Erin B Lowe

PhD in Environment & Resources // Interested in agroecology🌄, pollination & landscape ecology🐝, and just food systems✊🏻 // she/her

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

I'm taking new contracts for projects focused on just and sustainable food systems! If you need an extra pair of hands to get your project to the next step, please reach out at [email protected]. More info about my work and services at https://t.co/3Ber5zyxhV

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

All of my dissertation is finally published! Back to #bees on this chapter. Read about the impacts of field-edge flower plantings on #pollinators, #conservation, and crop pollination: https://t.co/gXlggs8CjT

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

Briefs and non-academic version here: https://t.co/9c42HEkcie

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

Which actions that support managed livestock grazing are most likely to transform Midwest food and agricultural systems? https://t.co/5jCtKm2bLT…
Cheers to co-authors @aralcanaf and Adena Rissman! #FoodSystems #SustainableAgriculture @Grassland2_0

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

@MRHelmus @SpringerEcology Thanks for sharing! Huge shout-out to coauthors @BenIuliano, @arives_UW, @flypod2

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

@prof_smurph @MRHelmus Thanks so much for sharing and for the compliment! Definitely wouldn't have happened without such stellar collaborators: @BenIuliano, @arives_UW, @flypod2

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

Produced in conjunction with @Grassland2_0

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

Excited to share this report I’ve been working on with co-author, @aralcanaf! The report synthesizes recs from 130 members of the Midwest ag community on how to support managed grazing and build a more just food system.

Check it out! https://t.co/JiPpDhpYbG

[Patrick Monari, PhD @PatrickKMonari]

🎉New preprint! Last summer, we hosted a panel at @SBNTweets on leveraging privilege to improve racial equity in academia. I'm so honored to have been able to work with the amazing panelists to synthesize their wisdom! https://t.co/lecJtVRqQj

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[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

So proud of @PatrickKMonari for publishing this awesome game -- check it out!

[Patrick Monari, PhD @PatrickKMonari]

My game, The Academy Chrysalis, is published! It follows a group of treasure hunters along a journey through a school shattered by academic hubris, and critically examines the colonialist roots of both fantasy adventuring and academic progress. Check out the link below ->

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

Huge oversight to exclude agriculture from #COP26. Ag needs to an integral part of convos on the climate crisis: https://t.co/ybLNVLM32V

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

@DulanAon @agronomistag The idea of the "objective" scientist is antiquated. Acknowledging this fact and understanding scientific work in context makes for stronger scientists better positioned to support all farmers instead of perpetuating inequity or injustice. You ignore context to your detriment

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

@DulanAon @agronomistag ^well said -- ag education, funding sources, the research questions you ask, the way you choose to ask them, & the way you frame your research are not neutral or apolitical. They are influenced by and influence this broader social/political/economic context

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

To tackle the complex problems we face today we need lenses like agroecology that integrate multiple disciplines and link that work to transformative action

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

Anyone who does ag science (or any research on natural resource management) & thinks their work is apolitical is deceiving themselves. Political agroecology is no more political than other ag science, it's just more honest about it

[Andrew McGuire @agronomistag]

I think it is important to separate political agroecology (political science) from production agroecology (biology, chemistry, and physics).
I'm perhaps late to realize this, but political agroecology is critical theory applied to the food system and goes way beyond the farm.

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

Silos do us no service. They may cater to our comforts, but they blind us to the context of our work and perperuate social and racial inequities

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

@GrattonLab is hiring an outreach specialist for our WiBee community science app! Check it out: https://t.co/S1WUh7e8gT

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

We also need more longer-term studies on the effects of *mature* plantings and on more direct metrics of population growth like nesting and reproductive success

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

First first-author paper published today! Check out our meta-analysis on how field edge pollinator plantings influence pollinator conservation and crop pollination: https://t.co/YazKmYE0RB

[Erin B Lowe @ErinBeeLowe]

Planting size and richness don't significantly change results. We found some (non-quantitative) evidence for landscape being important (tentative support for plantings being most effective when surrounded by a moderate amount of existing habitat) but more research is needed