We study the structure and functioning of ecological communities, largely using pollinator-plant interactions as a model system. Univ. of Washington, Biology
Seattle, WA
Joined June 2017
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please help spread the word about these teaching track faculty positions in physiology in our wonderful department!
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 Two more open faculty positions in @UWBiology! We are searching for TWO Assistant Teaching Professors in #Physiology. Deadline for applications is 10/16/2022.
Please RT & distribute widely!
More info: apply.interfolio.com/110810
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We have opened a search for an Assistant Professor of Plant Systematics at UW Seattle @UWBiology and Curator of the Herbarium @burkemuseum—it's a fantastic department, museum, university, and city—please advertise widely! ap.washington.edu/ahr/positi…
Job alert!! 🍃🚨🌱
We are searching for an Assistant Professor of Plant Systematics at UW Seattle @UWBiology and Curator of the Herbarium @burkemuseum
Application review begins on October 1
ap.washington.edu/ahr/positi…
looking forward to talking with @olliemilman about this fascinating and important book, along with my fellow be aficionado Dr. Gaby Chavarria, the new director of @burkemuseum. See original tweet for details on how to register—
This week! Join @olliemilman in conversation with Berry J. Brosi of @BrosiLab & @UWBiology!
Friday • March 11th • 6pm PT
RSVP for this free virtual event/get your copy of "The Insect Crisis" (@wwnorton) here: bit.ly/3sN2jv4
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Congrats to @laura_abeela for receiving an Agricultural Food and Research Initiative new investigator seed grant from @USDA_NIFA! Laura will study the effects of broadcast-spray agricultural antibiotics on bee microbiome and foraging behavior. Great job, Laura!
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Our team is back at @RMBLGothic and ready for another great season! The snow is melting fast and @kcarrows and @ThereseLamperty are already catching some early season pollinators
Congratulations to @LoyXecology for successfully defending his dissertation today! Loy studied the effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities, and did an amazing presentation. We are all very proud and excited for you Loy!
Just finished a great day at the virtual @UWBiology department retreat! We loved meeting everyone in the department, hearing about the wide variety of research in the department, and discussing antiracism and mentorship. Thanks to all of the organizers!
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We're thrilled to announce that the Brosi Lab has moved to the University of Washington, Department of Biology as of Sept 1! Come and visit us in Seattle when this whole COVID business is over—
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check out @morde Erin Mordecai's group's #COVID19 interactive Shiny S-I-R model. I'm teaching an intro environmental modeling class & built an assignment using this model: try to develop the least-intrusive interventions while not overwhelming hospitals. Thanks for sharing!
Last week, my lab built an interactive site looking at long-term interventions for #COVID19. We've updated the site & brought it closer to home for our @Stanford community. Did Santa Clara County #FlattenTheCurve? Can we #KeepItFlat? (1/12)
covid-measures.github.io/
huge congrats to @brent_allman for his graduate-school level diversity award at Emory!
Graduate News Feature: Brent Allman, 4th-year student in the @EmoryPBEE program is the LGS 2019-20 Kharen Fulton Diversity Awardee. Read more here: news.emory.edu/stories/2020/… #OneEmory #ItStartsWithOne
great new paper by Beth Morrison, a post-doc in the Brosi lab, focused on hybrid pollination / herbivory networks along an agricultural intensification gradient—check it out!
Agricultural intensification drives changes in hybrid network robustness by modifying network structure onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
I recommend this very thoughtful and compelling paper to all scientists whose work includes measuring diversity. It has changed the way that I think about measurement of diversity. Bonus: perhaps the most well-written statistics paper I've ever read. Congrats @AmyDWillis!
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wonderful thread—the educational value of @LeeDugatkin and @CT_Bergstrom 's Evolution textbook, for a younger audience
A short thread about education:
My daughter loves animals. Like many other kids. She's not a genius, but she's interested and motivated. She's almost 10. So I recently suggested I read her the Evolution textbook written by @LeeDugatkin and @CT_Bergstrom...
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Great news for pollinators—the EPA has announced the cancellation of 12 neonicitinoid pesticides that were previously registered! washingtonpost.com/news/powe…
very interesting work showing complete sequencing of the entire 16S segment with the @PacBio platform with very, very low error rates from @bejcal. Interesting potential application to metabarcoding in non-microbial systems.
PacBio CCS amplicon reads on the Sequel platform: 99.96% per-base accuracy, better than short-read techs.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
#NCStateMicrobiome @PacBio
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great advice for graduate students and mentors...
20 years ago today (!), I defended my dissertation. To celebrate this anniversary, let me offer up 10 thoughts/opinions about being a PhD student and 10 about being an advisor. #phdlife #AcademicTwiiter #PhdChat
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interesting look at pest control and pollination services in coffee in a climate change context, from @TaylorHRicketts and group
Ecosystem services by birds and bees to coffee in a changing climate: ... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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check out this tribute to the amazing Robbin Thorp!
Honoring Robbin Thorp, a living legend of North American bee conservation, feels particularly fitting during #EarthWeek. Xerces Senior Endangered Species Conservation Biologist & #BumbleBee Lead Rich Hatfield writes a lovely tribute. buff.ly/2L4LaZU
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very interesting new paper by @Eco_Godoy in @FunEcology integrating coexistence theory in species interaction networks to understand species invasions
Why biological #invasions are often studied outside the main theoretical principles of #community #ecology? Do not fully understand yet. Here is my perspective @FunEcology for the case of species interaction networks: implications for novel ecosystems fesummaries.wordpress.com/20…
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