Tegan Gaetano
@tegangaetano.bsky.social
PhD Student at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social | Studying 🐝 #bumblebees of the #machair | Funded by @quadratdtp.bsky.social | CASE partner: @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
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At some conferences you get free pens, but at #NESEN (North East Scotland Environmental Network) you get potatoes. 🥔❤️😂
Many thanks to the organisers and presenters and to @srucnews.bsky.social for hosting.
Many thanks to the organisers and presenters and to @srucnews.bsky.social for hosting.
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
At some conferences you get free pens, but at #NESEN (North East Scotland Environmental Network) you get potatoes. 🥔❤️😂
Many thanks to the organisers and presenters and to @srucnews.bsky.social for hosting.
Many thanks to the organisers and presenters and to @srucnews.bsky.social for hosting.
Wow! Today was the final day of my last @quadratdtp.bsky.social ASM. How fast the last three years have gone! I am very grateful to QUADRAT, my cohort 4 colleagues and my supervisors (shout out to supervisor extraordinaire @fmanfredini.bsky.social) for this wonderful and challenging experience. 🥰
October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wow! Today was the final day of my last @quadratdtp.bsky.social ASM. How fast the last three years have gone! I am very grateful to QUADRAT, my cohort 4 colleagues and my supervisors (shout out to supervisor extraordinaire @fmanfredini.bsky.social) for this wonderful and challenging experience. 🥰
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
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!
I was fortunate to be supported by the Charles Sutherland Scholarship to conduct field sampling this summer for an ongoing project on the genetic structure of the cryptic bumblebee Bombus cryptarum. This work was featured in today’s @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social SBS blog: www.abdn.ac.uk/sbs/blog/cha...
Charles Sutherland Scholarship Fund - genetic diversity of bumblebee
Biologists and conservationists have long been interested in the study of island populations which may face genetic bottlenecks due to predicted smaller population sizes and barriers to gene flow. Thi...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I was fortunate to be supported by the Charles Sutherland Scholarship to conduct field sampling this summer for an ongoing project on the genetic structure of the cryptic bumblebee Bombus cryptarum. This work was featured in today’s @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social SBS blog: www.abdn.ac.uk/sbs/blog/cha...
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The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝
I was so lucky to have been able to spend my first @royentsoc.bsky.social meeting with this great group I met this summer at an Insect Taxonomy course at @morethanadodo.bsky.social (aka Falk’s Followers). #Ento25
September 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I was so lucky to have been able to spend my first @royentsoc.bsky.social meeting with this great group I met this summer at an Insect Taxonomy course at @morethanadodo.bsky.social (aka Falk’s Followers). #Ento25
A spectacular Day 1 of #Ento25! #EntOlympics (we came in 7th), an address from RES President Jane Stout in a building with more marble than the Vatican and not 1 but 2 talks on micronutrient foraging in pollinators (one from me). A million thanks to @royentsoc.bsky.social!
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A spectacular Day 1 of #Ento25! #EntOlympics (we came in 7th), an address from RES President Jane Stout in a building with more marble than the Vatican and not 1 but 2 talks on micronutrient foraging in pollinators (one from me). A million thanks to @royentsoc.bsky.social!
Accurate.
pov: youre a final year phd student and one of the new first years asked how your project is going
#PhDSky #AcademicSky
#PhDSky #AcademicSky
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Accurate.
Yay! So excited that the leader of the aptly named FABLab, @fmanfredini.bsky.social, got to present some of our research at the #IUSSI Italy meeting in Bologna!
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Incredibly thrilled to be able to present some of the FABLab research at the Italian meeting of the IUSSI in Bologna! Honeybee 🦠🦠🦠 and nutrtional ecology of 🐝🐝🐝 Thank you to the organisers for the invite, and thanks to members of the FABLab for the great data 😄🙏
September 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Yay! So excited that the leader of the aptly named FABLab, @fmanfredini.bsky.social, got to present some of our research at the #IUSSI Italy meeting in Bologna!
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What a privilege to have been able to spend a week learning techniques in insect taxonomy from the legendary Steven Falk & @liamcrowley.bsky.social. A million thanks to Thomas Hesselberg & Zoë Simmons and her staff at @morethanadodo.bsky.social for the experience.
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July 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What a privilege to have been able to spend a week learning techniques in insect taxonomy from the legendary Steven Falk & @liamcrowley.bsky.social. A million thanks to Thomas Hesselberg & Zoë Simmons and her staff at @morethanadodo.bsky.social for the experience.
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Finally we found them! Great yellow bumblebee in Barra 🐝🏝️🏴 the gorgeous weather surely helped! Wonderful to share the excitement with @tegangaetano.bsky.social and @jyourstone.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Finally we found them! Great yellow bumblebee in Barra 🐝🏝️🏴 the gorgeous weather surely helped! Wonderful to share the excitement with @tegangaetano.bsky.social and @jyourstone.bsky.social
Feeling very lucky to be back in the #Hebrides doing fieldwork with @fmanfredini.bsky.social & @jyourstone.bsky.social. Stunning machair and the pollinators it supports!
July 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Feeling very lucky to be back in the #Hebrides doing fieldwork with @fmanfredini.bsky.social & @jyourstone.bsky.social. Stunning machair and the pollinators it supports!
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Barra 🏝️ Day #1 with @tegangaetano.bsky.social Waiting for the weather to improve 😬 Can’t wait to catch up tomorrow with @jyourstone.bsky.social for the project Hebribees!
July 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Barra 🏝️ Day #1 with @tegangaetano.bsky.social Waiting for the weather to improve 😬 Can’t wait to catch up tomorrow with @jyourstone.bsky.social for the project Hebribees!
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Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.
February 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.
True story
"I got hit on the head with a seagull! It took my whole sandwich! Exactly like they said it would happen! It inhaled the whole sandwich. Except for the lettuce. It somehow managed to get the lettuce out." - @tegangaetano.bsky.social upon returning home today. Life in Aberdeen.
July 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
True story
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🌼🐝 Join the Buzz with #FITCounts!
Could you spend 10 peaceful minutes watching flowers and counting the insects that visit?
Join @biologicalrecording.co.uk 2nd July 6.30pm – 9pm to learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flower-ins...
Could you spend 10 peaceful minutes watching flowers and counting the insects that visit?
Join @biologicalrecording.co.uk 2nd July 6.30pm – 9pm to learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flower-ins...
Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) Counts
Learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🌼🐝 Join the Buzz with #FITCounts!
Could you spend 10 peaceful minutes watching flowers and counting the insects that visit?
Join @biologicalrecording.co.uk 2nd July 6.30pm – 9pm to learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flower-ins...
Could you spend 10 peaceful minutes watching flowers and counting the insects that visit?
Join @biologicalrecording.co.uk 2nd July 6.30pm – 9pm to learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flower-ins...
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Zoom inside a virtual wasp’s nest and experience the hidden, intimate ‘World of Wasps’ – their homes, their lifestyles and their relationships. See our upcoming exhibition based on @ucl.ac.uk research. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
June 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Zoom inside a virtual wasp’s nest and experience the hidden, intimate ‘World of Wasps’ – their homes, their lifestyles and their relationships. See our upcoming exhibition based on @ucl.ac.uk research. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps
I have to highlight this amazing profile created for #PollinatorWeek and the folks studying them by the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Zoo & Roots student organisation.
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June 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I have to highlight this amazing profile created for #PollinatorWeek and the folks studying them by the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Zoo & Roots student organisation.
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Great to be part of organising for today’s Career Planning event for PhDs and ECRs in life sciences with @sulsa.bsky.social!
June 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Great to be part of organising for today’s Career Planning event for PhDs and ECRs in life sciences with @sulsa.bsky.social!
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For #PollinatorWeek, we’ve put together all the information you’ll need to make your own pollinator garden into one place. Learn how to pick the right plants, manage issues without pesticides, and provide the nesting habitat that bees & butterflies need to thrive! 🌻🐝🎓
How to Make a Pollinator Garden
Gardens provide important food and shelter for pollinators. We've put together a list of tips that will help you prioritize the health and safety of these important garden inhabitants.
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June 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For #PollinatorWeek, we’ve put together all the information you’ll need to make your own pollinator garden into one place. Learn how to pick the right plants, manage issues without pesticides, and provide the nesting habitat that bees & butterflies need to thrive! 🌻🐝🎓
For PhDs & early career professionals in life sciences: this is a great opportunity to get pro tips on how to use your CV and interview to make you stand out to employers. ✅
Hosted by @sulsa.bsky.social
Hosted by @sulsa.bsky.social
SULSA CV & Careers Workshop 📝
Join us for a a how-to guide for applications, CVs and interviews, focused on life sciences careers.
📆 18 June🕘 9.00-13.00📍Level 7 Conference Room, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Register here: forms.office.com/e/9vVytmecpX
Join us for a a how-to guide for applications, CVs and interviews, focused on life sciences careers.
📆 18 June🕘 9.00-13.00📍Level 7 Conference Room, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Register here: forms.office.com/e/9vVytmecpX
June 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
For PhDs & early career professionals in life sciences: this is a great opportunity to get pro tips on how to use your CV and interview to make you stand out to employers. ✅
Hosted by @sulsa.bsky.social
Hosted by @sulsa.bsky.social
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‼️ Only a few more days ‼️
Don’t forget the deadline for this current round of grants is approaching on June 1!
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Research Grants — ASAB
Research Grants of up to £10,000 support original research projects.
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May 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
‼️ Only a few more days ‼️
Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Do you have a paper to submit to the #RESEcolEnt Special Issue:
🪰🕷️#Insect #symbionts as mediators of ecological interactions: from mutualists to parasites, with guest editors Awawing Anjwengwo Andongma & @danielleybourne.bsky.social 🪲🐜
🗓️ Letter of Intent deadline: 30 June 2025🔽
buff.ly/aLQZKYP
🪰🕷️#Insect #symbionts as mediators of ecological interactions: from mutualists to parasites, with guest editors Awawing Anjwengwo Andongma & @danielleybourne.bsky.social 🪲🐜
🗓️ Letter of Intent deadline: 30 June 2025🔽
buff.ly/aLQZKYP
May 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Do you have a paper to submit to the #RESEcolEnt Special Issue:
🪰🕷️#Insect #symbionts as mediators of ecological interactions: from mutualists to parasites, with guest editors Awawing Anjwengwo Andongma & @danielleybourne.bsky.social 🪲🐜
🗓️ Letter of Intent deadline: 30 June 2025🔽
buff.ly/aLQZKYP
🪰🕷️#Insect #symbionts as mediators of ecological interactions: from mutualists to parasites, with guest editors Awawing Anjwengwo Andongma & @danielleybourne.bsky.social 🪲🐜
🗓️ Letter of Intent deadline: 30 June 2025🔽
buff.ly/aLQZKYP
A million thanks to @hibernogruppe.bsky.social for coming all the way to Aberdeen to share your research with us.
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@fmanfredini.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A million thanks to @hibernogruppe.bsky.social for coming all the way to Aberdeen to share your research with us.
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@fmanfredini.bsky.social
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@fmanfredini.bsky.social