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Andrea Loya Castillo

@andreaptera.bsky.social
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PhD student in the de Bivort Lab @ Harvard | Insect locomotion, evolution, & behavior | Bug girl in a big world, from fire ecology to insect ethology 🐜🐞🪲🐝🦗🪰 Tea brewing, field boots on, codework buzzing CA->MA www.inaturalist.org/people/2530133

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 17/01/2026
The High Seas Treaty is officially in effect! 🌊🎉🌎 TODAY, the UN’s #BBNJ Treaty becomes international law, protecting areas of the global ocean beyond any nation’s control. 👉Learn more about the road to protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030 and #60toGlobal from the @highseasalliance.bsky.social!
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📈Good news for California beaches! 🏖️ Two new studies from researchers at Scripps Oceanography found that San Diego County beaches gained width in the past year, and that average beach width across all of California has remained stable since 1985. @axios.com San Diego shares more. ⬇️
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San Diego's beaches are bouncing back after El Niño
Scripps researchers say it's good news about the health and resilience of our coasts.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/12/2025
Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/
Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
COME WORK WITH ME!!! Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus! cee.mit.edu/people/share...
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Kaylin @kaylinchong.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🎃🕷️Tick or treat? Just in time for spooky season... I found a tick on an electric eel in the MCZ collections. Not even the fish are safe! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...
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An eclectic encounter: ticks feeding on an electric eel and the untapped potential of natural history collections
Abstract. Parasites are quite likely the most diverse guild of species on earth. Nevertheless, they remain under-documented despite their impact on the hea
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 23/09/2025
How #stress shapes #insect minds: hormones and neuropeptides alter learning and memory in complex, surprising ways. 🪰 ➡️Review 📝 Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Neurobiology #InsectScience #StressResearch
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Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes
Insects can adjust their behaviours through learning and memory, but this rather costly capacity is often impacted by stressors. Here, we address how …
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This line from Mary Oliver ❤️
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/09/2025
Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/
Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality
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Mia Croft (she/they) @miacroftento.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Funnels are working well to reduce small mammals mortalities in pitfall traps 🐁 just cut the narrow end shorter and you can even drop a sample pot with solution into the cup for easy collection 🪲
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/08/2025
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Andrea Loya Castillo @andreaptera.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Barely made it to the top because it was so slippery, but it was very majestic #mountgreylock
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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 22/05/2025
NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Andrea Loya Castillo @andreaptera.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
@harvardoeb.bsky.social OEB Spring Party 🌱🐥
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