Fun thing people do in Tennessee: shooting with rifles in their backyard. Yay.

Can't believe I'm actually tweeting this, but our paper on the Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa is published! I started writing this in 2017 and it was the FIRST chapter of my PhD! That's all six chapters finally out now 😁 #PhDone jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/early/…

#ResearchDialogues #TeamMeiofauna UTC Biology, Geology and Environmental Science Francesca Leasi 🇮🇹

Meiofauna team in Leiden (The Netherlands)

The #meiofauna workshop participants are looking for new species on island of #Texel today. In mudflats, sandy beaches, algae @Naturalis_Sci Ulf Jondelius Alejandro Martínez García Iñigo Rubio López 🐉 Eleni Christoforou Francesca Leasi 🇮🇹

For next #wormwednesday here is Simplicomorpha gigantorhabditis from the tidal beaches of Texel. Here at @Naturalis_Sci looking for #meiofauna with Alejandro Martínez García Iñigo Rubio López 🐉 Eleni Christoforou Francesca Leasi 🇮🇹 and colleagues. Thanks to Jan Macher for organising.

#Meiofauna workshop @Naturalis_Sci , week 2. Ulf Jondelius found a flatworm that is staring back at him 👁️👁️! This one was found on a beach near Scheveningen. Francesca Leasi 🇮🇹 Eleni Christoforou Alejandro Martínez García Iñigo Rubio López 🐉

When you agree to take on another service commitment as a professor in academia.

We are celebrating the 2nd Southeastern Computational School with the topic of RNAseq and Transcriptome Analysis 🗓️ August 10-12, 2022 🏙️ Chattanooga TN 📨Apply now (forms.gle/6nxNZreQ1npSMU…), registration is FREE Details 👇

Another meiofauna workshop. Oh well, no complaints.

Composite image of an unhappy Ototyphlonemertes from the FL Keys everting its proboscis. Photographed within an inch of its life by yours truly and Francesca Leasi 🇮🇹 and preserved in RNAlater for @nemertinator, of course. #meiofauna #sweatthesmallstuff

Kevin Kocot giving an amazing talk on biodiversity genomics and phylogenomics. 👉👈

Come work with me and learn about the smaller things in life! I'm happy to answer any questions about the position, working here, and living in Fort Pierce.

When PI goes back to the bench to show how it’s done x.com/TheBest_Viral/…

One of the million reasons to love Italy: even when you might be voted out of office, there’s always time for espresso. (Pic ⁦Davide Ghiglione⁩)

A college class had two teaching assistants: one male and one female. At the end of the semester, the students scored the male TA five times higher on course evaluations. There’s just one problem: They were the same person. news.ufl.edu/2020/11/ta-bia…

🚨New article alert! New paper by Francesca Leasi 🇮🇹 and BGE undergrad UTC Honors College Jessica Cline. Jessica will join Florida Tech Biological Oceanography MSc program to continue working on meiofauna/zooplankton in Kevin Johnson’s lab. Congratulations! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out our new preprint, in which we used an online survey and expert-based opinion to identify and discuss 50 fundamental questions related to meiofauna research ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie… MEG Verbania IAM

Very exciting PhD opportunity on meiofauna! academictransfer.com/en/338203/phd-…

New #meiofauna preprint: We generated >770 new COI reference barcodes, analyzed more than 550 #metabarcoding samples from sandy beaches of the North Sea, and show that reference #barcoding of beach meiofauna massively improves #metabarcoding efficiency.biorxiv.org/content/10.110…