With #Budget2024 confirming an increase in minimum wage I've updated my chart of UKRI minimum PhD stipends.
From next April, PhD students in the UK will be around £1400 a year worse off than if they worked 37.5 hours a week on minimum wage
🚨 EntoSieve: New automated tool for fast, accurate size-sorting of bulk insect samples! Perfect for boosting DNA megabarcoding & metabarcoding projects. 🧬🔬 DIY low-cost device, gentle on specimens and yet efficient 🦋🐞read here: https://t.co/7TAGLYAxsj
Join us in team #eDNA at the People and Nature Lab @UCLCBER@UCLEast! I am recruiting a NERC funded PDRA to research air sampling for terrestrial biomonitoring https://t.co/cGjatjrx2X application deadline 19 Aug
Pls RT! We’re on the hunt for a wasp nest! Preferably within 2 hr radius of London.. Let us know if you’ve got one - needs to be accessible as we want to extract it whole, with nest, brood, queen and workers to be wired up for science! @RoyEntSoc@Buzz_dont_tweet@DaveGoulson
Everyone doing evolutionary, conservation, population, ecological genomics: submit your abstract for the Biodiversity Genomics Conference by the end of the month. This online conference is free to attend and very international.
https://t.co/9vrcwr0X9v
Interested in 🐝 conservation and doing a Masters by Research? Check out our programme @RHULBioSci https://t.co/uGfJqtvFov and projects with me (w/@marina_arbetman) https://t.co/U0kzTJktkL please retweet @BumblebeeTrust
PhD studentship: if you’re interested in parasites 🦠 and bees 🐝 check out this PhD position with me, @fisher_mat and @RhysFarrer1 Application deadline 13 June. Please read ad carefully for eligibility https://t.co/mEM8X4CtVt @RoyalHolloway@RHULBioSci
Are you a moth-trapper with a spare 10 minutes? If so, please fill in the following survey aiming to understand moth-ers and their relationship with insects in traps 🐝🦋 Please share! https://t.co/1klsSDyolf
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#MondayMotivation
Your kindness can kill a bumblebee 💔
📢 Please share! Bumblebee queens are starting to emerge from hibernation. British weather isn’t always ideal and people with the best intentions can cause more harm good. Let’s change that.
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Have any of you ever done Professional Pesticide training (i.e. for spray qualification)? In any country. Would you be willing to chat about your experience with me at some point?