Mark Genung

10/10 recommend this department come down to LA!

Two tenure-track positions in ecology/evolution at UL Lafayette. We are searching broadly - ecosystem ecology, ecotox, botany, plant physiology, and more. Apply by Nov 1st! higheredjobs.com/institution/de…

Come be my colleague at @ULLafayette! We are hiring TWO tenure-track positions in Ecology and Evolution. Any subdiscipline welcome. Great dept! Beautiful city! Swamp outside your office window. Nov. 1 app deadline. Link: louisiana.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

To anyone who needs to hear this today: Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't go to for advice.

@bugEcology love it. thought you might enjoy some of these Cajun French variants: "mouche à miel" for honeybee, "fouille-merde" for dung beetle, and "bête à Bon Dieu" for ladybug

Of all the figures I looked at this week this might be my favorite one. Damn. I think I am regressing 😂

@KarenMSmith_bio @kassthefish It really is scary. We aren't sure what to do with the 4-month old or the 2-year old. Daycare was the plan but that feels risky. Good luck with whichever option you choose.

@kassthefish And we open public schools on August 17th. I am seriously scared about how this will go. Already, it's going to be hard sending them every other day and working from home when they are off. The alt plan is to do all online until Jan, with keeping your kids on task for 5 hrs/day

My friend from Wisconsin texted me & said NPR reported Lafayette and southern Louisiana have had a huge surge of COVID cases & she hopes I'm safe. People here refuse to wear masks or actually socially distance. It's frightening. Hospitals don't have enough beds. We're not okay.

@KarenMSmith_bio @grumpyporcupine @SarahMackAttack They have neurotoxins, too - thought you might find that interesting. They are predators and rely on the peptide neurotoxins to immobilize prey.

@grumpyporcupine @SarahMackAttack Looks like it. Very cool. Thanks for the ID

Anybody know what this bug is? Looks like a cross between a dragon fly and a fly. @grumpyporcupine @SarahMackAttack

@CardinalVampire Wow, great shot of the pollen grains on her thorax and legs. Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica

Beautiful day in the garden! With this little helper, we should have plenty more passion fruit on the way!

Lately, when people ask how I'm doing, I often end up saying "variably", and this applies to academic parenting during the pandemic, too. Some days, I feel like things are going pretty well and I can do this, but other days feel impossible and ridiculously hard.

Rachael is a fantastic mentor. This is a great opportunity!

@JuitaMartinez working at home with the two-year old vs. working at home with the two-month old

@bastauffer @risingfluids @schubertBA @LorenCSackett @AGU_Eos @SLedford_ @DrCraigMc @jnelsonPhD @KellyRobinson0 @njkooyers Yes, I'm on board. Getting interest from a student with MS from strong R1, great GPA, 4 years relevant research experience, and having to tell her the department may still care more about somewhat low, very old GRE scores is a freaking bummer

This is an important thread for those in departments that still require the GRE. Be aware of what we are requiring from our students.

@schubertBA @bastauffer @LorenCSackett @AGU_Eos Yes we do, unfortunately. Thanks for sharing this resource.

@bastauffer @LorenCSackett Does the Biology department require? We tried removing last Fall, but admin asked for more data. This came out today from @AGU_Eos, and goes to the inbox of nearly every geoscientist, so probably time to push for #GRExit again. eos.org/opinions/geogr…

@CardinalVampire that's exactly right. it's a defense mechanism meant to scare predators. happens when the chrysalis senses vibrations

At first I thought she was going to pop, but it's looking like that's not the case. I think it might be in response to the baby caterpillar crawling on the surface, some sort of defense mechanism? Anybody have any insight? #Butterflies

Support early-career field researchers - David Inouye et al. science.sciencemag.org/content/368/64…

@CardinalVampire I think Pachodynerus erynnis, or "red and black mason wasp". Solitary, not aggressive, beneficial predator. 😀

Not a plant, but one of my favorite #garden items, our bee-hotel! Was lucky to get this little lady working on her brood; can anyone identify? You can also see remains of a bee that couldn't make it out of their cell :-/ #bees #pollinator

Hey! Everyone stuck inside (or not in the subtropics), let's go on a virtual garden tour! To start, check out our currently 3-foot tall Mammoth #Sunflower (Helianthus spp.). We are growing them at the windows as organic privacy screens, & for the #pollinators! #gardening #Flowers

Field courses narrow demographic achievement gaps in ecology and evolutionary biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

@BlaineNovakP It's a great proposal, Blaine. Excited to work with you on it.😀

Absent from all of these Giant Asian Hornet articles is that it's a predator that evolved to attack non-native honeybees. It's presence & establishment is a consequence of a broken food system which relies on & celebrates non-natives, while breaking down natural peocesses.