Marjorie Weber
@webermg.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist who studies plant-animal interactions. Profile pic drawing by John Megahan.
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Hey, **Award winning** postdoc mentor David Lowry is hiring a new postdoc!! Check it out :)
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Associate-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary
The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct molecular and physiological experiments to understand the causes of genetic va...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hey, **Award winning** postdoc mentor David Lowry is hiring a new postdoc!! Check it out :)
Science + Art! Trees! Check out this video on my summer field course at the Univ. of Michigan Bio Station. Students from any school can attend (not just UM), and scholarships are available. Lots of cool classes and research at UMBS! Students & researchers: join us this summer! 🌳 tinyurl.com/yc7zcttp
Insights from Trees | University of Michigan Biological Station
YouTube video by U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Science + Art! Trees! Check out this video on my summer field course at the Univ. of Michigan Bio Station. Students from any school can attend (not just UM), and scholarships are available. Lots of cool classes and research at UMBS! Students & researchers: join us this summer! 🌳 tinyurl.com/yc7zcttp
Article about awesome lab postdoc Marianne Azevedo Silva and her cool work with mutualistic mites pressed into herbarium specimens! lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-eve...
Herbarium Spotlight: How Mites and Plants Form a Hidden Partnership | U-M LSA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
EEB postdoc Marianne Azevedo Silva’s research dives into U-M's historical herbarium specimens—some over 150 years old—to find hidden mites and their eggs on leaves. Her work shows how museum collectio...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Article about awesome lab postdoc Marianne Azevedo Silva and her cool work with mutualistic mites pressed into herbarium specimens! lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-eve...
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The Mapleleaf Arrowwood, Viburnum acerifolium, now flowering in Ithaca forests. One of the species that led to the development of the bed and breakfast hypothesis by @webermg.bsky.social
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June 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Mapleleaf Arrowwood, Viburnum acerifolium, now flowering in Ithaca forests. One of the species that led to the development of the bed and breakfast hypothesis by @webermg.bsky.social
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news.umich.edu/mighty-mite-...
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Join us! Explore the lives of loons, how climate change affects your health, the fascinating world of fungi, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. during the Summer Lectures at the Michigan Biological Station. Schedule: myumi.ch/E88yg
University of Michigan Biological Station Invites Public to Free Summer Lectures | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
On Wednesdays at 7 p.m., topics include the fascinating world of fungi, how climate change affects your health, all about the Common Loon, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and nitrogen as a driver of...
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May 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us! Explore the lives of loons, how climate change affects your health, the fascinating world of fungi, manoomin (wild rice) restoration, and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. during the Summer Lectures at the Michigan Biological Station. Schedule: myumi.ch/E88yg
I developed a course at the UM Bio Station where each student picks a tree to study all semester, practicing observation through the lenses of science & art. So fun. We even published a research paper on tree-mite mutualism & w/ students as co-authors! News story here: lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
Undergraduate Students at U-M Biological Station Co-Author Mite-y Research Paper in Scientific Journal | U-M LSA University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)
The journal Ecology and Evolution published a research paper co-authored by all students in the 2024 Insights From Trees class at the University of Michigan Biological Station evaluating the abundance...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I developed a course at the UM Bio Station where each student picks a tree to study all semester, practicing observation through the lenses of science & art. So fun. We even published a research paper on tree-mite mutualism & w/ students as co-authors! News story here: lsa.umich.edu/umbs/news-ev...
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Martin-Eberhardt et al. reveal a single anthocyanin pigment affects four plant-insect interactions in a carnivorous plant, finding patterns consistent with ecological interactions exerting opposing selection on plant color and thus maintaining variation.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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April 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Martin-Eberhardt et al. reveal a single anthocyanin pigment affects four plant-insect interactions in a carnivorous plant, finding patterns consistent with ecological interactions exerting opposing selection on plant color and thus maintaining variation.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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An important statement signed by 5 of the 8 University of Michigan regents.
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In defense of our institutional independence
This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
An important statement signed by 5 of the 8 University of Michigan regents.
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
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BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
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April 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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so well deserved, congrats Liz and Melissa!!
Congratulations to our 2025 Huxley Award recipient, Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis, for her collection of education resources called Data Nuggets, created together with Dr. Melissa Kjelvik! Learn more here: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @datanuggets.bsky.social
T. H. Huxley Award: Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis
Congratulations to this year’s T. H. Huxley Award recipient, Dr. Elizabeth Schultheis ! Dr. Schultheis is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Kellogg Biological Station…
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April 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
so well deserved, congrats Liz and Melissa!!
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Undergrad biology instructors! Paid opportunity to participate in research that tests the impacts of highlighting scientist role models in instructional materials. 🐌 🧪 🦋 🔬
Check it out and apply! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Check it out and apply! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Recruitment instructors_IUSE2.docx
Which elements of scientist role model stories are effective in improving equity and success in undergraduate STEM education? Interested? Fill out this poll! We are searching for undergraduate bio...
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April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Undergrad biology instructors! Paid opportunity to participate in research that tests the impacts of highlighting scientist role models in instructional materials. 🐌 🧪 🦋 🔬
Check it out and apply! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Check it out and apply! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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This hasn’t aged well.
March 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This hasn’t aged well.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is making sweeping cuts to contracts, with the Trump administration asserting that core services will remain unaffected.
February 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Department of Veterans Affairs is making sweeping cuts to contracts, with the Trump administration asserting that core services will remain unaffected.