What a fantastic idea! Particularly looking forward to using the one on mutualisms and facilitation 🌻🐝

Last field day with School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin colleagues and friends in Gran Canaria 🌵🌴🐝

Beautiful first day with School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Botany students in Gran Canaria. Today elevational differences in vegatetation, tomorrow, land use (and insects!)

So much fun teaching School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin #Entomology students some of the methodology behind our papers. Here we're dissecting bumblebee colonies just like we did in our recent nature paper. Yes we found males 🐝 and yes we're sticky 🍯 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Always a pleasure to have a visit from Collie Ennis 🕷🐸 and his beautiful arthropods. This one even managed to sneak its way into my Entomology course, and happily, because look how cool it is! 🤩

New 3-year teaching fellow position in plant science Trinity College Dublin School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin connected to my ERC Advanced grant TERRAFORM with opportunities to engage with Trinity College Botanic Garden strategic plan & teach BSc. & MSc modules in Botany ⬇️
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Pesticides are currently harming bees across Europe. My American Bee Journal summary of Nicholson et al. 2023 nature with Charlie Nicholson Jess Knapp Mark Brown Jane Stout MajRundlof . Impressively rigorous and impactful study on this topic. 📷:MajRundlof
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This piece is already proving its timeliness given the fiasco of the EU Green Deal right now. The targets and their pathways weren't perfect (or even fully formed), but we need progression for people and biodiversity, not regression 🚜🐝

'If our loved ones are in ill-health, at risk of collapse, we’d do everything in our power to help them recover. We need to do the same for the rest of life on earth': Astute comment piece on biodiversity by Jane Stout in today's Irish Times irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Delighted to see our nature paper in the The Conversation 🐝🐝 Pesticides are stunting bumblebees across Europe 🐝 🐝 Could this be the future of monitoring pesticides and their effects on non-target species? We hope so. theconversation.com/silent-fields-…

In case (like me) you missed the Irish Pollinator Research Network meeting, here's the low-down on what went down! Some really cool science.

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🐝 Pesticide use continues to harm bumblebees, underscoring the need for more oversight.

These findings follow the European Parliament’s failure to pass legislation that aimed to halve the use of pesticides by 2030.

PoshBee Project nature PAN North America Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ)
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An important new study involving School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin ecologists that spanned eight European countries has confirmed that #pesticides , commonly used in farmland, significantly harm bumblebees – Ireland’s most important wild pollinators.

Read more at: tcd.ie/news_events/to…