Are urban flowers 'the only show in town' for bees? Karen Dooley, Elizabeth Crone, and I have a new paper out today using mark-recapture to ask how capture probabilities and abundance vary across an urban landscape, w/ bicolored striped sweat bees. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Working with address data is always an adventure. There are inevitably weird one off conventions apparently used a single time in an entire city -- maybe just on the whim of some anonymous official ~100 years ago! (also, the absolutely classic Massachusetts move of one short street having 3 names)

Always interesting to see how group discourse can align and not align with actual behaviors...evidence from Hungary of right-wing neighborhoods recycling _better_ (nb social context is obv important and who knows if this exact result is transferable to U.S.) journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Can you imagine??? 😳😱

Pollinator gardens are having a moment, with good reason! But what can these gardens realistically achieve for conservation and for the people who make them? Led by Nick Dorian, we take a stab at these questions, out today in Conservation Biology: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

who knew! bad luck to pay money for your bees! (all the more reason to conserve our wild pollinators 😉). -- Lupton, 'A thousand notable things' 1748

if any journalists want to talk about this EO, let me know.

Fascinating to see people grapple with the Information Age when it was really starting to rev up -- what do we do with all this information? what should we be allowed to do? it all seems very quaint now, though I'm not sure we ever answered these questions...
(Bowker & Star 1999)

Out now in Landscape and Urban Planning: the first pub from my dissertation! We used Google Street View to map urban pollinator gardens. Gardens were more common on small + wealthy lots. Suggests unexpected biodiversity benefits to denser housing development! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...