A.J. Phillips (@annalida500) 's Twitter Profile
A.J. Phillips

@annalida500

Curator of parasitic worms, gummi worms, misc. inverts | #Leeches #parasites #invertebrates #evolutionarybiology #systematics | NC native | Views are my own.

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Frost Museum (PSUC) (@frostmuseum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As part of the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker TCN, Museum Assistant Julie Rockwell @JulieFether is helping digitize and rehouse the museum's wet parasite collection. Just look at the difference a little TLC can make 😍 iDigBio #TPTTCN

As part of the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker TCN, Museum Assistant Julie Rockwell @JulieFether is helping digitize and rehouse the museum's wet parasite collection. Just look at the difference a little TLC can make 😍
<a href="/iDigBio/">iDigBio</a> #TPTTCN
A.J. Phillips (@annalida500) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do you ever get the feeling that something is watching you? Don’t worry! Tapeworms don’t have eyes. Those are suckers they use to hold on in the gut of their hosts.

Helminth Society DC (@helm_soc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you to everyone involved in our Helminth Society DC Spring Meeting 👏- great talks on all kinds of amazing parasites 🪱we hope to see everyone again for our Fall 🍂meeting later in the year, which may even be in-person 🤞🤞

ASP-Parasitologists (@amsocparasit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tomorrow, July 21st is the last day to register for #ASPmtg2021. Late registration costs are slightly higher, but still affordable. Register here: parasitologists.allenpress.com/parasitologist…

Tomorrow, July 21st is the last day to register for #ASPmtg2021. Late registration costs are slightly higher, but still affordable. Register here: parasitologists.allenpress.com/parasitologist…
Chahinez Bouguerche (@chahibouguerche) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Last day to register for #AmericanSocietyofParasitologists-meeting #ASPmtg2021 Glad to take part: talks by Stephen Bullard & Louis DuPreez, Jimmy Bernot, PhD 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈 & Geoffrey Boxshall, @FlorianReyda, Vasyl Tkach, me & Jean-Lou Justine, and many others. Abstracts➡️ amsocparasit.org

Smithsonian NMNH (@nmnh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Smithsonian NMNH scientist Anna Phillips teamed up with NC Museum of Natural Sciences scientist Bronwyn Williams to describe a new species of crayfish worm: Pterodrilus leiteri. The worm has a symbiotic relationship with crayfish, which means that the two animals help each other survive and thrive.

<a href="/NMNH/">Smithsonian NMNH</a> scientist Anna Phillips teamed up with <a href="/naturalsciences/">NC Museum of Natural Sciences</a> scientist Bronwyn Williams to describe a new species of crayfish worm: Pterodrilus leiteri. The worm has a symbiotic relationship with crayfish, which means that the two animals help each other survive and thrive.
A.J. Phillips (@annalida500) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I've come full circle. A failed undergrad project seemed to be the end of my work with crayfish worms. Then, I met Dr. Bronwyn W. Williams. Dreams can come true and they can start with a little worm with floofies!

Jimmy Bernot, PhD 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈 (@jimmybernot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Paper out today in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment examining the state of copepod phylogenetics + reviewing phylogenetic, ecological, and taxonomic data on all clades of parasitic copepods. They've evolved to be parasitic 14+ times! Thanks @crandallkeith & Geoff Boxshall peerj.com/articles/12034

A.J. Phillips (@annalida500) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Listen in to #Sidedoor defang #leeches. It was so much fun working with Lizzie, James, Josh, Aram, and Roberto! Lizzie did a great job bringing together performance art, history, and natural history through leeches. NMNH Invert Zoology ASP-Parasitologists

Kevin Kocot (@kmkocot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm super excited to announce the 2023 Dauphin Island Sea Lab #Meiofauna Diversity and #Taxonomy Workshop! Students will learn all about meiofauna diversity and ID from world experts. Dates: May 10-19, 2023 Application deadline: February 10, 2023 Website: kocotlab.com/2022-disl-meio… Please RT!

Scientific American (@sciam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Parasites are puppet masters—they’re this kind of silent force in ecosystems...They might be the majority of biomass in some ecosystems. They might make up the majority of food web links. And we never think about them.” bit.ly/3T8n5AR

A.J. Phillips (@annalida500) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Parasite extinction is more complicated than it seems, even to parasitologists. It was really exciting to work with Colin Carlson (the birthday boy) and Emily Driscoll on this video and film in the NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections! Smithsonian NMNH NMNH Invert Zoology

Jimmy Bernot, PhD 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈 (@jimmybernot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our new paper is out today using microCT to understand the family Shiinoidae, some of the most unusual parasitic copepods 🧵 peerj.com/articles/16966/

Our new paper is out today using microCT to understand the family Shiinoidae, some of the most unusual parasitic copepods 🧵
peerj.com/articles/16966/