Associate Professor of Biology. Evolution, speciation, and physiology of insects, mostly the ones that sting. Tweets are my own.

Statesboro, GA
Joined July 2018
New short communication! 📄 Kanwar et al. revealed contrasting social structures in Dorymyrmex ants: D. smithi shows supercolonial traits, while D. bureni exhibits nest-specific aggression. ⚔ 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-0… #InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #AntBehavior #Parasitism
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Hosted an incredible international Nasonia meeting in #Münster @WWU_Muenster last week! Exciting updates from the Nasonia community! kudos to all attendees for making it a smashing success! Looking forward to the next #NasoniaMeeting! – at Germany
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Today I get to present my favorite slide in Bioinformatics. It’s also the closest I get to using a meme that my students understand. #BLAST @alwayssunny @ncbi
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It’s time to finally share the great news.. I just started as an asst prof of #marinescience at @savannahstate! 🤩 I am SO excited to start teaching next week, get my lab up and running, and engage with more students through research, mentoring, and in the classroom! #newPI
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Josh Gibson retweeted
I am about to get on a plane for the first time since Jan 2020 to attend the Entomological Society of America Conference in Vancouver @EntsocAmerica. I am nervous to travel but excited to see colleagues and
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Grad student/PD me: I really don't get what my PI could possibly be doing all day since they don't do much science PI me, a few months in: oh, huh... PI me, a few years in: ohhhhhh noooo...
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Josh Gibson retweeted
The Partnership for Integration of Computation in Undergraduate Physics (PICUP) was awarded the 2023 Excellence in Physics Education Award. Read more ➡️ ow.ly/Ckus50Lab1T
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Josh Gibson retweeted
Congratulations to PICUP Team members: Robert C. Hilborn; AAPT, Marcus ("Danny") Caballero; Michigan State University, Norman Chonacky; Yale University, Larry Engelhardt; Francis Marion University, Marié Lopez del Puerto; St. Thomas University and Kelly Roos; Bradley University.
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If anyone has found a Josh Gibson who has a talk show please let me and @InsectEvolution know
This is the best media request I’ve ever received
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When you search your name for #IUSSI2022 and you’re the only one who pops up. 😔😔😔 @DrStrangeAnt
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My 2nd publication is out!!!! & it’s in Ornithological Applications (journal of American Ornithological Society @AmOrnith)! The marsh was one of the best things to ever happen to me. Thank you to the world’s best advisor and coauthor, Elizabeth Hunter! bit.ly/3xILJO2
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And here's a part of the @GaSouthernBiol crew just before heading back to Statesboro. Me and MS students Renee Nowicki and Juan Jeronimo.
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Here's @GaSouthernBiol professor Dr. Alan Harvey presenting some cool work on grasshopper eye sizes! This is work he's doing with his MS student Juan Jeronimo.
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Michael Shaw is a @GaSouthernBiol undergraduate student and @GSCOSM COUR award researcher studying Nasonia hybrids. Here's Michael presenting his research at the 2022 Georgia Entomological Society meeting last week!
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Had a great time at the Georgia Entomological Society meeting last week. @GaSouthernBiol was well represented! Here's MS student Renee Nowicki presenting her plans for studying Dorymyrmex Cone Ants in local sandhills this summer, funded by a @GSICPS summer research assistantship!
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New graduate student and recent NSF GRFP awardee Nick Moore presenting a great talk on tapeworms in NC shrews @SESocParasit
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Here's my first time recruiting a postdoc via Twitter--a project focused on biology, metagenomics, and toxicology of honey bee pollen, beebread, nectar and honey needs you! igb.illinois.edu/sites/defau…
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So, this happened. Not sure who disposes of hair clippers in the center of a 4 lane road though.
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The Georgia Board of Regents @BORUSG begins its meeting today @georgiatech where tenure and due process are set to be ended. A rally is planned for this afternoon. In the last few days, 1000s of faculty have protested in many ways. Here are a few: 1/x #savetheUSGsrep #highered
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