I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!

We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

Taking a break from parasitizing earthworms, to sniff the flowers.

Grass fly (Pollenia spp.) nectaring on Verbena

Absolutely loaded with pollen!

European carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) on wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

Love how dorky this leaf cutter bee looks with its antennae pushed out of the way🤓

Nectaring on wooly vervain (Verbena stricta)

Checkered white (Pontia protodice) nectaring on Vervain

Bumble bee (B. impatiens) with its proboscis out and with other insects nearby on Vervain

And the long task of integrating donated student collections with the teaching collection continues 🫡😍

The stack gets smaller… is there an end in sight?

The best kind of grading hell - end of semester entomology collections 😍

Yes! It's super cool - I teach a teensy bit about this in my entom class (screenshot) too!

Want to be my colleague? There are two tenure track Assistant Prof positions opening up at my university - month of 1st consideration is Jan 2025 😄

One for Freshwater Fisheries Biology and the other for Animal Ecology! 😊

jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/78080
jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/78118

Want to know how buzzing bees and poricidal flowers are globally distributed and why?

Check out our new pub in @currentbiology.bsky.social w/ @achughes.bsky.social, @mcorr.bsky.social, Diana Jolles, Ricardo Kriebel, Zhiheng Wang, Steve Buchmann, John Ascher!

authors.elsevier.com/a/1jJzI3QW8S...

How are buzzing bees & poricidal flowers globally distributed? Curious about the ecological drivers of their distribution?

Check out our preprint w/ @achughes.bsky.social, @mcorr.bsky.social, Diana Jolles, Ricardo Kriebel, Zhiheng Wang, Steve Buchmann, John Ascher!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#SICB2024 is upon us! Grad researchers
@mtcastagna.bsky.social & Rita Afagwu, & undergrad researcher
Jenny Burrow, + myself will be giving talks! We'd love to chat with you!

Come be my colleague! If you wanna teach & research with excited grads & undergrads, Missouri State University's Dep. of Bio is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Prof. position in Microbiology! jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/71128 biology.missouristate.edu

Please share broadly!