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Behavioral Disease Ecologist studying spiders, flies, and their parasites. Heavy metal, horror, and on a hiatus from Twitter. (he/him)
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DUDE. I just found out there is a Spider-Man character called "Thousand". Carl King ate the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker and turned into a colony of 1000 spiders. My first name is Carl, my last name means King. Now I know what I want to be when I grow up.

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From discusses the Crypt Keeper Wasp which manipulates a gall wasp host into excavating an emergence hole, plugging the hole with its head, so the crypt keeper can BURROW THROUGH ITS FACE. Amazing natural history and reseach.

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Silver Plated Long-Jawed Orbweaver = “So, I go first” by Necrostarted

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Revising previous tweet because not everyone wants decapitation on their timeline:
We seemed to hit carrying capacity with zombie movies many years ago, but unique stories like this are refreshing: a First Nations perspective, great practical effects, and interesting characters!

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The researchers found no differences in bacterial composition between tissues, which is very surprising but also interesting! I've always wondered about book lungs as a route for bacterial entry.

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Luckily, the majority of larval ticks are unable to vector pathogens to humans, because most of the tick-borne diseases we fear are not vertically-transmitted from infected mothers. Rather, they pick up pathogens from an infected host, and then can transmit it to their next host.

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What do you get when you combine my love of horror with ’s love of preparedness? Nerds in ponchos at Halloween Horror Nights.

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And what a profound quote from me, a professional biologist:

“Microbes are so ubiquitous,” said behavioral disease ecologist Nick Keiser from the University of Florida in Gainesville. “They're on everything.”

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