Greg Pask
Associate Professor of Biology at Middlebury College, lover of insect communication, good teaching, and nerd stuff
- Reposted by Greg PaskSquirrel Girl is back - in Webtoon form! Marvel has reformatted our earliest adventures with Doreen, Nancy, Tippy-Toe and everyone else for online reading and is releasing 'em all for free on Webtoon! ENJOY www.webtoons.com/en/graphic-n...
- In this video, I learned that our new butterfly species is a larval grass flinger!!! Look at that poo fly!
- They're growing (and admittedly having a good time too!)
- Today marked a new era for the lab! We're beginning our butterfly phase, rearing our own Squinting Bush Brown butterflies! Look at those adorable eggies!!!
- So excited to have @matthewcobb.bsky.social join our Hacking Inheritance class today to discuss gene-editing, including the science, the history, and the ethics! Highly recommend this book for all those interested in diving into this topic!
- Looking forward to our #SICB2026 session on Technology, Games, and Play in Biology Education tomorrow at 8am in Oregon 203! So many amazing talks and people lined up! My talk at 8:45am on CYOA fun in an organismal biology class!
- When you surprise each other with exactly the same shirt on Christmas 🤣 @rosemarymosco.com, Bloodcheep is the gift that keeps on giving all year long!
- Reposted by Greg PaskNSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃
- Reposted by Greg PaskThrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants! Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol... Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh
- Getting fired up for my Entomology class's community outreach event this Saturday! Partnering with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social, we will be opening up the multiverse of insects and insectoids with... The Museum of the Multiverse: Insects! #entomology #insects #vermont #cosplay
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- Birds y’all
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- A game with fun art and insects on kickstarter, that's an instant back for me 😊 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hed...
- Reposted by Greg PaskExcited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Thanks for writing up this blog post Zach!
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- We ready! #NoKingsDay #Silksong
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- Me trying to warn my students about the dangers of relying on GenAI
- Yesterday at the #NYCC Marvel X-Men panel, a science graduate student asked about where they get their accurate scientific information for writing the comics. @jedmackay.bsky.social immediately said, I ask Marvel’s residence science expert… @ryannorth.ca I have to agree!
- Had the best time doing a #NYCC panel with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social on Pokémon Ecology Academy: Ancient Life! Got to talk about Yanmega, insect respiration, and how insects used to be much bigger in the Carboniferous!
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- Another fun panel with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social at #FanX! Got to talk about how heroes and villains can communicate with animals and the various ways insects use to communicate! And had such a fun time cosplaying as Ant-Man! Thanks @lisalundgren.bsky.social for organizing!
- Very excited to be a part of the “Anatomy of a Superhero” panel at #FanX tomorrow with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social! Thank you so much @lisalundgren.bsky.social and @paleoparadox.bsky.social for making it happen! I will be cosplaying as classic Ant-Man, pictures later 😊🤓 #cosplayforscience
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- Reposted by Greg PaskOur second Growth, Not Grades winner is Sharlyn Barrett 🎉 Sharlyn writes how chasing perfection — whether pounds on a scale or letters on a page — left her ready to give up. She imagines an education that values growth and self-acceptance. Read and share! growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...
- I'm excited to chat with everyone about some really cool firefly biology with @sicb.bsky.social tomorrow night at 7PM EST! Please email sicbmedia@sicb.org or message me if you'd like the Zoom link! cid:ii_mfcwtjht0
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- hearing about the latest events in the news these days
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- Maple syrup
- Such a wonderful essay, love seeing when students get how there are better ways to learn!
- “Why focus on how to improve when the verdict has already been delivered?” 📫 High school senior, Subhiksha Sreeram, describes the way grades cut off real learning. Her essay A Letter to Letters is the first of three winners in our Growth, Not Grades contest. growbeyondgrades.org/blog/a-lette...
- bananas!
- Saw this cool anchor stink bug eating a milkweed tussock moth caterpillar while walking around Ripton today
- Our department is hiring a half-time Assistant Lab Professor of Biology beginning in January 2026. Applications are due 10/20, please reach out to me if you have any questions! apply.interfolio.com/171737
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- This cicada was searching around for a different soundscape with all the high energy surrounding Middlebury move-in day!
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- Excited for this, come here about some cool stories about unlighted fireflies!
- Enjoyed this little factoid about non-reflective moth eyes and improved solar panel technology from Naturally Curious this morning with the family. I never knew about this! Did you know about this cool overlap between our worlds @billmckibben.bsky.social?
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- My thoughts exactly! I was aghast when I once heard of a writing class using ChatGPT to come up with creative writing ideas… literally giving away that spark moment to genAI 🤦♂️
- huge shout out to both @lordoftheboard.bsky.social and @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social who were so great and generous at #GenCon yesterday. Each gifted my daughter a Root pin off their attire and it made her first day ever at GenCon sooooo special!
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- TONIGHT at 9:30, I see if I can livestream the joys of blacklighting for @sciantsmedia.com in celebration of #NationalMothWeek. Can I do it from rural Vermont and my WiFi extender moved to the back window??? Only time will tell! www.twitch.tv/sciants_stre...
- New preprint on our ant odorant receptor decoding work just dropped! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A huge team of primarily undergraduates put this together, with three electrophysiology dynamos in Røskva, Ben (@bimorris.bsky.social ), and Aiden
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- Our new firefly odorant receptor paper is officially out now in BMC Genomics! link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
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- Two small-eyed sphinx moths relaxing together after a fun-filled evening of mating! #moths If you look closely, they’re even holding tarsi😊
- At over 4,000 ft high at Camel’s Hump, this courageous woodland lucy (Lucidota atra) braved the elements in search of a mate #fireflies
- Saw a beautiful Sugar Maple Borer at the peak of Camel’s Hump in VT!
