Shawn Christensen 🏳️‍⚧️

Im now mostly on bluesky @pollenmicrobes.bsky.social so find me there for continued rants and hot takes and bees and pollen and microbes thankyou. 🌠

@iris_Y_juanico Thank you for your genius meme insights, really shaped the trajectory haha

So jazzed to share some highlights, pitfalls, gratitude, and super surprising hot-off-the-microscope images at my exit seminar!🐝🦠🌺 Join to learn about pollen hacking, sleeping beauty bees, and of course antifreeze yeasts. May 24th at 3pm Pacific. Dm for Zoom if interested.

#ucdavis doctoral candidate Danielle Rutkowski of Rachel Vannette lab to give exit seminar on "Identity and Functions of Symbiotic Fungi Associated with Social Bees" at 4:10 p.m., Monday, May 20, in 122 Briggs and on Zoom. Amazing scientist! Don't miss! tinyurl.com/4nexkdzc

@thrasherxy I read Babel a couple years ago and cannot unsee the parallels

The two stats I learned this week that blew me away were that the US federal govt gives more to Lockheed Martin than to the Dept of Education, and that some universities get more from Dept of War than they do from tuition. Upended my understanding of universities as warmakers.

The 6000 Academic Student Employees of @UAW4121 are ON STRIKE four a fair contract at the University of Washington ✊ #UnionStrong

@sdfahrenthold Shoot Im so sorry I missed this!

Congrats to #ucdavis doctoral candidate Shawn Christensen, microbiologist in Rachel Vannette lab: He is recipient of the highly competitive Merton Love Ecology and Dissertation Award. Seminar is May 24 at 3 p.m., 1230 Walker Hall. tinyurl.com/53nznaur

@shah_ps Congrats!

Hey look Ma, I made it Everything’s coming up aces I’m and thrilled to announce that I’ve been PROMOTED WITH TENURE!

@BeesOnEarth new paper hot off the press! Nontarget impacts of neonicotinoids on nectar‐inhabiting microbes - Environmental Microbiology …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Im now mostly on bluesky @pollenmicrobes.bsky.social so find me there for continued rants and hot takes and bees and pollen and microbes thankyou. 🌠

@MicrobiomDigest Some use slides instead of animations,Ive seen 50 slides as a ten minute talk in this scenario

Giving a 20 min talk with 115 slides - what a disregard for the organizers and the audience. How many slides would you include in such a talk? I would aim for 20 slides (1 min per slide) max. How about you?

@agalanis97 Thank you! ☺️

@FumbleBeeFae Im sorry:/

So excited to present this work tomorrow and chat with everyone about this incredible bee! Turns out we really have to look deeper (underground!) if we want to find some solitary bee symbionts! 6/

The core yeast (2 ASVs) found at two sites, two years of sampling- is Moniliella spathulata, a known producer of some sugar and sugar alcohols (SSA) that act as antifreeze. Its abundance correlated with stage specific shifts of SSA! 5/

Hey #EntSoc23 bee/ symbiont/ microbe friends, our preprint on the symbiotic Actinobacteria and yeast in brood cells of solitary bee Anthophora bomboides is out on BioRxiv!! and its what I'll be presenting in my talk tomorrow @ 10:40am in rm Maryland-B. 🐝 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…