Sam Robinson, Ph.D

Postdoc at the U of Calgary, current project: 🌾🚜+🐝🕷+🌲🌳 = 💰? Interests: ecology, agriculture, natural sciences, economics, history, philosophy. He/him

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

Ecologists and agronomists should consider using PYD in future studies, as it can be used to study ecosystem services across large scales, and could be used to inform the design of better farming landscapes

This paper is open-access, so please give it a read!

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

My latest paper is finally out! In this paper, we show that precision yield data (PYD) is fairly commonly gathered, but is almost never used to study ecosystem services (e.g. pollination, pest control)

[Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence @AER_ESE_BES]

Precision yield data (PYD) is common in many agricultural systems but it's almost never used to study #EcosystemServices (ES) 😯

PYD however is a valuable source of data for studying how ES contribute to crop yield!

https://t.co/7QXYc5xBOq

@PollinatorsCan @ucalgaryscience

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

@LeanderCampbell That field right at the end of is my in-law's vineyard, Castoro d'Oro! I highly recommend their Merlot

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

@BrittnyVisscher Congrats!

[Sean Good🇨🇦 @goodbar_ca]

Didsbury today 😳 #abstorm

[Support Our Science @SupportOurSci]

#SupportOurScience is run by a small group of volunteers dedicated to increasing funding for #GradStudents & #Postdocs in Canada.

We have reached a point where we can no longer pay expenses out-of-pocket & are looking for contributions to keep SOS going:
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[Kyle Brittain @BadWeatherKyle]

Unbelievable tornado NE of Stettler this afternoon! #abstorm

Has now lifted at 455PM.

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

@sharri_kher @AlbertaCanola @gabertccc @Megarhyssa Turns out they do! I'll DM you their contact info

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

@sharri_kher @AlbertaCanola @gabertccc @Megarhyssa My labmates have been talking to some growers near Didsbury that mentioned flea beetles. I'll ask them

[Andrew McGuire @agronomistag]

20" of sandy subsoil turned into topsoil in just 26 years.
"Topsoil SOC recovery and stability of buried SOC was dependent on N fertilisation."

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

That's an INSANE number of flea beetles!

[sharri_kher @sharri_kher]

Evenden lab summer researchers busy in counting unusual high numbers of crucifer flea beetles found on some sticky cards that were set in last week of April at field edges in Central Alberta #Abbugchat @MayaEvenden @AlbertaCanola @canolacouncil @gabertccc

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

"If I used multiple combines on a field, will that mess up the precision yield data?"

Only one way to find out:

[𝙎𝙇𝙀 𝘼𝙂𝙍𝙊🇧🇷 @StaLuziaEsteio]

The region with the highest soybean crop yield in 2023 was the west of Bahia. This video comes from Formosa Do Rio Preto.
The yield has been 60 bpa in 4.6 million acres.
#OAgroNãoPara
#Agro never stops
#Brazil🇧🇷

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

A twisted-wing bee parasite hatching out of a miner bee: super cool!

[Henri Greil @habitecture]

A male of Stylops nevinsoni or Stylops praecocis hatches from a female of Andrena clarkella. 🐝
#BeesUp
@hans_pohl @JKI_Bund @BfN_de

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

@ImperialSeed My money's on beets

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

@kowalchukfarms1 Not a farmer, but I do a lot of work with various ag people, and I use a lot of precision ag data from the Canadian prairies. I'm Albertan too!

[Tamara McLoughlin @McLoughlinTam]

Last day to come on out to @YQLagrifoodhub for #AgExpo23. I'm at Booth 607 in the West Pavilion, stop by to say hi and enter to win a coffee gift basket!

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

@tngrainger I just finished a Mitacs PD, so I could chat about it a bit if you like

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

@sam_yeaman One of my lab groups used to use Hobo loggers, and they were pretty decent for temperature logging

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

I was a TA in the field class that did this study! Glad to see it published!

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

Thanks a bunch to my colleagues and field assistants, and especially to the canola farmers who let us access their fields! This was a ton of work and we couldn't have done it without you

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

One of the main chapters of my PhD work on canola pollination and crop yield is finally out! It's open-access, so feel free to read it: https://t.co/okrTNP2XsJ

Here's what we found:

[Sam Robinson, Ph.D @PollinatorsCan]

Another theory: Honey bees may indirectly increase leafcutting bee visitation by reducing pollen and nectar in the crop, causing them to move around more. However, we only studied seed canola fields stocked with honey bees, so we can't say this for sure.