Alexia Hilber

Greater Flamingo from Isabela Island, Galapágos 🪶

I would love to be added!

Pinoe, Heath, AM13 USWNT

Does it ever drive you crazy just how fast the night changes 😩

C elegans can sense sound AND serve as a genetic model for an understudied form of human hearing loss! As the moderator mentioned- what CAN’T worms do?? 🤩 🪱 #worm25

A little Galápagos finch on Santa Cruz Island all fluffed up during a rainstorm #birds #photography

One of my favorite shots from my recent trip to the Galápagos Islands, the domed-shaped Galápagos Tortoise from Isla Santa Cruz

10:30am: "Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead." 10:49am: law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

Jesus.

The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

For the past few weeks, our PI Dr. Kerstetter, graduate student Alexia Hilber, and undergraduate students ventured to the Galápagos Islands as a research trip for their Ecology of the Galápagos Islands class. (1/3)

A photo of a wader bird with a beak that is flat and wide at the end stretching its wings out to show beautiful shades of deep to light pink in its feathers.

Like flamingos, roseate spoonbills' colour comes from the food they eat.

Shrimp and crabs contain pigments called carotenoids that help turn their feathers a beautiful shade of pink. 🪶

I love when an ID session lines up perfectly with literature. Here’s a Parorchis (catoptrophon?) from a Night Heron. My sample -> morphology sketch -> literature

It’s true!
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Post by Doug Burgum on de-extinction technology related to the dire wolf.

This post by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum demonstrates clear defiance of the Endangered Species Act. He states that regulation is not the solution.

Innovation is needed- in concert with regulation- to find new paths to recovery while protecting what still exists.

#Resist

The 2025 Undergraduate Student Symposium was a success! Congratulations to two of our awesome undergrad researchers, Kevin Rafferty and Katie McKimmy, for presenting their hard work yesterday!

During the presidential campaign, I wrote an op-ed about how Trump’s proposed policies would be bad for ocean science and conservation, and senior members of my field told me I was being unprofessional.

Thinking about them as I read a news story called “the darkest day in scientific history.”

Why are parasites cool? Feat. #TheLastofUs

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

I’ll be there Sunday! Come stop by :)

Tortuga through the years! 🌊🌴☀️

Did you know the lab has hosted a booth at Rock The Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival for multiple years in a row? We are so honored to have been invited back for another year - and it’s just 10 days away!

A hand-drawn sign in marker on a brown piece of cardboard. The text reads "I LOVE WORMS" and there are three cute lil worms, I think an annelid, a polychaete (?), and maybe a roundworm or something. LOVE THIS

So many great signs at the DC @standupforscience.bsky.social rally today, but I think this had to be my favorite:

Great news! 🌊 Our lab is partnering with Rock The Ocean for Tortuga Music Festival 2025! Here is a thread to learn about this collaboration.

Happy International Women & Girls in Science Day 2025! Just a few of the amazing students I've had the privilege of working with over the last 17 years in my @nsufishnbirdlab.bsky.social lab here at NSU. Thank you for all your inspirational efforts!

#WomenInScience #womeninSTEM

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

Enjoy this STUNNING Nephrostomum I pulled from a Cattle Egret last week. New genus to add to my dataset :)

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Congratulations to Shelby Boyles, who presented her current thesis work at day 2 of the HCAS Research Graduate Symposium last week!

The Preferred Menu of Two Stingrays: A Wide Selection of Small Invertebrates and More

Day 1 of the HCAS Research Graduate Symposium was a success! Congratulations to our 3 lab members who presented yesterday.

Good luck to Shelby Boyles who presents her stingray diet content work today at 10:00 am!

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

<i>Lysiana exocarpi</i> Sometimes parasites get their own parasites too, and if you think that "enemy of my enemy is my friend", then you'd think this would be good...

I've written a post about some mistletoe-on-mistletoe action.
Mistletoes are parasites of trees, but some mistletoes parasitise other mistletoes, and they gets *really* thirsty.

So when a parasite gets its own parasite, who pays the price? 🧪🌿 #botany
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