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beeli.bsky.social
Entomologist, especially fond of bees and treehoppers. Kocher Lab at Princeton, formerly AMNH. Interested in social behaviors. Lots of fieldwork.
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Sometimes you snap a photo and you debate whether to share it for hours. 🪶

I know it’s a bad photo but I had the pleasure of seeing a Spectacled Owl today in Panama

Bee brains are the coolest

Our paper on the phylogeny of Nematoda 🪱came out on the last day of 2024 in @systbiol.bsky.social. Well at least the link is, the PDF will come later... What started off as a collaboration invitation to design UCE probes snowballed building a phylogeny of the whole phylum using BUSCOs...

The people have spoken, heres more wheelbug

I was having a hard time scrolling and being engaged here on Bluesky and I couldn’t figure it out. I switched to dark mode and now I find it much easier to engage with. Maybe this is useless or common sense to others but I tend to stay with default settings. If you’re like me give dark mode a try.

I feel a kind of powerful that can only come from completely organizing and labeling every single box in a -80 freezer from the past 10 years 💪

This is my attempt to build a wild bee-researcher starter pack for folks to find awesome people doing awesome wild bee research! Feel free to suggest yourself as I'm sure this'll start out as a pack of my collaborators and other admired researchers! go.bsky.app/PrjzU94

No spoilers but the panagram in todays Spelling Bee made me inordinately angry.

Please join us! The AMNH is seeking applicants for a new #curatorial #tenure track position in the area of ancient bio molecules! #job #museum #curator #molecular careers.amnh.org/postings/3919

I failed to get a grant for a cool project. Time to start looking for a wealthy benefactor :)

Got my booster today and was so disappointed they didn’t want to put a stamp on my vaccine card. How the hell will I trade it in for a free sandwich?!

Introducing the Sp00pi3st science item in the world (if you are an airline employee). Over 2.5 hours spent explaining and demonstrating that my dry shipper is in fact safe to fly with.

You’ve heard of the opposite, now experience….

Sitting on a plane bound for Japan and kicking myself for forgetting my binoculars.

I asked AI to generate a picture of me. Looks 0% like me, but nailed the background. No complaints