@jacobgorneau

Ph.D. student @ESPM_Berkeley & @calacademy working on arachnid evolution, conservation, & museum-based biodiversity. MS: @SFSU BS: @Cornellento he/him 🏳️‍🌈

 San Francisco, CA
jacobgorneau.github.io/
Joined June 2015
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Excited to see our paper on using biodiversity catalogs to understand bias in taxonomic effort with Siddharth Kulkarni, @Frankspiders, and @ArachnologyNerd published in BioScience (via @AIBSbiology) today! doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac1…
Black and white screenshot of academic paper with the title: "Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort". Abstract and keywords provided in DOI link in Tweet.

ALT Black and white screenshot of academic paper with the title: "Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort". Abstract and keywords provided in DOI link in Tweet.

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I can't believe I finally get to say this - my PhD dissertation has been accepted with minor revisions (!!!!!) and I was awarded the UNE Chancellor’s Doctoral Research Medal for the quality of my research!! 🐝🪰🌻😁 – at Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
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I just found out (through a desk-reject) that Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution no longer considers most papers based on Sanger sequences (only genomic datasets). It is quite ironic that countries that hold most of the biodiversity will be unable to publish in this journal...
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stoked to share the preprint for one my dissertation chapters! we use participatory science data across 6 major taxonomic clades to show that across California, historical redlining alters species richness as well as species assemblages!! thread 👇🏽 bit.ly/46OWHRy
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Kate Montana@katemontana986 Dec 2023
Check out our article! 🤎🕷️ @jacobgorneau @ArachnologyNerd
Entomological Society of America@EntsocAmerica30 Nov 2023
A new study clarifies the evolutionary tree for a broad group of spiders and shows the power of extracting genetic info from museum arthropod collections. 🔗 Marronoids: The (Mostly) Little Brown Spiders With a Big Story to Tell entomologytoday.org/2023/11/…

Marronoids: The (Mostly) Little Brown Spiders With a Big Story to Tell

A new study clarifies the evolutionary tree for a broad group of spiders and shows the power of extracting genetic info from museum arthropod collections.

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Happy b-day to curator @ArachnologyNerd, celebrating properly with a new scorpion species (found in CA's San Joaquin Desert), published today in @ZooKeys_Journal! bit.ly/3uAiK0Z
An image of 10 scorpions, one of which is wearing a small, pink party hat. (Via Photoshop, not real life. Sadly.)

ALT An image of 10 scorpions, one of which is wearing a small, pink party hat. (Via Photoshop, not real life. Sadly.)

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A new study clarifies the evolutionary tree for a broad group of spiders and shows the power of extracting genetic info from museum arthropod collections. 🔗 Marronoids: The (Mostly) Little Brown Spiders With a Big Story to Tell entomologytoday.org/2023/11/…

Marronoids: The (Mostly) Little Brown Spiders With a Big Story to Tell

A new study clarifies the evolutionary tree for a broad group of spiders and shows the power of extracting genetic info from museum arthropod collections.

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McArt Lab@McArtLab13 Nov 2023
My response to a recent article in the @nypost that criticized our lab's research on neonicotinoid insecticides. The intent of the article was to spread disinformation, fool the public, and influence policymakers. Please don't be fooled, folks.
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Best talk I have heard in a long time. Learned a great deal and had my perspective shifted. I might have done more taxonomy work years ago had I heard it then. 🤩
Lauren Esposito@ArachnologyNerd8 Nov 2023
Come through Azalea 1 now to hear me blab about how traditional taxonomy is broken and maybe how we can begin to repair past bias! #EntSoc23 🌈
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Kate Montana@katemontana986 Nov 2023
Check out my talk at #EntSoc23 on the most representative molecular phylogeny of the spider family Dictynidae. In the Building a Better Insect (or Arachnid 😁) Tree of Life Symposium on Tues 11/7 at 3:05 PM in Chesapeake E-F. Also in the symposium are @lgnewton10 + @entomolrj !!
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We just deposited a preprint of one of my dearest and longest projects, the phylogeny and biogeography of Micrathena spiny orb-weavers. I am truly happy! Thanks to all my co-authors and photographers listed in the file Link to the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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For Halloween, an oh-so-sweet story of spider togetherness: Congrats to our Arachnology Lab on their massive new pub proving that 3,400 species are all related despite being wildly ecologically different — adapted for caves, underwater, salt flats, & more! bit.ly/3slA3SD
A montage of 18 different spiders — appearing in a range of colors, shapes, and environments — in small boxes outlined in different colors.

ALT A montage of 18 different spiders — appearing in a range of colors, shapes, and environments — in small boxes outlined in different colors.

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I’m so proud of our amazing @calacademy undergrad interns! They are all excellent scientists & people & I loved seeing them just rock #SACNAS2023!
California Academy of Sciences@calacademy29 Oct 2023
Congrats to the record-setting ELEVEN @calacademy_ssi interns selected to present their research at @SACNAS — not just an incredible showing (+2 category winners!), but an amazing experience all around. Want to join SSI '24? More on our @NSF #REU program @ bit.ly/3pZjTNX
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Could not be more proud of this team!
Franklyn Cala-Riquelme. Dr.@Frankspiders27 Oct 2023
Our latest paper on marronoid spiders is published! 🔥 congratulations @jacobgorneau @ArachnologyNerd @sarahnopidae @katemontana98 @A_la_Baianesca and others Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae) academic.oup.com/isd/article…

Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae)

Abstract. Relationships among spider families that lack support through other lines of evidence (e.g., morphology) have recently been uncovered through mol

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Our latest paper on marronoid spiders is published! 🔥 congratulations @jacobgorneau @ArachnologyNerd @sarahnopidae @katemontana98 @A_la_Baianesca and others Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae) academic.oup.com/isd/article…

Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae)

Abstract. Relationships among spider families that lack support through other lines of evidence (e.g., morphology) have recently been uncovered through mol

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Do you or someone you love study nocturnal animals? Do you want to film behavior in infrared, but NOT spend $1k on a camera (that will die in the field anyways)? Is short battery life a constant battle? Here, this preprint will help: doi.org/10.32942/X2531K
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Have you seen that our digitised #SpecialCollections are available to view on our website? Browse through our #digitisedcollections of scientific artwork and manuscripts by talented artists from across the world. #InternationalArtistsDay🎨 🖼️🌿🦋🐠🎨nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/…
A screen shot taken from the Library and Archives Digitised Collections page, showing various collections that are viewable online.

ALT A screen shot taken from the Library and Archives Digitised Collections page, showing various collections that are viewable online.

A screen shot of the online viewer for our artwork collections. Pictured here is a volume open on a page of Butterflies surrounding a selection of flowers.

ALT A screen shot of the online viewer for our artwork collections. Pictured here is a volume open on a page of Butterflies surrounding a selection of flowers.

Screenshot of the landing page for NHM Library and Archive's Digitised Collections

ALT Screenshot of the landing page for NHM Library and Archive's Digitised Collections

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IT’S THE SECOND DAY OF #BlackInNHMs WEEK 2023! And it’s time for our #RollCall! Tell us who you are & what your role is in the museum (researchers, SciCommers, & more).  LETS GOOOOOO!!!
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Also an awesome video on this work below! youtu.be/O1zF8kRi7As?si=OXB1…

Untold Stories of the Academy | California Academy of Sciences

The history of scientists often just feature one demographic: white...

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Lauren Esposito@ArachnologyNerd21 Sep 2023
A huge congratulations to @katemontana98 who lead a group of high school and undergrad students on an exploration of the @calacademy archives, publishing the biographies of 7 marginalized scientists in @ssbbulletin! ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs…
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New special collection in Insect Systematics and Diversity: 16 articles useful to demonstrate and teach key concepts and methods in systematics, evolution, and biodiversity of insects and related arthropods. academic.oup.com/isd/pages/s…
Purple background with white text: "New Special Collection: Systematics, Evolution, and Taxonomy Teaching Resources II | Insect Systematics and Diversity | Read Now." At right is a circle inside which is a collage of ISD journal covers. At top left is an Oxford University Press logo and at top right is an Entomological Society of America logo.

ALT Purple background with white text: "New Special Collection: Systematics, Evolution, and Taxonomy Teaching Resources II | Insect Systematics and Diversity | Read Now." At right is a circle inside which is a collage of ISD journal covers. At top left is an Oxford University Press logo and at top right is an Entomological Society of America logo.

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Pacific chorus frogs do not have the classic amino acid substitutions in domain IV of SCNA4 that would provide them with TTX resistance. Interesting that they can still mistakenly amplect Taricha and seem fine. See paper below for details
Kate Montana@katemontana9826 Jul 2023
My first paper is OUT! Preprint 🧵covers the basics, but we added a broader sampling of amphibian/reptile SCN4A sequences to our phylogeny + a shiny new map that emphasizes areas of sympatry between P. regilla and Taricha newts. @frogsicles @Valeria_RamCas doi.org/10.1670/22-002
Phylogeny showing samples from our study in context of other amphibians and reptiles with voltage gated sodium channel mutations that may be connected to tetrodotoxin resistance, paired with the sequences from the p-loop of Nav1.4 showing those mutations

ALT Phylogeny showing samples from our study in context of other amphibians and reptiles with voltage gated sodium channel mutations that may be connected to tetrodotoxin resistance, paired with the sequences from the p-loop of Nav1.4 showing those mutations

Map showing areas of sympatry between P. regilla frogs and Taricha newts. Smaller inset of the Bay Area showing our field sites.

ALT Map showing areas of sympatry between P. regilla frogs and Taricha newts. Smaller inset of the Bay Area showing our field sites.

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