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I'm excited to share our new study: Bee monitoring by community scientists: comparing a collections-based program with iNaturalist Published in Annals of the Entomological Society of America. And look, my photo of a small carpenter bee on the cover! academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-a…

Washinton Post article about our bee monitoring program! (it's behind paywall but should be able to see it if you make a free account...) wapo.st/3YDuPPD

@HamiltonBoyce_ I'm sorry, our sensors indicated that you did not have a good time, we will be charging you an additional $240

HOUSE RULES […] 37. Most importantly, have a good time! :)

"Most of the peer-reviewed academic articles referenced in ESA listings came from low-IF or no-IF journals that tended to focus on specific taxa or regions." - conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Important new paper led by Melissa Guzman showing that insecticides reduce bee abundances in the United States nature.com/articles/s4189…

Our team of community scientists discovered 7 bees species never before seen in Pennsylvania! psu.edu/news/research/…

The power of community science @AgSciResearch @PAAgriculture @PSU_Entomology psu.edu/news/research/…

I know I've been asking a lot, but does anyone who is entering the postdoc stage have a CV they're especially proud of they would be willing to share with me? Trying to spruce mine up!

@EmbraceTheCoda I'm at a different stage because I've been a postdoc a loooong time, my CV is linked here, maybe seeing format will be helpful? nashturley.com/research

@RolandKays misses the southern rocky mountains part of range, have you considered using iNaturalist data to help build models? inaturalist.org/observations?p…

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Need a relative abundance map for North American Mammals? We created 25 of them as part of our recent paper, I'll share them here, might be useful as a covariate for your own work. LMK what you think. - here's American Black Bear drive.google.com/file/d/1vBilwP…

street lights make tree leaves tougher and decrease herbivory, bad news for bugs! theguardian.com/environment/ar…

ridiculously cool orange moth with poofy pants inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Want to help make old natural history collection be digitized and publicly available? Check out all of these projects where you can transcribe labels of old museum collections. It's kinda fun to see what the next one will be :) zooniverse.org/organizations/…

What’s better for bees? More habitat or less pesticides? anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/07/whats-…

"The flickering glow of summer’s fireflies: too important to lose, too small to notice them gone" AP story about firefly conservation apnews.com/article/firefl…

Ecologist at UCLA being severely punished by department for speaking out to help students. Read more about it here: pamarasekare.org And petition to help her: change.org/p/tell-califor…

Quirky little spittlebug from Ecuador, took me a while to figure out which end was the front :P inaturalist.org/observations/1…

Do collection-based methods produce more reliable data with fewer biases than photography-based approaches? the value of highly trained communty scientists academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-a… @saritapajarita @NashTurley @inaturalist

@cmhmaliani thanks!

I'm excited to share our new study: Bee monitoring by community scientists: comparing a collections-based program with iNaturalist Published in Annals of the Entomological Society of America. And look, my photo of a small carpenter bee on the cover! academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-a…

The power of community science to understand bee biodiversity! Excited to share our new study comparing results from our PA Bee Monitoring Program vs iNaturalist led by @NashTurley @lopezuribelab @PAAgriculture @agsciences 🧵Here are the key findings: academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-a…

This study would not be possible without all the work from community scientists, both our amazing group of dedicated bee collectors (mostly @agsciences Master Gardeners) and all the people on @inaturalist making observations and identifications.

we finish the paper by saying "Despite the concerns about lethal sampling of bees for monitoring efforts, our results demonstrate that photo-based monitoring methods cannot replace the unique insight that comes from collections."