NEW: The Alate Award. Four students enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities or Minority Serving Institutions will receive mentorship at #EntSoc21 and attend for free. Learn more and nominate: entsoc.org/about/awards-h…

The McMahon Lab is looking for an undergrad research assistant to help with freshwater microbial ecology research on Lake Mendota!! Water@UW-Madison UWMadisonCEE UW–Madison Science UW-Madison iBio UWResearch UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology limnology.wisc.edu/employment/res…

Freedom, Inc. is launching the Black Sanctuary Pledge to ensure the safety and support for Black students, students of color, queer and trans youth, and youth with disabilities in our schools and community. Educators can sign the pledge: bit.ly/blacksanctuary…

Holy cow, I defend my master's thesis in like, a week and a half (next Friday!) If anyone wants to learn about how wildflower plantings impact bees in cranberry marshes, send me a DM for a link!

We have a new paper out in Journal of Applied Ecology - "Long-term surveys support declines in early-season forest plants used by bumble bees" See the quoted tweet for a news article covering some of the key findings besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

New paper out! Bumble bee color mystery solved! We unravel a suite of genes from upstream Abd-B, to intermediate dev. genes, to a set of interacting downstream melanin and redox genes to drive melanic pigmentation differences in B. melanopygus! Please RT! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/ev…

Farm fields! Take a closer look & you'll find that they're more than the crops that grow on them. A new review out by @glbioenergy & WEI researchers explores how we can design these landscapes to support crops AND biodiversity: energy.wisc.edu/news/designing…

On #WorldBeeDay, I want to extend gratitude to the vast majority of the native bee research community. They are supportive folks, working hard to better our collective understanding of bee diversity and the threats they face. I've also made some great friendships 💛🖤

Not a big deal but for #WorldBeeDay2021 Jade Kochanski and I saw a (multiple?) rusty patched bumble bee queen!! Sasquatch style photos provided

What are the options to address bullying by tenured men *with power* in other academic institutions who punch down ECR women & BIPOC? In some cases, resulting in the ECR leaving academia entirely. #AcademicChatter #ECRChat

I hired a Dolly Parton impersonator to kick off my virtual PhD defense, 10/10 would recommend 💖 (my advisor laughed til he cried) #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdlife #DollyParton

An out-of-focus, phone-lens-pressed-to-scope view of a little Osmia sausage spinning a cocoon for herself!

Associate Researcher position available in our lab to study pests of fruit crops. To apply, go to jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/5094…

Latest publication from the lab - congrats to @jH_wisc and team 🥳

Check out the press release from Eric Hamilton, with stunning illustrations by @chase_prairie news.wisc.edu/midwest-bumble…

🚨New Paper Alert!📜 The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation 🌳🐝 Available for free in BioScience with myself, @jH_wisc, Jade Kochanski, @leifr7, and Ian Pearse We think this overview will be very useful for many - give it a read! academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

New paper published in Landscape Ecology IALE-NA led by Erin B Lowe, with Anthony Ives and allisan sanders @grattonlab. We wrote an #RStats package! link.springer.com/article/10.100… 1/9

#scalescape offers a user-friendly way for scientists to model distance-weighted landscape effects on environmental responses at a site. It helps answer questions like “how does the amount of natural habitat surrounding a crop field affect wild bee abundance in the field”? 2/9

If you're attending PSU Pollinators #PollCon23, please check out Sabrina Rondeau, PhD's important work: "From exposure to impact: #pesticide residues in soil and their effects on hibernating #bumblebee queens" (poster #95)