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Some new research with @Harpur and colleagues from Brazil. York U study: European ancestry plays role in ‘killer’ honey bees’ aggressiveness news.yorku.ca/2020/07/07/yor…

How does individual cognition influence collective behavior? This is exactly the question my colleagues and I tackle in our new paper, out in @PNAS today! Let me tell regale you with this tale... pnas.org/content/early/…

Which Sharks are the best? Dr. David Shiffman 🦈 youtu.be/OZ5kXgYW5cE

hot of the press: Arshad Imrit Katie Dogantzis and @Harpur Eusociality influences the strength of negative selection on insect genomes | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Arguably more important than citations, is the number of times an article has been read. ResearchGate gave me an achievement ;). Considering this article is relatively new, I think this is an important one. Thanks goes to my co-authors and the Amro Zayed lab for this!

Today is a monumental day. I submitted my #PhD #dissertation to my committee. Is there anything more important going on?

I just defended my #PhD!

I can be fancy now, with my #PhD

Methods papers are important. Papers that compare and contrast several methods, so that individual researchers don't have to do it ourselves, are absolutely critical. So, I'm sharing to spread the love for #methods papers. academic.oup.com/bib/advance-ar…

📢New paper alert 📢 Collab with Amro Zayed, led by Nadia Tsvetkov Conservation genomics show pathogen and pesticode stressors in the at-risk #YellowBandedBumblebee onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

The pretty version of the article published with Amro Zayed , Sheila Colla, Ph.D , and Victoria J. MacPhail, PhD is now up! We used cool genomic and bioinfomatic techniques on threatened bumble bees to find out why they are declining! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Another article published with Amro Zayed. Remarkably, we were the first to look at how NNIs affect nurse and forager brain gene expression. Spoiler - very differently! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

How do cage experiments compare to colony experiments in honey bee RNAseq? We found almost no significant overlap in gene expression!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Research bulletin: Shipping nucs and risks of overheating alisonmcafeeblogs.wordpress.com/2022/04/28/res…

New paper with Nadia Tsvetkov Simran Bahia and May Berenbaum on Genetics of tolerance to neonicotinoids in honey bees sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our review is on the cover of Physiology! and what a pretty cover it is! Leonard Foster Alison McAfee, PhD #honeybees Mechanisms of Pathogen and Pesticide Resistance in Honey Bees | Physiology journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

A great collaborative effort to collect remarkable data to find the effects of climate on honeybee health. University of British Columbia YorkU - Science journals.plos.org/climate/articl…

Hot off the press BeeCSI : Pollen foraging mediates exposure to dichotomous stressor syndromes in honey bees academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti… BeesYU Genome Canada Ontario Genomics YorkU - Science

We correlated nAChRa7 subunit with sucrose responsiveness in clothianidin exposed bees in our newly published work! Leonard Foster University of British Columbia Proteome of Clothianidin Exposed Honey Bees Reveals a Possible Mechanism Behind Impairment of Sucrose Responsiveness doi.org/10.1111/jen.13…

Neonicotinoids impair perception, not cognitive processing (which is probably worse). Proteome of Clothianidin Exposed Honey Bees Reveals a Possible Mechanism Behind Impairment of Sucrose Responsiveness - Journal of Applied Entomology University of British Columbia Leonard Foster doi.org/10.1111/jen.13…