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Stack / Whitney Entomology, Environment and Technology Col(LAB)oratory
SWEET Co(LAB)orative
The SWEET Col(LAB)orative is an environmental studies research group who often, but not always, use insects as a lens onto broader systems. We use a range of quantitative and qualitative tools to study science and society. Global environmental problems necessitate a diverse group of minds, bodies, and lives coming together to imagine (and then achieve!) conserving and sustaining natural and human communities in ethical ways. This work is interdisciplinary and done in community, with a wide range of collaborators across disciplines and institutions.
We do this while also working to:
- create space to be our full(er) selves,
- address positionality and power in our research and teams,
- do "open" research without extraction.
We are located on unceded Seneca Nations (Onöndowa'ga) lands. Learn more here.
Latest News
- October 21, 2024
new article published
Dr. Stack Whitney recently published an article, Thinking with Termites about Fractious Futures for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the United States, in the journal Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience. Read it here.
- August 19, 2024
new publication
The RECIPES network, which the SWEET Col(LAB) is a part of, has just published its Guiding Principles and Community Norms document, on the values and commitments guiding the network in its work on wasted food. Read it here.
- August 1, 2024
Zale presents at RIT URS
Congrats to Zale on their great presentation about their summer research fellowship work on campus bees and landscaping practices to the annual RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium! This work was a collaboration with the Bahlai Lab at Kent State University.
- July 13, 2024
new pre-print posted
As a collaborator on the Global Urban Evolution (GLUE) project, Dr. Stack Whitney is part of the team with a new pre-print (Structural variants underlie parallel adaptation following global invasion) posted about this work. The article is currently submitted for peer review.
Research
Environmental dimensions of transportation systems
We are interested in the interplay between policy, bureaucracy, and animals at landscape scales. Our focus is always in systems with human communities, currently with a focus on highways and roadside rights-of-way.
Critical examinations of ecosystem services
Environmental science is a human endeavor, shaped by individual and institutional structures, processes, and biases. Part of my research program centers on understanding how these factors shape contemporary ecosystem service sciences.
Ableism and accessibility in biology and society
In fieldwork and informatics based work, SWEET is committed to inclusion, accessibility, and reproducibility. In particular, we focus on disability access and inclusion (or lack thereof) in open science and beyond.
