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Tristan A.F. Long
@thelonglab.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University 🇨🇦

Evolutionary Genetics & Behavioural Ecology #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts #JournalKlatch
ORCID: 0000-0002-8708-2728
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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · Jun 26
A chronological archive of the ~180ish posters I have made (so far) for #LaurierBiology departmental seminars, since I began in 2014! #SciArt
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Laurier Biology Seminar Posters
Explore this photo album by Tristan Long on Flickr!
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entsocamerica.bsky.social
Entomologists love insects. Do they also love llamas?

Yes, yes they do.

You never know what you might see at the ESA Annual Meeting. #EntSoc25
A woman poses for a photo with with a white and brown llama inside a convention hall as other people observe nearby.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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marktmaclean.bsky.social
"And while the budget pours money into infrastructure and emphasizes resource extraction, it fails to leverage our country’s most significant economic drivers: people, research and education."
emmettmacfarlane.com Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 18h
In case you missed it over the weekend, my op-ed on the federal budget.
emmettmacfarlane.com Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3d
GIFT LINK - My Toronto Star op-ed on the federal budget, and the failure to account for provincial action on post-secondary education. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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irinabezsonova.bsky.social
This October I’m drawing 1 molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social

Day 13
Prompt DRINK
Pdb: 7BTW

A pair of mitochondrial outer membrane β-barrel SAM complexes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast used to make beer.
Cheers!

Next: TRUNK
Suggestions?
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I have been pioneering a top-notch anti-fishing strategy for years wherein I just don’t open or answer any emails. I am entertaining VC offers at this time. Thank you.
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13h
Just got this email. I do assume that this is how they got into someone at penn gse's email (not confirmed, this is just my hypothesis). Makes me wonder what the plans are at other institutions.
Screenshot of email which reads: Recently, there has been an increase in phishing attempts targeting University students, with several incidents reported over the past week. These scams have become more direct and aggressive, often involving individuals impersonating University officials to obtain sensitive information. It’s more important than ever to stay vigilant and informed to protect both your personal data and the University’s information.
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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msumgi.bsky.social
The Long-Term Evolution Experiment has returned home. Led by Professors Richard Lenski (@relenski.bsky.social) and Jeffrey Barrick, this groundbreaking work continues to reveal how bacteria evolve in real time. 12 flasks. 1 legacy.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/f6vjyjvr
Rich Lenski adds information to the Long-Term Evolution Experiment lab notebook after restarting the experiment at MSU. Jeff Barrick and Devin Lake stand behind him.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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laurierbiology.bsky.social
Please join us this Friday for 3 awesome research capstone talks by soon-to-be-defending #LaurierBiology Integrative Biology MSc students + some extra BI601 "Lightning Talks" from incoming grad students! All Welcome! DM for #Zoominar link!
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
We're snailposting, post your snails!

#invertebrates #SciArt
grid of 3x2 white square, each one having either a single or a pair of snails, scaly foot snail in black, two banana slugs intertwined, two sea snails in a cream stripey shell poking underneath, two suspicious leopard slugs, two bright green very long shell snails, one lava looking slug with a black and red shell and a red foot.
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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emmettmacfarlane.com
GIFT LINK - My Toronto Star op-ed on the federal budget, and the failure to account for provincial action on post-secondary education. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Mark Carney’s budget is blind to the real causes of Canada’s problems
The prime minister's first budget emphasizes infrastructure and resource extraction but fails to leverage our most significant economic drivers.
www.thestar.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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amnh.org
Happy Fossil Friday! Meet Glossotherium robustum, also known as “the tongue beast!” It roamed the pampas of Argentina some 30,000 years ago during the Pleistocene, just before the group’s extinction. Spot it in the Museum’s Hall of Primitive Mammals!
A photo of a fossilized Glossotherium skeleton. The animal is standing on its hind legs, has a round barrel chest, and strong forelimbs.
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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olivia.science
we will never cede the m-dash to the machine — not now, not ever — because it is legit good punctuation and I love interjecting with how I have ADHD — 6 thoughts a minute, nonsense and quality — thoughts
thegeoffey.bsky.social Geoffrey @thegeoffey.bsky.social · 4d
Well that sucks, I'm not only a robot, but a boring one as well
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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patrickphillips.bsky.social
Make males live more than 400% longer and prevent sexual disfunction late in life?! We're down with it. Our latest preprint: Disruption of the insulin signaling pathway in C. elegans dramatically increases male longevity and enhances reproductive health late in life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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guntoucher.bsky.social
two page image of an old phrenology illustration showing two male figures, the one of the left labeled "A GENUINE HUSBAND" and the one on the right labeled "AN UNRELIABLE HUSBAND", both for some reason have potato shaped heads
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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prehistorica.art
Hallucigenia sparsa, a small lobopodian from the Cambrian-age Burgess Shale, climbing on a sponge.
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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erikahall.bsky.social
My favorite comment on the FT story
Personally I'd be impressed if they could make something as smart as an ant. Ants only have 250,000 neurons, which is pretty small compared with GPT-5's reputed more than one trillion parameters. And yet ants are able to survive all by themselves in this complex world of ours, without endless infusions of investor capital or government subsidies. I don't think GPT-5 could do that.
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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katjathieme.bsky.social
The Economist Says We Need to Invent Phrenology Again.
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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garyburness.bsky.social
We are looking for new graduate students! Feel free to repost or pass along to prospective students
We are seeking new PhD and MSc students interested in avian physiology and behaviour.
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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picardonhealth.bsky.social
An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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theonion.com
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Tuesday night, in an off-year election, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible American voters agreed with me. These people spent eight months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, “We don’t want this.” What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does. Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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contaminatedsci.bsky.social
If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...
Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Schwarzman College of Computing - cee.mit.edu
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), together with the Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge MA, seeks candidate...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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juliasaltz.bsky.social
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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neilshubin.bsky.social
Check out my third lecture at the Collège de France. On the origin of bones and teeth. Thanks to my host @denisduboule.bsky.social for the invitation and the community in Paris for a warm welcome!

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youtu.be/4-UyXZTAgZc
Neil Shubin (3) - Denis Duboule (2025-2026)
YouTube video by Sciences de la vie - Collège de France
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November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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solomonrdavid.bsky.social
TODAY 11 am CST!!!
solomonrdavid.bsky.social Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 6d
LIVESTREAM feeding @garlab.bsky.social featuring our juvenile Alligator Gars (and maybe some other fishy cameos too!) #GarWeek

Join us on InstaGARm 11:00 am CST 11.5.2025 for a glimpse into GarLab and other fishy friends!

Ask questions, share puns, see some ancient fishes in action!
Promotion for livestream from GarLab research team for feeding of juvenile Alligator Gars. Graphic shows head of an Alligator Gar.
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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michaelhendricks.bsky.social
The whole thing is stupid. Even with the mediocre funding environment, most Canadian unis have no problem getting high quality applicants and hires. There are so many well trained scientists in the world--the hardest thing about every search is we're spoiled for choice!
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
The different colors of the cells indicate pollen from different species of plants, packed away to be used as food for hungry honey bee larvae.
Photo of a honeycomb, face on, in close-up showing about 100 cells, with three or four colors of pollen in them arrayed somewhat randomly. A few cells are empty.
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM