Hongmei Li-Byarlay

‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’

🙏🙏🙏 mourning for the loss of #JaneGoodall #animalbehavior www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

Our new article “Impact of chronic exposure to field-level #glyphosate on the #gut microbiota of 🐝 Apis cerana and Apis mellifera” is now available online.

The URL link:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

#NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek Thank my postdoctoral #researchers for their hard work on #bees!

The USDA ARS Bee Lab in Beltsville may be closed soon. We ask you to support this bee lab! The USDA Secretary has announced the opening of a 30-d public comment period. Everyone can submit comments to reorganization@usda.gov emphasizing the vital importance of keeping the Bee Lab in Beltsville.

"Honey robbing is beneficial to #bees because honey is a high-quality and abundant food resource, but it may have drawbacks on the health of the colony. "
a blog on ICB author Dr. Clare Rittschof
by Audrey Friestad, Ohio University
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/h...

Cornell campus is beautiful ! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝@cornelluniversity.bsky.social #campustour

@princetonupress.bsky.social #evolution2025

Research funding has unexpected benefits. A lizard study led to Ozempic In a new weekly video series, STAT's @HoganAlex examines the stakes of ongoing court battles over NIH grant funding.

A tizard study led to a drug now used by millions.
Yet federal cuts threaten that spark—and with it future innovation.
Don’t destroy the seeds of change & growth. Protect public research.

zurl.co/QhSRQ

Cute picture of black footed cat #evolution2025 #genomics

See you tomorrow!

Cover of George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy” showing a young Japanese American boy in a line of people being sent to an internment camp guarded by a uniformed American soldier

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

A fascinating talk by @corriemoreau.bsky.social #evolution2025 #evol25 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 society of systematic biologists #SSB

Come one come all—-I learned yesterday that faculty and other non-ECP folks are welcome!

Attending #evolution2025?
Check out my poster on the 23rd at 5:45 pm! 🐝🐝🐝

#evol2025 @asn-amnat.bsky.social

#evolution2025 @danielbolnick.bsky.social why fund curiosity? Plenary talk 🐟🐟

What have insects done for us? - Royal Entomological Society A few examples of how insects have inspired human innovation: Insects are known for their essential pollination and decomposition services and are a vital part of the global food chain, but how have…

Wondering what insects have ever done for us?

We've put together some examples of how insects have inspired human innovation. Learn about how the little things have inspired technology for engineering, medical devices, pharmaceutical research & more 🔽

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#RHSChelsea

Stop Ohio's Discriminatory Alien Land Laws - H.B. 1 Ohio lawmakers are pushing a dangerous new bill — H.B. 1 — that would expand existing bans on land ownership by certain foreign individuals, businesses, and communities near military bases and infrast...

actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... stop Ohio HB1

Integrating Intermediate Traits in Phylogenetic Genotype-to-Phenotype Studies

Our new paper is published @sicbjournals.bsky.social !
Integrating Intermediate Traits in Phylogenetic Genotype-to-Phenotype Studies, Nathan L Clark , Chris Todd Hittinger , Hongmei Li-Byarlay , Antonis Rokas , Timothy B Sackton , Robert L Unckless, Integrative and Comp Biol doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

@sicbjournals.bsky.social

A Social Web to Stimulate Interdisciplinary Collaborations Abstract. Interdisciplinary collaborations are essential for addressing complex global challenges, yet forming and sustaining such teams is often hindered

Our new paper is published on Integrative and Comparative Biology!

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Standard methods and good practices in Apis honey bee omics research In the past decades, COLOSS members have joined forces multiple times to develop and condense standard methods related to research on honey bees, their pests, pathogens, and colony products. This l...

Full article: Standard methods and good practices in Apis honey bee omics research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stand up with us! #OSU #Ohio #STEM

#NationalPoetryMonth What #poem will you write today?!

Pesticides threaten the bulk of life on Earth - Interview with Prof. Dave Goulson Insect and other arthropod populations are rapidly declining. This alarming loss of biodiversity jeopardises our joy of life. After all, what would the world be like if children grew up without the jo...

What services do insects provide, and what would the world be like without them? 🪲

Watch the interview on pesticides and #InsectDecline with @paneurope.bsky.social and @davegoulson.bsky.social 🔽

www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici...

#Entomology #SaveOurInsects #InsectScience

Hey SUFS Community!

If you fall into one of the following categories and are willing to talk to press (on or off the record), please comment/DM us:

1. Had a funded grant revoked
2. Are considering moving abroad to continue your research
3. Have been impacted by the stoppage of a clinical trial

Photo of many people at a rally in front of a government building

Photo of many people at a rally in front of a government building

Photo of a person at a rally wearing a placard that says "Got smallpox? Polio? Measles? Me neither! #fundscience

People gathering around a table, making posters

Columbus Ohio stood up today. At the peak, we counted 2800 people!

#standupforscience

I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say.

Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.

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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” But WIRED has learned that some DOGE staffers are drawing six-figure salaries from the agencies they’re dismantling.
wrd.cm/3XA0IHP

Happy Amazon Boycott Week!

Remember to shop for your indie ebooks on places like Itchio, Kobo, Smashwords, and B&N!

#booksky