Enjoyed BBC One Mammals tonight? The featured forest at Kasanka, Zambia is under huge pressure from illegal fires & poaching. Yet the rangers don't have even ONE functioning GPS unit (need 4 @£400 each). Effective patrols are impossible. Please help! 2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/nick-ryde-k… #bats

Come and join Dave Goulson and Issy Sexton for a workshop on Pollinators in trees next weekend!

Activities include:
Making Hoverfly Lagoons
Self led bug hunt in trees
Gall-ing cards

We have very limited spaces so book now to not be disappointed!
cpresussex.org.uk/.../pollinator…

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So exciting! Watch this space for new data on urban food biodiversity 🍒🐝🫛🪲🍓🪰 Maria Clara Castellanos Sussex Life Sciences

✨🌊 New paper alert!! 🌊✨
I’m very pleased to announce that we have just published the first paper for my PhD in PeerJ Publishing ! peerj.com/articles/17091/
We compare the cost-effectiveness of two marine biomonitoring techniques, eDNA and BRUV, along the Sussex coast. #Marine #eDNA

Free webinar with @the_buzz_club about a project investigating the impacts of extreme weather on bee populations BENHS Royal Entomological Society Buglife Yanet Sepúlveda Dave Goulson BWARS Bumblebee Conservation Trust UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology AES - amentsoc.org BRC NFBR

eventbrite.co.uk/e/770752149427

New research Ellen Wright Tom Timberlake et al shows Salix produces ~40% of annual farm-scale pollen supply (in April) with Filipendula ulmaria, Rubus fruticosus & Taraxacum officinale also important contributors. Many interesting findings - worth a read! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

🗨️ABL Roundtable Series 2024🗨️

Our first roundtable of the year will take place in two weeks! On the 13th May 11:00 GMT, we will be joined by Maggie Symes and Sam Nesbit from the University of Sussex to discuss the publication metrics and open access.

Yt link ▶️ youtube.com/live/XuW3AnYj5…

Great training day for Ripple Effect - kicking off the next stage of our Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP) University of Sussex citizen science project! 💦 🧬

We are very excited for our Citizen Science Virtual Symposium with the Biological Recording Company Keiron Derek Brown on the 16th May!

Speakers: Dave Goulson Dr Linda Birkin 🏳️‍🌈 Dr Beth Nicholls Yanet Sepúlveda Ellen Rotheray

More information and booking link here: biologicalrecording.co.uk/2024/02/29/cit…

We dedicate our review on buzz pollination to my friend and long-term collaborator Paul De Luca, who sadly passed away last year. He was a wonderful person and a fantastic collaborator. He is much missed by all who met him. academic.oup.com/aob/article/13…

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When is #citizenscience a useful approach? Join Dr Beth Nicholls to hear what she learnt from the Team PollinATE project in Brighton. Check out The Buzz Club Citizen Science Virtual Symposium for more info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/773643988997

Last week myself+Natacha Rossi had a brilliant visit to Mario Vallejo-Marin lab in Uppsala to learn all about bee+plant biomechanics.Huge thanks to The Company of Biologists for funding via the Research Partnerships Kickstart Travel Grant + for Mario's lab for showing us all your cool science!

🔥🐝New paper from the brilliant Yanet Sepúlveda - we show that #HeatWaves affect brood care behaviour and drone production in #bumblebees peerj.com/articles/17135/ 🐝🔥 #AnimalBehavior #ConservationBiology #Ecology #Entomology #ClimateChangeBiology Dave Goulson

Got a bee hotel? Or planning to make/buy one this Spring? Then please join our Big Bee Hotel Experiment. Sign up below. It is free, fun, easy, will help us to work out which designs / locations are best, and you might win a £250 voucher. Please retweet!

Cool post-doc opportunity in tropical biology Smithsonian in Panama!

Can coffee plantation design boost both productivity and sustainability? A new study says YES!

jeffollerton.co.uk/2024/03/01/can…

#bees #pollinators #biodiversity #coffee #Brazil

Can we just bad naming new housing estates after things they have built over? I am sure the twitterverse has many more great examples!