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Amanda Markee

@kkbugtime

phd candidate @RGGSatAMNH studying arthropod silks 🕷️🐛🕸️ | NSF graduate research fellow | (she/her) | 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 | views are my own

 New York, USA
Joined April 2019
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i guess it’s time for me to make the switch… academic socials are the only ones i use these days so pls find me @ bluesky if ur still doin this thing bsky.app/profile/kkbugtime.b… bye bye twitter 😖
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our new genome paper on the (weird) tuliptree scale is now out in g3! i've never worked on an insect with an alternative sex determ. system before my time in the Mongue lab, but needless 2 say... i will always be impressed and horrified of what bugs can do academic.oup.com/g3journal/a…
Genome report: Genome sequence of tuliptree scale, Toumeyella liriodendri (Gmelin), an ornamental...

Genome report: Genome sequence of tuliptree scale, Toumeyella liriodendri (Gmelin), an ornamental...

Abstract. Scale insects are of interest both to basic researchers for their unique reproductive biology and to applied researchers for their pest status. I

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i really miss being part of a union, and will always admire how much cool stuff @uf_gau continues to do everyday for grad students at uf. with love, and solidarity always ❣️so proud of all of the momentous wins that y’all have secured this past 2 years!!
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WATCH: UF's bargaining team finally says they don't expect our minimum stipend to cover all of our living expenses, suggesting taking out loans and finding scholarships so that we can afford to work for them.
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Anna Eichert@anna_eichert30 Jul 2024
So so proud of my REU students for how hard they've worked this summer studying Arctic stonefly population genetics and how they may respond to warming temperatures! Thank you to @Toolik's TUNDRA Award for providing funding to collect Alaskan stoneflies used in this project! ✨
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one year later 😮‍💨 i will see you all in athens next year im being fr this time 😭
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Amanda Markee (@kkbugtime) profile pictureAmanda Markee@kkbugtime25 Jun 2023
🥲see u all at ESA? or next time 😭
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Congratulations to @ScottVEdwards1 on receiving the SSB Presidents' Award for Lifetime Achievement this morning! Scott, thank you for all you have done to make our Society and our field better. #Evol2024
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En route to Montréal for #Evol2024! Excited to share my work on the evolution and development of turtle ant polymorphisms this Monday at 9:30am during Phenotypic Plasticity I, in room 519AB 🐜🧬
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new luna moth genome just dropped!! happy to share that the second chapter of my masters thesis is now published in @GenomeBiolEvol. thank you to my @FloridaMuseum collaborators and silk community for helping me get this manuscript to the finish line! academic.oup.com/gbe/article…
De Novo Long-Read Genome Assembly and Annotation of the Luna Moth (Actias luna) Fully Resolves...

De Novo Long-Read Genome Assembly and Annotation of the Luna Moth (Actias luna) Fully Resolves...

Abstract. We present the first long-read de novo assembly and annotation of the luna moth (Actias luna) and provide the full characterization of heavy chai

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today the Ware Lab left no stone unturned.. literally 🫣
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Our work on caddisfly phylogenetics is out today in @RSocPublishing Proc B! I started this work as a wee PhD student, and I am really pleased to have it out. Thank you to all of my co-authors who were so patient and helpful.
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Museums are for everyone! Members of AMNH PRIDE, a resource group for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies within the Museum community, are participating in the NYC Pride March today! Happy Pride to all.
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our team name u ask? slay-mnh 🌈💅
RGGS at AMNH (@RGGSatAMNH) profile pictureRGGS at AMNH@RGGSatAMNH20 Jun 2024
Congrats to the AMNH RGGS Grad Student Team (Ivan, Amanda, Vicens, Joe, Chris, Daniela, Ernesto, and Jon) on winning the STEM trivia at the AMNH Pride Night, June 13 2024!
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Ryan!!! Huge congrats!! WOW! 🦋🐛
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On #TransDayOfVisibility, ESA celebrates contributions of transgender scientists to entomology and affirms our commitment to a safe, welcoming professional community. #EntoDEI Learn more in this 2023 Q&A w/ a trans entomologist in Communications Biology: nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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A quick share of our new preprint on the phylogeny of caddisflies before I tune out for the holidays. I’ve worked on this off and on for the last decade so I’m excited for it to finally see the light of day as a preprint! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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I just found out (through a desk-reject) that Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution no longer considers most papers based on Sanger sequences (only genomic datasets). It is quite ironic that countries that hold most of the biodiversity will be unable to publish in this journal...
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Please consider donating to support the funeral costs of our recent graduate, Dr. David Olabiyi @citrusbugs gofund.me/5d862cce
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Tonight at #Hymathon2023 I'm defending the honor of Apoid wasps at the newly minted Hymenoptera Showdown! I know best is subjective, but we are talking Apoid wasps here... Many thanks to the organizers! And to the amazing photos from iNat, only those with * are my own
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RGGS at AMNH@RGGSatAMNH30 Nov 2023
REMINDER: Fall 2024 Comparative Biology PhD Program and Graduate Fellowships Program at American Museum of Natural History Application Now Available! Deadline: December 15, 2023 amnh.org/research/richard-gi…
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Repetitive elements across insects!
John Sproul (@John_S_Sproul) profile pictureJohn Sproul@John_S_Sproul8 Nov 2023
I'm excited to share our paper on repetitive elements in hundreds of insects just out in @genomeresearch 😀 genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/g…
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