This was a new on for me at the Charlotte airport tonight.. Yes that was a real dog wearing shoes in a backpack.

The role of banker plants in biological control Will van Vliet of Van Vliet Greenhouse operated as a gerbera daisy cut flower grower a few years ago, who struggled a lot with biocontrol in his greenhouses. Whitefly and thrips were…

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Make sure to mark your calendar for Grow Pro Webinar! Suzanne Wainwright from Buglady Consulting will be presenting March 25th at 1PM EST on Beneficial Insects Done Right: Techniques for Receiving, Handling, and Application. This session is sponsored by Costa Farms. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

One of my former students. I’m so proud, and so angry.

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Wow! #ipmSymposium went all out and provided nematode themed carpet!

Drinking a coke now! Feeling better

@americanair.bsky.social Shasta cola at the Philly club? Where is my #coke? I pay to keep my club membership so I can have a Coke here. Gross.

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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.

Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

I love you @altnps.bsky.social keep up the good work.

Manner View Farm education day get started! Talks on new shrubs, biological control, perennials, and more.

Figure 2. Characteristics and potential species pool of the 10 pre-defined tree-related microhabitat (TreM) types. Abbreviations have been used in the names of the types (e.g., Lacon-type cavity = Lacon querceus-type cavity) so that they can be considered species-specific microhabitats (with the exception of Protaetia and Ampedus spp.).

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So is this fashion or a guy with ripped pants? He was getting on the plane in front of my leaving Denver yesterday.

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Hope to see some of you on Wednesday (2/5/2025) at the Manner View and Perennial Farm Educational Seminar! I'll be presenting on Biological Control, along with several other fantastic speakers.

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

I've ordered another outdoor camera so I will be setting it up this weekend to see if I can catch some better video so stay tuned....

OK my biology friends... Mink? A few people have said it's an otter. In Pennsylvania. #wildlife #Mink #otter

WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have declared the northern giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) eradicated from Washington and t...

Fantastic news! Surveillance and partnerships work to protect us from invasive species. agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/n...

TeeBee has decided he likes sitting in the heated water bowl when it's empty to keep his buns warm on these cold winter nights. Yes he has a heated bed in the barn that he could be sleeping in but he likes sitting in the bowl.

Poinsettia season!

Break from bug this week and making candy!

@dingdongbell.bsky.social hi!

@phytoseiid.bsky.social it was great to see you at #EntSoc23 if only for a few minutes!