Designed this little spider hat for Halloween! Posting pattern on Ravelry tomorrow :)

whatever you think of the country as a whole there are still a whole lot of great people here who deserve better than this

I designed a horseshoe crab sweater and published it on Ravelry on National horseshoe crab day! If you ever thought to yourself “man, I really want a hand knit sweater with horseshoe crabs on it” boy do I have great news for ya www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Self portrait

Found some horseshoe crabs while wearing my horseshoe crab sweater (and flipped them right side up)!

Cicadigan

Back to book pitching, so here I am caring about the # of followers I have 🤦‍♀️ HELLO! I'm a 🦑 scientist on a mission to get people to take action to protect earth's biodiversity. Alongside others, I use street art, zines, photography, collabs, & more to encourage action. Tell ur friends 😅

One of my semester projects…nearly done and then it’ll get a less obscured photoshoot

Recently completed leafhopper sweater (designed by @leafhopper.bsky.social) modeled by @ibycter.bsky.social with help from Diego and Zora in scenic Quidi Vidi Village! #EntoFashion #Knitting

hey do you want to test knit my horseshoe crab sweater? if you do, here’s the link!

YEEEEAAAAHHHHH

Look at this great picture of me wearing the horseshoe crab sweater I designed and knit!

just text and then it’s over, just text and then I can rest.

Time for another testing call!!! Link is pasted in the post below this one, super excited to get more bug patterns (and ant facts) out into the world 🐜❤️ 🧶

Locked in yesterday and finished the painting part of my leafhopper comic. Next…to outline these all in ink, and then add lots of text in illustrator! I managed to ruin my big guy on the left with wet hair but luckily I’d already scanned him in!

The ittiest bittiest babyest leafhopper ever watercolored I think

@entsocamerica.bsky.social using AI generated images in its award presentations at the Eastern Branch is really, really embarrassing, especially for a society that focuses on scicomm and science illustration through conference workshops. Really making me reconsider renewing my membership this year.

New sweater in the works!

I would never use AI to create art because I hold myself to this really high standard of not doing things that Elon Musk would approve of and taking a cowardly shortcut to a meaningless end, yet still expecting people to be impressed…yeah. sounds like something Elon Musk would be all about.

Welcome to the singular best thing I’ve ever painted and also why do I stop painting for months at a time??

hop? hop. hop!

yelling about science again!

Love my departments, marched against monarchy with a bunch of EEB and EIS GRAD students and @joannamasel.bsky.social

one of these shirts is for a faculty member of my department! get out there!!!! fight for your science! and for my science please I would like very much for there to be science when I finish my doctorate

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

When will we see a massive stop-work strike by federal employees? Air traffic, trains, electricity, law enforcement, military, embassies, and all. Make people realize that federal government provides essential services.

Hey evolutionary biologists/ecologists/entomologists? What’s a book you’ve read that has *fundamentally* changed or inspired how you feel about your field?

I want to be so clear here: using AI art during talks does not make them look better, it makes them look lazier.

Designed a sweater based around the iconic arthropods of the Sonoran desert. Test calls for the Desert Dweller Sweater (swoncho?) will be out in mid Feb!

it’s nice to do something that AI can’t. if you’re feeling hopeless moving into the new year, pick up a hobby that has you working with your hands ❤️

There are not many things in this world that I hate more than having a website and then needing to update that website.

Published my ants in a row raglan to ravelry today. very cool and fun that I get to do this, very cool and fun that other people are into it as well. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Sigh. The process of sweater design. Back to the drawing board on my western style. Thinking of adding ecological processes around the bottom. And maybe saguaros and woodpeckers on the sleeves? Lots of different directions to go in; too much inspiration in the desert. Any suggestions?

sticks&leaves vest; nice pattern to chew on during seminars, excited to finish it…which I’ll do once my extra skein of yarn arrives 😂

Ok! I’m back! With a 1st place at the EnSoc Juried Art Exhibit, a yarn sponsorship for a sweater focused on desert ecology, my first year of the AZ insect fest under my belt, and stippling skills (in progress). happy to see everyone.

Designed and knit this leafhopper sweater :)