Colin Chiu (He/Him)
@cosmophasis.bsky.social
Entomology - typically moths and spiders 🕸️
MSc Lepidoptera systematics @ UAlberta
Occasionally in Hong Kong or UK
@naturalist.chiu on insta
@cosmophasis on iNaturalist
MSc Lepidoptera systematics @ UAlberta
Occasionally in Hong Kong or UK
@naturalist.chiu on insta
@cosmophasis on iNaturalist
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In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"Developed new species concept"
"Developed new species concept"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
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"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"Developed new species concept"
"Developed new species concept"
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Before #InsectWeek passes me by (working on an arachnid 😅) here’s a bug—a true bug, water boatman (Corixidae)—I made in bronze and silver, articulated to show that, surprisingly, these swimmers are good fliers! 1/2 #SciArt
June 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Before #InsectWeek passes me by (working on an arachnid 😅) here’s a bug—a true bug, water boatman (Corixidae)—I made in bronze and silver, articulated to show that, surprisingly, these swimmers are good fliers! 1/2 #SciArt
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🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
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Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.
Urgent! Every Dollar Counts!
We grow science with words, and are the only Asian American-run science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, led by Gen-Z! The Xylom needs to raise $7,500 by the end of the month to stay afloat. Please…
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June 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.
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#NewSpecies!
New parasitoid wasp from #canada just flew in:
Perilampus seneca
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8E7FAE03-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
#HymenopteraJour #PerilampusSeneca
#FAIRdata
#nature #biodiversity #conservation #entomology #hymenoptera #wasps #parasite
New parasitoid wasp from #canada just flew in:
Perilampus seneca
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8E7FAE03-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
#HymenopteraJour #PerilampusSeneca
#FAIRdata
#nature #biodiversity #conservation #entomology #hymenoptera #wasps #parasite
February 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
#NewSpecies!
New parasitoid wasp from #canada just flew in:
Perilampus seneca
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8E7FAE03-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
#HymenopteraJour #PerilampusSeneca
#FAIRdata
#nature #biodiversity #conservation #entomology #hymenoptera #wasps #parasite
New parasitoid wasp from #canada just flew in:
Perilampus seneca
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8E7FAE03-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
#HymenopteraJour #PerilampusSeneca
#FAIRdata
#nature #biodiversity #conservation #entomology #hymenoptera #wasps #parasite
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as a pretty ignorant dipterist, I only just now found out that all the craziest flies I saw in Colombia last August were all Tephritoids - cool!
1 pointy-eyed Pterocallini - Ulidiidae
2 psychedelic-eyed Paragorgopis - Ulidiidae
3 blue-winged Setellia -Richardiidae
4 antlered Richardia infestans
1 pointy-eyed Pterocallini - Ulidiidae
2 psychedelic-eyed Paragorgopis - Ulidiidae
3 blue-winged Setellia -Richardiidae
4 antlered Richardia infestans
March 16, 2024 at 5:34 PM
as a pretty ignorant dipterist, I only just now found out that all the craziest flies I saw in Colombia last August were all Tephritoids - cool!
1 pointy-eyed Pterocallini - Ulidiidae
2 psychedelic-eyed Paragorgopis - Ulidiidae
3 blue-winged Setellia -Richardiidae
4 antlered Richardia infestans
1 pointy-eyed Pterocallini - Ulidiidae
2 psychedelic-eyed Paragorgopis - Ulidiidae
3 blue-winged Setellia -Richardiidae
4 antlered Richardia infestans
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arterials deserve protected bike lanes because they are fast, flat and adjacent to many commercial businesses
Ah yes, "cyclists should just take the roads that run parallel to the main arteries"
November 23, 2024 at 7:48 PM
arterials deserve protected bike lanes because they are fast, flat and adjacent to many commercial businesses
Did a quick walkthrough of using the SEM today! Super cool to see all the tiny structures on shore flies.
#entomology #microscopy
#entomology #microscopy
November 19, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Did a quick walkthrough of using the SEM today! Super cool to see all the tiny structures on shore flies.
#entomology #microscopy
#entomology #microscopy
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November 19, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
(Bringing back a 2018 Twitter hit): Keeping honey bees to save the bees is like keeping chickens to save the birds. They're a managed species and not at risk of extinction. The bees at risk of extinction are wild species.
(Bringing back a 2018 Twitter hit): Keeping honey bees to save the bees is like keeping chickens to save the birds. They're a managed species and not at risk of extinction. The bees at risk of extinction are wild species.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
A lot of people in positions of power got their promotions because they were behaving badly.
In sexual harassment cases, institutions use promotions as a way to retain the perpetrator and separate them from their primary victim.
A lot of people in positions of power got their promotions because they were behaving badly.
In sexual harassment cases, institutions use promotions as a way to retain the perpetrator and separate them from their primary victim.
November 18, 2024 at 10:44 PM
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
(Bringing back a 2018 Twitter hit): Keeping honey bees to save the bees is like keeping chickens to save the birds. They're a managed species and not at risk of extinction. The bees at risk of extinction are wild species.
(Bringing back a 2018 Twitter hit): Keeping honey bees to save the bees is like keeping chickens to save the birds. They're a managed species and not at risk of extinction. The bees at risk of extinction are wild species.
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We’ve made a starter pack, to help you find people actively working with insect collections. Get in touch if you’d like to be added. 🦋
Entomological Collections Crew
go.bsky.app/C5VpWiw
Entomological Collections Crew
go.bsky.app/C5VpWiw
November 16, 2024 at 1:20 PM
We’ve made a starter pack, to help you find people actively working with insect collections. Get in touch if you’d like to be added. 🦋
Entomological Collections Crew
go.bsky.app/C5VpWiw
Entomological Collections Crew
go.bsky.app/C5VpWiw
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Absolutely huge news for amphibian conservation. The lethal fungus Bd has been causing huge and steady declines in frogs over the last decades, so seeing resistant populations establishing post-reintroduction is really fantastic.
🧪 🐸 🌎
🧪 🐸 🌎
What an awesome paper. Hope!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reintroduction of resistant frogs facilitates landscape-scale recovery in the presence of a lethal fungal disease - Nature Communications
The pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has devastated amphibian biodiversity, and methods to reverse these impacts are lacking. This study shows that frogs collected from recovering populati...
www.nature.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Absolutely huge news for amphibian conservation. The lethal fungus Bd has been causing huge and steady declines in frogs over the last decades, so seeing resistant populations establishing post-reintroduction is really fantastic.
🧪 🐸 🌎
🧪 🐸 🌎
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My first #entomology starter pack filled up (only 150 fantastic folk allowed)
🎉#Entomology starter pack # 2 is now being populated! 🎉
Did I miss you? Aplogies! Reply to this post and I'll remedy that! #StarterPack #Invertebrate
🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️
go.bsky.app/JVRwhS1
🎉#Entomology starter pack # 2 is now being populated! 🎉
Did I miss you? Aplogies! Reply to this post and I'll remedy that! #StarterPack #Invertebrate
🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️
go.bsky.app/JVRwhS1
November 12, 2024 at 7:05 PM
My first #entomology starter pack filled up (only 150 fantastic folk allowed)
🎉#Entomology starter pack # 2 is now being populated! 🎉
Did I miss you? Aplogies! Reply to this post and I'll remedy that! #StarterPack #Invertebrate
🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️
go.bsky.app/JVRwhS1
🎉#Entomology starter pack # 2 is now being populated! 🎉
Did I miss you? Aplogies! Reply to this post and I'll remedy that! #StarterPack #Invertebrate
🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️
go.bsky.app/JVRwhS1
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Free spider info!
#spiders #arachnid #arachnology #NaturalHistory #biology #nature #arachtober
wsc.nmbe.ch
#spiders #arachnid #arachnology #NaturalHistory #biology #nature #arachtober
wsc.nmbe.ch
October 4, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Free spider info!
#spiders #arachnid #arachnology #NaturalHistory #biology #nature #arachtober
wsc.nmbe.ch
#spiders #arachnid #arachnology #NaturalHistory #biology #nature #arachtober
wsc.nmbe.ch
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Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory
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Philygria picta, not its best aspect but still a pretty little #Ephydridae from the New Forest last weekend #flyfriday
November 15, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Philygria picta, not its best aspect but still a pretty little #Ephydridae from the New Forest last weekend #flyfriday
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Today in marine invertebrates. Staying on topic link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A nudibranch removes rival sperm with a disposable spiny penis - Journal of Ethology
Simultaneous hermaphroditism is, at least initially, favoured by selection under low density — and therefore it can be assumed that sperm competition has little importance in this sexual system. How...
link.springer.com
January 19, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Today in marine invertebrates. Staying on topic link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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