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Monique J. Rivera 🦋

@monique4ever.bsky.social
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Entomologist Assistant Professor, Cornell University @moniquejrivera on twitter SPECIAL interests: pens, fragrance, skincare, music especially electronic music broadly, crustaceans and all other arthropod adjacent forms, also anything agriculture!

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Cornell Entomology @cornellentomology.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We’re excited to launch the URBAN-VECTOR Training Program! A new initiative by the Urban Malaria Network (lnkd.in/eBUGMbcu) designed to equip researchers and public health professionals with the skills needed to detect, study, and respond to An. stephensi invasion in urban settings.
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Home | URBAN-VECTOR Training Program
An interdisciplinary, international training initiative designed to build sustainable research capacity in vector-borne and tropical infectious diseases, with a primary focus on urban malaria.
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Bees 🐝
This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes.
These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals.
Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests.  Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
MERRY #CRUSTMAS
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New this year: a fossil crustacean preserved in this manner that displays the sternum (underbelly) complete with food groove, and possible labrum in part I! These animals may have been up to 10 mm long and may resemble modern fairy shrimp #Crustmas 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Crustacean sternal elements from the Bright Angel biota.
Paragnath-bearing triangles are indicated by 1 s, and the successive posterior triangles by 2 s. (A) Posterior end of paragnath-bearing triangle and anterior section of successive triangle. (B) Complete triangle with laterally splayed paragnaths (black arrows). (C) Detail of scaly ornament of median cuticular strip in (B). (D) Detail of anterior setose surface in (B). (E) Complete paragnath-bearing triangle, with articulated anterior section of successive triangle. (F) Detail of boxed area in (E) showing scale-bearing cuticular strip and marginal setal fringes. (G) Articulated paragnath-bearing and partial posterior triangles defining median food groove. (H) Detail of boxed area in (G) showing sphaeromorphic acritarch adpressed onto the food groove cuticle. (I) Subtriangular cuticular lobe, representing possible setulose labrum. (J) Complete paragnath-bearing triangle and articulated, semi-complete posterior triangle. (K) Detail of boxed area in (J) showing spheroidal acritarch adpressed onto the food groove cuticle. Slide numbers and England Finder coordinates listed in data S1. Scale bars, 50 μm except in (C) and (H) (5 μm) and (D), (F), and (K) (25 μm).
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
eye stalks!!!
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 08/12/2025
Omg #Crustmas
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Merry #Crustmas and Merry Christmas yall! 🎄🦀🐚💗
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
i havent logged on here in a bit AND ALMOST MISSED #CRUSTMAS !!!!
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Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'm not a tattoo person, but if i was ......
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Detail of the water pot decoration. Grasshoppers carrying flowers are also accompanying a palanquin, used to carry... presumably high ranking lady grasshoppers. A couple might also be katydids based on antennae length, but let's not get uptight about imaginary anthropomorphized bugs, eh?The little freshwater pot, with a wooden top. This side shows more grasshoppers (possibly a katydid) carrying fruit and flowers as they march along on their hind legs.
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カニの散歩道Crabs' Promenade @crabspromenade.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Danarma eurymerus found in Okinawa Island. Watch how he moves the eyes. This species was recorded from Japan just this month. (ref/参考文献) u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20216... ルリメベンケイガニが目をきょろっとさせるあざとい動画です。沖縄本島にて。本州は先月日本から記録されました。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #invertebrate
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Isopods!! 🧡
A vibrant illustrated poster featuring 14 species/varieties of isopods of various colors. They are illustrated on a yellow-vibrant orange background and have numbers with a key describing which species is which.
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cmtribull.bsky.social @cmtribull.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We'll have snacks! #Entsoc25 and #FITatEntSoc25
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Wonderful plates with lice, fleas, fairy shrimps, mite, mosquitoes, copepods and other tiny beasts, from The Micrographic Dictionary, published in 1883 Full source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
you know what is cool? being interested. being sincere. not being mad all the time. committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself. deep focus. taking care of yourself. and especially, being good to other people.
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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 22/10/2025
Cicada adult and nymph, designed and folded by @brianchandesigns.bsky.social using handmade Origamido paper. A birthday gift for my partner, keeping her company on her sabbatical 💚💚
Two folded origami cicadas on a wooden table top. On the left is an adult with wings spread, and on the right is a nymph. Both models are cleverly designed so that using a single piece of paper, and exposing either the front or back, both models show different shades of green for their eyes than for their body, and wings on the adult.
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
See U in Portlandia! 😇
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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) — from the first sketch to the final drawing. 🪲 First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on. #SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates
Photo and illustration of a stag beetle, including a few drawing steps from sketch to final
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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · 17/10/2025
Made it onto the local news this evening talking about #FallColors #Phenology www.wbir.com/video/news/s...
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Fall colors are starting to appear in East Tennessee
Over the next few weeks, East Tennesseans will start to see even more vibrant colors across the region.
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Jaap de Roode @jaapderoode.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪 Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Dogs are the best!
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Toddler safe after German shepherd tracks her for hours in cold dense woods
The 2-year-old left her fenced yard and wandered in the New Hampshire woods for hours as search parties tried to find her.
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Mike Grillo @mikegrillo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...
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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
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Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty
The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We are hiring!! The Department of Entomology at Cornell University is seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Field Crops Entomology. Position details & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30498 Apply by: November 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM
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Cornell University, Entomology/CALS
Job #AJO30498, WDR-00055076 Assistant Professor Field Crops Entomology, Entomology/CALS, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
there is also @jopabinia.bsky.social crustacean-posting which is also a highlight here for me on bluesky!!
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
idk im kind of wtaf about bluesky generally, never have i feel like im inside of a smaller echo chamber than ive ever been before but the science posts are good and the @solomonrdavid.bsky.social gar posting is elite !!!
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It’s ok to put the phone down.
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Xoaquín Moreira @xmoreira.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New paper about trade-offs between defensive strategies link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Soil phosphorus mediates trade-offs between constitutive and induced defences in young pine trees - Planta
Main conclusion Nutrient availability, namely soil phosphorus, modulates trade-offs between constitutive and induced defences in maritime pine, with high phosphorus weakening these trade-offs and shap...
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Shirley Luckhart @shirleyluckhart.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
GO BILLS! Amazing final 13 sec against the Ravens! Woohoo!
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm going 2 and 5!
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Psst: entomology2025.eventscribe.net
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Entomology 2025
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
where is the @entsocamerica.bsky.social programmmm?!?!?!
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Petty Ranch / Chris Sayer @pettyranch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Tried to get away from work for a bit, but #avocados are in the Central American jungle, so I got a few reminders....
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でんか @k-hermit.com · 08/08/2025
Hermit crab in Japan
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Jason P. Londo @shiversherlock.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Sampling clonal grapevine scions and grafted rootstocks across three states to determine how the epigenome of roots, shoots, and berries change across environments, NY sampling team edition.
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!
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Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
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Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology
Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
if you're not following this account, you need to. pure joy!
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でんか @k-hermit.com · 25/07/2025
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
anyone have any ideas on interesting ways to present diversity indices that are not a table? 😅
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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A new #RESInsectConsDiv article looks at the influence of traffic-related pollution and seasonality on #tardigrade diversity in urban ecosystems Learn more here🔽 doi.org/10.1111/icad.12838 @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
Graphical abstract of: Influence of traffic-related pollution and seasonality on tardigrade diversity in urban ecosystems
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
we need to do something about upping the quality of grant reviews asap. idk if we need outside reviewers to go alongside "inside" reviewers or what. but it needs to happen.
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million." Exactly this.
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
It's Addison Day.
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Monique J. Rivera 🦋 @monique4ever.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
be still my heart. 😍
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Are you looking for a faculty job? We are hiring in my department at Roswell Park NOW. Contact me for details as I await the formal ad. (Please RT.)
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itati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 04/06/2025
You CANNOT rebuild trust between people when the trust in centered on shared identity as it currently is. The meta has changed. We cannot approach scicomm the same way anymore. Our expertise and alienation from the average American IS THE PROBLEM and until we train to address that our scicomm will
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Adam Frew @frewecologist.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It’s alive! Our Mycorrhizal Networks special issue is out in Functional Ecology. Packed with spore-tacular science. A collection that highlights advances, identifies unresolved questions & the future research directions. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Mycorrhizal networks: Understanding hidden complexity
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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