Joe Hanly

@wmataGM @wmata randy will you consider moving a WMATA social media presence over to bluesky? This is one of the last things keeping me on this hellsite.

👇Good read. Several things we are doing, others need $. I’d add advanced signaling as it’s critical to 🚇 future & leads to increased safety and efficiency. Appreciate this kind of thought leadership by GGW. @wmata drives our region’s economy so we need to be future thinking.

just in case anyone needs telling this right now, bluesky is looking way more active these days

When you get a CG gene as the top hit in your RNAseq

Panic at the disco? More like Panic attack at the Safeway.

If you’re on Twitter right now, you are not the kind of person who is going to miss out on big picture analysis long-term. I think the thing to do today is focus on stuff that’s close, stuff you believe in, stuff you’ve gotta do, and stuff that brings you joy.

I'm at the point of lepidopterology where I keep accidentally thinking humans are WZ

Don't miss out working with one of the best and kindest scientists I know!! Neil Rosser’s lab at the University of Miami is currently recruiting graduate students interested in the evolution of tropical biodiversity #recruitment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">rosserlab.github.io/people.html#re…

CORRECTION: *California Black worms, not blood worms!

Donya shared the California blood worm, which forms these crazy tangled conglomerates for defence, but can disentangle incredibly quickly. this video shows them in their horrifying glory, plus some biotech research that's happening with them - youtube.com/watch?v=615LmM…

Today we did a Martin Lab Spooky Halloween Lab Meeting, with each of us sharing some fun, weird gross and/or otherwise interesting animals. Here's a quick thread of the fun, distracting things we talked about, which I think we are all in need of this week!

Lastly, Luca shared the fungus that parasitizes the brood X cicadas, leading to one of the most... unexpected Scientific American headlines I've ever seen scientificamerican.com/article/how-th…

Maybe I've been working with caterpillars for too long, but this is the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Our new @CurrentBiology paper provides a rare glimpse into a morphological novelty in Drosophila eugracilis In it, @gavinrrice and colleagues, infer and reproduce the likely initial steps of a novelty's formation sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm super stoked to announce that I will be starting my own lab in January at Clemson University in the department of Biological Sciences! If you're interested in working on seasonal plasticity in butterflies and moths, feel free to contact me!

@karinburg that's amazing news, congrats Prof!

@FernandoFSeixas @EvoEcoGen @heli_papers the scales look very like what Larry dubbed "Type III" red scales present in most Heliconius, including in charithonia at the base of the hindwing. If so, it would probably need to be related to leaky optix expression!

@EvoEcoGen @heli_papers Unclear. My best guess is that this phenotype is simply a by-product of changes in expression of genes involved in temperature acclimation but also determining wing scale colors.

Temperature-dependent and sex-specific phenotypic plasticity in Heliconius charithonia biorxiv.org/content/10.110…