Tim Lysyk
@timlysyk.bsky.social
Medical-Veterinary Entomologist, Flies, Ticks, Culicoides, Mosquitoes
Co-Editor-In-Chief Journal of Medical Entomology
Also Archer, Angler, and Outdoors
Co-Editor-In-Chief Journal of Medical Entomology
Also Archer, Angler, and Outdoors
Always enjoy watching the Grey Cup. So glad the Riders won!
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Always enjoy watching the Grey Cup. So glad the Riders won!
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The Grey Cup is on, so it's time, once again, to remember that Pierre Trudeau rolled up to Grey Cup in 1970 looking like this.
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The Grey Cup is on, so it's time, once again, to remember that Pierre Trudeau rolled up to Grey Cup in 1970 looking like this.
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It's almost the weekend! 🥳
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It's almost the weekend! 🥳
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨
Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!!
drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...
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Being a (decent) scientist means having a high-quality BS sensor. Just sayin...
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Being a (decent) scientist means having a high-quality BS sensor. Just sayin...
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Good column.
Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
Jen Gerson: Maybe this angry panel will fix it!
Alberta tries for Round 3 of the Fair Deal panel.
www.readtheline.ca
October 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Good column.
Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
Overdue, and filled with conclusions a lot of people arrived at many, many months ago, but hey, credit where it's due.
www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
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Canadians might have something to say about this bullshit.
Leavitt: "He feels strongly that it would be very beneficial for the Canadian people to be the 51st state of the United States."
March 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Canadians might have something to say about this bullshit.
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HAHAHAHA EAT SHIT USA
February 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
HAHAHAHA EAT SHIT USA
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Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians.
“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians.
“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
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When your buddy doesn’t keep his word and doesn’t care if it hurts you… you find some new friends.
It’s a big world.
It’s a big world.
February 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
When your buddy doesn’t keep his word and doesn’t care if it hurts you… you find some new friends.
It’s a big world.
It’s a big world.
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🍁 New: The Made in CA Grocery Guide! 🛒
225+ Canadian food brands to help you shop local! 🇨🇦
✅ Canadian-Owned & Made
🌍 Canadian-Made, Foreign-Owned
We’re updating daily—know a brand we should add? Tell us!
#MadeInCanada #ProductOfCanada #SupportLocal #Canada #LocalBusiness #CanadianMade #CanadaSky
225+ Canadian food brands to help you shop local! 🇨🇦
✅ Canadian-Owned & Made
🌍 Canadian-Made, Foreign-Owned
We’re updating daily—know a brand we should add? Tell us!
#MadeInCanada #ProductOfCanada #SupportLocal #Canada #LocalBusiness #CanadianMade #CanadaSky
Made in Canada Grocery Store Guide | Made in CA
Determining which products and brands are Made in Canada can be challenging. That’s why, at Made in CA, we have put together a shopping list that will enable Canadians to source grocery items and bran...
madeinca.ca
January 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🍁 New: The Made in CA Grocery Guide! 🛒
225+ Canadian food brands to help you shop local! 🇨🇦
✅ Canadian-Owned & Made
🌍 Canadian-Made, Foreign-Owned
We’re updating daily—know a brand we should add? Tell us!
#MadeInCanada #ProductOfCanada #SupportLocal #Canada #LocalBusiness #CanadianMade #CanadaSky
225+ Canadian food brands to help you shop local! 🇨🇦
✅ Canadian-Owned & Made
🌍 Canadian-Made, Foreign-Owned
We’re updating daily—know a brand we should add? Tell us!
#MadeInCanada #ProductOfCanada #SupportLocal #Canada #LocalBusiness #CanadianMade #CanadaSky
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If enough angry scientists join up to walk across the country to protest in DC, we'll call it a My Grant caravan.
January 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If enough angry scientists join up to walk across the country to protest in DC, we'll call it a My Grant caravan.
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Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds.
Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin
Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin
January 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds.
Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin
Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin
Here is really nice article on the contributions of Dr. Bernard Greenberg to the studies of flies, microbes, and forensic entomology.
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Bernard Greenberg: a legacy in medical, veterinary, and forensic entomology
Abstract. Bernard Greenberg was a ground-breaking scientist in the worlds of medical-veterinary and forensic entomology, studying the ability of flies to s
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December 31, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Here is really nice article on the contributions of Dr. Bernard Greenberg to the studies of flies, microbes, and forensic entomology.
academic.oup.com/jme/advance-...
academic.oup.com/jme/advance-...
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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
December 27, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
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Hello from MUVE! 👋
We made the "MUVE" to bluer skies! 💙 We're happy to see so many colleagues and friends here! 🤗
Follow us for the latest updates from the Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology section of @entsocamerica.bsky.social ! 🦟🕷️🪳🐜🪰🦠🔬
We made the "MUVE" to bluer skies! 💙 We're happy to see so many colleagues and friends here! 🤗
Follow us for the latest updates from the Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology section of @entsocamerica.bsky.social ! 🦟🕷️🪳🐜🪰🦠🔬
a man with glasses and a mustache is looking down
ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is looking down
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December 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Hello from MUVE! 👋
We made the "MUVE" to bluer skies! 💙 We're happy to see so many colleagues and friends here! 🤗
Follow us for the latest updates from the Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology section of @entsocamerica.bsky.social ! 🦟🕷️🪳🐜🪰🦠🔬
We made the "MUVE" to bluer skies! 💙 We're happy to see so many colleagues and friends here! 🤗
Follow us for the latest updates from the Medical, Urban, and Veterinary Entomology section of @entsocamerica.bsky.social ! 🦟🕷️🪳🐜🪰🦠🔬
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In other words, everyone in Alberta is getting coal in our stocking this year from the provincial government.
Alberta government is now announcing the Alberta Coal Mining Initiative.
Industry will be consulted in the first half of 2025. Just industry.
Industry will be consulted in the first half of 2025. Just industry.
December 20, 2024 at 5:22 PM
In other words, everyone in Alberta is getting coal in our stocking this year from the provincial government.
I spent an hour or so at the senior centre in town, read five papers, made a page and a half of notes, all of which ended up contributing 3 sentences to paper I am working on. Good progress.
December 3, 2024 at 8:56 PM
I spent an hour or so at the senior centre in town, read five papers, made a page and a half of notes, all of which ended up contributing 3 sentences to paper I am working on. Good progress.
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Manica parasitica was thought to be a species of social parasite ant which lives by freeloading off its host ant species - Manica bradleyi.
Turns out those "Manica parasitica" are just Manica bradleyi ants that have been infected with tapeworms
#虫 #昆虫 🧪🐜
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Turns out those "Manica parasitica" are just Manica bradleyi ants that have been infected with tapeworms
#虫 #昆虫 🧪🐜
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
January 7, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Manica parasitica was thought to be a species of social parasite ant which lives by freeloading off its host ant species - Manica bradleyi.
Turns out those "Manica parasitica" are just Manica bradleyi ants that have been infected with tapeworms
#虫 #昆虫 🧪🐜
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Turns out those "Manica parasitica" are just Manica bradleyi ants that have been infected with tapeworms
#虫 #昆虫 🧪🐜
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
The November issue of Journal of Medical Entomology has a new special collection on Chagas Disease and Kissing bugs.
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Chagas Disease and Kissing Bugs
Triatomine insects (a.k.a. kissing bugs) vector the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, agent of Chagas disease, a neglected and deadly cardiac disease of hum
academic.oup.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:29 AM
The November issue of Journal of Medical Entomology has a new special collection on Chagas Disease and Kissing bugs.
academic.oup.com/jme/pages/sp...
academic.oup.com/jme/pages/sp...
A reminder that this is Holodomor Awareness Week. www.ucc.ca/holodomor-co...
Holodomor Commemorations - 2024 - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) official website
This year, as we mark the 91st commemoration of the Holodomor, we remain united in remembrance. The ruthless Russian aggressor is committing yet another
www.ucc.ca
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
A reminder that this is Holodomor Awareness Week. www.ucc.ca/holodomor-co...