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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · 7d

@omgitsmejenny.bsky.social talks about her masters thesis on the effects of flower temperature on pollinator visitation and behavior

Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 19d

🎧Podcast out now!🎧

👂Listen to author @omgitsmejenny.bsky.social chat to us about her research article "Isolating the effects of floral temperature on visitation and behaviour of wild bee and fly pollinators"🌡️

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Functional Ecology | Jennifer Apland: Isolating the effects of floral temperature on visitation and behaviour of wild bee and fly pollinators

In this podcast, Functional Ecology author Jennifer Apland chats to Assistant Editor Amelia Macho about her research article, " Jennifer experimentally manipulated the temperature of model flowers to

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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 28d

new paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social in @natclimate.nature.com, led by @sarahnalley.bsky.social!

Dragonflies with dark mating ornaments on their wings are disappearing from parts of the United States that have had more warming and wildfire over the last 40 years 🧪🌍🐙

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Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire

Nature Climate Change - The authors use 1,603 estimates of local extinctions from 1980 to 2021 to show that dragonfly species with wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost...

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20

Marcial Escudero’s lab has a nice logo 😁
https://marcialescuderolab.weebly.com/
#eseb2025

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza next to a windmill whose sails are a large phylogeny, subtitled Escudero Lab

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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · Aug 20

Blushing haha. thanks! And yes- a big effort be a lot of great folks in the lab over the years

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Amanda Bretman @amandabretman.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now our first invited speaker @mattkoski.bsky.social tells us about flower thermal performance local adaptation for gametogenesis (complete with cheerleader moves to show us thermoregulating petals)

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Aug 11

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hiking in the Pyrenees for a few days before #eseb2025 to commemorate my first official day as associate Professor

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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · Aug 1

Jen’s awesome thesis work on flower temperature and pollination out in @funecology.bsky.social !! @omgitsmejenny.bsky.social

Jennifer Apland @omgitsmejenny.bsky.social · Aug 1

I'm so excited to share my master's research! Do pollinators change their foraging behavior depending on floral and ambient temperatures? Do flowers that thermoregulate experience higher rates of pollinator visitation? Check it out below! 🏵️

Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · Aug 1

📰Published📰 Modifying floral infrared reflectance reveals how flower temperature impacts pollinator visitation🌼

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Jul 15

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fig.3 Micropatterns on the petal surface are created by variation in epidermal cell pigment, shape and cuticle textures.

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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · Jul 14

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Floral shape and color impact heat accumulation and thermal stability of the floral microenvironment in a subalpine meadow

Premise The floral thermal microenvironment impacts plant reproduction through its effects on gametophyte performance and plant–pollinator interactions. Color and shape are axes of floral variation ...

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · May 27

New preprint out today! A really fun collaboration with @shchurch.bsky.social and Robin Hopkins in which we study flower color variation in Monarda fistulosa using iNaturalist data. We process >40,000 images and use them to phenotype flower color in >16,000 observations: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Figure 1: Steps with representative photographs of the flower color phenotyping pipeline. A) We exported all research-grade iNaturalist observations of Monarda fistulosa from GBIF. B) We used GPT-4o to classify each image as to whether it contained a flower. C) We trained a Roboflow semantic segmentation model on a subset of images and applied the trained model to extract “flower” pixels from each image in the dataset. D) We calculated the geometric median of each set of extracted pixels to represent the flower color phenotype from each image, and we paired this phenotype with the observation’s iNaturalist metadata for spatial analysis.

Figure 2: Spatial summary of Monarda fistulosa flower colors across North America. A) Map of the color of M. fistulosa flowers. Each square is a 200km x 200km cell with the color corresponding to the average median CIELAB color value of each observation in the cell. The dotted line denotes -100° longitude, separating eastern and western regions of the range. B) Boxplots summarizing LCh color components west and east of -100° longitude, with each box showing the median and interquartile range, and with the color of each box reflecting the geometric median CIELAB value from west and east, respectively.

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · May 14

Super excited to share our new paper investigating convergence across planktivorous fishes and assessing the impact of ancestry and light environment led by Dr Jen Hodge @fishncurious.bsky.social and including most members of the lab past and present academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Unravelling the Effects of Ecology and Evolutionary History in the Phenotypic Convergence of Fishes

Abstract. Understanding the ecological drivers and limitations of adaptive convergence is a fundamental challenge. Here, we explore how adaptive convergenc

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The CapituLab @thecapitulab.bsky.social · May 5

The news is out! The CapituLab is moving to Clemson University this fall 🌻 We are excited to get there and get started!

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Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu.bsky.social · Apr 29

I am so excited about this upcoming publication about the Bees of Pennsylvania! 🐝 Stay tuned; we will have a page online where you can purchase this book in July! @nashturley.bsky.social @napoleonicento.bsky.social @stephanidae.bsky.social

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 19

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Andrea Berardi @aeberardi.bsky.social · Apr 15

Check this out! Latest pub from the Hopkins lab, and the brainchild of @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social !

Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · Apr 14

Hot off the presses and so so thrilled. Thanks to @inaturalist.bsky.social + computer vision we found something beautifully simple: Red and orange flowers bloom later than all the other colors in the eastern United States. Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kwzh3QW8S...

Visual abstract: “we test hypotheses about floral diversity with community science data and an advanced computer vision model. Red/orange flowers have delayed flowering that matches hummingbird migratory patterns”

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 22

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Mar 18

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · Mar 17

Here's a super helpful site called Signal in the Storm that is automated to keep track of federal policy changes (EO's and Ed dept) and news re: academia. Also includes suggestions on what to do, and a faq's page about indirects, etc. Pls RT!

signalinthestorm.org/index.html

Signal in the Storm

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · Mar 16

Plant evolutionary ecology has lost a very rare talent. Shu-Mei was a genuinely kind, whip-smart, reasonable, creative, bright light of a person.

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Shu-Mei Chang Obituary - Athens, GA

Celebrate the life of Shu-Mei Chang, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Bernstein Funeral Home.

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Norm Wickett @reactionnorm.bsky.social · Feb 26

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.

Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!

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University Assistant postdoctoral

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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · Feb 11

Good question! Species w variegation most common in broadleaf evergreen forests esp. tropics. Not sure more detailed biogeography studies exist?

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Feb 10

If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇

Amy Lynn Smith @alswrite.bsky.social · Feb 7

If you’re a Visa cardholder you can let them know you won’t be any longer if they do business with fElon. I called and they said they’re taking comments at [email protected]. Maybe if enough of us complain they’ll pull the deal.

Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal

Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital wallet and make instant peer-to-peer payments, like Zelle or Venmo.

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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · Feb 10

dissertation work by Dr. Cierra Sullivan (not on bluesky) www.researchgate.net/profile/Cier...

Cierra SULLIVAN, PostDoc Position | Cited by 29 | of Michigan State University, East Lansing (MSU) | Read 3 publications | Contact Cierra SULLIVAN

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Matt Koski @mattkoski.bsky.social · Feb 10

basic research funded by #NSFGRFP with implications for ag. and plant resiliency to climate change. "...multicolored leaf tissue can yield similar, if not improved, photosynthetic resilience than uniformly colored tissue under certain environmental contexts"

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Top panel showing Hexastylis plant with variegated leaves. Bottom panel showing Hexastylis plant with uniformly green leaves

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