Without a lab, access to research libraries/university facilities, entomologist Charles Henry Turner (1867–1923) died with a personal library of 1,000+ books, having published 50+ scientific papers; he revolutionized our knowledge of ants (Earth’s most abundant animal); he was 1st to prove insects can hear & distinguish pitch, also 1st scientist to achieve Pavlovian bug conditioning, training moths to beat their wings when he whistled #BlackHistoryIsHistory h/t @mariapopova

Excited to share this new work from my postdoc with @lindymcbr, just out in The American Naturalist.

We found a BIG shift in the behavior of Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae that may help them use novel breeding sites in human settlements, i.e., anthropogenic evolution. 1/20

https://doi.org/10.1086/722481

Entomology job! NCSU, professorship: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/176390

Whoa! Gray fox in the ravine/yard now! So now we have both red foxes and gray foxes using this wooded green space as a corridor. #VanderWild

Leaving the trail cams out for a long period paid off--earlier this month, a bobcat used the ravine as a corridor going somewhere else. Kinda like deer do sometimes. No footage since. #VanderWild

“They Fought the Lawn. And the Lawn Lost.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/climate/native-plants-lawns-homeowners.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Nice pop-sci article about sexual selection in a warming world. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/11/28/animal-people-sex-climate-change/

@Flor__Mu during my term as Editor for @ASNAmNat we shifted to requiring data and code archiving (when data and code are used), along with a Data Editor group to check that the archives are complete and usable. I highly encourage other journals to follow suit. It was shocking to see how often archives were incomplete or not usable.

All letters of Charles Darwin are now available online!

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/full-edition-now-online

#science #historyofscience #philosophyofscience

RT @MatsIttonen@twitter.com

New paper! The wall brown butterfly is expanding northwards in Sweden, and range margin populations at two parallel expansion fronts are locally adapted to the longer days (caterpillars use daylength to know when to hibernate) of the north. (1/4) https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14085

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MatsIttonen/status/1559137786774560768

In 2019 I had students enter their height in inches as part of a demonstration about quantitative traits. Turns out not all my students are human.

Hi all, nice to meet you again on the other side and happy for a fresh start. My first Toot will be about what I love best in Science: a day out, with a picture from today. Because a #bird ringing morning is a happy morning!

New blog post! I do my best to explain what Mastodon and Counter Social are all about and what they do different from Twitter. https://skullsinthestars.com/2022/11/07/an-intro-to-mastodon-from-a-relative-newcomer/

I get asked a lot about what #CaveCrickets eat given they're scavengers in (at first glance) barren #caves. When in a bind they can eat basically anything: other insects, their own legs, bacteria. You can see why some wander outside: gourmet mushrooms! #entomology #rhaphidophoridae

📸: Reiner Richter (iNaturalist, CC BY-NC-SA)

Hey all, I am recruiting Ph.D. students interested in studying Evolutionary Genomics 🧬 in my lab at UC Riverside 🍊🌴 . Start date is September 2023, and domestic and international students are welcome to apply. Would love to hear from you! More details in 🧵 1/3

Final revisions are finally incorporated so I'm sharing again!

Local Adaptation: Causal agents of selection and adaptive trait divergence

in Annual Review in Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, coauthored with @SeemaSheth, @Emjo, Jill Anderson, and Megan DrMarshe.

Free access here: URL: http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/BSW6GNXHHXPMFYNPZRET/full/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012722-035231

#LocalAdaptation #NaturalSelection

@smwadgymar @SeemaSheth @Emjo

Awesome, thanks for sharing the link, and excited to read!

I just love #UrbanLizards! Here’s a brown anole on a New Orleans sidewalk spotted on the way to brunch. And I can ask @Gunderwhelming all about them this afternoon!

cutie!

I just created my own mastodon instance! It was fairly simple. The admin account is: @megalodonadmin I got through this in a few steps
1. Renewed my GitHub student developer pack
2. Used their credits for a Digital Ocean server
3. Used their credits with namedotcom to register the domain name megalodon.social
4. Used their credits with mailgun for an SMTP server
5. Used Digital Ocean's 'one click' method to get the instance running.
6. Followed all the instructions after the 'one click'

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