Marianne Alleyne
@cotesia.bsky.social
Entomologist. Assistant Prof. University of Illinois C-U. Bioinspired Design is my jam, parasitoids my love. #Insect #SciPol #SciCom #Bioinspiration Dutch too.
Solidarity!
Same = immigrant, proud of my t-shirt, and all my students. And the life I built in the US.
Not quite the same = research in biology, engineering, and entrepreneurship. 🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞 At a different land-grant university. With #scipol experience.
And someday I will write a book.
Same = immigrant, proud of my t-shirt, and all my students. And the life I built in the US.
Not quite the same = research in biology, engineering, and entrepreneurship. 🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞 At a different land-grant university. With #scipol experience.
And someday I will write a book.
February 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Solidarity!
Same = immigrant, proud of my t-shirt, and all my students. And the life I built in the US.
Not quite the same = research in biology, engineering, and entrepreneurship. 🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞 At a different land-grant university. With #scipol experience.
And someday I will write a book.
Same = immigrant, proud of my t-shirt, and all my students. And the life I built in the US.
Not quite the same = research in biology, engineering, and entrepreneurship. 🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞 At a different land-grant university. With #scipol experience.
And someday I will write a book.
As the sun set on another day I wondered what advice Lincoln would have had for how to live through these times.
Urbana, IL
Urbana, IL
January 27, 2026 at 3:01 AM
As the sun set on another day I wondered what advice Lincoln would have had for how to live through these times.
Urbana, IL
Urbana, IL
Apropos of everything.
This picture of an aurora was taken almost 7 years ago. In TRØMSO, NORWAY. A town within the arctic circle, with an amazing tunnel system of roads, that includes many roundabouts. And amazing scenery like this. And an excellent university.
This picture of an aurora was taken almost 7 years ago. In TRØMSO, NORWAY. A town within the arctic circle, with an amazing tunnel system of roads, that includes many roundabouts. And amazing scenery like this. And an excellent university.
January 19, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Apropos of everything.
This picture of an aurora was taken almost 7 years ago. In TRØMSO, NORWAY. A town within the arctic circle, with an amazing tunnel system of roads, that includes many roundabouts. And amazing scenery like this. And an excellent university.
This picture of an aurora was taken almost 7 years ago. In TRØMSO, NORWAY. A town within the arctic circle, with an amazing tunnel system of roads, that includes many roundabouts. And amazing scenery like this. And an excellent university.
January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
January 1, 2026 at 7:02 PM
See ya, same place, ~ 15 years from now.
I’ll promise to do my best to ensure that there will still be a sandy beach for you (or your female special friend) to land.
#WelcomeToJamRock
I’ll promise to do my best to ensure that there will still be a sandy beach for you (or your female special friend) to land.
#WelcomeToJamRock
December 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
See ya, same place, ~ 15 years from now.
I’ll promise to do my best to ensure that there will still be a sandy beach for you (or your female special friend) to land.
#WelcomeToJamRock
I’ll promise to do my best to ensure that there will still be a sandy beach for you (or your female special friend) to land.
#WelcomeToJamRock
Oh dear. There are so many ominous ones from that year. I’ll go with the #1 European movie. Not growing up is one way to cope.
“The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.”
“The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.”
December 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Oh dear. There are so many ominous ones from that year. I’ll go with the #1 European movie. Not growing up is one way to cope.
“The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.”
“The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.”
My people have a weird fascination with witches sitting backwards on brooms and wreaking havoc. 🤷🏻♀️ #OostNederland
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November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My people have a weird fascination with witches sitting backwards on brooms and wreaking havoc. 🤷🏻♀️ #OostNederland
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We need some help from folks more familiar with describing insect body parts. This is a fragment of a figure for a paper. In the text, we need to describe structure ii.
(The click beetle is in this position in our test rig.)
(The click beetle is in this position in our test rig.)
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We need some help from folks more familiar with describing insect body parts. This is a fragment of a figure for a paper. In the text, we need to describe structure ii.
(The click beetle is in this position in our test rig.)
(The click beetle is in this position in our test rig.)
Not sure if we should actually claim her as Dutch - technically she was German. But I won’t tell if you won’t.
I’m impressed by detail in the Ruysch paintings. It was fun to try to find all the critters. One docent pointed them all out for me. Fun to see that she was also enamored by the paintings.
I’m impressed by detail in the Ruysch paintings. It was fun to try to find all the critters. One docent pointed them all out for me. Fun to see that she was also enamored by the paintings.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Not sure if we should actually claim her as Dutch - technically she was German. But I won’t tell if you won’t.
I’m impressed by detail in the Ruysch paintings. It was fun to try to find all the critters. One docent pointed them all out for me. Fun to see that she was also enamored by the paintings.
I’m impressed by detail in the Ruysch paintings. It was fun to try to find all the critters. One docent pointed them all out for me. Fun to see that she was also enamored by the paintings.
MSM is well-represented. Not just the Suriname plates.
(We have two of the Suriname books at Illinois - I visit them yearly - but those are not colored). I also only saw the colored plates at the BP gallery.
The whole museum was a very pleasant surprise.
(We have two of the Suriname books at Illinois - I visit them yearly - but those are not colored). I also only saw the colored plates at the BP gallery.
The whole museum was a very pleasant surprise.
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
MSM is well-represented. Not just the Suriname plates.
(We have two of the Suriname books at Illinois - I visit them yearly - but those are not colored). I also only saw the colored plates at the BP gallery.
The whole museum was a very pleasant surprise.
(We have two of the Suriname books at Illinois - I visit them yearly - but those are not colored). I also only saw the colored plates at the BP gallery.
The whole museum was a very pleasant surprise.
Some day I want to learn more about and then write about the importance of these women to the arts AND to science: Sibylla Merian, Herolt, Monincks, van Rijk, Ruysch, Withoos, de Heer, van Oosterwijck, Ykens, etc.
(This is a detail from a Ruysch painting from 1687)
(This is a detail from a Ruysch painting from 1687)
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Some day I want to learn more about and then write about the importance of these women to the arts AND to science: Sibylla Merian, Herolt, Monincks, van Rijk, Ruysch, Withoos, de Heer, van Oosterwijck, Ykens, etc.
(This is a detail from a Ruysch painting from 1687)
(This is a detail from a Ruysch painting from 1687)
Here are just a few of those details.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Here are just a few of those details.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
(I adore Omar Sy and the show Lupin.)
(I adore Omar Sy and the show Lupin.)
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
(I adore Omar Sy and the show Lupin.)
(I adore Omar Sy and the show Lupin.)
Soooo dope. They look like the most groovy sock puppets.
September 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Soooo dope. They look like the most groovy sock puppets.
The quiet before the storm. #entvocate #entomology #insects
With @insects247.bsky.social
Buggapalooza at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago.
With @insects247.bsky.social
Buggapalooza at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago.
August 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The quiet before the storm. #entvocate #entomology #insects
With @insects247.bsky.social
Buggapalooza at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago.
With @insects247.bsky.social
Buggapalooza at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago.
This week I'm celebrating 30 years of marriage (easy!) and 30 years at the University of Illinois! (wow!)
The latter achievement comes with a "free" gift. There were some nerdy gift options...
Reader, she went with the liquor decanter & glasses. No one is surprised. #WeAreRumPeople
The latter achievement comes with a "free" gift. There were some nerdy gift options...
Reader, she went with the liquor decanter & glasses. No one is surprised. #WeAreRumPeople
August 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This week I'm celebrating 30 years of marriage (easy!) and 30 years at the University of Illinois! (wow!)
The latter achievement comes with a "free" gift. There were some nerdy gift options...
Reader, she went with the liquor decanter & glasses. No one is surprised. #WeAreRumPeople
The latter achievement comes with a "free" gift. There were some nerdy gift options...
Reader, she went with the liquor decanter & glasses. No one is surprised. #WeAreRumPeople
July 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Tell me you’re European, without telling me you’re European”.
#TeamPapaya #LeTour #SummerSundayMornings
#TeamPapaya #LeTour #SummerSundayMornings
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Tell me you’re European, without telling me you’re European”.
#TeamPapaya #LeTour #SummerSundayMornings
#TeamPapaya #LeTour #SummerSundayMornings
July 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I love the dulcet tones of RP's Pete Woods 🤣
July 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I love the dulcet tones of RP's Pete Woods 🤣
My brain hurts bc:
1. Trying to understand budget disaster
2. To feed brain, I'm reading Butler's "Parable of the Talents". Concl: We're currently ahead of PofT's 2032 SciFi world.
3. To relax brain, decided to watch "Idiocracy". Didn't work. Looks like IRL we are 500 yrs ahead of movie's world.
1. Trying to understand budget disaster
2. To feed brain, I'm reading Butler's "Parable of the Talents". Concl: We're currently ahead of PofT's 2032 SciFi world.
3. To relax brain, decided to watch "Idiocracy". Didn't work. Looks like IRL we are 500 yrs ahead of movie's world.
July 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My brain hurts bc:
1. Trying to understand budget disaster
2. To feed brain, I'm reading Butler's "Parable of the Talents". Concl: We're currently ahead of PofT's 2032 SciFi world.
3. To relax brain, decided to watch "Idiocracy". Didn't work. Looks like IRL we are 500 yrs ahead of movie's world.
1. Trying to understand budget disaster
2. To feed brain, I'm reading Butler's "Parable of the Talents". Concl: We're currently ahead of PofT's 2032 SciFi world.
3. To relax brain, decided to watch "Idiocracy". Didn't work. Looks like IRL we are 500 yrs ahead of movie's world.
Was sent these pics by friends attending Kalamazoo MI protest.
(As a non-citizen I’m sitting this one out, but love how my friends keep me updated 😉 )
(As a non-citizen I’m sitting this one out, but love how my friends keep me updated 😉 )
June 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Was sent these pics by friends attending Kalamazoo MI protest.
(As a non-citizen I’m sitting this one out, but love how my friends keep me updated 😉 )
(As a non-citizen I’m sitting this one out, but love how my friends keep me updated 😉 )
June evening in Central Illinois. ❤️💡Last night the trees seemed to be lit by holiday lights. An amazing sight. (Sound up!)
(iPhone cannot really do the firefly spectacle justice, but I wanted to share this awe-inspiring experience during these bleak times. Find some peace outside, my dear friends.)
(iPhone cannot really do the firefly spectacle justice, but I wanted to share this awe-inspiring experience during these bleak times. Find some peace outside, my dear friends.)
June 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
June evening in Central Illinois. ❤️💡Last night the trees seemed to be lit by holiday lights. An amazing sight. (Sound up!)
(iPhone cannot really do the firefly spectacle justice, but I wanted to share this awe-inspiring experience during these bleak times. Find some peace outside, my dear friends.)
(iPhone cannot really do the firefly spectacle justice, but I wanted to share this awe-inspiring experience during these bleak times. Find some peace outside, my dear friends.)