We are looking for a Conservation Projects Manager (Species Recovery) maternity cover 🐝
It’s an exciting time to join the team and be part of our species recovery work.
See our vacancy page for the full details: https://ow.ly/gKk750YFEIH
We are looking for a Head of Outreach 🐝
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with proven experience in a leadership role to influence change and help more people and organisations become champions for bumblebees.
Full details: https://ow.ly/RBjF50YsKlL
Not to be outdone, first bumblebee of the year just an hour later!
Honeybee on wild plum blossom
1st March, bees wake up suspiciously on time for meteorological spring!
I’ve got a “weird” bee paper I’m struggling to find a home for, ProcB was a temptation but I’d heard negative things (glad to see it was blown out of proportion!)
Congrats James! How was the peer review at ProcB these days?
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
🚨 UK students 🚨
Opportunity to present your work in parliament - poster competition open now 🧐
Amazing opportunity and would be fantastic to see an entomology based poster represented 🙌🏽
@royentsoc.bsky.social
stemforbritain.org.uk
Super excited to share that our beebox methods paper is available online at @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, anyone looking to do some cool bumble science, get in touch! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Tree bumblebee on a pine tree, tongue out and actively feeding on the sap
Humble trumblebee having a drink of Lancashire retsina (the lovely Greek wine made from pine sap!)
Want to conserve bees? It's not just about flowers: safe nesting places are crucial and most species are ground-nesting. Found this nice site with long grass and sandy mounds for burrowing #pollinators #bees #conservation #wildlife @davegoulson.bsky.social @bethbees.bsky.social
Correct! The cuckoos have been much more abundant this year!
Dr Philip Donkersley and Jenny Roberts with the Beebox
The Beebox
The inside of a Beebox, being used as a nesting habitat for numerous bees
A Beebox in the field, with a bee flying towards the entrance
We're buzzing with excitement about Beebox! Check out the 3D-printed nest for bumblebees created by Dr Philip Donkersley of LEC and engineering lecturer Jenny Roberts 🐝
Read more 👇
https://ac.pulse.ly/qewgcm47sh
@dr-bees.bsky.social | #WorldBeeDay
Windemere Science Festival bee show is going ever so well, if you’re in the lakes this weekend do pop over to the Jetty Museum to see the bumbles!
bumblebee on flower by Felix Fornoff
We are #hiring a lecturer and #researcher:
- Teaching in ecology and nature conservation
- Research on plant-pollinator interactions
- Supervision of students
- Contribution to our major collaborative projects
Start 01.09.2025
Salary according to TV-L E13, 100%
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
I call him Frogbert
If people who study beetles get to call themselves Coleopterists, then I see no problem being a Bumbologist
FULLY-FUNDED residential insect ID and field surveying summer school, organised by
@oxfordconted.bsky.social,
@morethanadodo.bsky.social and @biology.ox.ac.uk, for PhD students or early career researchers.
📅14-18 July 2025
Apply by 9 May:
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/inse...
🧪 🌍 #academicsky 🐝
An image of a wheat field is to the right. On the left, against a beige backdrop, the text says, 'Regenerative agriculture, does it work for farmers and nature? New BES report looks at the evidence'
Is #RegenerativeAgriculture the solution to delivering for both food and nature?
A new report by the British Ecological Society brings together 40 academics, practitioners and farmers across the UK to explore the evidence. 👇
https://shorturl.at/s9TM4
Spring is here! The swallows have finally arrived in Lancashire, welcome back little friends
Help Spread the Word!
Know someone working with insects in the UK? Please share the RES #InsectWelfare Survey with your colleagues, students and peers. We want to hear from you!
🔗 buff.ly/feUke3B
⏰Deadline 1 April
#InsectResearch #EthicsInScience #InsectEthics #AnimalResearch #Entomology
After a long 5 years, something BIG is fast approaching, stay tuned for more details
Hairy-footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes (c) Anthony Cooper
🔔 Reminder: RES #InsectWelfare Survey 🦗
We’re gathering perspectives on the ethical treatment of insects in research. If you’re in #InsectResearch, your voice is essential!
Deadline: 1 April 🔽
buff.ly/kEmqgdr
#EthicsInScience #InsectEthics #AnimalResearch
People often ask me, do bumblebees ever sting? Not usually, their first choice is to show their annoyance by waving. So if you ever see them doing this, back away… slowly 😂
Hairy-footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes (c) Anthony Cooper
🚨 #InsectResearch Ethics Survey – Your Input Matters 🦗
We're gathering views on #InsectWelfare in UK research. If you're involved in UK #InsectResearch, we want to hear from you!
Read more and share your thoughts 🔽
buff.ly/T3xgWvv
#EthicsInScience #InsectEthics #AnimalResearch
What a wonderful spectacular day, first ever bullfinch in the garden. Truly glorious!
I would like to assure you all, this is definitely just an ordinary rock, nothing suspicious to see here folks
Googling for “bees in my computer”. Google AI Overview: “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the l mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.”
trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
She’s back! Temporary sunshine means the queens that survived winter have woken up and are out looking for snowdrops, delish!
