
Assistant Prof @RhodesCollege 🏫 || Studying solitary bees 🐝 & their fungi 🧫 with undergrads 🧑🎓 & community scientists 🌎 || big @DollyParton fan 💖
Memphis, TN
Joined April 2018
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I hired a Dolly Parton impersonator to kick off my virtual PhD defense, 10/10 would recommend 💖 (my advisor laughed til he cried) #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdlife #DollyParton – at Wisconsin, USA
Had a blast today at @uofmemphis chatting about mason bees! Thank you @biologicalLeigh for inviting me! 🫶
Our Thursdays seminar is finally back! And there is no better way to re-start it than by talking about bees. Join @BeesYall from @RhodesCollege at 4pm in EH100 today
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Dr. Kate LeCroy, assistant professor of biology, is on a quest to “save the bees” with the help of a $100,000 grant from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Read More: rhodesedge.org/3WZ8j1v
#savethebees #stem #sciencemajor #aplacelikenoother #NIFAImpacts
@usdagov @BeesYall @rhodescollegebioogy
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This could be going on in your bee hotel, every bee from this one is covered with thousands and thousands of these mites
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Huge amount of hairy-fingered mites (Chaetodactylus) on this poor bee, finding a lot of these in people's garden bee hotels that haven't been cleaned in years
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Congrats to @gutierrezgrace_! Her paper was selected as the winner of the Environmental Entomology People’s Choice @EntsocAmerica
@BeesYall @DrBeeMom
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New bee-friendly restrictions on neonicotinoid insecticides in New York … and a barrier to further progress on this topic in the USA.
Some examples and thoughts on how disinformation is currently obscuring evidence-based pesticide policies.
blogs.cornell.edu/mcartlab/f…
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Come work with us! We are hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Insect Biodiversity and Conservation in @CornellEnto! Applications are due Jan 26th. @CornellCALS is a great place to work! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Do you have new or gently used field gear you want to pass on and break down barriers to access? Contact us, or consider becoming a FI member and donating to our Field Gear Closet, which helps underprivileged individuals who participate in field work. 👇🏽
fieldinclusive.org/membershi…
Kate LeCroy, PhD (she/her) retweeted
My response to a recent article in the @nypost that criticized our lab's research on neonicotinoid insecticides. The intent of the article was to spread disinformation, fool the public, and influence policymakers. Please don't be fooled, folks.
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Hey #EntSoc23 bee/ symbiont/ microbe friends, our preprint on the symbiotic Actinobacteria and yeast in brood cells of solitary bee Anthophora bomboides is out on BioRxiv!! and its what I'll be presenting in my talk tomorrow @ 10:40am in rm Maryland-B. 🐝 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
It’s been a lovely two years with the @McArtLab @CornellEnto - I’m so grateful for the time I got to spend with these fellow bug lovers! Sad to leave but excited for my next adventure mentoring & teaching undergrads at @RhodesCollege in Memphis starting Jan 2024! – at Ithaca, NY
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New @JAppliedEcology paper led by @EeraertsMaxime reveals region-specific differences in contributions made by #honeybees & wild #bees to blueberry #pollination: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14…. Conserving #pollinator diversity is important as pollination deficits are common in this crop
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Insectapalooza was a huge success today! Thank you to everyone who made the event possible!
Please RT! If you enjoy undergrad research mentoring and teaching, come join me in the Biology Department at @RhodesCollege ! There are two TT Asst. Prof positions open - Evolution tinyurl.com/rcbio-evo and also Organismal Bio tinyurl.com/rcbio-org
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Insectapalooza is THIS SATURDAY, September 23rd! We’re excited to see you all at the Cornell Dairy Bar (411 Tower Rd, Stocking Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853) for live arthropods, interactive exhibits, and workshops! 🪲
#entomology #insects #science #outreach #education #cornell
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I’m super excited to say that my first dissertation chapter is published in @InsSociaux ! If you have ever wondered why some ants are aggressive and some are not- this is the paper for you! 🐜 – at Ithaca, NY
Check out this new #MoreauLab paper led by @chloe_jelley where we review what is known about ant aggression, present a new scale for measuring aggression, & do a comparative phylogenetic analyses to see what traits are correlated w/ aggression link.springer.com/article/10… @InsSociaux
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Do you know a kid interested in nature, science, or natural history museums? @meganbarkdull_ @ColleenEcology @MoniquePipkin and I wrote a fun paper for @FrontiersIn Young Minds titled "Natural History Collections: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?"
kids.frontiersin.org/article…

ALT Figure 3 from the publication showing: Three distinct aspects of natural history collections. First, scientists use natural history collections to help with research. Second, the public interacts with natural history collections through museum exhibits, to learn more about biodiversity. Third, you can help collections yourself, by collecting and donating specimens, or volunteering online (Figure credit: Charlotte Welker Holden)!
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New review paper out now on bee-fungi associations with @rachelvannette and Makena Weston. We discuss some common fungal associations and their impacts on bees, and highlight how much there is to learn still about these interactions! doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad0…
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How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
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