Do #zombie #fungi affect ant gut microbiomes? It sure seems so, especially the gut fungi! And, specifically during behavior manipulation as well! Check out our new pre-print which poses that gut microbes have a role to play in zombie ant behavior 🧟‍♀️🐜🍄doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

[post] 'Network ecology is dead, long live to network ecology!' My comment on the recent provocative article by Carsten Dormann: “The rise, and possible fall, of network ecology”. bartomeuslab.com/2024/05/02/net…

#ConservationWorks
Meta-analysis of 186 studies, incl. 665 trials, looking at conservation interventions globally, and over time.
Encouraging data! Also highlights the need for more counterfactual studies & meta-analysis to assess conservation impact.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our new paper is out! 🐝🌼

'Partitioning the contribution of bees with different traits and hoverflies to flower-visitor interaction networks'
doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

Thanks to Prof. Shoko Sakai, JSPS 独立行政法人日本学術振興会（学振） and Kyoto University for hosting me in Japan.

#pollinators #ecology

“Zombie”-making Fungus Carries an Enormous Genome @[email protected] Jason Stajich Dr. Brian Lovett Rachelle Gaudet @harvard UC Riverside Agricultural Research Service mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

New study sheds light on the critical role of pollinators in crop production, with guidance for future research 🐝

Pollinator dependence values across various crops and cultivars reveal an underestimation of pollinator importance 🌻

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Amazing symbiosis work by Jason Chen Nicole Gerardo and co. Way to go Jason!! 👏👏😃

🌱 The tiny drivers behind plant #ecology & #evolution 🌱

Check out this new #AJB essay by Jennifer Lau & Lana Bolin!

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany #symbiosis Wiley Plant Science Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Hey, come work with ecological communities and pollinators!

Postdoctoral position (2 years) in pollination ecology

For more information, umu.se/en/work-with-u…
and contact [email protected]

Interested in doing postdoctoral work in my lab in London, working on insect behaviour, learning and cognition? Have a look at this fellowship opportunity, and get in touch:
hfsp.org/hfsp-news/2024…

Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist.

Intense & exciting to have my essay published in The New York Times exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance

Mapping fungi w/family SPUN New York Times Opinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf
(photo 2011, Kenya)

Super thrilled that our review “Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions“ has been published @cois_crisin which we highlighted the ecological implications of mosquito nectar foraging & vector management sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

NEW TODAY in nature - A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of >9500 flowering plants! 🧬

This invaluable resource crafted by 279 scientists lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins 🌿

nature.com/articles/s4158…

This is Massospora cicadina, the zombifying fungus that infects periodical cicadas. 🔈

It does not kill or slow down it’s host. Instead, the infected cicada is coerced into actively dispersing the spores through repeated failed mating attempts. The genitalia have been consumed…

‼️ ATTENTION ‼️ It's #EarthDay2024 and we need your help finding / collecting Massospora-infected zombie cicadas for research so please share and RT! Illustration🎨by Molly Sherlock.

If you somehow missed it, trillions of cicadas are beginning their emergence across the Midwest…

“Essentially, all life depends on soil, there can be no life without soil and no soil without life...” — Charles E. Kellogg, 1938

Discover what #SoilBiodiversity is and the critical roles it plays 🍄🪱🐛🐌
#SoilDoctors #SoilHealth Via FAO Land, Soil and Water
fao.org/global-soil-pa…

Host plant odour and sex pheromone are integral to mate finding in codling moth
researchsquare.com/article/rs-417…

#FunDive combines citizen science, taxonomy, barcoding, and eDNA to develop improved tools for fungal biodiversity monitoring and conservation assessments in Europe.
#BiodivMonTallinn

📢Gwenola Gouesbet reported an RNA-Seq approach, enhanced by biochemical analyses, established that the high resistance to β-cyfluthrin in an Alphitobius diaperinus strain comes from high basal activities for detoxification enzymes.
👉rebrand.ly/458e2f

How aphids fly: Take-off, free flight and implications for short and long distance migration

resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/af…