Great to see our 'Ant Recovery in the Nations Forests' report out in Applied Ecological Resources - in this Blog I explain how our wood ant habitat suitability tool (linked to in the report) can be used to guide responsible wood ant conservation translocations. www.linkedin.com/pulse/locati... 1/4

Location, Location, Location: Where to Put Translocated Species – A Wood Ant Case Study

Elva Robinson: Professor of Ecology at the University of York When we think of rewilding, our minds often jump to charismatic mammals – beavers creating wetlands or wild boar rooting through forests. ...

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What does the film ANTZ have to do with actual ants? We explore themes of leadership, social hierarchy and gender in both ANTZ and Ants in our new Open Access article in Culture and Organization @biologyatyork.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎓📢 PhD Alert 🎓📢 Three weeks left to apply for the PhD position on maintaining the balance of power in animal societies! www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... @animalopps.bsky.social

Huge Fish Curator gig is advertised! Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History (part of Uni of. Florida) explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

Have we done ourselves a huge wrong by focusing on the 'return on investment' of gender equity? In today's newsletter, I've focused on the four categories of argument for gender equity and where/how they can fail. All reading options at the end of the thread. When I started thinking...

ALD Report: What is the case for gender equity?

And do we need to create a new argument for the importance of DEI?

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⏰ #FinalCall - abstract submission for #Ento26 closes tomorrow. If your draft is nearly there, now’s the time to finish and submit! Don’t miss the opportunity to: 🎤 Present your work 🌍 Join the international entomology community 💡 Be part of the conversation 🔽 buff.ly/oMvnU2G 📅 Deadline: 12 June

Deadline tomorrow - Submit your abstract now!

Be part of the programme for Ento26!

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Really excited to start work on our ARIA-funded project using drones and machine learning to maximise the success of conservation translocations!

Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)@aria-research.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Meet our Engineering Ecosystem Resilience seed Creators 🌱 Backed by up to £500k, these projects span advanced ecosystem sensing, nature-based interventions, autonomous robots and molecular tools for conservation. Discover the teams: link.aria.org.uk/EER-seed-creators-BS

Looking for an ecology/conservation PhD? Check out this exciting wood ant project! 🐜🐜🐜 Excellent research group to work with, and excellent study system!

Tara Dirilgen@taradirilgen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 Funded* #PhD position (4 years) Wood #Ant #conservation project in Ireland🐜 @maynoothuniversity.ie Application close: 3 June 2026 More info: dirilgenecology.com/contact/ - @muresearch.bsky.social | @mu-gra25.bsky.social | @maynooth-bgs.bsky.social | * @npwsireland.bsky.social #findaphd

One week left! Get your discounted tickets for the BES nature-based solution symposium by 27 May.  Want to learn more about NbS projects? Have useful insights on the research gaps and funding solutions to upscale NbS?  Register today and join the discussion 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/gnnfjrudqw 🌍🧪

Do you work on how environmental stressors drive insect population & community dynamics? Why not consider submitting a Letter of Intent to the special issue in #RESAgForestEnt on the subject? Info here ⬇️ buff.ly/EsvB0JO Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⏰ @royentsoc.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

There are still a few days left to apply for this Post-Doc in York, working on 'Engineering Ecosystem Resilience' using wood ants, drones and metabolomics! 🐜 🔬 🧪 🌲 🐜

Elva Robinson@elvarobinson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Interested in ant ecology? Have molecular and bioinformatics experience? Come and join the team! 18-month post-doc position at University of York now live: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Still a week left to apply for this Post-Doc opportunity in York, bringing molecular ecology to the study of wood ants as agents of ecosystem restoration! 🐜🔬🧪🌲🐜

Elva Robinson@elvarobinson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Interested in ant ecology? Have molecular and bioinformatics experience? Come and join the team! 18-month post-doc position at University of York now live: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

How big is the problem of women leaving STEM? And how do we fix it? Today I look at the findings of the 2025 Lovelace Report (no relation) which details the UK's tech industry financial losses due to the loss of female talent, and outlines solutions. adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/ald-report...

ALD Report: How big is the problem of women leaving STEM?

And how do we fix it?

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📢Are you searching for a postdoc possition? Have a look to this very interesting opportunity to work with red wood ants in an amazing team! 🐜 @elvarobinson.bsky.social #postdoc #research #science #redwoodants

Elva Robinson@elvarobinson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Interested in ant ecology? Have molecular and bioinformatics experience? Come and join the team! 18-month post-doc position at University of York now live: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

With @arthurmatte.bsky.social @elvarobinson.bsky.social and @socialtransfernet.bsky.social we have a symposium on #sociallytransferredmaterials at #ECBB206. You have a few more days to submit an abstract and come tell us about your amazing work on #socialfluids #eggs #milk #sperm #seminalfluid!

European Conference on Behavioural Biology@ecbb2026.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#ECBB2026 Abstracts will close this week! For more information about topics, and how to submit, visit our Call for Abstracts page 👇👇 www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

Interested in ant ecology? Have molecular and bioinformatics experience? Come and join the team! 18-month post-doc position at University of York now live: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Oh, would you look at that: Men are perceived as more creative than women even when competency is controlled for, and more deserving of rewards. Five studies shows men are routinely seen having more 'out of the box' creativity. But not only are women... adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/gender-ste...

ALD Report: Gender stereotypes result in women being judged as less creative

And men being judged as more deserving of reward.

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#ECBB2026 Abstracts will close this week! For more information about topics, and how to submit, visit our Call for Abstracts page 👇👇 www.aru.ac.uk/events/confe...

Biologist Danielle N Lee studies the connections between ecology, evolution and animal behaviour. She studies the African giant pouched rat's behavioural syndromes and the potential role of genetics in these behaviours. adalovelaceday.subst...

Prof Danielle N Lee, Behavioural Ecologist

Danielle N Lee is a biologist whose research focuses on the connections between ecology, evolution and animal behaviour.

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Passive acoustic monitoring for wildlife. Great tech. But human ethics? Recorders inevitably capture human voices. Yet many papers still say nothing. No consent. No privacy. No plan. #conservationtech #researchethics #humanethics conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data

Wildlife conservation benefits enormously from automated and interconnected monitoring tools, some of which can collect data on humans; either accidentally or deliberately. There is increasing eviden....

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Most Welsh courses introduce a grammatical idea, give you five minutes to think about it, then move on to the next thing with no time to practice. That's where Ymestyn comes in: Handcrafted games and quizzes to help you truly learn grammar and vocab. ymestyn.cymru

Croeso i Ymestyn - Ymestyn

Welcome to Ymestyn, where you can become fluent in Welsh through regular structured practice. Online and in-person courses and language learning apps […]

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Interested in understanding how bumblebees are responding to climate change? Well look no further than a competition funded PhD position with me and Rachael Dudaniec at Macquarie University, Sydney 🇦🇺 Details below ⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Funded PhD: Using mathematical models to predict the impact of climate change on pollinators at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Funded PhD: Using mathematical models to predict the impact of climate change on pollinators at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🚨 New journal launch! We're ecstatic to announce #ApproachesInEntomology - a new #OpenAccess journal focused on methods, tools and innovation across #InsectScience, designed to support transparency, reproducibility, and practical advances in the field. Read more 🔽 buff.ly/tNTmujq @wiley.com

RES launches new journal: Approaches in Entomology

Call for papers coming soon - Watch this space!

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Excellent accessible overview of his research project at @biologyatyork.bsky.social by former post-doc Sandor Piross "When a key resource disappears: what wood ant networks can teach us" - ecolres.hun-ren.hu/en/when-a-ke...

When a key resource disappears: what wood ant networks can teach us - Centre for Ecological Research

At first glance, the world of ants may seem far removed from our everyday lives. Yet, on closer inspection, they often face surprisingly similar challenges.

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It's always useful having the person who actually did the fieldwork 10 years ago (@samellisq.bsky.social) present in the audience... helps with answers to questions when you can see the person involved nodding along! #ASABSpring2026

Sam Ellis@samellisq.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Brilliant plenary from @elvarobinson.bsky.social at #ASABSpring2026 . Science! Advice! Ants! And a mention of me! In short everything you could want in a talk.

And that’s a wrap on a year of watercolour #WildflowerHour: 365 flowers painted within a week of blooming. Mostly wildflowers, with a few garden escapes, and a whole lot of joy.

These wood ants are edge specialists... but not all edges are equal. Jacob Podesta used a decade of population expansion data to show that wood ants spread more quickly along certain edges, depending on the edge orientation. Currently available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bumbling around over what to get your loved ones for Christmas? Look no further! Your answer to fun, learning & festive family competition is here. Social insects trump cards, available at the Winter Meeting. Order today: www.iussi-nweurope.org/edi All proceeds go to funding inclusion bursaries.

I'm very proud to receive the 2025 Robert P. McIntosh Award from the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Vegetation Section at #ESA2025 with an amazing group of colleagues, for our paper on Community #MastSeeding. 🥳 Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Award info: esa.org/vegetation/a...

Jalene LaMontagne@jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lots! Recently, our @uslter.bsky.social Synthesis Working Group published a synthesis paper in an #EcologyLetters Very Long-Term Data special issue! We explored a new area of research, looking at Community-Level synchrony in woody plant reproduction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Amazing talk by @jennyperry.bsky.social bringing together signalling theory and socially transferred materials. Keep your eyes peeled for the eventual paper with @steveramm.bsky.social @elvarobinson.bsky.social and myself #ESEB2025 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social