Erin B Lowe
@ErinBeeLowe
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PhD in Environment & Resources // Interested in agroecology🌄, pollination & landscape ecology🐝, and just food systems✊🏻 // she/her
occupied Ho-Chunk land
Joined March 2019
I'm taking new contracts for projects focused on just and sustainable food systems! If you need an extra pair of hands to get your project to the next step, please reach out at elowe512@gmail.com. More info about my work and services at https://t.co/3Ber5zyxhV
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All of my dissertation is finally published! Back to #bees on this chapter. Read about the impacts of field-edge flower plantings on #pollinators, #conservation, and crop pollination:
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Which actions that support managed livestock grazing are most likely to transform Midwest food and agricultural systems? https://t.co/5jCtKm2bLT… Cheers to co-authors @aralcanaf and Adena Rissman! #FoodSystems #SustainableAgriculture @Grassland2_0
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A growing number of intergovernmental agencies, policymakers, scholars, and farmers are calling to transform the dominant food system so that it better suppo...
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Excited to share this report I’ve been working on with co-author, @aralcanaf! The report synthesizes recs from 130 members of the Midwest ag community on how to support managed grazing and build a more just food system. Check it out! https://t.co/JiPpDhpYbG
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🎉New preprint! Last summer, we hosted a panel at @SBNTweets on leveraging privilege to improve racial equity in academia. I'm so honored to have been able to work with the amazing panelists to synthesize their wisdom!
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We'd like to reach 1,000 followers by the end of the month. Can you help us get there with a retweet? We hope with more followers we'll be able to get the word out when we need support in pursuit of our federal recognition. Your allyship is vital.
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So proud of @PatrickKMonari for publishing this awesome game -- check it out!
My game, The Academy Chrysalis, is published! It follows a group of treasure hunters along a journey through a school shattered by academic hubris, and critically examines the colonialist roots of both fantasy adventuring and academic progress. Check out the link below ->
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Huge oversight to exclude agriculture from #COP26. Ag needs to an integral part of convos on the climate crisis:
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Not a single day will be devoted to food and agriculture, the source of a quarter of global emissions.
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To tackle the complex problems we face today we need lenses like agroecology that integrate multiple disciplines and link that work to transformative action
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Silos do us no service. They may cater to our comforts, but they blind us to the context of our work and perperuate social and racial inequities
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Anyone who does ag science (or any research on natural resource management) & thinks their work is apolitical is deceiving themselves. Political agroecology is no more political than other ag science, it's just more honest about it
I think it is important to separate political agroecology (political science) from production agroecology (biology, chemistry, and physics). I'm perhaps late to realize this, but political agroecology is critical theory applied to the food system and goes way beyond the farm.
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We also need more longer-term studies on the effects of *mature* plantings and on more direct metrics of population growth like nesting and reproductive success
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Planting size and richness don't significantly change results. We found some (non-quantitative) evidence for landscape being important (tentative support for plantings being most effective when surrounded by a moderate amount of existing habitat) but more research is needed
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Primary findings are that field-edge flower plantings are great at increasing pollinator richness and abundance in crop field edges (and this effect is stronger for mature plantings), but impacts on crop pollination and yield are inconsistent
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First first-author paper published today! Check out our meta-analysis on how field edge pollinator plantings influence pollinator conservation and crop pollination:
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Such a pleasant surprise to wake up to this morning! Thanks so much @zachportman. Looking forward to watching some great talks at #EntSoc2020 over the next few days
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We’re seeking collaborators for further actions/demands racial justice in #entomology. Have ideas? Just want to be in the loop? Here’s how you can get in touch ↓ ↓ ↓
🐜We're interested in working with other orgs/ESA subcommittees/individuals to draft/sign a letter w/ further actionable demands to make @EntSocAmerica more inclusive. We invite your input in order to organize, prioritize, & be heard. Interested? Tell us:
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Eyes are on you, @EntsocAmerica. Now's your chance to own up to your mistakes and do the right thing. Read our letter to ESA here: https://t.co/5HneaCeK6F Tell ESA to change the name of the Linnaean Games by signing here:
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Change the name of the Linnaean Games: Entomological Society of America
1/7 Communities across the US are removing racist monuments. We have our own in science, and it’s time we tear them down. In this letter we call on @EntSocAmerica to change the name of their trivia competition, the Linnaean Games.
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