Congratulations to all the awardees of the 2022 Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarships and Postdoctoral Fellowships! €27 million in funding to support the next generation of researchers.
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The honeybee is doing grand but what about the other bees? When people talk about bees, says @maher_steph@teagasc@IrishResearch, they are usually referring to honeybees, but there are some 20,000 other bee species in need of some love rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0823/…
New paper on stem nesting bees and wasps in Irish farms. We only found a few species, but different species use different size tubes. Implications for agri-environment schemes and design of garden 'bee hotels' @JaneCStout@irene_bottero@maher_steph@poshbee_eu
Join us in Johnstown Castle on 30th of August for the Farming for a Better Future Open Day. This open day will demonstrate how to maintain farm productivity and profitability, while increasing environmental sustainability. Find out more at bit.ly/3znEq0r
#jobfairy#Multi4More project will be hiring a postdoctoral researcher by end 2022, and will have four fully-funded PhD positions across Teagasc, UCD, TCD and AFBI. Please get in touch for informal queries, and will tweet advertisements asap.
#ECR#multispecies#mixtures
Are you a 3rd/4th year undergrad at an Irish Uni interested in invert diversity?
Check out these summer bursaries from @nuigalway @npwsBioData in honour of @FarmEcos Karzan Sabah D.Ahmed...
nuigalway.ie/scholarships/cu…
📨Develop your bee-related research skills and find out the latest trends in the field with PoshBee’s two-day workshop!
🗓️12&13/04/2022
📍Mons, Belgium
👥Veterinarians, ECRs, beekeepers
Deadline: 15/03/2022
Find out more & apply➡️bit.ly/3HJo6bh
I was honoured today to launch the ‘Dr Karzan Sabah D Ahmed Memorial Research Bursary’ with Prof Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh and @npwsBioData at @nuigalway to support research into high nature value farming and invertebrate biodiversity.
Announcement!
We have a new species for Ireland!
Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) was found on the 12/10/2021 at The Raven Nature Reserve in Co. Wexford by recorder Jim Kenny.
A phenomenal find and certainly something to keep an eye out for to see if there are any other populations