Caroline S. Chaboo

Caroline S. Chaboo

@cschaboo.bsky.social

entomologist, beetles, Chrysomelidae

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Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social

Igor Souza-Gonçalves, Cris Lopez-Andrade, Vivian Sandoval Gómez, Paula Vieira Borlini, & Caroline S. Chaboo. 2026. #Beetles (#Coleoptera) of #Peru: A Survey of the Families. #Ciidae Leach, 1819. Revista Biologia peruana 33(3):e32672 DOI:10.15381/rpb.v33i3.32672. Congrats team!

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Vanna Bartlett
@vannabartlett.bsky.social

Working on some pseudoscorpion drawings. Takes a lot of concentration so slow going. Quite pleased with the results so far. These are drawn from several of my own photos and experience of watching them in the field. #arachnids #invertebrates

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Mongabay
@mongabay.com

Ever wondered if a wildlife photo was staged? "Photography game farms" use captive animals for awards and stock photos, misleading viewers. Learn more in this episode of the 'Conservation, Entangled' series by Izzy Sasada. Find all the episodes in Mongabay's YouTube! mongabay.cc/Conservation...

Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social

a strange forest that protects coastlines

Mongabay@mongabay.com

n North Sulawesi, Indonesia, fisher and conservationist Wisye Sahambangung is proving that mangrove restoration drives economic empowerment. Her group, Rhizopora, supplies seedlings, monitors coastlines, and creates new financial opportunities for local women. Interview by Annisa Dinulislam.

mongabay.ccIndonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye SahambangungJAKARTA — Wisye Sahambangung is a fisher, community leader, and mangrove conservationist from Sarawet, a coastal Indonesian village in North Sulawesi province. Since 2022, the 45-year-old has led…
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#WomenInSTEM

Victoria Watson-Zink, PhD@watsonzink.bsky.social

Curious about what I do? Check out this awesome research feature from @hhmi-science.bsky.social touching on several of my projects: the microbial basis of convergent land crab herbivory, land crab transcriptomic responses to desiccation, and my new evo-devo stuff in red devil vampire crabs! 🦀😍

hhmi.orgWhat Land Crabs Reveal About Evolution’s Repeats | HHMIHHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Victoria Watson-Zink studies land crabs to understand a bigger question: when animals face the same evolutionary challenge, how many different ways can they solve it?

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New York Botanical Garden
@nybg.bsky.social

In a new study, NYBG Senior Curator Fabian A. Michelangeli and collaborators use a probabilistic framework to map global biomes as climatic domains, evaluating potential biome reorganization and ecotone shifts under climate change. Learn more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70317

onlinelibrary.wiley.comMapping Biome Boundaries From Climate Patterns: A Machine Learning FrameworkAim To develop a climate-based, probabilistic framework that maps global biomes as climatic domains and explicitly quantifies the spatial distribution and intensity of biome transition zones. Locat...

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Daniel Kronauer
@danielkronauer.bsky.social

I wrote a review of clonal raider ant biology and why the species is such a good model system to study various fundamental aspects of social insect biology in the lab. Here is the online early version: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

annualreviews.orgThe Biology of the Clonal Raider Ant (Ooceraea biroi) and Its Role as a Social Insect Model SystemThe clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, is a blind, subterranean insect that combines several rare life history traits which make it uniquely suited for use as a laboratory model. The species has lost ...
Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social

#beetles

German Lagunas-Robles@g-lagunasrobles.bsky.social

Our manuscript is now available in Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social ! We examine the three neo-Ys in mountain pine beetle which are suspected to be contributing to cryptic species diversity. doi.org/10.1093/evle...

doi.orgThe tortured past and present of young polymorphic neo-sex chromosomes of the mountain pine beetleAbstract. Neo-sex chromosomes have proven powerful for studying the early stages of sex chromosome evolution and differentiation, yet if these dynamic proc

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Botany One
@botany.one

The True Pollinators of the Amazon’s “Purple Gold” www.botany.one/the-true-pol... A study reveals that native stingless bees drive pollen flow in açaí crops, highlighting why standing forests are vital to agricultural yields.

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Erik Hoffner
@erikhoffner.bsky.social

🏆 Glad to report that my nominee for the Pritzker Environmental Genius Award just won the $100K Once she was @mongabay.com's science advisor & is now a star bioacoustics researcher ✨ “It’s huge encouragement to know that work on #biodiversity #conservation in tropical forests is seen as important"

news.mongabay.comResearcher who listens to forests wins 2026 Pritzker Environmental Genius AwardZuzana Burivalova, a tropical forest ecologist who uses sound to understand the health of forests globally, was recently named the winner of the 2026 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award. The ...
Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social

#leafbeetles

Hassan Salem@hassansalem.bsky.social

Beetles secrete jelly to embed & sustain symbionts with impossibly tiny genomes🪲 But what is this jelly made of? And how does it help maintain a partnership that has lasted over 62 million years? Thrilled to share our latest, out now in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comYellow protein co-opted to sustain obligate symbiosis in leaf beetles - Nature CommunicationsInsects have evolved diverse strategies to protect their genome-reduced symbionts during vertical transmission. Here, authors show that tortoise beetles have co-opted a Yellow protein to form spheres ...

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Jamie Thompson
@jamiet-42.bsky.social

New paper now out in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society @botjlinnsoc.bsky.social 🌼 Student-led, by Elizabeth Forward! Hummingbirds nearly double the diversification rate of bromeliads, the pineapple family @leverhulme.ac.uk @uor-research.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/botl...

doi.orgThe origins and diversification of hummingbird pollination in BromeliaceaeAbstract. Bromeliaceae are a model group for understanding explosive Neotropical diversification, combining remarkable ecological breadth and high species

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WIRED
@wired.com

More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

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Brendan Barrett
@bjjbarrett.bsky.social

Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

doi.orgMaternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape | PNASIn most vertebrates, social play among peers is considered essential for behavioral development. Yet in solitary species bearing single offspring, ...

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Sarah Finn
@romanceofbooks.bsky.social

Beetle chromolithograph from ‘The Intellectual Observer’ periodical published in London in 1863. #naturalhistory #sciart #insectart

Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social

#leafbeetles #biocontrol #Tamarisk

Tyson Wepprich@tysonwepprich.bsky.social

I worked on the tamarisk biocontrol beetle's rapid evolution & spread for a few years. This article does a good job explaining the ongoing puzzle of tamarisk control and restoration in the west. biographic.com/the-trouble-...

biographic.comThe Trouble with Tamarisk | bioGraphicTwenty-five years ago, land managers unleashed a beetle to control an invasive tree sucking rivers dry. But water levels haven’t risen—and the real villains are still causing trouble.

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Chris Gug
@gugunderwater.bsky.social

Armed & dangerous! Lobsters have a early life stage called phyllosoma, wherein they drift through the open ocean, and have the coolest habit of taking stinging siphonophores prisoner for defense Shot on scuba, while drifting in the open ocean, out over the deep abyss, at night, far offshore

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Tylan Berry
@tylanberry.bsky.social

One of the most incredible photos I have ever been sent, courtesy of Chloë James of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Seagrass Restoration Team. Yep, that's Philodromus margaritatus...under seawater using...an air bubble to breathe and move about. I am utterly speechless!! @britishspiders.bsky.social