Inspired by nature & music, entomologist, conducts research on insect behavior, investigates Embioptera (silk spinning insects), Biol Prof @ Santa Clara Univ
San Jose, CA
Joined July 2017
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Janice Edgerly-Rooks retweeted
It's #WorldHumanitarianDay & the final day of Entomology Advocacy Week. Today we're asking you to contact your Congress members & ask them to support the Coffee Plant Health Initiative Amendments Act, which will help save coffee & promote IPM: p2a.co/j4hj8vu #EntVocate22
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A Multiscale Characterization of Two Tropical Embiopteran Species: Nano- and Microscale Features of Silk, Silk-Spinning Behavior, and Environmental Correlates of their Distributions dlvr.it/SC5QPL
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A. C. Andrews, S. Duffy, J. S. Edgerly, R. P. Barber, Morphological transformation from fibers to sheets in embiopteran silk. Phys. Rev. E 106, 014801 (2022). dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.…
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Please share: 7 postdoc positions at our Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change:
Quantitative Ecology
Global Biodiversity of Plants, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Ants, Bees. bgc.yale.edu/open-positions
Supporting @geobon @EOWilsonFndtn @moldotorg
#biodiversity #macroecology
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Buzzing: A museum exhibit at Ithaca’s @PRInstitution – created in collaboration with @Cornell experts, illustrators and students – seeks to shine a light on the vast diversity of wild bees. @cornellento @CornellCALS @NSF @KrishnaWriter news.cornell.edu/stories/201…
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My colleague @JaniceEdgerly shared this awesome video about webspinners with me: youtu.be/l_JP3RbJ8zk These insects are so awesome!
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Brazilian researchers discover new species of fungus gnat whose larvae emit blue light—the first record of a blue bioluminescent species in the Neotropics. eurekalert.org/pub_releases/…
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We've been working so hard & now it is time to announce-
"DIFFERENT: a social emotional learning curriculum using arthropods"
Inspire students to challenge perceptions of themselves, others & the natural world!
Available now! (Please share widely!)
bit.ly/different-SEL
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TWO jobs open in the lab! 1 PhD and another PhD (or Research Associate for 1-2 yrs, we are flexible). Working with weaver ants in Sydney at Macquarie, in collaboration with computer scientists at Monash. The dream! More details here;
chrisrreid.wordpress.com/phd…
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Ph.D. or postdoc available to work with me on computational models of animal learning and decision making. Please retweet!
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Sarah @drsarahbeynon comes to end of her talk and gives @MGLnrd 's Beetle Boy & Beetle Queen a well-deserved plug - #Ento17
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Entomology teachers...remember #Embioptera please...even if your textbook only has one page explaining them. Share the news, embiids rock!
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#Embioptera construct waterproof domiciles with amazing hydrophobic #silk. See pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.102…
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#Embioptera females-- juvenile in form but still highly attractive to male counterparts who sport wings & adult attitude.
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Lepidoptera from report of the 1st official Austrian scientific expedition to circumnavigate the globe s.si.edu/2wEFaLs @SILibraries
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'They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what? You just magnified her.'
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Love #science, #scicomm, #sciedu and #multimedia? We are hiring! iBiology is seeking a full-time director ow.ly/9qoE30eggsm #jobs
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A wonderful keynote line-up for #Ento17- come and present your research alongside theirs! One week left to register! royensoc.co.uk/event/ento-17
