Biotweeps

This week, I am curating @Biotweeps! @Biotweeps is a twitter account that is taken over by a different biologist each week. If you’re on twitter, you can follow my week (starting yesterday!) at the handle @Biotweeps. I’ll be talking about a few of my favorite things: honey bees, pollinators, and science communication. If you’re not […]

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National Pollinator Week!

I celebrated National Pollinator Week by spending time with my honey bees (which I technically do every week), and honoring a pollinator a day on Twitter. While it’s great that we have a whole week that’s nationally recognized and set aside for pollinators, we should celebrate pollinators every day! Pollinators make crops possible, they add […]

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9 tips for communicating science to children

I am hosting my first guest blogger! Read about #scicomm tactics that work for me as told by my husband, Billy Dunne. I recently had the pleasure of joining Rachael at her “All About Bees” event at the Discovery Museums in Acton, MA. In the past five years, I’ve joined Rachael at three or four […]

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TEDxTufts: Acknowledgements

When scientists give talks, we typically end the talk with an “Acknowledgements” slide, where we thank everyone who made that talk possible: co-authors, funders, field hands, etc. In March, I had the honor of giving a much different kind of talk: a TEDxTufts talk! Even though I was alone on stage, I couldn’t have pulled […]

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#ScienceNotSilence

Today is a big day: it’s Earth Day AND the March for Science! I won’t be marching today but I will be doing science outreach at the Discovery Museums in Acton, MA while sporting my #MarchForScience t-shirt. I will be with all my fellow scientists and science-supporters in spirit! Also, I had to pleasure of […]

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Faces of Fieldwork Feature

I was featured on Faces of Fieldwork, a campaign to put a human face on scientific fieldwork. Being a scientist doesn’t mean you have to work in a lab. If you’re a field scientist, I encourage you to share your story with Faces of Fieldwork–let’s change the image of “scientist” from people in lab coats […]

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Spring break in Costa Rica!

Front (left to right): Annika Greenleaf (junior), Ana-Maria Murphy-Teixidor (senior), Gabriela Garcia (1st year grad student), Elizabeth Crone (Professor), me, Genevieve Pugesek (2nd year grad student) Back: Colin Orians (Professor) This year, I had the pleasure of spending spring break in Costa Rica, on a coffee farm in the Central Valley! Our team was funded […]

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