Bernauer lab takes on #entsoc25 in Portland! Sharing all our latest work on bumblebees and cranberry pollination! 🐝

For #EntSoc2025 folks interested in insect responses to extreme weather, Neal Williams and I are hosting a session, "Hot Bees" in D133/134. We'll focus the methods and tools we can use to understand how heat waves impact wild pollinators across ecological scales. Join us! 🌡️🐝💨🌼

Stylidium eriopodum - commonly called the Boomerang Triggerplant Like all Triggerplants, this plant has a floral column on a sensitive trigger which reacts to the flower being touched and coats any visiting #pollinators in pollen. Endemic to WA #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #nature

Check out our latest publication on volatile-mediated interactions between plants and insect herbivores, pollinators, and natural enemies!! Here, we review the literature on volatile multifunctionality and propose new ideas for sustainable insect management.

Excited to share my latest publication with @entothompson.bsky.social and Emily Russvage. Here, we reviewed how plants leverage multifunctional volatiles to mediate plant-insect interactions simultaneously with multiple insect groups in agroecosystems. Check it out! 🌿🐛🐝🐞 doi.org/10.1093/ee/n...

Curious about the current happenings in the Bernauer Pollinator Conservation lab? Check out our latest blog post by UW-EC undergraduate researchers on Which bumble bees are in Eau Claire? 🐝 www.oliviabernauer.com/post/which-b...

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year. We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Tl;dr = No. www.science.org/content/blog...

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

AMNH is hiring a #curator! We are searching for an “Assistant Curator in #Climate #Physics: #Atmosphere or #Ocean”! Join us! careers.amnh.org/postings/4579 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Hey #ento folk- any ideas on what might be eating these tomatillos? Eau Claire, WI, found late August 2025. Thanks in advance!

Fresh global-analysis admirably lead by @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social (+ @oliviabernauer.bsky.social PhD data) indicates native bee pollination services leads to higher-quality apples = improved weight & seed set. How do you like them apples? 🍎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Shocked and sad and amazed to see my first live spotted lanternfly in our own backyard (Chicago). Gorgeous animal—I wasn’t prepared for how beautiful it was. 🥲 Squashed and reported on @inaturalist.bsky.social

Do you like safe food? Agricultural innovations? Informed farmers? Reminder to voice your opinion about the restructuring of the USDA to the USDA and to your elected officials if you have not yet done so. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding. ✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP... 🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p... 🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!) #31days

absolutely wild to think about how much better off we'd be if we just believed girls and women

Colors of summer

Everybody working on social insects: the IUSSI has a fancy new website and they're building a map of all the labs that focus on social insects. Is this you? Add yourself to the map: www.socialinsects.org/map IUSSI = International Union for the Study of Social Insects

I think I'll always have a soft spot for cool citizen science, not only because I love contributing to iNaturalist, but because my master's research involved conducting citizen science. Go document your world! 🦦🌾🪸🪰🦜 iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Feeling so lucky to have had the opportunity to meet many endangered Karner blue butterflies today. Such a little, beautiful thing flittering by. Also saw many other lovely pollinators 🦋🐝🌻

Our new paper published today in Current Biology shows that immediate international cooperation is needed to conserve the eastern North American monarch butterfly. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Saturday backyard pals

Check out the latest episode of Human Footprint (The Honey Trap) for some insight into my recent research and the things happening in @jamescrall.bsky.social's lab!🐝 Honored to be a part of this, it was so fun! Many thanks to the crew at Day's Edge @neillosin.bsky.social www.pbs.org/video/the-ho...

first phylogeny for nocturnal foraging nomiine bees: doi.org/10.1007/s118...

After finishing my first year of teaching as a new asst. prof it is so nice to have my brain back and to have the bandwidth to ask questions and ponder new research ideas ✨🧠

We are #hiring a lecturer and #researcher: - Teaching in ecology and nature conservation - Research on plant-pollinator interactions - Supervision of students - Contribution to our major collaborative projects Start 01.09.2025 Salary according to TV-L E13, 100% 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Is that a rusty patch queen in my yard?!!?! 🐝😍

Please share!! We are still looking for a couple more articles for this collection!

🚨📢 If you study insect behavior and plant volatiles, contribute to our special collection in Environmental Entomology, "Plant Volatiles in Insect Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture" !! Due Aug 15; DM/email for details & please share!! @entsocamerica.bsky.social @oliviabernauer.bsky.social

Please share! Do you work at the intersection of plant volatiles and insect management? 🌿🪲 Submit to our special issue in Enviro Ent: Plant Volatiles in Insect Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture. MS drafts due Aug '25, anticipated pub. Feb '26; DM for details! @entothompson.bsky.social

Bernauer lab’s first conference outing has been a success! ✨🐝 Such a special experience for me as a new PI to have students presenting their work at a professional conference for the first time! Lincoln did not disappoint! #NCBESA @entsocamerica.bsky.social

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Two PhD Scholarships to study Australian stingless bees 🐝 and crop pollination at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney Uni - deadline March 31. Sounds like a great project - reach out with questions - I did my PhD in this lab! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

I love seafood and federal science.

Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

Native prairie plant valentines for your friday I originally made these for www.plantlovestories.com ages ago!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Perhaps a good read for conservation bio this semester! Looking forward to checking this out

Excited to be a part of this! www.uwec.edu/stories/uw-e...

Had a wonderful time sharing findings from my recent research with cranberry growers and researchers at Cranberry School today!

My first post here! We’re looking for an enthusiastic plant developmentalist to join our team as a postdoc working on how this wonderful plant builds sexually deceptive flowers. Link here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49334/

The video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺 Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @pollinet.bsky.social

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Join my department at UW-EauClaire - we're hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology this fall. Please share widely! www.uwec.edu/job-postings...

Excited to share my final PhD chapter is out in the world: Functional trait mismatch between native and introduced bee pollinators servicing a global fruit crop 🍎🐝https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02293-4

Another travel scholarship for Bug Lovers! 🪲🧪 The Prchal Scholarship supports first time attendees with an all expenses paid trip to the Invertebrates in Conservation and Education conference; includes travel, room and board, and conference registration. www.titag.org/scholarships...

Excited to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor in Conservation Biology at UW-Eau Claire!🌼🌸 Super pumped to teach entomology and to research pollinator conservation with UWEC undergrads!! 🐝🪲🦋