Dr Meredith Cenzer

@MeredithCenzer

Studying local adaptation & plasticity in soapberry bugs via the Pathways to Independence program at UChicago. I also like to read & climb rocks. She/her/hers.

Joined October 2013

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  1. Jan 24

    Tired of using the same black and white pictures of bearded old white guys in your teaching? I love this awesome (& growing) resource to show the diversity that exists among biologists! With slides & presentation notes!

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    Jan 13

    Excited to see my final chapter published We found that odorant receptor tuning is linked to the evolution of sexual signaling in orchid bees using a combination of chemical ecology, population genetics, whole-genome resequencing, and neurophysiology

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    Jan 14

    How does dirt shape food webs? With , we find that generalist caterpillar species narrow their diet breadth in serpentine soil plant communities, shifting the plant-herbivore network towards a more stable structure. Fave PhD chapter :-)

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    Jan 9

    Excited to see the second chapter on my dissertation online in ⁦⁩! This paper describes my biggest experiment: 6 monarch butterfly populations from around the globe reared on 6 milkweed species. Stay tuned for more from this system!

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  5. Jan 3

    Super stoked to see Louie Yang's and my paper on seasonal windows of opportunity in monarch butterflies on the cover of !

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  6. Before I started doing it myself, I vastly underestimated the amount of cursing involved in coding.

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    14 Dec 2019

    Here’s a link to recent invited talk I gave on insect declines. 10 action items that every entomologist/bug enthusiast should do regardless of background, profession, orientation listed. Action’s needed if goal=improve public insect interest & save insects

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  8. Dear reference letter writers, Please internalize this list so you won't do all these gendered things in your letters. Sincerely, everyone

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    I CAN FINALLY POST THIS ☃️🌲🌨

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  10. I'm gearing up to sit on my first grad admissions committee at and I want to do this right! I'm currently basing my rubric on these holistic review criteria & references from . What other advice have you got for me, science twitter?

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    20 Nov 2019

    Every entomologist should know these 2 facts, so u can say it when asked why insects are important: $57Billion/yr is the benefit of insects to US as pollinators, decomposers, pest control etc; and >40% of all insects may go extinct in ~2-3 decades at current rate. RT if you care

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    Looking for a postdoc in evolutionary ecology or behavioral ecology to work in the tropics? This one is awesome, and even better if you come to work on Coreidae with me!

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  13. A soapberry bug and a Florida predatory stinkbug pause to admire each other's fashion choices:

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    18 Oct 2019

    Silver-banded hairstreaks (Chlorostrymon simaethis) nectaring on balloon vine (Cardiospermum corindum) in . Caterpillars are located in the inflated, papery capsule where the seeds are stored.

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  15. The whole set-up has 8 chambers and records rotations with IR break-beam sensors:

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  16. The majestic soapberry bug in flight!

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    23 Sep 2019

    "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," climate activist Greta Thunberg tells the UN. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you."

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    I’m Not Only Striking for the Climate

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    19 Sep 2019
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  20. This Friday, I will be joining one of the many Chicago marches, starting at 11am at S Columbus Dr and E Roosevelt Rd. ! Find a strike near you at

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