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Meredith Willmott

@leafhopper.bsky.social

Ph.D student in Ecology&Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Mutualism between ants and auchenorrhyncha, ecophysiology, indirect effects. Science communicator!

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Scenes from Monday, November 10, at Entomology 2025 in Portland, Oregon hashtag#EntSoc25 3/3

Three people stand at a booth with electronics and scientific equipment on a table at a convention or trade show. One person is demonstrating something on a laptop while others observe. Other booths and attendees are visible in the background.

A group of people stands and talks around a table covered with various items at an indoor event. Some people wear name badges. One woman speaks to a man wearing a backpack. The room has many empty chairs and tables.

Eight women stand side by side on a stage, smiling at the camera. They wear conference badges around their necks. The background includes green plants and large insect decorations.

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Will be handing out stickers at the @entsocamerica.bsky.social meeting! Come find me or Solomon Hendrix and you will get one of our respective hopper stickers!!

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We dressed up as r and k selection for Halloween. Something you can do if the party you’re going to is the EEB grad party.

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Designed this little spider hat for Halloween! Posting pattern on Ravelry tomorrow :)

Micah @rincewind.run · last yr.

whatever you think of the country as a whole there are still a whole lot of great people here who deserve better than this

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

Self portrait

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

Found some horseshoe crabs while wearing my horseshoe crab sweater (and flipped them right side up)!

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

Cicadigan

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · last yr.

Back to book pitching, so here I am caring about the # of followers I have 🤦‍♀️ HELLO! I'm a 🦑 scientist on a mission to get people to take action to protect earth's biodiversity. Alongside others, I use street art, zines, photography, collabs, & more to encourage action. Tell ur friends 😅

A neon colored squid on the phone, drawn in cartoon style, glued to a wall, that says Get Squid Facts text SQUID to 1-833-SCI-TEXT

a very cute cuttlefish, a giant australian cuttelfish, looks at the camera, swimming in front of algae covered rocks

a poster that says Plant Native Plants, with an illustration by meg lemieur of purple coneflower, with a bunch of clips with seed bags attached on the bottom labeled "take one and plant"

Sarah holds up a zine that says Philly Biopdiversity Zine in front of a little free library covered in squid, painted blue and pink, shoved in some planters. The zine has a raccoon skateboarding in crocs in front of the love statue (philly icon) with a pigeon sitting on the sign, with the art museum in the background

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

One of my semester projects…nearly done and then it’ll get a less obscured photoshoot

Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · last yr.

Recently completed leafhopper sweater (designed by @leafhopper.bsky.social) modeled by @ibycter.bsky.social with help from Diego and Zora in scenic Quidi Vidi Village! #EntoFashion #Knitting

A bearded man wearing a navy blue pullover that has teal leafhoppers knitted in a fair-isle pattern on the yoke and sleeves. He is posing with two leashed dogs (one large and yellowish, one smaller and cream with reddish spots) in front of a harbour with fishing boats and colourful buildings in the background.

Close up of a bearded man wearing a navy blue pullover that has teal leafhoppers knitted in a fair-isle pattern on the yoke and sleeves.

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

hey do you want to test knit my horseshoe crab sweater? if you do, here’s the link!

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

YEEEEAAAAHHHHH

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

Look at this great picture of me wearing the horseshoe crab sweater I designed and knit!

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

just text and then it’s over, just text and then I can rest.

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

Time for another testing call!!! Link is pasted in the post below this one, super excited to get more bug patterns (and ant facts) out into the world 🐜❤️ 🧶

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

Locked in yesterday and finished the painting part of my leafhopper comic. Next…to outline these all in ink, and then add lots of text in illustrator! I managed to ruin my big guy on the left with wet hair but luckily I’d already scanned him in!

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

The ittiest bittiest babyest leafhopper ever watercolored I think

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

@entsocamerica.bsky.social using AI generated images in its award presentations at the Eastern Branch is really, really embarrassing, especially for a society that focuses on scicomm and science illustration through conference workshops. Really making me reconsider renewing my membership this year.

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

New sweater in the works!

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

I would never use AI to create art because I hold myself to this really high standard of not doing things that Elon Musk would approve of and taking a cowardly shortcut to a meaningless end, yet still expecting people to be impressed…yeah. sounds like something Elon Musk would be all about.

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

Welcome to the singular best thing I’ve ever painted and also why do I stop painting for months at a time??

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

hop? hop. hop!

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

yelling about science again!

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

Love my departments, marched against monarchy with a bunch of EEB and EIS GRAD students and @joannamasel.bsky.social

Meredith Willmott @leafhopper.bsky.social · last yr.

one of these shirts is for a faculty member of my department! get out there!!!! fight for your science! and for my science please I would like very much for there to be science when I finish my doctorate

Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · last yr.

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

February 18, 2024
TO:
Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH
CC:
John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH
Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH
FROM:
Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH
SUBJECT: Resignation
Dear Dr. Memoli,
On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment:
I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included:
• For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual

nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system.
• Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats.
• Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them.
• Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn.
• Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity.
I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind.
As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha…

Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · last yr.

When will we see a massive stop-work strike by federal employees? Air traffic, trains, electricity, law enforcement, military, embassies, and all. Make people realize that federal government provides essential services.