Anderson (BS 2026), Peyton (BS 2024, MS 2025) and Ivy (BS 2020) have all been wonderful folks to have in the lab and in the marsh! Here they are next to Anderson's poster presentation a year and a half ago.
SUPER pleased to finally have this published with THREE former lab students #musselmonday link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Early bird registration is closed but in-person talk registration is still open! Dorm registration closes 4/20, but there are a few spots still open. www.evolutionmeetings.org
Great article in Scientific American on Freshwater Mussel conservation. Many amazing friends and colleagues are featured along with the mussels!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
It's been the longest winter but today I got in the river with students for the 1st time this season and saw THIS, an actual first-time-in-my-life event!
(That there is a unionid mussel trying to trick fish into thinking it is food so its larvae can become fish parasites)
A parking lot and cement building in the foreground - a large, deep blue lake in the background
Now time for some community ecology with a view of Lake Erie out there
Keynote from Albert Fulton at U Buffalo - pollen, climate, hemlock, and my personal favorite, lake effect snow, combining to explain some paleontology in the region
Spending the day at the meeting of @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social 's Great Lakes Chapter in beautiful (but cold) Cleveland! Looking forward to lots of regionally-relevant science today.
I'm excited to see more papers on Dreissenid veligers (larvae)! Especially as their veligers may be a major component of zooplankton in some areas of the Great Lakes.
Quagga and zebra mussel veligers = junk food for fish
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Four college students crouched over the ground in a wooded area
Tim led us in a dispersed research project - folks from different PUIs, doing the same sampling protocol with students in different areas of the country. It's been a (fun, buggy, hot, sweaty) shared bonding experience for many years' worth of Invert Bio students by now.
Excited to be part of this paper, just out in @biolinvasions.bsky.social - work from the EREN Network and led by Tim McCay.
Photo of an ink and watercolor page labeled Beach Life with drawings of a love periwinkle snail, a snail and a mussel mostly buried in marshy mud, and a broken whelk shell covered in slipper shell snails.
Recent #NatureJournal page from my visit to Cape Cod 🐡
Available soon! Jeb Byers, April Blakeslee, and myself gently twisted the arms of a few dozen of our brilliant colleagues to put together this new text on "The Ecology and Evolution of Marine Parasites and Disease", should be out in June. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it.
open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...
Flyer for screening of "All Too Clear" - Thursday April 9 at 530 pm, 1101 State Hall at Wayne State University in Detroit MI. This film uses underwater drones to show how quagga mussel populations are transforming the Great Lakes ecosystems on a massive scale. After the screening, there will be a live Q&A session with filmmakers Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick, as well as Great Lakes Fishery Commission's Dr Andrew Muir.
Free screening of "All Too Clear" next week! Everyone is invited to see this documentary on how quagga and zebra mussels have transformed Great Lakes food webs, leading to overall decline in whitefish pops
Thursday April 9, 530pm, 1101 State Hall, Wayne State University Detroit MI
an image that says "woodland ephemerals: A quick ID guide" with a background of a spring woodland with little flowers popping up
Happy spring! It may be gross and rainy out and too cold for bees, but the spring ephemerals of Eastern North America all seem to be out east of the Mississippi! Come meet some friends in the woods near you!
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This is so, so well-articulated.
Doing the scheduling for the prospective grad student retreat for *checks notes* Way Too Many Years in grad school is sure coming in handy** while scheduling campus visits for job candidates.
**triggering me
A one pager on honeybees, including illustrations in honey warm colors, and the text She's non native, she's everywhere, she eats everything, it's whatever And a mean girls joke: This girl the nastiest skank bee I've ever met. Do not trust her. She is a honeybee
I have this idea of doing a monthly bee id guide (The Bee-ther Report?) but I can't do this month without mentioning the most common bee you'll see out there
The song getting me through this entire semester, but especially the next two weeks.
Found it! #WorldFigure
I'm glad I'm not the only one who insists on doing it myself.
obSESSed with that gala program from Piper and Paul at #WorldFigure
Okay #WorldFigure, a) who has the video of Yuma and Kaori doing her step sequence together (maybe after JNats?), and b) who can put in a request for a repeat of that at the gala?
Boooooo that Moulin Rouge program is so good too.
The Olympics skating schedule was way better because what do you MEAN I am working all day and then have to catch up on not one but two events?? (OTOH it is saving me from 5 hours of 90s rhythm dances I guess)
Everyone: How was your skate?
Amber:
#FigureSkating #WorldFigure
Dying to know how many people bought this assuming it was the sweater (thinking it's reasonable that a sweater like this costs $80) and are about to be Very Surprised when they get a bunch of yarn in the mail.
Another thing: the rhetoric of “student demand” is (as anyone who works in a university knows) a nose of wax. Students can’t demand what isn’t offered or supported; and “demand” can be created by creating incentives and funneling resources to something brand new. These are choices, not natural laws
Project Hail Mary was just as good as I hoped it would be. However, content warning for biologists -- at one point there is an unbalanced centrifuge. I just closed my eyes until it was over.
Photo d’une page du livre d’où est extraite la citation
Couverture du livre "Marseille au cœur. Souvenirs des vieux quartiers" avec photos du vieux Marseille en noir et blanc
« […] échapper aux effets pervers du racisme dont l’imbécillité échappe à trop de gens dits ˋconvenables.’ »
Jean-Paul Olive (né en 1928)
"Marseille au cœur. Souvenirs des vieux quartiers"
