Episode 2 of #ConservationConversations is out now! 🍃

@lucyholland.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of speaking to @waspwoman.bsky.social about all things wasps 🐝, sci comm 📢, #SoapboxScience and much more for the @britishecologicalsociety.org Conservation Ecology SIG.
Listen now: bit.ly/4vbehN1

Very proud to contributed to this, and so excited to hear that #WorldOfWasps has been nominated for an award!

Amazing! Fingers crossed! 🐝

We are so pleased that World of Wasps has made the shortlist! A huge interdisciplinary team effort with @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social from @uclcber.bsky.social, Datascape Realities, @leaveylab.bsky.social @eloygl.bsky.social from @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social!

Prizes for Best Dressed! Wear your finest insect-themed attire and join us for #EntoFashion Day

📢 Registration Deadline tomorrow! Don't miss out!

Join us for #EntoFashion Day at the #StudentForum! Whether subtle or spectacular, show off your ento-inspired style - creativity encouraged, glitter optional ✨🐞

Deadline: 17:00 (GMT) 13 March

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#SF26

Excited to share that @lucyholland.bsky.social and I are hosting the revamped @britishecologicalsociety.org Conservation Ecology SIG podcast! 🌱

For our first episode in #ConservationConversations we interviewed Professor Helen Roy, covering all things ladybirds and more! Listen here: bit.ly/4sxf6xz

Abstract submissions and registration are now open for the @royentsoc.bsky.social #StudentForum2026! We'll be at @newcastleuni.bsky.social from 30-31 March - all undergrads and postgrads studying insects should consider attending!
www.royensoc.co.uk/event/studen...

...and the reason for that dopeyness, a really fun (but exhausting!) week spent in #Edinburgh for the @britishecologicalsociety.org #AnnualMeeting25. A great time spent with friends new and old!

Wasp expert explains why there are so many at Alexandra Palace The question on every darts fan’s lips watching the World Championship has been: Why on earth are there so many wasps at Alexandra Palace? Well, we can finally bring you the answer you’…

#Wasps at the #darts! Very happy to do a short interview with @talksport.com yesterday about the 'Ally Pally wasp'. However, much like the poor wasps I was a bit dopey yesterday and mistakenly said that virgin queens overwinter... queens actually mate before the end of the season! bit.ly/4pR1vQS

A real honour and a pleasure to be invited to speak to the public at @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social twice this month in collaboration with the #WorldOfWasps exhibition. Still on until the end of January, make sure to visit!

Which also have 6 legs, and are in fact wasps themselves 😉

@idrisadams.bsky.social's 1st wasp paper! Although written for & reviewed by kids, it's good for wasp-wary adults too!
And a perfect companion for a visit to the @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social #WorldOfWasps free exhibition www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
@uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

The Wonderful World of Wasps When you hear the word “wasp”, you probably imagine a stripey yellow-and-black insect that you see flying about at your summer picnic. You would be right! But there is much more to wasps than you thin...

My first wasp publication is out! @waspwoman.bsky.social and I have written a piece highlighting why wasps are so cool in Frontiers for Young Minds... perfect for children but equally as fascinating for all ages!

Submit your research or join to make the most of the networking opportunities at this great @royentsoc.bsky.social event!

Interview: UCL’s wasp experts talk about the research behind the Grant Museum’s latest exhibition Researchers from the Sumner Lab talk about how their research informed the Grant Museum of Zoology’s latest virtual reality exhibition, World of Wasps.

When a world-class zoology museum says: "We'd like to make an exhibition all about wasps; will you help us?" you have to pinch yourself to know it's real!

#WorldOfWasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social

www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
@uclcber.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social

It has been an enormous pleasure to work with @uclcber.bsky.social wasp dream team @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social and @idrisadams.bsky.social to highlight their amazing research in this world first exhibition on #wasps!

Check out our interview to UCL!! @idrisadams.bsky.social @waspwoman.bsky.social

If we liked wasps more, we could learn from them Wasps have a terrible image problem but, after seeing an exhibition that highlights their design abilities, Will Wiles thinks we could learn from them

Nice article by @willwiles.bsky.social in @apollo-magazine.com on the #WorldOfWasps! Be sure to visit @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social!
apollo-magazine.com/wasps-nests-...

Starring @idrisadams.bsky.social, on BBC Breakfast - PhD student @londonnercdtp.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social

We are so proud of you Idris - a media natural spreading the #WaspLove!

@ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Wasps on BBC Breakfast 🐝
Our expert joined BBC Breakfast to talk all things wasps - why they're essential, misunderstood, and worth celebrating.

Discover the Grant Museum’s fascinating new exhibition on wasp diversity.
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...

#UCL #GrantMuseum #BBCBreakfast #Wasps

What to do when wasps crash your picnic – a scientist’s guide to dining safely with these insects Did you know wasps switch from ham to jam foraging during the late summer?

It's a bumper-wasp year: here are my top tips on how to dine alongside wasps, without getting stung.

GET INVOLVED! Tell us what wasps want at YOUR picnic: www.sumnerlab.co.uk/wasp-picnic-...

theconversation.com/what-to-do-w...

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Thanks a lot, Crispin!

Very kind, thank you!

Super proud of my PhD student, @idrisadams.bsky.social who 100% rocked #WaspLove messaging on #BBCBreakfast yesterday! 🥳🥳
Look out for more wasp media from Idris, as wasps flourish in our #climate-change driven hot summer!
@uclcber.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Thanks Tim, taking notes from the best!

Have had a very exciting and unexpected start to this week, travelling to Salford for an interview with BBC Breakfast talking all things #wasps! Many thanks to @waspwoman.bsky.social for trusting me with this opportunity, and the fantastic #WorldOfWasps at @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social for the props!

Very happy to be part of this and can't wait to visit!
#WorldOfWasps

A rewilded Grant Museum of Zoology with wildflowers and wasps. Still image from VR experience created by Datascape Realities.

World of Wasps exhibition dream team pictured in front of paper nest sculptures by Peter Ayres. Lourenco Viveiros, Sylvia Kluczewski, George Paris, Tannis Davidson, John Zhang, Hannah Cornish, Peter Ayres, Seirian Sumner, Cintia Oi.

World of Wasps @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is open! Over a year in the making by this incredible team, the exhibition features displays, virtual reality, projections and paper sculptures drawing upon @uclcber.bsky.social research @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social

Take a wasp’s eye journey through a rewilded Grant Museum in a new VR exhibition Visitors are invited to enter a scientifically accurate virtual nest and experience the hidden, intimate world of wasps in a new virtual reality exhibition at the Grant Museum of Zoology.

Did you know that wasps purr? Or that they wag their bodies and tap their antennae to communicate? Find out more about these fascinating animals and discover the delightfully relatable social goings-on inside our virtual nest in ‘World of Wasps’.
www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps