Monique J. Rivera 🦋
@monique4ever.bsky.social
Entomologist
Assistant Professor, Cornell University @moniquejrivera on twitter
SPECIAL interests: pens, fragrance, skincare, music especially electronic music broadly, crustaceans and all other arthropod adjacent forms, also anything agriculture!
Assistant Professor, Cornell University @moniquejrivera on twitter
SPECIAL interests: pens, fragrance, skincare, music especially electronic music broadly, crustaceans and all other arthropod adjacent forms, also anything agriculture!
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you know what is cool?
being interested.
being sincere.
not being mad all the time.
committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself.
deep focus.
taking care of yourself.
and especially, being good to other people.
being interested.
being sincere.
not being mad all the time.
committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself.
deep focus.
taking care of yourself.
and especially, being good to other people.
I'm not a tattoo person, but if i was ......
Did you see this art I posted a while back? Apparently it's a common theme 😀 bsky.app/profile/bug-...
A little break from reality: a delightful insect procession by Nishiyama Kan'ei (Japan, Edo period). Check out the original for more delightful details www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
October 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I'm not a tattoo person, but if i was ......
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Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Danarma eurymerus found in Okinawa Island. Watch how he moves the eyes. This species was recorded from Japan just this month.
(ref/参考文献)
u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20216...
ルリメベンケイガニが目をきょろっとさせるあざとい動画です。沖縄本島にて。本州は先月日本から記録されました。
🦀🦑🧪
#crab #カニ #invertebrate
(ref/参考文献)
u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20216...
ルリメベンケイガニが目をきょろっとさせるあざとい動画です。沖縄本島にて。本州は先月日本から記録されました。
🦀🦑🧪
#crab #カニ #invertebrate
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Danarma eurymerus found in Okinawa Island. Watch how he moves the eyes. This species was recorded from Japan just this month.
(ref/参考文献)
u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20216...
ルリメベンケイガニが目をきょろっとさせるあざとい動画です。沖縄本島にて。本州は先月日本から記録されました。
🦀🦑🧪
#crab #カニ #invertebrate
(ref/参考文献)
u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20216...
ルリメベンケイガニが目をきょろっとさせるあざとい動画です。沖縄本島にて。本州は先月日本から記録されました。
🦀🦑🧪
#crab #カニ #invertebrate
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We'll have snacks! #Entsoc25 and #FITatEntSoc25
Formal & Informal Teaching | Entomological Society of America
@fitentsocamerica.bsky.social
· Oct 23
Curious what FIT is all about? 🪲 🧑🏫
Come see how entomologists are reimagining education, outreach, and engagement from classrooms to communities at the #EntSoc25 Business Meeting!
Monday, Nov 10, 2:30–4:30 PM PT, OCC C124.
Come connect, collaborate, and shape the future of #EntoEd!
#FITatEntSoc25
Come see how entomologists are reimagining education, outreach, and engagement from classrooms to communities at the #EntSoc25 Business Meeting!
Monday, Nov 10, 2:30–4:30 PM PT, OCC C124.
Come connect, collaborate, and shape the future of #EntoEd!
#FITatEntSoc25
October 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We'll have snacks! #Entsoc25 and #FITatEntSoc25
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Wonderful plates with lice, fleas, fairy shrimps, mite, mosquitoes, copepods and other tiny beasts, from The Micrographic Dictionary, published in 1883
Full source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
Full source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
October 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wonderful plates with lice, fleas, fairy shrimps, mite, mosquitoes, copepods and other tiny beasts, from The Micrographic Dictionary, published in 1883
Full source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
Full source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
you know what is cool?
being interested.
being sincere.
not being mad all the time.
committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself.
deep focus.
taking care of yourself.
and especially, being good to other people.
being interested.
being sincere.
not being mad all the time.
committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself.
deep focus.
taking care of yourself.
and especially, being good to other people.
October 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
you know what is cool?
being interested.
being sincere.
not being mad all the time.
committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself.
deep focus.
taking care of yourself.
and especially, being good to other people.
being interested.
being sincere.
not being mad all the time.
committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself.
deep focus.
taking care of yourself.
and especially, being good to other people.
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Cicada adult and nymph, designed and folded by @brianchandesigns.bsky.social using handmade Origamido paper. A birthday gift for my partner, keeping her company on her sabbatical 💚💚
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Cicada adult and nymph, designed and folded by @brianchandesigns.bsky.social using handmade Origamido paper. A birthday gift for my partner, keeping her company on her sabbatical 💚💚
See U in Portlandia! 😇
Entomology 2025 will be here soon, which means it's time for a hashtag reminder:
#️⃣ #EntSoc25
🛜 Follow along and share your experience, here or wherever you use social media. And tag ESA, too!
entsoc.org/news/social-...
#️⃣ #EntSoc25
🛜 Follow along and share your experience, here or wherever you use social media. And tag ESA, too!
entsoc.org/news/social-...
October 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
See U in Portlandia! 😇
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The stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) — from the first sketch to the final drawing. 🪲
First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on.
#SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates
First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on.
#SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates
October 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) — from the first sketch to the final drawing. 🪲
First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on.
#SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates
First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on.
#SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates
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Made it onto the local news this evening talking about #FallColors #Phenology
www.wbir.com/video/news/s...
www.wbir.com/video/news/s...
Fall colors are starting to appear in East Tennessee
Over the next few weeks, East Tennesseans will start to see even more vibrant colors across the region.
www.wbir.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Made it onto the local news this evening talking about #FallColors #Phenology
www.wbir.com/video/news/s...
www.wbir.com/video/news/s...
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Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dogs are the best!
Toddler safe after German shepherd tracks her for hours in cold dense woods
The 2-year-old left her fenced yard and wandered in the New Hampshire woods for hours as search parties tried to find her.
wapo.st
October 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Dogs are the best!
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I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...
share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...
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Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.
Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor:
Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.
plant-traits.net/lab-openings/
Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.
plant-traits.net/lab-openings/
Lab openings | Laughlin Research Lab
plant-traits.net
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.
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Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty
The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...
jobs.rutgers.edu
October 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
We are hiring!!
The Department of Entomology at Cornell University is seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Field Crops Entomology.
Position details & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30498
Apply by: November 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM
The Department of Entomology at Cornell University is seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Field Crops Entomology.
Position details & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30498
Apply by: November 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM
Cornell University, Entomology/CALS
Job #AJO30498, WDR-00055076 Assistant Professor Field Crops Entomology, Entomology/CALS, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are hiring!!
The Department of Entomology at Cornell University is seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Field Crops Entomology.
Position details & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30498
Apply by: November 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM
The Department of Entomology at Cornell University is seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Field Crops Entomology.
Position details & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30498
Apply by: November 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM
there is also @jopabinia.bsky.social crustacean-posting which is also a highlight here for me on bluesky!!
September 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
there is also @jopabinia.bsky.social crustacean-posting which is also a highlight here for me on bluesky!!
idk im kind of wtaf about bluesky generally, never have i feel like im inside of a smaller echo chamber than ive ever been before but the science posts are good and the @solomonrdavid.bsky.social gar posting is elite !!!
Age verification is requried to use direct messaging???? What the actual fuck, bluesky?
September 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
idk im kind of wtaf about bluesky generally, never have i feel like im inside of a smaller echo chamber than ive ever been before but the science posts are good and the @solomonrdavid.bsky.social gar posting is elite !!!
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It’s ok to put the phone down.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s ok to put the phone down.
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GO BILLS! Amazing final 13 sec against the Ravens! Woohoo!
September 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
GO BILLS! Amazing final 13 sec against the Ravens! Woohoo!
I'm going 2 and 5!
I have a fountain pen 🖋️ and that’s my preferred instrument, but the correct answer here is 2 & 4
My favorite problematic edu take is that all of these pens are meh, but 7 is the best.
August 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'm going 2 and 5!
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Entomology 2025
entomology2025.eventscribe.net
August 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
where is the @entsocamerica.bsky.social programmmm?!?!?!
August 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
where is the @entsocamerica.bsky.social programmmm?!?!?!