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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nesting behaviour drives the evolution of heat tolerance and climate vulnerability in bees! Check out our pre-print on 95 species of Australian native bee across the latitudinal extent of Australia! 🐝 #nativebee #climateadaptation #heattolerance #plasticity #behaviour #bees #climatechange

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · Aug 25

As usual, the paper was a big collaboration with some great people! @mcorr.bsky.social, Amy-Marie Gilpin, Nikolas Johnston, Damien Esquerre, @achughes.bsky.social, and John Ascher :)
@uowenvirofutures.bsky.social

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · Aug 25

BeeBDC version 1.3.0 is now on CRAN with new functionality to estimate species richness at country/continent/global/ANY level using species occurrence data 🐍🐌🐸 jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/artic...
This follows on from our 🐝 pre-print, under review at Nat Comm doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 😍

Species richness estimation

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank u Vanessa for this excellent photo of my proposed classification scheme for Coleoptera

A photo of a blonde lady holding a long stick and gesticulating towards a projected slide of general beetle categories. These include “squiggly guy,” “swimmy guy,” and “bitey guy”

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jul 12

A detailed look at how bee genomes evolve when the various species switch between generalist and specialist diets.

Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu.bsky.social · Jul 11

🧬 Shift between specialized & generalized diets in #bees is associated with evolutionary changes in their sensory genes. Generalists lose odorant receptors (ORs) and gain gustatory receptors (GRs), while specialists diversify existing genes 🌸🐝 #genomics #pollinators
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Shifts in bee diet breadths are associated with gene gains and losses and positive selection across olfactory receptors

Abstract. Bees are palynivorous insects that vary widely in the number of plant families from which they collect pollen. Their evolutionary history has bee

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Martin Westgate @rowdynerd.bsky.social · Jun 18

@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025

jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · Jun 18

Great talk by Katja Hogendoorn on protecting pollinators in the face of imperfect information at #ICCB2025!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 9

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · May 22

Thank yee!! :)

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · May 22

Who are the supervisors? I can’t see that easily and I’m considering forwarding it onto specific people, possibly :)

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · May 22

🚨 Fully-funded PhD project on the size, structure and interconnectivity of ghost bat populations ‪‪@charlesdarwinuni.bsky.social‬

📍 Darwin, AU
Closes: 20th June 2025

🔗 linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Apr 21

Everyone should know about GBIF. It's an international biodiversity data aggregator. Museum collections, apps like eBird and iNaturalist, published datasets from the technical literature, all in one place. www.gbif.org

GBIF

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data.

www.gbif.org

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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · Apr 20

If you have a lost NSF or NIH grant. Colleagues inside government agencies are tracking terminated grants in hopes of assisting organizing efforts and perhaps litigation. The link takes you to the NSF tracker; the NIH tracker is linked from there. Pass this on. 🧪🥼

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · Apr 11

Oh he rings a bell. A very vague one 😅

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Dr. Sebastian A. Echeverri, PhD @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social · Apr 10

translator note: "bugs" isnt always used the same way. riley is using "bugs" = "only insects".
if we want to include other animals often CALLED bugs, like millipedes & spiders, in 1 evolutionary group, we could agree that "bugs" = "all athropods".
thus making shrimps, once again, is bugs
#invert 🌿 🧪

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · Apr 9

Shrimps is bugs? No, it’s kinda the other way around. Insects are technically crustaceans, which highlights the importance of systematics in understanding how evolution unfolds. My latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.

You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the Opposite: Bugs Are Actually Shrimp of the Land

A recent study suggests that insects branched out from crustaceans on the tree of life

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · Apr 10

I don’t know what it is. But I love it!

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Apr 6

Australia could be taking advantage of the millions of students now too scared to go to university in America.
Instead both Dutton and Albanese are threatening to *massively reduce* intl student numbers.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 6

Even without ICE's horrible abuses, a pattern of arbitrarily revoking student visas makes the US no longer a viable schooling option for international students.

Bringing them to the US has been one of our strongest sources of soft power.

Everything this fucking guy does benefits Putin.

Elissa Taub @ejtaub.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is happening to students at colleges & universities nationwide. Their status is bring terminated & visa revoked. Often, the student has no obvious history to justify the govt's actions. Affected students should seek knowledgeable immigration counsel immediately.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Apr 4

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

A screenshot of a text conversation discussing chaotic and troubling conditions at NOAA, expressing concerns about the administration's lack of care and the need for legislative attention.

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Dr Perry Beasley-Hall @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · Apr 1

📣 Museum job! The South Australian Museum is looking for a Collection Manager of Terrestrial Invertebrates. Applications close April 9th. #entomology #zoology tinyurl.com/yc5dd6kt

Collection Manager, Terrestrial Invertebrates

I WORK FOR SA is the official careers website for South Australian Government jobs, featuring diverse career opportunities across the public sector.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Mar 25

Please, tell Trump and his vile agenda to go jump. We will not abide by his heinous, fascist regime and stupid survey. www.theage.com.au/national/sug...

Trump comes for CSIRO on scientific research funding

The US is demanding Australian government researchers answer a diversity, gender and climate survey to guarantee funding.

www.theage.com.au

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · Mar 21

This is absolutely wild!

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · Mar 15

🚨We are hiring🚨ECR with a PhD within 7 years? Tenure track position (akin to Assistant Prof) in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Expertise in remote sensing and machine learning. Work on climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV Deadline May 10 tinyurl.com/58ft38du

Associate Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Data Science

Associate Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Data Science At the Department of Earth Sciences, we

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · Mar 14

No, the plastic in the canary… mine

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Mar 12

We will continue adding more genders until morale improves

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That wasn't me, that was Patricia @patriciaslattery.bsky.social · Mar 12

One week later, and the DOI is working! Check out our paper using network analyses to assess vulnerability for Fijian bees along an elevational gradient.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
You wouldn't bee-lieve how good I'm getting at completing side-projects and ignoring my thesis.

Network Assemblages of Elevational Niche‐Associated Diversity in Fijian Native Bees

Using network analyses, this paper demonstrates the aggregated distribution of Fijian Lasioglossum (Homalictus) bees in elevational niches. Combining the nestedness explored in this study with previo...

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