It's strange how a creature can be simultaneously so terrifying and so adorable. Then again, I study bees.

Apparently a stressful childhood makes zebra finches less likely to copy their parents. #Behavior2019

Helen McCreery gave a cool talk showing ants with higher persistence are better at consensus building during collective transport. I’ll keep this in mind the next time my partner and I try to decide where to get dinner. 😂 #Behaviour2019

Definitely one of the highlights of #Behaviour2019 for me!

Taking a moment to admire this fine critter. Mantids are a great garden visitor if you like natural pest control!

Remember that by protecting yourself from COVID-19, you are also protecting the many others you could potentially infect. The more we slow the spread, the less overwhelmed our healthcare infrastructure will be, allowing more lives to be saved. #FlattenTheCurve #coronavirus

What a coward. Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op npr.org/2020/06/01/867…

Low/unpaid positions strengthen the class divide & perpetuate exclusive access & management of natural resources/wildlife to white folx. You canNOT simultaneously advocate for DEI AND be a proponent of we-all-gotta-pay-our-dues “club”.

#BlackBotanistsWeek Day2. My favourite #PlantInteractions are between the baby-in-blanket orchid (Anguloa uniflora) and pollinators and; between coffee (Coffea arabica , Coffea abyssinica) and humans. That aha-moment I get to see on my audience's faces during tours is priceless!

Do you want to destroy higher education in this country? Because that’s how you destroy higher education. npr.org/sections/coron…

How does individual cognition influence collective behavior? This is exactly the question my colleagues and I tackle in our new paper, out in @PNAS today! Let me tell regale you with this tale... pnas.org/content/early/…

A reminder that the people who are constantly cutting funding to scientific research are more than happy to benefit from its results. npr.org/sections/goats…

When you’re not sure if you’re having a Disney princess moment or a scene from a Hitchcock movie. #urbanwildlife #notmyeyesplease

The weather may be warming up but it never really feels like spring until I’ve been chased off the trail by an angry Canada goose. #urbanwildlife

Want to hear about Complex Adaptive Dynamics in Honeybee Colonies? It's not to late to tune into the mini-symposium at #SMB2021

Social distancing got you down? Come hear about Eusocial distancing: how territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies. Tomorrow at 4:30 PM at the virtual #ABS2021!

Polling the Twitter hive mind: does anyone have suggestions for interesting papers on evolution that are undergrad accessible? I want to expose my students to primary lit without overwhelming them.

My newest paper on crop pollination by wild bees just came out in NatureEcoEvo! We showed that greater bee biodiversity is needed for consistent pollination across longer time scales. rdcu.be/cT7OW Thanks to co-authors Rachael Winfree and Neal Williams!

Can we stop blaming both sides for this? Refusing to cave in to blackmail and hostage taking isn't "a failure to compromise." #shutdown

@MendeleySupport High def screens have been around for years now. When are you going to fix the scaling issue that make the font tiny?