John M. Mola

Love this! Had not heard the term "bandwagon effect" but makes sense. Cool stuff!

Conveying a sense of buzz: how plain flowers benefit from early pollinators in winning followers Lina G. Kawaguchi, Kazuharu Ohashi, Akihiro Konuma, Yukihiko Toquenaga This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Why do some flowers invest …

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YouTube video by Hank Green This Fish Deeply Changed How I See Myself

I am ill and @hankgreen.bsky.social releasing a video defending my namesake is a wonderful treat!

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I'm hoping to attend Worlds this year in Michigan! My best friends live nearby so I was planning on a two-fer.

You have amazing home courses!!

It is crazy it hasn't caught on. But, our favorite sport is also kind of dorky I guess - so I get why haha

Disc golf/ultimate. Cheap sports that can be played with 1-22 people and have a history of "spirit of the game" rules, mixing genders, and can be played with a range of equipment/playing fields.

I'm biased as hell, but I stand by what I said. :)

Sometimes I help with studying vertebrates.

Fun review paper led by Leah McTigue - I do think folks interested in drought and insects can learn a lot from it, too. I did!

Local-scale factors predict wild bee richness, whereas landscape-scale factors predict butterfly richness in city parks Abstract. Urbanization has a growing influence on pollinator species worldwide, benefiting some species while threatening others. Urban areas have high cov

New lab paper! It's a first, first-authored paper by PhD student, @nicki-bailey.bsky.social ! Nicki won the 2024 @entsocamerica.bsky.social @pie-entsoc.bsky.social Master's Student Achievement in Entomology Award. Read it here!

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dude we haven't had a pandemic in years it'll be fine

Saved a file as "2019-02-13-filename" today so I'm doing fine

I had not! Thank you!

"If they didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any standards at all" or whatever that saying is

Thanks, Josh! Noam tagged me and I've already sent the email.

Thank you!

Thanks, Noam! I have emailed and will share widely. <3

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up

Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Flyer for a "Ram Talks" debate between Melissa Schreiner and Tristan Kubik (CSU Entomologists) on "Are Insects Romantic? A Debate" taking place at the Fort Collins Welcome Center, 7 Old Town Square, Suite 100, on February 11th at 5-6:30pm. Debate Starts at 5:30pm.

Northern Colorado people, you have Valentine's eve eve eve plans now!

I overheard someone exclaim on campus today, "He tried mansplaining a derivative to me. Like, who doesn't know what a derivative is?!"

Similar but different, but gave me a nice chuckle. lol

Yep - working on reaching out to a PO. Thank you!

We just had the same thing! I came on here to hopefully get info.

Her topic is Ecology, which is clearly listed?

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Anyone dealt with challenging an "Ineligible" determination on a GRFP proposal?

A student's proposed was DQ'ed stating: "Applicants must select research in eligible STEM or STEM education fields."

However, Ecology is clearly listed in the solicitation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Any wisdom?

We have five positions open in our lab this summer! Two of them will work wtih me to study habitat connectivity and conservation genetics in Denver, Colorado. Learn more and apply here: molalab.org/join-the-lab/

Flyer states "Get paid to study bees!" The Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Bee Ecology and Education (FRSBEE) Lab is hiring five hourly technician positions this summer Available to Anyone: RMNP Bumble Bee and Butterfly Research Assistant Current CSU Students Only: Denver Parks Genetics Research Assistant (2 positions) Bee Ecology and Conservation Research Assistant Native Bee x Honey Bee CSU Extension Internship Links to positions available at frsbeelab.org/join-the-lab

Our lab is hiring summer positions!

frsbeelab.org/join-the-lab

Thank you!

New USDA AFRI funding opportunities are posted.

I'm keen on getting a new postdoc in the lab, so if anyone is interested in working on a postdoc proposal together, let me know!

www.nifa.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

I was able to find this thesis, but I thought I saw something more recent and with community-level data? etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/2829...

I am convinced I recently saw a paper on heat + humidity effects on wild bees with heat waves having little effect except within the presence of altered humidity.

Anyone have a reference? Or am I imagining stuff?

FIT for purpose? Sampling Bees in Flowering Canopies with Flight Interception Traps (FITs) by Krahner et al. provides methodological advice on how to best sample pollinators in tree canopies. doi.org/10.26786/192...

Whew. It's a terrible time to be literate.

Imma build a rocket. I have a PhD.

Just to your other points in comments - it's quite upsetting how AI crud is making an already bad situation worse.

I mentioned I do writing assns in my upper-level course and was disappointed in the quality of writing. A senior prof in my dept said "Well, is Forest Ecology really the class where they should be learning to write?"

These students are already juniors/seniors. When else will they learn?!