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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

First member of the FABLab to fledge the nest! huge congrats Dr Litlekalsoy 🎉 exciting findings on behavioural ecology and brain transcriptomics of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis will soon be shared 🐞🧠🧬

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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Really exciting to see this paper out! Using AI to improve the detection of busy bumblebees visiting cherry flowers 🐝🌸🍒 great collaboration between U of Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Simon Loughran, @fmanfredini.bsky.social & co explore how natural deformed wing virus infections and cognitive ability shape brain gene expression in honey bee foragers. doi.org/10.1242/bio.... #Transcriptomics #HoneyBees

(B) PER conditioning assays. (1) Initial feed and water desensitisation. Harnessed bees given 3–5 μl 30% (w/w) sucrose; antennae touched with water. (2) Acclimatisation. 1 h in darkness (lab cabinet), 22–25°C, 35–40% relative humidity. (3) Conditioning. Five citral presentations (5 μl 95% v/v on filter paper in 20 ml syringe) each reinforced with 30% sucrose. (4) Filter. Discard bees showing PER to first odour presentation or no PER to sucrose. (5) Memory tests. Three trials same day+three trials next day. Group assignment: Good Learners=PER in all six tests; Poor Learners=no PER in any test. (6) Storage. Freezing at −80°C for later molecular work.

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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Great representation of the FABLab in Edinburgh #BES2025 with two excellent posters, both involving charismatic bees and Scottish machair. On display tonight in the Lennox Suite - go find @tegangaetano.bsky.social if you’re interested.

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IUSSI-NWES @iussi-nwes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We are delighted that our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪 is approaching! Abstract submissions now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings Date: December 18-19 Abstract deadline: October 15 Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution at KU Leuven Plenary: Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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 😄🙏

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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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

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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So much looking forward to this new project on the impact of beekeeping on wild bees in the Hebrides. Exciting project led by the amazing @jyourstone.bsky.social greatly summarised in the poster below #BumblebeeWorkingGroup2025

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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Exciting day with all UK bee lovers at the Bumblebee Working Group - 1st time ever for me! Enjoyed a brilliant presentation by @tegangaetano.bsky.social on bees liking salty treats - up to a certain point! 🐝🧂🌸

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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In a review led by Spanish researchers David Peris and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, we explored why a deep time perspective on insect pollination is relevant to our current understanding of plant-pollinator relationships. Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/03/12/e... #pollinators #biodiversity

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Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination – a new review just published

When we think of pollination, we often picture bees buzzing around flowers or butterflies flitting from bloom to bloom. This relationship between plants and pollinators is one of the most well-know…

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Martin Giurfa @martingiurfa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Interested in Neuroethology? Then, join us at the 1-day Meeting of the French Club of Neuroethology, in the beautiful city of Montpellier, on May 13th. NO FEES REQUIRED. Just register and submit your abstract in: www.zebrain.bio.ens.psl.eu/neuroetholog... . And enjoy our guest speakers!

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CristinaTuni @cristinatuni.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Spent the year doing what we love the most and won’t stop in 2025! We’ll be busy prepping to host #ISBE2026 in Turin and getting started with an exciting #FIS funded project on thermal reproduction of field crickets. Watch out - phd and postdoc positions opening soon!

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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 🌍🧪.

Figure from a paper - legend: Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right).

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