Brian Spiesman
@brianspiesman.bsky.social
Dad who likes pollinators, ecology AI, and community science. K-State Entomology https://beemachine.ai
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October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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Make sure to get the latest update for Android and iOS! BeeMachine mobile now includes location and date in the classification process for improved accuracy. You can also share images from your image gallery straight to BeeMachine.
September 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Make sure to get the latest update for Android and iOS! BeeMachine mobile now includes location and date in the classification process for improved accuracy. You can also share images from your image gallery straight to BeeMachine.
So proud of the work done by my students in the Pollinator Ecology Lab at K-State!
Capturing Pollinator Impact | Student Story
YouTube video by K-State Entomology
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June 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
So proud of the work done by my students in the Pollinator Ecology Lab at K-State!
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BeeMachine now uses 🗺️location & 📆date to improve predictions. These details allow BeeMachine to better distinguish b/w similar looking species & provide IDs that are more relevant to your area. Now active on the web & coming soon to mobile. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
June 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
BeeMachine now uses 🗺️location & 📆date to improve predictions. These details allow BeeMachine to better distinguish b/w similar looking species & provide IDs that are more relevant to your area. Now active on the web & coming soon to mobile. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
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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
April 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
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This seems like the perfect occasion for my favorite fun fact about Volterra! From his wikipedia page:
"In 1922, he joined the opposition to the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and in 1931 he was one of only 12 out of 1,250 professors who refused to take a mandatory oath of loyalty."
"In 1922, he joined the opposition to the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and in 1931 he was one of only 12 out of 1,250 professors who refused to take a mandatory oath of loyalty."
100 years with the Lotka-Volterra equation... let's celebrate!
January 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This seems like the perfect occasion for my favorite fun fact about Volterra! From his wikipedia page:
"In 1922, he joined the opposition to the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and in 1931 he was one of only 12 out of 1,250 professors who refused to take a mandatory oath of loyalty."
"In 1922, he joined the opposition to the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and in 1931 he was one of only 12 out of 1,250 professors who refused to take a mandatory oath of loyalty."
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New research on how non-native honeybees alter visitation networks in a peri-urban environment. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New research on how non-native honeybees alter visitation networks in a peri-urban environment. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful
January 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful
Cool stuff!
Just received a letter of acceptance from Functional Ecology! 💪🎉🎊
[New Preprint] We found that bee flower constancy dramatically decreases as flower species become more spatially mixed esp. when they look alike, suggesting this behavior is a dynamic optimal strategy rather than a static result of cognitive limitation. bit.ly/3vO7zmv
January 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Cool stuff!
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Land-use change reduces bee diversity at local scales, but the impacts of agriculture and urbanisation differ at regional scales. Agriculture has more negative effects overall. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 🌏 🌐
January 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Land-use change reduces bee diversity at local scales, but the impacts of agriculture and urbanisation differ at regional scales. Agriculture has more negative effects overall. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 🌏 🌐
Rewatching this at bat - an all-timer - never fails to brighten my day.
youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI?...
youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI?...
Kirk Gibson's legendary 1988 World Series walk-off home run, called by Vin Scully!
YouTube video by MLB
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October 25, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Rewatching this at bat - an all-timer - never fails to brighten my day.
youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI?...
youtu.be/N4nwMDZYXTI?...
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Pretty sweet stache on this Southern Plains bumble bee. Bombus fraternus
October 6, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Pretty sweet stache on this Southern Plains bumble bee. Bombus fraternus
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Map bug fixed for iOS devices! Get the update in the App Store
October 3, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Map bug fixed for iOS devices! Get the update in the App Store
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UPDATE: BeeMachine is now available in 40 different languages!🔓🌐
July 1, 2024 at 6:45 PM
UPDATE: BeeMachine is now available in 40 different languages!🔓🌐
New work out today on how we can use #AI to ID some of the more challenging #bees from images of whole pinned bees and just their wings. Look for more on this soon.
@beemachine.bsky.social
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Deep learning for identifying bee species from images of wings and pinned specimens
One of the most challenging aspects of bee ecology and conservation is species-level identification, which is costly, time consuming, and requires taxonomic expertise. Recent advances in the applicati...
journals.plos.org
May 28, 2024 at 11:56 PM
New work out today on how we can use #AI to ID some of the more challenging #bees from images of whole pinned bees and just their wings. Look for more on this soon.
@beemachine.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
@beemachine.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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t-SNE visualization of the 354 pollinator taxa in the latest BeeMachine algorithm. Each point represents a test image and clusters represent images with similar learned features. Labels are placed over the class centroid. Points are color coded by taxa.
April 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
t-SNE visualization of the 354 pollinator taxa in the latest BeeMachine algorithm. Each point represents a test image and clusters represent images with similar learned features. Labels are placed over the class centroid. Points are color coded by taxa.
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BeeMachine Update!!!
UPDATE: 🚀🐝BeeMachine just got better! Now identifying 2x more bee groups + distinguishes bees from flies, wasps & more. Get the update now:
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/beema...
#AIforPollinators
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/beema...
#AIforPollinators
April 5, 2024 at 7:45 PM
BeeMachine Update!!!
Undergrad summer internships available in the REEU program at K-State! Gain research experience & learn about cutting edge technology in ag/plant sciences. Lots of projects to choose from including computer vision and #AI for #pollinator monitoring.
www.plantpath.k-state.edu/academics/un...
www.plantpath.k-state.edu/academics/un...
January 30, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Undergrad summer internships available in the REEU program at K-State! Gain research experience & learn about cutting edge technology in ag/plant sciences. Lots of projects to choose from including computer vision and #AI for #pollinator monitoring.
www.plantpath.k-state.edu/academics/un...
www.plantpath.k-state.edu/academics/un...
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asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
November 30, 2023 at 10:31 PM
asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
Bad news from Gothic: 35 years of insect decline in a pristine mountain meadow. Great work by Nora Underwood & Brian Inouye (my former PhD advisers!) et al.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/04/climate-change-insect-decline-rmbl-gothic-colorado/
https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/04/climate-change-insect-decline-rmbl-gothic-colorado/
Insects are in dramatic decline in Colorado, 35-year-long study reveals
62% fewer insects were trapped in a meadow near Gothic, a loss correlated with less winter snowfall, less summer rain and warmer temperatures
coloradosun.com
August 4, 2023 at 8:25 PM
Bad news from Gothic: 35 years of insect decline in a pristine mountain meadow. Great work by Nora Underwood & Brian Inouye (my former PhD advisers!) et al.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/04/climate-change-insect-decline-rmbl-gothic-colorado/
https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/04/climate-change-insect-decline-rmbl-gothic-colorado/
Bees loving the sunflowers today!
July 30, 2023 at 5:29 PM
Bees loving the sunflowers today!
Did you know that the BeeMachine mobile app supports multiple languages? Learn about bees in:
日本語
Español
Français
Italiano
English
More languages coming soon!
日本語
Español
Français
Italiano
English
More languages coming soon!
July 25, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Did you know that the BeeMachine mobile app supports multiple languages? Learn about bees in:
日本語
Español
Français
Italiano
English
More languages coming soon!
日本語
Español
Français
Italiano
English
More languages coming soon!
Help us track bee populations around the world. BeeMachine is our citizen science app for AI-based bee identification. Just take a picture of a bee and BeeMachine will do the rest. Your sightings will contribute to a database that we can use to develop conservation strategies for bees.
July 25, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Help us track bee populations around the world. BeeMachine is our citizen science app for AI-based bee identification. Just take a picture of a bee and BeeMachine will do the rest. Your sightings will contribute to a database that we can use to develop conservation strategies for bees.
Negotiating access. Brown belted bumble bee and two-spotted longhorn meeting on a Gaillardia flower
July 24, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Negotiating access. Brown belted bumble bee and two-spotted longhorn meeting on a Gaillardia flower