Inspired by nature & music, entomologist, conducts research on insect behavior, investigates Embioptera (silk spinning insects), Biol Prof @ Santa Clara Univ
San Jose, CA
Joined July 2017
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Janice Edgerly-Rooks retweeted
It's #WorldHumanitarianDay & the final day of Entomology Advocacy Week. Today we're asking you to contact your Congress members & ask them to support the Coffee Plant Health Initiative Amendments Act, which will help save coffee & promote IPM: p2a.co/j4hj8vu #EntVocate22
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A Multiscale Characterization of Two Tropical Embiopteran Species: Nano- and Microscale Features of Silk, Silk-Spinning Behavior, and Environmental Correlates of their Distributions dlvr.it/SC5QPL
Janice Edgerly-Rooks retweeted
A. C. Andrews, S. Duffy, J. S. Edgerly, R. P. Barber, Morphological transformation from fibers to sheets in embiopteran silk. Phys. Rev. E 106, 014801 (2022). dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.…
‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
A "love letter" to termites...I enjoyed your talk Aaron Mullins! From construction to decomposition: Termite contributions to novel biomimicry innovations and elusive goals cdmcd.co/zxp6AP #EntSoc20
#EntSoc20 celebrating #Embioptera. Haploembia silk shines blue in California.
Gorgeous photographs of katydids. Great tests of hypotheses! Super talk. Correlation between substrate selection and body color of neotropical katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) cdmcd.co/Gg8m3J #EntSoc20
Come learn about webspinners! Those cute little insects you never get to see? Exploring Embiodea: Bulky genomes and 'silky' genes cdmcd.co/dgj776 #EntSoc20
Tiny insects follow their own Laws of Nature. Great talk Sandra Schachat! Constraints on vein morphology in the wings of Lepidoptera increase with body size cdmcd.co/EEPW5k #EntSoc20
Neuroecology! Wonderful talk! Sociality impacts brain resource allocation in spiders cdmcd.co/WvrdAx #EntSoc20
Great presentation! Locomotion of social caterpillars is influenced by polarised light, detected by a single pair of stemmata cdmcd.co/nBjMbM #EntSoc20
Hear my talk on Embioptera -it’s virtual: Exploring Embiodea: Bulky Genomes and Silky Genes. Embiids rock! #EntSoc20
Janice Edgerly-Rooks retweeted
Please share: 7 postdoc positions at our Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change:
Quantitative Ecology
Global Biodiversity of Plants, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Ants, Bees. bgc.yale.edu/open-positions
Supporting @geobon @EOWilsonFndtn @moldotorg
#biodiversity #macroecology
Janice Edgerly-Rooks retweeted
Buzzing: A museum exhibit at Ithaca’s @PRInstitution – created in collaboration with @Cornell experts, illustrators and students – seeks to shine a light on the vast diversity of wild bees. @cornellento @CornellCALS @NSF @KrishnaWriter news.cornell.edu/stories/201…
#deeplook #webspinners #insect The Curious Webspinner Insect Knits a Cozy Home kqed.org/science/1949380/web…
Janice Edgerly-Rooks retweeted
My colleague @JaniceEdgerly shared this awesome video about webspinners with me: youtu.be/l_JP3RbJ8zk These insects are so awesome!
