Researcher of host-microbe interactions in agricultural systems with a focus on pollinators @imperialcollege
Ascot, England
Joined April 2012
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Can light help bees cope with pesticide stress? 🐝
Tianqi from @richjgill lab shows neonicotinoid exposure impairs bumblebee thermoregulation, but near-infrared light exposure can partially counter the decline in body temperature 🚨
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#Pollinator #Ecology
New paper 🐝 tested if nutritional supplementation helps honey bees fight Nosema. Surprisingly, bees w supplementation had 2.6× higher parasite loads. Nutrition can sometimes benefit parasites as well as hosts.
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#HoneyBees #PollinatorHealth #Varimorpha
How climate change & pesticide interact to affect bee performance; looking ahead to var. approaches (incl. microbes) may help bees against stress tinyurl.com/2s3ndu3j
@ObserverUK highlight work from @richjgill and @PeterGraystock Labs at @imperialcollege @ImperialLifeSci
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Charlotte's PhD is exploring what happens to bumble bee holobionts after prolonged exposure to chemical toxins - she takes both host bee and microbial impacts into account. @CharlotteFryday @PeterGraystock 🐝
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Are honeybees getting too much attention? 🐝
How complete is our picture of global bee ecology & environmental responses?
@Nesbit_Sci quantifies where bee research is concentrated & highlights critical gaps.
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@BumblebeeTrust @DaveGoulson @richjgill
ALT Global research effort across bee genera and families. (A) Circular phylogeny of bee genera with an outer radial bar for each tip showing total publications per genus (machine-learning–assisted counts). Tip colours indicate family; thicker coloured arcs label the major families. Bar lengths are in raw counts (scale bar = 10⁴ articles). * is Apis and ** is Bombus.
PhD advert: Predicting Pollinator Health and Disease Through Molecular and Sensor-Based Surveillance. tinyurl.com/559hjsm4 Rare opportunity at the intersection of molecular ecology, disease surveillance, modelling and precision apiculture @IUSSI_NWES @RoyEntSoc @BritishEcolSoc
Monika @Entomony leads on this study exploring coexposure of pesticides & Enterococcus on the health of developing bee larvae 🐝. Small doses of the microbe may reduce some of the impacts of pesticide toxicity under some conditions. @richjgill @Sop_Evo
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Experimenting with using AI to make accessible summaries of peer reviewed research. What are peoples thoughts? youtu.be/sGGHzrW0Lmc
Here is a summary on of my older papers looking at the role of flowers in parasite transmission between bees.
Parasites in bloom
Looking for a masters (MRes/Msci) in Ecological sciences?
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Funded PhD opportunity in the Graystock lab! If you are interested in pollinators, microbes, parasites and machine learning, please get in touch! - only a few days left to let me know! Whilst a project using the above is planned, im happy to adapt to strengths of candidate
General info on funding and eligibility etc. Candidates must be UK nationals (EU candidates with settled status in the UK may be considered), International students are not eligible. findaphd.com/phds/program/de…
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Shedding light on pollination deficits: Cueing into plant spectral reflectance signatures to monitor pollination delivery across landscapes
Highlights where research can be targeted to produce scalable methods for identifying field-relevant bioindicators
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Pesticide amnesty held to protect environment bbc.in/3YG38pe
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Do you teach ecology or conservation? Want to learn about ecology or conservation? The @BritishEcolSoc have produced this resource for teachers listing sixty short videos, with more to come.
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Deeply disturbing new study finds numerous pesticides in bedroom dust. Average of 21 different pesticides per room; 99% of bedrooms contained hormone disruptors; 34% contained DDT despite 50 year ban.
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@PAN_UK @PesticideCollab
Have a background in soil or plant microbial ecology and looking for a postdoc position? Join us and be part of a multi million £ project exploring the utilisation of soil microbiomes to combat take-all disease in wheat crops. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-j…
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📢 TT faculty/curator position 📢 The @UnivOfKansas @KU_EEB has just announced the Charles Michener assistant professor/curator in bee biodiversity and evolution! 🐝 Be sure to share it widely and apply if you work on bees! 🐝 employment.ku.edu/academic/2…
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It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!
