🍉 CR Cardenas 🍉
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🍉 CR Cardenas 🍉
@nepenthesbaphomet.bsky.social
Doctoral student in the Toussaint Lab at the Natural History Museum of Geneva. Studying trait evolution of ground beetles using museomics

https://crcardenas.github.io/

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Bike polo is okay
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Beetles!!
March 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Bug stuff
March 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Sculpturing is going to be the worst of doing all this. The balance between illustration and realism is hard
January 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Working on a poster, and I may have spent a little more time than necessary on this beetle illustration.
Theres only one blurry photo of a live Calosoma (Carabophanus) gestroi on the internet.
January 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Ok, last bit of bike polo chatter for now. Plus I've never watched myself play, so I've gotta save this clip here. Still riding the high of winning a tournament!

Best viewed full screen on mobile.
November 26, 2024 at 6:43 AM
So a non academic/entomology thing. I played in a Hard Court Bike Polo tournament today and our team (Brocolis) ranked 3rd and came first in the single elimination bracket!
Super cool to actually be first place on the podium. Thanks a ton for hosting Lausanne!

Go ride bikes with your friends
November 24, 2024 at 10:03 PM
I presented the important part of my thesis work at Biology24 in Zurich yesterday. It was great and I had a ton of interesting questions. A few other museum folk were very interested in my molecular lab methods!
January 20, 2024 at 10:36 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
XKCD comic sums up this paper pretty well.
October 9, 2023 at 8:59 PM