What a wonderful time at #IBC2024 in #Madrid. We had five invited abstracts to our name and the students nailed theirs. Great food and sights too! I guess the Hieronymus #Bosch triptych takes the cake but we saw plenty more.

Great job from the students today at the MSU Undergraduate Research Showcase! Pictured: Sarah Demus, Bella Brownlee (herbarium mural project), and Hawinet Adugna (pollen metabarcoding).

Nature research paper: Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies go.nature.com/3MFgETh

The life strategies of #parasitoids are stunningly diverse, but no wasps that attack and develop inside adult flies have ever been described. Our article describes the first one. Its hosts: Drosophila melanogaster and other species of #Drosophila #Entomology #Braconidae

See how - in a world first - a drone was used to discover a new plant species in Hawaii! Learn more 👇 🔗 Blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2024/10/09/dro… 🔗 Research paper: doi.org/10.3897/phytok… Video credit: Ben Nyberg

❗️Paper alert: Global assessment of diversity, endemism, threat & conservation of island plants 🌴🏝️ Key result: 31% of spp native / 21% endemic to islands, island endemics disproportionately threatened by extinction, islands insufficiently protected 🧵/1 doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

Researchers describe and illustrate a newly discovered aroid species from the Philippines. 🇵🇭 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phytok… #Araceae

I got to meet the pollinators of the Heuchera parviflora group in my 2-week field work across eastern US!

Something new every day in the lab...

lunchin with my siblings

the press to my herbarium specimen

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i make sweaters now

Congrats to Sushil Dahal for passing his candidacy exams! 🌱

Dexcem Pantinople presenting his recent work on edaphic island using Heuchera parviflora complex as model system #Evolution2025

The Folk Lab at #Evolution2025. ⁦Ryan Folk 🐕⁩ ⁦Nick englewrye⁩ ⁦Dexcem Pantinople⁩ ⁦Pranoti⁩ Shamim and John. #Athens #Georgia

folk lab lunchin