Mark Brown
@markjfbrown.bsky.social
Bees, ants, parasites, and pollinator conservation for work. Professor and Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University. Nature, opera, fantasy novels, family, and reading for play 🐜 🐝 🦠 🏳️🌈
Cinnabar moth caterpillars doing their work on the ragwort
Very important new paper out! The coffee berry borer beetle is the worst pest of ☕️ worldwide, and in Mexico is attacked by the wasp Cephalonomia hyalinipennis. That wasp is supposed to be in Hawaii, so why doesn’t it attack CBB here? Turns out neither are actually C. hyalinipennis!
Unraveling a complex of cryptic species near Cephalonomia hyalinipennis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) and their association with the coffee berry borer and other hosts
Abstract Despite the recorded presence in Hawai'i of Cephalonomia hyalinipennis, a presumed parasitoid of the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei), it has never been recovered from infeste...
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If you’re thinking of applying for Senior Research Fellowships to be hosted at a UK university, check out our sponsorship scheme @camzoology.bsky.social Don’t contact me about the scheme, I won’t be able to help. Follow the instructions on the webpage instead 😉 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-...
Senior Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme
The Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge seeks Expressions of Interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for externally funded fellowships that will allow them to ...
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🧪🐛🐝🐜🦋Come work with me! @romtoronto.bsky.social is hiring a Curator of Insects & Arachnids!!! #insects royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/mdMTpA...
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One of the things I love about coming to Burgundy is seeing the high density of martins and swallows, and their nests. Reminds me of my childhood in England when we still had lots of insects
Which wombat? Wonderful and contrasting examples of taxidermy based on different evidence bases at the Great North Museum
Happy Pride! Great fun judging the Neighbourhood Pride Bake-off - and for a great cause! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈🧁🍰🥮
Happy Pride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Month! The natural world is full of diversity, and I’m delighted that @zoologymuseum.bsky.social we celebrate this and can show you some highlights beyond the binary. Come and visit!
This sounds amazing - can’t wait to read it. I remember writing essays about pigeon-homing as an undergraduate, when it was all (excuse the pun) up in the air. Exciting that we’re still learning more about it nearly 40 years later 🐦 🧲
Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo agoResearchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
This is a wonderful book - totally recommend for anyone interested in zoology and museums
Jack Ashby@jackdashby.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhoop whoop! My first book, Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects is out again in a new reprint! 🤩 It explores the *astonishing* things we can learn about the natural world from incredible specimens in natural history #museums. Go get your hands on it! #OneHundredAnimals
Whoop whoop! My first book, Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects is out again in a new reprint! 🤩 It explores the *astonishing* things we can learn about the natural world from incredible specimens in natural history #museums. Go get your hands on it! #OneHundredAnimals
New evolutionary tree for all of the world's bumblebee species, from (1) slow-evolving nuclear genes, (2) fast-evolving mitochondrial genes, and (3) results from genomic data, to provide a complete starting point for comparative studies of all bumblebees www.researchgate.net/publication/...
It’s World Bee 🐝 Day! A day to celebrate these amazing insects, and to reflect on how we can support wild populations of 🐝 🐝 for the future. Museum collections are key in showing where bees used to be, setting baselines to understand impacts of stressors and set restoration/conservation targets
To celebrate International Day of Families, a reminder from @zoologymuseum.bsky.social that families come in all shapes and sizes. From life-mated sea horses with paternal care, through oil bird nuclear families, to the mostly female families of social insects, to brooding male sea spiders, & beyond
Hi everyone. Please respond to @morganmorrison73.bsky.social if you have info on this, or repost to your networks if you don’t. Thank you 🤩 🐝 🦋🪰🪲
Morgan Morrison@morganmorrison73.bsky.social · 3mo agoHive mind: I'm on the hunt for any practitioner reports, policy docs, restoration frameworks, or applied conservation reports that explicitly use plant–pollinator interactions or ecological networks in practical conservation/restoration/rewilding? (Not scientific research) 🐝🌻
My morning commute has been heralded by these glorious singers for weeks - sound on 🤩
Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough from the @zoologymuseum.bsky.social He studied here, re-opened us after our renovation in 2018, loaned his famous reconstructed elephant bird egg to us to share with visitors, and has inspired us all to love and protect biodiversity around the globe 😍
Happy Beltane! As well as 🔥 this ancient Gaelic festival is associated with animals, including cattle, hares, swallows, and honey bees - all signs of spring, food, and fertility. Cultural associations like this shape how we think and feel about animals. What do these museum specimens do for you?
Two dance flies (Empis tessellata) in a hedgerow. The male hangs by his front legs as he copulates with a female who is feeding on a nuptial gift (a bibionid fly) he has caught and offered her as a prelude to mating...I watched the whole event..transfixed!
It’s Earth Day. This year’s focus is community action, so let’s look at specimens where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The amazing architecture of corals and wasp nests emerges from combined actions of many individuals. Let’s be inspired by nature to make the world a better place!
I was lucky enough to spend some time with our Entomology collection this week, and sometimes it’s the small things that stick. This is a case of ladybirds 🐞 collected by Alfred Russell Wallace (www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who...) who co-discovered the idea of natural selection and evolution. Just wow 🤩
📢We need you!📢Volunteers are essential at the Museum from providing a warm welcome to visitors, to getting hands on with our specimens. No zoology knowledge is needed, just enthusiasm! Different times & days available. Get in touch 🙂University of Cambridge Museums https://ow.ly/EB4i50YJPIZ
