Hearing the hunt: A reliable acoustic indicator to measure prey capture success in echolocating bats By Baheerathan M prelights.biologists.com/?p=30556

Edward Lear's Nonsense Botany (1871-77) .

Why do bees buzz? I had lots of fun writing up this paper now available JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social I review the mechanisms by which bees buzz in defence, flight, thermoregulation, mating, communication, and of course buzz pollination! You can read the paper here: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

Stamen dimorphic species have larger and more variable petals than stamen isomorphic ones. They also interact with more bee species, being more generalists! Have a look on the recent work of Valadão-Mendes et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Buzz Pollination Group, #Melastomataceae

Working on #pollination, #pollen transfer, #floral traits and how they link? Consider submitting to our special issue 'Pollen as the link between phenotype and fitness' at American Journal of Botany (Botanical Society of America )!

After 4 years I am glad to say that I have finally submitted my PhD thesis. Even better I got to submit it alongside my wonderful partner Lucy Nevard .

V. excited our work's in Royal Society Publishing! Old q in #BuzzPollination is why flowers are tuned outside range of #bee buzzes. We find if bee weight considered, vibration frequency IS tuned! Led by Mark Jankauski, w/ Riggs Ferguson, Steve Buchmann, & myself tinyurl.com/4zvmx4pa

Using a bit of glue to create anther cones in Solanum flowers, and lasers to measure vibrations, we show that cones increase vibration transmission and pollen release in these buzz pollinated flowers. Our #OpenAccess paper is now out in Evolution Journal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

Thanks so much Mario, and everyone for being a fantastic Buzz Team! Dr Dug (freshly minted), @carlos_coquinho, Jurene Ellen Kemp, @dj_pritchard86 It's been a great few years - really going to miss those spiny Solanum!😉

Big step for research on social be(e)havior: pan-neuronal expression of a genetically encoded calcium sensor in the honey bee brain. Lukas highlights new work by Julie Carcaud and colleagues prelights.biologists.com/highlights/mul…

The best things come in small packages: ants value segregated rewards over bundled rewards By Lucy Nevard on a preprint by Massimo De Agrò, Chiara Matschunas and @tomerczaczkes prelights.biologists.com/?p=32309

My latest preLight is here - I really enjoyed reading and summarising this great preprint on ant foraging and reward value perception! 🐜💰🍬

Excited to have begun my new role as GIS technical specialist University of Stirling. Supporting the great research and amazing teaching here. Looking forward to all the stunning maps we'll produce!🗺️

Discovering how ArcPro can create great visuals and help communicate research with help from the teachings of John Nelson! His fantastic Challenger Deep tutorial was the inspiration behind this figure showing pockmarks formed by gas escaping through the seabed.

*#AJB Accepted Article* Floral orientation affects outcross #pollen deposition in buzz-pollinated flowers with bilateral symmetry (by Lucy Nevard & Mario Vallejo-Marin) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #botany #ecology #Solanum Wiley Plant Science Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Congrats Lucy Nevard and @carlos_coquinho for papers on buzz pollination! Lucy studied effects of floral orientation on pollen release: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… Carlos tested whether buzzing works better or worse on non-poricidal flowers: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10… Check them out!

Floral orientation affects outcross‐pollen deposition in buzz‐pollinated flowers with bilateral symmetry bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Floral orientation affects outcross #pollen deposition in buzz-pollinated flowers with bilateral symmetry (new #AJB research by Lucy Nevard & Mario Vallejo-Marin) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #botany #ecology #pollination #bees #Solanaceae Wiley Plant Science Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Congratulations *Dr* Allan Audsley - 4 years in the making. It’s been a pleasure working with you! BES Stirling MASTS @marinescotland

Congratulations to Dr Dug (freshly minted) for passing his PhD viva with minor corrections! Doug studied the chemical ecology of buzz pollination and did fieldwork in Mexico. Thanks to examiners Heather Whitney, Dr ZP (she/her) and co-supervisors Matt Tinsley and Tiina Sarkinen !