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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

New study with @maureenpage.bsky.social @jsfrancis.bsky.social et al finds that honeybee competition reduces the nutritional quality of wild bee pollen diets 🐝 But, including high-protein plant species in wildflower plantings can partially mitigate these negative effects 🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Avery Russell @draverbee.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Did you know social bees eat pollen directly at flowers while foraging? New pub in Apidologie - we investigate function of pollen eating on flowers, and potentially link it to quality assessment! Work w/ students & @annieleonard.bsky.social @jsfrancis.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

What gives us #PlantJoy? Giving you a few more days to get those abstracts in! The Botany 2024 early-registration discount and abstract submission deadlines have BEEN EXTENDED to APRIL 5th! www.botanyconference.org

This image talks about the extension of the deadline for Botany 2024 early registration and abstract submission to April 5. The URL code goes to: http://botanyconference.org.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Boosting because we are still searching, abstracts are due Monday! 🪴🌾🌎🌼

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

We are looking for early-career chemical ecology folks who want to participate in a symposium at botany. Hoping to have a vibrant and diverse representation of grad students, post-docs, and pre-tenure faculty. Is this you, or someone you know? Have them reach out to me! #botany #plant-sciences

monkshood flower with with glass tube collecting nectar

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

My next blog posts on pollination ecology techniques is up. It covers some tips for pollen collection I learned during my dissertation, as well as some discussion of quantifying pollen rewards. I'd love to hear about others' experiences. jacobsfrancis.com/pollen-colle... 🌾🪴🌎🌼 #pollination #botany

A gloved hand holding a potentilla flower over a vial

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

I am hiring a post-bac lab coordinator - this person will be the first official member of the lab besides me and will have the opportunity to be a part of many upcoming research projects from their inception! Job Ad here: fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/jo...

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

I recently got a question about sampling nectar, and was reminded of this quick blog post I did this summer about tips and tricks for new pollination ecologists. I will be working on more of these once 2 pressing MS are off my plate! jacobsfrancis.com/tips-on-samp... 🌾🌎🪴🌼 #botany #pollination

Aconitum flower with a small glass tube protruding from the flower

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Dino Sbardellati @phagebeelicious.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Hey science friends! Ever wonder what the phage community of bumble bees look like? Or how to best sample host-associated phage communities? Check out our new preprint! Turns out that the bumble bees we sampled hosted extraordinarily low diversity phage communities, relative to honey bees. 🐝🦠🧪

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Targeted Viromes and Total Metagenomes Capture Distinct Components of Bee Gut Phage Communities

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Couldn't handle having COVID and needing a haircut so went straight to the 1/16th buzz. We will see how my 17 moth old handles it as I have had hair since she was born!

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Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Have you ever dreamed of running a field station, working with scientists, students, and artists? Check out our search for Reserve Director at the UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station, in the beautiful Tahoe/Truckee area of the Sierra Nevada! Closing date: 3/2/24. tinyurl.com/SagehenCreek

A photo of the sun setting over the Sagehen Creek basin and a broad conifer forest.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Botany 2024 is gonna be a blast!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

The Botany 2024–Resilience in a Changing World - Regional Botany Special Lecturer will be Kaya DeerInWater. Kaya is a member of the Citizen Band of Potawatomi, and is pursuing his Master's degree in Biocultural Restoration at SUNY-ESF in Syracuse, New York. botanyconference.org/speaker-bios...

This is a photo of Botany 2024 Regional Botany Special Lecture speaker, Kaya DeerInWater. To learn more about Kaya, visit http://botanyconference.org/speaker-bios.html.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Back in California finishing up some lab work. The good news is you don't immediately forget how to do wet-lab work when you start as a PI. But, I feel like I should start doing DNA extractions once a month and track the decline in my ability to move small colorless liquids as time goes by.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Been Quiet for a couple of months because in deep on starting the new lab! The room is completely cleaned out finally, and it is time to start amassing the things we need to do some science!

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

The best way to see a new ecosystem in my mind. Faster than walking so you can cover some ground and get a sense of beta diversity, but slow enough to actually see things.

Cockpit view of a fatbike riding down a two-track gravel road in S.Florida.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

My friend and fellow conservation scientist Sheila has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and her partner is quitting his job to take care of her. If you can spare any funds to help their family, I and they would appreciate it. @savewildbees.bsky.social

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Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment, organized by Anna Penner

There is a good chance that you already know Sheila Colla: she is a brillia… Anna Penner needs your support for Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

If you are out here sending 3.5 page long letters of recommendation for a small travel grant for a trainee... please don't.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Caupolicana floridana; a pretty Florida endemic bee, sighted doing serious bee things near Lake Placid last fall 🧡🌿

Hovering bee, with a bright orange fuzzy thorax and black and white banded abdomen

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Shawn Christensen @pollenmicrobes.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Our preprint on the very cool, very weird (ant-like??) microbiome of the solitary bee Anthophora bomboides is up on bioRxiv !! Its overwhelmingly dominated by Actinobacteria and one fungus (Moniliella spathulata)-- but only in the brood cell... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A bright yellow-orange prepupa sits inside an opened brood cell (made of dirt). The inside wall of the brood cell has white streaks (the fatty lining that it just ate most of) and orange spots of fungi are also growing on the walls.

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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

My whirlwind two week visit to the US has ended, happy to see my mentors, collaborators, and colleagues at #EntSoc23. But my fav thing about the conference is by far the memes of Corteva Man.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Climate Change Ecologist position in the biology department at Florida Atlantic University: fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/de... We have been in S. Florida for almost 2 months, and have loved the outdoor opportunities. The department has a bunch of new hires, and everyone is super friendly!

fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

Assistant Professor - Climate Change Ecologist

Apply now to join FAU on its race to excellence. For more information on everything FAU has to offer, please visit www.fau.edu/jobs. Note: Current FAU employees must apply as an internal applicant by ...

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I definitely clicked on this paper thinking it would be about making fake flowers for bee behavioral experiments... I cant be the only one right? @draverbee.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social?

Screen capture of the paper Ecology of Plastic Flowers by Quin Rusman and colleagues. 2019 TREE Vol 24 Issue 8

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Every study ever: Fewer cars, reliable transit, and safe active transportation options are good things. Cities: Hmm I don't know, can we really trust every study ever done?

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David AttenBruh @alexig.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

White folks love to say “he’s a product of his time” but refuse to acknowledge how our racist society is a product of that same time period

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

V. excited to be within biking distance of the Amtrak Silver Meteor line. Its going to take a little longer to get to Entomology this year, but I will 1) have a bike in DC, and 2) burn a little less carbon! Just sad it doesn't look like this anymore. Photo Credit:Leonard W. Rice.

Seaboard Air Line E4A #3002 provides a brilliant splash of color to the Ivy City engine terminal in Washington, D.C. on May 6, 1940 at 12:35 PM as it awaits its next assignment pulling the "Silver Meteor." Leonard W. Rice photo.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

I've been neglecting 3 projects for too long - with many collaborators waiting on me. But - I have the feeling that any progress needs to be perfect (I've had forever to work on it after all). It makes it much harder to make progress. How do folks lighten the weight of these sorts of tasks?

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

@ethanfreedman.bsky.social could I please be added to the what is ecology feed?

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Come study pollination ecology in S. Florida! Recruiting graduate students (as well as a postdoc). 🌎🌾

A grad school job ad.

text reads: We take an interdisciplinary approach to understand how floral phenotype impacts interactions with pollinators, microbes, and co-flowering pants. Two fully funded graduate student positions (combination of TA and RA) through the integrative biology doctoral program at Florida Atlantic University available. Stipend are nationally competitive and include summer funding. Students will have the opportunity to collaboratively design a project that fits their interests and goals. Students interested in pollinator behavior, chemical ecology, and community ecology (of plants and microbes) will fit best in the lab. Projects can span the gamut from lab-based pollinator behavioral trials and experiments with synthetic microbial communities to field-based plant community ecology in the highly diverse ecosystems of South Florida. To apply prospective students should email Dr. Jake Francis (Jacob.franci@gmail.com), with a cv and brief description of their research

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MxVoid @mxvoid.com · 28/09/2023

The short answer is, relatively high heterozygosity and dependence on a few suspected gene loci for palatability. 🌾🧪 The long answer is… Well, here: www.nature.com/articles/nat...

nature.com

Genomics of the origin and evolution of Citrus - Nature

The origin, evolution and domestication of Citrus and the genealogy of the most important wild and cultivated citrus varieties.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

If the departmental culture I anything like my interactions with Erol have been then this would be a wonderful place to be! Philly doesn't stink either.

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

#PlantScience folks Have you ever wished there was a review paper on a given topic that was appropriate for beginning learners? For use in teaching or when learning about a new topic? Here's your chance to publish a Primer on that topic. 👇🏼 DO IT!

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Getting out into some natural areas of North Broward County with FAU undergraduates and botanist extraordinaire John Pipoly. So much botanical diversity in S. Florida - and at least 5 species of bee.

2 scientist on a boardwalk listening to a lecture about S. Florida plants

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

As more people come over here, I'll keep reposting this hoping that we can hold each other to higher standards this time and stop tolerating all kinds of assholery in this space & irl alike, regardless of someone's status in the prestige hierarchy. Remember: Bullies bullying is not genius at work.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done: Horticultural labor (greenhouse weeding) Graveyard landscaper (gravestone weeding) Environmental educator (nature center weeding) Invasive species tech (forest weeding) Freelance landscaper (rich-folks yard weeding) Bicycle Mech. Grad student Postdoc

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

I hear from so many that work from home is more efficient for them, and I guess the data show that. But it never has (and I don’t think ever will be) for me. I can’t seem to switch my brain from work mode to home mode without some travel, and getting stuck in either is not an option.

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

This sounds like a great program! One of the reasons I love the botanical society is how much training they organize (e.g. GRFP programs, this and others)

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

I have lots of family in West Virginia, and a special connection to the biomes of the Allegheny Front. Because of this WVU was was a place I dreamed of working. This reminds me of stories I heard from alumni about herbarium specimens being literally burned decades ago (never fact checked)

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Dr Steven M. Vamosi 🇨🇦 @smvamosi.github.io · 19/09/2023

Something I gently and supportively correct every time I hear it: when we are doing around-the-circle introductions, so many times I hear “and I’m just the undergraduate student on the project.“ Hell no, scratch the just, you’re probably the one making it all happen! 🌎

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

@ethanfreedman.bsky.social Could you please add me to the What is Ecology feed?

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Jake Francis @jsfrancis.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

I have been here a minute, but had nothing to say. But now: We have a new paper out in New Phytologist where we found evidence that dispersal overwhelms host selection in nectar microbiome assembly. I'd love to hear folks thoughts on the work! drive.google.com/file/d/1MNP3...

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New Phytologist Francis et al

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Zack Steel 🪶🦇🌲🔥 @zacksteel.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Post-doc opportunity for a quantitative ecologist at Colorado State University & USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, CO! Focus is on integrating big wildlife data at broad scales to understand trends & global change drivers of wildlife decline. w/ @johnmola.bsky.social & me 🧪

jobs.colostate.edu

Postdoctoral Scholar Quantitative Ecology - Fort Collins, Colorado

The Postdoctoral Scholar will lead research projects assessing status, trends, and projected trajectories of wildlife and biodiversity across the United States. They will be responsible for integratio...

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