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Public Letter to the California Academy of Sciences Board of Trustees, May 2026
RIP Eric M. Fisher
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#Diptera #Asilidae
Organizing California Academy of Sciences workers for better pay, benefits, job security and working conditions. Joining our colleagues in SEIU 1021, representing over fifty Bay Area nonprofits.
👉"The pipeline really begins with basic research" 👈
"Sixty Years Later, His Scientific Dream Comes True"
Press from @ucanr.edu on “Temporal Dynamics of Color Polymorphism and Hybridization in Colias Butterflies," by Joshua P. Jahner and colleagues:
ucanr.edu/blog/bug-squ...
Read the original study: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
An invasive bug species has made its way to Northern California wine regions. Now, the San Joaquin County Agriculture Commissioner's Office is putting out a warning.
Socrates Letana
New World screwworm reaches Northern Mexico Near Texas border, raising alarms over potential U.S. spread
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=8ba7ffcd-89a8-4aec-a4c2-9bc476d5361f&eventid=7a1ae0cb-6d86-4ea3-95cc-c1c141b3f696&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialpost
YouTube video by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM)
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Mercedes Delfinado (1933-2026), trained in @universityofhawaii.bsky.social , worked on Philippine mosquitoes, other group of flies & arthropods, & co-edited a 3-volume Catalog of the #Diptera of the Oriental Region with D. Elmo Hardy. She passed away last June 8.
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A decade ago:
🪰 #myiasis #Diptera #screwworm
Opinion piece: #Ecology is not yet ready for #AI. The field isn’t prepared to integrate AI tools responsibly or interpret their outputs reliably across all contexts. Here’s why that matters. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/J18F50Z87ni
#biodiversity #NeuralNetworks #AILiteracy
Socrates Letana
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An invasive bug species has made its way to Northern California wine regions. Now, the San Joaquin County Agriculture Commissioner's Office is putting out a warning.
Traumatic myiasis, the parasitic infestation by fly larvae in traumatic lesions of the tissues of living vertebrates, is a serious medical condition in humans and a welfare and economic issue in domes...
“I think it’s a real mistake to forget where the pipeline for all this begins.”
John Diffley reflects on the importance of basic research, his mission to decode DNA replication and recreate it in the lab, and the scientific optimism of the 1960s that helped shape it.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-03...
