Dr. Sheila Colla, Sheila Colla, Ph.D, is an extremely inspirational woman who works hard to #savethebees and #supportsocialjustice. Sadly, she has just been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of thoracic cancer. Please consider supporting her if you can: gofundme.com/f/support-shei…

"The Americans and the Europeans may pay the bill, but Ukranians pay the price. We should not forget that."

I just found out (through a desk-reject) that Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution no longer considers most papers based on Sanger sequences (only genomic datasets). It is quite ironic that countries that hold most of the biodiversity will be unable to publish in this journal...

⚡️Study: Ukraine has lost 18% of its scientists due to war. Ukraine has lost 18 percent of its scientists since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, according to a study published by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) on Dec. 11. kyivindependent.com/study-ukraine-…

Happy New Year! Time to print new det. labels.

The Museum is seeking applications for Beaty Postdoctoral Fellowship who addresses issues of conservation and endangered species in Canada. Closing date is March 1, 2024. 🧑‍🎓 Learn more ➡ nature.ca/en/join-give/c… #PostdoctoralFellowship #MuseumResearch

If the war were truly unwinnable for Ukraine, do you really think Russia would spend as much resources as it does with its bot farms, lobbyists and all kinds of agents trying to convince everyone to give up on Ukraine? Russia relies on apathy. Don't let them define your reality

I'm pleased to announce our taxonomic revision of the bee genus Triepeolus in South America is now published in European Journal of Taxonomy: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20…. The 9 species can be identified with our fully-illustrated, dichotomous key (available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish).

[#entomology] A revision of the South American species of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Triepeolus Robertson, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) ⤵️ ✒️ Thomas Onuferko 🇺🇦 et al. ➡️ Museum of Nature 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #Hymenoptera #Apidae #hymenopterist #bees #entomologist

Kyiv’s botanical garden is staring at disaster as Russia targets Ukraine’s energy sector: the destruction of the Ukrainian power grid has put the botanical garden’s collection of rare and exotic species in danger theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

[#entomology] 🐝 A revision of the simplex species group of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Triepeolus Robertson, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) ⤵️ ✒️ Thomas Onuferko 🇺🇦 & Molly G. Rightmyer 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #hymenoptera #apidae #hymenopterist #bees

Russia's war on Ukraine has been a lesson in human psychology. Russia has committed so many atrocities in such a short time that people don't seem to be able to grasp the scale of criminality. Some even seem annoyed that we're still complaining.

Monograph Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native #bees (#Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

In a survey of 587 newly described insect genera, less than 40% were made identifiable through inclusion of an identification key. ⬇

Americans punishing the whole world because they got angry at other Americans is a plot we are living through way too often recently.

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

these ethnic Russians "accidentally" ended up in Ukraine when they overwhelmingly voted to become part of Ukraine

What the Trump administration seems to be most interested in is engineering a strategic rapprochement with Russia, not in ending the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is supposed to be just currency for that deal, which is why it causes so much anger when it shows agency of its own.

People seem to think that Zelensky is waging this war as if he were playing Starcraft or something like that—selecting mindless units with a box and sending them into battle over and over again, as if they had no choice but to obey his right-click command and march to fight.