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Monique J. Rivera 🦋

@monique4ever.bsky.social

Entomologist Assistant Professor, Cornell University @moniquejrivera on twitter SPECIAL interests: pens, fragrance, skincare, music especially electronic music broadly, crustaceans and all other arthropod adjacent forms, also anything agriculture!

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Cornell Entomology@cornellentomology.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We’re excited to launch the URBAN-VECTOR Training Program! A new initiative by the Urban Malaria Network (lnkd.in/eBUGMbcu) designed to equip researchers and public health professionals with the skills needed to detect, study, and respond to An. stephensi invasion in urban settings.

Home | URBAN-VECTOR Training Program

An interdisciplinary, international training initiative designed to build sustainable research capacity in vector-borne and tropical infectious diseases, with a primary focus on urban malaria.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD@jopabinia.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New this year: a fossil crustacean preserved in this manner that displays the sternum (underbelly) complete with food groove, and possible labrum in part I! These animals may have been up to 10 mm long and may resemble modern fairy shrimp #Crustmas 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Crustacean sternal elements from the Bright Angel biota. Paragnath-bearing triangles are indicated by 1 s, and the successive posterior triangles by 2 s. (A) Posterior end of paragnath-bearing triangle and anterior section of successive triangle. (B) Complete triangle with laterally splayed paragnaths (black arrows). (C) Detail of scaly ornament of median cuticular strip in (B). (D) Detail of anterior setose surface in (B). (E) Complete paragnath-bearing triangle, with articulated anterior section of successive triangle. (F) Detail of boxed area in (E) showing scale-bearing cuticular strip and marginal setal fringes. (G) Articulated paragnath-bearing and partial posterior triangles defining median food groove. (H) Detail of boxed area in (G) showing sphaeromorphic acritarch adpressed onto the food groove cuticle. (I) Subtriangular cuticular lobe, representing possible setulose labrum. (J) Complete paragnath-bearing triangle and articulated, semi-complete posterior triangle. (K) Detail of boxed area in (J) showing spheroidal acritarch adpressed onto the food groove cuticle. Slide numbers and England Finder coordinates listed in data S1. Scale bars, 50 μm except in (C) and (H) (5 μm) and (D), (F), and (K) (25 μm).
Jo Wolfe, PhD@jopabinia.bsky.social · 3y ago

Maybe obscure, but here's another form of early crustacean fossil for #Crustmas. These stunning fossils detail setae (hairs) on ~509 mya mouthparts and limbs, suggesting complex feeding. Only thing is they are bits, not whole animal. A lot to learn still 🧪🦑 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Plate of light micrographs: Coplanar plumose armatures (filter plates) from the Mount Clark SCF assemblage. Scale bar represents: 100 μm (A, C); 200 μm (B); 50 μm (D); 20 μm (E, F). (Detailed caption doesn't fit, see paper by Harvey and Butterfield)
Monique J. Rivera 🦋@monique4ever.bsky.social · 11mo ago

you know what is cool? being interested. being sincere. not being mad all the time. committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself. deep focus. taking care of yourself. and especially, being good to other people.

Jaap de Roode@jaapderoode.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪 Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs

Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...

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Mike Grillo@mikegrillo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics

The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...

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Bob Shriver@bkshriver.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.

Tim Curran@timcurran.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor: Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire. plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

Annika Barber@annikabarber.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

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Monique J. Rivera 🦋@monique4ever.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We are hiring!! The Department of Entomology at Cornell University is seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Field Crops Entomology. Position details & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30498 Apply by: November 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM

Cornell University, Entomology/CALS

Job #AJO30498, WDR-00055076 Assistant Professor Field Crops Entomology, Entomology/CALS, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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