Charlie Nicholson

postdoc @lunduniversity

pollination ecology, landscape ecology, conservation science

@buzznicholson.bsky.social

he/him

[Charlie Nicholson @BuzzNicholson]

🚨New paper🚨

So excited our research into the impacts of landscape-scale pesticide exposure on bee health is published in @Nature. Huge thanks to my co-1st author @JessKnapp24 and @MajRundlof and all in @poshbee_eu

The paper: https://t.co/tea52zXVqf

What’s this all about? 🧵

[Jonathan Chase @Jon_Chase03]

Hey #ESA2024 @ESA_org ! Anyone have any cool “synthesis” projects they’re looking for an awesome place to publish!?! Try @Ecology_Letters!

Let me know if you have something or see something. Would be delighted to consider it.

https://t.co/ocFdvvlLR6

[Tom Timberlake @TomTimberlake92]

Smallholder farmers increase reliance on honeybees (in place of diverse wild pollinators) when they shift from subsistence agriculture to cash crops = major implications for the resilience of livelihoods & nutrition. More in our @JAppliedEcology paper: https://t.co/1ISwgnJ3wR

[The Xerces Society @xercessociety]

Join us & help protect pollinators from pesticides!🌾🦋
Job Title: Pesticide Program Specialist (Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management, Eastern US)
Location: Remote
Compensation: $5,085/mo, approx. $61,027/yr
Deadline: July 22
Learn more and apply➡️https://t.co/u6ypFDX1Bz

[Jenna Walters @Jenna_M_Walters]

🔥off the press! Our new paper in @RSocPublishing:

“Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival”

We tested whether pollen from heat stressed host plants has negative effects on wild bees. 🧵1/11

https://t.co/YJg2fJkh3w

[Charlie Nicholson @BuzzNicholson]

Thanks @LynnDicks for highlighting or work investigating the effects of real world #pesticide exposure

[Lynn Dicks @LynnDicks]

Some thoughts from me and others on insect decline & the role of pesticides https://t.co/HYsSGZH65D @CamZoology @cambridge_uccri

[Jess Knapp @JessKnapp24]

Abstract submission for the @RoyEntSoc annual conference #Ento24 is open!

Opportunities to present (in person and online) your work to the entomological community.

Abstract deadline: 17:00 (BST), Friday 14 June

https://t.co/vni3J6XTV2

[🐝Sam Droege🐝 @moltenblue]

Very useful illustrated guide to Bee Morphology/Jargon
https://t.co/to6Emr6XMA Author wants feedback on what is missing, edits, corrections, additions

[Jess Knapp @JessKnapp24]

Pesticides can be sustainably reduced, but this requires an approach that reconciles the seemingly conflicting goals of food production, environmental protection, biodiversity and human health. https://t.co/0Z2Z3mbQYi

[Charlie Nicholson @BuzzNicholson]

@emtomology Ah cool. We have a preprint meta-analysis of day vs. night pollination if you are interested: https://t.co/kliyyURinO

[Journal of Applied Ecology @JAppliedEcology]

Pesticide risk during commercial apple pollination is greater for honeybees than other managed & wild bees 🐝

Suggests limiting orchard sprays, while reducing on-farm exposures, won't protect far-foraging bees from off-farm exposures like thiamethoxam

🔗https://t.co/8nQuoUevBj

[inori @kusabanaasobi]

🆕シロツメクサで蜂を作りました🐝
お腹の縞がキラキラしてとても気に入っています。
茎はよく潰してから巻きます。
二枚目の葉は三枚重ねて葉脈で半分に折り、葉脈を上にして巻きつけます。
お腹も頭も、輪にした花の茎に、葉の茎を巻きつけて輪に通し、輪を締めて留めています。

[Michael Bertram @MichaelGBertram]

Attending #SETACSeville and interested in behavioural responses? Make sure to check out the behaviour session (1.04) on Tuesday, 9:30am to 12:55pm!

I'll be presenting #EthoCRED, a new framework for assessing the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies🐟🐸🧪

[Botanical Society of America @Botanical_]

🌱 From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue 🌱

Rethinking pathways to the dioecy–polyploidy association: Genera with many dioecious species have fewer polyploids

By @WilOsterman, Adrian Hill, James Hagan et al.

https://t.co/N7rkuon01c #botany @wileyplantsci

[Nigel Raine @NigelERaine]

Our new paper, led by Dr. @EeraertsMaxime, examines how #pollination deficits & their relation with insect #pollinator visitation are cultivar-dependent in an entomophilous crop (#Blueberry) in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment: https://t.co/qQ5O6p0DFQ (🐝📸Jason Gibbs)

[Charlie Nicholson @BuzzNicholson]

@_JohnMola @MajRundlof Hehe

[MajRundlof @MajRundlof]

Our work on how bumble bee colonies are affected by landscape pesticide exposure is out in the current issue along with other interesting paper on related “Insects at risk” topics, though the bumble bee on the cover is really weird looking… https://t.co/YyeiffKWij

[Charlie Nicholson @BuzzNicholson]

@osterman_julia @GGBC_GU @annebeejay @Lacapary @kaisa_sci Yesssss! Can’t wait

[Dr. Easton White @eastonrwhite]

Databases for finding independent biology/ecological postdoctoral fellowships:
- https://t.co/FfVlxXsV25
- https://t.co/fvVnhSyQfy
- https://t.co/UzIQsoUP65
- https://t.co/sVvZHCaOVq

[Charlie Nicholson @BuzzNicholson]

@naturealexk Wow. Vertical oriented? Also some huge pollen stores