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Justine 🐝 Nguyen

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This Barbie is a 5th ⁉️ year PhD Candidate at Marquette U | She/Her | How individuals impact collective behavior in 🐝

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Mar 24

The first data paper of my dissertation thesis was recently published in ProcB! Follow my rockstar PI's thread below to learn more! Thanks for your support! 😁
And reach out if you're interested in a postdoc - I'm graduating soon 👀

Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Mar 24

🎉🎉I am SO excited to share our lab's first data paper published in ProcB @royalsociety.org! This research is part of @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social 's PhD dissertation and explores how social #behavior is organized in honey bees. 🐝 Let me share the story...!
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Disruption of collective behaviour correlates with reduced interaction efficiency | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Group-living organisms commonly engage in collective behaviour to respond to an ever-changing environment. As animals face environmental change, establishing the mechanisms of information used to collectively behave is critical. Western honeybees (Apis ...

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Jul 15

Our recently published work in @royalsociety.org was featured on Spectrum News! Thanks for a great story featuring @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social's work on how antibiotics disrupt the collective cooling in honey bee colonies in my research lab @marquetteu.bsky.social

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Marquette University leading research on honey bees

A PhD student in biological science, has been studying how oxytetracycline, a common antibiotic used in beekeeping, affects honeybee colonies.

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Jul 15

I had the pleasure of getting interviewed by @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social for my recently published work on the effects of oxytetracycline on honey bee fanning behavior. Check it out below!
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Marquette University leading research on honey bees

A PhD student in biological science, has been studying how oxytetracycline, a common antibiotic used in beekeeping, affects honeybee colonies.

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Apr 2

Some fun #honeybee 🐝 press for our paper! today.marquette.edu/2025/04/marq...

Marquette researchers find common agricultural antibiotic disrupts honeybee teamwork, raising concerns for pollinator health | Marquette Today

Marquette University researchers have found that Oxytetracycline, a common antibiotic used in agriculture, disrupts a critical social behavior in honeybees.

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Jul 13

And that concludes my very first #ABS2025 conference! Every time I go to a conference I am reaffirmed in my passion for animal behavior and science, especially with such inspiring and fantastic people in this field! Thank you to anyone I met/reconnected/hung out with this week!

Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Jul 9

If you're at #ABS2025, lets meet up!! I'm always lookin to make new friends 🤩 (and also scout for post doc positions... 👉🏻👈🏻)

Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Jul 7

So excited to be going to my first ABS conference!! 🤩

Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · May 2

Is anyone going to ABS this July who needs a roommate? Reach out if you'd like to share an Airbnb/hotel! :D

Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · May 1

Super excited to be participating in the 2025 ABS Allee competition this July! What an opportunity! 🤩

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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · Apr 21

Hello Community!
Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)

Flyer for the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium (including QR code in top right corner). This symposium highlights the work of exceptional early-career scientists in the broad field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences, with a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship, and community engagement. These early career scientists are preparing to launch a faculty search. Applications are due May 30th, 2025.

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Apr 22

my favorite past time is chatting up people at the bar and connecting based in how cool bees are and really engaging them in how smart they are

we scientists must not forget that we fundamentally serve the public. it is our responsibility to engage the public and show them how cool science is

Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Apr 12

Had the pleasure of taking part of MPM's (@mkepublicmuseum.bsky.social) Inside out event tonight! Interacting with my community and sharing our cool bee science lights a fire underneath me. These interactions are why I do the science I do. To see the awe and wonder on people's faces.

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Mar 29

omg the more the merrier imo!

Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Mar 29

I am a peer mentor in an undergrad-serving program that helps get them into research labs, get research experience, and go to graduate school. These are students who genuinely want to make the world better and are the future of our society's health abd function.

Program was terminated yesterday.

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Olivia Bernauer, PhD @oliviabernauer.bsky.social · Mar 26

Two PhD Scholarships to study Australian stingless bees 🐝 and crop pollination at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney Uni - deadline March 31. Sounds like a great project - reach out with questions - I did my PhD in this lab!

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Native bees and crop pollination - Two PhD scholarships available | Western Sydney University

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Mar 24

Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Mar 24

Disruption of collective behaviour correlates with reduced interaction efficiency | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Mar 9

#standupforscience

Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Feb 25

man its an amazing time to be gearing up to write my thesis and try to graduate within the year 😞

anyone lookin to adopt a newly minted phd next year-ish? 🥴

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · Feb 11

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Feb 10

I organized a "call your congressman" session today amongst my fellow graduate students to urge our representatives to fight against the cutting of research funds. It made me feel better to talk to offices.

I will not be silenced by a calculated attack to destroy science in this country.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Feb 8

6/8. In science, and in institutions of learning like colleges and universities, there is a shared understanding that edicts should not go unquestioned—that we all have a duty to systematically investigate the world around us and to interrogate claims about it. We do not simply obey.

Coat of arms of the Royal Society, which has the motto "nullius in verba," meaning take nobody's word for it.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Feb 8

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · Feb 8

I get the instinct to say "it's too late" in response to calls to action (call your reps about thing x, show up to protest thing y). I do. But here's the thing. These are the last tools we have to preserve democracy, short of some very messy options that I refuse to romanticize. Too early to quit.

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Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Jan 28

in these terrifying and uncertain times, I find solace when I look at my plants, my cats.

despite it all, my plants still will grow. my cats will still demand to be fed and then offer purrs and cuddles. life will find a way. and im hanging on to the idea that we will find a way.

Justine 🐝 Nguyen @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social · Jan 28

This is SO cool!! I just submitted an application :)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jan 28

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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