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The power of community science to understand bee biodiversity! Excited to share our new study comparing results from our PA Bee Monitoring Program vs iNaturalist led by 🐝🌻Nash Turley🌻🐝 Lopez-Uribe Lab PA Department of Agriculture Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences 🧵Here are the key findings: academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-a…

Do collection-based methods produce more reliable data with fewer biases than photography-based approaches? the value of highly trained communty scientists academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-a… @saritapajarita 🐝🌻Nash Turley🌻🐝 iNaturalist

Quirky little spittlebug from Ecuador, took me a while to figure out which end was the front :P inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Ecologist at UCLA being severely punished by department for speaking out to help students. Read more about it here: pamarasekare.org And petition to help her: change.org/p/tell-califor…

"The flickering glow of summer’s fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone" AP story about firefly conservation apnews.com/article/firefl…

What’s better for bees? More habitat or less pesticides? anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/07/whats-…

Want to help make old natural history collection be digitized and publicly available? Check out all of these projects where you can transcribe labels of old museum collections. It's kinda fun to see what the next one will be :) zooniverse.org/organizations/…

ridiculously cool orange moth with poofy pants inaturalist.org/observations/1…

street lights make tree leaves tougher and decrease herbivory, bad news for bugs! theguardian.com/environment/ar…

I know I've been asking a lot, but does anyone who is entering the postdoc stage have a CV they're especially proud of they would be willing to share with me? Trying to spruce mine up!

The power of community science PSUAgScienceResearch PA Department of Agriculture Penn State Entomology psu.edu/news/research/…

Our team of community scientists discovered 7 bees species never before seen in Pennsylvania! psu.edu/news/research/…

Important new paper led by Melissa Guzman showing that insecticides reduce bee abundances in the United States nature.com/articles/s4189…

"Most of the peer-reviewed academic articles referenced in ESA listings came from low-IF or no-IF journals that tended to focus on specific taxa or regions." - conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Washinton Post article about our bee monitoring program! (it's behind paywall but should be able to see it if you make a free account...) wapo.st/3YDuPPD