Super cool work by @simone-alma.bsky.social and colleagues on new twists in bacterial defenses 🔥🔥🙂🙂

Great ‘applied genomics’ study to identify causes behind pollinator declines! @ebpgenome.bsky.social , #beenome100. @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @renamschweizer.bsky.social , @mgbranstetter.bsky.social

A triage review of costs and causes of recent honey bee losses, usual suspects of parasites, pesticides, hunger, but surprisingly widespread 😔. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A week ago we were told via YouTube that USDA-BARC and our Bee Lab will be closed. BARC has had a productive 90 years but is aging and I trust there is a longterm vision behind this decision. The largest loss will be the people, who are 100% devoted to bees, beekeepers, science, and this country.

Fun to host the American Veterinary Medicine Association for a Honey bee workshop in the historic USDA Log Lodge , poignant as a couple days later we received notice our USDA Center will now vacate…🤷🏻🐝.

Great work on bee senses from Penn State 🐝

And honey bees and beekeepers are having a rough year too, no doubt there are multiple causes but the battle against disease is a big one. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wow, continued insect decline even in the prettiest places. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NIH traffic reports provided by friendly NGOs

I am frugal myself and rarely critique my federal employer (maybe for shutdowns, as I love my job), but I cracked seeing the young faces of fired #NPS rangers and #USDA employees. Thought of my teacher mom, who joined midlife as a proud @NPS educator. Public service is a calling, not a safety net.

B > rc

Amazing how far the holistic study of bee health has come in a decade or so, sub-lethal but sub-optimal.

This group is doing a lot to develop and use genome data to improve biodiversity and involve local peoples

A poignant visit to Chile’s Human Rights museum, highlighting the 15-year murderous blight on democracy by Pinochet and his many allies, even refusing the results of the 1988 plebiscite until the people said ‘nope’, we won.

Since we cut away neighboring trees our Jackfruit has started producing many more fruits.

Proud member of @ebpgenome.bsky.social !

Go Katherine!!

Heading home from Thailand where a serviceable and super cute native bee Apis cerana is meeting A mellifera, chaos has ensued in places.

Immunity for those of us riding the thorax of Drosophila

Freshly released article in @ScienceMagazine discussing Phase I & II of the EBP 🧬 #genomics #genome #science #biology #dna

We are excited to celebrate the 3,000th genome release 🥳 Thank you to all our 58 Affiliated Projects for contributing your hard work. Keep on sequencing 🧬

Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Meet Liz Walsh, Ph.D., research entomologist at the USDA-ARS, honey bee enthusiast since childhood, and subject of the next installment of our "Standout Early Career Professionals" series. #entomology