MatthewVanDam

[Athenalam @Athenalam10]

Come work with us at the Center for Comparative Genomics @calacademy . This Senior Lab Tech position is vital to all our biodiversity genomic research.
https://t.co/mtJetDjlqz

[Robert Anderson @theognete]

Check out Pseudopiazurus on which the phoretic mites are flying first class, each with their own designated place (notice the unsold seats = the empty punctures). Compare that with Zascelis , the budget option, where the mites just pile on. @ColeopSoc @MuseumofNature

[FungusPirate @curataceae]

We're picketting Kew Gardens all morning we'll be at public gates in half an hour #prospectstrike

[SCC @sarahnopidae]

I made a thing:
(19 new species, and I finally learned how to draw)

[Robert Anderson @theognete]

My upcoming talk about beetles of Cuba. @ColeopSoc @EntCollNet https://t.co/Aedax07aPV

[Keith Bayless @thekeithing]

Mormotomyia terrible hairy flies are ephydroids, Cryptochetum scale parasitoids are ephydroids and potentially even drosophilids and Braula bee lice are definitely drosophilids. New paper alert!

https://t.co/IW6YVMzmMj

[Kier Mitchel E. Pitogo @kieralreefs]

just got back from the field, and look at these Ansonia cf. muelleri tadpoles! 🐸

[Kier Mitchel E. Pitogo @kieralreefs]

plankton of Lake Holon. ✨

[MatthewVanDam @MatthewVanDam1]

@theognete @MuseumofNature @ColeopSoc Stunning habitat. Are those Podocarpus trees in the upper right?

[AMI @MerkleInstitute]

Just out in the journal Small (@AdvSciNews): @BionicPhotons and colleagues reveal some of the structures colorful weevils use to razzle-dazzle https://t.co/SxXjphSflr #openaccess #photonics #physics #coleoptera @AMI_Physics @BodoWilts @MatthewVanDam1 @AnalynCabras

[Alejandra Hernández @AlelimonHA]

Our new paper in @ConLetters reports distinct trajectories in directly adjacent shallow and mesophotic coral communities, highlighting the urgency to start monitoring mesophotic depths @calacademy @UQ_News #mesophotic #hopeforreefs
🗞️https://t.co/yweh2PE2Eg

[Ologies is on blooski @Ologies]

Poison! Pollination! Poaching! Paleobotany? YES.

#Cycadology is the study of cycads: an ancient plant that dinosaurs ate, and that people now risk their lives to steal. With the absolutely incredible botanist Dr. @NNagalingum of @calacademy. I love her.

https://t.co/lzEXUSHbaz

[MatthewVanDam @MatthewVanDam1]

@Prof_Brewer @Berkeley_Evolab @Athenalam10 Thanks Michael

[John McCormack @LAevolving]

This time of year the Los Angeles parrots attack the camphor trees for their small, dark berries

Here’s a Yellow-headed Parrot that was having breakfast-for-one this morning in #EagleRock #90042

[Jack Dumbacher @CASBirdman]

Amazing work by Google AI engineers creating automatic classifiers to identify birds in recordings. Significant improvements to the algorithms bring us closer to having functional tools for science. https://t.co/beijuIhmSP #ornithology @googleai @calacademy

[Dr Nathalie Nagalingum @NNagalingum]

Katharine Brandagee gave up her position for Alice Eastwood to come to @calacademy ! Happy to say this spirit of women supporting women is alive at CAS today 💜@RaynaCBell @alisonkestrel @flylogeny @rkim1853 @ArachnologyNerd @jacobs_sarahj @RebaFay 💜

[Jack Dumbacher @CASBirdman]

Great hike to the highest point on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. Plus a new life bird for me - Galapagos Rail, with @chavecito76 who studies them….

[California Academy of Sciences @calacademy]

Cat Fishing today, Wordle tomorrow.

(📷 of Callie the blue-and-gold macaw by biologist Holly R.)

[Vojtech Novotny @Liklikmasalai]

Elon Musk is an excellent choice for the Time's Person of the Year, although my personal favourite would be Alexandra Elbakyan.

[Bruno de Medeiros @brunoasm]

To finish my last #WeevilWednesday this year in BCI: Do you know why weevils have a long “nose”? There are many reasons, but this female Metamasius weevil on a palm spathe will explain one of them (accelerated 8X) 1/2