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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Apple robots at work @restpoll.bsky.social

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Industrial apple washing @restpoll.bsky.social

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Pink Lady apples in smart fresh storage - they can keep for a year in this low oxygen low temperature environment - this is one way we have apples in supermarkets all year round

Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 1h

This is a lot of Gala apples 🍎 🍏

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely!

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 1h

The Cambridge crew living their best lives and enjoying the @restpoll.bsky.social 🍎 🍏 production tour @camzoology.bsky.social @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @globalfoodcamb.bsky.social

5 Cambridge scientists in protective gear before a tour of sustainable apple production facilities

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating to learn about the integration of biodiversity with apple production in Spain as part of the RestPoll Living Labs @restpoll.bsky.social AGM

People next to an experimental apple orchard listening to a researcher explain their work

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 5d

@romanzug.bsky.social and @socialinsectlab.bsky.social thinking about colony dynamics! Resource variation can mask tradeoffs, but here we show that even if that *doesn't* vary, lucky starts in colony life can lead to better trajectories and if so, a tradeoff is often undetectable despite being real.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 6d

Why is it so hard to detect fecundity-longevity #trade-offs in social insects? And what does this have to do with the Gospel of #Matthew??
Find out in our new paper with @kokkonut.bsky.social and Susanne Foitzik @mainzuniversity.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Luck can explain the positive link between fecundity and longevity: the Matthew effect in social insects and beyond

Abstract. The universality of the trade-off between fecundity and longevity in life-history theory is sometimes contested. Social insects present the argua

doi.org

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 5d

“Across land types, urban land comes with the highest #opportunitycosts, followed by arable, pastoral, and forestry land. We envisage this new opportunity cost layer to be particular useful for broad-scale European conservation prioritisation analyses.”

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe

www.nature.com

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Marie Stenseke @mariestenseke.bsky.social · 6d

University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile
academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity - Academic Positions

Seeking an internationally recognized scientist for a prestigious professorship in biodiversity. Lead groundbreaking research, interdisciplinary collaboratio...

academicpositions.com

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Craig Primmer @fishcongen.bsky.social · Aug 16

3 prof positions open in Helsinki!

🧬Human genetics and genomics (open rank, DL 10.10)
🧬Cellular physiology (TT, DL 17.8)
🏙️ Ecological restoration of urban environments (open rank, DL 17.8)

www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/...

Come and join us in the happiest country in the world 5 years running!

Open positions | University of Helsinki

Read about our range of career options and apply now. Application processes ends on the date indicated in the job ad at 23.59 local Helsinki time (EEST).

www.helsinki.fi

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 7d

I think I need to water my office-friend 🌵…

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 7d

It will be OA in 6 months - I’ve sent you a pdf by email

Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to see Hannah’s penultimate PhD paper come out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Strong evidence against the ‘warmer, sicker world’ hypothesis. Parasites 🪱🦠 and their hosts are just very variable! Another great collaboration with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 11d

Valley of the Butterflies in Rhodes is really Valley of the Moths, but a nifty way to get the punters in. There were still enough tiger moths their today, at the end of the season, to give some idea of what a natural spectacle it must be at its peak

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 11d

This morning’s catch - possibly Distoleon annulatus and a lovely praying mantis

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 11d

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

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Thijs Fijen @thijsfijen.bsky.social · 15d

Dutch solar parks approach pollinator & plant biodiversity levels of extensive grasslands, but only on the surface not covered by panels. Soil-emergent arthropods and butterflies lack behind. Proud of Timea for leading besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jappliedecology.bsky.social

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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 12d

2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Pls share!

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 13d

Our Career Development Fellowships are now for applications. This scheme provides talented early career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM with research funding and training opportunities to build a successful research career: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/caree...

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks Karl - that does look like a good match. The only nagging worry is that the larvae are sand dune specialists, and that habitat isn’t well-represented where we are (and adults aren’t strong fliers), but maybe there’s just enough…

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 12d

My husband rescued this beautiful ant lion adult from the pool (we’re on holiday in Lardos, Rhodes) - web resources aren’t great, so species ID help much appreciated. Have given it a tree to camouflage against, so hoping it makes it until tonight when it can fly again 🤩

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 13d

Really enjoying the Mediterranean snakelocks anemones 🤩

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 14d

A lovely nest of Messor 🐜 getting their day started #AntsAtWork IYKYK

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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 23d

Wasps only obey you - I have no powers over this taxon 😉

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