Tristan A.F. Long
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Tristan A.F. Long
@thelonglab.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University 🇨🇦

Evolutionary Genetics & Behavioural Ecology #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts #JournalKlatch
ORCID: 0000-0002-8708-2728
Had a great time at the #BI393 Biostatistics “aRt gallery” event where my students shared and compared their favourite data visualization efforts so far this semester! #rstats
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Two weeks later, Emily is counting and phenotyping the fruit flies that eclosed from her mating assay! #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts @timhortonsofficial.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Yup!
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I was also excited to use this Bizzaro comic by @danpirarobizarro.bsky.social to illustrate the concept of phenotypic plasticity!
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Trigger warning slide (yes, slide!) from my 2001 MSc defence presentation!
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Final colourized version poster for @girls-can.bsky.social's #LaurierBology departmental seminar!
#SciArt
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Lettering done, poster scanned & ready for colour!
@girls-can.bsky.social @laurierbiology.bsky.social #SciArt
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
That’s enough progress for tonight! #SciArt
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
More progress!
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Work in progress!
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
1.7 billion for international recruitment, but cutting Tri-council funding? Double Ugh.
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Starting off a busy assay week for #BI499 honours thesis student Emily with help from #ScienceDoughnuts! #DrosLife
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Very proud of #BI499 honours thesis students Emily, Ahmed and Harsukhman on some excellent presentations of their #DrosLife research projects!
November 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Drop the cover of your pet’s next album
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Always the best part of the season!
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Since the format of the #LaurierBiology grad student session has changed to “lightning talks”, needed to redesign the poster. Decided to the best way to do that was involved “Cat Thor” (created by the wonderful @ryannorth.ca & @ericafails.bsky.social during Unbeatable Squirrel Girl days) #SciArt
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just picked up the bound copy of Laura’s MSc thesis for the #DrosLife lab library!
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Lots of faculty here this morning for convocation!
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Shout out to Sophie Kasdorf scholar.google.com/citations?us... for designing an incredible logo for the 2026 meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists / Société Canadienne de Zoologie meeting next year (www.csz2026.ca)! #SciArt
October 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
All alone in the lab today (long weekend + reading week) for fly-pushing. Time for some #LabKaraoke!
youtu.be/8DyziWtkfBw
October 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I think this is the first time that this event has happened on the 31st, but I did make a spooky variant of the old version of this poster back in 2015!
October 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM