evolutionary biologist, toddler mom, hiker of high places, chaser of bugs
Joined October 2017
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Sarah Lower retweeted
14 Jun 2024
Researchers used citizen science observations and machine learning to understand where fireflies are and what they need to thrive.
@seslower from @BucknellU joins us to discuss ways to protect fireflies.
sciencefriday.com/segments/c…
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Sarah Lower retweeted
31 Jul 2023
I really enjoyed seeing @BucknellU Professor Sarah Lower (@seslower), #biology, and the students who assist her in her research on #fireflies featured in this story in @TheAtlantic. tinyurl.com/cpzx4shf
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31 Jul 2023
My favorite comic @xkcd is about my favorite critter today! What a lovely way to wake up! Also - truth - need flash patterns to ID a lot of these species - can't get those during the day!!! Panel 1 especially familiar to my research assistants #FIREmones
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Sarah Lower retweeted
Love #fireflies? If you'd like to learn more about them, we encourage you to join our Invertebrate Conservation Coordinator Sérgio Henriques on Saturday, July 15 in Kankakee Sands. This @Nature_Indiana event is open to the public, but you need to RSVP. nature.org/en-us/get-involve…
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Sarah Lower retweeted
Lower Lab led a great night of firefly education this week, too. Learned a bunch and got to experience a pretty awesome storm with a bunch of other nature nerds.
22 Jun 2023
Sarah Lower, professor of biology at #Bucknell, was a guest on the Just the Zoo of Us podcast to chat fireflies and provide some tips for enjoying a summer bioluminescent picnic! 💡🔶🔷 #rayBucknell
Learn more about Lower's work at Bucknell. ➡️ bit.ly/3IIp62L
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Sarah Lower retweeted
1 Jul 2023
In celebration of World Firefly Day, lab-reared aquatic #fireflies are helping to restore Bangkok’s ailing firefly populations ✨💚
Project lead & 📷 by Dr. Anchana Thancharoen @kasetsart_ku
@IUCNssc @IUCNFireflies @ProtectSpecies
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1 Jul 2023
Across the season, there are at least 13 light-using firefly species around the site of the PA Firefly Festival. At the festival this year, this brilliant crew is ready to tell you all about the ones that DON'T light up. #teamFIREmones @BucknellU
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30 Jun 2023
RT @dino_grandoni: In non-SCOTUS news, if you need some, read this from me on fireflies 🔥🪰
🟡why they're disappearing — almost 1 in 3 (!) in…
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Sarah Lower retweeted
22 Jun 2023
Sarah Lower, professor of biology at #Bucknell, was a guest on the Just the Zoo of Us podcast to chat fireflies and provide some tips for enjoying a summer bioluminescent picnic! 💡🔶🔷 #rayBucknell
Learn more about Lower's work at Bucknell. ➡️ bit.ly/3IIp62L
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30 Jun 2023
Thanks for coming out and sharing the wonders of fireflies with us! #lightsoutforlightningbugs @JasonNark @LowerLab @BucknellU
30 Jun 2023
Seeing less lightning bugs? Researchers say development, light pollution, and pesticides may all be playing a part in the global decline of fireflies. I wrote about them in Pa. for the @PhillyInquirer
inquirer.com/life/outdoors/i…
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Sarah Lower retweeted
28 Jun 2023
Fall 2023 paid #SciCom internship opportunity @nmnh!
If you love interviewing scientists and writing about 💎🌋☄️🌸🌷🍃🌳🐟🐠🍤🐋🦖🦕🦇🦋🐝🦗🐞🕸🐻🦆🦅🦜🐨 🪨 apply by July 10. internships.si.edu/opportuni…
ALT Photo of ten people posing between two long and tall rows of shelves of scientific specimens of birds, some drawers are pulled out for display and the people are smiling and happy
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Sarah Lower retweeted
14 Jun 2023
Reminder that this workshop is accepting applications until July 1. If you’re looking toward a #faculty job at a research-active #PUI in the future, check this out!
31 May 2023
📢ANNOUNCING the Fall 2023 Aspiring PUI Faculty Workshop @BucknellU -- 2 days, 14 peers in Natural Sci. & Math wanting to learn about primarily undergrad institutions (PUIs). *No cost to attendees.* Find more info and apply by July 1: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
ALT an image of Bertrand Library on the campus off Bucknell University.
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Sarah Lower retweeted
9 Jun 2023
We’re almost at the time when the blinking lights of our common firefly, the big dipper, will dot our evenings and beg a question — what do those flashes mean? trib.al/NTzd06Z
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9 Jun 2023
I so look forward to getting these in my work mailbox. Now to claim my fav lunch spot and nerd out! Thank you anonymous gift giver!
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Sarah Lower retweeted
6 Jun 2023
While butterflies might float in the wind and have very delicate wings, these insects are actually very resilient when it comes to a widely used class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids.
Read more about @UGAEcology’s latest discovery below.
t.uga.edu/99j | #UGA
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7 Jun 2023
Fireflies. *biased
5 Jun 2023
What's your favorite nocturnal animal that lives on land?
I'm working on my lectures for Life without Light now and I have so much to talk about but also I'm afraid I'm going to skip over some absurdly cool nocturnal animal ahhhhh!!!
(join here btw
atlasobscura.com/experiences… )
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7 Jun 2023
I cannot unsee this. I love science.
5 Jun 2023
Today thanks to @friel, I learned that aye ayes do the most extreme form of nose picking I have ever seen. Dear LORD.
This pic is from one of the scientists, Renaud Boistel
More info, complete with nose picking gif here: livescience.com/aye-ayes-pri…
ALT a scan of a aye aye skull and it sticking its finger way the hell in there
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