Brian Lovett

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Upstanding Scientist | Insect Pathologist | Entomologist | Mycologist | He/Him/His | Skies are my own

A seminar ad for my talk called Zombies! Invasives! Vampires! Fungi! Arthropod symbioses that inspire biotechnology. Features a photo of me, time of 3 pm on 26 February and the Warnell building 1 doom 304 as location.
An orange banner blaming democrats falsely for the government shutdown covering the entire homepage of the USDA.
The DC metro ceiling. Cement rectangles forming a cylinder in a brutalist style.
Little light brown fungi emerging from mulch. Fully mature they look like birds nests with small eggs that carry spores on raindrops.
Small black/brown cranesbill miner bee rolling around the stamens of a pink geranium.
Black ants gathered around an orange moth pups carrying it along the bark of a tree in cooperation.
Two stickers held together in a hand. One sticker says Ithaca pride alliance with a rainbow waterfall logo. Another simply says I “heart” trans rights.
A man with a brown beard and lilac purple hair. Standing in front of a mural with a rainbow of streaks.
Black text on white background of Sylvia Plath quote: “I feel as if I were rising from a grave, gathering my moldy, worm-riddled limbs into a final effort.”
A tattoo with a detailed rendering of flowers. Spring above including birds foot trefoil. Fall flowers below.
A pinkish red centipede curled gently around pinkish white little eggs held together in a ball.
Butterfly meme with a begrudging email butterfly asking “is this justice??”
A video of a little puddle full of leaves and mosquito larvae and pupae, dark brown Aedes possibly, and a flurry of little white balls bouncing between the leaves- seed shrimp.
A mystery beige moth larva in a Petri dish over a neon yellow sticky note.
Young agriculturalists in silly old timey military style uniforms. Standing in three rows in front of a nondescript building.
A glorious blue shrimp on an aquatic moss in a nano freshwater aquarium.
A yellow lichen with big round yellow apothecia that look like froth.
A suspended 40+ foot fake Christmas tree illuminated with twinkling lights surrounded by light fog allowing lights to radiate out from multiple points encompassing the tree out into the wide open space covered in glass.
Dr. Leskey standing at the podium delivering her lecture.
A mug with a new logo featuring four colored rectangles (blue, green, red and yellow) with pests (mosquito, cockroach, stable fly and tick) each above the section acronym letters: MUVE.
A table with 8 panelists with deep experience in agricultural policy and a moderator!
A small spider with silver stripes and an extremely long pair of black front legs.
An opening slide by Dr. Matt Tinsley with the title Challenges for microbial biopesticide use in IPM.
On one slide the cover of Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman and a figure juxtaposing system 1 (fast thinking) and 2(slow).
A slide reflecting all of the talks in the symposium: a broad slate of talks looking at many different aspects of science policy and advocacy.
A gnat with fuzzy antennae on the window pulling focus from the lit up Ferris wheel on the harbor. The clouds still reflect the early morning sun.
On the back, a carving of a zombie fly perched on an ambiguous rectangle out of an orange pumpkin.
A green hillside with scattered bright yellow goldenrod leading to a lily-covered pond with a wooden boardwalk. The sky is blue.
The one pale pink flower of Monotropa uniflora, the mycoheterotrophic ghost pipe.
A blow fly killed by a fungus, which sent this fly to the tip of this leaf just before death.