A citizen science photo guide of plants and bee visitors in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot of Kenya www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

A citizen science photo guide of plants and bee visitors in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot of Kenya www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

A citizen science photo guide of plants and bee visitors in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot of Kenya The influence of global change on species assemblage patterns is on the rise with evidence showing a steady decline in pollinator communities across the globe. As such, the implementation of rigorous ...

How do pollinators and the flowers they use look like in East Africa? Check out our new preprint: A citizen science photo guide of plants and bee visitors in the Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot of Kenya biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #biorxiv_ecology

Climate-driven specialisation in plant-pollinator networks peaks outside the tropics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....

New preprint!

“Climate-driven specialisation in plant–pollinator networks peaks outside the tropics”

Testing the long-debated latitudinal specialisation gradient using >3,400 quantitative networks (>110,000 interactions). Led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️

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Warzones and microplastics pose serious new risks to bees

A report from Bee:wild, a new science-led global campaign to save pollinators, identifies the top 12 threats that could accelerate pollinator losses within the next 5-15 years. #WorldBeeDay

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Bees face new threats from wars, street lights and microplastics, scientists warn University of Reading report says conflicts including war in Ukraine among 12 most pressing threats to pollinator

A short but significant report on emerging threats & opportunities for pollinator conservation, we've worked on @uniofreading.bsky.social with Bee:wild is out today in time for #WorldBeeDay 🌍🐝
It's been picked up by @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You are a South African who recently finished a PhD (after Feb 2020) and want to apply for a NRF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, then get in touch. My research focuses on social and solitary bees, their parasites, immunity, genetic diversity etc. Interested? Get in touch.

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‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

An average tree weighs 1000 kg, of this powder you need 600 kg to equal the tree, seems to be efficient stuff

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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

That seems to be a useful tool.

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Last day to apply!

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dew? was it in the morning, then it could be dew. However, bees go for Poaceae pollen as it is easy to get (these are usually wind pollinated), but have low quality (light-weight because to enhance wind pollination), means low protein content. often they compensate by collecting more.

Pollen. They go for it when other pollen is scarce.

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MSc Position in my lab available. Mating system as preadaptation for invasive success of a beetle pest parasitising honeybee colonies. School of Life Sciences, UKZN, Durban, South Africa

PhD position in my lab available. Evolution and reproduction of an invasive beetle pest parasitising honeybee colonies. School of Life Sciences, UKZN, Durban, South Africa