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Johanna Yourstone 🐝
@jyourstone.bsky.social
Wenner-Gren postdoc fellow in Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (with colabs in Lund 🇸🇪) Pollinators | Wild bees | Foraging ecology | Competition |Environmental impacts | Fan of everything in nature, and like to illustrate it too 🎨🌺🦅
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I am so grateful to @jyourstone.bsky.social and her former lab at @biologylu.bsky.social for hosting me this week to learn their novel pollen scanning protocol. What a treat!
October 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Looking forward!! See you soon
July 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming.

Could these be the real culprits?

The evidence is in--and the answer is NO.

This thread explains! 🧵
May 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Exciting day with all UK bee lovers at the Bumblebee Working Group - 1st time ever for me! Enjoyed a brilliant presentation by @tegangaetano.bsky.social on bees liking salty treats - up to a certain point! 🐝🧂🌸
March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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So much looking forward to this new project on the impact of beekeeping on wild bees in the Hebrides. Exciting project led by the amazing @jyourstone.bsky.social greatly summarised in the poster below #BumblebeeWorkingGroup2025
March 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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🐝 3-year Postdoc position 🐝

Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys.

📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025
💃Vibrant city
🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷
🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau

@leverhulme.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Come join us in Lund to study floral evolution in pollination-generalized plants!
Join us a Doctoral student in evolutionary ecology!
The PhD candidate will be part of the research group of @oysteinopedal.bsky.social and the Speciation, Adaptation and Co-Evolution (SPACE) research environment at Lund University. 
Please apply no later than 16 February
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in evolutionary ecology
Subject description Biology is a broad subject about all living things. It encompasses everything from processes at the molecular and cellular level to global processes at ecosystem level. The subject
lu.varbi.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation helping to protect #seabirds and other #biodiversity in the UK Overseas Territories:
Head of UK Overseas Territories Programme | RSPB
The UK Overseas Territories hold an incredible array of globally significant environments. From vast peatlands and incredible seabird colonies to extensive mangrove swamps, they are home to many…
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January 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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We are recruiting an Assistant Professor in Land Use and Wildlife Health (including invertebrates!). Position comes with a PhD student, some research supports and reduced teaching in first 3 years. Come and join us at UCD in Dublin - we're a great bunch! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
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January 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Would you like to advance #pollinator monitoring? Come and work with us @tcddublin.bsky.social as a project manager on the @pollinators-antenna.eu project. We will co-design new monitoring tech and outline how they can improve monitoring across the EU 🐝🇪🇺 campusbuzz.blog/2025/01/22/h...
Hiring researcher/project manager for pollinator monitoring project
A highly motivated individual is sought to join the multidisciplinary team of ANTENNA “Making technology work for monitoring pollinators”, a European Biodiversa consortium nationally funded by the …
campusbuzz.blog
January 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I have a new PhD opportunity with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social at Royal Holloway University of London on the effect of tree diversity on nutritional and chemical diversity of pollen and nectar resources for bees in the forest understory - deadline 20th January 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...
Effects of forest diversification on floral reward production for pollinators | TREES DLA
The herb layer in forests has a large potential to provide nectar and pollen for pollinators, but forest management practices such as planting tree species mixtures vs monocultures can affect floral r...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
January 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Sverige är nu bäst – på att vara sämst. I 19 EU-länder minskar utsläppen. I åtta ökar de. Bland dessa hittar vi Sverige. Och inte bara som en i mängden. Sverige har den största utsläppsökningen av alla EU-länder

klimatgranskaren.se/floppen-sven...
December 19, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

Thanks for reposting!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology
jobs.helsinki.fi
December 5, 2024 at 6:26 AM
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🦋 Job Alert! 🦋
#Postdoc integrating South East Asian butterfly collections with machine learning & ecological modelling! 📊✨

Join us @naturalis.bsky.social to unlock the power of museum collections and drive innovation in biodiversity science. 🌍🦋
#butterflies #AI #ecology

👉 Info: t.ly/p-1ry
Postdoctoral Fellow SEA
We are looking for a Postdoctoral fellow to work on South East Asian butterflies by turning collection knowledge into practical tools and outputs through machine-learning identification, data analysis...
www.naturalis.nl
December 10, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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Now this is a fabulous job: pathway to independence fellowship in Ecology and Conservation at Cambridge University.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK149/c...
Clare College Pathway to Independence Fellowship in Ecology and Conservation Biology at University of Cambridge
Apply for the Clare College Pathway to Independence Fellowship in Ecology and Conservation Biology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and ap...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 30, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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🐝 We're currently advertising three PhD projects to study bees at Bristol University, UK. Two focus on foraging behaviour, ecology & nutrition, one on parasitic bees and their impact on indigenous stingless beekeeping in Peru.

Feel free to share: www.socialinsect-research.com/opportunitie...
November 15, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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Really nice looking postion open here at SLU Sweden: Professor (fully tenured) in conservation ecology with focus on biodiversity linked to forest management & green infrastructure.

It is also at our Alnarp campus which is...well...rather nice & even has a castle! 🧪🌎

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
November 22, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Bees visiting grass flowers in Madagascar - does anyone have a clue what they’re after?? I only have this clip from my partner who’s doing amphibian field work there. Think it’s the Malagasy honeybee
November 22, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Assistant Professor in Biodiversity (up to three positions)
at the Department for Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, the Department of Environmental Science, the Department of Geological Sciences, the Department of Physical Geography or the Department of
su.varbi.com
November 12, 2024 at 10:53 AM