Super honored to receive this award from @amornith.bsky.social with my close and dear friend Rebecca Jo Safran #AOSAWARDS

American Ornithological Society@amornith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Drs. Rebecca Jo Safran & J. Albert C. Uy for winning AOS 2026 Elliott Coues Awards for their innovative contributions to ornithological research. https://americanornithology.org/aos-announces-2026-award-winners-for-research-service-conservation-publication/ #AOSAwards

Introducing the Yato Protected Area -- the largest federally protected conservation area of the Solomon Islands! We are humbled to have been given the opportunity to partner with indigenous communities in Makira to save threatened ecosystems. #conservation #SolomonIslands #biodiversity

Want to hear more about how twisted-wing insects hack their hosts to their own benefit? Checkout this fun podcast with @avispatica.bsky.social talking about her work on these biohackers!!

Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy@avispatica.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our podcast is out! Check out our research @urochester.bsky.social that is decoding how true biohackers called twisted-winged insects control social wasps! #teamwasp #strepsiptera #zombiewasps 🐝🧟‍♀️ Please check out this fantastic initiative by @bugsneedheroes.bsky.social. Thank you for having me!

Super last minute as I’m on my flight to #AOS25 — I will be talking about my work on bowerbirds on Wednesday morning in Genomics 2. Looking forward to seeing everyone and sharing this incredible dataset 🐦‍⬛

Interested in how new sex chromosomes evolve in birds? Our NSF-funded collaborative work with the (Daven) Presgraves lab at @urochester.bsky.social is out this week in @pnas.org. Check it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Honored to be a plenary speaker for #ABL2025! #wasplove

Animal Behaviour Live@animalbehaviour.live · last yr.

We’re excited to announce @avispatica.bsky.social (Univ. of Rochester) as a plenary speaker at #ABL2025! 🙌 Dr Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy’s talk will explore how parasites reprogram social wasps—revealing deep insights into plasticity, manipulation & coevolution. 🐝 #HostParasite #Parasitism #Coevolution

We’re excited to announce @avispatica.bsky.social (Univ. of Rochester) as a plenary speaker at #ABL2025! 🙌 Dr Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy’s talk will explore how parasites reprogram social wasps—revealing deep insights into plasticity, manipulation & coevolution. 🐝 #HostParasite #Parasitism #Coevolution

After >20 years of working with wasps, I like them even more now! And a ⭐️ team that’s rocking this season and experimental infections with twisted wing parasites! #wasplove #strepsiptera #fieldseason #ProudPI #teamwasp

Well, this is a first! And much appreciated! It’s usually Dr. and Mrs. Uy, even though we’re both academics 🥴

I find myself missing fieldwork in the tropics! Here is some Polistes stigma from the Solomon Islands for much-needed #wasplove The female with dark eyes has recently emerged, and her eyes will lighten in a few days. Some of the tiniest Polistes I've seen! Images by Al Uy @tropbiolab.bsky.social

🌟 Graduation party for our three undergrad stars from #teamwasp @tropbiolab.bsky.social ! 🌟 Grateful for mentoring an amazing team of rising scholars. The party included some 🦅🐝🐜 watching... & the most unesthetic piñata, decorated with early figures from our graduates! #proudPI

Tis’ the season that generous naturalists start to send me wasp pictures! This “booty” pic 🤣 shows the foundresses of Polistes dominula, native to Europe. It’s invasive here and in many other places in the world. #teamwasp #teamxenome @tropbiolab.bsky.social is ready, experiment time! #wasplove

🌟Congrats to undergrad researcher Natasha Vacca @nvacca08.bsky.social for being awarded the NSF-GRFP! 🌟 We're also thrilled that Natasha is not tired of us and will continue as a doctoral student with #teamwasp @tropbiolab.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social #wasplove #addictedtostrepsiptera

Trop Bio lab alumnus, Dr. Diego Ocampo, published the final chapter of his amazing dissertation on hybridization in #birds of #Neotropics. Through field experiments, we find that plumage traits distinct between populations are not used in species recognition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My heritage is critical to me, so I asked my department if we could change my office sign to my whole name. Today I walked in and voilà! I am excited for the same when my lab renovations are done. Little actions can have strong cascading effects! 🌟

#teamwasp 2024, including our mascot Rocky the yellowjacket @urochester.bsky.social! #ProudPI Wrapping up my first year as a TT professor! Mil gracias (a thousand thanks) to everyone who has supported me. Those of us from non-traditional trajectories and minoritized backgrounds belong in academia!

🐜-sitting for the Glastad lab. Always loyal to #wasplove, but these girls are amazing!

Happy holidays from @tropbiolab.bsky.social! We enjoyed our ugly sweater-themed farewell party for wonderful Elsie and Ferro. Grateful for #teamwasp and #teambird!

🧪 Our new paper explores the #genomics of recent contact between two #SolomonIslands #birds. We find that sections of the genome behave differently, with the female sex chromosome moving only from the invading into the endemic species. Check out our work in PLoS Genetics! tinyurl.com/yc5x7nfk

@acescicomm.bsky.social and I met here and realized we both were looking for more #SciSky #PinoyScientists 🇵🇭🧪! So, we joined the starter pack bandwagon ... 😅 We also want to highlight folx and what they do ✨ Please fill out the form if you're interested in joining: forms.gle/h4WUpE1T9jHt...

Pls share! We have started a Wasp Starter pack! Message below to be added! And follow all these awesome waspy folk to chat about the wonderful world of wasps! go.bsky.app/3u5XkrS

¡Hola! Excited to see old and new friends from the scientific community here. I'm an Assistant Professor who studies social evolution & mechanisms underlying parasite-induced manipulation in social wasps. We'll share updates from #teamwasp #strepsiptera here and @tropbiolab.bsky.social

First post here, filled with hope! Introducing the Yato Conservation Area, #SolomonIslands. We are in the final stages of declaring a federally #ProtectedArea that will #conserve 30K acres of rain & cloud forest. A collaboration led by indigenous communities of Makira Island. Photo by Adam Fenster