Tovah Kashetsky

she/her • PhD candidate at U Ottawa • cognitive ecology 🐝 • header painting by Herzl Kashetsky

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

Beauty is in the eye of the

[Nigel Raine @NigelERaine]

Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial #bees. In this work, led by @TovahKashetsky, specialist bees were more hesitant to continue interacting with novel stimuli. Check out the full #OA paper in @BehavEcol: https://t.co/6O2VLNysMz

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

Had a good time at the wildlife garden’s Pollinator Appreciation Day! 🐝🌻

[Nigel Raine @NigelERaine]

Great that @TovahKashetsky could present her important PhD research on parasite avoidance & nest-site selection in cavity-nesting solitary #bees @CSEE_SCEE @CSEE_Meetings. Great talk, sorry I couldn't 🐝@ #CSEE2024 in person. #Proud #CoSupervisor with Jessica Forrest #Pollinators

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

I’m obsessed with this student advertising his defense

[Sabrina Rondeau, PhD @SabRondeau]

🚨🐝 FUN SCIENCE ALERT! 🐝🚨Hibernating bumblebee queens can survive up to a WEEK underwater!! The discovery stems from an oversight leading to these tough little queens defying the odds, emerging alive after an accidental underwater stint! 🌊🐝 #FunScience #BumblebeeSuperheroes

[Sarah Laframboise @SLaframboise14]

#GradStudent scholarships and #Postdoc fellowships got a raise today for the first time in 21 years🙌

Immensely grateful to all those who have been pushing for this. It truly takes a village!

Still processing and will have more thoughts soon! But overall this👇 is great news!

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

My MSc ms is published 🐜🧠 We found that acorn ants get faster at decision-making with experience, but not more accurate. We used social network analysis to measure social connectedness and workload distribution, both of which remained stable over time.
https://t.co/cNoLLYAsqY

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

I love snow, but I don’t like walking on slushy sidewalks while cars get nicely plowed roads 🥲

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

My manuscript was accepted last week and I’ve already received four (4) scam emails about an award. Am I officially an academic now?

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

We have these signs on the side of the boxes, and the box was completely disassembled. I’m just curious as to why? What did my bees every do to you?? 😢

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

Has anyone ever had their field site sabotaged? Luckily no bees were in this nestbox, or the one that was stolen last month

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people.

Sound efficient?

HT @circulareconomy

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

Being a bee-cologist means you stop to say hi to every bee

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

Tried my best to bring wild native bees into the conversation about "bees" (actually just honeybees) by calling into this CBC radio show. Fast forward to 31:30 to hear my attempt! 🌻🐝 https://t.co/ysb6fo37g1

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

I love the white dots on the body and wings of monarchs 😍

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Everybody should watch this so we can finally end this debate.

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

Cicada skin from an adult that recently emerged from the ground 😮

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

Hello in there! Just a mama bee hanging out in her nest 🌼

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

@cwlogan13 @DJMoffinz Leafcutter bees line their nests with the leaves, they use it as insulation

[Tovah Kashetsky @TovahKashetsky]

Leafcutter bees carrying leaves look like little witches on their broomsticks 🐝🍃