript for 6 months, the 2nd reviewer has now decided they won’t review it after all. Just appalling behaviour. Don’t be #reviewer2

Are you an undergraduate looking for a paid internship this summer, working on biodiversity and nature recovery? Develop your skills by joining the Centre for Landscape Regeneration for 9 wks. Details here: zero.cam.ac.uk/who-we-are/blo… Deadline 11 March. Please RT British Ecological Society Royal Entomological Society Selwyn College

Delighted to see our nature paper in the The Conversation 🐝🐝 Pesticides are stunting bumblebees across Europe 🐝 🐝 Could this be the future of monitoring pesticides and their effects on non-target species? We hope so. theconversation.com/silent-fields-…

Born #OnThisDay in 1903 was crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale FRS. She was one of the first two female scientists to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, along with Marjory Stephenson. She discovered the structure of benzene, and was a committed pacifist.