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Assistant Professor @WCUofPA / #NewPI /Genomics/ Microbiome/๐Ant / Women in Science ๐ง๐ท! #RamalhoLab Follow @wds_science http://ramalholab.org/
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Come to join us! ๐๐ซถ The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position!
Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...
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Come to join us! ๐๐ซถ The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position!
Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...
10 years ago: I came to the U.S. to learn this powerful machine and explore endless research possibilities ๐ค๐
Today: My students using it in my lab ๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐คฉ
Full circle! Heart = FULL ๐ซถโจ #ProudPI #RamalhoLab
Career day! #ants rule! ๐๐ฅฐ
At Nickyโs school! โฅ๏ธ #RamalhoLab
So excited for this paper by the Insect Loss RCN led by Chris Halsh! #insectloss @cbahlai.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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I usually associate phasmids with the tropics, but it turns out there are two species native to New York. Here is the common walkingstick, Diapheromera femorata, which enjoys the oak trees in my garden. Small nymphs appear in May, and adults, like this one, in late summer. Woodstock, NY.
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A young queen of the American carpenter ant (Camponotus americanus) with a mite attached to its thorax. The mites associated with ants are highly diverse and vastly understudied. Woodstock, NY.
20.04.2025 04:00 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
๐ฆ๐งฌ New preprint๐ฆ๐งฌ
We investigated the degree of admixture, genetic diversity and inbreeding in ex situ giraffes using WGS data from the famous Marius, 12 zoo giraffes, and a data set from 71 wild giraffes.
#ConsGen #PopGen #Genomics #Giraffes #Marius
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
โฃ๏ธ Community โฃ๏ธ I need your help! Does your department do "intro" videos where each faculty has a short video on who they are and what their research/teaching is? Or have you seen something like this? If so, can you share it here? THANK YOU!
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Close-up of a black treehopper insect with a textured, helmet-like head featuring two prominent horns and two large orange-green eyes. It is perched on a green leaf against a blurred green background.
Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 16, 2025
Eggplant horned planthopper
Leptocentrus taurus
Hemiptera: Membracidae
By Vijin Varghese, Kerala, India
#arthropodPOTW
Congratulations Dr. Graber! โค๏ธโค๏ธ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ๐๐๐
10.04.2025 23:31 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Dr. Leland Graber with Dr. Corrie Moreau in the Moreau Lab after successfully defending his Ph.D.
Congratulations Dr. Graber cake!
Moreau lab and friends cheers to Dr. Graber
Congratulations to Dr. Leland Graber @bug4bug.bsky.social who did an excellent job defending his Ph.D. today! #MoreauLab #ProudPI @cornellentomology.bsky.social
10.04.2025 21:30 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0
Screenshot of article that reads: Frontiers in Education Sections Articles Research Topics Editorial board About journal CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article Front. Educ. Sec. STEM Education Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1472703 This article is part of the Research Topic Building Tomorrowโs Biomedical Workforce: Evaluation of How Evidence-Based Training Programs Align Skill Development and Career Awareness with a Broad Array of Professions View all 18 articles Ecosystem Assessment and Translating a Groundskeeping Framework into Practice for Promoting Systemic Change in Higher Education Provisionally accepted Beronda L Montgomery 1* Sherilynn J Black 2 1 Grinnell College, Grinnell, United States 2 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Many institutions include equity as a stated foundational value of their academic
Forthcoming articles cont'd:
2. "Ecosystem Assessment & Translating a Groundskeeping Framework into Practice for Promoting Systemic Change in Higher Education" in Frontiers in Education (www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...)
Collaborative work by @berondam.bsky.social & @sherilynnblack.bsky.social
Today we are at #ESA Mid-Atlantic at Longwood Gardens!
More poster, talks and fun at the #RamalhoLab! ๐ซถ๐ Great Science and great people!
#ProudPI #WCU ๐๐๐
Research Day at #WCU๐๐๐ and #RamalhoLab ๐โค๏ธ #ProudPI #PUI
04.04.2025 19:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We love this! ๐
03.04.2025 22:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Happy 91st birthday to Dr. Jane Goodall! A true inspiration for future generations of women in science! ๐๐ฌ๐งฌ๐งซ๐ฉโ๐ฌ! @janegoodall.org @janegoodallcan.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social
#WomenInScience #GirlsInStem
Interested in ancient food webs? Check out our new study on the paleoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar (Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A ๐ Meeting Review in the ESA Bulletin: Lessons from the Diversity Forum at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
Warm-adapted Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is more abundant near forest edges than in deep forest and may contribute to the community level changes edges of protected areas.
โ New paper โ
๐ค Bird communities change differently depending on distance to protected area and habitat type, indicating edge effects in climate change responses. This work was part of Leena Hintsanen's PhD thesis ๐
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A cluster of small yellow flowers with white anthers on stalks
Cornelian cherry, Cornus mas, N. European #dogwood (Cornaceae), ornamentally planted as an early spring flowering small tree, with edible fruit in autumn - very tannic red flesh is only enjoyable when mushy
#WildflowerHour
#bloomscrolling
#botany
Science and art offer complementary approaches to achieving a deeper understanding of life, and the exchange between the two can be very fruitful. Check out the fantastic work of Maximilian Prรผfer, who lets insects express themselves in his art: maximilian-pruefer.com
02.04.2025 00:22 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Yellow buttercup flower with eight petals and a dense cluster of anthers in the middle
Circumpolar Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris #Ranunculaceae, a #buttercup that makes a lactone-based poison protoanemonin... Like glucosinolates and cyanogenic glycosides In other families, the toxin is not unveiled until tissue maceration
#WildflowerHour
#bloomscrolling
#botany
long mossy roots that grew around a now-rotted stump where the birch germinated
#Betula alleganiensis, w/ stilt roots from germinating on a #tree stump. Lore suggests that small #seeds of #trees like this yellow #birch benefit from escaping suppressive leaf litter... #Hemlock seeds also [escape pathogens when germinating on stumps](doi.org/10.1890/03-3...)
#plants #forest
Loved it! ๐ค
28.03.2025 10:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
It's Thursday: Episode #84 of #MattersMicrobial is here! @rporetsky.bsky.social joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how wastewater can be used to identify and follow specific microbes, including viruses and pathogens. We had fun! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord
youtu.be/oUxP1dsF2Bk?...
