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Kelly Dawe @corncolors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

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Buck Trible @bucktrible.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

!!! I saw a hangingfly for the first time last week and I'm still riding high on that triumph ;)

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Guy with wings which are also balls, for reasons unclear (Heterospilus sp. braconid wasp)

Slender orange wasp with blue eyes and long antennae, and truncated wings which terminate in ball-like structures of dubious utility

Closer shot of another lad from the top, showing the ball structures a little more clearly

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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera and oh, let's say Orthoptera

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Buck Trible @bucktrible.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Omg spectacular! Can’t wait to read and congrats on finding the pheromone!!

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Buck Trible @bucktrible.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Love love love this beautiful work :). Parthenogenesis notwithstanding, the convergent evolution with workerless parasites in the sister clade (Leptothoracine) is astonishing - multiple of those also have gynomorphic and ergatoid queens but no workers.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

These are definitely Hymenopterans, don't worry about it

Large fuzzy black and white bumblebee mimic robberfly clutching a dry stalk looking intently for snacks

Large red and black wasp mimic robberfly with black wings, perched on a spiky dried flower of some sort, also looking intently for snacks

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Buck Trible @bucktrible.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

tinyurl.com/4twykhnx, tinyurl.com/2f72a6we Piekarski: “"If some environmental factor affects caste, it will affect size too,” “…As far as we can tell, no matter which environmental variable you manipulate, the [genetically encoded] relationship between ant body size and caste remains unchanged"

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Static allometries of caste-associated traits vary with genotype but not environment in the clonal raider ant | PNAS

Polyphenic traits in animals often exhibit nonlinear scaling with body size. Static allometries (i.e., scaling relationships) themselves can exhibi...

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Handy tip from an 18th century medical guidebook – always remember to prepare your medicinal woodlice in the same manner as your bees

Printed recipe. Reads: Millpiedes prarparati. Prepared wood-lice. Wood-lice are prepared in the same manner as bees.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Correct. What comes for Harvard will come to others. There is not enough space nor $ to absorb students, postdocs, faculty, & labs. What happens when the administration attacks its next target? Protecting the project of American science & its benefits requires individual and collective action - now.

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Buck Trible @bucktrible.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Don't post often but it feels important to add another example: my NIH grant (sole source for 3 people's salaries) was canceled due to a concern about Harvard undergraduates that has absolutely nothing to do with us or our important genetics research. We'll squeak through, but I'm PISSED.

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Zach likes bees @zachportman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Charles Darwin the barnacle taxonomist, a story in two parts

An inspirational Darwin quote: "How I shall enjoy getting back to Down with renovated health, if such is to be my good fortune, & resuming the beloved Barnacles." -Charles Darwin 28 March 1849

An inspirational Darwin quote: "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship." -Charles Darwin 24 October 1852

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Satyaki PRV @satyakirv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Feel like I spent more time writing my DEI statement than some orgs have spent defending their DEI programs

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Buck Trible @bucktrible.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Really fun conversation with Michael Levin (Tufts) today. Michael invited me to discuss ant castes for his YouTube channel after I reached out to ask his thoughts about hourglasses & intelligent behavior in development = ). Lots to learn fsho... www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Ob...

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Conversation with Buck Trible on his work on static allometry of ant castes and emergent cognition

YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

(me watching burglars break all the windows and climb into my house) “Just give it time. They might cut their hand on the glass.”

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Roberto A. Keller @rkellerp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

If you are one of those interesting people who like sausage-like ants, you are in for a treat: we just published in @zookeys.pensoft.net a taxonomic update for Afrotropical Zasphinctus describing 5 new species! You read that right FIVE! Happy 2025 for you as well zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1312...

Lateral views of eight species of the beautiful Afrotropical ants in the genus Zasphinctus.

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

⭐ 2024 Top Finds/Pics ⭐ I mean, do I even need to explain why? 😂 . . . This is a male stalk-eyed #fly from Costa Rica. Females lack the hammerhead while males "compare sizes" for a chance to mate. Evolution is magical 🪄 #Ulidiidae: #Plagiocephalus Collected by @flyliceresearch.bsky.social

A fly on a white background with extremely wide and narrow eye stalks, making the head as wide as the wingspan and longer than the body. It has wings with a thick, dark wavy line, and they are held out to the side of the body.

A fly on a white background with extremely wide and narrow eye stalks, looking at the camera. It looks like a pencil sitting across the face of a fly with an eye at each end.

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Buck Trible @bucktrible.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Ugh I love these, they’re the BEST

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