Tristan A.F. Long

@thelonglab

Professor, Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University 🇨🇦 Evolutionary Genetics & Behavioural Ecology #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts #JournalKlatch ORCID: 0000-0002-8708-2728

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Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· 20d

And because I thought it would look cool, I mounted the paining on a lazy-susan swivel plate, so you can spin it on the wall… #SciArt

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· 20d

For Owen’s (now traditional ?) grad student painting I chose to depict a pair of male and female sooty oystercatchers (Haematopus fuliginosus), a species in which sexually dimorphic beaks is thought to de driven by ecological competition! #SciArt

Owen holding a circular painting of two black birds with orange eyes and beaks: sooty oystercatchers (Haematopus fuliginosus). They are painted on a spiral blue background

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· 20d

A big day in the #DrosLife lab as Owen Jamieson successfully defended his @laurierbiology.bsky.social MSc on ecological sexual dimorphism! #ScienceDoughnuts

Owen and Tristan posing. Owen is holding a painting of a pair of sooty oystercatchers

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· 20d

Diptera to all the other taxonomic groups:

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· 20d

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· 23d

Since it’s the World Cup finals today, thought I would share this quick Dali-inspired painting I did for my son a few years ago… 🇦🇷⚽️🏟️

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· 27d

Lake forever problems for now (Wildfire smoke edition)

Panorama shot taken from the beach looking out on Lake Huron. Due to extensive wildfires up North, the air quality is terrible and a brown/orange haze colours everything in sight$

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· 28d

If the suits at Marvel had any sense this is how the movie should end…

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jul 9

Another busy/rainy day in the #DrosLife lab, watching all kinds of flies! #ScienceDoughnuts

Tina, Ria & Christina trying another fly mating assay , by watching flies in vials mounted horizontally on a board

Owen and Haleigh look at a camera that is recording flies in vertical glass vials that are part of a RING climbing assay

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jul 2

Seen today at the newly reopened Doon Historical Village, which has been closed since 2020…

Reprint of a historical poster from 1913 of a proclamation from waterloo mayor John B. Fisher that due to an outbreak of smallpox the implementation of compulsory vaccination for town residents.

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jul 1

🎉

Name plate outside my office that has been updated to state that I am now a Full Professor

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 30

My contribution to the ongoing "1%" science discourse is this picture you can send to your favourite preprint author(s) after reading their papers to tell them you liked their work! #SciArt #PawReview

Cartoon of a red panda (Ailurus fulgens) looking forwards with a paw raised. Around the panda is written "THIS PREPRINT IS 100% PAWESOME!"

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 25

Four pan elf peanuts cartoon feature Snoopy hopping, skipping dancing and waving his ears in happiness. In the first panel we can read Snoopy’s thoughts “To dance is to live”. In the second panel, snoopy thinks “For me, dancing is an emotional outlet…” which is continued in panel three “I feel sorry for people who can’t dance…”. In the final panel Snoopy “if you can’t dance, you should at least be able to do a happy hop!”

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 25

Thanks you! Glad you like it. It was a fun thing to draw while the 10yo worked on her teacher’s card!

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 25

Channelling the spirit of @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for tonight’s doodle of…. “Super GARio GARt” #SciArt

Pencilled cartoon of a fishbowl on wheels that looks a bit like the cars from the video game Super Mario Kart. At the wheel is a cartoon gar wearing a cap, overalls and sporting a moustache.

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 22

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpson’s GIF

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 18

Exactly!

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 18

Taking some glamor shots of Owen’s #Drosophila population cages and food arrays for his supplemental figures’ #DrosLife

A fruit fly population cages made out of a ziplock container with a mesh top and a bunch of food vials inside. The chamber is sitting on a neon/laser background image

Close up of a food array where 7 short vials (6 full of greed fly food) are bound with a duct clamp.

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 18

New #DrosLife students Ria, Tina & Christina came in to train on fly-watching (and discovered that our #Drosophila don’t like to mate when it is rainy 😂) #BetterLuckNextWeek

Ria, Tina and Christina stand in front of a fly observation board covered in vials of flies that have no interest in mating…

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 17

A busy morning of filming flies and analyzing videos! #DrosLife #ScienceDoughnuts

Emily and Haleigh sitting in front of a computer screen on which tubes of climbing flies are seen

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 15

I guess I’ll be taking an alternate path to work this morning….

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 12

More #DrosLife assays, more #ScienceDoughnuts!

Photo of a video camera filming a RING apparatus used to measure how fast flies can climb the side of a glass tube after a shock

Top down shot of a half dozen doughnuts, assorted.

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 11

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GoogleScholar results for papers "written by" Elias Thorne

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 7

A Midsummer’s Night Dream!

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 3

Very honoured to be the newest @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social teaching fellow & excited at the opportunity to work with other instructors this year on pedagogy! www.wlu.ca/news/spotlights/2026/may/associate-professor-tristan-long-named-wilfrid-laurier-university-teaching-fellow.html

Certificate indicating that Tristan Long has been inducted as a Laurier Teaching Fellow

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 3

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 2

Tonight’s #SciArt challenge: making gingerbread cookies that look like the study organisms of my soon-to-be-retiring colleagues (rainbow trout for Jim McGeer & white-throated sparrows for Scott Ramsay) for tomorrow’s #LaurierBiology departmental picnic!

Overhead photo of two trays of gingerbread cookies decorated like fish or birds

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· Jun 1

Status Update (as of July 1)!

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· May 29

A very busy week ends on an exciting note as #DrosLife grad student Haleigh (with help from Emily) sets up her first set of fly-climbing RING assays! #ScienceDoughnuts

Haleigh and Emily sitting in the lab annex and recording flies as they climb the side of vials

Tristan A.F. Long@thelonglab· May 23

Of all the #LaurierBiology seminar posters I have made, this is by far the one that was the most stressful to draw! #SciArt