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Hull, England
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Bee activity winds down and we have many pollen samples to analyse - clear colour variation so we expect differences, but is this associated with nest temperature? We will have to wait to find out! photo @Jamiesmithbio
🚨New #behavioural #mimicry paper out in Proc B!🚨
In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their #bee models instead of their #fly relatives.
Conversation article here: theconversation.com/natures-…
Paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/r…
For more info see the following 🧵: xitter.cf/james_gilbert/status/1…
Excited to share our new preprint, in which we show that mimic hoverflies' flower colour preferences tend to follow those of their models. If the bees you are mimicking prefer visiting blue flowers, then so do you! Comments welcome tinyurl.com/yck24n2e (image: Peter O'Connor)
Excited to share our new preprint, in which we show that mimic hoverflies' flower colour preferences tend to follow those of their models. If the bees you are mimicking prefer visiting blue flowers, then so do you! Comments welcome tinyurl.com/yck24n2e (image: Peter O'Connor)
Hoverflies mimicking other hymenopterans chose more yellow flowers. Yes, these choices were similar to the other hymenopterans, but they were also similar to choices made by non-mimic hoverflies, and (as we knew) their fly ancestors more generally.
This was originally a brilliant undergraduate dissertation by Joe Craig-Jackson at the @UniOfHull, cosupervised by @BioScienceMum and with data from Francis Gilbert, all coauthors. Very happy this undergrad science project is finally seeing the light.
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Honestly not sure if anyone is still here (on Twitter) but just in case I have a PhD opportunity on #insect #ethics and #welfare. Details below;
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…
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What a job! 5 year independent fellowship at Cambridge University in ecology and conservation.
jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK149/clare-…
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We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Lord John Prescott.
Lord Prescott was a great friend to our University and one of our alumni, having studied Economic History here, graduating in 1968.
He will be sorely missed.
hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/more…
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Prince Philip Professorship of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology available from October 2025 in Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48966/
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Please RT: Very cool job if you're interested in agricultural resilience, synergies between biotech and ecology, food systems, and promoting engagement between academia and industry to better balance food production, nature and climate goals my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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Interested in the impact of pesticides on bumblebee disease susceptibility? PhD position at the University of Bristol with me and Chris Bass (university of Exeter).
Link below.
shorturl.at/B40j7
Most of our larvae are now cocoons. Our @bbsrc and @NERCscience funded projects are tracking pollen nutrition plus larval size and development time in response to manipulated temperature (heated nests) and diet (swapped pollen balls) #climate #ecology #evolution #pollinators
Bee activity winds down and we have many pollen samples to analyse - clear colour variation so we expect differences, but is this associated with nest temperature? We will have to wait to find out! photo @Jamiesmithbio