Karl Schiller
@kcschiller.bsky.social
COO and Co-founder of @pheronym.com alumni of @Indbio @activatefellows @cyclotronroad.
I develop #pheromones from #nematodes to provide #climate smart, #eco-friendly #sustainable #agriculture pest control solutions to #farmers. #wormsinspace #astronematode
I develop #pheromones from #nematodes to provide #climate smart, #eco-friendly #sustainable #agriculture pest control solutions to #farmers. #wormsinspace #astronematode
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A new study: Multi-component trail pheromones of the #entomopathogenic #nematodes #Steinernema diaprepesi and #Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
#EPNs #biocontrol #pheromones #ascarosides #trailpheromone #behavior #insect #pests @pheronym.com @entsocamerica.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
#EPNs #biocontrol #pheromones #ascarosides #trailpheromone #behavior #insect #pests @pheronym.com @entsocamerica.bsky.social
Multi-component trail pheromones of the entomopathogenic nematodes Steinernema diaprepesi and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
Entomopathogenic nematodes aggregate in the soil environment to facilitate the location and infection of insect hosts. Significant evidence exists sug…
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A new study: Multi-component trail pheromones of the #entomopathogenic #nematodes #Steinernema diaprepesi and #Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
#EPNs #biocontrol #pheromones #ascarosides #trailpheromone #behavior #insect #pests @pheronym.com @entsocamerica.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
#EPNs #biocontrol #pheromones #ascarosides #trailpheromone #behavior #insect #pests @pheronym.com @entsocamerica.bsky.social
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As a startup, disruption in government services has been tough. Uninterrupted government services are vital for a thriving nation, our national security and food security.
Here's a closer look at how we've had to navigate the chaos ➡️ fkaplan.medium.com/no-disaster-...
#agriculture #SBIR
Here's a closer look at how we've had to navigate the chaos ➡️ fkaplan.medium.com/no-disaster-...
#agriculture #SBIR
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As a startup, disruption in government services has been tough. Uninterrupted government services are vital for a thriving nation, our national security and food security.
Here's a closer look at how we've had to navigate the chaos ➡️ fkaplan.medium.com/no-disaster-...
#agriculture #SBIR
Here's a closer look at how we've had to navigate the chaos ➡️ fkaplan.medium.com/no-disaster-...
#agriculture #SBIR
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Brown marmorated stink bugs have become a problem pest in Turkish nuts. Here's what @drfatmakaplan.bsky.social discovered when she recently visited her family farm: ow.ly/MWkX50XAbN6
#brownmarmoratedstinkbug #climatechange #pestcontrol #startup
#brownmarmoratedstinkbug #climatechange #pestcontrol #startup
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Brown marmorated stink bugs have become a problem pest in Turkish nuts. Here's what @drfatmakaplan.bsky.social discovered when she recently visited her family farm: ow.ly/MWkX50XAbN6
#brownmarmoratedstinkbug #climatechange #pestcontrol #startup
#brownmarmoratedstinkbug #climatechange #pestcontrol #startup
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We had a great time at VINE Connect Field Day at UCANR UC Lindcove Research and Extension Center. We saw the #futureoffarming: live demos in autonomous tech, real-time plant analysis, data-driven decision tools, and next-generation pest management.
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We had a great time at VINE Connect Field Day at UCANR UC Lindcove Research and Extension Center. We saw the #futureoffarming: live demos in autonomous tech, real-time plant analysis, data-driven decision tools, and next-generation pest management.
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"Before I knew, I was a hustling scientist entrepreneur!"
Dr. Fatma Kaplan shared her inspiring journey of becoming a scientist entrepreneur at Women and Allies in Entomology at Entomology 2025. Read her keynote speech ➡️ ow.ly/FOr650XIzim
📷 James Palczewski.
#entomology #biocontrol #entsoc25
Dr. Fatma Kaplan shared her inspiring journey of becoming a scientist entrepreneur at Women and Allies in Entomology at Entomology 2025. Read her keynote speech ➡️ ow.ly/FOr650XIzim
📷 James Palczewski.
#entomology #biocontrol #entsoc25
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Before I knew, I was a hustling scientist entrepreneur!"
Dr. Fatma Kaplan shared her inspiring journey of becoming a scientist entrepreneur at Women and Allies in Entomology at Entomology 2025. Read her keynote speech ➡️ ow.ly/FOr650XIzim
📷 James Palczewski.
#entomology #biocontrol #entsoc25
Dr. Fatma Kaplan shared her inspiring journey of becoming a scientist entrepreneur at Women and Allies in Entomology at Entomology 2025. Read her keynote speech ➡️ ow.ly/FOr650XIzim
📷 James Palczewski.
#entomology #biocontrol #entsoc25
I see we are back to giving Putin everything he wants.
Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I see we are back to giving Putin everything he wants.
I bought a Surface from @microsoft.com that was supposed to arrive on October 29th. It is November 19th, and I still don't have my new computer. I can't get any help online or through the 1-800 number. Does anybody here have ideas?
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I bought a Surface from @microsoft.com that was supposed to arrive on October 29th. It is November 19th, and I still don't have my new computer. I can't get any help online or through the 1-800 number. Does anybody here have ideas?
This. Absolutely this.
$2000 won’t buy you healthcare in the US.
$2000 won’t give you “negotiating power” with insurance companies.
A one time payment is not a healthcare plan.
It’s time for Medicare for all.
$2000 won’t give you “negotiating power” with insurance companies.
A one time payment is not a healthcare plan.
It’s time for Medicare for all.
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This. Absolutely this.
I stopped at a rest stop on I-5 last week and tried to buy a caffeinated beverage at the vending machines. They were cashless and only took apple pay. My brain shorted out too.
I tried to get food from the hospital vending machine now that I’m well enough to eat again, but it required downloading an app and my brain shorted out
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I stopped at a rest stop on I-5 last week and tried to buy a caffeinated beverage at the vending machines. They were cashless and only took apple pay. My brain shorted out too.
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On my way to Pitch Perfect and Boost the EU Bioeconomy 2025 in Brussels via Türkiye.
I’ll stay at the family farm in Türkiye and visiting one CMO in Tuzla, Türkiye, before flying to Brussels to visit another CMO and pitch to European investors at Pitch Perfect. Join me in Brussels to learn more.
I’ll stay at the family farm in Türkiye and visiting one CMO in Tuzla, Türkiye, before flying to Brussels to visit another CMO and pitch to European investors at Pitch Perfect. Join me in Brussels to learn more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
On my way to Pitch Perfect and Boost the EU Bioeconomy 2025 in Brussels via Türkiye.
I’ll stay at the family farm in Türkiye and visiting one CMO in Tuzla, Türkiye, before flying to Brussels to visit another CMO and pitch to European investors at Pitch Perfect. Join me in Brussels to learn more.
I’ll stay at the family farm in Türkiye and visiting one CMO in Tuzla, Türkiye, before flying to Brussels to visit another CMO and pitch to European investors at Pitch Perfect. Join me in Brussels to learn more.
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If you attended the @entcollnet.bsky.social meeting last year in Phoenix, you may have met some of our youngest attendees, Connor Hsu & Cole Crammer. Here they are with @drfirefly.bsky.social!
They’re now in 11th grade and this year they’re back to deliver their first ever ECN talk! [1/3]
They’re now in 11th grade and this year they’re back to deliver their first ever ECN talk! [1/3]
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If you attended the @entcollnet.bsky.social meeting last year in Phoenix, you may have met some of our youngest attendees, Connor Hsu & Cole Crammer. Here they are with @drfirefly.bsky.social!
They’re now in 11th grade and this year they’re back to deliver their first ever ECN talk! [1/3]
They’re now in 11th grade and this year they’re back to deliver their first ever ECN talk! [1/3]
I'm at the #Entomology2025 conference in Portland and I chose to drive over 500 miles to avoid the uncertainty of air travel right now.
Going to a research conference next week. One of my panels featured researchers coming from Asia, who decided to withdraw given the uncertainty about domestic travel with flight cancelations. Just one more reference point for how the US under Trump has become seen as a basket case country.
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm at the #Entomology2025 conference in Portland and I chose to drive over 500 miles to avoid the uncertainty of air travel right now.
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it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
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“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”
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In 2023:
-39% of SNAP users were Americans under the age of 18
-19% of SNAP users were 60 or older
-60% of SNAP benefits went to families with children
-39% of SNAP users were Americans under the age of 18
-19% of SNAP users were 60 or older
-60% of SNAP benefits went to families with children
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In 2023:
-39% of SNAP users were Americans under the age of 18
-19% of SNAP users were 60 or older
-60% of SNAP benefits went to families with children
-39% of SNAP users were Americans under the age of 18
-19% of SNAP users were 60 or older
-60% of SNAP benefits went to families with children
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As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
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Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans!
sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...
sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...
Mammals & Lice
We are interested in understanding what drives host-parasite relationships. We are using the Anoplura (sucking lice) parasite and mammalian host system to generate a comprehensive sucking louse phylog...
sites.google.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans!
sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...
sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...
This looks good. Reposting to save.
September 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This looks good. Reposting to save.
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Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
September 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
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🌱From UC Davis: A new project is developing plant-based biomanufacturing systems for low-resource settings on Earth and in space, aiming for sustainable, low-cost production. (Karen McDonald, Abhaya Dandekar, Stephen Robinson, Somen Nandi, Denneal Jamison-McClung).
▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/cheaper...
▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/cheaper...
Cheaper, Sustainable Plant Biomanufacturing on Earth and in Space
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new technologies and workforce training programs to grow plants in low-r...
www.ucdavis.edu
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🌱From UC Davis: A new project is developing plant-based biomanufacturing systems for low-resource settings on Earth and in space, aiming for sustainable, low-cost production. (Karen McDonald, Abhaya Dandekar, Stephen Robinson, Somen Nandi, Denneal Jamison-McClung).
▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/cheaper...
▶️ www.ucdavis.edu/news/cheaper...
As a parent of special needs kids I find this abhorrent.
BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind.
“How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families.
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families.
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
www.propublica.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
As a parent of special needs kids I find this abhorrent.
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It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk
www.emilyhare.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk
www.emilyhare.co.uk
If you have ever published any academic research, search for your name. I found five or six articles that I published and 30 that my wife published.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you have ever published any academic research, search for your name. I found five or six articles that I published and 30 that my wife published.
Me to Copilot: remove all the hard returns
Copilot: here's how you do it: press ctl-h...
Copilot: here's how you do it: press ctl-h...
My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
September 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Me to Copilot: remove all the hard returns
Copilot: here's how you do it: press ctl-h...
Copilot: here's how you do it: press ctl-h...