Andrea Loya Castillo
@andreaptera.bsky.social
PhD student in the de Bivort Lab @ Harvard | Insect locomotion, evolution, & behavior | Bug girl in a big world, from fire ecology to insect ethology
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Tea brewing, field boots on, codework buzzing
CA->MA
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/2530133
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Tea brewing, field boots on, codework buzzing
CA->MA
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/2530133
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📈Good news for California beaches! 🏖️
Two new studies from researchers at Scripps Oceanography found that San Diego County beaches gained width in the past year, and that average beach width across all of California has remained stable since 1985.
@axios.com San Diego shares more. ⬇️
Two new studies from researchers at Scripps Oceanography found that San Diego County beaches gained width in the past year, and that average beach width across all of California has remained stable since 1985.
@axios.com San Diego shares more. ⬇️
San Diego's beaches are bouncing back after El Niño
Scripps researchers say it's good news about the health and resilience of our coasts.
www.axios.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
📈Good news for California beaches! 🏖️
Two new studies from researchers at Scripps Oceanography found that San Diego County beaches gained width in the past year, and that average beach width across all of California has remained stable since 1985.
@axios.com San Diego shares more. ⬇️
Two new studies from researchers at Scripps Oceanography found that San Diego County beaches gained width in the past year, and that average beach width across all of California has remained stable since 1985.
@axios.com San Diego shares more. ⬇️
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![Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreib6md2yc7x32taznh2u4feo27rltazabjco4fer3c6mni3soe5tfa@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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COME WORK WITH ME!!!
Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus!
cee.mit.edu/people/share...
Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus!
cee.mit.edu/people/share...
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
COME WORK WITH ME!!!
Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus!
cee.mit.edu/people/share...
Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus!
cee.mit.edu/people/share...
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🎃🕷️Tick or treat?
Just in time for spooky season... I found a tick on an electric eel in the MCZ collections.
Not even the fish are safe!
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...
Just in time for spooky season... I found a tick on an electric eel in the MCZ collections.
Not even the fish are safe!
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...
An eclectic encounter: ticks feeding on an electric eel and the untapped potential of natural history collections
Abstract. Parasites are quite likely the most diverse guild of species on earth. Nevertheless, they remain under-documented despite their impact on the hea
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🎃🕷️Tick or treat?
Just in time for spooky season... I found a tick on an electric eel in the MCZ collections.
Not even the fish are safe!
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...
Just in time for spooky season... I found a tick on an electric eel in the MCZ collections.
Not even the fish are safe!
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1093/jme/...
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How #stress shapes #insect minds: hormones and neuropeptides alter learning and memory in complex, surprising ways. 🪰 ➡️Review 📝 Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Neurobiology #InsectScience #StressResearch
#Neurobiology #InsectScience #StressResearch
Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes
Insects can adjust their behaviours through learning and memory, but this rather costly capacity is often impacted by stressors. Here, we address how …
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September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
How #stress shapes #insect minds: hormones and neuropeptides alter learning and memory in complex, surprising ways. 🪰 ➡️Review 📝 Learning under stress: how the insect brain copes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Neurobiology #InsectScience #StressResearch
#Neurobiology #InsectScience #StressResearch
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This line from Mary Oliver ❤️
September 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This line from Mary Oliver ❤️
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![Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigvmzverlrjgqp4mazbkhm43fpvv2hdbkd2t2646dhihozrwdcy24@jpeg)
September 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Funnels are working well to reduce small mammals mortalities in pitfall traps 🐁 just cut the narrow end shorter and you can even drop a sample pot with solution into the cup for easy collection 🪲
August 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Funnels are working well to reduce small mammals mortalities in pitfall traps 🐁 just cut the narrow end shorter and you can even drop a sample pot with solution into the cup for easy collection 🪲
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Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
August 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
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Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
August 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
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“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”
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Barely made it to the top because it was so slippery, but it was very majestic #mountgreylock
May 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Barely made it to the top because it was so slippery, but it was very majestic #mountgreylock
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NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM