@juliaosterman
PostDoc at the University of Gothenburg ☕🐝🌼 Interested in plant-pollinator interactions, oligolectic bees, effects of pesticides on bees, bee conservation and restoration. Profil Pic taken by Yannick Noah Layer.
🚀 WildPosh now has an introductory video!
Learn more about the project, its objectives, and what it does to protect Europe’s wild pollinators.
First animated video developed by @pensoft.net .
🎬 Watch here: youtu.be/8Amsk_dgnCQ?...
Dirk Maes from @europebutterfly.bsky.social: Europe's grassland butterflies have declined 40% since 1991.
Agricultural intensification, nitrogen deposition, and habitat loss are the main drivers.
#SafeguardFinale
Die Stadt Coimbra in Portugal ist besonders vom Hochwasser betroffen. Aufnahmen der portugiesischen Luftwaffe von oben machen das deutlich. Nachdem Teile einer nahegelegenen Autobahn infolge der Wassermassen wegsacken, bereiten die Behörden rund 9.000 Menschen auf eine mögliche Evakuierung vor.
Thanks for having us!
It was also wonderful to meet with @wilosterman.bsky.social during some periods and to know more about the @wildposh.eu goals and achievements!
We were delighted to host @juliaosterman.bsky.social over the past three weeks. 🐝🌸 This week, she gave the talk “Improving our understanding of pollinators’ pesticide risk”. Thank you, Julia, for the inspiring exchange and collaboration. We hope to welcome you back! Next time with some sunshine ☀️!
Dia Internacional das Mulheres e Meninas na Ciência #WomenInScience
Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Der EU Grassland Butterfly Index wird nun jährlich fortgeschrieben und der Bericht für den Zeitraum 1991-2024 liegt vor (Rückgang von 47%)
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
… erschreckende Zahlen. Vor allem wenn man sich vergegenwärtigt, dass 1991 ja nun nicht die ganze Landschaft n Schmetterlings-Eldorado war
🌍 The IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report launches on 9 February 2026
The Report explores methods to measure & act on dependencies & impacts of businesses on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people.
💻 Follow the media launch livestream at:
https://ow.ly/Zerm50Yb610
https://ow.ly/uIaj50Yb611
Mapping bee diversity with landscape-level models to
inform conservation
#pollinators
#beebiodiversity
How to incorporate bee biodiversity indicators into decision-making? A roadmap:
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A bit more than one week left to apply (via the UFZ or via University of Leipzig)
The Sooty Copper (L tityrus, bruine vuurvlinder) has shown serious declines, esp. in the north of NL. Only on the Veluwe (centre) the situation is better. This species is vulnerable to N deposition (fartmann.net/downloads/ar...).
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A recent study by Chase et al. @royentsoc.bsky.social provides compelling evidence that soil properties — specifically sand content — can strongly shape bee communities.
It challenges the widespread assumption that flowers alone determine where bees live and thrive.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/icad...
📢 New Publication!
We are excited to share that the RestPoll proposal has been officially published in @riojournal.com and is available online! 🎉
Discover the project's visions, goals, and what it promises for pollinator research and conservation 🐝
👉 Read it here: riojournal.com/articles.php...
Peru 🇵🇪 has given legal rights to 175 native bee 🐝 species:
"...stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats..."
🪲🪳🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
Reading in journal club (as is a lab tradition for the first one of the year): the new horizon scan.
A horizon scan of biological conservation issues for 2026
@billsutherland.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unser offener Brief unterschrieben von 200 Wissenschaftler*innen aus ganz Europa. sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Ah jetzt verstehe ich es! Ja stimme voll zu!
Imidacloprid ist allerdings schon verboten.
🚨 Alarm! EU Kommission will Pestizide unbefristet zulassen!
Gälte das heute schon, wären u.a. folgende Pestizide noch auf dem Markt:
☠️ Chlorpyrifos (verursacht Hirnschäden)
☠️ Mancozeb (hormonschädigend)
☠️ Imidacloprid (Bienenkiller)
Jetzt protestieren ⤵️
umweltinstitut.org/landwirtscha...
Schmetterling des Jahres 2026 ist der:
Dunkler Wiesenknopf-Ameisenbläuling
(#Phengaris_nausithous)
Our editor @juliaosterman.bsky.social was at the Swedish Biodiversity Symposium last week, no doubt giving everyone the buzz about Advances in Pollinator Science!
Come and work with us 🇸🇪
University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile
academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
@uni-freiburg.de explains RestPoll members the Nagoya protocol and it's implications.
People next to an experimental apple orchard listening to a researcher explain their work
Fascinating to learn about the integration of biodiversity with apple production in Spain as part of the RestPoll Living Labs @restpoll.bsky.social AGM
Apple robots at work @restpoll.bsky.social
