Ronnie M
@futuredrmiller.bsky.social
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AS♻️🧠 BS 🦁🦋 & PhD (2027)🐝🌻👥️ Personal goals: human rights and living authentically. ✨️ Career goals: conservation, community engagement, and research. 🌍
http://www.sharronzmiller.com/
AS♻️🧠 BS 🦁🦋 & PhD (2027)🐝🌻👥️ Personal goals: human rights and living authentically. ✨️ Career goals: conservation, community engagement, and research. 🌍
http://www.sharronzmiller.com/
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Bugs are in trouble, and our yards are part of the answer!🍂 ➡
If each of us — you, your neighbor, your friend down the block — takes a step, that adds up to a lot.
✅Learn more about the importance of microhabitats here ➡ beecityusa.org/blog
#BeeCityUSA #Gardens #Microhabitats #LeavetheLeaves
If each of us — you, your neighbor, your friend down the block — takes a step, that adds up to a lot.
✅Learn more about the importance of microhabitats here ➡ beecityusa.org/blog
#BeeCityUSA #Gardens #Microhabitats #LeavetheLeaves
October 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Bugs are in trouble, and our yards are part of the answer!🍂 ➡
If each of us — you, your neighbor, your friend down the block — takes a step, that adds up to a lot.
✅Learn more about the importance of microhabitats here ➡ beecityusa.org/blog
#BeeCityUSA #Gardens #Microhabitats #LeavetheLeaves
If each of us — you, your neighbor, your friend down the block — takes a step, that adds up to a lot.
✅Learn more about the importance of microhabitats here ➡ beecityusa.org/blog
#BeeCityUSA #Gardens #Microhabitats #LeavetheLeaves
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A morsel for your #WorldFoodDay: We can grow food in ways that restore our planet’s health. Across forests, farms and seas, regenerative food practices can help reduce climate change and biodiversity loss.
Here’s how: https://nature.ly/47rGC7V
Here’s how: https://nature.ly/47rGC7V
October 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A morsel for your #WorldFoodDay: We can grow food in ways that restore our planet’s health. Across forests, farms and seas, regenerative food practices can help reduce climate change and biodiversity loss.
Here’s how: https://nature.ly/47rGC7V
Here’s how: https://nature.ly/47rGC7V
Anyone attending BeeCon in person this week and would like to grab coffee? :)
October 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Anyone attending BeeCon in person this week and would like to grab coffee? :)
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It’s time for one of the easiest things you can do for wildlife: just #LeaveTheLeaves! Leaves are vital homes & winter shelter! 🐝
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts
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.
xerces.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It’s time for one of the easiest things you can do for wildlife: just #LeaveTheLeaves! Leaves are vital homes & winter shelter! 🐝
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts
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Join us for a free 3-day virtual symposium on firefly research & conservation! Each day will include 6 presentations & time for networking. Everyone interested in fireflies is invited! 🪲💡
🗓️Oct 28-30 at 9am PT / 12pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️Oct 28-30 at 9am PT / 12pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Join us for a free 3-day virtual symposium on firefly research & conservation! Each day will include 6 presentations & time for networking. Everyone interested in fireflies is invited! 🪲💡
🗓️Oct 28-30 at 9am PT / 12pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️Oct 28-30 at 9am PT / 12pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Second Wave of Longhorns is in full swing around here. No fewer than three sets of Sleepytime Twins in the Cosmo patch on the way to work this morning (and many lone ones). [Berkeley, CA 7-2-25] #bees #nativebees
July 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Second Wave of Longhorns is in full swing around here. No fewer than three sets of Sleepytime Twins in the Cosmo patch on the way to work this morning (and many lone ones). [Berkeley, CA 7-2-25] #bees #nativebees
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This Indigenous Peoples' Day, it's a good time to review how Land Grant Universities have profited from stolen lands. This article only covers Land Grants; many other universities (U of Michigan, for example) have benefited similarly. (1/2) www.landgrabu.org
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
www.landgrabu.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This Indigenous Peoples' Day, it's a good time to review how Land Grant Universities have profited from stolen lands. This article only covers Land Grants; many other universities (U of Michigan, for example) have benefited similarly. (1/2) www.landgrabu.org
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You're looking at the first iNaturalist observation of Fives Heath (Erica sicula) in both Libya and North Africa more generally!
📷 abdulnaser on iNaturalist
📍 Libya
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 abdulnaser on iNaturalist
📍 Libya
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
October 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You're looking at the first iNaturalist observation of Fives Heath (Erica sicula) in both Libya and North Africa more generally!
📷 abdulnaser on iNaturalist
📍 Libya
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 abdulnaser on iNaturalist
📍 Libya
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
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Want to learn how to identify insects? Come to our insect identification workshop tomorrow at 6:30 pm in Natural Science Room 352!
No prior ID knowledge necessary - feel free to bring your own specimens as well.
#msu #msuentomology #msunatsci
No prior ID knowledge necessary - feel free to bring your own specimens as well.
#msu #msuentomology #msunatsci
October 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Want to learn how to identify insects? Come to our insect identification workshop tomorrow at 6:30 pm in Natural Science Room 352!
No prior ID knowledge necessary - feel free to bring your own specimens as well.
#msu #msuentomology #msunatsci
No prior ID knowledge necessary - feel free to bring your own specimens as well.
#msu #msuentomology #msunatsci
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None of our research exists in a vacuum. We are weavers.
We take a thread of tech made to do complete a different task, join it with preclinical work from a different species, and weave it together with statical approaches that were made to ask a similar question in a completely different field. 🧵
We take a thread of tech made to do complete a different task, join it with preclinical work from a different species, and weave it together with statical approaches that were made to ask a similar question in a completely different field. 🧵
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
None of our research exists in a vacuum. We are weavers.
We take a thread of tech made to do complete a different task, join it with preclinical work from a different species, and weave it together with statical approaches that were made to ask a similar question in a completely different field. 🧵
We take a thread of tech made to do complete a different task, join it with preclinical work from a different species, and weave it together with statical approaches that were made to ask a similar question in a completely different field. 🧵
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🌼 New paper showing that it's not just pollinators shaping flowers—abiotic factors like humidity and temperature also influence floral form and function. Check out this new paper on a more complex picture of floral evolution. 🌬️🐝
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🌼 New paper showing that it's not just pollinators shaping flowers—abiotic factors like humidity and temperature also influence floral form and function. Check out this new paper on a more complex picture of floral evolution. 🌬️🐝
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
eeb.msu.edu
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:
eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Indigenous-led conservation is reshaping philanthropy. A new Alliance Magazine article spotlights how the PFP model empowers long-term stewardship and sovereignty. Read how First Nations leaders are driving change.
The future of environmental stewardship is Indigenous - Alliance magazine
Lessons from the Great Bear All along the coastal waters of the Great Bear Sea, First Nations Guardians navigate networked waterways, patrolling protected areas, conducting research, and monitoring salmon populations and their habitats. Some 1,500 ...
www.alliancemagazine.org
October 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Indigenous-led conservation is reshaping philanthropy. A new Alliance Magazine article spotlights how the PFP model empowers long-term stewardship and sovereignty. Read how First Nations leaders are driving change.
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MSU Entomology professor Dr. Rufus Isaacs and former graduate student Dr. Gabriela Quinlan collaborated with a team of 80 researchers on a global study examining pollinator habitat needs in agricultural landscapes!
Read more: www.canr.msu.edu/news/spartan...
#Entomology #Ecology #Conservation 🧪🌎🍁
Read more: www.canr.msu.edu/news/spartan...
#Entomology #Ecology #Conservation 🧪🌎🍁
Spartan scientists contribute to global examination of pollinator habitat
MSU Entomology professor and former graduate student collaborate with team of 80 researchers to examine global pollinator landscape needs
www.canr.msu.edu
October 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
MSU Entomology professor Dr. Rufus Isaacs and former graduate student Dr. Gabriela Quinlan collaborated with a team of 80 researchers on a global study examining pollinator habitat needs in agricultural landscapes!
Read more: www.canr.msu.edu/news/spartan...
#Entomology #Ecology #Conservation 🧪🌎🍁
Read more: www.canr.msu.edu/news/spartan...
#Entomology #Ecology #Conservation 🧪🌎🍁
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Another exciting discovery from 2025! Though the half-black bumble bee is fairly common in other parts of the US, Missouri is at the southern extent of its range, so this is a rare find.
Learn more about the Atlas and how you can get involved at our website: bumblebeeatlas.org
Learn more about the Atlas and how you can get involved at our website: bumblebeeatlas.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Another exciting discovery from 2025! Though the half-black bumble bee is fairly common in other parts of the US, Missouri is at the southern extent of its range, so this is a rare find.
Learn more about the Atlas and how you can get involved at our website: bumblebeeatlas.org
Learn more about the Atlas and how you can get involved at our website: bumblebeeatlas.org
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Like rivers & lakes full of fish? Then you need rivers & lakes full of insects!
On this #BugBanterPodcast we'll dive underwater to meet freshwater insects, & discover the conservation work they need!
Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/s...
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sh...
On this #BugBanterPodcast we'll dive underwater to meet freshwater insects, & discover the conservation work they need!
Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/s...
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sh...
The Salmonfly Project: Anglers, Insect Conservation, and the Future of Freshwater Streams | Bug Banter Podcast
Insects play a critical role in rivers, lakes, and streams, acting as a vital food source for many animals and maintaining the health of these freshwater ecosystems. A few of these insects include: ma...
xerces.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Like rivers & lakes full of fish? Then you need rivers & lakes full of insects!
On this #BugBanterPodcast we'll dive underwater to meet freshwater insects, & discover the conservation work they need!
Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/s...
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sh...
On this #BugBanterPodcast we'll dive underwater to meet freshwater insects, & discover the conservation work they need!
Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/s...
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=22sh...
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Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South?
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
October 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South?
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.
More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
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Tired of the corruption and anti-science in our government? You're not alone—and you don't have to do it alone!
Meet like-minded scientists, activists, and allies in Stand Up for Science at our two Action Hours coming up this month — Join us in the fight to protect science!
zurl.co/viaW8
Meet like-minded scientists, activists, and allies in Stand Up for Science at our two Action Hours coming up this month — Join us in the fight to protect science!
zurl.co/viaW8
October 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tired of the corruption and anti-science in our government? You're not alone—and you don't have to do it alone!
Meet like-minded scientists, activists, and allies in Stand Up for Science at our two Action Hours coming up this month — Join us in the fight to protect science!
zurl.co/viaW8
Meet like-minded scientists, activists, and allies in Stand Up for Science at our two Action Hours coming up this month — Join us in the fight to protect science!
zurl.co/viaW8
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Consider signing - Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition 🧪🌐https://laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
September 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Consider signing - Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition 🧪🌐https://laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
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This bee looks like it just got back from the salon. Such perfect floof and a marvelous mustache
#invertebrates 🌿 🐝
#invertebrates 🌿 🐝
September 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This bee looks like it just got back from the salon. Such perfect floof and a marvelous mustache
#invertebrates 🌿 🐝
#invertebrates 🌿 🐝
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Holy cow a lot is going on in the US right now. You may also need to take a deep breath and look closely at a painted lady butterfly.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Holy cow a lot is going on in the US right now. You may also need to take a deep breath and look closely at a painted lady butterfly.
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Job Posting - University of Illinois
Assistant/Associate Professor in Agroecology
"[...W]ill serve as Director of the Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program (ASAP). ASAP aims to promote sustainable food systems while conserving biodiversity."
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant/Associate Professor in Agroecology
"[...W]ill serve as Director of the Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program (ASAP). ASAP aims to promote sustainable food systems while conserving biodiversity."
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant/Associate Professor in Agroecology
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Job Posting - University of Illinois
Assistant/Associate Professor in Agroecology
"[...W]ill serve as Director of the Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program (ASAP). ASAP aims to promote sustainable food systems while conserving biodiversity."
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant/Associate Professor in Agroecology
"[...W]ill serve as Director of the Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program (ASAP). ASAP aims to promote sustainable food systems while conserving biodiversity."
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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You may also need a beestache this evening 🐝
This bee looks like it just got back from the salon. Such perfect floof and a marvelous mustache
#invertebrates 🌿 🐝
#invertebrates 🌿 🐝
September 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
You may also need a beestache this evening 🐝
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Pinkscale blazing star (Liatris elegans) is blooming in the SRS Corridor Project experiment and attracting many visitors
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Pinkscale blazing star (Liatris elegans) is blooming in the SRS Corridor Project experiment and attracting many visitors