🐝, parasites, 🐜, evolutionary ecology, 🇪🇺, conservation, 🏳️🌈, he/him, Professor @RHULbiosci, all views are my own
London, England
Joined October 2013
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Thank you! And what an honour to be appointed Director of the amazing @ZoologyMuseum Sad to leave @RHULBioSci after a wonderful 16.5 years, but very excited by this new challenge and amazing opportunity. I can’t wait to get started!
📢 The Vice Chancellor has appointed Prof Mark Brown
as Director of the @Cambridge_Uni @ZoologyMuseum
and Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology.
Congratulations Mark! We look forward to welcoming you in Jan 2026. bit.ly/3UVHmey
Mark Brown retweeted
We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Land Use and Wildlife Health (including invertebrates!). Position comes with a PhD student, some research supports and reduced teaching in first 3 years. Come and join us at @ucdagfood ..we're a great bunch! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
Brilliant work, and first published PhD output from @morgsmorrison73 Straight up on the lab board, but you can read it from the links in the posts below 👇
New paper🚨📢
A simple way to help #pollinators in sub- & urban building complexes... We recommend that lawns are mown at an interval of at least 6, but ideally 12, weeks to increase floral resources & pollinator abundance
Work complete with @Safeguard2021 @RHULBioSci @MoJGovUK
There is a science of meetings - scientists can learn from this 😉
Learning how to make meetings more effective, from twentyoneskills.co/en/about-… Evidence-based meeting design - love it! Human interactions and regular reflections on quality are key. Thanks @RestPoll
And then fascinating to learn about the products of the vineyards 🍷 @RestPoll @naturealexk knows how to organise a meeting!
Fascinating to learn about the complexities of trying to be biodiversity friendly as a vigneron in the German Alsace with @RestPoll
Fascinating to learn about the complexities of trying to be biodiversity friendly as a vigneron in the German Alsace with @RestPoll
Mark Brown retweeted
Help students attend the 2026 IUSSI conference in Freiburg, Germany! 🐝 Our goal is to support at least 4 students. Let's raise more than $10,000 and show our support for students in our community! 🐝 PLEASE donate if you can! Scan this QR code, or click the link in the thread 🐝
Mark Brown retweeted
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.
Mark Brown retweeted
An exciting opportunity for an early career researcher in ecology and conservation biology @CamZoology - a funded five year Fellowship linked to @ClareCollege jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48931/ @BES_careers @RoyEntSoc @royalsociety
Mark Brown retweeted
New project led by @JamesMakinson with 2 x PhD scholarships on bumble bees!
Join us to explore the effects of invasive bumble bees in Tasmania's natural and agro ecosystems. See link for more details tinyurl.com/462h3wsh
Come work with us! We are looking for a post-doc to work on 🐝 🦠 🌸 in a collaborative project with @chickpeaman. Help us understand how landscapes support wild bee health! Deadline for applications 29 Nov jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vac…
Mark Brown retweeted
Join me w/ City of London Corp & key partners @sphaerularia @TsiolisCY @inntemplegarden & @BeesintheCity on 1st July from 5pm to discuss challenges & opps facing urban pollinators. I'll be sharing @KewScience work on best trees for bees. Free Entry here eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-city-…
Small steps, big changes. Only a few years ago my local urban common was managed by intense, regular mowing. Now it is a sea of flowers, for us and for 🐝 🐝 great work @lambeth_council
Thanks @LynnDicks and @horton_official for putting the @poshbee_eu #H2020 study on the negative impacts of normal pesticide use on bumblebee 🐝 health in farmland across Europe front and centre in this great article about insect declines theguardian.com/environment/… @RHULBioSci
Mark Brown retweeted
Research Fellowship call OPEN NOW 4 yrs research and salary funding. local & international applicants. Get in touch if you are looking for funding to develop your own research & you think my lab (pollinator microbial ecology) will synergise imperial.ac.uk/life-sciences… @ImperialSci
Interested in 🐝 conservation and doing a Masters by Research? Check out our programme @RHULBioSci royalholloway.ac.uk/studying… and projects with me (w/@marina_arbetman) royalholloway.ac.uk/research… please retweet @BumblebeeTrust
@marina_arbetman and I would be excited to see applications to work on our project with the world’s largest (and dare I say, most beautiful) 🐝 in Argentina
