A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
Digging up peat to sell as garden compost is bad for bumblebees, it releases centuries of stored CO₂ and destroys habitats – and more than 16,700 people have shown they care. Time for the Government to deliver on its promise and #endpeatsales, once and for all.
#PeatFree #Gardening #ClimateCrisis
🚨JOB alert🚨
We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.
Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology
⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely
😊Come join us!
Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc
We are looking for a Senior Project Officer – Save Our Shrills (SOS): Somerset 🐝
🕒 Full-time, fixed term until March 2029
📍 Working from home with regular travel in and around the project area
Full details: https://ow.ly/TOzl50Yf0K1
Can strongly recommend - great city to live in, fantastic colleagues in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social, only rains 96% of the time 👍
Join us! 🎉
To celebrate International Women in STEM day this year, we’ve commissioned these wonderful posters of Women associated with @bristolbiosci.bsky.social.
Plan is to have them up for the whole month and to add more each year 🎉
Congratulations to @victoriamallinson.bsky.social for winning The Olivia Norfolk Prize for her research on the impact of spring cold snaps on bumblebee colonies.
In 2026, Victoria, a Trust-supported PhD student, hopes to examine the impact of real cold snaps using the BeeWalk dataset.
Thank you so much @britishecologicalsociety.org for such an amazing opportunity to present my work at the BES annual meeting, and I am absolutely over the moon to have won the Olivia Norfolk Poster Prize. It is such an incredible honour and I am so thankful for this recognition 🐝🩵
Some researchers are now studying ecology without touching a single plant
go.nature.com/4aRGile
Can you identify UK bumblebees and/or butterflies to a species level in the field?
Or do you have strong botanical survey skills (equivalent to FISC Level 4 or higher) with the ability to recognise broad and priority habitats?
See great opportunity below & please share!
Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com
Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.
Legal rights for stingless bees! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump cards game showing an image of a social insect and biological information
Got my hands on this amazing social insects trump card game, developed by @elvarobinson.bsky.social & her team to support inclusion bursaries for IUSSI conferences. It even has my favourite bee 😍🐝!
If you want your own, for fun, outreach or teaching: www.iussi-nweurope.org/edi
Was the blue throat the one at slimbridge?! I managed to see him with kids (one of my proudest Dad moments 😂)
Exciting times ahead - I'm beyond delighted to be joining @bristolbiosci.bsky.social in 2026! 🎉🕷️🎉🐌🎉
I'm also looking for a PhD student to join @multipleye-lab.bsky.social in our new home! Come and study the effects of light pollution on the evolution and development of spider eyes with us 🌃🕷️👀 👇
We have a permanent vacancy for a lecturer in Zoology at Aberystwyth University jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/l... Deadline 14th December!
🚨 PhD position 🚨
Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth
🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Meerkat pups in the Kalahari, South Africa
Rhesus macaques in Cayo Santiago
Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera, South Africa.
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us:
Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation
UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6
NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp
Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
The wonderful Rox Middleton and i have a #PhD project investigating how cuticles and extracuticular waxes protect #plants from environmental stress as they age. Developmental biology, genetics, environmental signalling and physics split between Bristol and Bath. Please get in touch for more details!
During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth!
Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.
PhD position update. For information on the below position can be found here. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The bee-st gift for a bumblebee-lover 🐝🧩
Discover some of the UK’s bee species with this 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle from Gibsons.
♻️ Made in the UK & Europe from 100% recycled cardboard.
🎁 Share with someone who would love this.
Get yours today: https://ow.ly/iCbo50XcYRi
🚨Looking for a PhD project on 🐝? look no further! ✅
"Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure"
Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi
Full details:
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
PhD position at the University of Bristol (with me!) entitled 'The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physiology, and fitness'.
Fully funded and is available for UK-domiciled students of black heritage. Please reach out with any questions.
tinyurl.com/5n7s8yp9
PhD position 'Does regenerative agriculture support pollinator populations?' at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with myself, Prof Jane Memmott and Dr Richard Comont at @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social. Link below. Please RT 🐝🐝🐝
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Review request from an MPDI journal.
#AcademicSky
