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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is why you should leave it to the second sentence, they don't read that far.

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They have a fungal STD on them too (Hesperomyces, the little yellow sprouts)!

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I watched this last year with live music! With an electric cello which made it even more heightened and creepy

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

She's a critic Blackbird (Turdus merula)

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

First known mention of Wittgenstein in a Laboul presentation!

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Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

📣 New paper! We showed @inaturalist.bsky.social can be used for “next-level” applications to document the occurrence of Hesperomyces harmoniae on its host, using Québec as a case study. ▶️ www.eaglehill.us/NENAonline/a... @michieldegroot.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Not to say that all science communication needs to have someone become a scientist at the end of it, of course, but first generation scientists might be a good subjective marker of science communication working in some way.

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'd have to look up more on the topic, but I think one way of gauging this a little is to look at first generation scientists, i.e. scientists who don't come from a family background of academics. How did they get there, and can we encourage that?

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sciency parents raise more sciency kids for sure - but I think there's a lot of great communicators who have reached a very wide audience of kids regardless of background (think Sesame Street or Steve Irwin). I think it's also a good entryway to scicomm to otherwise unreceptive parents, too.

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It did make me wonder about a specific slice of the audience: kids. In my (anecdotal) experience, this is the audience that is the most generally receptive, regardless of background (including political leaning of their parents). There, you're effectively *creating* that receptive adult audience.

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Great piece! I've wondered about this self-selecting audience for scicomm myself - there's something great about educating an enthusiastic audience, but in doing so as communicator you're missing all the people who never came to you in the first place.

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"AI can get in the way of learning, and it can promote learning, depending on how it's used." I really like Terry McGlynn Terry McGlynn's conceptual take on how we might think about student use of AI in courses. https:// scienceforeveryone.s... 1/2

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What to do when student turn in assignments generated by AI?

More importantly: what not to do

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It was a pleasure to host 🇧🇷 PhD student Marília Pereira Rodrigues de Melo in our group for a few months! She returns home with new knowledge, new friends, and the #TeamLaboul mug 🍵🪲🍄 Photo shows me surrounded by PhD students Aimée Blondelle, Marília, and @michieldegroot.bsky.social.

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Margaret Stanley @ecostanley.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Some big diffs between citizen science observations (from iNaturalist) and specimen records (from digitised museum collections) - cit. sci records biased towards large inverts & exotic spp. Great MSc project with recommendations 🌏🧪@nzhymenoptera.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Slow traffic this morning in Ghent 🐑

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Slow traffic this morning in Ghent 🐑

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Want to read the #OpenAccess article itself? Find it here! Effects of #temperature & #humidity on the presence & prevalence of a common fungal #parasite on an invasive ladybird buff.ly/jw3xPTY #Harmonia #Hesperomyces @michieldegroot.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social @inbo.be

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

New @royentsoc.bsky.social #ResearchHighlight available! A new article examines which factors influence the growth of a parasitic fungus on an invasive ladybird. Read more ⬇️ buff.ly/DVDCgIt Video courtesy of article authors, videographer E. Liu.

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Why did we use a hot dog roller for this? Did the ladybirds just enjoy it like a fairground ride? I explain here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JW...

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Effects of temperature on ladybird - Journal Highlights

YouTube video by Royal Entomological Society

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

New paper! We looked at how temperature and humidity affect a fungal parasite on a ladybird in an article in @royentsoc.bsky.social's Ecological Entomology. 🐞🍄 You can find the full journal highlight here: www.royensoc.co.uk/news/tempera...

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How temperature and humidity affect a common fungal parasite in an invasive ladybird - Journal Highlight - Royal Entomological Society

The Royal Entomological Society journal Ecological Entomology has recently published an article on which factors influence the growth of a parasitic fungus on an invasive ladybird. The researchers hig...

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper. Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Why did we use a hot dog roller for this? Did the ladybirds just enjoy it like a fairground ride? I explain here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JW...

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Effects of temperature on ladybird - Journal Highlights

YouTube video by Royal Entomological Society

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The work reports on abiotic factors influencing the parasite-host interactions of a microfungus & the invasive harlequin ladybird (#Harmonia axyridis). @michieldegroot.bsky.social @adriaenstim.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social @inbo.be Photo credit: Trey Wardlaw (CC-BY-NC)

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New paper! Featuring state-of-the-art technology!

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Also, there's a great article on these here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

That's a really weird one! I've been in Oldrich Nedved's lab for a while where they cross various strains of H. axy., but never seen this. You could shoot him an email about it, he might be interested.

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Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart @smnstuttgart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

@fundive-fungi.bsky.social is a Europe-wide project to better understand & protect fungi. Find, photograph & document fungi and join us to help reveal Europe's fungal diversity! Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved for more information!

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FunDive: Monitoring and mapping fungal diversity for nature cons @fundive-fungi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🍄Microfungi on insects🍄 Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

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Subterranean Biology @subtbiol.pensoft.net · 25/07/2025

The only known extinct species of the beetle subfamily Catopocerinae (Leiodidae), Archaeocerus uenoi Perreau, 2019, is redescribed. Learn more here: doi.org/10.3897/subt... #extinction #fossils #taxonomy ‪@dhaelewa.bsky.social @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social @michieldegroot.bsky.social

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

We made a few terabytes of images, which were reconstructed to create 3D images over the past couple of years by Michel back in Paris, resulting in this paper! Doesn't it still look like he has the ~99 million year old wind blowing through his antennae?

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Also, the synchrotron makes you look like the most sciency scientist ever. (Pictured: a guy who pretends he understands what all this machinery is for, exactly.)

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The technique to create 3D image out of the microscopy is called micro-tomography, which was what we spent most our time doing. It is useful if you want to look at fragile fossil beetles trapped in amber! Michel Perreau, a French beetle and fossil expert, asked us to image them for him.

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It's a massive complex with a big particle accelerator, which takes a long time to get around - many people had little mopeds or bikes. Particle accelerators produce extremely bright, focused, and tunable X-ray beams, which can be used to "see through" objects and reconstruct the details inside.

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Also, the synchrotron makes you look like the most sciency scientist ever. (Pictured: a guy who pretends he understands what all this machinery is for, exactly.)

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Michiel de Groot @michieldegroot.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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