Janice Edgerly-Rooks

Inspired by nature & music, entomologist, conducts research on insect behavior, investigates Embioptera (silk spinning insects), Biol Prof @ Santa Clara Univ

[Entomological Society of America @EntsocAmerica]

It's #WorldHumanitarianDay & the final day of Entomology Advocacy Week. Today we're asking you to contact your Congress members & ask them to support the Coffee Plant Health Initiative Amendments Act, which will help save coffee & promote IPM: https://t.co/hRVuPn4bOv #EntVocate22

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A Multiscale Characterization of Two Tropical Embiopteran Species: Nano- and Microscale Features of Silk, Silk-Spinning Behavior, and Environmental Correlates of their Distributions https://t.co/TC3ZYNNl9X

[soft/living matter fanclub @softlivmat_fc]

A. C. Andrews, S. Duffy, J. S. Edgerly, R. P. Barber, Morphological transformation from fibers to sheets in embiopteran silk. Phys. Rev. E 106, 014801 (2022). https://t.co/n0E5YXeVvh

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spicy little #insect cakes

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@Myrmecos I study #Embioptera and their behavior, silk and make some music by them as well! I’m terrible at posting. Have some nice photos though..cute #insects!

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‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures https://t.co/ZoqvdjEWZP

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@james_gilbert AI closed caption is pretty sketchy too...my RolyPoly sowbugs became “Roll the Police”!

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@AntGirl_KB Our yard lives up to your dream. Took the lawn out 20 years ago. Life thrives🐜🐞🐝🙏🦋🪰

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#insect Bonanza under the flower pot.

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A "love letter" to termites...I enjoyed your talk Aaron Mullins! From construction to decomposition: Termite contributions to novel biomimicry innovations and elusive goals https://t.co/ypDCxInkab #EntSoc20

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#EntSoc20 celebrating #Embioptera. Haploembia silk shines blue in California.

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@AntGirl_KB Nice presentation! Congrats! Thermal benefits of polygyny? Multi-queen desert ant colonies have higher and more uniform heat tolerance https://t.co/CXUbxbl5bX #EntSoc20

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Gorgeous photographs of katydids. Great tests of hypotheses! Super talk. Correlation between substrate selection and body color of neotropical katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) https://t.co/oAy9LsdiZ8 #EntSoc20

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Come learn about webspinners! Those cute little insects you never get to see? Exploring Embiodea: Bulky genomes and 'silky' genes https://t.co/9c4AHOwYlU #EntSoc20

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Tiny insects follow their own Laws of Nature. Great talk Sandra Schachat! Constraints on vein morphology in the wings of Lepidoptera increase with body size https://t.co/BgU3ju2R6B #EntSoc20

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Neuroecology! Wonderful talk! Sociality impacts brain resource allocation in spiders https://t.co/smgHtkntqM #EntSoc20

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Great presentation! Locomotion of social caterpillars is influenced by polarised light, detected by a single pair of stemmata https://t.co/8Ml6Sti3jz #EntSoc20

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Hear my talk on Embioptera -it’s virtual: Exploring Embiodea: Bulky Genomes and Silky Genes. Embiids rock! #EntSoc20

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@BillClinton Please join arm and arm with Bush, Obama and Biden to challenge and to show a united front.

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@BarackObama I was hoping that you, President Obama, would join arms with Presidents Clinton and Bush, and VP Biden, standing together boldly.