New preprint! I’ve been thinking about genetic toolkits and convergent evolution. preprints.org/manuscript/202…

It's really easy to add a whole variety of holidays to your Google calendar- this has helped me be mindful of things like this!

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Thrilled to share a *NEW PRE-PRINT* I’ve been working on for the last few years! Michael Sheehan, W. Freiwald, and I describe the neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp, Polistes fuscatus.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/10

I pitched in! Can you?

#Camp Sketchapod registration is open to all! (Must be 18 or older, no max age) All majors welcome!✍🏻

🦋 May 24–26. Learn diverse traditional and digital skills to illustrate #bugs effectively 🎨REGISTER HERE: sketchapod.com/register

✅ $39/night on-campus housing available

One of my favourite group of ants, Cataulacus

New short communication!📰

Koenig and Dr. Corrie Moreau studied the emigration behavior of the ant T. longisponosus after a raid attack of a parasite ant.🐜
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#insectessociaux #socialinsects #Behavioralecology #Emigration #nest #parasitism #ants #Temnothorax

(a) this is fascinating

(b) I hate to think how messed up science is going to get as people use LLMs for things they really shouldn’t, which evidently includes any kind of random sampling.

Today we're visiting the outstanding exhibit 'From Nabokov's Net' Mann Library @ Cornell Cornell CALS on Vladimir Nabobov’s work as an entomologist and his favorite butterflies, the Polyommatus Blues. A magnificent work explaining taxonomy, conservation, life history, and evolution 🤩 1/2

Such a great paper. We can't recruit a diverse work force in ecology unless we pay people more: academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

Very strange to see my first apartment in Ithaca like this…

This repo has been INCREDIBLY helpful to me- very grateful to Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra for compiling it and to all the contributors!

It’s been a few month so I’ll bump this again. Please please consider contributing if you recently got a job! This repo only works if people getting jobs contribute!

The Cornell President is literally out here arguing that the belief that “the purpose of protest is precisely to disrupt” is a privileged position because it takes away from everyone else’s right to their comfortable education.

I … 👀

cornellsun.com/2024/03/26/pol…

🐦🐦‍⬛🦜Happy to share our study on the 🧬genetic basis and #evolution of structural color polymorphism🪶 in the white-winged #fairywren ! Now published in
Molecular Biology and Evolution (1/6)
doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

This afternoon at 5pm is the opening of the Nabokov butterfly exhibit at Cornell University Mann Library @ Cornell with specimens from the Cornell University Insect Collection collection 🦋🦋🦋🦋 Cornell UniversityCALS

Naomi Pierce Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology will give a presentation at 4pm before the opening 🤩

And more events tomorrow too!

Today! 🎉 Join us to learn about the scientific contributions of Vladimir Nabokov with a keynote by Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Prof. Naomi Pierce (4-5pm) and exhibit opening (5-7pm) at Cornell University Mann Library @ Cornell. So excited to see our exhibit finally opening! 🦋🦋🦋

Our paper on heritability is out (open access) at PNAS! I think it really improved through the review process, and we're glad to have this out there! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Phylogenetic analysis of corbiculate bees suggest they do not follow Rensch's rule, indicating selective pressures linked to the evolution of sociality may constrain the evolution of large body size! Read more below 👇🐝
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The Linnean Society of London Oxford Journals

We updated this preprint based on a bunch of awesome comments we got from too many people to name, and think it's become a much better manuscript! If you haven't taken a look yet, make sure to check out the updated version! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…