Presenting my dissertation defense seminar this Friday, May 12th at 9am Central 🥳
I'll cover propolis use by honey bees and stingless bees, and the impacts of industrial agriculture on honey bee health 🐝🥓🚜
Let me know if you'd like a link to attend virtually ✨
And finally, the news we've all been waiting for: This morning, we received confirmation that our union election will occur on April 25th, 26th, and 27th. A majority of UMN graduate workers have already pledged to vote YES! Let's hit the ground running and WIN OUR UNION!
@HamishSymington Super neat video! What species of bee is this experiment is done with? Do you have a paper/article explaining this phenomenon? I would love to learn more!
#heymac Echoing the #JungleLore➡️ ‘the strength of the wolf is the pack and the strength of the pack is the wolf’. Building community & holding each other is the only way forward
We painted and carved 🎃 as a class, and chatted #WildlifeConservClass@Macalester@MacEcology
#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 12th lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 310,000 km² above the 2010s mean
• about 760,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,900,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,630,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: https://t.co/uGyo30kIko
A tiny corner of Chihuahuan Desert turned out to be a hotspot of extreme #bee#biodiversity! The discovery, which we recently published at https://t.co/BniwNRPeym, helps us understand 🐝 diversity and how we can protect it.
Thanks @Douglas_Main
https://t.co/4wcDVEwwJp
My first first-author paper 🥳 (w/ co-author Marla Spivak), published in @Insects_MDPI last month, reviews resin use by stingless bees 🐝🥓🌿
🧵 for a glimpse into the sticky, smart, and sometimes strange world of resin use by stingless bees 👩🔧🏠⚔️🔑🐜🤾♂️
https://t.co/0t1pe6hV5b