Reposted by Lucas NellIsa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 19/09/2025That previous photo is me taking a video of an adult, winged, female damselfly who is underwater and laying eggs in the stems of the underwater plants. Here is the view. You can watch her curl her abdomen around and insert the two eggs!! 🥚 🌿 311525
Reposted by Lucas NellAnurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Tachinid #parasitoid emerging from #monarch #butterfly chrysalis... The larva was never exposed, but field collected leaves were fed to the caterpillar. Many tachinids lay their eggs on leaves, only to be consumed by caterpillars, later consuming the caterpillars from the inside out 4413
Reposted by Lucas NellDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The next stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be on the East Coast!!! Mark your calendars for January 8-12, 2027 and we'll talk evolution, ecology, behavior, and integrative organismal biology at www.themansionatglencove.com/meeting-venuesthemansionatglencove.comVENUES | The Mansion at Glen Cove | Luxury Mansion Wedding Venues & EventsDiscover premium meeting spaces at The Mansion at Glen Cove. Our mansion is perfect for corporate events with elegant surroundings and modern amenities. 24322
Reposted by Lucas NellTom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Two bombardier beetles (Brachinus sp.) attacking a termite. Many insects defend themselves with smelly/irritating chemicals; these beetles go to 11. They mix chemicals in their abdomen, and the resulting reaction reaches near boiling; the noxious mixture is emitted with an audible pop. 🐙🌿 #insects 18112
Reposted by Lucas NellJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Real wild wrinkle to the argument that open data will improve the integrity of science. 1177
Reposted by Lucas NellAndrea L Graham @grahammunology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Final week to apply for this year’s round of the Princeton EEB Fellowship Program, folks! Please repost and help spread the word! We’re going tweetless and need the biggest bluest skies you folks can muster, please!!! ☀️ @eseb.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social Thanks! 0814
Reposted by Lucas NellChenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated! Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you? #DataVisualization github.com/cxli233/Frie... 1130785
Reposted by Lucas NellElena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.kl-lab.groupKlausmeier-Litchman LabWelcome to the Klausmeier-Litchman lab! We study empirical and theoretical community ecology, biodiversity and climate change, focusing on phytoplankton, other microbes and general theory. We use obse... 182100
Reposted by Lucas NellNicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Saiva bullata is endemic to the mountains of Northern Thailand. Despite its colours, it remains extremely well camouflaged when resting on the tree trunk. Yet another polka-dotty species! 1346963
Reposted by Lucas NellOded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform 392910620
Reposted by Lucas NellTRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 30/10/2024NIAID releases alternative to BioRender, all illustrations freely available in public domain bioart.niaid.nih.gov 26361215
Reposted by Lucas NellChristie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 20/03/2024Brains are soft and squishy—but they might preserve better than other soft tissues. That story, a conversation about eco-evo dynamics with @lucasnell.bsky.social, and more of the best in Science and science in today's #ScienceAdviser www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 122
Lucas Nell @lucasnell.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Excited to share our new paper out in Science! We combined simulations, experiments, and field data to show how dispersal simultaneously stabilizes species and genetic diversity, which results in persistent eco-evo dynamics. doi.org/10.1126/scie...doi.orgDispersal stabilizes coupled ecological and evolutionary dynamics in a host-parasitoid systemExperiments and simulations show that dispersal maintains host genetic diversity and promotes host-parasitoid coexistence. 099
Reposted by Lucas NellTom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 23/01/2024The very cool caterpillar of an African death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos), found at night in Madagascar. #ento #invertebrate 🌿 🐙 06410
Lucas Nell @lucasnell.bsky.social · 16/12/2023New preprint out: many individual chironomid midge species can live in some wild places (e.g., Himalayan glaciers, hot springs). What shared features allow them to do this? doi.org/10.1101/2023... 040