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Our winner in the Behaviour: Invertebrates category is Frank Deschandol. His image 'A tale of two wasps' is a remarkable framing of a red-banded sand wasp (left) and a cuckoo wasp, about to enter next-door nest holes. #WPY56

Pretty green bees (Agapostemon)

#MetaAnalysis folks in ecology: My colleague Alicia Foxx at Chicago Botanic Gardens is recruiting a post-doc to work on a super interesting research synthesis project on plant restoration. Details here: tinyurl.com/CBG-postdoc

New review paper out now on bee-fungi associations with Rachel Vannette and Makena Weston. We discuss some common fungal associations and their impacts on bees, and highlight how much there is to learn still about these interactions! doi.org/10.1093/femsec…

Thanks so much to Kip Lacy and Daniel Kronauer for covering our work in this CB Dispatch article! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

There is still time to apply! We are looking for an assistant prof in #forest #ecology. Come work in the wonderful and super diverse #Appalachian region👇🏼

Our new paper on indirect effects and fitness in coevolved networks is out nature.com/articles/s4158…

New position posted - Director of Collections & Access Carnegie Museum of Natural History us231.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePorta…

Chuffed this chapter from my PhD is finally online!! 🙌😃🐜 Our meta-analysis quantifies the effect of non-native ants on local animal community diversity in multiple locations globally. Spoiler alert: non-native ants are PRETTY BAD 🧵 1/6 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…

Happy to announce the first pub with my first grad student (amani khalil ) as first author, and the first pub on my TN work to come out! rdcu.be/dh1rT Floral identity and availability along with surrounding landscapes affect pollinator communities in eastern Tennessee

Here is a rare bee called a Brachynomada melanantha. The likely host, Anthophorula chionura, in the 2nd image had a large population in the area. One very interesting thing about this bee is according to the key, although the host tribe is known, the exact host bee is unknown.

EEB graduate student Nicole Lussier was featured in a recent Audubon Society magazine article about unpaid labor in conservation work. audubon.org/news/unpaid-la…

New paper: The use of pinned specimens helps uncover patterns of genetic differentiation and signatures of selection in a wild pollinator 🐝🧬🔬sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @faridasamadzada NSERC / CRSNG

Going to #ESA2023 next week? Be sure to check out @abby_june24's poster on the effects of leaf litter on herb layer spring phenology! Motivated by the observations pictured esa2023.eventscribe.net/fsPopup.asp?Mo…

New #EEID theory paper from our group. Predicting and controlling spillover in multi-species disease transmission networks: Steady-state analysis journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Kalamazoo College is hiring an assistant professor with a specialty in invertebrate biology! careers.entsoc.org/jobs/18935191/…

I've been struggling with reviving old analyses for four papers (sorry co-authors). To recharge ~procrastinate~ I took a break with something less technical. This post has some details about the finer points of sampling nectar with micro-cap tubes. jacobsfrancis.com/tips-on-sampli…

Sterol composition in plants is specific to pollen, leaf, pollination & pollinator & differs from wind & animal pollinated species but no evidence that sterols evolved to support insect pollinators. Great job by Dr Samuel Furse w/Carlos Martel & Hauke Koch sciencedirect.com/science/articl…