Yesterday, ESA staff visited entomology labs at the Agricultural Research Service Beltsville (Md.) Agricultural Research Center, getting an up-close look at work ESA members do to advance our knowledge of bee health, biological control, vector-borne disease management, and more. 1/4

#beepiping with the Ulster beekeepers

Update to OrthoDB-derived orthologs: Orthologs of D. melanogaster genes in a variety of arthropods, including insects and other Drosophila species, are shown in the Orthologs → Other Organism Orthologs (via OrthoDB) section of FlyBase Gene Reports. SIB

Great biography and long path to knowledge and advocacy by one of the best bee scientists!

This was a fun collaboration with some bright commercial folks. While we were only 1/318th of the workflow, it gave some nice insights into the search for #honeybee antivirals. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Today (April 2nd) marks four years since the untimely passing of James Taylor (James Taylor), Professor of Biology and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and one of the founders of Galaxy. To honor James, we have established the jxtxFoundation for open-science (jxtxfoundation.org).

Show biz for Civil Servants 🤣

Ain’t too proud to beg , vote for Judy Chen and myself to rep bees at the highest echelons of civil servant awards season 🤣 #beekeeping, #honeybee #ainttheemmys

Cool program showing how in-place and small-scale #beekeeping can lead to stable and equitable local businesses.

wherein we argue that things were better in the past, at least for the taxonomy of nosema parasites in bees.. authors.elsevier.com/c/1jHfI534Q71Hy

A challenging genome in part because it seems to drop and copy chromosomes in real time, part of the awesome PhD work by Lindsey M Markowitz

A beekeeper gold medalist, how fun! Thanks for this series of notes between food researchers and Olympic athletes, Agricultural Research Service !

When your test kit matches the data scheme.. darn it! Airplanes.

Thanks Sean Michael Newhouse for highlighting #honeybees and the work of USDA Science ! 🐝, Bee Culture Magazine .

Brief musings on honey bees and the mites and viruses that love them, from Zac Lamas' PhD work, frontiersin.org/journals/bee-s…

Same for postdocs

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