You can find me on the other site, but popping over to share an important piece I wrote about the debate over lethal sampling in bees:

zportman.medium.com/further-reflec…

Huge accomplishment from a collaboration between Minnesota DNR and UMN Entomology Dept with funding from MN ENRTF

Trees for bees!

I wrote about one of the best alliterative ways to help bees and other pollinators.

link.medium.com/35B33ortrAb

Registration open for Midwest Bumble Bee ID, covering detailed ID info for 24 species, taught by me and @zachportman.bsky.social It's an asynchronous online course available starting May 22. Please share. learning.umn.edu/search/publicC…

It took me 9 years to gather the confidence, and I know there are many more who are simply not in good positions to speak openly at the moment, so I raised my voice for them too. Professor Octavio Mateus is a sexual predator and should face consequences.
sabado.pt/portugal/detal…

In new study, I have analyzed correlation between SARS-CoV-2 & animal genetic material in full set of environmental samples from Huanan Seafood Market.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Analysis clarifies what sequencing these samples can & cannot tell us about early outbreak at market.

I'm often asked why I resigned from my position at Yale BGC six months after moving to the US. I left because of Walter Jetz. (1/3)

Happy to see this study on bee lawns come out, led by grad student James Wolfin.

One interesting result: out of 5038 bees found on white clover, 44% were honeybees, 18% were other non-native bees, and only 38% were native bees.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I wrote an article about a serious issue involving plagiarism in a bee taxonomy paper.

link.medium.com/9uFp0bC2lyb

For the past several months, I’ve been investigating the case of the Arctic crab collapses.

I interviewed observers, whistleblowers, fishermen, government officials, and marine biologists. Here is my published story and a thread of final thoughts:

nautil.us/where-have-all…

My prediction/hope for twitter: melon husk unbans Trump. Trump gets a crazy 24 hours of tweeting in. The world cup crashes twitter. Twitter down for weeks, never fully recovers.

Day 4 at the UCLA campus. Which side are you on? #FairUCNow #UAWonStrike #UCstrike