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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Congratulations to Hannah Griesmer for successfully defending her thesis on Nosema infections of honey bees and ways to activate natural bee defenses against this very widespread disease!

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Congratulations to Gu Gaoying and our team on our new paper: even low levels of artificial light harm honey bees. Constant light raises mortality, impairs scent learning, and boosts stress-linked norepinephrine—showing how light pollution disrupts bee brain function. l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A great day telling folks about the science behind bees! @ucsandiego.bsky.social

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Stop by! Join me at the 4th Kensington-Talmadge Annual Earth Day Celebration on April 12th with the theme "Helping our Changing Climate" and learn about bees! Location: Kensington-Normal Heights Library Park 4121 Adams Ave around noon Bee City USA UC San Diego Biological Sciences

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Getting excited about Entomo-Fest 2025 at UC San Diego Biological Sciences. Let's celebrate the amazing science being generated by our faculty, research that is also supported by federal funding.

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Join me at the 4th Kensington-Talmadge Annual Earth Day Celebration on April 12th with the theme "Helping our Changing Climate" and learn about bees! Location: Kensington-Normal Heights Library Park 4121 Adams Ave around noon @Bee City USA UC San Diego Biological Sciences

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Congratulations to @Bahram Kheradmand for publishing his paper on sequence learning in honey bees. It turns out that bees can figure out a very challenging task of learning that a visual pattern that was previously unrewarded will become rewarding on the next visit. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

In 2003, I received my first major NSF grant to study stingless bee communication and its link to their role as neotropical pollinators. This led to insights into how warfare may have shaped their signaling. Thank you, federal funding! @ucsandiego.bsky.social

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A teacher once asked why I didn’t want to be a doctor to cure diseases. While human health is vital, the wonder of nature in every child deserves exploration. Let’s celebrate researchers who inspire seekers and thank federal funding for supporting this vision.

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

With a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation, I continued the Opportunities for Research in the Behavioral Sciences with San Diego Community Colleges and give 68 students research experiences in my lab. Funding also helped support the careers of new USA and Brazilian scientists.

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Promising new results! A mRNA vaccine can help fight a deadly disease, pancreatic cancer. Research partly supported by NIH U01 CA224175 Pancreatic Cancer Microenvironment Network Cancer Moonshot Award. www.mskcc.org/.../can-mrna.... Thank you NIH!

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Nieh bee lab @jamesnieh.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Federally supported basic science in action: “Even Ozempic traces its roots back in part to work at the N.I.H. The toxin from Gila monster lizards seemed to have particular physiological effects, helping lead eventually to one of the world’s most profitable and promising drugs.”