James B Dorey

🚩 EF researcher James Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social is part of the team that published a global dataset for bee-plant biotic interactions. Out in Scientific Data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says Greens senator sounds warning as Labor expected to announce possible defence measures to protect Gulf countries within days * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Greens say sending military support to Gulf countries would only serve Donald Trump’s interests in the growing Iran war, as international law experts warn assistance would mean Australia was legally part of the conflict. Cabinet’s national security committee met on Monday to consider requests for Australia to provide help to countries feeling the brunt of Tehran’s missile attack, sparked by bombings ordered by the US president and Israel. Continue reading...

Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says

I’m not going to watch/listen to me, but you can! 😂

Exciting new study in @natcomms.nature.com led by James Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social with other EF members Nikolas Johnston and Damien Esquerré, showing that there could be thousands of unknown bee species out there yet to be described!

Many thanks to the usual suspects! Amy-Marie Gilpin, @nikolasjohnston.bsky.social, @Damien Esquerré, @achughes.bsky.social, @John Ascher, and @mcorr.bsky.social
@uowenvirofutures.bsky.social, @drewrooke.bsky.social, @natcomms.nature.com @theconversation.com

Science knows of 21,000 bee species. There are likely thousands more A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

We also provide a handy article in The Conversation!
doi.org/10.64628/AA....

Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps - Nature Communications Bees are crucial for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems, yet rigorous estimates of their species’ richness are lacking. This study estimates taxonomic gaps for bees around the world and provides a ...

New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Is the surveillance state going too far? Not far enough, I say! …I think?
This is very neat :)

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

This is the longest news article I’ve read in, maybe ever! But interesting and well worth a read about [neo]liberalism and then war for public opinion… and spread of disinformation by think tanks

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

Meet the weird, wonderful creatures that live in Australia’s desert water holes. They might not be there much longer From water fleas to seed shrimp, Australia’s desert rock holes shelter unique animals found nowhere else. But as the climate warms, their homes are at risk.

Research reveals the unique species living in Australia’s arid rock holes.

"We will need more knowledge to protect them in a warming climate."

theconversation.com/meet-the-wei...

@dr-brock-hedges.bsky.social @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social @marinefreshwater.bsky.social

Seven invertebrates of varying colours and shapes against a black background: three seed shrimp, a pea shrimp, a water flea, a water boatman and a non-biting midge larvae. A caption invites us to read an open access article in Marine and Freshwater Research titled 'Environmental DNA reveals temporal and spatial variability of invertebrate communities in arid-lands ephemeral water bodies'. The image is credited as being by Brock A. Hedges, James B. Dorey, Perry G. Beasley-Hall.

Read the #OpenAccess research @marinefreshwater.bsky.social:

'Environmental DNA reveals temporal & spatial variability of invertebrate communities in arid-lands ephemeral water bodies'

connectsci.au/mf/article/7...

@dr-brock-hedges.bsky.social @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social

Peanut worm and boring peanut worm

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

The last thing we need right now is a reason for MAHA/MAGA to discredit science further.

Please, for the love of microscopes, don’t cite shit you haven’t read.

Incredible photos!

Top 25 News Photos of 2025 Powerful images from the past 12 months

Phenomenal photos.

Photojournalists are amazing people.

Can I have a moment of your time to talk about BEESus?!

This is just mental. I can’t imagine aligning strongly with an aspiring autocratic fascist. Let alone at the cost of our natural assets :(

Thank you.

Are we on or off the record right now? 😅

You want to contact kit?

Nesting behaviour drives the evolution of heat tolerance and climate vulnerability in bees! Check out our pre-print on 95 species of Australian native bee across the latitudinal extent of Australia! 🐝 #nativebee #climateadaptation #heattolerance #plasticity #behaviour #bees #climatechange

As usual, the paper was a big collaboration with some great people! @mcorr.bsky.social, Amy-Marie Gilpin, Nikolas Johnston, Damien Esquerre, @achughes.bsky.social, and John Ascher :)
@uowenvirofutures.bsky.social

BeeBDC version 1.3.0 is now on CRAN with new functionality to estimate species richness at country/continent/global/ANY level using species occurrence data 🐍🐌🐸 jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/artic...
This follows on from our 🐝 pre-print, under review at Nat Comm doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 😍

A photo of a blonde lady holding a long stick and gesticulating towards a projected slide of general beetle categories. These include “squiggly guy,” “swimmy guy,” and “bitey guy”

Thank u Vanessa for this excellent photo of my proposed classification scheme for Coleoptera

A detailed look at how bee genomes evolve when the various species switch between generalist and specialist diets.

@jamesbeedorey.bsky.social on cleaning biodiversity data using beebdc #ICCB2025

jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/

Great talk by Katja Hogendoorn on protecting pollinators in the face of imperfect information at #ICCB2025!

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social