🚩 EF researcher James Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social is part of the team that published a global dataset for bee-plant biotic interactions. Out in Scientific Data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says

I’m not going to watch/listen to me, but you can! 😂

Exciting new study in @natcomms.nature.com led by James Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social with other EF members Nikolas Johnston and Damien Esquerré, showing that there could be thousands of unknown bee species out there yet to be described!

New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :) doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Is the surveillance state going too far? Not far enough, I say! …I think? This is very neat :)

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

This is the longest news article I’ve read in, maybe ever! But interesting and well worth a read about [neo]liberalism and then war for public opinion… and spread of disinformation by think tanks

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

Research reveals the unique species living in Australia’s arid rock holes. "We will need more knowledge to protect them in a warming climate." theconversation.com/meet-the-wei... @dr-brock-hedges.bsky.social @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social @marinefreshwater.bsky.social

Read the #OpenAccess research @marinefreshwater.bsky.social: 'Environmental DNA reveals temporal & spatial variability of invertebrate communities in arid-lands ephemeral water bodies' connectsci.au/mf/article/7... @dr-brock-hedges.bsky.social @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

The last thing we need right now is a reason for MAHA/MAGA to discredit science further. Please, for the love of microscopes, don’t cite shit you haven’t read.

Phenomenal photos. Photojournalists are amazing people.

Can I have a moment of your time to talk about BEESus?!

This is just mental. I can’t imagine aligning strongly with an aspiring autocratic fascist. Let alone at the cost of our natural assets :(

Nesting behaviour drives the evolution of heat tolerance and climate vulnerability in bees! Check out our pre-print on 95 species of Australian native bee across the latitudinal extent of Australia! 🐝 #nativebee #climateadaptation #heattolerance #plasticity #behaviour #bees #climatechange

BeeBDC version 1.3.0 is now on CRAN with new functionality to estimate species richness at country/continent/global/ANY level using species occurrence data 🐍🐌🐸 jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/artic... This follows on from our 🐝 pre-print, under review at Nat Comm doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 😍

Thank u Vanessa for this excellent photo of my proposed classification scheme for Coleoptera

A detailed look at how bee genomes evolve when the various species switch between generalist and specialist diets.

@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025 jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/

Great talk by Katja Hogendoorn on protecting pollinators in the face of imperfect information at #ICCB2025!

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

🚨 Fully-funded PhD project on the size, structure and interconnectivity of ghost bat populations ‪‪@charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social‬ 📍 Darwin, AU Closes: 20th June 2025 🔗 linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

Everyone should know about GBIF. It's an international biodiversity data aggregator. Museum collections, apps like eBird and iNaturalist, published datasets from the technical literature, all in one place. www.gbif.org

If you have a lost NSF or NIH grant. Colleagues inside government agencies are tracking terminated grants in hopes of assisting organizing efforts and perhaps litigation. The link takes you to the NSF tracker; the NIH tracker is linked from there. Pass this on. 🧪🥼 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

translator note: "bugs" isnt always used the same way. riley is using "bugs" = "only insects". if we want to include other animals often CALLED bugs, like millipedes & spiders, in 1 evolutionary group, we could agree that "bugs" = "all athropods". thus making shrimps, once again, is bugs #invert 🌿 🧪

Australia could be taking advantage of the millions of students now too scared to go to university in America. Instead both Dutton and Albanese are threatening to *massively reduce* intl student numbers.

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

📣 Museum job! The South Australian Museum is looking for a Collection Manager of Terrestrial Invertebrates. Applications close April 9th. #entomology #zoology tinyurl.com/yc5dd6kt

Please, tell Trump and his vile agenda to go jump. We will not abide by his heinous, fascist regime and stupid survey. www.theage.com.au/national/sug...

🚨We are hiring🚨ECR with a PhD within 7 years? Tenure track position (akin to Assistant Prof) in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Expertise in remote sensing and machine learning. Work on climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV Deadline May 10 tinyurl.com/58ft38du

We will continue adding more genders until morale improves

One week later, and the DOI is working! Check out our paper using network analyses to assess vulnerability for Fijian bees along an elevational gradient. doi.org/10.1002/ece3... You wouldn't bee-lieve how good I'm getting at completing side-projects and ignoring my thesis.

I got the official word this morning that I am to be reinstated at NSF. I don't know what the future holds, but for now I am tremendously relieved!

We have a few fantastic #entomology PhD opportunities available in our team at Agriculture Victoria, in association with La Trobe University, Australia 🇦🇺 😄

The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

“Promising to reduce the size of the public service is a cheap political stunt.” New research shows that sacking public servants actually costs the country a fortune, as public jobs are replaced by consultants, contractors and labour hire workers. New research from @futurework.org.au #auspol

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Australia’s university Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world. Australia’s PhD students are some of the lowest paid. That is not a sign of a healthy education system. Read more from @jack-thrower.bsky.social:

@entsocamerica.bsky.social is collecting stories about how various actions taken by the federal government recently are impacting ESA members and hindering entomological research. You do need to be an ESA member to participate. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/7a1ed...

✨International fieldwork bee/fly Honours degree opportunity✨ I am happy to be able to share an opportunity with myself and a few others at the Uni of Wollongong to undertake an Honours research degree with field work in Fiji! You will get a scholarship on your CV but must be an Australian Citizen 🧵

Post-doc position available! Join us in this exciting project where we will use more than 100 years of data to investigate habitat choice and availability of the elusive European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm. Apply before January 7. Please repost!

Anti-hugging tree 😬

Inside popgen there are two wolves. One is off by a factor of two, the other is off by a factor of two. There are eight wolves.

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Counting the brain cells of the Aussie great carpenter bee today 🧠🐝🧪 #entomology #bees

Two-toned pinchy wasp lass -with wings! The vast majority of the pincer wasp (Dryinidae) females I see have no wings. I have not seen this species before (I have no idea which species this is). She's very cute though. Pincer wasps are basically the mantids of Hymenopterans. I love them of course.

I offset the fly to one side in this photo to leave room for any motivational prose you wish to add. (Condylostylus, Texas)