Giovanni Ramón

DON’T STACK ROCKS IN STREAMS

Picture showing a big pinned Goliath beetle in an entomological drawer.

Goliath beetle in our collection at the AM 😎

Very glad to see Wired covering this. They did a solid ask-around with the #entomology community too. 🧪

I don't think people realize how big this problem has gotten and this is the most thorough examination of I've seen outside of the literature.

I can easily say this is one of the coolest papers I've ever encountered. Congrats Sam, and keep'em coming!!!

Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.

Thanks for the opportunity, Ajay. It's been an amazing journey getting to know more about these cool little ants! Stay tuned #Opisthopsis #strobeants #ozants #ozfauna

Excited to share this cool paper on the evolution of defensive signals in Amata moths!!! I played just a little role, but happy to have contributed in such an interesting piece of research! ⚠️

Australian honeybees are under attack by mites and beetles. Here’s how to keep your backyard hive safe Varroa mites and small hive beetles are threatening Australian honey producers. Here’s how backyard beekeepers, and everyday honey lovers, can help.

Varroa mites are spreading across Australia—posing a serious threat to honeybee colonies. Here's what beekeepers can do to protect their hives.

#bee #honeybees #varroa #australia #agriculture

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United States entomologists are rapidly losing jobs due to the current chaos. Saddest reality is funding their lifetime research, training, and salary would cost less than one celebrity endorsement deal. We effortlessly pay for glamour while this field starts to fade.

"The eyes, Chico. The eyes. The eyes don't lie."

Screenshot from the cover page of the paper

A map of the world showing fly migration study locations and estimated routes

A close up photo of Eristalinus taeniops the stripey eyed hoverfly on a yellow flower in Cyprus

A close up photo of the locust blowfly Stomorhina lunata on a rock. My favourite fly

It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:

Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important

Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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This beetle doesn't make sense, do you want to be slender or do you want to show off? 😅

Invisible losses: thousands of plant species are missing from places they could thrive – and humans are the reason Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as logging, poaching and setting fires.

News article about our recent paper in Nature on global impoverishment of natural vegetation by Conny Sattler (cosattler.com) and myself in @theconversation.com @aunz.theconversation.com

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A bright green bird with a ridiculously long tail. He is perched on a lichen covered branch in dense cloud forest.

We left the lodge at 5AM today to look for this fancy boy and I managed to spot him. 😁Resplendent Quetzals are considered near-threatened due to habit loss. And that tail is real, no April Fools joke here. 🪶
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica

We don't know much about these odd-looking Zasphinctus ants, except they seem to raid other ant nests, steal their larvae and eat them... Their narrow elongated bodies probably help them enter small galleries.

#ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science

Stunning ants!!!

All hail the ancient cosmic tardigrade!!!

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Planning for the automobile city focuses on saving time. Planning for the accessible city focuses on time well spent.

Beyond mobility, Cervero et al., 2017

Una imagen vale más que mil palabras.

La Argentina de Javier Milei.

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Five isopods on an old, lichen-covered log. Caption reads: Isopod culture.

An isopod in sunglasses skateboards down a log cut to look like a ramp. A crowd of isopods wearing sunglasses and caps cheer it on. Caption: isopod counterculture.

Isopod Culture

Australian Ants - Alex Wild Australian AntsThe wayward southern continent of Australia is famous for the strange and relictual creatures that have evolved in nearly complete isolation. The ants are no exception. Australia's ant ...

Ants of Australia: Only some of them will try to kill you.

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In this world of shrinking research budgets, academic layoffs and failing universities, Elsevier is still making an obscene profit.

If anything has radicalised me to green it's these numbers.

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Join Us! Opportunities We are seeking PhD students in citizen science, insect conservation, or citizen science. We expect candidates to have some experience in fieldwork and ecological modelling and at leas…

Interested in doing a PhD on #insect #migration or #conservation at @monashuniversity.bsky.social i in #Melbourne, #Australia? If so, please feel free to email me. For international students, the application deadline is late March. shawanchowdhury.com/join-us/