So excited to be presenting at The Prairie Enthusiasts conference this year!

It’s been a week #gradcats

Yay! We're presenting @MEEC2022 today! Learn about #bee pollen loads with Maris, #aphid response to #fire with Allie Radin and Wyatt, and roadside #pollinators with Mia Stevens and Alex Carroll at the poster session. U.S. National Science Foundation Northwestern College of Wooster Binghamton University

So excited to help take the project in a new direction! #LiliumProject

Lab managers Mia Stevens and Alex Carroll are busy as a bee doing data entry on over 1500 native bees that were identified by @zachportman.bsky.social. Read about our Pollinators on Roadsides project here: echinaceaproject.org/category/exper… #Pollinators #bees #nativebees

.Alex Carroll & Mia Stevens are still busy as bees doing data entry on species identification of 1,988 bees id-ed by @zachportman.bsky.social. Today they entered the 1000th bee. Here she is!(a Heriades)

Last week Alex Carroll & Mia Stevens finished data entry of species IDs for all 1,988 bees identified by @zachportman.bsky.social! Woo!!

The Cookie Project made over 300 cookies last week!

ITS FRIDAY MY DUDES OpenAcademics Academic Chatter™ #AcademicTwitter

We had two team members give presentations today! Sophia 🧠 presented her work with Lilium and then Drake E. Mullett gave a seminar talk on his dissertation work with parasitic plants! Great talks all around! Lake Forest College Northwestern Plant Biology and Conservation Program

Oh is that where Stuart went?! hehe

We are happy to introduce Dr. Lea Richardson. Today @lealiatris successfully defended her dissertation about Prescribed Fire, Flowering Phenology, and Reproduction in Grassland Perennials. Congratulations, Lea!!! We are proud of you Echinacea Project Chicago Botanic Garden Plant Biology and Conservation Program

*#AJB Accepted Article* Genetic variation in reproductive timing in a long-lived herbaceous perennial (by Will Reed, Jennifer L. Ison 🌻🐝, @amywaananen, Frank Shaw, Stuart Wagenius & Ruth Shaw) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #botany #genetics #coneflower @wileyplantsci Echinacea Project

I'm super excited to share my first 1st-author publication with the world! doi.org/10.1101/2022.1… I and my advisor, Emily Josephs, tested a hypothesis proposed in a 2010 paper by Emilie Snell-Rood

Attention K-12 teachers: Join Echinacea Project in MN prairie this summer! We will soon begin reviewing applications for the U.S. National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program. Apply here: echinaceaproject.org/opportunities/… @sacnas Black In Environment Minnesota Academy of Science National Science Teaching Association NAAEE 🎓🌎 Green Teacher

Check out this awesome new paper by Julia Brokaw et al.: "Prescribed fire increases the number of ground‐nesting bee nests in tallgrass prairie remnants." resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…

Being apart of the Josephs lab has been amazing! You should apply or tell people you know to apply!!

Fire effects on plant reproductive fitness vary among individuals reflecting #pollination-dependent mechanisms (new #AJB research by @lealiatris, Jared Beck, Daniel Eck, Ruth Shaw & Stuart Wagenius) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #botany #Asteraceae @wileyplantsci Echinacea Project

Beyond thrilled to finally be able to share this article!! Check it out to see the culmination of several College of Wooster IS projects and how Echinacea Project shooed bees in the field to investigate male reproductive fitness in #echinacea !! #IsonLab #plantsarecooltoo #nativebees

I had a wonderful year in the Josephs lab! Bittersweet, but I’m very exciting for my journey westward & what will come!!!