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RJ Millena

@entomolrj.bsky.social

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Entomologist and postdoc in the U of Rochester Trop Bio Lab, working on everything Strepsiptera! rmillena@amnh.org • rjmillena.com

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Volker Nehring @volkernehring.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#IUSSI26 is almost over. Kind of sad..

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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“Females contain multitudes, even into adulthood.” RJ Milena (Rochester) speaking at #IUSSI26, sharing longterm vs short-term Polistes host neurotranscriptomics; their hitchhiking Xenos riding the endocrine wave to differentiation & development. @entomolrj.bsky.social @avispatica.bsky.social

RJ on a platform stage at the conference, title slide showing two beautiful Polistes wasps

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Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy @avispatica.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Excited for our lab to present our work at #IUSSI26 @uissi-social.bsky.social! #zombiewasps #weaverants Looking forward to catching up with all our social insect peeps in Freiburg 🐜 🐝

Flyer for presentations by the Uy social insect lab at #IUSSI26

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Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy @avispatica.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Which neural mechanisms do parasites use to control behavior, physiology, health, and lifespan in their hosts? Join our Mind Hackers symposium at the International Congress for Neuroethology! Saturday 25: 1-5 pm #ICN2026 @neuroethology.org Thanks to @bugsneedheroes.bsky.social for the image

Cartoon inspired from a podcast by bugsneedheroes about parasites being Mind hackers.

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RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Come be my comrade in bug butt parasites!!!!!!!!!

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Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy @avispatica.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🌟🌟Interested in a postdoctoral project about host-parasite coevolution and/or underlying mechanisms? 🌟🌟 Check your eligibility for this fellowship & contact me. I am particularly interested in hosting scholars from the Global South (¡Arriba mi gente!). www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...

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Postdoctoral Fellowships | Human Frontier Science Program

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Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy @avispatica.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Despite all challenges, I'm feeling so grateful for my team & their amazing research progress. Also, thrilled that Dr. RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social has joined #teamwasp as our inaugural departmental postdoc fellow! #wasplove #strepsipteralove

Warm welcome to RJ Millena, pictured with some team wasp members!

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 23/09/2025

Black in Natural History Museums in now open! See it on Floor 3 in the Museum's Gilder Center. Details: bit.ly/3KfbzTS

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Black in Natural History Museums | AMNH

Black in Natural History Museums highlights 17 modern and historical Black scientists, artists, and curators.

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Anton Suvorov @antonsuvorov.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My very first post on here. I am stoked to share lab's latest paper led by @ethantolman.bsky.social. Ethan developed a highly scalable pipeline to differentiate between various gene flow models, including ghost introgression in phylogenomic datasets. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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GhostParser: A highly scalable phylogenomic approach for the identification of ghost introgression

A growing body of empirical research shows that interspecific gene flow is a widespread biological force that shapes evolutionary histories across the Tree of Life. Computational approaches designed t...

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RJ Millena @entomolrj.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Our big review paper on strepsipteran systematics for Insect Systematics and Diversity is out! Hoping it's a helpful resource for anyone who needs it.