We research macro-scale patterns in butterfly ecology using combined laboratory, field, and data intensive approaches. Based out of @GUBiology @Georgetown.
Joined May 2020
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Ries Lab of Butterfly Informatics retweeted
11 Jul 2022
Do you want to help #butterfly #conservation but don't know where to start? Then e-Butterfly.org is for you!
Join our eButterfly webinar, on how to use it, and all its new features this Thursday, July 21st, at 4 PM (EST).
Preregister here: bit.ly/3IxTUSj
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Excited to have this work out led by Ph.D. candidate, @VaughnShirey in our lab! #ecology #evolution #traitdata @ScientificData
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Butterflies. In space!
2 Jun 2022
A single-winged butterfly nebula… 🦋
The NSF-supported Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this image of the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula – a gaseous region of the Milky Way where stars & planets are born. bit.ly/3m99vO0
📷: @GeminiObs / @NOIRLabAstro /NSF/AURA
ALT Nebula powered by a young star obscured by a circumstellar disk.
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Ries Lab of Butterfly Informatics retweeted
1 Jun 2022
Happy #PrideMonth! Georgetown celebrates LGBTQIA identities and communities – best understood in the context of each person’s identities and communities – and draws upon our Jesuit values to continue to advance equity and inclusion. bit.ly/3akkkXv
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Ries Lab of Butterfly Informatics retweeted
31 May 2022
The iNaturalist community has posted over 100 million verifiable observations!
Check out our blog post, it has some cool graphics and breakdowns. Thank you to everyone who adds observations and identifications to iNat!
inaturalist.org/blog/66531-w… #communityscience #citizensicence
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Ries Lab of Butterfly Informatics retweeted
20 May 2022
New butterfly evolutionary study is out as preprint! 2244 spp sequenced for 391 genes. Butterflies likely originated in what is now Americas, ~100 million years ago. Research led @FloridaMuseum #McGuireCenter. Global study w/87 scientists from 28 countries tinyurl.com/7ra5uaba
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This week, we're highlighting some of the amazing folks who work with us in the Ries Lab through @EnhanceScience's #FaceOfScience!
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Grace Jeschke (@J888Grace) is a Ph.D. student in our lab looking at how thermal stress (like climate change!) may modulate immunological responses of caterpillars. #FaceOfScience
ALT A woman smiling at the camera with a colorful sketch of the hashtag, "Face of Science."
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Grace says, "Research reminds me to stay curious about the surrounding world. I love learning how species processes are connected across scales."
Vaughn's fascination with insects started by working in the collections at @AcadNatSci @DrexelUniv and they became interested in high-latitude ecosystems while living in Finland during a @FulbrightFIN award where they worked with @libre_research on data bias.
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Vaughn says, "I love thinking about collections as clues - how can we use them to reconstruct historical ecologies?" Outside of science, Vaughn recently collaborated with his partner on an artistic cyanotype climate study: jasonedwardtucker.com/series… #ClimateArt #ClimateChangeArt
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First up, Dr. Elise Larsen (@EcologyElise) who works largely on how species traits mediate phenology and abundance patterns. #FaceOfScience
ALT A woman with a red shirt holding a notebook with a sketch of a blue caterpillar and blue butterfly and the hashtag "Face Of Science." She is smiling in front of plants in the background.
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Elise says, "I love exploring how other creatures experience the world in such different ways, and how platforms like @inaturalist let us scale up from people reporting their every day encounters to understanding patterns and processes."
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Ries Lab of Butterfly Informatics retweeted
4 May 2022
Beauty in unexpected places! 😍 Our McGuire Center staff are working on organizing and digitizing parts of this large collection of more than 19,000 Lepidoptera genitalia slides. More about this collection from Deborah Matthews, Jim Hayden and team:
floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguir…
ALT heart shaped lobed object that looks furry and a smaller tubular organ magnified
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14 Apr 2022
Just received word that Vaughn's 2nd dissertation chapter on the use of occupancy models with natural history museum data was accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology & Evolution! Congrats Vaughn!
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12 Apr 2022
Last night the Ries Lab crew got together to celebrate Cliff and Arshan getting into medical school (note the appropriately themed restaurant). We're so proud of these guys!
ALT A group of people sitting at a restaurant table with butterfly themed decorations in the background.
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Ries Lab of Butterfly Informatics retweeted
4 Mar 2022
Did you blink and miss it?
Thanks for the annual update, @Team_eBird—and congrats to all 1,799 institutions, teams, projects and partners who make more than #2Billion records of #OpenData on biodiversity available through the #GBIF network! 🎉🥳🍾
gbif.org/
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20 Feb 2022
So many amazing folks in one (Zoom) room! Working through data sharing and other agreements for North American butterfly surveys.
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Ries Lab of Butterfly Informatics retweeted
21 Jan 2022
Come to our first graduate seminar of the semester! #Today, @VaughnShirey from the @ButterflyLabGU will use natural #history #museums to investigate #butterfly adaptation to #climate change.
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