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Laís Viana

@laisoptera

PhD Student #Entomology @UFVbr | #VenzonLab, Viçosa, Brazil | Visiting PhD Student @ #USDA #LovettLab 🐞🌳🍄

 Ithaca, NY
Joined April 2021
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the meji@mejitwoApr 3
Academic writing is wild because you'll read four articles just to write one sentence.
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Marina Sena
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coisas naturais
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I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. science.org/content/article/…
U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories

As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

science.org
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💗💗💗
Jessica Martins (@entojes) profile pictureJessica Martins@entojes22 Apr 2025
I’ve been working with one of my fav persons lately @laisoptera 💜
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Please reach out for help if you think you may need it. General: 988lifeline.org/ LGBTQ+ focused: thetrevorproject.org/get-hel…
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I’m grateful to be well resourced, but I would just like to emphasize: With the mental health crisis in academia, these traumatic changes to funding and (already pitiful) job security WILL kill people. If you’re struggling, I see you. You will get through this. 🖤
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titsay 𓆏@titsay7 Apr 2025
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my fungirls
Jessica Martins (@entojes) profile pictureJessica Martins@entojes8 Apr 2025
My fav team 🍄☕️ @laisoptera
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they love some tropical black sage ✨
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Extrafloral nectaries in Inga spp. tree 🌱
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It seems somebody's very hungry lol
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Last batch of samplings in regenerative coffee in the Cerrado Mineiro ☕🌱
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I'm qualifieddddd in the PhD ✨
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I’m on the market! 🎉 What do I do? -I develop research questions and applied biotechnology to understand and disrupt insect symbioses. -I coordinate international teams to tackle interdisciplinary global challenges. -I train mycologists, entomologists and insect pathologists.
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fastas and furious building trees at home
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One of my bfs and my inspiration 💗
Samuel Lima 🍄‍🟫🏳️‍🌈 (@samukkun) profile pictureSamuel Lima 🍄‍🟫🏳️‍🌈@samukkun2 Nov 2024
I’m so proud of @laisoptera 💛
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Happy to have met the amazing @CorrieMoreau at Insectapalooza today!
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this looks nice!
Samuel Lima 🍄‍🟫🏳️‍🌈 (@samukkun) profile pictureSamuel Lima 🍄‍🟫🏳️‍🌈@samukkun20 Aug 2024
had some fun today trying to take decent pictures of metarhizium robertsii for my friends (jessica and lais)
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dying to know the fungi behind this 👀
Dr. Brian Lovett (@lovettbr) profile pictureDr. Brian Lovett@lovettbr12 Sep 2024
Some days I’m glad I’m not an assassin bug. 👀 #killingakiller @laisoptera
An assassin bug glued to the underside of a leaf by the fungus that killed it.

ALT An assassin bug glued to the underside of a leaf by the fungus that killed it.

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Carim Nahaboo@CNahaboo3 Jul 2024
Working on a very nice species of Earwig, Adiathetus shelfordi. Earwigs have some of the most intricately folded wings of any insect, and they refract light like the windows of a cathedral so not the most straightforward to draw.
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