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Chelsea Cook

@phdbee.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor @ Marquette U in Milwaukee WI USA. CoFounder of HiveTech Solutions. Interested in complex social dynamics, mostly in bees.

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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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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7d

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Sep 3

In their rebellious adolescent years, Guayaquila gracilicornis treehoppers sport garish stripes and spikes, before maturing into more stately and traditional thorn bugs.

Macro photo of several bugs on a green plant stem, in side view. The insect at center is smaller, orange, with white trim and long thin spikes.

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Jul 15

Check the paper out here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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

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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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Tamar Kushnir @tamarkushnir.bsky.social · Apr 18

My lab is hiring a full time lab manager! Come join our terrific team! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29947

Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

Job #AJO29947, Associate in Research, Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · May 4

Behold the Cyborg Cicada!

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · May 3

I am the lab.

a man with glasses says say my name

ALT: a man with glasses says say my name

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · May 3

I would love these slides!! What an excellent idea! My email is [email protected].

Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · May 1

My startup company begs to differ.

Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · May 1

Communism is a socioeconomic ideology, like capitalism. It is not a form of government. You can have a democratic communist govt (people control the means of production) or a fascist communist govt (centralized state controls the means of production). Who controls means of production in the US?

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Apr 30

The "mean" in "Greenwich Mean Time" actually means "mean" (like, average). I did not know this!

To calculate GMT they took the position of the sun throughout the year and averaged it out to find the average solar noon in Greenwich and based the time on that!

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Apr 26

Ugh Jay I am so sorry. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · Apr 26

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The Spiderman pointing meme. On the left are a bunch of Spidermans(men?) pointing with the caption "students barely keeping it together this semester." On the right is Spiderman pointing back saying "professor barely keeping it together this semester."

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Apr 26

Antz

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · Apr 25

Not that the internet needs more photos of monarch butterflies, but they’re just so pretty. Here’s my favorite stage, the chrysalis, with its golden ornamentations. The other image shows the fully grown caterpillar as it enters pupation. Woodstock, NY.

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Nicky O’Boyle @pathonick.bsky.social · Apr 25

Looking to appoint a PhD candidate with background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field to work on discovery of infection combatting therapeutics in marine sponge-associated bacteria. Closing date 31st May 2025. International applications welcomed!🌎

Four year fully funded PhD studentship: Bioprospecting Marine Sponge Streptomyces for Novel Anti-Virulence Therapeutics at Trinity College Dublin on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Four year fully funded PhD studentship: Bioprospecting Marine Sponge Streptomyces for Novel Anti-Virulence Therapeutics at Trinity College Dublin, listed on FindAPhD.com

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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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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · Apr 21

Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵]
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...

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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · Apr 21

Each spring, a hidden spectacle unfolds when subterranean citronella ants (Lasius subgenus Acanthomyops) bring their mutualistic mealybugs (the large fluffy white thing) up under rocks to warm up. Here, the prolific mealybugs produce vast numbers of nymphs (the small purple things).

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Olivia Bernauer, PhD @oliviabernauer.bsky.social · Apr 18

Please share! Do you work at the intersection of plant volatiles and insect management? 🌿🪲
Submit to our special issue in Enviro Ent: Plant Volatiles in Insect Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture. MS drafts due Aug '25, anticipated pub. Feb '26; DM for details!
@entothompson.bsky.social

Flyer advertising a special collection in Environmental Entomology titled Plant Volatiles in Insect Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture.

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Apr 16

❣️ Community ❣️ I need your help! Does your department do "intro" videos where each faculty has a short video on who they are and what their research/teaching is? Or have you seen something like this? If so, can you share it here? THANK YOU!

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James Gahan @jgahan.bsky.social · Apr 8

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT!
For more information see here:
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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · Apr 8

At #UBC, in Vancouver, 🇨🇦, we are welcoming applications from folks as part of US applicant week - we recognize that many potential grad students may have had their offers revoked, and other complications - we have great research & fab colleagues - so check us out

www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

US Applicant Week

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · Apr 7

This is so real.

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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