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Adam Blake
@ajblake05.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Washington focusing on insect vision. My current project is looking at olfaction and vision in mosquitos.

Website: https://www.ajblake.info/
This one is for the Children of Time fans (scale should be about right)! Enjoy this jumping spider (Pancorius sp.) Jack-O'-lantern!! Thanks to @nickybay.bsky.social for the reference image (www.flickr.com/photos/nicka...).

#halloween #jackolantern #arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Out vacationing on the east coast. I saw my first spotted lanternfly almost instantly! I doubt it will be the last!
September 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Our new paper is now out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!!! We had all sorts of fun generating LED stimuli for mosquitos to investigate their visual preferences in the presence of different odors. The paper is open access and available here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
July 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Every Canadian has only three friends
May 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Excited that my first manuscript from my time at the @riffelllab.bsky.social is out as a preprint! Building on past work, we used wind tunnel bioassays to show that the odors of human hosts, flowers, and oviposition sites shift the visual preferences of mosquitos.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Look out for my talk on #mosquito photoreceptors and behavior tomorrow at #SICB2025 in the olfaction section (11:15 am, Intl. Salon 9).
January 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
He’s trying so hard!!
December 29, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Happy #SnowbirdSaturday! Let’s see your birds in the snow!

Here’s a varied thrush from a very chilly (for Vancouver) Christmas bird count.
December 1, 2024 at 1:18 AM
We sharing bread on here? #breadsky
November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
People of Blue Sky, post one of your favorite movies. One gif only.
November 24, 2024 at 12:46 AM
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Flight shot Friday!

I feel like we could also take this in a buggy direction.
November 23, 2024 at 1:51 AM
They really do make great Christmas gifts!!
November 14, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Had a great time at #entsoc24! Made some great connections and saw so many great talks! Looking forward to the next one!
November 14, 2024 at 12:13 AM
If you’re interested in mosquito biology or insect vision please check out my #entsoc24 talk today at 11:36 in room 222 A.
November 12, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Don’t mind if I do!
July 22, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Also be sure to check out all the other great talks at SICB from my lab mates in the Riffell Lab.

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January 4, 2024 at 10:59 PM
If you’re at SICB this Friday (1:45 pm, 602) check out my talk on odors and color preferences of mosquitoes in the multisensory systems section.
January 4, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Hi all, postdoc at University of Washington, I currently work on mosquito vision. More about me here: www.ajblake.info
September 21, 2023 at 9:00 PM