Eli Wyman
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Eli Wyman
@beeli.bsky.social
Entomologist, especially fond of bees and treehoppers.
Kocher Lab at Princeton, formerly AMNH.
Interested in social behaviors. Lots of fieldwork.
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Sometimes you snap a photo and you debate whether to share it for hours. 🪶
February 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I know it’s a bad photo but I had the pleasure of seeing a Spectacled Owl today in Panama
January 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Bee brains are the coolest
January 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Our paper on the phylogeny of Nematoda 🪱came out on the last day of 2024 in @systbiol.bsky.social. Well at least the link is, the PDF will come later...

What started off as a collaboration invitation to design UCE probes snowballed building a phylogeny of the whole phylum using BUSCOs...
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda
Abstract. The phylum Nematoda represents one of the most cosmopolitan and abundant metazoan groups on Earth. In this study, we reconstructed the phylogenom
doi.org
January 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The people have spoken, heres more wheelbug
December 30, 2024 at 6:27 PM
I was having a hard time scrolling and being engaged here on Bluesky and I couldn’t figure it out. I switched to dark mode and now I find it much easier to engage with.

Maybe this is useless or common sense to others but I tend to stay with default settings. If you’re like me give dark mode a try.
December 27, 2024 at 6:14 PM
I feel a kind of powerful that can only come from completely organizing and labeling every single box in a -80 freezer from the past 10 years 💪
December 6, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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This is my attempt to build a wild bee-researcher starter pack for folks to find awesome people doing awesome wild bee research!
Feel free to suggest yourself as I'm sure this'll start out as a pack of my collaborators and other admired researchers!
go.bsky.app/PrjzU94
November 17, 2024 at 4:50 AM
No spoilers but the panagram in todays Spelling Bee made me inordinately angry.
November 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Please join us! The AMNH is seeking applicants for a new #curatorial #tenure track position in the area of ancient bio molecules! #job #museum #curator #molecular careers.amnh.org/postings/3919
November 10, 2023 at 5:56 PM
I failed to get a grant for a cool project. Time to start looking for a wealthy benefactor :)
October 12, 2023 at 5:04 PM
Got my booster today and was so disappointed they didn’t want to put a stamp on my vaccine card. How the hell will I trade it in for a free sandwich?!
September 27, 2023 at 12:46 AM
Introducing the Sp00pi3st science item in the world (if you are an airline employee). Over 2.5 hours spent explaining and demonstrating that my dry shipper is in fact safe to fly with.
July 7, 2023 at 10:48 AM
You’ve heard of the opposite, now experience….
June 21, 2023 at 7:37 AM
June 16, 2023 at 9:06 AM
Sitting on a plane bound for Japan and kicking myself for forgetting my binoculars.
June 15, 2023 at 2:40 PM
I asked AI to generate a picture of me. Looks 0% like me, but nailed the background. No complaints
June 12, 2023 at 6:12 PM