Roger Schürch
@schuemaa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech. My research is on mapping #HoneyBee waggle dances and airborne environmental DNA (#eDNA). I am interested in #Emacs, #Orgmode, and #Rstats. Also at @schuemaa@ecoevo.social.
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Our survey of #bees & #wasps visiting #soybean flowers is out: doi.org/10.4039/tce..... This work shows most 🐝s visiting soy🌼s carried soy pollen. #Bumblebees & ground-nesting 🐝s were the most common 🌼visitors suggesting that management practices supporting these #pollinators will benefit 🇨🇦growers
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Our survey of #bees & #wasps visiting #soybean flowers is out: doi.org/10.4039/tce..... This work shows most 🐝s visiting soy🌼s carried soy pollen. #Bumblebees & ground-nesting 🐝s were the most common 🌼visitors suggesting that management practices supporting these #pollinators will benefit 🇨🇦growers
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Hey I started a new section of my website called Derek's Tech Corner, come check it out: www.derekhennen.com/derekstechco.... It's where I'll share various software and other tech tools for cool kids that will save you time--so that you can go look for more bugs.
Derek's Tech Corner — Derek Hennen
This is a page dedicated to sharing websites, technology, and various tools that I’ve found useful for science and navigating the internet. Maybe it will help you save some time.
www.derekhennen.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hey I started a new section of my website called Derek's Tech Corner, come check it out: www.derekhennen.com/derekstechco.... It's where I'll share various software and other tech tools for cool kids that will save you time--so that you can go look for more bugs.
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Robert Ostrom, @schuemaa.bsky.social and co show concrete consequences of changing land, as honey bees need to travel almost twice as far during foraging flights after construction. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
July 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Robert Ostrom, @schuemaa.bsky.social and co show concrete consequences of changing land, as honey bees need to travel almost twice as far during foraging flights after construction. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
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We're hiring two PhD and two postdoc positions! Interested in pollinators, soils, agroecology, pesticides? Then come and work with us and with collaborators and all over Europe! stanleyecologylab.org/vacancies #findaphd Please share!
Vacancies | ecology
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June 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We're hiring two PhD and two postdoc positions! Interested in pollinators, soils, agroecology, pesticides? Then come and work with us and with collaborators and all over Europe! stanleyecologylab.org/vacancies #findaphd Please share!
@freelyflyingbees.bsky.social also beat me to this one: Here we used the #HoneyBee #WaggleDance to study how bees shifted their foraging in response to new construction on their former prime habitat.
When a resource hotspot, identified by waggle dancing bees, is developed by humans, how does that alter the foraging dynamics of honey bees ? Check out our new paper, where Rob Ostrom and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch took a before/after snapshot of bee landscape use.
doi.org/10.1242/bio....
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May 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
@freelyflyingbees.bsky.social also beat me to this one: Here we used the #HoneyBee #WaggleDance to study how bees shifted their foraging in response to new construction on their former prime habitat.
@freelyflyingbees.bsky.social bees beat me to it. Here is our latest published work using the #HoneyBee #WaggleDance as a tool to solve a basic research question on how colonies partition the landscape.
Do foraging bees from adjacent colonies converge or partition resources? Check out our new paper, where former student Brad Ohlinger and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch performed statistical wizardry on 8000+ waggle dances from 9 colonies to investigate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
@freelyflyingbees.bsky.social bees beat me to it. Here is our latest published work using the #HoneyBee #WaggleDance as a tool to solve a basic research question on how colonies partition the landscape.
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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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The herbicide glyphosate is globally ubiquitous. Here we report in a new paper on the sublethal effects to the behavior and brains of bees, a non-target organism that might encounter the herbicide while foraging in agricultural landscapes. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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May 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The herbicide glyphosate is globally ubiquitous. Here we report in a new paper on the sublethal effects to the behavior and brains of bees, a non-target organism that might encounter the herbicide while foraging in agricultural landscapes. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Smithsonian (Not normal Fed) is hiring an IPM Entomologist to manage the pest control programs for the National Zoo in Washington DC.
Salary Range: $84,601 - $109,975 per year
#entomology
Salary Range: $84,601 - $109,975 per year
#entomology
Entomologist
<p>The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in Park Management, Natio...
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May 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Smithsonian (Not normal Fed) is hiring an IPM Entomologist to manage the pest control programs for the National Zoo in Washington DC.
Salary Range: $84,601 - $109,975 per year
#entomology
Salary Range: $84,601 - $109,975 per year
#entomology
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Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!
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Everyone should know about GBIF. It's an international biodiversity data aggregator. Museum collections, apps like eBird and iNaturalist, published datasets from the technical literature, all in one place. www.gbif.org
GBIF
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data.
www.gbif.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Everyone should know about GBIF. It's an international biodiversity data aggregator. Museum collections, apps like eBird and iNaturalist, published datasets from the technical literature, all in one place. www.gbif.org
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PhD position bumblebee infectious disease biology in the Kurze BEE lab
- Behavioural Ecology
- Infectious diseases
- Molecular work
- I think maybe robotic flowers too?
Apply or email Dr Kurze for more details!
beelab.carrd.co
- Behavioural Ecology
- Infectious diseases
- Molecular work
- I think maybe robotic flowers too?
Apply or email Dr Kurze for more details!
beelab.carrd.co
Kurze BEE Lab
BEE Lab webpage by Christoph Kurze
beelab.carrd.co
April 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
PhD position bumblebee infectious disease biology in the Kurze BEE lab
- Behavioural Ecology
- Infectious diseases
- Molecular work
- I think maybe robotic flowers too?
Apply or email Dr Kurze for more details!
beelab.carrd.co
- Behavioural Ecology
- Infectious diseases
- Molecular work
- I think maybe robotic flowers too?
Apply or email Dr Kurze for more details!
beelab.carrd.co
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The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc
Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
eeb.utoronto.ca
March 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc
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Awkward photo, but thank you, @entsocamerica.bsky.social , for inviting me to be the plenary speaker at the Eastern Branch meeting and for the opportunity to advocate on behalf of my bargaining unit employees!
March 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Awkward photo, but thank you, @entsocamerica.bsky.social , for inviting me to be the plenary speaker at the Eastern Branch meeting and for the opportunity to advocate on behalf of my bargaining unit employees!
Laura McHenry's work on the effect of individual differences in waggle dances in recruitment success came out in Current Biology. Congrats, Laura.
Dancing honey bees have individual styles (calibrations) in distance communication, and this individuality underpins recruitment success. Check out our paper in Curr Biol demonstrating that, like so many things, variation is key to success. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
February 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Laura McHenry's work on the effect of individual differences in waggle dances in recruitment success came out in Current Biology. Congrats, Laura.
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Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University Assistant postdoctoral
University Assistant postdoctoral
jobs.univie.ac.at
February 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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Please circulate widely:
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
December 28, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Please circulate widely:
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
Today, I hooded Rob Ostrom. He defended his PhD on December 4. I am looking forward to see what he accomplishes next!
December 21, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Today, I hooded Rob Ostrom. He defended his PhD on December 4. I am looking forward to see what he accomplishes next!
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Hey I'm teaching a Midwest bee identification workshop in March. The focus is mostly on genus-level, but we go deeper on a number of groups. For more info and to apply, see:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Midwest Bee Genus Identification Workshop
University of Minnesota Bee Lab and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources are hosting a Midwest bee genus identification workshop. This five day workshop is from March 10-14, 2025 and taught by Dr...
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December 12, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Hey I'm teaching a Midwest bee identification workshop in March. The focus is mostly on genus-level, but we go deeper on a number of groups. For more info and to apply, see:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 5:46 PM
PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
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We’re looking for an assistant professor in urban entomology at New Mexico State University: careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista...
Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
Assistant Professor/Urban Entomology - Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Position Title: Assistant Professor/Urban Entomology
Employee Classification: LC Faculty TT/TN 9m
College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col
Department: 303000-ENTOMOLOGY PLANT PATH AND...
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November 17, 2024 at 3:25 PM
We’re looking for an assistant professor in urban entomology at New Mexico State University: careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista...
Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
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New PhD opportunity (posted for Josh Firth, lead supervisor and yet to migrate here): harnessing real-world network experiments to aid prediction of how natural social systems will respond to change & perturbations, using 🐦 the Wytham Tits yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/und... get in touch for more info.
Understanding Causal Effects of Perturbations on Social Systems to Allow Prediction of Natural Populations' Responses to Change - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Natural Social Systems' Responses to Perturbations - Josh A Firth
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November 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM
New PhD opportunity (posted for Josh Firth, lead supervisor and yet to migrate here): harnessing real-world network experiments to aid prediction of how natural social systems will respond to change & perturbations, using 🐦 the Wytham Tits yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/und... get in touch for more info.
My discover feed is almost exclusively cat pictures. Why? WHY?
November 22, 2024 at 12:17 PM
My discover feed is almost exclusively cat pictures. Why? WHY?
#Bees! Aren't they the prettiest? Augochlora pura from Virginia. This bee was part of a research project of my PhD student who is about to defend.
November 20, 2024 at 5:57 PM
#Bees! Aren't they the prettiest? Augochlora pura from Virginia. This bee was part of a research project of my PhD student who is about to defend.