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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-25 13:55:44

Bumble plans to cut 30% of its workforce, or about 240 roles, and invest the ~$40M saved annually into new product and tech development; BMBL rises 20% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/06/25/bumble-lay

Bumble jumps 26% as dating company plans to axe 30% of workforce
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, returned to the role earlier this year.

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-06-10 07:59:12

Is there an entomologist on the line? I have noticed at least 3 different bumble bees with this strange pale mark on the back (it's difficult to see clearly because they're never still).
I *think* it might be a kind of mite (varroa?) , they clearly feel it because I could see all the bees were stroking it occasionally with a leg, but they still continued flying and feeding. This was the best of about a hundred photos I tried to take with my phone!
Any clues what it is? @… #bumblebee #bees #mites #Mitestodon
Edit: new photo crop might be clearer

@shaun@mastodon.xyz
2025-04-30 01:18:21

It's #hosta season! With a new #huecheca/coral bells.
And hidden in the #vinca, this little #hydrangea cutt…

A patch of garden with a variety of potted hostas. Gotta pot them here or voles and chipmunks and whatnot will attack them from underground. Some lilies are growing up among the hostas. A newly-purchased "caramel" coral bells (heuchera) joins the party in its temporary nursery pot. A painted metal sunflower with bumble bee sits in the back of the garden, and an old rusting bird house is in front of the plants.
Zooming in on the first photo, a little hydrangea has sprouted a half-dozen or so leaves, among a carpet of vinca vines. This hydrangea was a cutting I rooted last year. I thought for sure it was a goner, but life... finds a way.