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Giovanni Ramón
@gmramon.bsky.social
Entomology 🐜🪲🪰 | Cycling enthusiast 🚲 🚶 |
He/him | English/Spanish

#stopgenocide 🇵🇸
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DON’T STACK ROCKS IN STREAMS
October 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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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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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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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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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
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
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 🥂🎉🐜🧭
May 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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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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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
"The eyes, Chico. The eyes. The eyes don't lie."
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
April 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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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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April 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
This beetle doesn't make sense, do you want to be slender or do you want to show off? 😅
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...
April 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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April 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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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
April 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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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
Stunning ants!!!
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
All hail the ancient cosmic tardigrade!!!
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 🔭 🧪
March 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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No comments for now...
March 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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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Una imagen vale más que mil palabras.

La Argentina de Javier Milei.
March 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Isopod Culture
January 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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