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Trevor Sorrells
@trevorsorrells.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Yale | HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | Mosquito Behavior and Evolution | he/him 🏳️‍🌈
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Trevor Sorrells @trevorsorrells.bsky.social · 1d
A seminal study no doubt
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 15d
Dark taxa are extremely diverse organisms that remain largely undescribed due to small size, subtle differences, & few experts.

Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz....

by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social
A dark, hairy gall midge fly on a white sheet. It has long legs and antennae and a red neck. Quiz results showing I'm a gall midge or cecidomyiid
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Jolene Ramsey @jrrmicro.bsky.social · 15d
@trevorsorrells.bsky.social seminar for @tamubiology.bsky.social

cues waft on the wind
#mosquito neurons light up
blood thirst wanes post-bite

#sciku #neuroscience #biology
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Yale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · 16d
🚨 Only 3 days left to register! 🚨
Yale postdocs, don’t miss the Oct 9th @kavliatyale.bsky.social Chalk Talk event, featuring tips by @schandralab.bsky.social & a mock talk by @trevorsorrells.bsky.social!

Register Today!👇
yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Flyer for The Chalk Talk event on Oct 9.
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Chantal Vogels @chantalvogels.bsky.social · 19d
📢New preprint on the impact of dengue virus genetic diversity on inhibition by Wolbachia 🦟🦠🧬

Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨

Key findings in thread below 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Heterogeneity in inhibition of genetically diverse dengue virus strains by Wolbachia
The release of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes transinfected with the virus-inhibiting Wolbachia bacterium has the potential to reduce the burden caused by dengue virus (DENV). However, the robustness of thi...
www.biorxiv.org
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20d
Starting to accumulate quite a few species in the mosquito gallery:
Mosquitoes - Alex Wild
Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...
www.alexanderwild.com
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marilou boddé @mariloumercedes.bsky.social · 20d
Our paper Genomic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus was published in Science today! It features inversions, selection in action, museum specimens and putative new ecotypes. doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social · 20d
Tired of doom scrolling? Want to help a PhD student out? Check your collection for Promachus (and friends) and I'll be forever indebted! If you need an excuse to get outside and go collecting this weekend, this is it! #Asilidae #Diptera
A poster saying "Wanted: Robber flies, Promachus and Allies. Wanted: freshly caught specimens of Promachus or other large robber flies for DNA extraction. Contact Teagan Mulford at teaganmulford@gmail.com with any questions or leads. Thank you! PC: Steve Collins"
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25d
A bluetorial on NIH funding and out year commitments:

A historical perspective
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · Sep 5
"The unknown is made up of small organisms, such as insects, mites, and crustaceans. These species are the nuts and bolts of ecosystems. And most of them have yet to be identified."

www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results
We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth
www.vox.com
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Rory Coleman @rorycoleman.bsky.social · Sep 4
I am thrilled to announce that I just opened my lab at New York University in @nyucns.bsky.social and Biology! Our work will explore the richness of animal behavior, dissecting the genetic and circuit mechanisms that shape its evolution.
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · Sep 3
🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
www.nature.com
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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · Aug 22
Utterly devastating: FlyBase zapped.

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

#modelOrganism
Exclusive: Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
www.thetransmitter.org
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Bluma Lesch @ambystoma22.bsky.social · Aug 20
New paper on the role of H3K4me3 at enhancers! We (led by Haoming Yu) used dCas9 epigenome editing to add H3K4me3 to intergenic enhancers. This was (1) sufficient to turn up transcription at open, active regions and (2) has no effect on target gene transcription. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
H3K4me3 amplifies transcription at intergenic active regulatory elements
A biweekly scientific journal publishing high-quality research in molecular biology and genetics, cancer biology, biochemistry, and related fields
genesdev.cshlp.org
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · Aug 15
Morinaga, @agloriasoria.bsky.social @jsoghigian.bsky.social develop two de novo chromosome-scale genomes for Aedes aegypti formosus and A. mascarensis, finding extensive chromosomal rearrangements between major lineages of mosquitoes.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf142

#genome #evolution
From Macro to Micro: De Novo Genomes of Aedes Mosquitoes Enable Comparative Genomics Among Close and Distant Relatives
Abstract. The yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) is an organism of high medical importance because it is the primary vector for diseases such as yellow
doi.org
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Aug 10
Who do I know that breeds or has access to Mudskippers? I have some questions! Rt appreciated 🧪
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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · Aug 9
Oh hey, we did a thing!!! Fun collab between the Coughlan and @mollyschumer.bsky.social labs!!! www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Lead by the absolutely ✨STELLAR✨ @hybridzones.bsky.social, @nemovrobles.bsky.social, and
@majorodriguezb.bsky.social.
sky.social
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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · Aug 3
With @megyounger.bsky.social's lab, et al., we present the first connectomics work in the disease-vector mosquito Aedes aegypti, revealing how its brain is wired to detect host cues.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#Neuroscience #Connectomics #vEM #VectorBiology 🧪
Diagrams (top-left) of an adult female Ae. aegypti head and (bottom) a basiconic sensillum on maxillary palp (gray) which contain dendritic processes of olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs), including CO2-sensitive Gr3-expressing OSNs. OSN axons project centrally to the antennal lobes in the brain. On the right is a volumetric rendering of the mosquito brain neuropils including the antennal lobes (light blue) (Heinze et al., 2021; Matthews et al., 2019). Scale bar 100 μm.
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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · Aug 3
How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧪#Neuroskyence
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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · Jun 18
I am delighted to be starting as an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida in January 2026. The lab is broadly interested in the functional, developmental, and evolutionary genetics of cell types and organs across flies and beyond 🪰🧬
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Felix Baier @felixbaier.bsky.social · Jul 23
🚨Very happy that my PhD work is now out in @nature.com!

We discovered that evolution, by acting in the midbrain, shifted the threshold to escape in Peromyscus mice, to fine-tune defensive strategies in different environments

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a truly collaborative effort! 🧵⬇️
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · Jul 9
A pair of Desert Firetail damselflies making more damselflies. The male is bright red and he's using claspers at the of his abdomen to hold the female behind her head. She bends her abdomen around to pick up a sperm packet from him. The more you know! 💫
(Telebasis salva) Portal, AZ
#DamselflyJuly
Two insects with four wings folded along their body. The both have large eyes and long abdomens. The male is at the top gripping a plant with his legs. He is using a pair of claspers at the end of his abdomen to hold the female behind her head. She is tan in color and is bending her abdomen to meet this body at the end of his thorax. Her legs hand at her sides.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jul 9
The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own.

Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.
Photograph of a metallic blue/green beetle with a very spider-like body, a huge fake "abdomen" that is swollen and dented with even pits over its bulbous surface. It is otherwise ant-like, standing on a pure white stylized background.
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · Jul 9
Apply to this program and share with students in your networks! We will work 1:1 with you on your applications, CVs, interviews, etc bsky.app/profile/stan...
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The Stanford Biology Preview Program @stanfordbpp.bsky.social · Jul 9
Just a few more days until the deadline!

If you're planning to apply to Bio-based PhD programs this year, considering joining us at the Biology Preview Program where we'll walk you through the PhD application process and help you polish you application materials!

Apply here: bit.ly/4n4Nxtu
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · Jun 23
These are called “Ensign Wasps” for how they move their little butts like flags.
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John Carlson @johncarlson.bsky.social · Jun 23
I love their blue eyes and also the way they flag their abdomens up and down. Adorbs
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