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Anna Holmquist
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I study the interaction of ecology and evolution in shaping arthropod biodiversity across biological scales 🕷️🪲🐝

Postdoctoral researcher at the California Academy of Sciences 🌁
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Thriving in the heat: New research in #RESInsectConsDiv reveals how high temperatures and #habitat disturbance shape odonate taxonomic and functional #diversity in the tropics 🐉🪰

Read the #OpenAccess article now🔽
doi.org/10.1111/icad.12805

#dragonfly @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reading palms to characterize islands | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reading palms to characterize islands
Rattan palms illuminate the drivers of biodiversity in tropical Asia
www.science.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Call to action: Stand Up For Science rallies organized world wide for March 7. #3E #USProtests #March7Science

If you aren't near the site of a #StandUpForScience rally, join the nationwide campus and workplace walkout at 12:00 PM.

More information here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
March 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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"Make a 3d model of a spider's internal organs", they said.*

"It'll be fun!", they said.*

😭

*No one said this.

#SciArt #Arachnophiles
March 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Extracting Crambus agitatellus specimens collected from the 1910s-1970s 👐🧬🧪
March 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nanopore P2 Solo run started! Over 4,500 insect specimens in one sequencing library
March 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Clearing out the freezer for a high-throughout project 🧪
February 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Saturdays with Monodontium 🧪🕷️
February 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Grant program I was planning to apply to - already archived. Going after anything with “climate change” in description 🧪
February 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I have 1 PhD scholarship available for a domestic or international student. Includes tuition and a $41,763 per annum stipend (for 3.5 years).

Project description: www.sydney.edu.au/research/opp...

To apply. go to the url below and click ‘apply now’.

www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships....
February 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The fly on the left is one of two species of stalk-eyed flies in North America.

They do not see eye to eye with their more recognizable relatives from around the world.

#NaturalHistoryCollections
#Macrophotography
#Diopsidae
#FlydayFriday
#FlyFriday
#FlyDay
#BugSky
January 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Big time 🚨 energy. Calling all of the 🧪 feed. Please re-skeet.
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
January 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM