For Finlands Natur #4/2025. Mustela nivalis (least weasel) in winter coat. #Sciart 🐡 #Illustration #mammals #weasels

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work ❤️

Feeling most thankful and honoured that Aubrey Roberts @aubronectes.bsky.social and co-authors chose to ask me for a painting connected to their paper on Triassic marine invertebrates. #SciArt #Paleontology #Paleoart #Tetrapods #Highseas #Ichthyosauriformes

"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it" It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says! politiken.dk/klima/art106...

Trump-administrationen: En mäktig massförstörelsekult som söker kortsiktig vinning för några enstaka individer. yle.fi/a/7-10086191...

Otroligt skrämmande och sorgligt. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8q...

Vi träffar Greta Thunberg hemma i hennes kollektiv. Och får höra om tortyren hon och de andra i flottiljen utsattes för. I vår granskning framgår att UD tonat ned allvaret i situationen, i sin kommunikation med anhöriga under fångenskapen. Bilder av Magnus Wennman. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0V...

Totalt 40 holkar för flygekorre färdigställdes i går på talko (finlandssvenskt ord för gemensamt frivilligarbete).

Muscina pascuorum. Currently 849 (and counting) animal species observed in the garden and 1303 animal species in the blog. Blogpost in Swedish: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/10/trad... #Invertebrate 🐙 #Diptera 🪰 #Insects #Muscidae #Biodiversity #Macrophotography

We desperately need an enormous amount of Jane Goodalls in this world in order to break the momentum of society and planet destroying death cult persons currently multiplying as leaders both here and there.

"I didn't se it"

Female Drapetisca socialis and the Oribatid Cymbaeremaeus cymba (nymph) as bycatch. Blog post in Swedish: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad... #Invertebrate 🐙 #Arachnida #Acari #Araneae #Linyphiidae #Oribatida #Biodiversity #Macrophotography

Horribly painful or the most fantastic sensation when being dissolved this way? Or neither? Araneus diadematus and Sericomyia silentis. utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad... #Invertebrate 🐙 #Diptera 🪰 #Spiders #Insects #Araneidae #Syrphidae #Biodiversity #Macrophotography

Falling behind in schedule, but #SciArtSeptember 21 - Reef Currently, our ocean life is threatened by the climate crisis. Fossils tell us it’s not the first time: in the past, many species have been wiped out by heating. This one is set in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, 201 million years ago.

Female Sericomyia silentis. Two more images and something in Swedish here: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad... #Invertebrate 🐙 #Diptera 🪰 #Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Syrphidae #Blomflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Hoverflies #Hoverfly #Kukkakärpäset #Biodiversity #Macrophotography

Autistic folks are _heavily_ represented in STEM fields, so it would be far more accurate to say: Autism causes vaccines.

Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us 🧪

Nucifraga caryocatactes macrorynchos. Illustration for Finlands Natur #3/2025. Sticking to strict lateral view. #SciArt #Birds #ornithology #Illustration 🐡🪶

Ukraina i en märklig sits. Attackerar allt fler raffinaderier, börjar märkas av i Ryssland. Men Ukrainas "vänner" i väst säger "inte för mycket, det stör globala marknaden". Samma EU-"vänner" som köpt fossilt för 200 miljarder € av Ryssland under krigsåren (mer pengar än milit. stödet till Ukr)?

Kvadratspindel (Araneus quadratus) - en relativt vanlig art som jag dokumenterat först nu. Mer om det här: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/bada... #invertebrate #Spider #Spiders #Araneae #Araneidae 🐙🕷️ #Orbweavers #Spindlar #Hämähäkit #Macrophotography #Biodiversity

The entomologist song youtu.be/6cbrmyg1UTg?... #entomology #Bugs

I both want and need this on vinyl!

Chilocorus renipustulatus - the ladybird with the shortest scientific name of them all. Well, not really. But anyway. More (in Swedish) here: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/bada... #Invertebrate #Insects #Insekter #Coleoptera #Skalbaggar #Beetles #Kovakuoriaiset #Coccinellidae

Some setae was involved but these blow flies nonetheless remain undetermined. In Swedish: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/bada... #Invertebrate #Diptera #Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Calliphoridae #Spyflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Blowflies #Raatokärpäset #Biodiversity

Picromerus bidens. Or P. trumps as the current POTUS now demands it to be named. utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/bada... #Insecta #Insects #Hemiptera #Truebugs #Pentatomidae #Invertebrate #Typpyluteet #Bärfisar #Shieldbugs #Hyönteiset #Insekter #Macrophotography #Biodiversity

I started a blog and my first post is online! The posts will try to explore topics which are not typically covered by introductory literature and textbooks, e.g. because they are considered to be "too basic". Let me know what you think! weevil-see.github.io/taxonomy/Ide...

The many known unknowns still to be known.

Tvenne humleblomflugor (Volucella). Mer här: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/09/trad... #Invertebrate 🐙 #Diptera 🪰 #Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Syrphidae #Blomflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Hoverflies #Hoverfly #Kukkakärpäset #Biodiversity #Macrophotography

Finländska naturens dag firas i dag. Det firar vi (jag) med en alldeles ordinär Muscina stabulans. Mer här: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... #Invertebrate #Diptera #Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Muscidae #Husflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Houseflies #Biodiversity #Naturensdag

@bengoldfarb.bsky.social When I first heard about sea otter bones turning purple from eating sea urchins I though maybe they might be a hint of lilac but noooope - they can be REALLY purple!

Vanliga men jag dokumenterar dem sällan. Mer här: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... #Invertebrate 🐙 #Hymenoptera 🦟 #Vespidae #Biodiversity #Getingar #Ampiaiset #Yellowjackets #Steklar #Pistiäiset #Wasps #Insecta #Insekter #Hyönteiset #Macrophotography #Macro

Kompostblomfluga, Syritta pipiens. Aningen anonym men ser ut att kunna göra väl i från sig på Tour de France. utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... #Invertebrate #Diptera #Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Syrphidae #Blomflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Hoverflies #Kukkakärpäset #Biodiversity

Jag fotograferar uppenbarligen ljungtorvblomflugor vart sjätte år. Lite snack och två bilder till: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... #Invertebrate #Diptera #Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Syrphidae #Blomflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Hoverflies #Hoverfly #Kukkakärpäset #Biodiversity

"Spektakulär skada" Kort blogginlägg: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... Phymatocera aterrima. #Invertebrate #Insecta #Insects #Insekter #Hyönteiset #Hymenoptera #Wasps #Steklar #Pistiäiset #Symphyta #Sawflies #Växtsteklar #Sahapistiäiset #Biodiversity #Biodiversitet

Om jag inte dummar mig totalt är det här ett alldeles trivialt trädgårdssandbi. Ganska sen observation av denna försommar-art således. utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... #Invertebrate #Insecta #Insects #Insekter #Hymenoptera #Wasps #Steklar #Pistiäiset #Hyönteiset #Bees #Apoidea

It's four-banded longhorn beetle-time in the garden right now. utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... #Insecta #Invertebrate #Beetles #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae #Longhornbeetles #Långhorningar #Insects #Invertebrates 🐙🪲

Grön bärfis har dykt upp i mina trakter nu under de senaste åren och verkar ha spridit sig norrut med fart på sistone. utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... Klimatförändringsgynnad? #Invertebrate #Arthropoda #Insecta #Insekter #Insects #Hyönteiset #Hemiptera #Heteroptera #Pentatomidae

Whichever way you look at it..that's impressive! 👀😅 #birds 🪶

Nycklad till nordspyfluga. Mer om det samt om öppningen till en för mig ny värld här: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... #Invertebrate #Diptera #Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Calliphoridae #Spyflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Blowflies #Raatokärpäset #Biodiversity

An investigation on the effects on the nesting success of intercalary cells, diameter and vestibular length of nests in the solitary wasp Anterhynchium flavomarginatum: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.... @uni-freiburg.de @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @mcorr.bsky.social #wasps #Hymenoptera #insects‬

Needs to be repeated again and again and again and...

Visa framfötterna! Silverfotblomfluga och parasitiska kvalsterlarver: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/trad... #Invertebrate #Diptera #Insects #Insekter #Flugor #Syrphidae #Blomflugor #Kärpäset #Hyönteiset #Hoverflies #Kukkakärpäset #Biodiversity #Prostigmata #Mites #Acari

Läget är allvarligt för Sveriges biologiska mångfald The situation is serious for Sweden’s biodiversity www.naturvardsverket.se/om-oss/aktue...

Man får försöka hinna med när skäggmesarna hämtar luft. Om det och lite annat: utgangspunktnykarleby.blogspot.com/2025/08/bada... #Fåglar #Linnut #Birds #fågelinventering #Biodiversitet #Biodiversity #Biologiskmångfald #Birding #Birdinventory #Ornithology #Ornitologi

425.10 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 15-Aug-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

A look a trends in August temperatures over land areas for the last 50 years... land is generally warming faster than the global mean, but there is still a wide range in the rate of warming across different regions. Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...