We’ve been lucky to work with a great group of people on this project! www.bgsu.edu/news/2025/09...

(Bee) Sex in the city: As part of a recent study led by Muzafar Sirohi, we explored how urban conditions might be influencing the timing of bee emergence and the sex ratios of different species. Read more about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/08/08/b... #pollinators #bees #biodiversity #ecology

EVs Pay Off Their Carbon Debt in Just 2 Years — After That, It’s No Contest Electric cars now emit up to 71% less than gas vehicles — and every mile makes the gap wider. www.autoblog.com/news/evs-pay...

Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵

I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire). One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.

Photographed a LOT of handsome salticids in Costa Rica, but these Anasaitis canalis males were the fanciest! ✨💙 Very difficult to shoot - not just tiny - but super skittish too! In situ, stack (3 shots?), Pentax, Laowa 25mm Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica - ground level, shaded areas w/ tree cover

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c... 🧪🌎

Proposed cut to DEB is 89.6% bsky.app/profile/maur...

Meet Eupholus geoffroyi, a beetle 🪲 from New Guinea that glows blue through structural coloration 👉 microscopic scales bend light to create its shimmer! 🌈 Feeding on yam leaves, it shapes plant-herbivore dynamics in tropical forests. #Biodiful 🌍 photo (c) Chien C. Lee

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The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶

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1/5 of pollinators and 1/3 of bees in North America at risk of extinction 🧪🌎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

When you're just starting out in scientific research, formalizing your causal questions and how they connect to hypotheses, study designs, predictions, and results can be confusing. 🧪 With that in mind, I've tried to put together a guide/templates: pavliclab.org/tips-for-bui...

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

I’ve had 1k new followers this week, 2k overall. Humble but not insignificant If half the people here bought a garden journal, ~$19, it would pay for 3 months of our mortgage, giving me time to find a new job because my grants were frozen Great example of how coming together makes a difference ✊

1st pub from our NSF Ephemeral Wetland Invertebrate Macrosystem project! High taxonomic turnover, suggesting low dispersal despite potential and/or strong local filtering. However, high similarity in functional traits. 🧪🌎 dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

NEW: The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year ago. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

This is a great essay: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...

Just like investing in a diverse portfolio stocks and shares buffers investors from unexpected shocks, a greater diversity of habitats and species in rivers can make them resilient to what’s coming down the pike.

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

"The Importance of Ditches & Canals in Global Inland Water CO2 & N2O Budgets," Silverthorn et al. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... "Ditches had higher per-area emissions... than ponds, lakes, & reservoirs... inclusion of ditches... [ups] global inland water CO2 emissions by 0.6%–1% & N2O... by 3%–9%." 🧪

Oofta. My partner was an EPA scientist about a decade ago. They are hard working, civically-minded scientists working for the greater good to help society manage our shared environment. This would be a tragic loss for us all. Thinking of our many EPA colleagues today.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

Not just bees and butterflies: beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature’s unsung pollinators theconversation.com/not-just-bee...

Glad to be able to make a small contribution to this! 🧪🌎 @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On cuts to NOAA & National Weather Service: "Jim Buxton says fishermen like him need weather & ocean data to get more accurate, not less." Inaccurate forecasts- whether staying ashore in good weather or going out in bad- cost real money. The latter is also *dangerous.* www.npr.org/2025/03/04/n...

A thought provoking read www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Maine Sea Grant generates $15 in income for every dollar spent. And that’s what the “treat government like a business” people never seem to want to admit. The ROI of federal funding is beyond anything any corporation could ever dream of. It just doesn’t end up in their pockets.

@fathomverse.bsky.social was funded by NSF. Download it today fathomverse.game 🧪🌎🦑🌊

A vote to cut Medicaid by $880 billion is basically a vote in favor of mass death.

My heart is full after the 1st Annual Meeting of the Center for Great Lakes and Watershed Studies. I am so grateful for these people and all the cool science we get to do together!

📍The Impact of Federal Science Layoffs: A Call to Action The ongoing layoffs of our colleagues and friends at NSF, NIH, EPA, USDA, HHS, USGS, and NOAA are not just a blow to the U.S. scientific endeavor—they are a direct hit to the careers of countless scientists, toxicologists,

I am a scientist, in large part, because of an REU experience that changed the course of my college experience. I dropped my pre-med focus once I realized what grad school was and how it could open doors to careers I didn’t know existed. This would be a massive loss to STEM workforce development.

Variability of flowing stream network length across the US | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Had a great time catching up with my friend Nate and learning about advances in our understanding of jumping spider vision (which is probably better than your house cat)!

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Thinking about trying to prevent HABs in your lake this summer? Learn from our work in Grand Lake about when P binding treatments can be ineffective: www.lakescientist.com/research-bri...

We did an interview with the local news about our research on the #climate sensitivity of #urban #bees. 🌎 🐝 www.13abc.com/2025/02/10/p...

US friends, please call your elected officials and ask them to reduce the cuts to science funding at NIH and NSF. I just left messages with mine. This funding is needed for advances in science and technology. Note: I don’t currently have funding from either of these sources.

This! Ever had a snake removed & assumed it was good for the snake? As in, a conservation tool? Prof Gavin Smith et al’s tracking research shows the snakes ⬇️ weight, become disoriented, move more, & sometimes die. An important service, but perhaps just use sparingly. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

A lucky one today! Wordle 1,330 2/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

In the Friday news dump, NIH (and soon others?!) has imposed a maximum overhead rate on its grants of 15%. Right now, uni's charge 50%–60% to recoup costs of infrastructure and staff that help administer grants. This could destroy advanced research in the USA. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Our study looking at global trends in urban rat numbers is out now in @science.org Advances. This project started b/c we were frustrated that there were lots of media reports about rat increases, but not backed by solid data. Here, we tried to provide that data: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...