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thelonglab.bsky.social
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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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
Poster advertising the art exhibition Students mingling around the exhibition room A selection of cheese and crackers for the starving artists/students Students talking about some of the exhibits!
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:
Photo taken through a microscope of three male fruit flies. The fly on the left has brown eyes, the fly in the centre has orange eyes, and the fly on the right has white eyes.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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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
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November 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Yup!
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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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
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Trigger warning slide (yes, slide!) from my 2001 MSc defence presentation!
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Final colourized version poster for @girls-can.bsky.social's #LaurierBology departmental seminar!
#SciArt
Departmental seminar poster of a cake in the shape of a wetland, with a piece being removed. The seminar is entitled "When to get active? Lessons from passive and active wetland restoration after invasive plant management", and it is being presented by Dr. Rebecca Rooney from the University of Waterloo on Friday, November 21st.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Lettering done, poster scanned & ready for colour!
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Departmental seminar poster of a cake in the shape of a wetland, with a piece being removed. The seminar is entitled "When to get active? Lessons from passive and active wetland restoration after invasive plant management", and it is being presented by Dr. Rebecca Rooney from the University of Waterloo on Friday, November 21st.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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That’s enough progress for tonight! #SciArt
Drawing in progress of a wetland-inspired cake with a slice being removed showing a cross section of the pond. On the side of the cake is written: Dr. Rebecca Rooney Department of Biology, University of Waterloo
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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More progress!
Drawing in progress of a wetland-inspired cake with a slice being removed showing a cross section of the pond. On the side of the cake is written: Dr. Rebecca Rooney, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Work in progress!
Progress shot of Ink and pencil dreaming. A cursive script spells out “Dr Rebecca Rooney”
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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1.7 billion for international recruitment, but cutting Tri-council funding? Double Ugh.
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Starting off a busy assay week for #BI499 honours thesis student Emily with help from #ScienceDoughnuts! #DrosLife
Emily labelling fruit fly vials in the lab Six doughnuts, assorted
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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
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Drop the cover of your pet’s next album
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Always the best part of the season!
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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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
Poster advertising upcoming lightning talks by biology grad students. An anthropomorphic cat, dressed as the comic book character Thor (aka “Cat Thor”) wields a hammer (“meownir”) to redirect a lightning bolt.
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Just picked up the bound copy of Laura’s MSc thesis for the #DrosLife lab library!
A bound blue thesis held up in front of the Laurier street sign
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Lots of faculty here this morning for convocation!
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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
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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
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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
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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