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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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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 40m

survey weight news of the day 🫠

www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check...

Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

The claim, which originates from far-right professor Eric Kaufmann, appears to have made a glaring error: the survey actually shows more people have come out, not fewer.

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 32m

a close up of a cat 's face looking at the camera in a black and white photo .

ALT: a close up of a cat 's face looking at the camera in a black and white photo .

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Filip Husnik @filiphusnik.bsky.social · 8d

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

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Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social · 55m

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature

Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 2h

That's a lotta birds

Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 4h

Neophobia compared in 1,439 birds of 136 species

Specialised diets and migration are associated with greater fear of new objects. Surprisingly, witnessing such objects in groups is also associated with greater fear.

(paper) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
(blog) phys.org/news/2025-10...

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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 6h

Oklahoma State Department of Biology is hiring an assistant professor in comparative biology (very broadly defined)! We have a great department, come join us. And please spread the word. jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Biology - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Campus OSU-Stillwater Contact Name & Email Dr. Michael Reichert, [email protected] Work Schedule TBD Appointment Length Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice Hiring Range $85,000 - $8...

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 4h

„This will inevitably result in the early deaths of millions of computers that would have otherwise had years of life left, and it is set to affect as many as 42% of all Windows computers worldwide.“

42%. That’s a lot.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5h

404Media has a grim take on Microsoft ending its support for Windows 10: "There’s 400 million computers that are going to enter the waste stream."
www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

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Ryo Yamaguchi @r-yamaguchi.bsky.social · 23h

New review out! With students in my lab, we explore how population size shapes speciation—from drift in small populations to selection in large ones. Do small or large populations speciate faster? The answer is more nuanced than you might think.
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Speciation Through the Lens of Population Dynamics: A Theoretical Primer on How Small and Large Populations Diverge

Population size and dynamics fundamentally shape speciation by influencing genetic drift, founder events, and adaptive potential. Small populations may speciate rapidly due to stronger drift, whereas...

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Jack Tamisiea @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social · 6h

The Chicago Rat Hole, aka "Splatatouille," sparked a social media sensation in 2024. But new research reveals another rodent left the infamous indent! 🐀 🕳 🐿

As a native of the Chicagoland area, my latest @nytimes.com story is very near and dear to my heart! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/s...

The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 6h

🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 6h

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 1d

Dragonfly Wings: Marvels of Strength, Durability entomologytoday.org/2025/10/14/d...

Dragonfly Wings: Marvels of Strength, Durability

A group of researchers examine a variety of chemical and structural qualities of dragonfly wings to seek inspiration for human technical innovation.

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Amanda Bretman @amandabretman.bsky.social · 12h

Out now - female fruit flies cluster their eggs together depending on their social environment 🪰🧪 Just wish they'd let us know why... led by @emilyrosech.bsky.social Emily Fowler, Lucy Friend and Tracey Chapman. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Female fruit flies use social cues to make egg-clustering decisions - BMC Biology

Background The ability to respond plastically to environmental variation is a key determinant of fitness. Females may use cues to strategically place their eggs, for example adjusting the number or lo...

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Luciana Santoferrara @lusantof.bsky.social · 1d

We have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Microbiology available!

Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word!

hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542

Assistant Professor of Microbiology

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 1d

Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!

A flyer for the Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp - blue and white with a picture of cells on the top. It says "Learn core bioimage analysis skills using open-source tools for light microscopy. Open to participants at all skill levels." It also says it will be held a the Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge MA USA, on Monday to Friday January 12th-16, 2026, from 9-5pm. Registration is $750 academic, $1250 industry, and applications are open at broad.io/BAB3

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 1d

Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research.
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 1d

Over the last 3 years I've been collecting resources to share with people interested in data freelancing. I've recently compiled those resources in a GitHub Repository.

If you are interested in data freelancing, these resources may help you navigate that transition.

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GitHub - Cghlewis/freelancing_resources: Resources for data freelancers

Resources for data freelancers. Contribute to Cghlewis/freelancing_resources development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Battle of Hastings Day (to all who celebrate)! Here is a poster I did back in 2022 for a talk by Dr. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry! #SciArt

Poster for a 2022 departmental seminar by Dr. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister "Overcoming Fungal Infections with Quantitative Proteomics" drawn in the style of the Bayeux tapestry

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 13d

Our Special issue on Visual Ecology in Challenging Environments is out: #coral reef & #deep-sea fishes, #reindeers on polar daylight, #bioluminescence, non-visual #pigments & life in dark caves. Happy to co-edit with Sara Stieb + thks to all contributors! See in Functional Ecology: buff.ly/z5AYxZQ

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Bryan @bryanhughes2.bsky.social · 2d

New paper out in Behaviour.

We evaluated behavioural and physiological differences between sexes in two species of rodent (deer mice and red-backed voles). For these income-breeding rodents, reproductive stage only explains some of these differences.

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 1d

Not surprising. The AI bubble needs to burst faster.

By @joeonhere.bsky.social, illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins for @futurism.com. #scicomm #noAI 🧪

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 1d

@mark-carney.bsky.social you might want to take note of this. One of your nation building plans could be supporting research across Canada rather than another oil pipeline that contributes further to climate change.
#Canada

Nature @nature.com · 2d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

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