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Protecting wild pollinators is not just a biodiversity issue. It is also a matter of food-system resilience, public health, and economic security.
🔗 🔬 Read the study: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
#ButterflyProject #Pollinators #FoodSecurity #Biodiversity #Agriculture #EcosystemServices
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The greatest impacts would be experienced in nutrient-rich, pollinator-dependent crops: fruits, vegetables and oilseeds, which are exactly the foods that are crucial for a healthy diet.
The global annual welfare loss could reach €34 billion, with consumers bearing much of the burden.
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🐛 🦋 What would Europe look like without wild pollinators?
A collapse in wild pollinators across Europe could mean a 8% drop in crop yields, a sharp rise in the prices of foods and consequences extending far beyond Europe through trade, land-use change and food insecurity.
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PhD opportunity in ecology, biogeochemistry & evolutionary biology.
I am looking for a PhD candidate to join a research project on how animals cope with nutritionally imbalanced food and how this shapes matter cycling in ecosystems.
We have a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social
Application deadline: 10 May 2026
Please spread in your networks
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
40% de especies de abejas y 16,5% de polinizadores vertebrados podrían estar amenazados, lo que amenaza a su vez la vida que conocemos. 🌍
Pronta acción podría contribuir a revertir esto.
🏡 Evaluación de los Polinizadores de la IPBES: https://ow.ly/733x50Yy4mC
🧪 Lee más: https://ow.ly/T0Hn50Yy4mB
The new James Cameron-produced NatGeo documentary "Secrets of the Bees" is out tomorrow. I hope it's good - our bees and team members are in it, but I haven't seen the final product yet. Here's a trailer.
It’s actually tomorrow! Make the most of this opportunity to find out about the latest developments in bee research🐝🐝
Animal pollination emerged 280 million years ago. Currently, 90% of flowering plant species, including most crops, require animals to maximize their reproduction. However, human-induced rapid environmental change is threatening these mutualistic interactions.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Bumblebee up close.
Europe is facing a shortage of taxonomists - the Pollinator Academy sets out to change that.
This is an open-source platform created to make taxonomic knowledge accessible to everyone.
👉 Browse free courses and start building your taxonomy skills: pollinatoracademy.eu
¡Vamoooosss! 🐝💪🏻🐝💪🏻
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🌍 How do pollinators, people, and landscapes connect across Europe?
Our new deliverable offers a powerful starting point. “Territorial diagnosis and Living Lab formulation” (D7.1) lays the groundwork for turning knowledge on pollinators into action.
📄 butterfly-europe.eu/deliverable-...
𝐈𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 '𝐁𝐞𝐞-𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲'? 🐝
The #ButterflyProject researchers are using the EYS tool to grade chemicals from A (Safe) to C (Danger). Tested in Living Labs from 🇪🇸 (Almonds) to 🇳🇴 (Strawberries).
Read more:
butterfly-europe.eu/en/wp-conten...
Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Por aquí también se estila 🤦🏻♀️ y le llaman “hotel polinizador”
This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.
Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G
🚨 Deadline for Grant Applications Approaching! 🚨
Before submitting, please take a moment to read our updated guidelines to ensure your proposal fits our grant-giving criteria.
We look forward to seeing your submissions!
bit.ly/2iihD0T
#BeeScience #beekeeping #citizenscience #beebooks #apiculture
¡Enhorabuena por esa foto y por el trabajo realizado! 👏🏻👏🏻🐝🐝
Denis Michez (Mons University) follows up at the @safeguard-pollinators.eu final meeting by updating us on the status of wild bees and hover flies across Europe #bee 🐝 🦋 🪰 - key message, we now have distributional data to underpin conservation strategies for wild bees and hover flies across Europe
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🚁➡️🐝 A drone needs a data link and remote computing. A honey bee does not.
With a brain smaller than a sesame seed, a honey bee makes rapid, context-sensitive decisions while flying. Efficient intelligence is not the same thing as more computation and bees are a striking reminder of that.
🤔 Are you curious about the discussions that took place during the second WildPosh Annual General Meeting in Turin?
👉 Get a full overview of the event: wildposh.eu/news/wildpos...
@nunodomin.bsky.social entrevista a Perla Wahnón presidenta de la @cosce.bsky.social en @elpais.com que reflexiona sobre los problemas que seguimos arrastrando los científicos en nuestro país: falta de financiación, burocracia, falta de personal... ¡Ojalá la escuchen!
elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
The meeting concluded with a General Assembly led by WildPosh coordinator Denis Michez, who provided an overview of the work done so far, discussed collaborations with @valor-project.eu and @pollinera-horizon.eu, and outlined plans for the upcoming third Annual General Meeting.
Day 2 of the WildPosh Annual General Meeting in Turin opened with inter-work package discussions.
📢 Today, WildPosh holds its second annual general meeting in Turin, Italy.
During the two-day event, partners will cover the recent developments in their work and discuss the next steps.
Stay tuned as we share live updates from day 1 of the meeting.
#WildPoshMeets
🔈 En el grupo de transferencia de conocimiento “Avances en Biodiversidad” ofrecemos el servicio de identificación molecular de polinizadores 🐝🪰🦋
www.um.es/web/otri/inv...
🌱🐝 La Universidad de Murcia lanza un laboratorio ‘vivo’ para estudiar cómo los polinizadores benefician los campos de almendros. Un proyecto europeo que une ciencia, agricultura sostenible y conservación de la biodiversidad hasta 2029.
🔗https://t.um.es/lab-vivo-poliniadores
@pdelarua.bsky.social
🐝 🐝 Hace dos semanas lanzamos un Living Lab apoyado por @butterfly-project.bsky.social y @ProPollSoil para demostrar cómo los polinizadores mejoran la productividad y la sostenibilidad agrícola en almendros.
Ciencia aplicada para una agricultura más resiliente 🌍
www.um.es/web/sala-pre...
From Wed 28 to Fri 30 of January the partners of the @butterfly-project.bsky.social met for the General Assembly.
At BeeLife, we’re proud to collaborate in a network connecting #science, #policy, #economy and #nature to respond to pollinator decline.
¿Te preocupa el declive de los polinizadores? Ahora puedes participar en un espacio de debate ciudadano para compartir ideas y propuestas sobre cómo enfrentar este problema.
La Unión Europea pone en marcha una Asamblea de Jóvenes Ciudadanos sobre Polinizadores
citizens.ec.europa.eu/young-citize...
