Already a week since my talk at the V Symposium of Pollination in 🇧🇷. A huge honor to be invited, my first as a keynote speaker, and the most delightful meeting I ever attended. The Brazilian school of pollination ecology holds strong and has a lot to teach us.

#Viewpoint: Exploring the importance of aromatic #plants' extrafloral volatiles for #pollinator attraction Kantsa et al. 👇 📖 https://t.co/kJMgjHMIUH #LatestIssue @wileyplantsci

Aromatic plant volatiles beyond flowers: attracting pollinators via leaves Kantsa et al. 📖 https://t.co/kJMgjHMIUH

Our new paper @NewPhyt explores how these emissions may attract pollinators even without flowers, reshaping how we think about plant–insect communication. https://t.co/ZJDF4GqlF7 #PlantEcology #PollinationBiology #ChemicalEcology #NewPhytologist #Ecology #AromaticPlants

Aromatic plants—iconic across cultures, lineages, and biomes—are more than fragrant. They may be multimodal signaling hubs, and we’re only beginning to understand their role. 2/3

🌿 What makes a plant truly aromatic? We asked this question seriously—and for the first time, proposed an ecological definition grounded in constitutive vegetative volatile emissions. 1/3

BREAKING: The only meal hospital staff in Gaza were receiving — provided by World Central Kitchen — has stopped. WCK has run out of food. Doctors, nurses, paramedics — already collapsing from exhaustion — now have nothing to eat. They are saving lives while starving. This is

The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.

What was so wrong with this that it needed to be deconstructed and transformed into the hell scape that we now currently inhabit?

This likely reflects pollen scarcity in the dry Mediterranean summer, and may reshape plant invasion dynamics. 🧾 Read more: https://t.co/Gu8CAHy2n4 Photos: Rupesh R. Kariyat #PollinationEcology #BuzzPollination #InvasiveSpecies

🚨 New preprint! Honeybees can’t sonicate, but in N. Greece, we found them consistently foraging on Solanum elaeagnifolium, a buzz-pollinated, nectarless invasive weed. They (laboriously) use alternative techniques to extract pollen🐝🌿👇

✊ Δεν υπάρχουν λόγια γι' αυτή τη λαοθάλασσα στη Θεσσαλονίκη. 📽️ Aλέξανδρος Λιτσαρδάκης - NEWS 24/7 #28_Φλεβαρη #Τεμπη

Πλησιάζει η πιο μαύρη επέτειος της ζωής μας. Η νύχτα που η διαφθορά σκότωσε τα παιδιά μας. Και για να μην αποκαλυφθεί, συνεχίζει αδίστακτη να τα ΣΚΟΤΩΝΕΙ , «μπαζώνοντας» στο διάβα της ό,τι θα δικαιώσει τις ψυχές τους. 28/02/2025 είναι μια μέρα ΜΝΗΜΗΣ . Είναι η μέρα που μας

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

Arthropod Photo of the Week: January 29, 2025 Cellophane bee Colletes wilmattae Hymenoptera: Colletidae Thilina Hettiarachchi (@ThilinaHA), Manitoba, Canada #arthropodPOTW

Barcoding of bumblebees via hair is possible - a new approach from @LOEWE_TBG towards non-invasive sampling of important pollinators🐝 Hair-based minimally invasive barcoding of bumblebees⬇️ https://t.co/iT7A09z0i9 @RoyEntSoc @WileyEcolEvol

Zum Internationalen Tag zur Beseitigung von Gewalt gegen Frauen, ist Gisèle Pelicots Mut, ihr Schicksal in aller Abscheulichkeit offenzulegen, ein starkes Zeichen.

When we think of pollinators, we picture bees or birds, but even wolves can get in on the action! In Ethiopia, the fiery blooms of Kniphofia foliosa lure Ethiopian wolves with sweet nectar. Can wolves be pollinators? Find out here👉 https://t.co/uYVHQvdd2B 📷 Adrien Lesaffre

En Iran, la justice annonce que l’étudiante qui s’était dévêtue pour protester contre la police des mœurs est retournée dans sa famille et ne sera pas poursuivie

Male Field Athlete of the Year finalists Mondo Duplantis 🇸🇪 Miltiadis Tentoglou 🇬🇷 Winner will be announced on 1 December. #AthleticsAwards

This additional restriction comes as women and girls in Afghanistan are facing increasingly draconian attacks on their rights that affect all areas of their lives.