Work travel phone home.....

"I feel tired, I said"
"you always look tired, she said.."

I'm admired, I said"
"you always look tired, she said..."

-Elbow, 'Fugitive Motel'

Unpaid peaceful protestors in DC..

Why is our Costco produce section now half water,plus the water in the remaining produce?

Convergent squirrel-thwarting here! Ours seem to drop from above to shake things loose

Wow, as a student of infectious disease there is nothing worse than verticality, be safe, trust science.

Yes to this, I am a lifelong honey bee fan but appreciate colony numbers do not reflect pollinator health sensu lato.

Super cool work by @simone-alma.bsky.social and colleagues on new twists in bacterial defenses 🔥🔥🙂🙂

Great ‘applied genomics’ study to identify causes behind pollinator declines! @ebpgenome.bsky.social , #beenome100. @ergabiodiv.bsky.social
@renamschweizer.bsky.social , @mgbranstetter.bsky.social

Ignore impending govt shutdown

Insights from U.S. beekeeper triage surveys following unusually high honey bee colony losses 2024–2025 In January of 2025, U.S. commercial beekeepers reported unusually high honey bee colony losses as they prepared colonies for almond pollination. Two i…

A triage review of costs and causes of recent honey bee losses, usual suspects of parasites, pesticides, hunger, but surprisingly widespread 😔.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bee researchers at lab

A week ago we were told via YouTube that USDA-BARC and our Bee Lab will be closed. BARC has had a productive 90 years but is aging and I trust there is a longterm vision behind this decision. The largest loss will be the people, who are 100% devoted to bees, beekeepers, science, and this country.

Group of scientists at BARC USDA

Fun to host the American Veterinary Medicine Association for a Honey bee workshop in the historic USDA Log Lodge , poignant as a couple days later we received notice our USDA Center will now vacate…🤷🏻🐝.

Great work on bee senses from Penn State 🐝

The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Would-be family provider

Viruses and vectors tied to honey bee colony losses Commercial beekeepers in the US reported severe colony losses early in 2025, as colonies were being staged for their critical role in the almond pollination season in California. Average reported loss...

And honey bees and beekeepers are having a rough year too, no doubt there are multiple causes but the battle against disease is a big one. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Wow, continued insect decline even in the prettiest places. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Welcome, Nancy!

Hi, they were there the end of January and start of Feb, hoping to get Andrew/left back in board to finish the work

NIH traffic reports provided by friendly NGOs

Welcome back! 🤷🏻

I am frugal myself and rarely critique my federal employer (maybe for shutdowns, as I love my job), but I cracked seeing the young faces of fired #NPS rangers and #USDA employees. Thought of my teacher mom, who joined midlife as a proud @NPS educator. Public service is a calling, not a safety net.

Thanks Katherine, great fun and exciting to see what you do with 99+ more beenomes 🐝

so we'll see what happens. I'm filing for the merit board on Monday and ### should too. Also, there's a class action lawsuit gearing up and ##### can find out more about that on the Fed subreddit. I can also send links when I have them.”

Totally heartbreaking and I know you were the best of an incredible candidate pool. Everywhere is different but maybe some aids below from a friend in same straights. Take care. “Our area sent a weirdly short appeal window for area cases. ### (RL) and I threw everything possible at them,

We have two scientists on the road collecting time-sensitive samples of bees and wax to help beekeepers resolve how they lost >$10M in honey bees this month

B > rc

Amazing how far the holistic study of bee health has come in a decade or so, sub-lethal but sub-optimal.

This group is doing a lot to develop and use genome data to improve biodiversity and involve local peoples

A poignant visit to Chile’s Human Rights museum, highlighting the 15-year murderous blight on democracy by Pinochet and his many allies, even refusing the results of the 1988 plebiscite until the people said ‘nope’, we won.