Nigel Raine
@nigeleraine.bsky.social
Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation, Professor at the University of Guelph. 🐝 Studies wild #pollinator #behaviour, #ecology & #conservation. 🦋 🇨🇦🇬🇧 He/him/his https://1in3mouthfuls.org
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Join us to get advice straight from Xerces staff that have built a pollinator haven in their yards. We’ll cover all the basics, as well as the unexpected lessons that come from years of experience!
🗓️Feb 12 at 10am PT / 1pm ET
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🗓️Feb 12 at 10am PT / 1pm ET
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February 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Join us to get advice straight from Xerces staff that have built a pollinator haven in their yards. We’ll cover all the basics, as well as the unexpected lessons that come from years of experience!
🗓️Feb 12 at 10am PT / 1pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️Feb 12 at 10am PT / 1pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
New DNA metabarcoding results show the distribution of cavity nesting #bees & #wasps, & their food sources, from schools across 🇨🇦. This community science work, led by Sage Handler, reveals network links among plants, #pollinators, parasites, predators & prey doi.org/10.3897/mbmg... @mbmg.pensoft.net
February 5, 2026 at 10:07 PM
New DNA metabarcoding results show the distribution of cavity nesting #bees & #wasps, & their food sources, from schools across 🇨🇦. This community science work, led by Sage Handler, reveals network links among plants, #pollinators, parasites, predators & prey doi.org/10.3897/mbmg... @mbmg.pensoft.net
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New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods.
Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The effect of stress on pollinator behaviour at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
New PhD alert! We'll be applying animal welfare ideas to look at how stress affects bees, looking at the effect on bee brains with @lenariab.bsky.social, and working with @sensibee.bsky.social developing new monitoring methods.
Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please spread the word! #bees #PhD 🧪
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Have a look at the brand new website of our sibling project, ProPollSoil!
www.propollsoil.eu
www.propollsoil.eu
January 30, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Have a look at the brand new website of our sibling project, ProPollSoil!
www.propollsoil.eu
www.propollsoil.eu
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New paper alert! Sterol content of pollen directly influences solitary bee development & indicates that Osmia larvae are efficient in accumulating sterols or can biosynthesise or modify them, which challenges previous studies. @rbgkew.bsky.social
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Pollen and sterol content differentially affect solitary bee development
Pollen sterols are essential micronutrients for bees, with roles as membrane components, hormone precursors and for regulating gene expression. It is …
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December 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
New paper alert! Sterol content of pollen directly influences solitary bee development & indicates that Osmia larvae are efficient in accumulating sterols or can biosynthesise or modify them, which challenges previous studies. @rbgkew.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial #bees. In this work, led by Tovah Kashetsky, specialist 🐝s were more hesitant to continue interacting with novel stimuli. Check out the #OA paper in @behavecol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/behe... #ProudCoSupervisor
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial #bees. In this work, led by Tovah Kashetsky, specialist 🐝s were more hesitant to continue interacting with novel stimuli. Check out the #OA paper in @behavecol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/behe... #ProudCoSupervisor
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We are looking for a very short (6 mo) researcher post for helping us to do experiments with bees, flowers and tiny robots,! The post would be suitable for a recently graduated PhD student or someone between jobs. The post will be announced formally in the new year. Informal queries welcome by email
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We are looking for a very short (6 mo) researcher post for helping us to do experiments with bees, flowers and tiny robots,! The post would be suitable for a recently graduated PhD student or someone between jobs. The post will be announced formally in the new year. Informal queries welcome by email
Our survey of #bees & #wasps visiting #soybean flowers is out: doi.org/10.4039/tce..... This work shows most 🐝s visiting soy🌼s carried soy pollen. #Bumblebees & ground-nesting 🐝s were the most common 🌼visitors suggesting that management practices supporting these #pollinators will benefit 🇨🇦growers
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Our survey of #bees & #wasps visiting #soybean flowers is out: doi.org/10.4039/tce..... This work shows most 🐝s visiting soy🌼s carried soy pollen. #Bumblebees & ground-nesting 🐝s were the most common 🌼visitors suggesting that management practices supporting these #pollinators will benefit 🇨🇦growers
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The #ProPollSoil project has officially got underway, coming together to explore two big questions: How does the health of our soils shape the fate of #pollinators? And how do pollinators influence #soil health?
Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
#bees #biodiversity #MissionSoil
Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
#bees #biodiversity #MissionSoil
Connecting soils and pollinators: the ProPollSoil project kicks off in Germany!
The ProPollSoil project officially got underway on 1st October, and this week (16th–20th November) our consortium gathered in Freising, Germany, for the kick-off meeting hosted by the Technical Uni…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The #ProPollSoil project has officially got underway, coming together to explore two big questions: How does the health of our soils shape the fate of #pollinators? And how do pollinators influence #soil health?
Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
#bees #biodiversity #MissionSoil
Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/11/21/c...
#bees #biodiversity #MissionSoil
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We're really looking forward to this talk from Serian Sumner this Friday. Join us online or inperson, with a book signing and drinks reception aftwards. @waspwoman.bsky.social Reserve your seat now! bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We're really looking forward to this talk from Serian Sumner this Friday. Join us online or inperson, with a book signing and drinks reception aftwards. @waspwoman.bsky.social Reserve your seat now! bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
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🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Doctoral Candidate Soil–Pollinator Interactions and Soil Health
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October 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
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For #EntSoc2025 folks interested in insect responses to extreme weather, Neal Williams and I are hosting a session, "Hot Bees" in D133/134. We'll focus the methods and tools we can use to understand how heat waves impact wild pollinators across ecological scales. Join us! 🌡️🐝💨🌼
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
For #EntSoc2025 folks interested in insect responses to extreme weather, Neal Williams and I are hosting a session, "Hot Bees" in D133/134. We'll focus the methods and tools we can use to understand how heat waves impact wild pollinators across ecological scales. Join us! 🌡️🐝💨🌼
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Our recently opened World of Wasps exhibition hopes to reveal the unseen lives of wasps. Speaking to @cnn.com, Professor Seirian Sumner (@waspwoman.bsky.social) gave her top five reasons why we should all love wasps as much as she does.
Everyone hates wasps. But this scientist wants us to love them. | CNN
If you think wasps only exist to spoil summer picnics, Professor Seirian Sumner is here to set you straight.
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August 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Our recently opened World of Wasps exhibition hopes to reveal the unseen lives of wasps. Speaking to @cnn.com, Professor Seirian Sumner (@waspwoman.bsky.social) gave her top five reasons why we should all love wasps as much as she does.
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We're hiring two PhD and two postdoc positions! Interested in pollinators, soils, agroecology, pesticides? Then come and work with us and with collaborators and all over Europe! stanleyecologylab.org/vacancies #findaphd Please share!
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June 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We're hiring two PhD and two postdoc positions! Interested in pollinators, soils, agroecology, pesticides? Then come and work with us and with collaborators and all over Europe! stanleyecologylab.org/vacancies #findaphd Please share!
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Today is #WorldBeeDay, which is a real reason to celebrate these wonders of nature! #Canada is a very large, diverse country. Our efforts have confirmed almost 1030 species (www.beesofcanada.com/species), and this list continues to grow.
May 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Today is #WorldBeeDay, which is a real reason to celebrate these wonders of nature! #Canada is a very large, diverse country. Our efforts have confirmed almost 1030 species (www.beesofcanada.com/species), and this list continues to grow.
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In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e...
#pollinators #biodiversity
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#pollinators #biodiversity
Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination – a new review just published
When we think of pollination, we often picture bees buzzing around flowers or butterflies flitting from bloom to bloom. This relationship between plants and pollinators is one of the most well-know…
jeffollerton.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e...
#pollinators #biodiversity
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e...
#pollinators #biodiversity
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February 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research
The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📅 Start date: June 1, 2025
💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years
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The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📅 Start date: June 1, 2025
💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years
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February 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research
The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📅 Start date: June 1, 2025
💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators.
📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📅 Start date: June 1, 2025
💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
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🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
February 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Exciting opportunity to bee-come the new Assistant or Associate Professor in Apiculture/Honey #Bee Biology @uofguelph.bsky.social 🇨🇦. Assessment of applications will begin on April 16. Full info about the faculty position & application process: careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Please share widely!
February 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Exciting opportunity to bee-come the new Assistant or Associate Professor in Apiculture/Honey #Bee Biology @uofguelph.bsky.social 🇨🇦. Assessment of applications will begin on April 16. Full info about the faculty position & application process: careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Please share widely!
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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
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
🐝 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
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
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New study: #CropDiversification can help pollinators without taking land out of agricultural production, but only some #pollinator species may benefit. We highlight mechanisms on the spatial
and temporal #diversity of crops. Led by Thijs Fijen @w-u-r.bsky.social
and temporal #diversity of crops. Led by Thijs Fijen @w-u-r.bsky.social
Crop diversification for pollinator conservation - Landscape Ecology
Context Intensive agriculture drives insect decline impacting insect-mediated ecosystem services that support production. Crop diversification shows promise in increasing crop productivity and enhanci...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
New study: #CropDiversification can help pollinators without taking land out of agricultural production, but only some #pollinator species may benefit. We highlight mechanisms on the spatial
and temporal #diversity of crops. Led by Thijs Fijen @w-u-r.bsky.social
and temporal #diversity of crops. Led by Thijs Fijen @w-u-r.bsky.social
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Michener’s 2007 “The Bees of the World” is a landmark for the study of bees: 7 families, 21 subfamilies, 58 tribes, 443 genera, and 927 subgenera of extant bees were recognized. Many changes have occurred since, as shown in the graph. #beesoftheworld #bees #classification #taxonomy #nomenclature
January 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Michener’s 2007 “The Bees of the World” is a landmark for the study of bees: 7 families, 21 subfamilies, 58 tribes, 443 genera, and 927 subgenera of extant bees were recognized. Many changes have occurred since, as shown in the graph. #beesoftheworld #bees #classification #taxonomy #nomenclature