Susan Finkbeiner, Ph.D.
@Fink_about_it
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Entomologist & Evolutionary Biologist. Research in butterfly coloration, ecology, and evolution. Faculty at @csulb 🦋
Los Angeles, CA
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The double-life continues! Left: me two months ago in Costa Rica; Right: me two days ago during London Fashion Week. What do both photos have in common? Fancy black fabric but for two very different purposes 😂
#entomologist
#WomeninSTEM
#oppositejobs
🦋
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Missing in Lahaina: 9 yr old Sosefina Fangupo, she is my friend’s niece
#Lahaina
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“I just know bugs rent these out for weddings.” 🍄
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The semester started 3 weeks ago and I have students already asking how many different bug shirts I have. This is just the beginning, oh yes just the beginning
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Agree or Disagree? If you peer review enough for the same journal, they should waive publication fees when you publish. For example, if I reach 10 reviews they should grant me one free publication. Reviews can take a lot of time and we do it for free! Thoughts?
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I made a reference to Ferris Bueller's Day Off in my Ecology Class off 55 students today. NONE OF THEM HAD SEEN IT OR KNEW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT the world is coming to an end I am now too old to be cool enough for my students.
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Ladies and gentlemen yes I did get to wear a crown made of buprestid beetle elytra while walking for Icelandic designer Sigrun Bjork during London Fashion Week. Finally I have showcased real insects on the runway! 🐞 photo:Serguei Cherkassov w/
@HouseofiKons
#entomologist
#fashion
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It's not every day you see a yawning tree frog!
@NatGeo
@TreeFrogSecrets
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@Strange_Animals
@phil_torres
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Fellow scientists & entomologists: have you been on a 1st date and out of reflex caught an insect/animal with your bare hand? This happened to me twice, once w/a mantis during a romantic walk in the park & last week (w/a fly) at a fine dining restaurant in Malibu. Can’t help it🤷🏻♀️
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I found these "dancing" caterpillars today at
#LaSelva
. They move with sound!
@insectweek
@Strange_Animals
@ots_oet
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Let every little girl in the world know that you can be girly, get your hair and makeup done, walk the runway, and still be a scientist who loves bugs and be proud of it!
#BugsR4Girls
. Article via BU (
@BU_Tweets
) timed with
#EntSoc17
🐞🐜🦋
#WomenInStem
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Happy Halloween Twitterverse — behold the crown of beetle elytra I wore on the catwalk during London Fashion Week! Coolest costume headpiece ever 🪲
#Entomology
#beetles
#Halloween
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"You don't have to be just one thing" I know a lot of amazing scientists out there with fascinating hobbies! Many of them women.
#WomenInSTEM
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It is one of the coolest things to accomplish as a field biologist when you turn a butterfly you collected in the Amazon Rainforest, to this: annotated genes. 🦋-> 🧬
#genomics
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I need to start a conversation about this: What is the weirdest or coolest bug you have ever put in your purse, backpack, and/or, pocket? Any insect collector knows this is TOTALLY a thing. I'll share my story after I hear some of yours 🐜
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Tomorrow is my first day of teaching at the University as a professor, you bet I have my biologist attire on point 👌🦋
#academic
#entomologist
#womeninSTEM
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You know you’re an
#entomologist
when... you grab the Altoid tin from your desk, put it in your purse, and later when you open it for a mint, you realize it is instead filled with envelopes containing dead insects (butterflies) 😂
#scientistmoment
#nerdlife
#STEM
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Dressed accordingly as usual! My entomology-themed attire has its own section in my closet 🦋🪲 Sometimes I match my shirts to the content I’ll be lecturing in class that day. Nerdy? Maybe. Enthusiastic? Definitely.
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Hey
#ento
Twitter, what do you think about this interesting Heliconius doris morph collected in southern Costa Rica? 😍
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A message to young girls "Education is your number one priority and nothing is too far out of reach"
#womeninSTEM
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One thing that fascinates me about living back in the Midwest are the storms. Check out Chicago subjected to this massive mesocyclone. Moments ago.
#Chicago
#storms
#mesocyclone
#weather
#apocalypse
@weatherchannel
@chicagonewsnow
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Did you know that some butterflies can discriminate between more than one UV wavelength of light? And did you know that you can train them to do this (video)? Butterflies are so impressive! Our results released today w/
@AdrianaBriscoe
#colsci
#womeninSTEM
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Let's get a scientist
#BeforeAndAfter
trend going on
#AlwaysAScientist
@CrawliesWithCri
@iamscicomm
@CanEntomologist
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Say hello to your new *Assistant Professor* joining Pepperdine University in the fall! I am so thrilled about this opportunity, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the guidance from many mentors I have had including
@AdrianaBriscoe
&
@FascinatingPupa
#WomenInSTEM
#academia
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As a grad student I was once asked, "How do you know anyone read your publications?" I replied: "Because they have been cited in other articles" and said person laughed at me. Since I finished my PhD, I now have 158 citations of my first-author papers. Proud moment.
#WomeninSTEM
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Proud moment, and this doesn't happen every day in the research world: I submitted well-addressed manuscript revisions for my single-author paper to a journal this evening, and the editor got back to me 45 minutes later accepting my work for publication in the next issue! Hooray!
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Last weekend I went to a fundraiser at Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s house in Beverly Hills and probably geeked out most about meeting
@zachbraff
. Just putting it out there I promised him I’d share with the world that A Good Person premiers in March!
#GardenState
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Fresh off the press today in
@J_Exp_Biol
! Showcasing research in collab w/
@AdrianaBriscoe
on true UV color discrimination in butterflies. I spent months training Heliconius to fly to different light sources for food. Results? Females can distinguish between multiple UV colors 🌈
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Hi! I'm Susan. I research drivers of biodiversity and wing pattern evolution in butterflies
#actuallivingscientist
#womeninSTEM
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Sometimes when you hang out with entomologists like
@phil_torres
, you end up with arachnids on your face
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Today I gave one of the best public speeches of my life in a sold-out venue full of hundreds of people at
#TEDxUChicago
. Being able to make a difference in our society, and seeing the positive impacts I've made along the way, truly brings me joy. Proud to represent
#WomenInSTEM
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When you think you've seen it all, you learn that butterflies fluoresce! Butterfly rave, anyone? New research out:
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Is anyone else reminded of giant parade balloons every time you see an image of a tardigrade?
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FWIW I have over 30 insect-themed dress shirts and for every climate lol
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Lots of coding and mapping reads to a reference genome today!
#WomenInSTEM
#uchicago
#genomics
#GirlsWhoCode
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I went to some fashion shows last night and GUESS WHAT GUYS? Scientists, even field biologists, clean up nice too. But I’ll be in the field tomorrow 😂
#entomologist
#LAFashionWeek
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When you convince your sister to make a
#facebug
with you at a butterfly pavilion 😄
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#Entomology
folks pls let me know what you use to order supplies now that Bioquip is no more 😭
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#NewProfiIePic
with some of my favorite butterflies that I’ve published about!
#entomologist
#WomenInSTEM
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A few weeks ago I walked the runway during London Fashion Week, and just two days later I was back in the lab doing genomics work. Neither field is easy to be in, but the challenges in both make them fun and exciting!
#WomenInSTEM
#InternationalWomensDay
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#Winning
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Nobody should be ashamed of their insect passion, whether girl, boy, young, or old. Let's show support
#BugsR4Girls
A young girl who loves insects is being bullied & needs our support. DM your email & we'll connect you!
#BugsR4Girls
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State funding for university lab equipment spanning multiple generations of entomology students :)
@csulb
#entomology
#proflife
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This is quite disappointing. You can be a princess AND a scientist. Trust me.
This is for all young aspiring female scientists out there.
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.
@phil_torres
@CanEntomologist
This was me at 8 yrs old. I was teased a lot but never stopped pursuing my dream.
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Proud “scientists-with-hobbies” moment: getting a full page in
#Vogue
Island Media magazine! That makes two publications in one week but for two very different purposes 😆
#womeninSTEM
#model
#whatstereotype
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So, I just started my position as a visiting assistant professor at
@pepperdine
University and I love it! I haven’t even started teaching yet. But I know this is going to be an amazing semester 👩🏻🏫
#BackToSchool2019
#AcademicTwitter
#professor
#WomenInSTEM
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My
#FemFieldPhoto
collecting butterflies high up in the canopy of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador! Making maneuvering those heavy 30' nets look easy 🦋👌
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After a fashion show, I love comparing my outfits to cool insects. Who wore it better? This bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata), or me donned in a fabulous outfit by designer Michael Lombard? I say it’s a tie! 🐝
#whoworeitbetter
#entomologist
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My niece was so excited to catch her first dragonfly today! She loves to chase insects just as much as I do, and just as much as I did at her age. Another entomologist in the making ☺️🐛🐜🐞
#bugs
#bugsr4girls
#womeninstem
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Lake Michigan unlike anything I’ve seen here during the
#PolarVortex
in Chicago. It’s a little chilly today 🥶
#PolarVortex2019
#Chicagoweather
#chicago
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So I just watched lightning strike the Willis Tower six times in a row while enjoying my dinner
#chicagoweather
#lightning
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With
#EntSoc17
coming to an end, I realize how important it is to continue inspiring younger generations to pursue a future in
#Entomology
. Share your childhood entomologist photo with
#YoungEntomologists
and remember,
#BugsR4Girls
🐛🐞🐜
#ESA2017
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#IStudyEvolution
to understand what drives speciation and diversity in animals, with an emphasis on wing coloration and mimicry in butterflies 🦋
#DarwinDay2018
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FYI these are one-handed captures while the insect is in flight. Both times dates were impressed while I just sort of looked over and said “whoops. I didn’t mean to do that” but come on WHO JUST LETS A COOL BUG FLY IN FRONT OF THEMSELVES WITHOUT GETTING A CLOSER LOOK AT IT 🪲
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Expressing my excitement after finding appropriate street art:
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Sneak peek footage from the upcoming
@PBSNature
documentary! Here I am briefly describing Batesian mimicry in butterflies in this clip 🦋🐛 Special thanks to Coneflower Studios and PBS!
#Butterflies
#Mimicry
#WomenInScience
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It's been a truly special and unforgettable year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at
@pepperdine
. I will miss the community there very much, but, am excited to be joining faculty at
@CSULB
in the fall, teaching Entomology and Ecology! 🐛🦋🐞🕷️
#gobeach
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My friend just sent this to me and I don’t know the source or who to credit for this brilliant creation, but I’m dying rn
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Please RT! Join us this summer in Costa Rica for a two-week intensive field course on Tropical Butterfly Ecology with
@tropicalstudies
!
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Someone "clearly" wants to blend in. Visible light is transmitted 100% through this
#butterfly
wing
#colsci
#science
http://t.co/cWV82F3flz
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Ivy League educated with a Ph.D. at 27 yrs old
#ILookLikeAScientist
#ILookLikeAnEngineer
@smrtgrls
@GDBacademy
http://t.co/1VNzrVFoo2
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Thank you so much
@JGillettKaufman
for the fabulous butterfly mask! I’ve gotten to show it off a few times already. Fellow entomologists — be jealous.
#WearAMask
#coolAF
#🦋
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Saw so many interesting butterfly species today! Nothing like collecting on your birthday in Costa Rica :)
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.
@AndyBugGuy
I am beginning to believe your hypothesis that Caligo butterfly ventral markings resemble anoles or lizards. Like this guy:
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Nothing makes me happier than grossing out a bunch of undergraduate students on a Monday with videos of parasitoid wasp larvae munching on the insides of their caterpillar host.
#mondaymotivation
#entomology
#professorlife
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So I ended up in the ER last night because of shortness of breath. I was monitored until better, but, still not tested for
#Covid19
because the outcome of the test would not change my treatment. Currently on antibiotics for upper respiratory infection.
#coronavirus
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Ashley, an Engineer that races cars, got 2nd today in
#NASASoCal
race
#ILookLikeAnEngineer
@smrtgrls
@likebossgirls
http://t.co/7WoUh0oTKH
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Excited and honored to announce that I will be BBC's featured scientist of the month for the upcoming issue of their science & technology magazine, BBC Focus :) 🦋🔎 Thank you very much for the opportunity
@HelenPilcher1
and
@sciencefocus
!
#WomeninSTEM
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I might as well keep posting selfies wearing insect-themed shirts. Dragonflies today!
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When a fungus-ridden moth (perhaps victim of paecilomyces?) resembles your favorite Lithuanian dessert: (moth photo by
@derekhennen
)
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Last week I got the opportunity to visit Pinnacles National Park. Although the Park is closed to vehicles, you can hike in if you are at the campsite. It was a really nice escape from all the pandemic chaos
#socialdistance
#hiking
#nationalpark
#travel
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One of the perks of being an Ecology professor: taking students to field sites like this for class 😁
#solsticecanyon
#malibu
#pepperdine
#ecology
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Couldn't be happier that my manuscript about frequency dependence in butterfly mimicry systems was accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society! Featuring research w/collaborator
@AdrianaBriscoe
& others. Will share as soon as it is posted :)
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How important is model frequency for mimic survivorship in Batesian mimicry systems? Our work published TODAY in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Frequency dependence shapes the adaptive landscape of imperfect Batesian mimicry w/
@AdrianaBriscoe
et al. 🦋
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Covid update: I have been recovering. Two weeks ago felt like hell. I was finally able to get a test 9 days after the onset of severe symptoms. My results were negative for covid19, but I am going to seek an antibody test to be sure. It was the most intense illness I’ve ever had.
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So, today I submitted a manuscript for publication that I had been working on for quite some time. Afterwards I bought a pint of ice cream, ate all of it, then made just bacon (well turkey bacon) for dinner. Does anyone else do this to celebrate?
#phdlife
#scientists
#whatdiet
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We had an incredible time at the
#Heliconius2018
meeting in Montpellier, France! So much cutting-edge research going on with these butterflies. We work on an amazing system. Check out our group photo below. See everyone next time! 🦋
@heliconians
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Enjoyed visiting the Denver Museum of Nature & Science collections! with
@isabetabug
@EntCollNtwrk
during
#ECN2017
#EntSoc17
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Going through past teaching evaluations: “Susan’s love for insects and the course material was evident, and even though I think insects are gross, she actually made me think some things about them are pretty cool.” Mission accomplished! 🐛🦗🐞🐜🐝🦋🦂🕷
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Enough talk about separating science and fashion... how about these *awesome* entomology-related dresses that
@erica_heinrich
and I wore to our Ph.D. hooding ceremony? 🐞🐜🦋🐝
#womeninSTEM
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I am working on revisions for a single-author paper, and I did something risky by proposing a "way out there" theory that might explain my results. One reviewer said that by suggesting this theory, I'd be stirring up a lot of controversy. But isn't that what science is all about?
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Fluorescent pigments in
#Heliconius
may not attract mates, but they sure attract me!
#BugRave
Full Article:
#colsci
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