Eric G. Prileson
@egprileson.bsky.social
Curiosity seeker, nature lover, explorer of the minute and exceptional. Also a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology at Washington State University Vancouver. t.ly/xPjM
I enjoy cycling, hiking, futbol, baseball, cooking and ice-cold beer.
I enjoy cycling, hiking, futbol, baseball, cooking and ice-cold beer.
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New paper with @kfowlerfinn.bsky.social and team in Ecology Letters!
Hotter developmental temperatures reduce survival in juvenile insects, but also enhance adult fertility enough to potentially avoid population declines in warming climates
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
#evosky #ecology #climatechange
Hotter developmental temperatures reduce survival in juvenile insects, but also enhance adult fertility enough to potentially avoid population declines in warming climates
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
#evosky #ecology #climatechange
Carryover Effects on Reproduction Can Buffer Against Mortality‐Driven Population Declines at Elevated Developmental Temperatures
We show that hotter juvenile temperatures can increase adult fertility in an emerging model insect system. These reproductive benefits may be crucial for insect populations to avoid extinction during...
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
New paper with @kfowlerfinn.bsky.social and team in Ecology Letters!
Hotter developmental temperatures reduce survival in juvenile insects, but also enhance adult fertility enough to potentially avoid population declines in warming climates
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
#evosky #ecology #climatechange
Hotter developmental temperatures reduce survival in juvenile insects, but also enhance adult fertility enough to potentially avoid population declines in warming climates
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
#evosky #ecology #climatechange
Stevie Nicks, but as a mid-western mom:
'Oh, there you go again, sayin you want your freedom'
'Oh, there you go again, sayin you want your freedom'
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Stevie Nicks, but as a mid-western mom:
'Oh, there you go again, sayin you want your freedom'
'Oh, there you go again, sayin you want your freedom'
Did you know it rains in the Pacific Northwest? #PNW #biketowork
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Did you know it rains in the Pacific Northwest? #PNW #biketowork
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First copy of The Paradox of the Organism in the wild!
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
First copy of The Paradox of the Organism in the wild!
One way to fight back against #ICE is to help provide free legal services to those detained - In Vancouver (WA) donate to the LULAC legal defense fund!
givebutter.com/PWN0dR
givebutter.com/PWN0dR
Vancouver Metro LULAC #47026 Legal Defense Fund
Provide due process for immigrants
givebutter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
One way to fight back against #ICE is to help provide free legal services to those detained - In Vancouver (WA) donate to the LULAC legal defense fund!
givebutter.com/PWN0dR
givebutter.com/PWN0dR
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October 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
Ohio Has Invested Millions in Wetlands to Catch Nutrient Runoff From Farms. A New Report Suggests It’s Working. - Inside Climate News
The annual report from the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program found all of the wetlands examined successfully trapped nutrients and shed new light on possible best practices.
insideclimatenews.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This is an excellent write up about findings from our H2Ohio wetland monitoring. 🧪🌎🌱💧
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
The Rudman Lab had a wonderful time visiting the @lbuckley.bsky.social lab at UW in Seattle this week! Thank you for hosting us and talking rapid adaptation, overwintering, and thermal plasticity!
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Rudman Lab had a wonderful time visiting the @lbuckley.bsky.social lab at UW in Seattle this week! Thank you for hosting us and talking rapid adaptation, overwintering, and thermal plasticity!
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This is awesome! Such great energy - we need all of it! bsky.app/profile/ztea...
October 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
This is awesome! Such great energy - we need all of it! bsky.app/profile/ztea...
October 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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I remain puzzled as to why some continue to trot out that academia is not the "real world". I have endless responsibilities, deadlines, expectations, and work long hours. This is my "real world" & I hope that my efforts over a long career contribute to improving the "real world" of others. 🧪
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I remain puzzled as to why some continue to trot out that academia is not the "real world". I have endless responsibilities, deadlines, expectations, and work long hours. This is my "real world" & I hope that my efforts over a long career contribute to improving the "real world" of others. 🧪
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👀Notable context in times when medical research funding is being destroyed. And Funding for the police state increases. 🩺 🧪
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
👀Notable context in times when medical research funding is being destroyed. And Funding for the police state increases. 🩺 🧪
Collecting cascades frogs today was awesome at Mt. St. Helens
September 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Collecting cascades frogs today was awesome at Mt. St. Helens
@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
'it is the scent the speaks first of love'
'it is the scent the speaks first of love'
September 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
'it is the scent the speaks first of love'
'it is the scent the speaks first of love'
Did some field excursions with the local #mosquito control district here in WA looking for evidence of resistance; we collected thousands of Culex larvae despite only having 4 precipitation events this summer - how?
all of them were likely there directly from watering lawns and at home car washes
all of them were likely there directly from watering lawns and at home car washes
September 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Did some field excursions with the local #mosquito control district here in WA looking for evidence of resistance; we collected thousands of Culex larvae despite only having 4 precipitation events this summer - how?
all of them were likely there directly from watering lawns and at home car washes
all of them were likely there directly from watering lawns and at home car washes
TAKE ACTION to write in opposition to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This legislation would bring devastating and irreversible consequences in the health of our nations forests
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Phone & email your representatives TODAY!
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Phone & email your representatives TODAY!
scbnorthamerica.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
TAKE ACTION to write in opposition to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This legislation would bring devastating and irreversible consequences in the health of our nations forests
scbnorthamerica.org/wp-content/u...
Phone & email your representatives TODAY!
scbnorthamerica.org/wp-content/u...
Phone & email your representatives TODAY!
Just a bonkers life history - I've seen this variation of sexual parasitism, but across species? Wild to see just the male genetic material becoming cloned 🧪 #evobio
Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in Nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/3V68MP0 🧪
September 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Just a bonkers life history - I've seen this variation of sexual parasitism, but across species? Wild to see just the male genetic material becoming cloned 🧪 #evobio
Reposted by Eric G. Prileson
Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in Nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/3V68MP0 🧪
September 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in Nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/3V68MP0 🧪
Watching the excellent Ken Burns prohibition and temperance documentary on PBS (go support your local station!!) while ironically (?) drinking a beer #pbs #sundayfunday
September 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Watching the excellent Ken Burns prohibition and temperance documentary on PBS (go support your local station!!) while ironically (?) drinking a beer #pbs #sundayfunday
August 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Happy Friday! My morning has consisted of missing one bus, getting on a second bus that went the wrong direction and now I'm 45 min late to the lab - all because I wanted to buy donuts for the group
How's your morning going ☺️🌄
How's your morning going ☺️🌄
August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy Friday! My morning has consisted of missing one bus, getting on a second bus that went the wrong direction and now I'm 45 min late to the lab - all because I wanted to buy donuts for the group
How's your morning going ☺️🌄
How's your morning going ☺️🌄
Do I write up a grant proposal that *likely won't* be funded but that would be awesome? Or do I write up the 'translatable' proposal with 'real world' action items that is kinda lame? #phdchat 🧪
August 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Do I write up a grant proposal that *likely won't* be funded but that would be awesome? Or do I write up the 'translatable' proposal with 'real world' action items that is kinda lame? #phdchat 🧪
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From 2020 to 2022 COVID vaccines prevented over 18.5 million hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved the US $1.15 trillion.
mRNA vaccines and treatments are being developed for diabetes, HIV, cancer, and more. Imagine how many more lives we could save if we don't defund science.
mRNA vaccines and treatments are being developed for diabetes, HIV, cancer, and more. Imagine how many more lives we could save if we don't defund science.
August 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
From 2020 to 2022 COVID vaccines prevented over 18.5 million hospitalizations, 3.2 million deaths and saved the US $1.15 trillion.
mRNA vaccines and treatments are being developed for diabetes, HIV, cancer, and more. Imagine how many more lives we could save if we don't defund science.
mRNA vaccines and treatments are being developed for diabetes, HIV, cancer, and more. Imagine how many more lives we could save if we don't defund science.
Some camping highlights from this week up at Naka Creek on Vancouver Island
August 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Some camping highlights from this week up at Naka Creek on Vancouver Island