I'm proud of our li'l Schoolhouse Rock for Insect Taxonomists cartoon, but if you're not in Bug World here are some annotations for you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI... cc @danlwarren.bsky.social

Starting Monday off with an accepted paper 🐝

Heartbroken to be missing the Southeastern Branch Meeting this week 😢@entsocamerica.bsky.social

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Just a truly photogenic slug to bless your Thursday morning

Friends in the DC area: I will be giving a Profs and Pints talk about the science of sustainable seafood. It's based on my upcoming book on the topic. Please share with interested folks! Get tickets here: profsandpints.ticketleap.com/net/ 🧪🦑🌎🐟

Spending the day doing recertification:continuing education for my commercial pesticide applicators license

Our new #beenome preprint is out! Protandrena passiflorae is a cool specialist pollinator that only visits Passiflora lutea, a subtle vine with small yellow flowers.

Maybe cats are right and we’d all feel better if we sat in a cardboard box.

Wordle in TWO 🎉

Ran across some great #entofashion yesterday at the consignment store…. They were sadly not my size. Has anyone else seen these before?!

Notification of a paper accepted. Good start to a Monday!

Finally deactivated X/twitter. My sleep schedule has been off and struggling - logged in at two am this morning and there were awful gruesome photos. No thank you. And now I’m clearly not getting back to sleep.

Crossposted… Let’s do this again! I’ve read almost all the recommendations made the last few years (way more than 12!) 2025 BOOK CHALLENGE 🚨 Read 12 books recommended by 12 friends. 📕You can only make one recommendation and it should be a book you have already read and LOVE.

Never done taxonomy at the university scale before but I'm excited to find out whose genitalia you get to dissect

Watching the challenger explode on TV at school.

Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

It’s true, god save our Normans

No more flights scheduled for 2024 - so it’s annual flight stats time! Got most of my information loaded into a new app too. Only two trips planned so far for 2025. need to get more things on the schedule 😅 #onthego #flightypassport #travelsummary #readyfor2025 #travelmore #seetheworld

It’s cold in the south, which makes it officially gumbo season!

#Education resource! Over the years I created this collection of colored skull #3Dmodels for teaching. They're available to download on MorphoSource & to view on Sketchfab. Because of recent changes to Sketchfab, I migrated them to my website: www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/work/colorso... (1/3)

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Also why is it so cold outside? This is the south. It shouldn’t be 32f out! It’s too early in the year for my heat bill to be this high.

I just updated my phone, and I hate it! Why is it so wonky looking?! #iphone

Spent some time the other day updating the #beenome100 website! If you’re interested in #beegenomes or #insectgenomes in general, check it out 🐝 beenome100.org

Time to reshare not W that there are so many more #entomology folks here now!

I am excited to watch for your microbe section coming soon. While I was working on a mosquito metatranscriptomics project I made an unexpected discovery of black Queen cell virus (a deadly bee virus) in our mosquitoes: academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...

The CZI science diversity leadership is accepting applications. You have to be an early career scientist (between 3- 10 years in a position) and have a terminal degree. I currently have an award and am impressed with the support. Letter of Intent is due Dec 3. chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/science-...

Spent some time the other day updating the #beenome100 website! If you’re interested in #beegenomes or #insectgenomes in general, check it out 🐝 beenome100.org

Spending my Sunday pulling bees to send in for the #beenome100 project! It’s so nice and quiet with no one here! #beegenomes #genome

🐡 SciArt Feed Administration Note: The SciArt Feed now has 1,600+ subscribers, and hundreds of approved contributors. And I will yeet any artist off of that approved list for being transphobic. My DMs are open if anyone ever needs to quietly report an issue. Safe space. Carry on.

I’m exhausted. Still jet lagged I think? And I had a mediocre at best, tending towards awful day. And I’m over mean people.

This is terrifyingly depressing 😳

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Making meal prep style frozen burritos for the first time today. Anyone have any tips or tricks? This looks like an awful lot of filling…..

This guy is attempting to be helpful… it’s a good thing he’s so cute.

DFW had floofy friends for some traveling dog therapy!

In 131c at 5pm, I’m giving a talk about the Primarily Undergraduate Institution job market and what to do once you get the PUI job. If you’re a grad student or Post-doc at #Entsoc24 interested in teaching, you should come! #FitinEntsoc

Loving the influx of the science community to this new platform and finding all of our #entsoc24 people!

My latest micro-CT scans done on Aussie native bee brains. This time, a first ever look at the brain of the blue banded bee (Amegilla pulchra). 🧪 #bees #entomology #science #insects

one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed

Hanging at the entsoc meeting in Phoenix, here’s my #InsectHaiku @entsocamerica.bsky.social 🐞🏮🪰 👩‍🔬🧪🌎 Spotted lanternfly I like your plasticity New York State hates you

that science convention feel when you're looking at other people in the hotel trying to gauge if they're here for the same thing. looking at a guy right now like "yeah I could see you studying ants"

The local sports bar knows the entomologists are in town 🤣 #entsoc24 #entsoc2024

Good morning Phoenix! #entsoc24 #entsoc2024 #ecn2024

Deb also notes that we have a NEW JOURNAL for your articles about natural history collections and museum-based research:

You heard the man

Justification to keep going to @swrs.bsky.social and Portal!

! @entcollnet.bsky.social meeting Bluesky roll call! 🪲🦋🐝🐜🐞🦗🪰 Who here on Bluesky is attending #ECN2024 ? Chime in if you wish you were attending too. With all the shifts in social media (esp twitter) across the last few years I want to reconnect & know where our insect collections community is at!