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Jeremy Hemberger

@jhemberger.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. at University of Minnesota Insects, climate, & land-use change 🐝 🪲 🌡️ 🚜 Ecoinformatics & models 📈 Field & lab experimentation 👨🏻‍🔬 jhemberger.github.io/ibug_lab_websi…

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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This looks excellent. Up till now, we've struggled to find ways to accurately, and continuously monitor bumble bee colony mass in the field without constantly disturbing the nest to take the mass.
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Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint @toussaintlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
JOB ALERT // 🔥New Permanent Research & Collection Officer position at the Geneva NHM @mhngeneve.bsky.social 🔥We are looking for an entomologist to join our team at the Museum !🦋🐜🐞🦗🦟🔬🧬🧪🇨🇭. Please RT massively ! Ad here (in French but don’t hesitate to DM for details : www.geneve.ch/administrati...
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Chargé ou Chargée de recherche en entomologie à 80-100%
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Re-circulating this extremely clear and considered perspective on AI in academia by @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social after reviewing work that admittedly used AI for both analytical and writing assistance to ultimately yield very little of value to the field. bsky.app/profile/ecol...
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exciting new things ahead for the @ibuglab.bsky.social -- we recently found out that our NSF project was selected for funding. Starting in January of 2027, we'll be investigating wild bee resilience to heat waves from individual species to communities. jhemberger.github.io/ibug_lab_web...
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Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Projection has become reality 22 years ago, Christoph Schär et al. published a landmark paper in Nature explaining that the 2003 heatwave was a harbinger of things to come. The study featured an iconic figure - shown in countless lectures - illustrating how outlandish the event was at the time
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just in case it wasn't obvious which side of American politics is a death cult: the house GOP wants you to have to die of heat stroke because making employers provide guidance or relief to workers in dangerous temperatures is Socialism or something. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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GBIF @gbif.org · 20/08/2026
We're breaking free (of our old taxonomy)! 🪁 The newest version of rgbif (3.9.0) is planned to be release to #CRAN the end of September and introduces a number of breaking changes as GBIF's default taxonomy moves to the Catalogue of Life Extended Release. Learn more:🔗data-blog.gbif.org/p...
A bright blue and black dragonfly on a green background with the rgbif logo overlaid
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Daniel Karp @dskarp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student next year! If you want to work on conservation in working landscapes, consider applying. If interested, please fill out this Google Form in lieu of an email inquiry (forms.gle/1pMESJ5ME8uK...). Check out our website to learn more about us: karp.ucdavis.edu
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Marianne Alleyne @cotesia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications from entomologists with research portfolios in which INSECT BIODIVERSITY LOSS is a key element (at the assistant professor level). illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Picture of a green tree-lined quad at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, with Foellinger Hall in the background. Skies are often this blue.
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 07/08/2026
Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across countries 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The coolest family from the coolest order (shhh…don’t tell the Bombus…😬)
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Travis Roach @troach.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We know that hot days lead to worsening health outcomes. Surprisingly, we have very little info on the fiscal impact these hot days have on government programs like Medicaid. In this new paper, we match over a million Medicaid records across nearly 16,000 U.S. ZIP codes to daily temperature data (🧵)
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Why? Scrubs Scene
ALT: Why? Scrubs Scene
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Alison Robey @alisonrobey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Second dissertation chapter just dropped at Ecology Letters! doi.org/10.1111/ele.70441 Across theory, stochastic models, and protist microcosms, we show how rising temporal autocorrelation drives predictable increases in extinction risk under warming (ft. coauthor @mtkummel.bsky.social!)
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Temporal Autocorrelation Increases Temperature‐Driven Extinction Risk by Clustering Stressful Conditions
Extinction risk forecasting typically relies on comparing thermal tolerance data to predicted shifts in thermal distributions. However, changing temporal sequencing of temperatures may exacerbate the....
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Most statistical models focus on a single question: How does an explanatory variable affect the mean response? But environmental and biological systems are often shaped not only by changes in the mean, but also by changes in variability, skewness, thresholds, and the frequency of extreme outcomes.
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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The #Rstats development team receives some well-deserved recognition! "As part of the prize, the R team - who have thus-far been unpaid [for R work] - will get to split $1m (£755,000) between them." "The Oxford professor making sense of the world's data" www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data
Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.
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Daniel Karp @dskarp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Thrilled to share our paper showing that warming doesn't favor all pests... it's more complicated that & thermal traits don't explain the variation! Thanks to an amazing author team & Mia Lippey in particular for all her hard work. www.ucdavis.edu/news/scienti... www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Scientists Dispute Hypothesis That Climate Change Will Unleash Massive Ag Pest Populations
The widespread hypothesis that climate warming will result in unprecedented agricultural pest populations and cause food insecurity worldwide is oversimplified, according to a new study by a team led ...
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 12/06/2026
That’s not how we did it in the 60s when we eradicated screw worm the first time. Maybe we should read a book or ask an expert.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
For context, this is one hundred ninety-two thousand, five-year biomedical research grants. More than five years of complete funding for the entirety of the NIH for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, blindness, epilepsy, infectious diseases, etc… An entire generation of scientists.
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Olivia Bernauer, PhD @oliviabernauer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Excited to share that our paper, led by Matt Smith (@ IIT) describing how to create and use automated pollinator camera traps, AutoPollS, is now out in the world: doi.org/10.1111/2041... w/ @jamescrall.bsky.social @brianspiesman.bsky.social @jhemberger.bsky.social
Image of a tagged bumble bee visiting a buckwheat flower captured by an AutoPollS deviceDr. Matt Smith, Illinois Institute of Technology, adjusting an AutoPollS unit under an apple tree. The AutoPollS cameras are pointed at apple flowers during bloom. AutoPollS deployed in a pollinator meadow alongside a cranberry marsh. A zinnia flower being monitored by an AutoPollS camera while a hoverfly, Eristalis tenax, visits the flower.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
dawg i am so sick of capital
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Real life view of facilities management responding to me asking for the cost of modifying/fixing anything in my lab:
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dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .
ALT: dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .
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Mark Lazerus @marklazerus.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It's good to be reminded these days that science, and scientists, still fucking rule. 🚀
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI
Click on the article title to read more.
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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word! 🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...
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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Protip: Those of us that have been doing this for a while can tell who hasn't put in the work. We won't ever tell you that, though. We just won't ever read your stuff or hire you. So go on and fill your boots, if you want. It's your tuition $
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion). Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."
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Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 02/03/2026
🆕 BLOG POST There’s so much more to spatial downscaling today than classic LM or kriging. In my new blog post, I show how flexible and powerful GAMs can be for this task. #rstats #dataviz ➡️ dominicroye.github.io/blog/canary-...
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Downscaling daily solar radiation in the Canary Islands with GAM
Researcher in climate science at MBG-CSIC
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026
Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Can't wait for the measles or other nearly-exterminated-disease mascots to help normalize "natural immunity"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 21/01/2026
Last week, the Trump administration cancelled >$2B in mental health + addiction treatment funds. Only massive, rapid pushback caused them to reverse the decision. But these programs remain at risk. So Grant Witness is now tracking SAMHSA grants. What found so far: grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...
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Grant Witness is tracking SAMHSA Grant Terminations – Grant Witness
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A PhD does not a universal expert make. Why must we hear from economists about dietary advice? Because they can do meta analyses?
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Cees Bassa @cbassa.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
The image shows the hourglass shape of the length of the day and night over the 365 days in 2025. Diagonal bands indicate when the Moon was up in the night sky.
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David Kleijn @davidkleijn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
First ever evidence that multi-actor collaborative conservation produces biodiversity benefits (as far as I know) doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Redirecting
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 28/12/2025
A paper published in Nature in September suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪
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Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This thread 1000x. And I have 0 patience for the "but there are so many problems to solve we need AI to help solve them all" argument. Since when has any *tool* developed by humans solved all of the problems we face?
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃
Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
"Ever since the landmark invention of statistical techniques 100 years ago that allow us to properly compare the difference between the averages of two groups, we have deluded ourselves into thinking that it is such differences that are the... important difference between groups.... We should stop."
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.
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Jacob Moutouama @jmoutouama.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Excited to share our paper in @pnas.org with Aldo Compagnoni and Tom Miller ! Climate change may push dioecious plants toward female-biased sex ratios which will impair seed production. Ignoring this feedback underestimates range shifts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Forecasting range shifts of dioecious plants under climate change | PNAS
Global climate change has triggered an urgent need for predicting the reorganization of Earth’s biodiversity. For dioecious species (those with sep...
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
For #EntSoc2025 folks interested in insect responses to extreme weather, Neal Williams and I are hosting a session, "Hot Bees" in D133/134. We'll focus the methods and tools we can use to understand how heat waves impact wild pollinators across ecological scales. Join us! 🌡️🐝💨🌼
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🚨 PSA to all those attending #entsoc2025; be sure to update your time zone in your profile in the conference program. Mine was, unbeknownst to me, showing all CST even though we're in PST here. 🙃
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Jeremy Hemberger @jhemberger.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Sky cats are the best cats. 🤗🤗🤗
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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Version 2.0.0 of emmeans is out! Notable changes: new look to the plots, qdrg() now an S3 method, and new maintainer (me, Russ still highly involved). cran.r-project.org/package=emme...
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emmeans: Estimated Marginal Means, aka Least-Squares Means
Obtain estimated marginal means (EMMs) for many linear, generalized linear, and mixed models. Compute contrasts or linear functions of EMMs, trends, and comparisons of slopes. Plots and other displays...
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 03/10/2025
If you've ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I'm giving in a couple weeks! It'll be a blast (and we're covering Quarto's brand new _brand dot yaml system!)
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