Congratulations to Hannah Griesmer for successfully defending her thesis on Nosema infections of honey bees and ways to activate natural bee defenses against this very widespread disease!
30.05.2025 23:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@jamesnieh.bsky.social
We study the stressors, natural and manmade, that influence the evolution of bee behavior. I'm a Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution at UC San Diego in the School of Biological Sciences
Congratulations to Hannah Griesmer for successfully defending her thesis on Nosema infections of honey bees and ways to activate natural bee defenses against this very widespread disease!
30.05.2025 23:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Congratulations to Gu Gaoying and our team on our new paper: even low levels of artificial light harm honey bees. Constant light raises mortality, impairs scent learning, and boosts stress-linked norepinephrineβshowing how light pollution disrupts bee brain function.
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A great day telling folks about the science behind bees! @ucsandiego.bsky.social
12.04.2025 20:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stop by! Join me at the 4th Kensington-Talmadge Annual Earth Day Celebration on April 12th with the theme "Helping our Changing Climate" and learn about bees!
Location: Kensington-Normal Heights Library Park 4121 Adams Ave around noon
Bee City USA
UC San Diego Biological Sciences
Getting excited about Entomo-Fest 2025 at UC San Diego Biological Sciences. Let's celebrate the amazing science being generated by our faculty, research that is also supported by federal funding.
12.04.2025 15:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Join me at the 4th Kensington-Talmadge Annual Earth Day Celebration on April 12th with the theme "Helping our Changing Climate" and learn about bees!
Location: Kensington-Normal Heights Library Park 4121 Adams Ave around noon
@Bee City USA
UC San Diego Biological Sciences
Congratulations to @Bahram Kheradmand for publishing his paper on sequence learning in honey bees. It turns out that bees can figure out a very challenging task of learning that a visual pattern that was previously unrewarded will become rewarding on the next visit.
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In 2003, I received my first major NSF grant to study stingless bee communication and its link to their role as neotropical pollinators. This led to insights into how warfare may have shaped their signaling. Thank you, federal funding! @ucsandiego.bsky.social
30.03.2025 17:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A teacher once asked why I didnβt want to be a doctor to cure diseases. While human health is vital, the wonder of nature in every child deserves exploration. Letβs celebrate researchers who inspire seekers and thank federal funding for supporting this vision.
30.03.2025 17:35 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0With a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation, I continued the Opportunities for Research in the Behavioral Sciences with San Diego Community Colleges and give 68 students research experiences in my lab. Funding also helped support the careers of new USA and Brazilian scientists.
30.03.2025 17:19 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Promising new results! A mRNA vaccine can help fight a deadly disease, pancreatic cancer. Research partly supported by NIH U01 CA224175 Pancreatic Cancer Microenvironment Network Cancer Moonshot Award.
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Thank you NIH!
Federally supported basic science in action: βEven Ozempic traces its roots back in part to work at the N.I.H. The toxin from Gila monster lizards seemed to have particular physiological effects, helping lead eventually to one of the worldβs most profitable and promising drugs.β
25.02.2025 15:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Enjoying Love Your Wetlands Day at @kendall frost reserve. @uc
01.02.2025 20:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy New Year!
01.01.2025 21:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0French bee hotel π»
31.12.2024 14:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We made 3d printed pollen feeders for our apiary. The bees love them and consume surprisingly large amounts.
31.12.2024 14:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Love finding pollinators in artβ¦from the @gettymuseum.bsky.social
31.12.2024 14:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations to Ashley Kim for giving a great talk and presentation at the EntSoc meeting!
31.12.2024 14:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We loved the hive exhibit at the San Diego zoo.
24.12.2024 15:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Happy holidays! (Generated by AI)
24.12.2024 15:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Welcoming Mesa College students visiting the lab.
24.12.2024 14:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations to the students who presented at the EntSoc conference 2024!
23.12.2024 14:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Safe and protected at UC San Diego.
22.12.2024 16:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lab reunion near Scripps Pier.
21.12.2024 15:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0UC San Diego pollinator club building bee hotels.
20.12.2024 15:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brandi Sanchez, MS student, explaining the honey bee waggle dance.
20.12.2024 14:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Free native seed library built by Pollinator Club at UC San Diego for the Bee Campus initiative.
20.12.2024 14:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Also known as Vespa mandarinia or the Northern Giant Hornet www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
19.12.2024 22:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lab summer research interns
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