@lrstric

Assistant Professor @BU_biology | Tortoise Beetles | Phenotype & Genotype connections | Working to increase representation | thoughts/opinions my own | she/they

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Joined December 2015
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Awesome opportunity to work with a great mentor!
Dr Leigh Boardman@biologicalLeigh12 Nov 2024
I’m recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2025 @UofMemphisBio! 🐝❄️🪲☀️🐞 If you’re interested in applying and currently attending #EntSoc24, email me to connect.
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Awesome position open in @BU_Biology !!
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I'm recruiting again!!
Dr. Lynette Strickland@lrstric25 Jul 2023
I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2024 through the EBE program @BU_Biology! I'm excited to mentor students from a diversity of backgrounds and a variety of career goals/interests. Reach out to me if you are interested in tropical beetle ecology and/or biodiversity genomics!
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Jason Selwyn@JasonSelwyn18 Sep 2024
Check out our newest paper using a large set of white band disease infected Acropora cervicornis collected in the field cross-referenced with a smaller transmission experiment to identify the putative pathogen causing the disease. enviromicro-journals.onlinel…

Identification of putative coral pathogens in endangered Caribbean staghorn coral using machine...

Using a combination of extensive field sampling, highly accurate ensemble machine learning and tank-based transmission experiments, we employ 16S rRNA gene surveys to identify two candidate pathoge...

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Anyone have resources they can share for establishing mentor-mentee expectations for graduate students that are mentoring undergraduate students? Like expectations to ensure undergrads are having a safe, positive experience with their grad student mentors and vice versa.
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Ecological Society@ESA_org5 Aug 2024
Lynette Strickland @lrstric of @BU_Tweets has been named an EEE Scholar!🙌 Her dedication to understanding the ecological & evolutionary drivers of beetle diversity is matched by her commitment to promoting diversity in STEM
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Dr. Hannah Aichelman@HAichelman15 Jul 2024
New preprint of my work on cryptic lineages in Bocas del Toro out now! This is the last chapter of my dissertation with @DaviesswPhD, and can’t wait to share a full thread when it’s published. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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ThankGod Ebenezer@ThankGod_Ebenez8 Jul 2024
In 2023 I led negotiations involving 9 corporations & 24 African institutions that trained 408 African scientists in genomics & bioinformatics. That effort, with >100 African authors, is now published in @NatureGenet. Thanks to all contributors:  nature.com/articles/s41588-0…
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Fellowship of Fans 💍
@FellowshipFans20 Jun 2024
It's clearly preparing to march into Isengard
Nature is Amazing ☘️
@AMAZlNGNATURE18 Jun 2024
The 2024 New Zealand Tree of the Year is the remarkable Metrosideros robusta, nicknamed The Walking Tree, located near a cemetery on South Island. 🌳
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Hey y’all when writing about @BlackinMarSci you can CITE the article I wrote two years ago instead of just putting our website or socials. Can’t believe these editors keep letting y’all get way with this, so let me do my part 💯😩 #CiteBlackWomen journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…

Black in Marine Science: A new wave is here

After decades of feeling isolated in the field, a group of Black marine scientists and allies came together to create the first ever Black In Marine Science Week. This Perspective discusses how the...

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Scott Clem, PhD@Allograpta540120 May 2024
Excited to announce that I am starting an assistant professor position @IllinoisStateU this fall!! My lab will study insect #Ecology , conservation, and biodiversity, with a focus on hover flies (#Syrphidae #Diptera) and other beneficial insects. #NewFaculty @ISUBio @ISUResearch
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Barack Obama
@BarackObama12 May 2024
Happy Mother’s Day to @MichelleObama and all the moms out there! Michelle, thank you for all that you do for our girls. Today and every day, we celebrate you. And a big thank you to all the mothers and mother figures out there who provide us love, inspiration and support, often in the face of remarkable odds.
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Very cool article featuring dung beetles and colleague @sofiacasasa ! bu.edu/articles/2024/why-is-…

Why Is This BU Researcher So Fascinated with the Diets of Dung Beetles?

Biologist Sofía Casasa studies tiny insects to learn whether their genes or diet are most responsible for their size, shape, and structure

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8 years later and this album still has a complete hold over me
Beyoncé Charts@beycharts23 Apr 2024
Today, 8 years ago, Beyoncé released the most acclaimed album of her career, “Lemonade”. Let’s reminisce about some iconic achievements of the blockbuster era in this thread. xitter.cf/ColmenaBeyonce/status/…
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Jeffrey Marlow@jj_marlow22 Apr 2024
One week away from the annual @BUMPatBU Lang Lecture, featuring Margaret McFall-Ngai! If you're in the Boston area, come on by next Monday evening 🦑🦠🦑 @BU_Biology @BUexperts Details here 👇 bu.edu/bump/commuity/annual-…
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Our intro bio team @BU_Biology is looking for a Postdoctoral Biology Content Developer! Our goal is a major revision of our two-semester core intro bio courses, rooted in evidence-based pedagogy- we are looking for a postdoc to lead curriculum design & development. Link below!
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3 years fully funded, job description here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j… Feel free to reach out with any questions!
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YES YES & YES!! Congrats Dr. Stutzman!
Alex Stutzman@stutzman_alexis10 Apr 2024
Alexis Stutzman, PhD est. 4/9/24
This is an image of Alex wearing a Carolina Blue jacket, black pants, and shiny red bottoms and standing in front of a poster she made in graduate school. She is smiling and is holding sparkly letters in her hands that read “DR”

ALT This is an image of Alex wearing a Carolina Blue jacket, black pants, and shiny red bottoms and standing in front of a poster she made in graduate school. She is smiling and is holding sparkly letters in her hands that read “DR”

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