Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe
@adrianabriscoe.bsky.social
🦋 #Vision #science| #butterfly wrangler | Distinguished Professor | #Guggenheim | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | NAS | Words: NPR, PBS, ConversationUS | Macondista | Interested in #history | Latina in #STEM
Lab website: www.visiongene.org
Lab website: www.visiongene.org
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I'm a biologist. Here's why I wrote about U.S. history (1929-1939)
I was one of those Mexican American elementary school children in California who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s not knowing about the deportation or forced expulsion of 350,000-500,000 people of Mexic...
communities.springernature.com
I wrote my first blog about why I felt that writing about my family's experiences with the mass deportation of people of Mexican descent during the Great Depression was more important than the National Science Foundation grant I was writing last summer. communities.springernature.com/posts/i-m-a-...
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Chromosome-scale #genomes from newly sequenced spiders & the whip scorpion, the genetic basis of spinneret emergence in spiders & the complex history & functional importance of arachnid genome #evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics
An ancient genome duplication event drives the development and evolution of spinnerets in spiders
A genome duplication event during the Silurian played a crucial role in the evolutionary emergence of spinnerets in spiders.
www.science.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Chromosome-scale #genomes from newly sequenced spiders & the whip scorpion, the genetic basis of spinneret emergence in spiders & the complex history & functional importance of arachnid genome #evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics
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MIT engineers design structures that compute with heat news.mit.edu/2026/mit-eng...
By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing
By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing
MIT engineers design structures that compute with heat
MIT researchers designed silicon structures that can perform computations in an electronic device using excess heat instead of electricity, potentially enabling more energy-efficient devices.
news.mit.edu
February 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
MIT engineers design structures that compute with heat news.mit.edu/2026/mit-eng...
By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing
By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing
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Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
academic.oup.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
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We’re #hiring a #postdoc @ucriverside.bsky.social 🌿
Work on cis-regulatory evolution, gene family diversification, and cell-type-specific climate responses using single-cell and comparative genomics - kenchanmanelab.com/research/
Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
Apply: aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02058
Work on cis-regulatory evolution, gene family diversification, and cell-type-specific climate responses using single-cell and comparative genomics - kenchanmanelab.com/research/
Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
Apply: aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02058
February 1, 2026 at 3:30 AM
We’re #hiring a #postdoc @ucriverside.bsky.social 🌿
Work on cis-regulatory evolution, gene family diversification, and cell-type-specific climate responses using single-cell and comparative genomics - kenchanmanelab.com/research/
Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
Apply: aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02058
Work on cis-regulatory evolution, gene family diversification, and cell-type-specific climate responses using single-cell and comparative genomics - kenchanmanelab.com/research/
Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
Apply: aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02058
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Just a friendly reminder everyone, it is now “community science”, not “citizen science”, no matter what country you’re in.
#communityscience
#communityscience
February 1, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Just a friendly reminder everyone, it is now “community science”, not “citizen science”, no matter what country you’re in.
#communityscience
#communityscience
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Some truly horrifying ones in there as well
February 1, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Some truly horrifying ones in there as well
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For those of us who were grad students at Harvard in the 1990s it’s interesting to read Marc Hauser’s correspondence with JE, through the lens of Hauser’s subsequent departure from Harvard bc of scientific misconduct.
January 31, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
Lots of correspondence between Robert Trivers and Jeffrey Epstein mentioning money and a predatory view of women 🤮https://www.justice.gov/epstein
January 31, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Lots of correspondence between Robert Trivers and Jeffrey Epstein mentioning money and a predatory view of women 🤮https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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On Tuesday I made a video explaining to people why it's important that they read this book, which is a Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history. #BookSky
Earrings by Crystal Galindo
Pillows by Shanequa Gay
Earrings by Crystal Galindo
Pillows by Shanequa Gay
January 23, 2026 at 2:21 PM
On Tuesday I made a video explaining to people why it's important that they read this book, which is a Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history. #BookSky
Earrings by Crystal Galindo
Pillows by Shanequa Gay
Earrings by Crystal Galindo
Pillows by Shanequa Gay
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Science friends, this week's briefing is squarely in your wheelhouse.
Please read & share the 🧵. Even better, dig into the briefing unbreaking.org/blog/this-we... & follow the reporters we rely on like @aniloza.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @amymaxmen.bsky.social
Please read & share the 🧵. Even better, dig into the briefing unbreaking.org/blog/this-we... & follow the reporters we rely on like @aniloza.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @amymaxmen.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Science friends, this week's briefing is squarely in your wheelhouse.
Please read & share the 🧵. Even better, dig into the briefing unbreaking.org/blog/this-we... & follow the reporters we rely on like @aniloza.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @amymaxmen.bsky.social
Please read & share the 🧵. Even better, dig into the briefing unbreaking.org/blog/this-we... & follow the reporters we rely on like @aniloza.bsky.social @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @amymaxmen.bsky.social
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Very excited to share that my first first-author pre-print is out today! Many thanks go out to all of our collaborators, especially those who helped with the fieldwork in Peru - it really wouldn't have been possible without you! 🦋
Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700078v1
January 23, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Very excited to share that my first first-author pre-print is out today! Many thanks go out to all of our collaborators, especially those who helped with the fieldwork in Peru - it really wouldn't have been possible without you! 🦋
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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West Coast monarch butterfly populations hit historic low. This may be the 'new normal'
West Coast monarch butterfly populations hit historic low. This may be the 'new normal'
The latest count of western monarch butterfly populations is the third-lowest yet, after 2024 and 2020.
www.latimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:05 PM
West Coast monarch butterfly populations hit historic low. This may be the 'new normal'
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I had to cobble together a parenting practice that felt authentic to me (I found surprisingly few resources) but this from @chanda.blacksky.app about how to approach mentoring without transferring trauma was invaluable
medium.com/@chanda/trau...
medium.com/@chanda/trau...
Traumatized Mentoring & STEM
Becoming a mentor when you’ve been traumatized requires careful consideration.
medium.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I had to cobble together a parenting practice that felt authentic to me (I found surprisingly few resources) but this from @chanda.blacksky.app about how to approach mentoring without transferring trauma was invaluable
medium.com/@chanda/trau...
medium.com/@chanda/trau...
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Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
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I'm horrified. This image is from the Anthropic lawsuit case, showing the destructive scanning warehouse. I want to know if there's a list of destructively scanned paperbacks. This is NOT the same as the works list harvested via pirate sites, this has got to be a separate lawsuit. 😡#writingcommunity
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I'm horrified. This image is from the Anthropic lawsuit case, showing the destructive scanning warehouse. I want to know if there's a list of destructively scanned paperbacks. This is NOT the same as the works list harvested via pirate sites, this has got to be a separate lawsuit. 😡#writingcommunity
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Our kids are suffering. Some will face lifelong complications, we will lose others.
This was preventable.
We refuse to standby while the most vulnerable suffer 👇
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#Standupforscience
This was preventable.
We refuse to standby while the most vulnerable suffer 👇
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#Standupforscience
January 29, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Our kids are suffering. Some will face lifelong complications, we will lose others.
This was preventable.
We refuse to standby while the most vulnerable suffer 👇
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#Standupforscience
This was preventable.
We refuse to standby while the most vulnerable suffer 👇
RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC
Learn more at standupforscience.net/march7
#Standupforscience
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Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species, while Northern Andean forests are accumulating species, acting as a refuge for those that are climate-displaced 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tree diversity is changing across tropical Andean and Amazonian forests in response to global change - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study examines long-term changes in species richness across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species, while Northern Andean forests are accumulating species, acting as a refuge for those that are climate-displaced 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
"The distinguishing irony of Ms. Watso’s detention is that she is Native American...She and other tribal members are alone among the many players in the immigration operation...in having a legitimate claim to possessing no immigrant blood." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
For Minneapolis’s Native Americans, a New Fight Echoes a Bitter History
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
"The distinguishing irony of Ms. Watso’s detention is that she is Native American...She and other tribal members are alone among the many players in the immigration operation...in having a legitimate claim to possessing no immigrant blood." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
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Climate change could lead to 123 million additional malaria cases and 532,000 deaths between 2024 and 2050. Extreme weather events are identified as the primary driver. The findings emphasize the need for climate-resilient malaria control strategies and robust emergency response systems.
Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa - Nature
Projected impacts of climate change on malaria burden in Africa by 2050 highlight the urgent need for climate-resilient malaria control strategies and robust emergency response systems to safeguard pr...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Climate change could lead to 123 million additional malaria cases and 532,000 deaths between 2024 and 2050. Extreme weather events are identified as the primary driver. The findings emphasize the need for climate-resilient malaria control strategies and robust emergency response systems.
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Last week on the trail, I found one of my favorite quiet miracles.
These are Pipevine flowers — easy to miss, blooming before the leaves arrive, long before most things wake up.
They’re part of a remarkable relationship that eventually gives rise to the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly.
These are Pipevine flowers — easy to miss, blooming before the leaves arrive, long before most things wake up.
They’re part of a remarkable relationship that eventually gives rise to the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly.
January 27, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Last week on the trail, I found one of my favorite quiet miracles.
These are Pipevine flowers — easy to miss, blooming before the leaves arrive, long before most things wake up.
They’re part of a remarkable relationship that eventually gives rise to the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly.
These are Pipevine flowers — easy to miss, blooming before the leaves arrive, long before most things wake up.
They’re part of a remarkable relationship that eventually gives rise to the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly.
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