Margarita Lopez-Uribe

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships.

This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria.

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Cover image in #G3 highlighting our new paper in "Shifts in bee diet breadths are associated with gene gains and losses and positive selection across olfactory receptors"
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Thank you Aimee!

Write Your Own Letter to Congress The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society.

Science funding is still being finalized as Congress is now passing specific appropriations. The easiest way I have found to write to our reps is thru this simple form (you just need your ZIP code and a few sentences of things that matter to you, like science funding!)

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Thank you, Carlos! We also hope to soon be able to test the hypotheses posed by this paper with a broader phylogenetic sampling that includes andrenids and melitids!

Shifts in bee diet breadths are associated with gene gains and losses and positive selection across olfactory receptors Abstract. Bees are palynivorous insects that vary widely in the number of plant families from which they collect pollen. Their evolutionary history has bee

🧬 Shift between specialized & generalized diets in #bees is associated with evolutionary changes in their sensory genes. Generalists lose odorant receptors (ORs) and gain gustatory receptors (GRs), while specialists diversify existing genes 🌸🐝 #genomics #pollinators
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Donate to Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment, organized by Anna Penner There is a good chance that you already know Sheila Colla: she is a brillian… Anna Penner needs your support for Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment

Sheila was a remarkable friend, colleague, mentor, neighbour, and mother, who gave so much to all of her communities. I looked up to her immensely as a colleague who thought deeply about the way we do science and who we include and uphold. She will be deeply missed. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...

Pinguicula vulgaris growing in moss

Are #carnivorous #plants mixotrophic?

A #Letter by Lin et al. 👇

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#LatestIssue #PlantScience

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In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

Organic colony management practices are profitable for backyard beekeepers Abstract. Management practice decisions are critical for maintaining honey bee, Apis mellifera L., colony health, and the profitability of beekeeping opera

🐝 New research shows that an organic bee management system is profitable in small-scale stationary operations. 📉 Chemical-free = economic losses. 📈 Organic = highest honey & bee production. Mite control = key to success!
#Beekeeping #OrganicFarming #HoneyBees

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Attending the #2025ParamosSymposium I’ve learned so much about plants, soils, and water. Looking forward to the next 4 days! @stl.bsky.social

I am so excited about this upcoming publication about the Bees of Pennsylvania! 🐝 Stay tuned; we will have a page online where you can purchase this book in July! @nashturley.bsky.social @napoleonicento.bsky.social @stephanidae.bsky.social

Leave the Leaves! One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.

Some advice for spring gardening! xerces.org/blog/leave-t...

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article) The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

Updates on NSF Priorities

This is bad.

Read the updates.

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U.S. climate data websites go dark Lapse may be temporary, but draft budget plans would eliminate service

U.S. scientists, state policymakers, farmers, and others who depend on up-to-date climate data on Thursday confronted an information blackout from federal regional climate centers across much of the country.

"Farsi, who lives in exile in France, said she feared that Hassouna had been targeted for her much-followed work as a photojournalist and recently publicised participation in the documentary."

As a scientist passionate about health equity, my career options are dwindling Amid funding cuts and new limitations, “I don’t have 4 years to hunker down and wait it out,” this postdoc writes

What it feels like to be a "DEI hire"
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Climate Solutions Symposium 2025

🌍 Excited to be part of the upcoming Climate Solutions Symposium at Penn State! I’ll be joining other voices to explore solutions for a better climate future.

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Proyecto Abejas de Colombia 🇨🇴🐝
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Benfeitoria - Descobrindo os Sabores do Mel de Abelhas Sem Ferrão Quero aprender mais sobre a análise sensorial do mel para fortalecer a meliponicultura, ajudando o setor a valorizar e posicionar melhor esse produto único!

🐝🐝 Small help - great support for my friend Carlos Gustavo from Brazil - you can be Part of it 🍯

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I was shocked by the diversity of bees collected in these traps!!!

Visiting the forensic entomology collection at Tecnologico de Antioquia. Look all the bees 🐝collected in fish 🐟 and gut 🥩 traps!!!

Three field technicians for GorBEEa project The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), is looking for three motivated field technicians to support the research activities of Research Line (RL) 3 on Terrestrial Ecosystems in the context of the ...

We have three(!) field technician positions open to join us this season to collect and process plant-pollinator data in Gorbeia Natural Park. 🐝 🌿 Application closes soon...

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When you have the best team in the world and you miss them 🫶🐝💛

Native bee populations can bounce back after honey bees move out | Penn State University Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that, under certain conditions, the...

Nice story about our recent study investigating how bee communities respond to pressures from migratory beekeeping. www.psu.edu/news/researc...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Did you know that #bees dance?!

#Honeybees are some of the most vital organisms for planetary health. How can we better understand them?

#opensource hardware and interdisciplinary collaboration may have the answer. In the latest episode of HardwareX, @mmlopezu.bsky.social explains why (Link below)

López-Uribe awarded presidential honor for early career scientists | Penn State University Margarita López-Uribe, the Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor of Entomology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engine...

Feeling humbled to receive the Presidential Early Career Award in Engineering and Science. I dedicate this award to all who have inspired and supported me throughout my career: my family, mentors, collaborators, students, postdocs, the communities I serve and the bees!
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