Jo Wolfe, PhD

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Why things evolve into crabs. Evolutionary biologist (species alive today AND fossils). Canadian at Harvard (she/her)

My science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CKqoVjEAAAAJ&hl=en

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Bathroom sink friend. Wikipedia says: "The name Solifugae derives from Latin, and means 'those that flee from the sun'.... Their common names include camel spider, wind scorpion, scorpion carrier, jerrymunglum, sun scorpion, and sun spider." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae Crestone, Colorado USA

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A very normal looking thorn, nothing to see here, move along. Widefooted treehopper #insects

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Is it too late to #insertaninvert? A Western sea slater here in Baja Norte.

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Amazing courage and bravery shown by Dianna Cowern: 3M YouTuber PhysicsGirl. Yesterday she live-streamed her day to show the world what severe LongCovid/MECFS looks like & fundraise for research of this life-changing disease (which I have a milder form of) 🙏🙏Dianne🧪 www.youtube.com/live/v8HWt9g...

Physics Girl LIVE with long Covidwww.youtube.com Dianna is Live streaming a day in her life as someone suffering from long COVID and ME/CFS. The purpose of the Livestream is to raise money and awareness for...

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whys he going 🤌🤌

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out here finding the weirdest little guys I never knew existed. what even is a leptostracan or a tanaid

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Please excuse a non-nature post. This is happening now to bring awareness to Long Covid. I've been watching for half an hour and already learned a lot. Dianna Cowern is an incredible science Youtuber who's been in bed with Long Covid for almost two years. Hosted by Simone Giertz & others. 🧪

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Featuring more invertebrate art from @liminalitea.bsky.social - I was very pleased with their imagining of Zlivalk the verbose slug-kaiju #InsertAnInvert2024

It's been a while since I posted any of my writing for #InsertAnInvert2024, but the "Subterranean" theme is perfect for "An Awaited Hero" - featuring a giant slug who's read too many Arthurian romances. www.patreon.com/posts/107629...

An Awaited Hero | Lawrence Hardingwww.patreon.com Get more from Lawrence Harding on Patreon

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Exciting crab science! 🧪🦀🦑

Transcriptomic responses of gecarcinid land crabs to acute and prolonged desiccation stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.03.601969v1

Transcriptomic responses of gecarcinid land crabs to acute and prolonged desiccation stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.03.601969v1 www.biorxiv.org Decapod crabs have repeatedly and convergently colonized land. Because of their aquatic ancestry, de

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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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I’m starting a newsletter! It’s called Creatures of NYC, and it’s gonna be a monthly round-up of free events in NYC centered around our wildlife: dragonfly walks, oyster tours, horseshoe crab counts, bat strolls, moth vigils, & more! you can subscribe below :) buttondown.email/simbler

Extremely wholesome thread! 🥰

lmao I called my local coffeeshop to see if they were open today--my fave barista happened to pick up & she was like yep we're here and also we have almond lemon loaves left [one of my go-to pastries] truly if you want the benefits of being loved you must submit to the embarrassment of being known

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If you missed a Baba Yaga Chicken Shack, there's a whole flock ready for ya now! www.melissasuestanley.com/shop AND 🎉 SALE 🎉 for a bit because I'm in vacation mode. Use code VACATIONBRAIN for 12% off this weekend.

Exciting crab science! 🧪🦀🦑

Transcriptomic responses of gecarcinid land crabs to acute and prolonged desiccation stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.03.601969v1

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How very nice to see this in press. From @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, a look at why your homology statement is still really quite important in Bayesian phylogenetics. t.co/8WDGwYnK7H

The fundamental role of character coding in Bayesian morphological phylogeneticst.co Abstract. Phylogenetic trees establish a historical context for the study of organismal form and function. Most phylogenetic trees are estimated using a mo

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We’ve had the rule for how ever many years but I still click and watch the video every single time. Some days it can end up in my feed half a dozen times and I will still watch every time. It never gets old. I love it every single time I watch it

Tom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync Battleyoutu.be Tom Holland, the stars of ""Spider-man: Homecoming" performing his dance and lip-sync with Rihanna's "Umbrella". Check out his jaw-dropping performance now!S...

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#InsertAnInvert2024 Subterranean - Surface Creatures that live deep underground often have close relatives that still live on the surface. These surface dwellers typically look "normal" and lack the strange features that their subterranean cousins have. 🎨 🐡

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Who needs fireworks? Jeweled chameleon (Furcifer lateralis), SE Madagascar, 2023 #herps 🦎

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In the early Twitter days science types would show up and post when they had a new paper. Wonderful! But real talk y'all: papers take ages to write. So, post about other people's stuff! You read a paper and it was cool! Or you had a question! Or it tied to this other thing! Tag the authors!

Science folks, one thing about bluesky is there's way less 2 way interaction between people, especially on science posts, than there was on old Twitter. I'm not sure why that is, but it's something I'm keen to encourage. I'd love to hear your thoughts 🧪

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Very nice #spider #EvoDevo work led by Giulia Zancolli, postdoc extraordinaire: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-65336-2 #ArthropodEvolution #venomhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-65336-2 #ArthropodEvolution #venom

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Why stick with a bald eagle when you can go with a patriotic marbled shrimp? Check out the stars and stripes on that tail! These shrimp have a wild variety of color and patterns, this one was pretty unique. Off Ulua beach a few years ago. (Saron marmoratus) 📷🌿🐙

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Biding their time. At low tide, the voracious sea stars retreat to a wave-washed surge channel, but their high-tide ferocity is evident in the bare zone on the shore above them. 🌊⭐️🍽️ #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌿

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Jesus wants you to study macroevolution. Sign showing the location of the oldest tetrapod tracks in the Zachelmie quarry, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

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This female Japanese shore crab in the Wadden Sea was busy releasing her babies into the water! You can see the tiny zoea larvae being released into the plankton where they will live for several weeks and many will be eaten. The few survivors settle on the bottom again.

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Nature can be rather disturbing at times, but amazing too! Here are a couple of examples of entomopathogenic fungi I've seen across New Zealand - that's fungi which infect and kill invertebrates (yep, 'The Last of Us' style). Can you tell what the unfortunate hosts were? #Entomology 🧪

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest on recent papers and journal updates. ✅ Research on all areas of evolutionary biology ✅ Society-owned (Society for the Study of Evolution) ✅ Free publication for SSE members Read the latest papers and submit your research at academic.oup.com/evolut

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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I love these chonky little weevils, which I always find monching on our prickly pear cacti. Big ol snoots 🖤 🌿 🪲