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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Great to see #DrosLife honours thesis students Emily Maclean and Harsukhman Soor convocate this morning!

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This morning’s convocation was a blast!

Panoramic photo of various Laurier university professors in their academic regalia lined up for the convocation procession

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Walking by the neighborhood Halloween house to remind me of how many days left until the NSERC Discovery Grant application deadline! #Spooky

A board outside a house covered in spiderwebs and skeletons reads 21 days until Halloween

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My favourite part of this poster design is that is a “myriorama” (inspired by @tomgauld.bsky.social’s “Endless Journey” cards), meaning the sections can be cut out and re-arranged in 10! (i.e. 3,628,000) different combinations! #SciArt

One of over 3 million different permutations of the 10 myriorama cards

Another of the over 3 million different permutations of the 10 myriorama cards

yet another combination of the 10 myriorama cards

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Very happy with how this latest #LaurierBiology seminar poster turned out! #SciArt

A ten panel poster advertising a upcoming workshop by Dr Heidi Swanson called “build your own acknowledgment” a black and white line drawing of a slightly different landscape is depicted in each rectangle and the text is a bright pink

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One last assay before Fall Reading week as we film Jaclyn’s flies climbing! #DrosLife

Jaclyn stands next to a video camera on a tripod that is filming a group of vertically-mounted test tubes in which fruit flies are housed in a RING assay.

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A (more) portable USG collection!

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Busy couple of days size-sorting and banging about Jaclyn’s flies! #DrosLife

Jacklyn posing with the size sorting sieve column

Jacklyn posing by the high impact trauma device

Photo of the high impact trauma device in which a vial is held at the end of a long spring, which is bent and impacts a rubber mat

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unwinding from a busy week with some lettering! #LaurierBiology #WIP

A large piece of paper photographed from above. The page is divided into a 2 by 5 grid. Inside some of the rectangles is text describing an upcoming workshop by Dr Heidi Swanson on land acknowledgments

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Preparing for the first assay of the new semester with #DrosLife honours thesis student Jacklyn collecting some virgin flies! #ScienceDoughnuts

Student sitting at a microscope sorting out newly enclosed fruit flies into vials

A half dozen assorted doughnuts photographed from above

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kind of weird - I thought the case for splitting gentoo penguins into 4 species was convincingly made *six years ago* in this paper (that has some overlap in the authors with this new paper) ? 🐧➗🐧🐧🐧🐧 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

Image with text "Morphometric and genetic evidence for four species of gentoo penguin" by Tyler et al., published in December 2020 in Ecology and Evolution

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Took another stab at a "Lightning Talk" poster for #LaurierBiology BI601 student presenations, again featuring "Cat Thor" (from @ryannorth.ca & @ericafails.bsky.social), this time remixed with Walt Simsonson's design for the cover of The Mighty Thor #337. #SciArt

Poster advertising upcoming lightning talks by biology grad students. An anthropomorphic cat, dressed as the comic book character Thor (aka “Cat Thor”) swings his a hammer (“meownir”) causing a exploson of lightning bolts.

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In honour of #BatmanDay here’s a poster I made for a #LaurierBiology seminar back in 2016! (And the #BrightKnight colourized version by my son)! #SciArt

Poster for a seminar called “understanding and subverting bacterial survival strategies” where Batman and Robin are fighting goons whose heads are replaced with bacteria.

Same image, but the image has been brightly coloured in with crayons

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Teaching cart loaded up for the first #BI393 Biostatistics lecture of the semester (@ 830 am this year!)

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

even though I don’t agree with your self-assessment, there are plenty of alternative options. For instance instead of drawing cats you could collage from photos or use stickers (like these Halloween pets i picked up)….

Two pages of stickers of dog and cats dressed up in Halloween costumes

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Making my office look presentable as the semester starts tomorrow!

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Very happy with how this second #LaurierBiology seminar poster for the year turned out (or is that twisted out?)! #SciArt

Cartoon illustration of a Möbius band advertising an upcoming seminar by Dr. Colin Bonner called "From pathology to phenology and back again: A man, his quadrat poles, and a dream." The title and the name of the speaker are written on the surface of the strip, along with drawings of trees, shrubs, rocks and a small figure holding up a quadrat.

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

With the Fall semester just around the corner, time to finish up the lettering and colouring of this first #LaurierBiology seminar poster for @emilyschoy.bsky.social's upcoming talk! #BirdArt #SciArt #ShowYourStripes

Poster advertising upcoming seminar "From heat stress to heart rate: physiological responses of cold-adapted seabirds to Arctic marine ecosystem change" by Dr. Emily S. Choy. The design features seven thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia) sitting on a stylized cliff face that is overlayed with "Warming Stripes" illustrating the past ~100 years of climate change in Nunavut

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

✨In awe of the shiny waxed floors in the #DrosLife lab (which hadn’t been waxed since 2022!)✨

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Great golden digger wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus) #InverteFest

Great golden digger wasp visiting flowers on a mint plant

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New addition to the office door decor!

Photo of my office door which is now decorated with a copy of the cover of Silver Surfer # 4 drawn by John Buscema

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

With his thesis revisions all done, it's time to award Owen with the traditional/official #AlumFly/#FlyLumni congratulatory urine specimen jar gift/memento (it's a long story)- which includes one of @ongkaty.bsky.social’s great #Drosophila stickers!) #DrosLife

Owe, posing in front of a laser beam background holding a glass jar with a fly sticker inside

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Starting work on one of the posters for this Fall’s #LaurierBiology departmental seminars! #SciArt

Photo of a large sketchbook surrounded by pens. On the page is written “measuring life on land: the promise of airborne eDNA” by Dr. Elizabeth Clare for the department of Biology at York University” The text is written in a bubble font and there are cartoonish strands of DNA drawn in red

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A classic Kitchener-Waterloo sky means no #eclipse2026….☁️☁️☁️

Photo of University Abe outside of Laurier University. It is overcast and cloudy…

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Doodling a potential figure for a rapid review manuscript that depicts how initial batch of papers is filtered based on various criteria then sorted into different categories… #SciArt

Line drawing of a diagram in which a arrow passes through different Swiss-cheese layers to yield a curated subset that gets split four ways

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My homage to Tom Thomson for a 2021 #LaurierBiology departmental seminar poster. #SciArt

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Another long day of watching flies climb with Emily, Haleigh & Owen! #Drosophila #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And because I thought it would look cool, I mounted the paining on a lazy-susan swivel plate, so you can spin it on the wall… #SciArt

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For Owen’s (now traditional ?) grad student painting I chose to depict a pair of male and female sooty oystercatchers (Haematopus fuliginosus), a species in which sexually dimorphic beaks is thought to de driven by ecological competition! #SciArt

Owen holding a circular painting of two black birds with orange eyes and beaks: sooty oystercatchers (Haematopus fuliginosus). They are painted on a spiral blue background

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A big day in the #DrosLife lab as Owen Jamieson successfully defended his @laurierbiology.bsky.social MSc on ecological sexual dimorphism! #ScienceDoughnuts

Owen and Tristan posing. Owen is holding a painting of a pair of sooty oystercatchers

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Diptera to all the other taxonomic groups:

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