As a lover of wetlands, I respectfully request that we stop using metaphors about draining swamps. Swamps are great. Full of frogs and birds and singing insects. They buffer against floods and store carbon. Can we try another metaphor, like cleaning up toxic waste pits?

A little clip with a quick glimpse of me presenting my poster that won 3rd place in the student contest at #SIP2023 !

A quick look at what I’ve been working on for the past several months, as summarized by our bee lab post-doc Dr. Evan Palmer-Young. This work will come together in conjunction with our live bee experiments to make up the first chapter of my dissertation! We’ve been busy 🐝🐝🐝

First chapter ✅ Second chapter (coming soon) Read it here! High temperatures augment inhibition of parasites by a honey bee gut symbiont | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

Great article from the apiarist’s advocate on our new MBIE Science funding to protect #bees using #phages at University of Canterbury. Patrick is spot on here. I am looking forward to this collaboration with co-science lead Peter Fineran and many others (and the summer)! apiaristsadvocate.com/post/millions-…

Woohoo! Congrats everyone 🎉

Stop by my talk tomorrow morning at #EntSoc23 to hear about some beneficial “bugs” and their heated interactions with parasites in bees, and don’t forget to stick around to hear about all of the other cool and unusual insect immune systems featured at the symposium! 🐝🔥🧫

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And that’s a wrap! #EntSoc23 had a lot of great talks, great people, and great views.

So inspiring to see colleagues in person and learn from new scientists at #EntSoc23 , a calming buzz in hard times 🐝.

Our UMD Entomology students, faculty and staff represented #UMD well at the Entomological Society of America's #EntSoc23 this week! Special congrats to the #GraduateStudents who won paper and poster awards: Benjamin Gregory, Helen Craig and Angela Saenz!

OK, not #beekeeping per se, but these petri-cups work great for screening dozens of medicines and stressors for adult honey bees, led by the cool science of @zaclamas, Lindsey M Markowitz, and Eugene Ryabov. "Bee cups 2.0" researchsquare.com/article/pex-25…

hardest part of beekeeping is thinking of all the names

Check out our new genome note preprint that starts to scratch the surface of the dynamic changes in chromosome copy number that Lotmaria passim employs. Now that this one is in the books, stay on the lookout for more to come! Jay Evans

#MBLSYM2024 at sea on the Gemma Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)! What new symbioses will they find? 👀

It was very cool to get to do fieldwork using the bento box lab during #MBLSYM2024 !@MBLScience

#MBLSYM2024 is a wrap! We had a great course this year! Thank you to Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Moore Foundation and all the awesome students and instructors. If you love symbiosis, consider joining us next year!