📰Published📰How do animals predict the future?🔮 buff.ly/qdaSsaB 🧪🌍

Work from our lab shows that non-native milkweed can allow monarch development into the winter, creating butterflies during a season where they can no longer migrate or breed. If you want to help monarchs, plant native milkweed only. 🧪 #plant-insect #nativeplants academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...

Incredible diversity of #pollen grains! Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth #microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday

My first first-author paper came out yesterday online-first in #Oecologia! We reported that neotropical swollen-thorn acacias increased their investment in mutualism with ants during an El Niño drought event. Mutualism may indeed be strongest during tough times. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Stipules can be defensive: The stipules of Neltuma odorata (1st photo) are modified into spines, but those of an unidentified Vachellia from western Mexico (2nd photo) go one better: they’re also filled with ants that defend their home when disturbed. 🐜 #Fabaceae #stipule #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

The alemdro tree doesn't just survive lightning strikes--it appears to use the electricity to fry parasites and kill competitors. Fascinating story by @erikstokstad.bsky.social for @science.org!

NASA started terminating grants :(

I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to see in the new scientific system that emerges from the rubble. Gathering loose thoughts here. A list of demands?

I had a blast judging the 75th Chicago Public Schools STEM Fair, hosted by @msichicago.bsky.social! The work these young scientists have accomplished is really remarkable. 10 years ago, I was a middle schooler participating in my first Science Fair... These experiences change lives. #CPSScienceFair

Curious as to what a day in the life is as a current GSS RaMP-UP Fellow in Panamá? Check out our instagram @gsscholars to see what Sam Rivera (UCLA '23) does in the lab and field for his research on sea slugs! www.instagram.com/gsscholars?i... #research #fieldwork #GSS

Applications now open on the GSS website for the 2025/26 RaMP-UP Tropical BioDiversity Fellowship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panamá! Visit gsscholar.org to learn more about this amazing opportunity. Apps due March 16! #research #TropicalBioDiversity #recentgrads #GSS

Really enjoyed sharing my work on color pattern polymorphisms in female anoles at #SICB2025! Thanks to everyone that came to my talk. 🦎

Thanks so much for attending my #sicb2025 talk!