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I voted a few weeks back, but imagine having the chonko on British banknotes!
Carmen Denman Hume🐝Enjoy these buzzing beauties spotted around my home. Why not vote to put a Buff-tailed bumblebee on UK banknotes in memory of Bubica the bee? 🗳️ The @theroyalmintuk.bsky.social's public vote is open until 3 July - vote for your favourite! bit.ly/4oNCh6g @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
The queen's gone, but not forgotten. Reread the entire story from the beginning here.
Petra Korlevićfound a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate
"Whose Larva Is This?" A quick guide to figure out what you're looking at when you find something that resembles a worm or a Zerg unit crawling around. #insect #bug #education #SciArt
A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC
it was a whole study! i had some and gave them to her, but she never showed much interest. tearing kitchen towels and toilet paper on the other hand 150% enrichment last year for one #InverteFest I did drawings of interesting invertebrate papers and drew the ball bumbles bsky.app/profile/petr...
Petra Korlevićday 6 #InverteFest #invertebrate weird fact: bumblebees were shown to enjoy... playing! when given some colorful wooden balls on their way to delicious sugary water, they stopped to play with them, with younger bumblebees playing more often 🟡🟣🐝
hey I drew this guy (no. 17)! found on a kelp washed ashore at Lyme Regis
Petra KorlevićAnd here it is, the giant #DToLtober collage with all 32 crawlies 🪰🦋🐛🐌🐞🕷️ This one was definitely a challenge, but that was down to traveling to the US for 2 weeks and coming back with the worst head cold. But we persevered! Which critter is your fav?
I am so mad at AI for comandeering the em dash. I loved that thing! Now I am finding myself trying to find other ways to say the same thing when I used to use an em dash. RIP, em.
These days, you may have seen many Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) 👀🦋 But did you know they make an extraordinary journey of more than 10,000 km between Africa and Europe, across successive generations? 🌍 🔗 Download the poster here: catalanbms.org/en/recursos/
Sloths are the slowest mammals on the planet and now we know why. Scientists have sequenced the two-toed sloth genome and found ‘jumping genes’ linked to their extremely slow metabolism 🦥 Read more here ⤵️ https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/why-are-sloths-so-slow-its-in-their-dna/
A big preprint from my group! Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not... Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇
June is a special month for UK bumblebees – the Big Eight are joined by more of our rare and less common species 💛 👑 This month, most of these rare and less common queens will produce their first daughters – the workers 💼 🎱 For the Big Eight, many queens and workers will be joined by new males 🚹
We’re excited to launch a brand-new opportunity at the Sanger Institute, funded by GoogleDeepMind. This fully funded 3-year Fellowship is designed for exceptional early-career researchers ready to apply AI/ML to some of the most important challenges in genomics. 🧬 Apply here ⤵️ bit.ly/4uBuZUT
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Support Skype a Scientist!By Skype a Scientistgivebutter.comSarah McAnulty, Ph.D."We're fine!" I yell loudly at no one in particular as I open quickbooks. Don't worry about the alarming looking deficit, it's ok. We'll have a new glow in the dark squid shirt hitting the merch shop soon. That'll right the ship! Surely! Nothing to worry about, captain, nothing to worry about.