Had a lot of fun taking part in a Biodiversity Blitz in the Olympic Park with UCL East campus UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research . 11 species out today including the first Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus) ever recorded in the park!

Increasing the Brazilian ratio at UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research! Welcome Jeferson for your 6 months PhD sandwich!! Welcome to the dark side of wasps!! #wasplove 🐝 Prof Seirian Sumner

O Waza-Ari que deu a medalha de bronze para o judô brasileiro! Histórico! #JogosOlímpicos #TimeBrasil #Paris2024

Minha primeira olimpíada não podia ser melhor! Cruzar com uma ídola do judô brasileiro Beatriz Souza! Nossa campeã Bia!! Simpatissíssima!! 🇧🇷❤️🥋🏅🥉#Paris2024 #judo #Brasil

Excited to share our new paper out in Nature Communications! We used experimental evolution to understand how gene body methylation might evolve and participate in adaptive evolution. Great team effort with Peter Sarkies, Jennifer Westoby & Rebecca Kilner! a 🧵: rdcu.be/dPY94

This is everything.

UK failing to monitor apparently falling wasp populations, expert warns ⁦Gavin Broad⁩ ⁦Prof Seirian Sumner⁩ 🐝 where are the wasps? Where are the insects?? We need more ⁦Big Wasp Survey⁩!! theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Super proud of this work as I think it tells us about the relationship between insect methylation, evolution and function ... but also highlights an interesting feature of parental care and its effects on phenotpyic variability via epigenetic marks!

JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are advertising an 18-month research assistant position to investigate the drivers of insect biodiversity change, working on the fabulous GLITRS Project (glitrs.ceh.ac.uk). DM to discuss further details, or apply here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Happy to be at International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP and have the opportunity to talk about Ammophila!! So great to meet several friends! With Prof Seirian Sumner Iona Cunningham-Eurich Benjamin Taylor Owen Bob Brown

Post International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP, it’s Phase 2 of our #Japan #InsectFest. We’re off to meet the #wasp farmers of Gifu, and hunt down #Vespa mandarinia (Giant Asian #Hornet) nest with Tatsuya.S Cintia Oi Bob Brown Haruna Fujioka 藤岡春菜. Tatsuya.S has hornet-infused Saki to get us in the mood😬

Wasp farms were but a dream for me, until today! Spent the day with #wasp #farmer Takahashi in Gifu province, #Japan. We chased wasps back to their nests, & admired his Vespiary of Vespula shidai. #SpellBound #SoMuchToLearn Thank you Tatsuya.S & Haruna Fujioka 藤岡春菜 🥰 #wasplove

Murder hornet collection ✅! Tracking an adult and running after it is an experience that any entomologist should have!!! So glad to meet such incredible wasp enthusiasts and have my own JWKA hat!! Thanks to Tatsuya.S and his amazing network!

After ICE 2024, I invited Prof Seirian Sumner Cintia Oi Bob Brown Haruna Fujioka 藤岡春菜 to my beloved field in Gifu and Aichi. We went hunting for #Vespula shidai & #Vespa mandarinia with wasp enthusiasts. Both the guests and the enthusiasts enjoyed it a lot- it was great!

#WaspFarming #Japan Living evidence that wasps can be farmed, just like bees, for their produce. And by caring for them, the wasps also provide essential ecosystem services as pest controllers & pollinators. Circular economy & ecology of #WaspLove Thanks Takahashi Tatsuya.S!

Running for the wasps!! 🏃‍♂️