Greg Pask
@gregpask.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Biology at Middlebury College, lover of insect communication, good teaching, and nerd stuff
Looking forward to our #SICB2026 session on Technology, Games, and Play in Biology Education tomorrow at 8am in Oregon 203! So many amazing talks and people lined up!
My talk at 8:45am on CYOA fun in an organismal biology class!
My talk at 8:45am on CYOA fun in an organismal biology class!
January 4, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Looking forward to our #SICB2026 session on Technology, Games, and Play in Biology Education tomorrow at 8am in Oregon 203! So many amazing talks and people lined up!
My talk at 8:45am on CYOA fun in an organismal biology class!
My talk at 8:45am on CYOA fun in an organismal biology class!
When you surprise each other with exactly the same shirt on Christmas 🤣
@rosemarymosco.com, Bloodcheep is the gift that keeps on giving all year long!
@rosemarymosco.com, Bloodcheep is the gift that keeps on giving all year long!
December 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
When you surprise each other with exactly the same shirt on Christmas 🤣
@rosemarymosco.com, Bloodcheep is the gift that keeps on giving all year long!
@rosemarymosco.com, Bloodcheep is the gift that keeps on giving all year long!
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NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
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Thrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants!
Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh
Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants!
Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh
Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh
Getting fired up for my Entomology class's community outreach event this Saturday!
Partnering with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social, we will be opening up the multiverse of insects and insectoids with...
The Museum of the Multiverse: Insects!
#entomology #insects #vermont #cosplay
Partnering with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social, we will be opening up the multiverse of insects and insectoids with...
The Museum of the Multiverse: Insects!
#entomology #insects #vermont #cosplay
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Getting fired up for my Entomology class's community outreach event this Saturday!
Partnering with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social, we will be opening up the multiverse of insects and insectoids with...
The Museum of the Multiverse: Insects!
#entomology #insects #vermont #cosplay
Partnering with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social, we will be opening up the multiverse of insects and insectoids with...
The Museum of the Multiverse: Insects!
#entomology #insects #vermont #cosplay
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1,000 butterfly and moth genomes have been sequenced… and guess what they are using them for?
Understanding how these insects will cope with climate change. 🌍🦋
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#Biology #ClimateChange #AcademicChatter
Understanding how these insects will cope with climate change. 🌍🦋
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#Biology #ClimateChange #AcademicChatter
Using 1,000 butterfly and moth genomes to investigate evolution and climate change resilience
A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes almo...
phys.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
1,000 butterfly and moth genomes have been sequenced… and guess what they are using them for?
Understanding how these insects will cope with climate change. 🌍🦋
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#Biology #ClimateChange #AcademicChatter
Understanding how these insects will cope with climate change. 🌍🦋
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#Biology #ClimateChange #AcademicChatter
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This month's #InvertArtChallenge is one of our Pacific Northwest fireflies. They're largely overlooked because they don't light up in spectacular displays, although the larvae can glow. But they still deserve attention.
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This month's #InvertArtChallenge is one of our Pacific Northwest fireflies. They're largely overlooked because they don't light up in spectacular displays, although the larvae can glow. But they still deserve attention.
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I’m seeing a lot of men incredulous that even a giant, overwhelming pile of evidence doesn’t seem to be enough to take down a sex offender, and I’m like…
a man is swimming in a pool with the words `` welcome to the party , pal '' written on it .
Alt: Bruce Willis in Die Hard saying “welcome to the party , pal”
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I’m seeing a lot of men incredulous that even a giant, overwhelming pile of evidence doesn’t seem to be enough to take down a sex offender, and I’m like…
A game with fun art and insects on kickstarter, that's an instant back for me 😊
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hed...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hed...
Bug Fight | Build a Deck of Bugs and Take the Yard!
Bug Fight is a 2-player lane-battler. Recruit Bugs, build your deck, and capture Areas to win the Backyard!
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A game with fun art and insects on kickstarter, that's an instant back for me 😊
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hed...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hed...
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Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell
types and widespread co-expres...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Thanks for writing up this blog post Zach!
Our flagship journal ICB's blog
#Firefly #Pheromones: How Lightless Lightning #Bugs Find Love
by Zach Lightfoot ( @colgate.edu )
on @gregpask.bsky.social 's work with electroantennography & being 1st to identify a #pheromone in #fireflies using it.
& watch his #SICB YouTube
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw?...
#Firefly #Pheromones: How Lightless Lightning #Bugs Find Love
by Zach Lightfoot ( @colgate.edu )
on @gregpask.bsky.social 's work with electroantennography & being 1st to identify a #pheromone in #fireflies using it.
& watch his #SICB YouTube
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw?...
October 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thanks for writing up this blog post Zach!
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#entomology share🙌
Be sure to watch
our SICB YouTube guest
@gregpask.bsky.social
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw
& read IOB(our OA journal)’s
#Ants go belly up:
iobopen.com/2020/03/09/a...
Be sure to watch
our SICB YouTube guest
@gregpask.bsky.social
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw
& read IOB(our OA journal)’s
#Ants go belly up:
iobopen.com/2020/03/09/a...
October 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#entomology share🙌
Be sure to watch
our SICB YouTube guest
@gregpask.bsky.social
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw
& read IOB(our OA journal)’s
#Ants go belly up:
iobopen.com/2020/03/09/a...
Be sure to watch
our SICB YouTube guest
@gregpask.bsky.social
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw
& read IOB(our OA journal)’s
#Ants go belly up:
iobopen.com/2020/03/09/a...
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Do you ever worry that while you are sleeping at night a huge red insect will creep into your house and drink your blood?
#LegendaryWednesday #yokai
#LegendaryWednesday #yokai
In #JapaneseFolklore there is an insect #yokai known as tsutsugamushi. They are large and red with huge jaws and long antennae. They live deep in the mountains but come out at night and creep into houses to drink the blood of sleeping humans which can cause all kinds of...
#LegendaryWednesday
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#LegendaryWednesday
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October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Do you ever worry that while you are sleeping at night a huge red insect will creep into your house and drink your blood?
#LegendaryWednesday #yokai
#LegendaryWednesday #yokai
Me trying to warn my students about the dangers of relying on GenAI
October 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Me trying to warn my students about the dangers of relying on GenAI
Yesterday at the #NYCC Marvel X-Men panel, a science graduate student asked about where they get their accurate scientific information for writing the comics.
@jedmackay.bsky.social immediately said, I ask Marvel’s residence science expert… @ryannorth.ca
I have to agree!
@jedmackay.bsky.social immediately said, I ask Marvel’s residence science expert… @ryannorth.ca
I have to agree!
October 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yesterday at the #NYCC Marvel X-Men panel, a science graduate student asked about where they get their accurate scientific information for writing the comics.
@jedmackay.bsky.social immediately said, I ask Marvel’s residence science expert… @ryannorth.ca
I have to agree!
@jedmackay.bsky.social immediately said, I ask Marvel’s residence science expert… @ryannorth.ca
I have to agree!
Had the best time doing a #NYCC panel with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social on Pokémon Ecology Academy: Ancient Life! Got to talk about Yanmega, insect respiration, and how insects used to be much bigger in the Carboniferous!
October 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Had the best time doing a #NYCC panel with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social on Pokémon Ecology Academy: Ancient Life! Got to talk about Yanmega, insect respiration, and how insects used to be much bigger in the Carboniferous!
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#SICB's October zoom is coming up!
Oct 21st at 6:30 pm est
email sicbmedia@sicb.org to join
@kmkocot.bsky.social will talk about Icy #Inverts: #Biodiversity & #Systematics of #Polar #MarineInvertebrates
www.kocotlab.com
www.icyinverts.com
& connect on Insta & Threads (@)kmkocot
Oct 21st at 6:30 pm est
email sicbmedia@sicb.org to join
@kmkocot.bsky.social will talk about Icy #Inverts: #Biodiversity & #Systematics of #Polar #MarineInvertebrates
www.kocotlab.com
www.icyinverts.com
& connect on Insta & Threads (@)kmkocot
October 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#SICB's October zoom is coming up!
Oct 21st at 6:30 pm est
email sicbmedia@sicb.org to join
@kmkocot.bsky.social will talk about Icy #Inverts: #Biodiversity & #Systematics of #Polar #MarineInvertebrates
www.kocotlab.com
www.icyinverts.com
& connect on Insta & Threads (@)kmkocot
Oct 21st at 6:30 pm est
email sicbmedia@sicb.org to join
@kmkocot.bsky.social will talk about Icy #Inverts: #Biodiversity & #Systematics of #Polar #MarineInvertebrates
www.kocotlab.com
www.icyinverts.com
& connect on Insta & Threads (@)kmkocot
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What can insects teach us about the sense of smell? And why do bugs keep showing up in pop culture?
We sit down with @gregpask.bsky.social to explore the world of insect olfaction, chemical communication, and sensory biology.
#scicomm #sciants #stem #science
youtu.be/izx4ctMrERc
We sit down with @gregpask.bsky.social to explore the world of insect olfaction, chemical communication, and sensory biology.
#scicomm #sciants #stem #science
youtu.be/izx4ctMrERc
September 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
What can insects teach us about the sense of smell? And why do bugs keep showing up in pop culture?
We sit down with @gregpask.bsky.social to explore the world of insect olfaction, chemical communication, and sensory biology.
#scicomm #sciants #stem #science
youtu.be/izx4ctMrERc
We sit down with @gregpask.bsky.social to explore the world of insect olfaction, chemical communication, and sensory biology.
#scicomm #sciants #stem #science
youtu.be/izx4ctMrERc
Another fun panel with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social at #FanX! Got to talk about how heroes and villains can communicate with animals and the various ways insects use to communicate!
And had such a fun time cosplaying as Ant-Man!
Thanks @lisalundgren.bsky.social for organizing!
And had such a fun time cosplaying as Ant-Man!
Thanks @lisalundgren.bsky.social for organizing!
September 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Another fun panel with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social at #FanX! Got to talk about how heroes and villains can communicate with animals and the various ways insects use to communicate!
And had such a fun time cosplaying as Ant-Man!
Thanks @lisalundgren.bsky.social for organizing!
And had such a fun time cosplaying as Ant-Man!
Thanks @lisalundgren.bsky.social for organizing!
Very excited to be a part of the “Anatomy of a Superhero” panel at #FanX tomorrow with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social! Thank you so much @lisalundgren.bsky.social and @paleoparadox.bsky.social for making it happen!
I will be cosplaying as classic Ant-Man, pictures later 😊🤓
#cosplayforscience
I will be cosplaying as classic Ant-Man, pictures later 😊🤓
#cosplayforscience
September 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Very excited to be a part of the “Anatomy of a Superhero” panel at #FanX tomorrow with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social! Thank you so much @lisalundgren.bsky.social and @paleoparadox.bsky.social for making it happen!
I will be cosplaying as classic Ant-Man, pictures later 😊🤓
#cosplayforscience
I will be cosplaying as classic Ant-Man, pictures later 😊🤓
#cosplayforscience
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Division spotlight - now on YouTube
@gregpask.bsky.social 's zoom talk.
Greg is part of
@sicb-dab.bsky.social &
& DNNSB
as an #insect #neurobiologist
Watch now:
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw
#biology #bugs #entomology #fireflies #hormones
@gregpask.bsky.social 's zoom talk.
Greg is part of
@sicb-dab.bsky.social &
& DNNSB
as an #insect #neurobiologist
Watch now:
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw
#biology #bugs #entomology #fireflies #hormones
Greg Pask's Sept 2025 zoom , The Dark Side of Firefly Biology
YouTube video by Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Division spotlight - now on YouTube
@gregpask.bsky.social 's zoom talk.
Greg is part of
@sicb-dab.bsky.social &
& DNNSB
as an #insect #neurobiologist
Watch now:
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw
#biology #bugs #entomology #fireflies #hormones
@gregpask.bsky.social 's zoom talk.
Greg is part of
@sicb-dab.bsky.social &
& DNNSB
as an #insect #neurobiologist
Watch now:
youtu.be/DuIrx3-t3tw
#biology #bugs #entomology #fireflies #hormones
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Our second Growth, Not Grades winner is Sharlyn Barrett 🎉
Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance.
Read and share!
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...
Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance.
Read and share!
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...
The Degrading Scale — Grow Beyond Grades
In her essay, Sharlyn Barrett recalls how the pursuit of perfection—whether on a scale or on a report card—stripped joy from both learning and life, and how messages about perfection left her exhauste...
growbeyondgrades.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Our second Growth, Not Grades winner is Sharlyn Barrett 🎉
Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance.
Read and share!
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...
Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance.
Read and share!
growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...