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! 🌡️🐝💨🌼

🚨 PSA to all those attending #entsoc2025; be sure to update your time zone in your profile in the conference program. Mine was, unbeknownst to me, showing all CST even though we're in PST here. 🙃

Sky cats are the best cats. 🤗🤗🤗

Version 2.0.0 of emmeans is out! Notable changes: new look to the plots, qdrg() now an S3 method, and new maintainer (me, Russ still highly involved). cran.r-project.org/package=emme...

If you've ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I'm giving in a couple weeks! It'll be a blast (and we're covering Quarto's brand new _brand dot yaml system!)

I know this is going to result in me getting spammed - but we're looking for an artist to commission for a lab logo and reusable (bumble) bee vector graphics. Please get in touch if that's you, or recommend anyone you've worked with in the past. frsbeelab.org is our research group!

Dutch solar parks approach pollinator & plant biodiversity levels of extensive grasslands, but only on the surface not covered by panels. Soil-emergent arthropods and butterflies lack behind. Proud of Timea for leading besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social

Millions of currently farmed acres hold opportunities for biodiversity conservation that are hidden in plain sight!

One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

Interviewing children about a trauma of this magnitude is un fucking conscionable. Fuck all the news agencies that thought this is appropriate or magnify it. Interview the fuckwads who endlessly defend guns over children and make them answer for this absurdity and upside down work we live in

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/...

We want to thank our logo designer Jeremy @jhemberger.bsky.social for this awesome logo! We hope you all joined our neighborhood this weekend. 🐝 Check out more of his work here: jhemberger.github.io/graphic_art/

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

Updating my comparative public admin seminar class—which was decimated by AI last year—to maybe be a little more LLM-proof by adding a 20–30 minute start-of-class writing & discussion activity. Will it work? Who knows! Full details and PDF here: governancef25.classes.andrewheiss.com/assignment/c...

🐞 🐝 I'm recruiting students to join my lab at the University of Minnesota! Hoping to bring on 2-3 MS or PhD students (MS a pre-req for PhD students). Take a peek at the opportunities available and feel free to reach out with questions. Please share widely! jhemberger.github.io/ibug_lab_web...

From weather balloons to radar to satellites in space, we broke down all the ways data gets collected and turned into the forecast on your phone’s weather app www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is absolutely the thing we should reorient the entire economy to focus on

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A meta-analysis found that high-density managed honeybee populations can: 👉disrupt local biodiversity🌏 👉reduce pollinator richness🧪 👉alter plant-pollinator relationships🐝 ...all with minimal benefits to crop yields! Calls for evidence-based hive density guidelines 📑 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

It's unethical how AI is being forced into our lives without real understanding or informed consent. Last year I saw a specialist who used a similar tool. He just asked if he could record our appointment, I didn't know it was via an AI tool when I said yes. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

Motherfucking wind farms…

Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

After a decade of insincere trolling about “isn’t college about being exposed to challenging ideas?” conservatives have gotten universities to install an anonymous and unaccountable Instantly Kill Your Professor button. Brown University… you are my Chump Of The Week

I recently came across the idea of adding a /ai page to your personal website—similar to /now and /uses—to explain your LLM use (see this for a bunch of different ones slashai.page and this for the overall idea www.bydamo.la/p/ai-manifesto), so I created my own here

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs. Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/ #rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

🔥 Belief in extreme weather drives climate action A new study across 68 countries shows people who believe extreme weather is driven by climate change are more likely to support climate policy, regardless of actual exposure. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪 #Weather

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Very good timing for this publication by my colleague Mansi Nagpal et al. on crop yield and revenue impacts of extreme weather events: nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

Science friends, journal editor request here: If you can't peer review a paper, please take 3.5 seconds to click "decline to review" so we know that you can't do it and can ask someone else. It'd be great if you could also recommend alternatives. But at least indiciate "sorry I can't do it."

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

This report distills our findings on butterfly decline www.science.org/doi/full/10.... and describes actionable conservation urgently needed for butterfly recovery. @xercessociety.bsky.social State of the Butterflies in the United States xerces.org/publications...

⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN! Version 3.8.2 new features: 🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey. Learn more: 🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...#rgbif

Google featured Brian Spiesman’s work on BeeMachine. It was part of a larger story about how AI is used across the US to improve research, teaching and business. Cool innovative work! Check out the Kansas tab for @beemachine.bsky.social #pollinatorsconservation publicpolicy.google/stories/

Honored to become a @aaas.org fellow with @lisaschultemoore.bsky.social and Amy Toth. Prairie strip scientists well represented today! @kbslter.bsky.social

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

The GOAT of package names 🏆

It has been a great priviledge to participate to this extensive review on plant diversity and crop protection. Congrats to the lead authors Aude Vialatte, Anais Tibi and Vincent Martinet and all the Regulnat team! @urep.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Awesome visualizations! Great resource to have.

"The NSF, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years." "The polar office has awarded 88 percent less money in grants this year." via @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

it’s #sturgeonsaturday 🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬🎨 today i want to highlight the illustrations ive made for sturgie sci comm & publications im super passionate about visual storytelling - below is my portfolio, check it out :) need help with a graphical abstract? exp design? a talk? hit me up! madisonearhart.com

#NIH is still termination grants, zeroing out budgets, and issuing stop-work orders. But they are hiding more and more of it from the public. More than ever we need people to report so researchers can advocate and organize. Please report at grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

MacGyver ecology is happening!

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis