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Elizabeth Crone

@croneliz.bsky.social
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Ecologist, entomologist, hiker, gardener and trombonist.

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Bernard Kim @bernardkim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I find myself at home alone this week, and am doing a small John Carney film festival. Highly recommend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ca...
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John Carney (director) - Wikipedia
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why have ecologists started using the word “offset” as the opposite of “onset”? Offset has a specific and different meaning in English. Many otherwise excellent papers are now making me cringe.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Applications open today! Review starts Oct. 17th. Come join @rachaelabay.bsky.social @katelaskowski.bsky.social @gcbiphobia.bsky.social @croneliz.bsky.social @phylogenomics.bsky.social @dranyabrown.bsky.social @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social @robindecker.bsky.social & more here in EVE at UC Davis!
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is what it looks like when your flight out of Salt Lake City leaves 90 minutes late due to an evening thunderstorm
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Caroline Farrior @cfarrior.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Spread the word! My lab group is hosting a workshop tomorrow at #ESA2026: Ecological Theory for Everyone: A practical introduction to engaging with theory in your own research for those with little or no theoretical experience 1:30pm, Room 254B events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
A collage of theory figures: Trees searching for light, chaos from logistic growth, evolutionary analyses, stabilizing coexistence, and collective movement.
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
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Princess Bride - As You Wish
ALT: Princess Bride - As You Wish
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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
WTH????? Match isn’t over 😂
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Neighborhood owls
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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Another moment of Baymax madness. Riding a hammerhead shark today. #penandink #shark #baymax #hammerhead
Pen and ink drawing of Baymax riding a hammerhead shark.
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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!
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Elena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Nominate your outstanding senior colleagues for the Ecological Society of America's Eminent Ecologist Award! Nominations due Nov. 13. esa.org/about/awards...
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 18/10/2025
🗣 Repost if you agree, America does not have any kings and we do not want any! #NoKings
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Kimmel for president (2028)
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Also #AJB has some of the nicest editorial staff around. Working with them was a real pleasure!
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I really enjoyed reading this article. Thought-provoking about the privileges many of us have (or not).
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you see this, post something orange
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It’s live online: cronelab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/how-we-do-re... Kudos to Erin Treanore and Sylvie Finn for compiling our guide of field methods for bumble bee demography. Developed in collaboration with the BOMBUSS 2023 conference participants
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Bumble Bee Field Methods Guide – Cronies
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Today I am randomly scrolling Bluesky and liking nature posts. “Like” just doesn’t feel right for anything about politics right now.
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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New paper with Erica Henry & @nickhaddad.bsky.social Q: What happens when butterflies, responding to climate warming, attempt an extra generation as summers get longer? A: Long-term monitoring shows overwinter population growth increases! 🧪🦋🐛https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70018
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Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies
Insects may respond to climate warming by advancing phenology and increasing the number of generations each year (voltinism). However, one concern is that earlier phenology changes cue-response relat...
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.opb.org/article/2025... My awesome collaborator Cheryl Schultz talking about butterfly populations and declines
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Washington State University-led study reveals 20-year loss of butterfly populations across US
A new study reveals that butterfly populations in the U.S. declined by more than 20% from 2000 to 2020.
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Next “Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social * April 15, 2-3 PM EST * Panelists Rese Cloyd (also incoming ESA President!) & me * Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #ConservationJobs
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Cat and mouse (poor mouse)
Cat and field mouse both sleeping in different levels of a kitty condo.  Maybe the mouse is really just still from fear (not sleeping)
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Crane Beach, Ipswich Massachusetts
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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Happy #DarwinDay!
A comic style drawing of Charles Darwin, smiling with his eyes closed, thinking about the tree of life
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
To me the question is whether Pres. Trump actively _wants_ to flood California or just doesn’t understand fluvial geomorphology? Clearly, I’m ignoring the possibility that he wants to do something that will make headlines and doesn’t care about the consequences
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"Experts told The New York Times that the water released by the Army Corps on Friday has no way of reaching the region affected by the wildfires, which is over 200 miles away, and could have been useful to farmers months from now as irrigation." www.thedailybeast.com/farmers-plea...
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Farmers Plead ‘Stop Our Fields Flooding’ as Trump Opens Dams
Trump gloated Friday about sending billions of gallons of water to southern California.
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Frustrated/horrified/infuriated by what's going on in the US? Students and ECR botanists and plant scientists, this is your chance to talk to elected officials face to face in April and be trained in how to approach them for maximum efficacy. Apply by 21 Feb. Must be US citizen. 🧪🌎🌾 #NSF
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Felix Javier @felixjavier.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
I started gathering a list for REUs/Summer research opportunities for undergraduate students in Ecology/Conservation/Evolutionary Biology. Feel share to share with any undergraduate students who may be interested in participating in *PAID* research. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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REUs/Summer Research 2024 List (Ecology and Evolution)
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Applications due Friday Jan. 31 for the SSE Presidents’ Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper! If you published part of your PhD work in a 2024 issue of Evolution or Evolution Letters, apply here: buff.ly/4fD5OtQ @journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution, SSE Presidents' Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper, Deadline January 31. Recent covers of Evolution Letters and Evolution.
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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Delighted to see the final version of my paper for @asn-amnat.bsky.social appear online. In it, I analyze stochastic matrix models to partition the effects of spatial and temporal variation in demography and dispersal on metapopulation growth rates www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/n
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Margaret Stanley @ecostanley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Feb 15 Deadline to apply for this MSc project! 🌏🧪
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Hey ecologists! I’m looking for papers for my into ecology students to read and discuss. Suggestions would be much appreciated!
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Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Funding opportunity for Natural History research in western North America! $2500 (x5) offered by the Western North American Naturalist: scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...
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Grants for Individual Researchers | Western North American Naturalist | Western North American Naturalist Publications | Brigham Young University
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
First day of classes. A student sends me a messsge starting with, “Hell professor…”. Should I assume it’s a typo?
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/12/2024
Last week, Finland's Publication Forum announced that it is downgrading its classification of 271 journals to the lowest level, zero. This includes 187 MDPI and 82 Frontiers journals. Read more by @deevybee.bsky.social here:
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Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from J...
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A good month in the urban ecology / pollinator gardening wing of the Crone lab: Paper 1/2: pollinator gardens are more common in wealthier neighborhoods with _smaller_ lot sizes. And, you can nap pollinator gardens using Google Street View: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Pollinator gardening is constrained by income but not lot size in urban front yards
Flower gardens can create valuable habitat for urban pollinators, but little is known about the existing spatial pattern of gardens on the landscape, …
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A good month in the urban ecology / pollinator gardening wing of the Crone lab: Paper 2/2: Roads are partial barriers to sweat bee foraging rdcu.be/d20HA
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Roads are partial barriers to foraging solitary bees in an urban landscape
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Today’s puppy photo is about understanding new perspectives and (hopefully) learning to get along
Puppy looking at a cat
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@sebastianschreiber.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Food, family, friends. So much to be thankful for.
Cranberry sauce on the stove
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A visit to the National Museum of the American Indian. Seemed like an apt start to the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Heading to Pennsylvania for a seminar visit. Unless I am forgetting something, this is my first bona fide long distance seminar visit in about 5 years! Looking forward to meeting so many cool people! ento.psu.edu/events/eliza...
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Elizabeth Crone Seminar (Events)
Please join the Entomology Department as we host Elizabeth Crone with her presentation titled "A Tale of Two Cities: Population Ecology and the Conservation Potential of Urban Pollinator Gardens"
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reposting to my timeline so I have this handy. It’s great!
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Dr Ecology 🌲 @ecologyphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
🌎🌿🌱🌾🧪📄💻📈📊
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Crate training?
Puppy sitting on top of his crate
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Good morning!
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Wow - this is really nicely written. Thanks for sharing!
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
So many new faces on Bluesky! Where did everyone come from? 😊 I wish I had more to post, but for now I’ll just add another puppy picture
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Elizabeth Crone @croneliz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
So it turns out today was the day I adopted a puppy. Thanks to Yolo County SPCA!
Puppy picture Puppy picture Puppy picture Puppy picture
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