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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · 20d

Where's the picture?

L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Aug 21

Tonight and for an eternity to come we grieve. She was an amazing companion and family member. She is dearly missed.

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Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social · Apr 28

The periscope-like head of Walckenaeria subpallida (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Virginia, USA. #InverteFest

Lateral view of a small dwarf spider, Walckenaeria subpallida, from Virginia.

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · Mar 28

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · Mar 28

Students and society deserve better than what US universities are doing right now and the answer isn’t cut DEI and instructional budget.

The bloat is in admin and bureaucracy, which increases tuition and shifts resources away from educational mission.

www.forbes.com/sites/paulwe...

Administrative Bloat At U.S. Colleges Is Skyrocketing

A recent report found that on average, the top 50 schools have 1 faculty per 11 students whereas the same institutions have 1 non-faculty employee per 4 students.

www.forbes.com

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · Mar 27

People don’t realize spiders can supplement their diet with pollen. Eggs and Sanders (2013) found juvenile orb-weavers get up to 38 percent from it. Meadows matter. Flowers are tiny gas pumps for murder machines. #science #arachnology🧪
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Herbivory in Spiders: The Importance of Pollen for Orb-Weavers

Orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae) are commonly regarded as generalist insect predators but resources provided by plants such as pollen may be an important dietary supplementation. Their webs snare insec...

journals.plos.org

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Mar 21

Setbacks... fixable, but still setbacks...

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · Mar 17

found a trapdoor spider burrow in the desert yesterday

the spider constructs this door from silk & soil & "saliva"

bonus liverwort in the LL

round opening of a spider burrow, about the size of a US nickel, with a silken hinge on the top edge, attached to a silken lid (a trapdoor).

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Mar 7

New book: A checklist to identify all known species of flies in Canada! doi.org/10.3897/ab.e...

"This checklist is a fundamental piece of work that will guide the assessment of the conservation status of those species."

@bioinfocus.bsky.social

Cover of "Checklist of the Flies (Diptera) in Canada" featuring two fly images, with contributors and publisher details below.

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Mar 1

Oof...

L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Mar 1

NCBI is down. Ordinarily, I wouldn't worry, but with the way things are going here in the US I worry that this is more than just a temporary glitch or system update...

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Mar 1

Just following the examples of my heroes, including you!

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Mar 1

Just messaged you!

L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Mar 1

I got back reads today! 92 samples with reads across 16 genera and 40 species!

My first task: check for a mitogenome in Minicosa neptuna.

Got one! 😀 That will be worked out in the next week or two for sure and I hope to get that manuscript ready to be submitted by the end of March!

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 27

Just talked to the sequencing facility and it sounds like my first round of lycosids are working out pretty well, including my new favorite spider Minicosa neptuna! I should have data tomorrow to start getting mitogenomes and to use in the phyluce pipeline to extract UCEs!

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 19

Messaged

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 19

Hello! Do you know which species of Hogna you get there? I would also be interested in Trochosa (I assume terricola?).

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 13

I sent you a message! 😀

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 11

@kaina-privet.bsky.social to be clear, this is general ngs. I hope to extract mitogenomes and ultraconserved elements (UCEs) from the assembled contigs.

L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 11

Tobias emailed me. Please contact him and he will help you send specimens to me if you collect any wolf spiders, including Trochosa. 😁 Ah, yes, Kronestedt is a good idea. I will email him. Thank you!

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 11

Salut Julien! Oui, bien sur! Specimens from southern France would be great. Do you have any Hogna sp.? I assume "radiata" at least?

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 11

I'm happy to share any data (reads) that result from specimens you provide. 😁

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 11

I'll be doing next gen sequencing (whole genome sequencing, random) for 150 bp paired-end reads, with targets of 15M to 20M reads per specimen.

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 10

It is okay if nobody specializes in arachnids. The name of the collections manager is enough to start. 😁 I found his email address and will send him an email in a few minutes.

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 10

T. terricola from Sweden would be brilliant! I am unsure who is curator at the Swedish NHM, but if you give me their name I can contact them. Additionally, if you do collect T. terricola, I have a specific interest in that species! We can arrange for the specimens to be sent through the museum.

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L. Brian Patrick @lbrianpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 9

Well, this study is more about teasing apart mitochondrial vs nuclear genomic evolution in wolf spiders than confirming they're spiders.

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