Grant writing is a new thing for me, so you should take all my advice with a grain of salt – but this is one piece I think might be worth considering. Grant writing isn’t really a big, scary exercise in writing and self-promotion (well, I mean, it is that Read more…
A huge thank you to, first, Palaver Magazine for publishing this piece here on page 79, and then for Poetry in Data for also publishing this piece here (you can listen to the poem here). I must also acknowledge Dr. Wulfila Gronenberg, as this is a found poem sourced from his 1999 paper: Modality-Specific Segregation Read more…
On Twitter, nature-lovers will send scientists photos of an animal asking for a #WildID – or species identification. But can you #WildID a bee? The answer: sometimes yes (but usually no). Often bees of the same genera will look very similar (for example these two different species of male Agapostemon): Read more…
Endangered. Social. Narrow Range. Status: Critically Endangered, last recorded in 2006 by Dr. Robbin Thorp Name: Franklin Bumble bee Family: Apidae (with: honey bees, carpenter bees) States: Oregon and California B. franklini has experienced a sharp decline since 1998, and has not been spotted in the wild for over Read more…
My first co-author published paper came out this summer in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, and I’m (no surprise) very excited. The paper, the foundation for the kind of work I want to do in my PhD, is titled: Caste Differences in the Mushroom Bodies of Swarm-Founding Paper Wasps: Implications for Brain Plasticity Read more…
Welcome to Bee Bytes, a #scicomm project to introduce bees to the public! What is Bee Bytes? Bee Bytes will be a weekly to biweekly series on my blog, where I write “bite-sized” posts about an invasive or native bee species in the United States, describing its distribution, taxonomic relationship, Read more…
Scientists are big on evidence; after all, we’ve each been trained (in our own highly specialized field) to accept nothing unless evidence shows – beyond a very high statistical cut off – that the particular thing in question is likely a real phenomena. And even then, we are trained to say that Read more…
A big thank you to The Trumpeter for publishing this poem, Comma after Late Budbreak: Defoliation by an Invasive Pear, here (listen to it here)! This is another poem in my sugar maple cycle, which deals with a pest – pear thrips – which can pose a real threat to sugar maple trees as they Read more…
A big thank you to The Trumpeter for publishing this poem here (listen to it here). This biopoetics may be a bit of a cop-out but there is a reason for it – promise! This poem was the beginning. My first – ever – poem that combined science and poetry. What you Read more…
A big thank you to Palaver magazine for publishing this poem; you can read it here (pg 75) or hear me read it aloud here. Deepnight is another poem in my sugar maple cycle; when I first began working on this poetry series and thinking about trees more deeply, I came to the Read more…