Looking to build your #Evol2026 schedule for Wednesday June 24th??? Well come check out my first talk as a PhD Candidate in the Hybridization II session in room 25A at 4:15 where I discuss mating behaviors and success in haploid hybrid males of Neodiprion sawflies!

#Evol2026 day 2 lets gooo

Finally got my password to this account. Update: Prepping for #Evol2026 and officially a PhD Candidate!

I'm heading to #PAG33! Come see me at poster P027 - Jan 12th, 3-4:30pm to learn about a field-tested new methodology for creating low-cost and lighting fast species identification PCR assays! github.com/RDRidenbaugh...

Extremely grateful to have presented the first half of my first project on darter sex chromosomes at #Evol2025 - stay tuned for the preprint coming soon!!

Grateful to have presented my first ever talk at #Evol2025

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Focusing on the small wins: first data points from this semester’s CURE course! Students are using a PCR assay to ID male sawflies collected on different pines. This is a perfect gel- all positive controls had bands, neg control didn’t, and all 4 unknowns worked. Yay! (W/ @jakebnwatts.bsky.social)

NSF PRFB POSTDOCS: Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs. If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite

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A very important discussion at today’s lab meeting

I wish Fall me could live up to Summer me’s timeline of what Fall me would have accomplished lol

Excited to announce the mid-season premiere of @tspapod.bsky.social along with other important dates for the remainder of season 2B! Looking forward to some awesome months ahead!

A student asked me if I really spelled my name this way or if it’s just for attention. I…

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.

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