Huge congratulations to Maria Bortot on the completion of your PhD journey 🐝🐝🐝

Our lab is hiring 2 research assistants (full-time) & 1 clinical trial coordinator (0.6 FTE) As we finalise the paperwork to advertise, if you know anyone looking for a position please feel free to get in touch More about us: marqueslab.com

It’s all happening in the 3rrrfm studio this morning - what a joy to be with the Einstein A Go Go team for one last show this year. We’re talking science highlights and lowlights from 2023. Remember science is everywhere and we’ll be back on air Jan 14th 🥳🥳 Dr Shane Huntington OAM

Royal Society Victoria has published our team’s summary of our research on insect pollination in Australia spanning 10 yrs: A World Without Bees publish.csiro.au/RS/pdf/RS23003 Adrian G Dyer Jair García mani मनि (The Plant Person) Dr Scarlett Howard Malika Ratnayake Monash Information Technology School of Biological Sciences, Monash Monash University

Combining my Masters on visual illusions and PhD on numerical abilities of bees, I present our new study published in iScience journal on how bees and wasps may be fooled by a quantity illusion. But... does quantity really drive the illusion?🐝🔢 Adrian G Dyer theconversation.com/do-they-see-wh…

Do they see what we see? 🐝 Bees and wasps join humans in being tricked by illusions of quantity, write Dr Scarlett Howard + Adrian G Dyer (Monash University). theconversation.com/do-they-see-wh…

Love this panel discussion title at VicBioCon #VicBioCon24 - "Not so cute and fluffy!" I'm always keen on discussions of how to conserve, support, and popularise less charismatic species. Seems like a good place to push my own publication on this topic: wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol4/…

Shout out to all the fabulous collaborators, friends, colleagues, and students I am honoured to work with on International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪🔭👩‍🔬🥼🐝🐞🪲🌼🌸 Keep up the wonderful breakthroughs advancing our understanding of the natural world.

This is the reason we should have all meetings outside! You might get the chance to see blue-banded bees (Amegilla). Of course, then the 3 of us spent 10 minutes trying to capture a picture...

"Unveiling the homes of insects" 🪲🐝🦋🪰 Huge congratulations to Sesa Singha Roy on her poster presentation at VicBioCon. This poster represents an immense amount of work that bridges the gap between ecology questions and computer science methods. #VicBioCon24 Alan Dorin 𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

Awesome presentation by Honours student, Yuqing Lin, discussing the foraging decisons of honeybees at VicBioCon in the "Flight of the Pollinators" session. #VicBioCon24 Adrian G Dyer

How would your animal answer these questions? Get inspired by the interview, written by the authors of this Journal of Experimental Biology article advocating for rethinking behavioral research design. 👉journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… Dr. Monika Scholz Serena Ding GordusLab Jimmy Liao Abhilasha Joshi, PhD

Catching up with our newest collaborator - small brain, but big ideas! 🪰 Adrian G Dyer

Congratulations to Yuqing Lin on the final seminar for Honours! 🐝🌻🎉It has been a great pleasure to work with this team! Yuqing's research will greatly advance our understanding of pollinator flower choice and plant-pollinator evolution. Leslie Ng Adrian G Dyer

I try to do a lot of science communication, but I've been outdone on my own research here. Way to make research on bees ordering zero accessible and perhaps more humorous than it already was, Science Spider!

This is not an easy feat! Amazing work by Lars Chittka and the bees 🐝

Last week the ICEB Lab celebrated the submission of Yuqing Lin's Honour's thesis 🎉 Congratulations to Yuqing on her incredibly hard work and truly fascinating results. Yuqing has expanded our understanding of plant-pollinator interactions and evolution🐝🌻🪻🌹🌷🪷🥀🐝