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Giovanni Ramón
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Entomology 🐜🪲🪰 | Cycling enthusiast 🚲 🚶 |
He/him | English/Spanish

#stopgenocide 🇵🇸
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terriresists.bsky.social
DON’T STACK ROCKS IN STREAMS
October 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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rosariolebronentomology.com
Very glad to see Wired covering this. They did a solid ask-around with the #entomology community too. 🧪

I don't think people realize how big this problem has gotten and this is the most thorough examination of I've seen outside of the literature.
August 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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samjakeengland.bsky.social
Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS
The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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dominictarason.com
Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.
May 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
gmramon.bsky.social
Thanks for the opportunity, Ajay. It's been an amazing journey getting to know more about these cool little ants! Stay tuned #Opisthopsis #strobeants #ozants #ozfauna
pipilika.bsky.social Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · May 2
In 2012 driving across Oz I had stopped at Gilgandra & found an odd looking large-eyed strobe ant. It took us 10 years to start studying them. Fast forward to 2025 - @gmramon.bsky.social submits his PhD thesis on the sensory ecology of these fantastic ants. Wohooo! Keep an EYE for his papers 🥂🎉🐜🧭
Strobe ant, Opisthopsis rufithorax from Gilgandra, NSW, Australia Happiness, straight after submitting the PhD thesis - Giovanni Ramon-Cabrera
May 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
gmramon.bsky.social
Excited to share this cool paper on the evolution of defensive signals in Amata moths!!! I played just a little role, but happy to have contributed in such an interesting piece of research! ⚠️
April 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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theotimecolin.bsky.social
Varroa mites are spreading across Australia—posing a serious threat to honeybee colonies. Here's what beekeepers can do to protect their hives.

#bee #honeybees #varroa #australia #agriculture

theconversation.com/australian-h...
Australian honeybees are under attack by mites and beetles. Here’s how to keep your backyard hive safe
Varroa mites and small hive beetles are threatening Australian honey producers. Here’s how backyard beekeepers, and everyday honey lovers, can help.
theconversation.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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rosariolebronentomology.com
United States entomologists are rapidly losing jobs due to the current chaos. Saddest reality is funding their lifetime research, training, and salary would cost less than one celebrity endorsement deal. We effortlessly pay for glamour while this field starts to fade.
April 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
gmramon.bsky.social
"The eyes, Chico. The eyes. The eyes don't lie."
bugwizardshloop.bsky.social Shloop 𓅃 @bugwizardshloop.bsky.social · Apr 6
one of the most common beetles in Hong Kong are the tiger beetles. While in earthbanks dwell the gold-spotted tiger beetle, this flightless tiger beetle (Tricondyla pulchripes) is found in the forests. #inverts
portrait of a black tiger beetle with large protruding eyes. I has legs with red femora.
April 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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willleohawkes.bsky.social
It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:

Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important

Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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Screenshot from the cover page of the paper A map of the world showing fly migration study locations and estimated routes A close up photo of Eristalinus taeniops the stripey eyed hoverfly on a yellow flower in Cyprus A close up photo of the locust blowfly Stomorhina lunata on a rock. My favourite fly
April 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
gmramon.bsky.social
This beetle doesn't make sense, do you want to be slender or do you want to show off? 😅
inaturalist.bsky.social iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · Apr 5
Our Observation of the Day is this beetle (potentially in the genus Cyphagogus), seen in China by jiangyou!

More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
A small reddish-brownish beetle. The overall body is elongate with a clear separation between thorax and abdomen. The front two pairs of legs are relatively short, while the rear pair of legs are about as long as the beetle's body.
April 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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April 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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julianschrader.bsky.social
News article about our recent paper in Nature on global impoverishment of natural vegetation by Conny Sattler (cosattler.com) and myself in @theconversation.com @aunz.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/invisible-lo...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Invisible losses: thousands of plant species are missing from places they could thrive – and humans are the reason
Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as logging, poaching and setting fires.
theconversation.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
We left the lodge at 5AM today to look for this fancy boy and I managed to spot him. 😁Resplendent Quetzals are considered near-threatened due to habit loss. And that tail is real, no April Fools joke here. 🪶
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica
A bright green bird with a ridiculously long tail. He is perched on a lichen covered branch in dense cloud forest.
April 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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thebandcake.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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theotimecolin.bsky.social
We don't know much about these odd-looking Zasphinctus ants, except they seem to raid other ant nests, steal their larvae and eat them... Their narrow elongated bodies probably help them enter small galleries.

#ants #myrmecology non #armyants #fourmis #science
March 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
gmramon.bsky.social
Stunning ants!!!
theotimecolin.bsky.social Théotime Colin @theotimecolin.bsky.social · Mar 27
Finally found a nest of Polyrhachis semiaurata, definitely one of the most beautiful ant species. It's really hard to take good photos of them because of their iridescence and general body shape.

#ants #fourmis #myrmecology #entomology
March 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
gmramon.bsky.social
All hail the ancient cosmic tardigrade!!!
stsci.edu Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · Mar 24
NEW: #NASAWebb reveals a distant spiral galaxy perfectly aligned near the tip of Herbig-Haro 49/50—an outflow generated by a nearby still-forming star. This near- and mid-infrared image uncovers intricate details about how stars form: webbtelescope.pub/4iGQg9K 🔭 🧪
Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.
March 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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pachomaya185.bsky.social
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March 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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alevel23.bsky.social
Planning for the automobile city focuses on saving time. Planning for the accessible city focuses on time well spent.

Beyond mobility, Cervero et al., 2017
March 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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hannibal.bsky.social
Una imagen vale más que mil palabras.

La Argentina de Javier Milei.
March 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Isopod Culture
Five isopods on an old, lichen-covered log. Caption reads: Isopod culture. An isopod in sunglasses skateboards down a log cut to look like a ramp. A crowd of isopods wearing sunglasses and caps cheer it on. Caption: isopod counterculture.
January 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
Ants of Australia: Only some of them will try to kill you.
Australian Ants - Alex Wild
Australian AntsThe wayward southern continent of Australia is famous for the strange and relictual creatures that have evolved in nearly complete isolation. The ants are no exception. Australia's ant ...
www.alexanderwild.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM