G Harrison, MS 🏳️‍⚧️

Dearest gentle reader, it is with much pride that I present to you my very first scientific publication. So happy to finally get my MS work out there! A huge thanks to everyone who pitched in to make it happen!! Harrison et al. has a nice ring to it 😎subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/128521/

@LCMcHenry Your defense presentation was phenomenal!! Had me all in my feels 🥹 Congratulations Doctor, you’re an absolute rockstar 🤘🏼!!

🔥One degree hotter🔥

@fervasquezval Literally could not have happened without you! 💜

This came out a couple of weeks ago! So proud of you for this work! and I'm glad I got to be part of it. Congrats G!!!

DNA Extraction question! 🧬 I'm ISO a good kit that is cost effective, works in plate format, and will provide good yields from whole-body single individual Drosophila samples 🪰. Our lab previously used the Axygen kit but they don't have enough in stock rn. Plz RT

@TomKuhar This is amazing 🤣

My grad students had this made, put in a nice frame, and hung over the sink in my lab while I was out of town. General of the Kuharmy. My students are too much.

@BugCatcherG Images of the arthropods can be viewed at Ecdysis. Check 'em out, and feel free to leave a comment in Ecdysis if you'd like to refine identifications, or borrow material. ecdysis.org/collections/li…

@TheBugChicks All credit to Steph Benbow for their incredible work generating those figures! I'm utterly hopeless with all Adobe and Photoshop softwares 🤣

@BugCatcherG Woohoo! And the pic plates of the arths are 🤩

Dearest gentle reader, it is with much pride that I present to you my very first scientific publication. So happy to finally get my MS work out there! A huge thanks to everyone who pitched in to make it happen!! Harrison et al. has a nice ring to it 😎subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/128521/

@ArthropodAbbey Tysm!! 😁

@BugCatcherG congrats G!!!

Published today: Arthropod diversity in shallow subterranean habitats of the Appalachian Mountains 🧵 doi.org/10.3897/subtbi…

p.s. If you just wanna see pics of the cool soil-dwelling arthropods that we found, check out the first supplementary material file 😉

Biology in nature does not always fit into neat little human-created boxes like “female” or “male”. Sad to see the hate and bigotry being so casually thrown around right now. As a biologist and a lover of sport, disheartening to say the least. #Olympics2024Paris

But, individually, we can conquer imposter syndrome - because people are really out here submitting first drafts. Don't do that. But, don't pursue perfection either. A lot of revising happens between acceptance and publication. Perfect is the worst enemy of good enough.

June marks the start of #Pride, and we couldn’t be more excited to announce the publication of A Little Gay Natural History!  (1/2)

@UMBS is a truly special place. So thankful for the opportunity to live and teach here for a good chunk of the summer. Got up here just in time to catch the dragonfly larvae eclosing on the shore 🌅〽️

@lovetheants Thanks so much 😌🏳️‍⚧️

It’s teaching evaluation season for those of us who taught this past semester. Just gonna drop this ✨gem✨here as a reminder that students hold all sorts of biases and that existing as a queer scientist is not “inappropriate for the classroom” 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@ArthropodAbbey Greatly appreciated 😊!

@BugCatcherG wow that's... damn terrible. If you need any support in the process feel free to reach out, my DMs are always open 🥰🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@ArthropodAbbey Definitely worth the effort. I know folks who have received blatantly xenophobic responses in the past as well, so def not an isolated occurrence! Appears there’s 0 filtering whatsoever. Direct from the students’ fingertips to our screens 🤷‍♀️

@BugCatcherG yeah that's... Very not ok. I'd definitely reach out to the chair of the department, head instructor, and director of whatever teaching center y'all have to ask about how this can be prevented in the future... of course you shouldn't have to do that labor though. 🤦‍♀️

@UMichEEB 🎉 well deserved! Cheyenne you rock! 🤘🏼

Congratulations to U-M EEB Ph.D. student Cheyenne Graham who joins the Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks, ready to champion bat conservation and inspire future scientists. 🦇 #BatConservation #UMEEB #goblue #leadersandbest 🔎 Dive into her story: myumi.ch/AZ3Nw

@ravkitley These are classics! My personal favorite is the Vampire Rock one with the Hex Girls!

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@ArthropodAbbey Thank you so much for the kind response 💙 that was my first thought as well. We live in an age where we can analyze whole genomes with a few lines of code but we can’t filter out blatantly ignorant student responses from surveys??

@BugCatcherG I'm so sorry G. That's unacceptable and should have been screened out before you saw it by the admin - they have a duty to protect (especially junior) instructors from bigots imo. You belong in science/ Entomology, I hope you are taking care of yourself in light of this crap 🥰