postdoc @lunduniversity pollination ecology, landscape ecology, conservation science @buzznicholson.bsky.social he/him
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🚨New paper🚨
So excited our research into the impacts of landscape-scale pesticide exposure on bee health is published in @Nature. Huge thanks to my co-1st author @JessKnapp24 and @MajRundlof and all in @poshbee_eu
The paper: shorturl.ac/7cckv
What’s this all about? 🧵
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Hey #ESA2024 @ESA_org ! Anyone have any cool “synthesis” projects they’re looking for an awesome place to publish!?! Try @Ecology_Letters!
Let me know if you have something or see something. Would be delighted to consider it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour… – at Oak Park, MI
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Smallholder farmers increase reliance on honeybees (in place of diverse wild pollinators) when they shift from subsistence agriculture to cash crops = major implications for the resilience of livelihoods & nutrition. More in our @JAppliedEcology paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14…
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Join us & help protect pollinators from pesticides!🌾🦋
Job Title: Pesticide Program Specialist (Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management, Eastern US)
Location: Remote
Compensation: $5,085/mo, approx. $61,027/yr
Deadline: July 22
Learn more and apply➡️xerces.org/jobs
ALT “We’re hiring! Pesticide Program Specialist (Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management, Eastern US)”
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🔥off the press! Our new paper in @RSocPublishing:
“Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival”
We tested whether pollen from heat stressed host plants has negative effects on wild bees. 🧵1/11
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Thanks @LynnDicks for highlighting or work investigating the effects of real world #pesticide exposure
Some thoughts from me and others on insect decline & the role of pesticides theguardian.com/environment/… @CamZoology @cambridge_uccri
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Abstract submission for the @RoyEntSoc annual conference #Ento24 is open!
Opportunities to present (in person and online) your work to the entomological community.
Abstract deadline: 17:00 (BST), Friday 14 June
royensoc.co.uk/ento24-abstra…
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Very useful illustrated guide to Bee Morphology/Jargon
leptinotarsa.github.io/gloss… Author wants feedback on what is missing, edits, corrections, additions
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Pesticides can be sustainably reduced, but this requires an approach that reconciles the seemingly conflicting goals of food production, environmental protection, biodiversity and human health. tiny.cc/ubv2yz
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Pesticide risk during commercial apple pollination is greater for honeybees than other managed & wild bees 🐝
Suggests limiting orchard sprays, while reducing on-farm exposures, won't protect far-foraging bees from off-farm exposures like thiamethoxam
🔗doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14…
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Attending #SETACSeville and interested in behavioural responses? Make sure to check out the behaviour session (1.04) on Tuesday, 9:30am to 12:55pm!
I'll be presenting #EthoCRED, a new framework for assessing the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies🐟🐸🧪
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🌱 From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue 🌱
Rethinking pathways to the dioecy–polyploidy association: Genera with many dioecious species have fewer polyploids
By @WilOsterman, Adrian Hill, James Hagan et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16318 #botany @wileyplantsci
ALT Photo of Rubus chamaemorus (photo credit: Ellinor Delin) In certain genera, there appears to be a positive correlation between polyploidy and dioecy, but why this correlation occurs have long been a mystery. A case in point is Rubus chamaemorus (in the picture), a circumpolar species comprising male and female individuals, predominantly surrounded by hermaphroditic relatives within the genus. However, the authors show that polyploidy is rare in genera which mainly consists of dioecious species, indicating that polyploidy is favoring dioecy, while dioecy is disfavoring dioecy.
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Our new paper, led by Dr. @EeraertsMaxime, examines how #pollination deficits & their relation with insect #pollinator visitation are cultivar-dependent in an entomophilous crop (#Blueberry) in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment: doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.… (🐝📸Jason Gibbs)
ALT Bumblebee visiting a blueberry flower
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Our work on how bumble bee colonies are affected by landscape pesticide exposure is out in the current issue along with other interesting paper on related “Insects at risk” topics, though the bumble bee on the cover is really weird looking… nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Databases for finding independent biology/ecological postdoctoral fellowships:
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New in @Nature, we show that commonly applied approaches have failed to accurately represent global trends in biodiversity. So what's the problem and what's the solution?
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Fantastic talk by @BuzzNicholson
#nordicoikos24 - effects of pesticides on bees. Excellent research, beautifully explained. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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What should you do if you find a bumblebee in bad weather?🤔
DON’T
🚫Take her indoors!
👑Bumblebee queens need to be outside to search for a place to nest. She may already have a nest that she is gathering food for.
🥵A bumblebee will burn more energy if kept warm indoors.
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Early career researchers in an unethical publishing system in @Ecology_Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
