Tristan A.F. Long
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Tristan A.F. Long
@thelonglab.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University 🇨🇦

Evolutionary Genetics & Behavioural Ecology #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts #JournalKlatch
ORCID: 0000-0002-8708-2728
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A chronological archive of the ~180ish posters I have made (so far) for #LaurierBiology departmental seminars, since I began in 2014! #SciArt
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Laurier Biology Seminar Posters
Explore this photo album by Tristan Long on Flickr!
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First fly-pushing day of 2026! #DrosLife #FlyMas
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
First fly-pushing day of 2026! #DrosLife #FlyMas
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Everytime I open the CMS page for next semester's BI111 sections, my heart skips a jump when I see how many students are enrolled this year!
December 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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If at precisely 11.35am on New Years eve you start working on your slides for next year's course, as the clock chimes for new year you'll still be working on your slides.
December 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes
D1) again, this is difficult to pull off at longer lengths. But you don't get good at a thing by not doing it.

E) YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT done is better than perfect. Don't worry so much about "practicing right" just practice. You can adjust as you need as you go on.
December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A #ScienceAdvances study has found that the coelacanth—an evolutionarily ancient fish often nicknamed a living fossil—lacks 11 jaw muscles that researchers previously thought it had. https://scim.ag/4shX82H
Coelacanths illuminate deep-time evolution of cranial musculature in jawed vertebrates
Revised coelacanth cranial muscle anatomy reveals previously unknown evolutionary innovations and redefines gnathostome muscle evolution.
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December 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:
December 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Last fly-pushing day of 2025! #DrosLife #FlyMas
December 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The last Avian Hybrids story of 2025! 😀

Peaks and Pitfalls: How to avoid artefacts in demographic analyses
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/p...

Based on the Current Biology paper by Leon Hilgers and his colleagues | #ornithology
Peaks and Pitfalls: How to avoid artefacts in demographic analyses
Changing default parameters can prevent false peaks in population size estimations.
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December 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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There’s nothing wrong with common sense until you dig a little and learn that common sense is wrong. Thanks @profgalloway.com for providing a great example of common sense that I’ve gotten a kick out of doubting. Thanks @prosocialworld.bsky.social for hosting.

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What’s True About the Evolution of Men’s Greater Average Height?
Why men are taller than women may have nothing to do with testosterone—or sexual selection.
www.prosocial.world
December 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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before I started my lab, I asked several senior PIs what their one piece of advice would be and PI pointedly said: “Know when to drop a project.” And that advice has been invaluable in my lab. There are always other projects to follow up on, dropping one isn’t a failure in and of itself.
December 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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We had fun talking to Alex Guye from the CBC about Yaseen's work on overwintering ladybugs 🐞
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ladybugs are critical critters in the garden, but warmer winters could wipe them out | CBC News
Researchers at St. Francis Xavier University are examining the impacts of warming winters on Nova Scotia’s lady beetle population and what a decline could mean for the wider ecosystem.
www.cbc.ca
December 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Stanek et al. studied the Drosophila "dot chromosome” to investigate chromosome-specific size expansion, focusing on four species whose dot chromosomes are 2- to 15-fold larger compared to D. melanogaster.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf304

#evobio #molbio #drosophila
December 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists.

GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.

Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Submit your research to this Arctic Science Journal and Canadian Journal of Zoology collection on small mammal population cycles. Studies on population dynamics, ecosystem interactions, seasonality, and multi-scale ecological processes are welcome.

▶️ https://ow.ly/Gv8e50XC2xS

📷 Fabrice Simon
December 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#MonotremeMonday :
Duckbill ( #Platypus ) - Herend Animal Figurine 15420-0-00 VHN - Black Fishnet
Herend Porcelain Manufactory, Hungary
Hand-painted & gilded porcelain
H: 5.5 cm (2.25"H), L: 18 cm (7"L), W: 8 cm (3.25"W), Wt: 015 kg
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December 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict is now out!

Get your copy directly from @harvardpress.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Richard Lewontin on being raised "not as an evolutionist but as a population geneticist"
December 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Finding some bat species are photoluminescent in ultraviolet is one remarkable discovery for 2025. We had a feature on this in Spring 2025 issue of our membership magazine, Bat News. To discover more about #bats 🦇 and help bat conservation join today www.bats.org.uk/support-bats... #BatYearReview
December 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication
We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Celebrating #FlyMas 2025 with another year-in-review of the best #DrosLife lab's #ScienceDoughnuts! #SweetMemories
December 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM