Mark Harvey's work has been profiled in a new Invertebrate Systematics collection, '1000 new species—a lifelong dedication to biodiversity discovery'. connectsci.au/collection/2... Photo: Gymnobisium inukshuk, a troglobitic pseudoscorpion species described by Mark. #InvertebrateSys #FreeToRead 🕷️🧪

Dr Mark “Spider Man” Harvey, Western Australian Museum Research Associate and Associate Editor of our journal Invertebrate Systematics, has reached an extraordinary milestone: he has described 1,000th species. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #InvertebrateSys

An elephant mosquito in my backyard! These nectar-feeding beneficial #insects don't drink blood and are the largest species of mosquito in the world! The larvae eat other mosquito larvae, too 🥰🎉🦟 Toxorhynchites speciosus, Macquarie Park NSW #Invertebrates🦑

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

I'm watching Twilight for the first time. Does Bella steal a cactus from the wild to take with her to her Dad's house?! That is pretty irresponsible. 🌵

I just found a small ichneumon wasp in my room and I'm like "hey little one, I'll help you out" and I gently cupped my hands around it to shift it 15cms to fly out the door, and she bloody stung me on the finger - a tiny zap, but excuse me, you are not the friendly little wasp I thought you were. 🦑

A fossil from about 66 million years ago reveals a species of dinosaur that is new to science, with claws that would have ripped through its prey's flesh

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

xkcd absolutely nailing what it's like to be an entomologist. xkcd.com/3140 Except for "horrifying", read "fascinating". Entomologists are hard to horrify. About bugs, anyway.

✨ It’s published! ✨ 🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trying to use #StrainSeeker and the website seems down - anyone have any news about this? 🧪 #Microbiology #bacteria #academicsky

🎖️ Are you, or do you know, an exceptional entomologist? A student looking for support to attend the 5th Combined Australian & New Zealand Entomological Societies Conference? Then check out the awards & grants offered by the Australian Entomological Society buff.ly/eGXRjaC Nominations closing soon!

I'm reviewing my fifth manuscript for the year, and I've decided that scientists overuse conjunctive verbs, and it annoys me SO much. Additionally, stop it. #AcademicSky

I feel like I should win an award for how many times I've attached the wrong file when I'm replying all. 🙇🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

You too should have to think of Big Dick Bigfoot whenever someone mentions ChatGPT

Shame on you, @albomp.bsky.social & Senator Watt, shame. "If the old power plant damaged the art then contemporary industrial emissions will be damaging the rock art at least five times faster." theconversation.com/how-the-nort...

NSW floods: death toll rises to four after man’s body found in car as intense rain moves south

Trans men’s insight on this is so fucking valuable in understanding the nuances of what’s going on with men. We need to be amplifying them, and hopefully cis men can realize what is actually the source of their loneliness.

Good morning, Bluesky.

New #RSOS paper investigating chemical defences and visual signals in a wasp #moth. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @hannahmrowland.bsky.social @amatageorgeii.bsky.social @liisahamalainen.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social

#LiteratureNotice Zhang et al. A #NewSpecies of the genus Anoplophora Hope, 1839 ( #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae, #Lamiinae) doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #LonghornBeetles

Complex signals, complex defences: there’s more to defences than meets the eye. New from @amatageorgeii.bsky.social & @liisahamalainen.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @mpic.de royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #aposematism #chemecol

New paper alert! 🎉 We found some interesting differences in defensive strategies in our cute little Amata wasp moths. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @hannahmrowland.bsky.social @liisahamalainen.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @gmramon.bsky.social #OzInverts

A sign of how far right the Republican party has moved. The first Earth Day in 1970 was supported by then president Richard Nixon (a Republican) who also signed the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and other key pieces of environmental legislation.

Crowded room. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Scenes from John Heritage's The Mysterious World of Dinosaurs. Art by W Francis Phillipps and others. I find it baffling that people were still illustrating animals like this in 1980, but they were.

Paper alert! I'm happy to share that my first research paper has been published! 🐝🌸 Road verges can support #pollinators but their potential for preserving representatively diverse and even communities is limited, due in part to high densities of non-native plants. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Psst, mainstream media reporting on the upcoming federal election 👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/20... The environment IS a key election issue. Australians care A LOT about the environment.

I agree 100% and get so mad about this topic. We don't deserve these animals when we can't even look after what we have! 😠

My favourite thing about science is planning a 2-month experiment down to the hour, months in advance and then everything goes to hell at the last moment and you have to run around getting things express posted and hoping they arrive in time - really gets the heart pumping! 😅 #WomenInSTEM

Tardigrade won #invertebrate of the year! 😍 Probably the best news we'll see all day, and see below for a lovely quote 🧪

In honour of Hayao Miyazaki I've implemented the biggest update to the GenAI mute/block list in a few months. Clear your feed. Let me know of any missed accounts and any false positive I might have swept up. I'm not perfect and happy to review mistakes. bsky.app/profile/eidy...

Guardian Australia has launched a series about nature and threatened species. It's called Last Chance: The extinction crisis the Australian federal election is ignoring. Includes videos, news and comment pieces. Here's a preview of what it's about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kQ...

Make climate and environment big issues this election by voting for them. Cutting taxes won’t give your grandchildren a better life. #AusPol

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

I see the Royal Society is one again being the Royal Society 😤 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm at one of my most favourite pubs in the city, having a beer on a hot Friday afternoon by myself. Two men in suits are sitting at the table next to mine, 60yo at least, and one of them is complaining about his wife so loudly.

I had a go at tagging some honeybees for an upcoming behavioural assay today, and I only super-glued myself to one bee once :) #Invertebrates🦑 #Entomologist 🐝

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This is a fancy, diurnal, clear-winged moth sipping liquid from a leaf. Moths in this family often resemble stinging insects, but this species didn't get the memo. It went for jungle air-shrimp instead. #Inverts #MothMonday (Euryphrissa sp.) Tatama National Park, Colombia

This article about scientists switching from Twitter to Bluesky quotes me (and @trevorabranch.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com ) 🧪 #SciComm www.dailyuw.com/science/scie...

Blue is not an easy color to find for #Lepidoptera, but #Arctiinae always provide! Not too many photos of this species online. Try to find it! I'll drop the ID here tomorrow. #BlueBugs #BlueMonday

✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬 The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities! Please reskeet!

Attention beekeepers in Australia - big/small, hobby/commercial. We need you! The Australian Colony Loss Survey is open now until 10/3. It’s 7 minutes and open for all beekeepers regardless of whether your hives have been affected by Varroa. Please share www.coloss.au

Nature is art 💚 Our lone orchard swallowtail caterpillar has pupated! Good luck little one! 🦋 #OzInverts #Entomology #Invertebrates 🦑

Wow, my artist post went off 😅 Maybe I wasn't clear - I'm writing a grant application for a study that hasn't been done yet - I think that scientists should be considering how they will communicate their results from this grant writing stage and adding budget for artist commissions for #scicomm! 1/3

A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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