Jenna Melanson
@jennamelanson.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia 🍁
bumble bee movement, resource use, and multiple risks in agroecosystems
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bumble bee movement, resource use, and multiple risks in agroecosystems
she/her
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Looking for a PhD student for a biodiversity and insect health on restored mining sites project. Some really neat questions to answer.
À la recherche d'un.e étudiant.e au doctorat pour étudier la biodiversité et santé des insectes sur des sites miniers restaurés.
À la recherche d'un.e étudiant.e au doctorat pour étudier la biodiversité et santé des insectes sur des sites miniers restaurés.
August 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Looking for a PhD student for a biodiversity and insect health on restored mining sites project. Some really neat questions to answer.
À la recherche d'un.e étudiant.e au doctorat pour étudier la biodiversité et santé des insectes sur des sites miniers restaurés.
À la recherche d'un.e étudiant.e au doctorat pour étudier la biodiversité et santé des insectes sur des sites miniers restaurés.
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Exciting new paper by Jens Ulrich & Risa Sargent: "Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Exciting new paper by Jens Ulrich & Risa Sargent: "Urban landscapes with more natural greenspace support higher pollinator diversity." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4)
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center
The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...
www.usgs.gov
May 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4)
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
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Paranthrene simulans, (Grote, 1881), a Batesian mimicry MASTER!
#educational #science #entomology #bugs #moth #wasp #insects #lepidoptera #batesianmimicry #nature
#educational #science #entomology #bugs #moth #wasp #insects #lepidoptera #batesianmimicry #nature
April 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Paranthrene simulans, (Grote, 1881), a Batesian mimicry MASTER!
#educational #science #entomology #bugs #moth #wasp #insects #lepidoptera #batesianmimicry #nature
#educational #science #entomology #bugs #moth #wasp #insects #lepidoptera #batesianmimicry #nature
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We published guidance on what to do if you find a bumble bee nest. These incidental discoveries could add up to be important datasets if data is (somewhat) standardized.
We provide case studies with two endangered rusty patched bumble bee nests
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
We provide case studies with two endangered rusty patched bumble bee nests
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Answering key bumble bee conservation questions by studying discovered wild nests: A Bombus affinis case study
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February 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We published guidance on what to do if you find a bumble bee nest. These incidental discoveries could add up to be important datasets if data is (somewhat) standardized.
We provide case studies with two endangered rusty patched bumble bee nests
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
We provide case studies with two endangered rusty patched bumble bee nests
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Happy #WorldWildlifeDay. A friendly reminder that livestock cannot replace native biodiversity, despite what you may have heard.
March 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Happy #WorldWildlifeDay. A friendly reminder that livestock cannot replace native biodiversity, despite what you may have heard.
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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
Science Homecoming
sciencehomecoming.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
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About 70% of native bees in the US nest in the ground and are the most vulnerable bees to our high-pesticide agriculture. Native bees are the backbone of pollination services yet are in steep decline. If we value our abundant food supply, we need to protect our native bees. 🧪 🌍
tinyurl.com/54xjat4j
tinyurl.com/54xjat4j
Digging below the surface: Hidden risks for ground-nesting bees
Hidden risks for ground-nesting bees
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January 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
About 70% of native bees in the US nest in the ground and are the most vulnerable bees to our high-pesticide agriculture. Native bees are the backbone of pollination services yet are in steep decline. If we value our abundant food supply, we need to protect our native bees. 🧪 🌍
tinyurl.com/54xjat4j
tinyurl.com/54xjat4j
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I don’t mean to overly romanticize bees, but I don’t think it is possible to overly romanticize bees. 🐝
January 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I don’t mean to overly romanticize bees, but I don’t think it is possible to overly romanticize bees. 🐝
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Funded PhD opportunity in the Graystock lab! If you are interested in pollinators, microbes, parasites and machine learning, please get in touch! - only a few days left to let me know! Whilst a project using the above is planned, im happy to adapt to the strengths of a candidate
January 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Funded PhD opportunity in the Graystock lab! If you are interested in pollinators, microbes, parasites and machine learning, please get in touch! - only a few days left to let me know! Whilst a project using the above is planned, im happy to adapt to the strengths of a candidate
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"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing."
This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.
This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.
Son hormigas resolviendo un problema geométrico y es para flipar en colores.
December 25, 2024 at 5:54 PM
"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing."
This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.
This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.
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Great post!
Check out this amazing link from the Xerces Society @xercessociety.bsky.social if you're looking for which #nativeplants are great for your region AND want to attract our pollinator friends!
xerces.org/pollinator-c...
Check out this amazing link from the Xerces Society @xercessociety.bsky.social if you're looking for which #nativeplants are great for your region AND want to attract our pollinator friends!
xerces.org/pollinator-c...
Pollinator-Friendly Native Plant Lists
We've prepared the following lists of recommended native plants that are highly attractive to pollinators such as native bees, honey bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds, and are well-suited for...
xerces.org
December 17, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Great post!
Check out this amazing link from the Xerces Society @xercessociety.bsky.social if you're looking for which #nativeplants are great for your region AND want to attract our pollinator friends!
xerces.org/pollinator-c...
Check out this amazing link from the Xerces Society @xercessociety.bsky.social if you're looking for which #nativeplants are great for your region AND want to attract our pollinator friends!
xerces.org/pollinator-c...
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Way to go, Michelle... I'm sure you'll do great things over the next few years! #UBCZoology #UBC
December 3, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Way to go, Michelle... I'm sure you'll do great things over the next few years! #UBCZoology #UBC
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Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Just a reminder that ~25% of adults are disabled, ~19% of undergrads, yet less than 10% of graduate degree recipients identify as such.
#DisabledInSTEM
#DisableAcademia
#Disability
#DisabledInSTEM
#DisableAcademia
#Disability
December 4, 2024 at 4:42 AM
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Just a reminder that ~25% of adults are disabled, ~19% of undergrads, yet less than 10% of graduate degree recipients identify as such.
#DisabledInSTEM
#DisableAcademia
#Disability
#DisabledInSTEM
#DisableAcademia
#Disability
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First post and it's a biggie! The first preprint from our lab is out now 🥳 Something I have wanted to know for a long time- can bumblebees taste amino acids? The answer is yes...but not all of them! 1/2 @sussexneuro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Gustatory sensitivity to amino acids in bumblebees
Bees rely on amino acids obtained from nectar and pollen for essential physiological functions, including maintenance, sexual maturation, and larval development. While amino acid concentrations in nec...
www.biorxiv.org
November 29, 2024 at 9:41 AM
First post and it's a biggie! The first preprint from our lab is out now 🥳 Something I have wanted to know for a long time- can bumblebees taste amino acids? The answer is yes...but not all of them! 1/2 @sussexneuro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nice positive story about bumblebee numbers responding to rewilding, sadly illustrated with a picture of a honeybee ;)
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Bumblebee numbers soar as barley gives way to nature in Perthshire
Within two years the bare soil and stubble on 90 acres in Denmarkfield has been naturally colonised by 84 plant species
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Nice positive story about bumblebee numbers responding to rewilding, sadly illustrated with a picture of a honeybee ;)
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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PhD opportunity! Dr. Michelle Dileo and myself are recruiting a PhD student to study #pollinator adaptive capacity to #climatechange. Interested in #bees or #butterflies, #genomics, landscape #ecology? Based in 🇨🇦. michelledileo.wordpress.com
See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋
See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋
November 27, 2024 at 4:07 PM
PhD opportunity! Dr. Michelle Dileo and myself are recruiting a PhD student to study #pollinator adaptive capacity to #climatechange. Interested in #bees or #butterflies, #genomics, landscape #ecology? Based in 🇨🇦. michelledileo.wordpress.com
See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋
See advert for details. Please share! 🧪🐝🦋
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Hi Bluesky! We are BWEEMS, Black Women in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Science. A non-profit dedicated to amplifying and supporting Black women in EEMS spaces! It's nice to be here! 🐟 🪴 🐊
www.bweems.org
www.bweems.org
Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science
BWEEMS is a global network of Black Women driving innovation in ecology, evolution, and marine science despite being historically overlooked and isolated in the field.
www.bweems.org
November 25, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Hi Bluesky! We are BWEEMS, Black Women in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Science. A non-profit dedicated to amplifying and supporting Black women in EEMS spaces! It's nice to be here! 🐟 🪴 🐊
www.bweems.org
www.bweems.org
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Writing a letter of reference for someone? Or (gasp) drafting for someone who’s writing for you?
If you haven’t seen this graphic on avoiding gender bias, read it. Ref letters are broadly biased in both major and seemingly tiny ways. The bias is avoidable once you’re aware.
If you haven’t seen this graphic on avoiding gender bias, read it. Ref letters are broadly biased in both major and seemingly tiny ways. The bias is avoidable once you’re aware.
November 21, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Writing a letter of reference for someone? Or (gasp) drafting for someone who’s writing for you?
If you haven’t seen this graphic on avoiding gender bias, read it. Ref letters are broadly biased in both major and seemingly tiny ways. The bias is avoidable once you’re aware.
If you haven’t seen this graphic on avoiding gender bias, read it. Ref letters are broadly biased in both major and seemingly tiny ways. The bias is avoidable once you’re aware.
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Spent some time the other day updating the #beenome100 website! If you’re interested in #beegenomes or #insectgenomes in general, check it out 🐝
beenome100.org
beenome100.org
Beenome100
beenome100.org
November 24, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Spent some time the other day updating the #beenome100 website! If you’re interested in #beegenomes or #insectgenomes in general, check it out 🐝
beenome100.org
beenome100.org
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Grants available to grad students/postdocs working on Bombus conservation; 10K for one year. www.pollinator.org/nappc/imperi...
Imperiled Bombus Conservation Task Force | Pollinator.org
Pollinator Partnership is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and the largest in the world dedicated exclusively to the protection and promotion of ...
www.pollinator.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Grants available to grad students/postdocs working on Bombus conservation; 10K for one year. www.pollinator.org/nappc/imperi...
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One of my favourite bee encounters this year was this bodacious Bombus nevadensis queen waking up on a Nootka rose blossom in a ditch somewhere in the Kootenays in British Columbia. June, 2024. She performed her morning ablutions and then went back to work.
November 22, 2024 at 7:51 PM
One of my favourite bee encounters this year was this bodacious Bombus nevadensis queen waking up on a Nootka rose blossom in a ditch somewhere in the Kootenays in British Columbia. June, 2024. She performed her morning ablutions and then went back to work.
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The video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 10:41 AM
The video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@pollinet.bsky.social
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Moved here recently and figured I should shamelessly promote our recent paper for my very first post.
Our study on the genetic architecture of a sexual mimicry polymorphism, led by graduate student Tris Dodge, is now out at Current Biology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Original thread on the article is here:
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Structural genomic variation and behavioral interactions underpin a balanced sexual mimicry polymorphism
How phenotypic diversity originates and persists within populations are classic puzzles in evolutionary biology. While balanced polymorphisms segregat…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Moved here recently and figured I should shamelessly promote our recent paper for my very first post.