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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just discovered that I can have John Rhys-Davies read my thesis to me using Speechify. This is really going to accelerate viva prep.

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

. @fmanfredini.bsky.social presenting research from Tesni Houlston on molecular correlates of age and DWV infection in immature honeybees at @uissi-social.bsky.social

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Most of the UK is farmland – and bumblebees are struggling to find enough food on it 🐝🍽️ New research from 20 English farms shows that pollen and nectar levels are far too low for bumblebees to thrive. Leo Fordham and Prof Elli Leadbeater tell us more in our guest blog: ow.ly/2coK50Zu6xA

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Emilie Ellis @e-ellis1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🦋 I’m recruiting a fully funded PhD student at the University of Helsinki: understanding how butterflies respond to climate change across Europe. Apply by 30 Sept: Full details: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/5... Please share! #ecology #job #phd

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Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Day 1 of #IUSSI2026. Looking forward to four days of learning about the exciting science happening in social insects. If you’re interested in how nutrients flow through ecosystems to support bumblebees check out my talk on Tuesday at 14:15 in K10. @uissi-social.bsky.social

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🐝 Individual pollinators are more specialized than expected, with niche partitioning and sex-based differences helping shape plant–pollinator networks from individuals to species👉️ buff.ly/8bnHw9s

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Massive congratulations to @jyourstone.bsky.social for this coverage by BBC Scotland of her exciting HebriBees project investigating overlaps between managed honeybees and wild bees in machair habitat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Study to look at Hebridean bumblebee and honey bee competition

The research will look at rare species of bumblebee in the machair grasslands of the Hebrides.

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

First bumblebee sighting of the season in Aberdeen!

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Had a marvellous time at my first annual meeting of the @britishecologicalsociety.org in beautiful Edinburgh. What’s more, I got to spend time with FABLab leader @fmanfredini.bsky.social and fellow member Jane Devlin who both gave exciting talks on research conducted in our lab.

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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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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

And here we gooooo! Day 1 of #BES2025. Come visit me at my poster tomorrow between 5-6:30pm at B4.84. @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

At some conferences you get free pens, but at #NESEN (North East Scotland Environmental Network) you get potatoes. 🥔❤️😂 Many thanks to the organisers and presenters and to @srucnews.bsky.social for hosting.

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Wow! Today was the final day of my last @quadratdtp.bsky.social ASM. How fast the last three years have gone! I am very grateful to QUADRAT, my cohort 4 colleagues and my supervisors (shout out to supervisor extraordinaire @fmanfredini.bsky.social) for this wonderful and challenging experience. 🥰

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I am so grateful to @jyourstone.bsky.social and her former lab at @biologylu.bsky.social for hosting me this week to learn their novel pollen scanning protocol. What a treat!

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I was fortunate to be supported by the Charles Sutherland Scholarship to conduct field sampling this summer for an ongoing project on the genetic structure of the cryptic bumblebee Bombus cryptarum. This work was featured in today’s @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social SBS blog: www.abdn.ac.uk/sbs/blog/cha...

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Charles Sutherland Scholarship Fund - genetic diversity of bumblebee

Biologists and conservationists have long been interested in the study of island populations which may face genetic bottlenecks due to predicted smaller population sizes and barriers to gene flow. Thi...

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I was so lucky to have been able to spend my first @royentsoc.bsky.social meeting with this great group I met this summer at an Insect Taxonomy course at @morethanadodo.bsky.social (aka Falk’s Followers). #Ento25

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A spectacular Day 1 of #Ento25! #EntOlympics (we came in 7th), an address from RES President Jane Stout in a building with more marble than the Vatican and not 1 but 2 talks on micronutrient foraging in pollinators (one from me). A million thanks to @royentsoc.bsky.social!

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Yay! So excited that the leader of the aptly named FABLab, @fmanfredini.bsky.social, got to present some of our research at the #IUSSI Italy meeting in Bologna! 🐝❤️🐝❤️

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

What a privilege to have been able to spend a week learning techniques in insect taxonomy from the legendary Steven Falk & @liamcrowley.bsky.social. A million thanks to Thomas Hesselberg & Zoë Simmons and her staff at @morethanadodo.bsky.social for the experience. ❤️🐝🪰🔬❤️

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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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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Feeling very lucky to be back in the #Hebrides doing fieldwork with @fmanfredini.bsky.social & @jyourstone.bsky.social. Stunning machair and the pollinators it supports!

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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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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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Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre @tverc1.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🌼🐝 Join the Buzz with #FITCounts! Could you spend 10 peaceful minutes watching flowers and counting the insects that visit? Join @biologicalrecording.co.uk 2nd July 6.30pm – 9pm to learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flower-ins...

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Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) Counts

Learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators.

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Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Zoom inside a virtual wasp’s nest and experience the hidden, intimate ‘World of Wasps’ – their homes, their lifestyles and their relationships. See our upcoming exhibition based on @ucl.ac.uk research. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I have to highlight this amazing profile created for #PollinatorWeek and the folks studying them by the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Zoo & Roots student organisation. ❤️🐝❤️🐝

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Great to be part of organising for today’s Career Planning event for PhDs and ECRs in life sciences with @sulsa.bsky.social!

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

For #PollinatorWeek, we’ve put together all the information you’ll need to make your own pollinator garden into one place. Learn how to pick the right plants, manage issues without pesticides, and provide the nesting habitat that bees & butterflies need to thrive! 🌻🐝🎓

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How to Make a Pollinator Garden

Gardens provide important food and shelter for pollinators. We've put together a list of tips that will help you prioritize the health and safety of these important garden inhabitants.

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

For PhDs & early career professionals in life sciences: this is a great opportunity to get pro tips on how to use your CV and interview to make you stand out to employers. ✅ Hosted by @sulsa.bsky.social

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ASAB @asab.org · 30/05/2025

‼️ Only a few more days ‼️

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

A great opportunity to work with a fun and dynamic research group at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social ⬇️

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Do you have a paper to submit to the #RESEcolEnt Special Issue: 🪰🕷️#Insect #symbionts as mediators of ecological interactions: from mutualists to parasites, with guest editors Awawing Anjwengwo Andongma & @danielleybourne.bsky.social 🪲🐜 🗓️ Letter of Intent deadline: 30 June 2025🔽 buff.ly/aLQZKYP

Call for papers for Ecological Entomology Special Issue
Insect symbionts as mediators of ecological interactions: from mutualists to parasites

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A million thanks to @hibernogruppe.bsky.social for coming all the way to Aberdeen to share your research with us. 🐝 🧬 🐝 🧬 @fmanfredini.bsky.social

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝 Did you know the UK is home to around 270 species of #bee? We have 24 bumblebee species, 240+ species of solitary bees and one species of honeybee. Today highlights the importance of #bees and other pollinators for food security and #biodiversity 🧵🧪 1/

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Such an exciting day! So much gratitude to the Agroecology Group at Cambridge for organising!

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Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Student Assistant Opportunity! 🍃 Our work group seeks a motivated student assistant (f/m/d)! 📌 Install, activate & collect pitfall traps. 📌 Interest in fieldwork & a valid German driving license. 📌 Gain experience in entomological fieldwork! 📅 May–Sept 2025 (~40h/month) 📩 Dr. Marco Ferrante

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Field assistants needed for research on social insects at a UK nature reserve (~2 months, June-Aug 2025). Experience preferred. Apply with CV to Lucy Winder (l.winder2@exeter.ac.uk). More info: biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/inde…. #job

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People | Biosciences | University of Exeter

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 01/03/2025

Could you lead a Royal Society scientific meeting dedicated to your field of research? Proposals are considered twice a year. Submit yours by 9 April 2025 for consideration in June 2025: buff.ly/4idM4P3

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Did you know there is no dedicated team or person in Defra for grasslands, despite them covering 40% of England? 🤯 We're joining @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & partners in calling for the Gov to establish a Grassland Taskforce to unlock their value 🌱 Learn more: www.plantlife.org.uk/our-work/the...

An image of a grassland with the text: "Grasslands store carbon, produce food and support our wildlife. But the UK Government has no strategic plan for them."

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

📢Senior Editor vacancy! We're looking for an active researcher with broad interests in #animal #ecology & related fields, to join our #editorial team ⏰Deadline 20th Feb 👇Full details www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...

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Senior Editor - British Ecological Society

Join the editorial board on Functional Ecology! Apply by 20 Feb 2025.

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🐝Jean Vernon🐝 @thegreenjeanie.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It’s #fridaybee or #beefriday or #bestbeefriday so here’s my offering. A solitary bee. This one is a mining bee.Andrena nitida will nest in the soil.She is a single mum & does all the work to make her nest & provision her babies before she dies! She is messy & an efficient #pollinator! #Savethebees

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

And in the uk the Newton Fellowships too! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 09/02/2025

Mission: Bee-fly 1. Look out for bee-flies. 2. Photograph bee-fly. 3. Identify bee-fly species observed. 4. Submit record to Bee-fly Watch. Disperse and observe biological recorders.

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JPE - Journal of Pollination Ecology @jpollecol.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

When planting ornamental plants, consider their attractiveness to wild and domesticated bees. Figure out in a new publication by Verweij et al. what is important: doi.org/10.26786/192...

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Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Where does iRecord data go? How does iNaturalist verification work? What recording app is best for bird observations? These are some of the questions I’ll be covering in this upcoming webinar. @nbntrust.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-wild...

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Using Wildlife Observation Apps

Delve into the pros and cons of using various wildlife observation apps for recording wildlife.

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In Spring 2024 I had the unique opportunity to visit JGU Mainz to learn bioinformatics from @hibernogruppe.bsky.social. This experience gave me a valuable new skill set and opened up a whole new area of scientific inquiry. I can’t advocate for this opportunity enough. Check it out 👇👇

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