Want to help Denton win the #NRPA Parks for #Pollinators BioBlitz? Or just learn about pollinators? Come to Clear Creek this Saturday evening. My lab and #UNT #BeeCampus (among other groups) will be there to chat about pollinators. www.discoverdenton.com/event/mothin...

Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!! go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f

Write-up of Shannon's paper, with a neat photo of a #bee face. news.unt.edu/news/2025/un...

By the way, do you love #dragonflies? Consider joining the WDA! www.worlddragonfly.org/levels #membership

NSF is seeking a permanent Program Officer in the Population and Community Ecology cluster, Division of Environmental Biology. If you are a mid-career academic ecologist still in love with science, but not so much with academia, this could be a great position for you! 🌎 www.usajobs.gov/job/759052000

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor? Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧 Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb... Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA... Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Pls share! #seabirds

Wasps get a bad rap, but are super important pollinators. Sphex pennsylvanicus are absolutely beautiful and I always love seeing them in our yard.

Please consider helping us out if you meet the criteria mentioned in the ad! We will pay $10 for ~20 minutes of your valuable time and expertise. Please share widely!

Recently-graduated lab undergrad Jada Martinez is presenting their poster today at #Botany2025. Do plant life history traits modulate how rangeland grazing management impacts forb communities? Talk with Jada to find out!

Join the Society of Herbarium Curators today! Membership benefits include Student Research Awards and an active Eary Career Section that is great for networking! Join at the link below or via theQR code. www.herbariumcurators.org/membership/

New additions in fellowships, industry, and academic jobs! If you've recently gotten a fellowship or a job (research, industry, PUI) please consider contributing your application materials. It's a helpful resource for those on the job market! github.com/RILAB/statem...

New lab paper led by former MS student Shannon Collins! Soil properties more strongly influenced ground-nesting #bee assemblages than bare ground or floral food. Research conducted on active cattle ranches. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌎🐝🧪

I'm organizing a network of Data Science at Liberal Arts Colleges (DSLAC) folks. Our next Community Call is June 12 to identify + discuss "Hot Issues" in this space. If you're at a liberal arts college with a data science program (or developing one), send me a dm or email for an invite. Join us!

🚨 We’re hiring! Científico Latino, Inc. is looking for a Program Director to lead two national STEM mentorship programs. Fully remote, impact-driven role in higher ed 🎓👩‍🔬 📌 Apply: cientificolatino.com/job 💼 Know someone? Send it their way!

Do you have a paper to submit to the #RESEcolEnt Special Issue: 🪰🕷️#Insect #symbionts as mediators of ecological interactions: from mutualists to parasites, with guest editors Awawing Anjwengwo Andongma & @danielleybourne.bsky.social 🪲🐜 🗓️ Letter of Intent deadline: 30 June 2025🔽 buff.ly/aLQZKYP

🌼 Learn how to survey bees, butterflies, hoverflies & more! Join Prof @jeffollerton.bsky.social for a live webinar on pollinator monitoring tools & techniques. 📅 2 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online | 🎟️ £12.50 🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1334343349... 🧪🌍 #EcologyTraining #ecology #biodiversity #SciComm

Si no estoy equivocado, esta maravilla de abeja de interminables antenas es un macho de EUCERA sp. ⤵️

The University of Tennessee is hosting the inaugural Southeastern Conference for Animal Behavior this September! Submit abstracts here:

Interesado en aprender conceptos basicos de estadística durante #Evol2025? Este taller es para tí. @tropicalbotany.bsky.social y yo estaremos hablando de la importancia de estos conceptos. Regístro en la página oficial del congreso. Gracias @systbiol.bsky.social por el apoyo!

Science outreach success! UNT students and faculty had a great time sharing their knowledge of insects and conservation at the grand opening of the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary’s Bugs LIVE exhibit in McKinney. Read more: news.unt.edu/news/2025/un... @dremlichtenberg.bsky.social

It's #TaxonomistAppreciationDay! Many thanks to Jack Neff who identifies our bees (and can sometimes be talked in to helping with wasps), the #Dipterists listserv, and the many professional and amateur beetle and lep enthusiasts who help my lab!

Abstract submission has opened for #ABS2025! Apply by March 21, 2025 by 11:59 pm ET. The in-person conference will take place in Baltimore, Maryland from July 8 - 12, 2025, and the online conference will take place over Zoom and starts on July 21.

March Mammal Madness tournament action begins Monday with the WILD CARD! #2025MMM You can enjoy the play-by-play by following @mmmletsgo.bsky.social There is still time to get your bracket & play along! Players portal libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... (use left panel for Educator & Student Portals)

A stingless bee guard showing off her defensive weapons: two blobs of resin to be smeared on any attacker. Frieseomelitta varia have extra wide hind legs for extra loads of resin 🇧🇷🐝😍

Bonus points if you find the pun in the first paragraph! (@draverbee.bsky.social)

"In this project [towards your PhD], you will develop models to study the coevolution of ageing and sociality...& evolution of eusociality and multicellularity." Sounds interesting? Look here! Bonus: you'll work with a supervisor with an infectious laugh. www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Have a favorite #invertebrate? You can nominate it for Invertebrate of the Year! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Phenology week is coming @usa-npn.bsky.social! March 18, I'll be talking about Quercus Quest campaign for eastern North American white oaks, w/ Kim Pegram on Desert Refuge: Monarchs and Milkweeds and Nicholas Dietschler on Pest Patrol. Info and registration below: www.usanpn.org/news/article...

Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators. 📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025 📅 Start date: June 1, 2025 💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Katherine Johnson 1 of 1st African-American women #NASA scientists, her mathematical calculations of orbital mechanics critical 2 success of US crewed spaceflight. 35yr career of complex manual calculations &pioneering use of computers d #OTD 24 Feb 2020 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katheri... #WomenInSTEM

The UNT herbarium joins the insect collection on GBIF! Big thanks to the Botanical Research Institute of Texas for digitizing and georeferencing our herbarium. www.gbif.org/dataset/03e1... 🌿

New paper in collaboration with Shalene Jha, Kristen Baum, Jack Neff, awesome former undergrad Jaclyn Heiser. How do bees, beetles, flies, butterflies respond to habitat features? In different ways! 🌎 🧪 🐝🐞🦋🪰🌼

The University of North Texas #insect collection is now on GBIF! Data entry and #georeferencing is being done mainly by a team of amazing @untscience.bsky.social undergrads. www.gbif.org/dataset/7ab6...

Featuring the excellent work of three University of North Texas former undergrads in my lab!

An online talk I gave in March about my #bee behavior research is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnJq.... And an update on the work from my lab I discuss at the end is now preprinted: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🐝🌎

It's neat that New Zealand has a #Bug of the Year (that you can vote on!), although I am disappointed with the lack of bees. bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz

This Thursday, I am hosting an event called CIENCIA EN ESPAÑOL for the community, not just scientists, to have researchers talk about their science in Spanish. There is a Zoom option, so please share it widely!

If you live in the Mojave or have Spring Break plans in Death Valley or Vegas, you can help study Joshua trees! Yoder Lab grad student Pryce Millikin has a new @inaturalist.bsky.social project for Joshua tree flowering and fruiting, to study the trees' specialized pollinators 🌿 buff.ly/3PLUL6e

Avery and Hunter are getting help today with their dormant season vegetation biomass data collection at our ranch sites. 📷Hunter Messick

🦋 Nice to meet you, Bluesky! 🦋 We are Animal Behaviour Live (ABL), an international platform promoting sustainable & inclusive events in animal behavior research. 💚 📌 Conferences, seminars & roundtables freely broadcast on YouTube. 📢 Follow us for updates & replays, or visit animalbehaviour.live

Led by the Iroro Tanshi for the @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social Announcing a special issue in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society titled: "Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South" I am a guest editor, learn more below... academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...

📢 Global Ecology feed ! A new feed for large scale biodiversity, ecosystems and conservation sciences, covering both terrestrial & marine realms - DM @nmouquet.bsky.social to be added as contributors - Tag posts with globe meridian emoji 🌐 to show up in this feed bsky.app/profile/nmou... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

This is a flower fly, or hover fly. You can easily see two little barbell shaped nubbins protruding from its sides where the thorax meets the abdomen. Those are halteres, organs that evolved from hindwings. The fly uses them to sense orientation and direction while flying. Guango Lodge, Ecuador

When did humans invent/discover the triangle? The delta flower scarab did it first! This triangular shape on their pronotum is thought to have evolved via #mimicry to resemble distasteful wasps. #evolution

I am accepting graduate students this year. Please contact me if you are interested in joining our PhD and Masters program fantastic program in beautiful #Tucson

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Two Lichtenberg Lab student presentations at #EntSoc24 on Monday! At 9 in 129A, Avery Pearson is talking about how ranch management alters plant visitation networks. At 11:42 in 132A, Marie Muñiz is talking about bees learning from lady beetles.