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Phil Barden
@haidomyrmex.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist | ants, sometimes shrimp | fossils, morphology, extinction, eusociality | associate professor at NJIT bardenlab.org
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Nov 13
I am very glad so many of my science friends are here now. My only fear is that I'll now have to post something more substantial than reposting 70 year old Nancy comics every three months.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · Nov 13
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 12,1954
NANCY - BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER PSA ON BUILDING- COVER THAT SNEEZE PREVENT COLDS ( NANCY READS THE POSTER, SHE HEARD A SNEEZE COME FROM A OPEN MANHOLE,NANCY DOING HER DUTY CLOSES THE MANHOLE WITH THE COVER, NANCY IS AMAZED WHEN ANOTHER SNEEZE COMES FROM THE MANHOLE AND ACTUALLY BLOWS THE LID OFF!)
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · 21d
Our dept!
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · Sep 10
Always excited for an increased salary submission! Congrats to the Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Tech for their stipend increase! This union-based win brings the pay almost to the 1:1 line! Update your department and find out more here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
Salary to Living Wage - only two points fall above the 1:1 line. A star indicates New Jersey Institute of Technology is almost to the 1:1 line!
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jul 25
Yes, and mustelids.
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jul 25
Exactly. The only honorable mammal
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jul 25
I just love anteaters!!!
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jul 19
Palaeodictyoptera flight!
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jul 16
Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!
Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jun 26
You'd think they'd be able to find some common ground
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jun 26
Are they both missing their right forelegs??
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · May 2
This is a nationwide layoff for a generation of young scientists: undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs funded on current awards will be unemployed with no explanation. Their future opportunities also erased.
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Nature @nature.com · May 1
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.

https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
go.nature.com
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · Apr 24
Oldest ant fossil ever found reveals history of ‘hell ants’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Oldest ant fossil ever found reveals history of ‘hell ants’
Unusual Brazilian specimen trapped in limestone is 113 million years old
www.science.org
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Apr 24
Congratulations, Marc!
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Apr 17
Congratulations!!!
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · Apr 17
Congratulations to Dr. Chloe Jelley @chloejelley.bsky.social ! Beautiful Ph.D. thesis defense today! #MoreauLab #ProudPI
Dr. Chloe Jelley and Dr. Corrie Moreau celebrating her successful Ph.D. defense Members of the Moreau Lab and Chloe's parents toasting Chloe Dr. Jelley cutting her cake
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aluckymyrmex.bsky.social @aluckymyrmex.bsky.social · Apr 6
👀🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🪲🕷️Ento-Education Job alert!!👀
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Formal & Informal Teaching | Entomological Society of America @fitentsocamerica.bsky.social · Apr 4
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

UF Entomology & Nematology is hiring an Assistant Prof of Informal #Entomology #Education!

🔎 Interested in a faculty position leading innovative, evidence-based engagement outside the classroom?

🪲 Passionate about #insects & #outreach?

🧪 Learn more and apply! bit.ly/uflentojob
Graphic announcing a job opportunity for an Assistant Professor of Informal Entomology Education at the University of Florida Entomology & Nematology Department. The header reads “JOB OPPORTUNITY” with an icon of a megaphone. Below, a central illustration shows two hands shaking, forming an insect-like shape with antennae. Text highlights that the department seeks a passionate educator to lead and assess informal and non-formal educational programming. The position directs UF’s Outreach Program, including a bug zoo and hands-on training. A QR code and link (https://bit.ly/uflentojob) are provided for more information. At the bottom right is the logo for the Formal and Informal Teaching (FIT) section of the Entomological Society of America with a note: “Follow us for more!” Ant icons crawl across the top border.
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · Mar 4
We weren't sure it would be possible, but huge thanks to the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America for supporting a last-minute symposium highlighting stories from terminated federal employees at the meeting on March 17th. #entomology 🧪

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Impact of Federal Dismissals and Disruptions on Entomology and Entomologists
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Mar 2
Wow!!!
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Feb 19
Today in Newark, New Jersey. 60+ scientists out in 25 degree weather to collectively say: hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs. One of 16 nationwide events held today as part of Labor for Higher Education.
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Jess Awad @parasitoidrex.bsky.social · Feb 12
Gall midges and their parasitoids are abundant, megadiverse, and very hard to identify! Such "double dark taxa" systems present special challenges for ecology and agriculture. 🧵🧪🐙 @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @marinamoser.bsky.social @krogmann.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
Untangling host specialization in a “double dark taxa” system
Abstract. Platygastrine wasps (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) are parasitoids of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). They and their hosts are exceptionally
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Feb 6
My morning to-do list for the indefinite future:

□ Call and send physical mail to a senator/congressperson
□ Email a federal civil servant to thank them
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · Feb 5
Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:
A facebook post from Lisa Murkowski: I want to thank Alaskans who have been reaching out to my offices in D.C. and across Alaska. The U.S. Senate phone system has been receiving around 1,600 calls each minute, compared to the 40 calls per minute we usually receive, which has disrupted our call systems. Thank you for your patience as my staff works to review your messages and share them with me. We’re all working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Jan 20
a transgender flag with the words trans lives matter on it
ALT: a transgender flag with the words trans lives matter on it
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jan 15
Ant folks, is antweb down? Does anyone know why? Can we help?
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jan 15
Hell yes to this title in a new paper on formicine ant venom. Although I think just the first part is enough: "Acid Reign"

doi.org/10.25849/myr...?
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jan 6
14.99 or thereabouts
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Phil Barden @haidomyrmex.bsky.social · Jan 5
In 2025 I will sell five copies of The Three EPs by The Beta Band
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · Dec 29
104 bugs from 2024
if anyone gets pedantic about the definition of 'bug' i will hit them with my entomology phd diploma which my labmates got laser engraved onto an axe for me
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