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AI is everywhere! Got a kick out of reporting this story for @GeekWire on the SICB meeting in Seattle. Thanks to Shir Bar and Jeff Riffell for input, and James Roberts Crall and Gigi Melone for bee images. #SICB2024 geekwire.com/2024/how-scien…

Coolest bee video ever. Check out their little QR codes. youtube.com/watch?v=kii4WT…

“The Klamath dams have been killing salmon for more than a century. For the Yurok Tribe, dam removal represents the restoration of our river, our traditional fishery & our community." Yurok Fisheries Dept Director Barry McCovey

Can insects feel pain? Claims from Eisemann (1984) have been cited uncritically to suggest insect pain is highly implausible. But 40 yrs later, we know many of the claims are wrong. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

NEW PAPER: Ever wondered why insects fly in all sorts of crazy patterns around lights at night? So did we! We set about recording flying insects to work out what's going on. I'll summarise what we found in this 🧵. Spoiler: We don't think they confuse lights with the moon.

My first first-author paper is out now in Ecological Entomology: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ee… Heatwaves increase larval mortality and delay development of a solitary bee so grateful to my co-authors and mentors Clara Stuligross Williams Lab UC Davis and to Osmia lignaria!

New Williams Lab UC Davis paper led by Gigi Melone, out today in Ecological Entomology! 🌡️🐝 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ee…

Study by Jeff Riffell and colleagues shows that pollution significantly affects how insects can find flowers for pollination. Published this week. science.org/content/articl…

New work by Gigi Melone Clara Stuligross Williams Lab UC Davis shows that #heatwaves increase larval mortality and delay development of a solitary bee: doi.org/10.1111/een.13… #OpenAccess #Osmia #ClimateChange Wiley Ecology & Evolution Photos: O. lignaria larva & adult (credits KQED/Deep Look)

Congratulations to community ecologist and professor Louie Yang, #ucdavis Department of Entomology and Nematology. Recipient of the Academic Senate's Distinguished Teaching Award, Undergraduate Student category. Well-deserved! tinyurl.com/3spjfe8d

Interested in rearing the solitary mason bee, Osmia lignaria, in the lab? Check out this detailed protocol from Ph.D. candidate Mary-Kate Williams and collaborators at the USDA Bee Lab: protocols.io/view/osmia-lig…

I love emailing scientists who do cool work and having them email me back!

“You research bees?” “Yeah” “Have you seen the Texas bee lady video” *deep sigh*

Crickets farmed for animal feed can be fed corn contaminated with a fungal toxin—which usually goes to waste—w/out absorbing it and w/ no ill effects, a study by Agricultural Research Service researchers shows. 🔗 How Crickets Can "Upcycle" Bad Grain Into Useful Animal Feed entomologytoday.org/2024/02/29/hou…

It's finally here! Our new paper, out now in Nature. It's one small step for a bumblebee... and a big leap for human understanding of their cognitive capabilities. With Lars Chittka , Amanda Royka , and others!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Debunking wasp #pollination: Wasps are comparable to bees in terms of plant interactions, body pollen and single-visit pollen deposition: doi.org/10.1111/een.13… #OpenAccess #Pollinators #Hymenoptera #PlantInsectInteractions Wiley Ecology & Evolution

I was just thinking someone needs to write a paper saying it is not biodiversity per se, but *species interactions*, that underpin ecosystem services This new paper makes that point, although I think there is much more to say on the subject besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Can #bumblebee queens endure periods of inundation while overwintering underground? New Biology Letters paper from Dr. Sabrina Rondeau, PhD suggests that hibernating queens can survive up to 1 week submerged under water: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2… #OpenAccess #Pollinators Royal Society Publishing

I cast my ballot for an optimistic future and to be on the correct side of our nation's history. I voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Be sure to vote!

CONGRATS to James Roberts Crall (James Roberts Crall) and Sharon Yixuan Li (Sharon Y. Li) on being named 2025 Sloan Foundation Research Fellows for their work in entomology and AI. Proud to call 2 of these 126 "most promising early-career scientists" BADGERS!