Marjorie Weber

Herbarium Spotlight: How Mites and Plants Form a Hidden Partnership | U-M LSA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) EEB postdoc Marianne Azevedo Silva’s research dives into U-M's historical herbarium specimens—some over 150 years old—to find hidden mites and their eggs on leaves. Her work shows how museum collectio...

Article about awesome lab postdoc Marianne Azevedo Silva and her cool work with mutualistic mites pressed into herbarium specimens! lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-eve...

White umbles of the maple leaf viburnum in flower

The Mapleleaf Arrowwood, Viburnum acerifolium, now flowering in Ithaca forests. One of the species that led to the development of the bed and breakfast hypothesis by @webermg.bsky.social

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University of Michigan Biological Station Invites Public to Free Summer Lectures | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) On Wednesdays at 7 p.m., topics include the fascinating world of fungi, how climate change affects your health, all about the Common Loon, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and nitrogen as a driver of...

Join us! Explore the lives of loons, how climate change affects your health, the fascinating world of fungi, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. during the Summer Lectures at the Michigan Biological Station. Schedule: myumi.ch/E88yg

Undergraduate Students at U-M Biological Station Co-Author Mite-y Research Paper in Scientific Journal | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) The journal Ecology and Evolution published a research paper co-authored by all students in the 2024 Insights From Trees class at the University of Michigan Biological Station evaluating the abundance...

I developed a course at the UM Bio Station where each student picks a tree to study all semester, practicing observation through the lenses of science & art. So fun. We even published a research paper on tree-mite mutualism & w/ students as co-authors! News story here: lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...

Martin-Eberhardt et al. reveal a single anthocyanin pigment affects four plant-insect interactions in a carnivorous plant, finding patterns consistent with ecological interactions exerting opposing selection on plant color and thus maintaining variation.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In defense of our institutional independence This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.

An important statement signed by 5 of the 8 University of Michigan regents.

www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

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so well deserved, congrats Liz and Melissa!!

Recruitment instructors_IUSE2.docx Which elements of scientist role model stories are effective in improving equity and success in undergraduate STEM education? Interested? Fill out this poll! We are searching for undergraduate bio...

Undergrad biology instructors! Paid opportunity to participate in research that tests the impacts of highlighting scientist role models in instructional materials. 🐌 🧪 🦋 🔬

Check it out and apply! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

“Change does not come from Washington. Change comes TO Washington from people who demand it.”

- Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov
on the Senate floor, just now

www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

This hasn’t aged well.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is making sweeping cuts to contracts, with the Trump administration asserting that core services will remain unaffected.