When I interviewed at #WCU, I was inspired by the Biology corridor filled with students’ published papers. I dreamed of seeing one of my own students there one day. Today it happened with 2 papers!🌟 Proud of Lily Kelleher—the first of many from the #RamalhoLab! #ProudPI #PUI 🐜

#RamalhoLab team! 🫶🐜🥰 I love so much! #WCU 💛🐏💜 #Ant #PUI

So excited that @corriemoreau.bsky.social will be giving a tangled banks seminar at NHMO today!! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... join us (also on zoom!)

🚨🚨TT Job! Please help spread the word!

🚨🚨TT Job! Please help spread the word!

Science starts at school! Volunteered at a public school in Guaraci, Brazil 🇧🇷 We talked about science, 🐜 ants, and becoming a scientist 👩🏽‍🔬 Ran an experiment and explored biodiversity! School and university should always walk together 🌱 #ScienceInSchool #Ant #RamalhoLab

Job alert! 🚨

Come to join us! 🎉🫶 The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position! Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...

If you like good people, want to live in excellent SE PA, and ❤️ PUIs… 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Come to join us! 🎉🫶 The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position! Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...

Happy Pride!

10 years ago: I came to the U.S. to learn this powerful machine and explore endless research possibilities 🤓🐜 Today: My students using it in my lab 😭💥💜🤩 Full circle! Heart = FULL 🫶✨ #ProudPI #RamalhoLab

Career day! #ants rule! 🐜🥰 At Nicky’s school! ♥️ #RamalhoLab

So excited for this paper by the Insect Loss RCN led by Chris Halsh! #insectloss @cbahlai.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

I usually associate phasmids with the tropics, but it turns out there are two species native to New York. Here is the common walkingstick, Diapheromera femorata, which enjoys the oak trees in my garden. Small nymphs appear in May, and adults, like this one, in late summer. Woodstock, NY.

A young queen of the American carpenter ant (Camponotus americanus) with a mite attached to its thorax. The mites associated with ants are highly diverse and vastly understudied. Woodstock, NY.

🦒🧬 New preprint🦒🧬 We investigated the degree of admixture, genetic diversity and inbreeding in ex situ giraffes using WGS data from the famous Marius, 12 zoo giraffes, and a data set from 71 wild giraffes. #ConsGen #PopGen #Genomics #Giraffes #Marius www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

❣️ Community ❣️ I need your help! Does your department do "intro" videos where each faculty has a short video on who they are and what their research/teaching is? Or have you seen something like this? If so, can you share it here? THANK YOU!

Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 16, 2025 Eggplant horned planthopper Leptocentrus taurus Hemiptera: Membracidae By Vijin Varghese, Kerala, India #arthropodPOTW

Congratulations to Dr. Leland Graber @bug4bug.bsky.social who did an excellent job defending his Ph.D. today! #MoreauLab #ProudPI @cornellentomology.bsky.social

Forthcoming articles cont'd: 2. "Ecosystem Assessment & Translating a Groundskeeping Framework into Practice for Promoting Systemic Change in Higher Education" in Frontiers in Education (www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...) Collaborative work by @berondam.bsky.social & @sherilynnblack.bsky.social

Today we are at #ESA Mid-Atlantic at Longwood Gardens! More poster, talks and fun at the #RamalhoLab! 🫶🐜 Great Science and great people! #ProudPI #WCU 💜🐏💛

Research Day at #WCU💜🐏💛 and #RamalhoLab 🐜❤️ #ProudPI #PUI

We love this! 💚

Happy 91st birthday to Dr. Jane Goodall! A true inspiration for future generations of women in science! 🎂🔬🧬🧫👩‍🔬! @janegoodall.org @janegoodallcan.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social #WomenInScience #GirlsInStem

Interested in ancient food webs? Check out our new study on the paleoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar (Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A 🆕 Meeting Review in the ESA Bulletin: Lessons from the Diversity Forum at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America doi.org/10.1002/bes2...

❗ New paper ❗ 🐤 Bird communities change differently depending on distance to protected area and habitat type, indicating edge effects in climate change responses. This work was part of Leena Hintsanen's PhD thesis 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📸 @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

Cornelian cherry, Cornus mas, N. European #dogwood (Cornaceae), ornamentally planted as an early spring flowering small tree, with edible fruit in autumn - very tannic red flesh is only enjoyable when mushy #WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling #botany

Science and art offer complementary approaches to achieving a deeper understanding of life, and the exchange between the two can be very fruitful. Check out the fantastic work of Maximilian Prüfer, who lets insects express themselves in his art: maximilian-pruefer.com

Circumpolar Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris #Ranunculaceae, a #buttercup that makes a lactone-based poison protoanemonin... Like glucosinolates and cyanogenic glycosides In other families, the toxin is not unveiled until tissue maceration #WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling #botany

#Betula alleganiensis, w/ stilt roots from germinating on a #tree stump. Lore suggests that small #seeds of #trees like this yellow #birch benefit from escaping suppressive leaf litter... #Hemlock seeds also [escape pathogens when germinating on stumps](doi.org/10.1890/03-3...) #plants #forest

It's Thursday: Episode #84 of #MattersMicrobial is here! @rporetsky.bsky.social joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how wastewater can be used to identify and follow specific microbes, including viruses and pathogens. We had fun! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord youtu.be/oUxP1dsF2Bk?...

Meet Adam Rork, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University studying the evolution of chemical defense mechanisms in beetles and subject of the next installment of our "Standout Early Career Professionals" series.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: March 26, 2025 Montane paradise jumping spider Habronattus altanus Araneae: Salticidae By Marshal Hedin (@mhedin.bsky.social), California, USA #arthropodPOTW

Heading to NOLA. Sitting in critical community every chance I get. The power of community--for good or for bad. It's the lesson from plants that I am drawing on most in these times. Thanks to Community Book Center for the invitation and for hosting in collab with Loyola Biology #LessonsFromPlants

During the first emigration of the Eciton burchellii nomadic phase, colonies still contain some late stage pupae, along with early instar larvae. Here, two submajors are hauling a massive male pupa, while a regular worker is carrying a bundle of eggs and tiny larvae of the next worker cohort.

These desert furnace ants- Forelius maccooki- normally run so quickly they are difficult to photograph. But they will pause and pose briefly at their nest entrance, allowing a few decent shots. Tucson, Arizona.

Meet a scientist day at Nicky school! ❤️🥰🐜 #WomenInScience #Ant

Thanks for this contribution to Ecology's #TheScientificNaturalist series!

Army ant soldiers are weird creatures! In Eciton in particular, they sport exaggerated, saber-shaped mandibles that are only good for one thing: needling would be predators. Here, an Eciton burchellii soldier is guarding a colony emigration in the rainforest of La Selva, Costa Rica.

We had a fabulous turnout for our mentoring villages at @sicb.bsky.social this year! Thanks so much to all of the mentees who came out, and to the mentors who volunteered their time to give insight and advice. It does indeed take a village!

#Butterfly declines across the USA www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

First paper published by a student from #RamalhoLab! Lily gets to choose the tradition! We are having a paper cake! Congratulations Lily! The first of many, both for her and for us! #WomenInScience publishing with the little ones 🧫 living in the little girls 🐜 who run the world! #ProudPI #WCU💛🐏💜

So excited be at Naturalis @naturalis.bsky.social today and tomorrow serving on their Scientific Advisory Board! Stunning building, outstanding collections, impactful research, and engaging exhibits #CollectionsAreEssential #NaturalHistoryMuseums

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

ATX peeps...Mark your calendars! @jblosos.bsky.social is giving the Texas Biodiversity Center Distinguished Speaker Series talk at UT Austin on May 1, 2025 at 2:30 pm in NHB 1.720 (on the UT campus). Come talk cats! live-cns-bdc.pantheonsite.io/.../cats-meo....

Just one single gut bacteria is astonishingly sufficient to repress the antibiotic-resistant C. difficile infection. A real game changer from colleagues at the Center. AI and synthetic communities boiled it all down. Big vision by the trainees and faculty www.psu.edu/news/researc...

Natalie Cooper, Senior Editor for MEE, has written a blog post for #InternationalWomensDay 2025. Read the full post here 👇 buff.ly/SGGUlPU

“Kennedy is no longer an outside agitator but the government official ultimately responsible for squashing public health threats in the US. So far, he has not commented on the Texas outbreak.”