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Jo Holley

@joholley.bsky.social

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Researcher and Educator at the University of Texas at Austin. Bacteria associated social wasps and bees, undergraduate research, and mentoring scholarship.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Jo Holley @joholley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hey, that’s me! I buried the lede by omitting “Honey wasps” from my talk title. They have gut bacterial communities like honey-feeding bees, rather social wasps.

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Over 1.4 million views (🤯) of this #ZeFrank video that features some of our lab’s work on gall wasps and parasitoid wasps! (And many others, too!) youtu.be/ANyJVMhOpkk

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True Facts: Parasitoid Wasps

YouTube video by Ze Frank

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My best photographs of 2025, a short thread. A tobacco hornworm on one of its favorite foods, a garden tomato plant (Texas, May 2025). This one makes the cut because it is more aesthetically pleasing than I was aiming for, somehow.

In middle of a graceful, fibonacci-curved spring tomato leaf sits a large green caterpillar in side view, its front curled as if in prayer, in an ethereal soft light, slightly backlit.

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Jo Holley @joholley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Want to study host-microbe interactions? The Lariviere lab is recruiting PhD students to study beneficial symbionts in honey bees. Deadline is December 1st.

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Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The Mexican honey wasp is a bit of an oddball: it makes and eats honey like a bee, but when it’s hankering for protein, instead of pollen, it eats other insects. A new study finds its gut microbiome is more like bees than wasps. Funded by USDA and NSF. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Two Mexican honey wasps, which are bee-like insects with black bodies, yellow stripes on the lower abdomen and honey-colored wings. Photo credit: Alex Wild.

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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The print sale is live, bug people.

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Holiday Sale 2024 - Alex Wild

A selection of photographs discounted up to 70% off regular fine art prices until January 5, 2025. Explore various mounting and framing options in checkout.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

The annular eclipse makes little ring shadows under a bigtooth maple in central Texas. October 14, 3023.

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