๐ข PhD opportunity! ๐ข Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK ๐ณ with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
๐จ New bee paper in press, with @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social at Hull and @ejduncan.bsky.social at Leeds! Delighted to have this accepted - huge congrats to Jamie on the first paper out of his PhD ๐ฅณ ๐
Read the paper in online early view form, here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
๐ Biodiversity loss has deep-rooted causesโfrom power imbalances to short-term priorities. These shape indirect & direct drivers like land/sea use change, exploitation & climate change.
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment โคต๏ธ
Excellent accessible overview of his research project at @biologyatyork.bsky.social by former post-doc Sandor Piross "When a key resource disappears: what wood ant networks can teach us" - ecolres.hun-ren.hu/en/when-a-ke...
Really excited to see this paper published โ congratulations @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social and @jdjgilbert.bsky.social! Itโs been a pleasure to contribute to such a fantastic project.
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Radar technology has been around for decades, used to track & predict weather. Now scientists have made a breakthrough using it to monitor insects - paving the way for cost effective biodiversity tracking across huge areas @katatrepsis.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cat Scott
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, which can have severe consequences for insect physiology, development, and reprโฆ
At first glance, the world of ants may seem far removed from our everyday lives. Yet, on closer inspection, they often face surprisingly similar challenges.
ecolres.hun-ren.hu
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, which can have severe consequences for insect physiology, development, and reprโฆ
www.sciencedirect.com
What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbugโs leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps.
Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm
Scientists have made a breakthrough in monitoring insect populations across the UK using an unexpected tool: weather radar.
www.leeds.ac.uk
Increasing temperatures threaten cold-adapted pollinators such as Arctic bumblebees by disrupting their physiology. This study found that thorax acceleration during non-flight vibrations peaks at 25โยฐ...
๐ขOut now in @jevbio.bsky.social, we tried to work out whether heat limits of survival or fertility are reflected in heat shock protein expression across Drosophila ๐ชฐ species. The answer is, well, a bit. With the wonderful @chsmithson.bsky.social @ejduncan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Parental care, and more complex cooperative systems of care, have independently evolved in hundreds of animal lineages. In an article published today, we explore how these behaviors evolve ๐ข๐ต ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญl shorturl.at/g5OPw /1
James Gilbert
IPBES
Elva Robinson
Science Magazine
Abstract. Understanding the mechanisms that confer resilience to thermal stress is crucial in the context of climate change. Recently there has been increa
Kay et al. review evidence that parental care, and more complex social behaviour based on parental care, evolved in multiple species through the repeated co-option of members of a pleiotropic molecula...
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Tomas Kay
Amanda Bretman
The concurrent climate and biodiversity crises have driven global, national and regional targets to restore landscapes and create woodlands. In England, Defraโs Environmental Improvement Plan commits ...
