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Dan Gruner, Ph.D.

@dsgruner.bsky.social

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bugs and things. avoiding hellsites since 2022. community ecology & forest entomology. Maryland, USA. Recently overheard, "I gotta do this shit again?!" @dsgruner@ecoevo.social www.grunerlab.org

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Kilauea Caldera, Halema'uma'u crater, big island of Hawai'i, current status

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Do the authors understand irony? Or maybe that's their hidden point of publishing behind a paywall

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

happy holidays from The Atlantic

Jan/Feb 2024 cover of The Atlantic magazine with doomsday essays should 2024 election go poorly

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Results are nicely summarized in this infographic put together by the Earth Commons @ Georgetown University

Ecological effects of periodical cicadas on landscapes (infographic summary of Getman Pickering et al. 2023 Science)

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

So thrilled to share this week's Science cover! 🌎https://www.science.org/toc/science/382/6668

"Copious Cicadas": Cover image from Science magazine, October 20, 2023. The cover features an image by Chris Linder of a newly emerged teneral periodical cicada in Maryland in 2021

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

why do they call them proboscis monkeys? Adult male. Endemic to the island of Borneo

Male proboscis monkey resting in a tree along the Kinabatangan river in Sabah, Malaysia

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

This express international package to Japan just cost me $78, and after 3 days it only made it to the #NewarkAirport. This is why Americans think the US Postal Service under #DeJoy is terrible.

Receipt for $78.15 for USPS express priority package to Japan dated 9/26/2023

US Postal Service tracking of $78 express priority delivery arriving at Newark Airport after 3 days

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

This crimson sunbird felt like deja vu after seeing 'apapane and 'i'iwi on 'ō'hia over the years. Almost like a hybrid of the two, no?

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Drop something blue from your gallery

Mt. Kinabalu, island of Borneo (Sabah: Malaysia), from the window of a small plane

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

EVERYONE POST BIRD TO CELEBRATE 🪶 1,000,000 users on Bluesky!

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

I’ll be hunting for spiderhunters – sunbirds that specialize on spiders not merely to eat, but to steal their silk to build the most wondrous hammock nests underneath banana leaves. (Shelford 1916)

Plate X in Shelford 1916, showing the silken nests that spiderhunters (sunbirds) build on the underside of large leaves on the island of Borneo

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

In honor of Gary Larson's birthday repost a Far Side you love. Another for the scientists 🧪

Far Side cartoon with the caption "Early microscope"

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