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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 02/10/2026

For the first time, researchers in Brazil have vaccinated endangered black-faced lion tamarins against yellow fever. With fewer than 400 individuals in the wild and zero in captivity, the move protects one of the world's rarest primates from sudden extinction. @euanmarshall.bsky.social reports.

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A first in Brazil: Black-faced lion tamarins vaccinated

On a Wednesday in July, deep in a coastal restinga area of Brazil’s Paraná state, muffled footsteps broke through the chirping of manakins. Three field researchers from the conservation NGO Society…

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Insectes Sociaux @insectessociaux.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New research article! 📰 @chrisleduck.bsky.social, @molamelipona.bsky.social, @fsnascim.bsky.social et al. show that nesting in buildings comes with smaller colonies but a more stable environment 🏙️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000... #SocialInsects #StinglessBees #UrbanEcology #Urbanisation #Meliponini

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Insectes Sociaux @insectessociaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New research article! 📰 @morganmorrison73.bsky.social, fmandredini.bsky.social, markjfbrown.bsky.social et al. find that a wing-deforming bee virus is still prevalent in bees across UK protected grasslands 🌿 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000... #SocialInsects #BeeHealth #Virus #Pathogen #Conservation

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Ana Paula Cipriano @anapcipriano.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Our preprint on drifting in the Brazilian stingless bee Melipona quadrifasciata is out! 🐝 Hive layout and position shape drifting, which is important for honey production and disease spread among hives (and this is my favourite PhD work 💛) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @chrisleduck.bsky.social

Photo of an RFID-tagged M. quadrifasciata forager carrying mud back to the hive. Thanks to my amazing co-supervisor and talented photographer, Cristiano Menezes!

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/06/2026

In a global milestone, Peru’s Satipo and Nauta-Loreto regions have recognized native stingless bees as rights-bearing entities. Backed by a 2025 national law, the framework allows legal action to shield critical pollinators from deforestation and pesticides. Liz Kimbrough reports for #Mongabay.

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Stingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?

Two municipalities in the Peruvian Amazon have granted native stingless bees the legal right to exist, thrive and be represented in court. This is the first time any insect has been recognized as a…

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Christoph Grüter @chrisleduck.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Meli Bees 🐝 are launching the Pollinator Fellowship, partnering with Indigenous & local leaders in Latin America to run projects in agroforestry, biodiversity, water access, storytelling & meliponiculture. Would you like to be a mentor & guide 1 fellow online in English, Spanish or Portuguese?

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Ana Paula Cipriano @anapcipriano.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm very happy to have been invited to chat about my work with our lovely Brazilian stingless bees, especially with Jonas Guajajara and the Meli Network members. Excited for our next steps!! 🐝

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Ana Paula Cipriano @anapcipriano.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A tiny stingless bee with its microchip and pollen loads 💛🐝🇧🇷

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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Christoph Grüter @chrisleduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🐝 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

Lestrimelitta robber bees standing on the entrance tube

Melipona flavolineata stingless bee guards standing on their nest entrance tube

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