Kaysee Arrowsmith
@kcarrows.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Jha lab at the University of Texas. Bees.
kcarrowsmith.github.io
kcarrowsmith.github.io
Pinned
🐝Just like us, bees eat different things at different temperatures (who wants soup in the summer?). Bombus bifarius likes to visit a cinquefoil (Potentilla pulcherrima) when it’s cooler, but prefers aspen fleabane (Erigeron speciosus) when it’s warm.
➡️ buff.ly/bm2LaNR
➡️ buff.ly/bm2LaNR
Hey that’s me! 🧪🌎🐝
Ok so yes, amazing news from Election Day, but the horrors continue www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Ok so yes, amazing news from Election Day, but the horrors continue www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Omg
Saw a few talks last week about automated digitisation of pinned specimens. Would like to see how they fare with this beauty.
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Omg
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#BatWeek continues with IOB co author
Flo Visconti
whose thesis topic is Untangling the #olfactory enigma in the Chestnut short-tailed fruit #bat
faculty.washington.edu/ssantana/wor...
& Flo co authored
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#biologists #science #research
Flo Visconti
whose thesis topic is Untangling the #olfactory enigma in the Chestnut short-tailed fruit #bat
faculty.washington.edu/ssantana/wor...
& Flo co authored
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#biologists #science #research
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#BatWeek continues with IOB co author
Flo Visconti
whose thesis topic is Untangling the #olfactory enigma in the Chestnut short-tailed fruit #bat
faculty.washington.edu/ssantana/wor...
& Flo co authored
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#biologists #science #research
Flo Visconti
whose thesis topic is Untangling the #olfactory enigma in the Chestnut short-tailed fruit #bat
faculty.washington.edu/ssantana/wor...
& Flo co authored
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#biologists #science #research
Hey that’s me! 🧪🌎🐝
🐝Just like us, bees eat different things at different temperatures (who wants soup in the summer?). Bombus bifarius likes to visit a cinquefoil (Potentilla pulcherrima) when it’s cooler, but prefers aspen fleabane (Erigeron speciosus) when it’s warm.
➡️ buff.ly/bm2LaNR
➡️ buff.ly/bm2LaNR
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hey that’s me! 🧪🌎🐝
Reposted by Kaysee Arrowsmith
🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd
@blancaac.bsky.social
@blancaac.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd
@blancaac.bsky.social
@blancaac.bsky.social
My paper on how daily temperature variation influences pollinator foraging preference is finally out! Spoiler alert, pollinators seem to like different food when it’s warm and cold. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition
This paper presents novel research that empirically demonstrates a direct link between temperature and plant–pollinator interaction patterns, independently of changes to community composition in eith...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My paper on how daily temperature variation influences pollinator foraging preference is finally out! Spoiler alert, pollinators seem to like different food when it’s warm and cold. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Kaysee Arrowsmith
George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”
September 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”
Really going all-out for my lab meeting presentation today
April 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Really going all-out for my lab meeting presentation today
Reposted by Kaysee Arrowsmith
We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸
February 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸
One of my favorite parts of writing scientific papers is letting my English major husband read them and circle all the things that aren’t real words and then ignoring all his flags. Currently getting the most flak for “subset” as a verb.
February 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
One of my favorite parts of writing scientific papers is letting my English major husband read them and circle all the things that aren’t real words and then ignoring all his flags. Currently getting the most flak for “subset” as a verb.
I’m at the listening-to-old-episodes-of-car-talk stage of my depression.
February 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I’m at the listening-to-old-episodes-of-car-talk stage of my depression.
Reposted by Kaysee Arrowsmith
This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
February 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
AND three cop cars fully on the sidewalk with someone’s entire backpack out on their hood? Why is today
January 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
AND three cop cars fully on the sidewalk with someone’s entire backpack out on their hood? Why is today
I want to believe that NSF/everyone talking about grant freezes is thinking in terms of worst case scenarios but like……hard not to feel like my fellowship is just getting a second random review for no apparent reason and with a new rubric that no one really gets or knows why it’s a thing?
January 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I want to believe that NSF/everyone talking about grant freezes is thinking in terms of worst case scenarios but like……hard not to feel like my fellowship is just getting a second random review for no apparent reason and with a new rubric that no one really gets or knows why it’s a thing?
Oh no I didn’t even think about this part of it yet! Cool cool cool cool cool
As someone who was just about to submit an NSF grant, I am not sure what to with it now and what to do about broader impacts.
Memo directs all NSF grantees to comply with EOs, in particular "this may include, but is not limited to "conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks
Full note:
Full note:
January 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oh no I didn’t even think about this part of it yet! Cool cool cool cool cool
Rough burn from the Office of Postdoc Affairs this morning
January 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Rough burn from the Office of Postdoc Affairs this morning
Major professional accomplishment: I need a second bookcase for my science books!
January 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Major professional accomplishment: I need a second bookcase for my science books!
Hello new followers, here is a picture of my cat.
December 5, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Hello new followers, here is a picture of my cat.
One of my favorite things about bee researchers is that we all have super tacky “bee” decorations that we all roll our eyes at but still keep all over desks/offices/homes. I regularly drink coffee out of a mug that says “Just Bee Kind” and I hate it but can’t stop using it.
October 15, 2024 at 3:29 PM
One of my favorite things about bee researchers is that we all have super tacky “bee” decorations that we all roll our eyes at but still keep all over desks/offices/homes. I regularly drink coffee out of a mug that says “Just Bee Kind” and I hate it but can’t stop using it.
I so desperately want both of the PAC orphans to beat their traitor rivals. Oregon State needs to pick up their game because Wazzu is doing their part.
September 14, 2024 at 10:22 PM
I so desperately want both of the PAC orphans to beat their traitor rivals. Oregon State needs to pick up their game because Wazzu is doing their part.
Cut several thousand lines of code down to under 500. Am I a superhero?
September 13, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Cut several thousand lines of code down to under 500. Am I a superhero?
How much does everyone else want a DOUG sign right now?
August 21, 2024 at 2:29 AM
How much does everyone else want a DOUG sign right now?
Have never worried more about becoming my mother than making my first stop in Long Beach to an outlet mall.
August 5, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Have never worried more about becoming my mother than making my first stop in Long Beach to an outlet mall.
How many times does your husband need to sing the Kars for Kids song before it’s grounds for divorce? Asking for me.
May 29, 2024 at 2:41 PM
How many times does your husband need to sing the Kars for Kids song before it’s grounds for divorce? Asking for me.