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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Today was the final day of my last @quadratdtp.bsky.social ASM. How fast the last three years have gone! I am very grateful to QUADRAT, my cohort 4 colleagues and my supervisors (shout out to supervisor extraordinaire @fmanfredini.bsky.social) for this wonderful and challenging experience. 🥰

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 2d

I am so grateful! It was an absolute joy to learn about the exciting research being conducted in the department! 🥰

Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 9d

I am so grateful to @jyourstone.bsky.social and her former lab at @biologylu.bsky.social for hosting me this week to learn their novel pollen scanning protocol. What a treat!

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 19d

I couldn’t fit it in the original post, but a million thanks go to my supervisor @fmanfredini.bsky.social and @jyourstone.bsky.social for being the best field buddies!

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · 19d

I was fortunate to be supported by the Charles Sutherland Scholarship to conduct field sampling this summer for an ongoing project on the genetic structure of the cryptic bumblebee Bombus cryptarum. This work was featured in today’s @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social SBS blog: www.abdn.ac.uk/sbs/blog/cha...

Charles Sutherland Scholarship Fund - genetic diversity of bumblebee

Biologists and conservationists have long been interested in the study of island populations which may face genetic bottlenecks due to predicted smaller population sizes and barriers to gene flow. Thi...

www.abdn.ac.uk

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Claire Carvell @clairecarvell.bsky.social · 23d

The sun is shining in South Oxfordshire, perfect weather for FIT Counts on the Ivy covering our hedgerows! Female Ivy bees busy collecting pollen, not many other insects today. FIT in 😉your last counts before the @pomscheme.bsky.social survey ends on 30 Sept 🐝

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Sep 12

I was so lucky to have been able to spend my first @royentsoc.bsky.social meeting with this great group I met this summer at an Insect Taxonomy course at @morethanadodo.bsky.social (aka Falk’s Followers). #Ento25

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Sep 10

A spectacular Day 1 of #Ento25! #EntOlympics (we came in 7th), an address from RES President Jane Stout in a building with more marble than the Vatican and not 1 but 2 talks on micronutrient foraging in pollinators (one from me). A million thanks to @royentsoc.bsky.social!

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Sep 9

Accurate.

Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · Sep 9

pov: youre a final year phd student and one of the new first years asked how your project is going

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

aunt gladys laughing (screenshot from the movie weapons)

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yay! So excited that the leader of the aptly named FABLab, @fmanfredini.bsky.social, got to present some of our research at the #IUSSI Italy meeting in Bologna!

🐝❤️🐝❤️

Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · Sep 7

Incredibly thrilled to be able to present some of the FABLab research at the Italian meeting of the IUSSI in Bologna! Honeybee 🦠🦠🦠 and nutrtional ecology of 🐝🐝🐝 Thank you to the organisers for the invite, and thanks to members of the FABLab for the great data 😄🙏

Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Jul 19

What a privilege to have been able to spend a week learning techniques in insect taxonomy from the legendary Steven Falk & @liamcrowley.bsky.social. A million thanks to Thomas Hesselberg & Zoë Simmons and her staff at @morethanadodo.bsky.social for the experience.

❤️🐝🪰🔬❤️

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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · Jul 12

Finally we found them! Great yellow bumblebee in Barra 🐝🏝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the gorgeous weather surely helped! Wonderful to share the excitement with @tegangaetano.bsky.social and @jyourstone.bsky.social

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Jul 11

Feeling very lucky to be back in the #Hebrides doing fieldwork with @fmanfredini.bsky.social & @jyourstone.bsky.social. Stunning machair and the pollinators it supports!

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Fabio Manfredini @fmanfredini.bsky.social · Jul 10

Barra 🏝️ Day #1 with @tegangaetano.bsky.social Waiting for the weather to improve 😬 Can’t wait to catch up tomorrow with @jyourstone.bsky.social for the project Hebribees!

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · Feb 4

Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.

Figure from a paper - legend: Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right).

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Jul 4

True story

Colin Deval @colindeval.bsky.social · Jun 30

"I got hit on the head with a seagull! It took my whole sandwich! Exactly like they said it would happen! It inhaled the whole sandwich. Except for the lettuce. It somehow managed to get the lettuce out." - @tegangaetano.bsky.social upon returning home today. Life in Aberdeen.

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Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre @tverc1.bsky.social · Jun 18

🌼🐝 Join the Buzz with #FITCounts!

Could you spend 10 peaceful minutes watching flowers and counting the insects that visit?

Join @biologicalrecording.co.uk 2nd July 6.30pm – 9pm to learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flower-ins...

Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) Counts

Learn how to plan and undertake FIT counts to monitor pollinators.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 12

Zoom inside a virtual wasp’s nest and experience the hidden, intimate ‘World of Wasps’ – their homes, their lifestyles and their relationships. See our upcoming exhibition based on @ucl.ac.uk research. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll... #GMZWasps

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Jun 20

I have to highlight this amazing profile created for #PollinatorWeek and the folks studying them by the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Zoo & Roots student organisation.

❤️🐝❤️🐝

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Jun 18

Great to be part of organising for today’s Career Planning event for PhDs and ECRs in life sciences with @sulsa.bsky.social!

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · Jun 16

For #PollinatorWeek, we’ve put together all the information you’ll need to make your own pollinator garden into one place. Learn how to pick the right plants, manage issues without pesticides, and provide the nesting habitat that bees & butterflies need to thrive! 🌻🐝🎓

How to Make a Pollinator Garden

Gardens provide important food and shelter for pollinators. We've put together a list of tips that will help you prioritize the health and safety of these important garden inhabitants.

xerces.org

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · Jun 3

For PhDs & early career professionals in life sciences: this is a great opportunity to get pro tips on how to use your CV and interview to make you stand out to employers. ✅

Hosted by @sulsa.bsky.social

SULSA @sulsa.bsky.social · Jun 2

SULSA CV & Careers Workshop 📝
Join us for a a how-to guide for applications, CVs and interviews, focused on life sciences careers.
📆 18 June🕘 9.00-13.00📍Level 7 Conference Room, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Register here: forms.office.com/e/9vVytmecpX

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ASAB @asab.org · May 30

‼️ Only a few more days ‼️

ASAB @asab.org · May 21

Don’t forget the deadline for this current round of grants is approaching on June 1!

www.asab.org/research-gra...

Research Grants — ASAB

Research Grants of up to £10,000 support original research projects.

www.asab.org

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · May 26

A great opportunity to work with a fun and dynamic research group at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · May 18

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Tegan Gaetano @tegangaetano.bsky.social · May 26

Your photos are stunning!

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