Graduate students completely understand that NIH funding schemes need to change in order for labs to afford the cost of trainees, however this doesn’t change the fact that many graduate students bring home below minimum wage when you factor hours worked and local cost of living.

New paper out from my masters work where we explore how forest restoration affects native bee species 🐝🌲

So far evidence for competition between managed honey bees & wild bees has always thought to be indirect competition for resources. Now evidence is emerging that in areas of high honey bee density & reduced flower availability honey bees are actually robbing wild bees of pollen.

We have some special plans for FRSES’s 30th anniversary! Be sure to participate.

I’ll be discussing a recent publication of mine tomorrow at #FireCon2023! 🐝🔥🌲

~dream job~

Had so much fun with my Colo State Forest and Rangeland Stewardship cohort at #FireCon23 this year - everyone gave excellent talks & many memories were made (including meeting some pyroentomology celebrities & seeing my first redwood). 🔥

Was I very productive this week? No. But was I able to rest and relax? Also no. But was I gentle with myself about all of this? No

Stumbled upon some Favolaschia thwaitesii during a post-rain hike 🍄🌧️ such beautiful honeycomb shaped gills 🧡

We released our CO Native Pollinating Insects Health Study along w/ Governor Jared Polis, CSU Extension, The Xerces Society, CU Boulder 🦬 Natural History Museum, the most robust & detailed account of pollinator health ever undertaken in CO history. Press Release: dnr.colorado.gov/governor-polis…

The PNW has some brand new keys to identify bumble bees to species and other bees to genus. The initiative was led by Jim Rivers OSUForestry, with imagery from Oregon Department of Agriculture and design by Lincoln Best @CASresearch_OSU. today.oregonstate.edu/news/new-onlin…

Bee postdoc needed ASAP! We had someone back out at the last minute. Please check out the ad and contact me or Jon Koch if you might interested. U.S. Citizens only. #job #postdoc #bees

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Neat 🐝🌲 article with some Colo State Forest and Rangeland Stewardship all star features:

Coincidence or parallelism that this year’s CSU Ecology FRSES 🌍 nearly coincided with WWE’s Royal Rumble? Come watch as various student ecologists throw down their conclusive results (or in-progress studies) this Thurs & Fri at the Colorado State University Lory Student Center! #FRSES24 #ecology

Recruiting Master’s, PhD, and Postdoctoral Scholars for integrated experiment for mapping and modeling forest restoration and fuel hazard reduction in the southern Rocky Mountains. Project includes fuels remote sensing, fire behavior modeling, and silviculture.

It’s been a very* hot & dry field season! However, it hasn’t kept the pollinators/insects down. Some fun observations from Jeffco Parks & Open Space during my small research grant pollinator surveys so far:

Reader Diego Malvar sent us this crazy photo of a plane getting up close trying to save a house on a ridge from the #StoneCanyonFire

Fort Collins police ask for help locating suspect in fatal Old Town shooting - The Coloradoan Update: Aug. 14: The Larimer County Coroner's Office identified the decedent as 31-year-old Keiter Baez Morales of Fort Collins. ift.tt/gsjVZCB

"yeah the summer was great. super relaxing. recharged and ready to dive back into work"