Soapberry bugs changes their body shape and reproductive strategy depending on nutrient. @aphanotus.bsky.social @colbycollege.bsky.social is revealing how these traits have evolved! #PASEDB2025 #polyphenism #soapberrybug #nutrient

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

Biology building stairwell guerrilla art @colbycollege.bsky.social

Okay, wow. Systemic in utero gene editing could in theory be used after fetal genetic screening. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Teaching undergraduates i often think about what understanding of science they should take away if, for example, they enter government service. This is why. www.wsj.com/science/how-...

I’ll have to try this. #Rstats geocompx.org/post/2025/sm...

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Open Letter, signed by all former NWS Directors: www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/05/06/n...

⚠️ More than 9️⃣ 0️⃣ % of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting humans, according to a new study led by Scripps Oceanography scientists. 🍽️ Learn more. ⬇️

🌟We have great satellite meetings!🥳😎 - Spiralia 🐌🪱 - Arthropods 🦋🦗🪰🪳 - Fishes🐠🐟🐡 - Non-bilaterian 🪼🪸 Remember to register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396 #evodevo #pasedb #science

We are excited to announce the Arthropod Satellite Symposium at #PASEDB2025 #evodevo 🦋🦗🪰🪳 Our outstanding speaker: Jennifer Brisson, University of Rochester "The evolution and development of aphid wing dimorphisms" Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

We are excited to announce the Arthropod Satellite Symposium at #PASEDB2025 #evodevo 🦋🦗🪰🪳 Our outstanding speaker: @patrickrohner.bsky.social UC San Diego "Can development predict macroevolution? Insights from dung beetle horns and fly wings" Register: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

We are excited to announce the Arthropod Satellite Symposium at #PASEDB2025 #evodevo 🦋🦗🪰🪳 Our outstanding speaker: @anyimv.bsky.social Duke University “Decoding Butterfly Wing Patterning: Analysis of the Uncharted WntA/Fz2 signaling Pathway” Register: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

🌟Remember to register #PASEDB 2025 Biennial Meeting (July 22-25)! 😎 Register here: evodevo.wildapricot.org/event-6007396

This is deeply disturbing. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...

Wish i could’ve posted this for Mother’s Day! www.biographic.com/mother-load/

No connection between these notification items. None at all. 🤭

Update: “Now [the Klamath] has a chance to do something even more important: show a way toward...sustainable agriculture...however, the Trump admin suspended funding ...for the wetlands restoration...and laid off...employees who facilitated those projects.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o... #envhist

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

How many insects can you see in this photo? Believe it or not, there are five. This termite alate fell victim to four perfectly camouflaged assassin bug nymphs (Reduvius tarsatus) Their bodies are covered with minute setae that trap grains of sand and various debris, making them virtually disappear.

Z is for Zebrida, completing the alphabet of #CrabAZ! This pretty little guy rides around on fire urchins, which are venomous to us. But the crab nibbles its tube feet! Its body shape and colors both match and contrast with the urchin. But it's not over yet! Come back tomorrow for a bonus post 🦀🧪🦑

Reminder that NIH grants are NOT reckless spending. They are extremely competitive. The mean success rate of all grants is <24%. Far lower for R01's that are the lifeblood of most academic labs. All the data can be found here: report.nih.gov/funding/nih-...

Although the hits keep coming, we must continue to fight for the future of science. Whether in your classrooms or in your neighborhoods, get the word out about the breakdown of our federal institutions. Make sure that people know what this means for their future and the future of the country.

The latest call for @biologists.bsky.social Workshop proposals (to be held in 2027) is now open! If you've got an innovative idea for an interdisciplinary workshop in the biological sciences, this is a great opportunity. You set the theme and choose the speakers, we organise all the logistics.

More cool #devoevo / #evodevo, hot off the presses at @pnas.org #zebrafish doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Also worth mentioning, from a few months ago: @tianshenbio.bsky.social et al. explores the famous cortex locus in #Lepidoptera, finding a conserved #microRNA regulates pigmentation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Also from @ecoevodevo-lab.bsky.social on the life cycle dynamics of #microbiota (in dung beetles, so lots of microbes, ya) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

#Hox genes-- not just embryonic patterning! Here's a fascinating look at their influence on adult head structure in dung beetles. From the lab of @ecoevodevo-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This study popped up in my Google Alerts. Need to read closely, but I'm always interested in gene network analysis as follow-up to RNAi. And Dll, of course! zenodo.org/records/1431...

Haven't been on BlueSky in a while, bc life. But feel like it's time to post links to papers on my reading list. First up: cool molecular evolution / plasticity story from @dimomid.bsky.social et al. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

in slightly less serious #DigitalFriday news, if you're tired of the udm=14 workaround it seems like swearing in your google search automatically removes the unwanted "AI summary" (HT @metafilter.bsky.social ) www.tumblr.com/andthenthere...

Reminder that fairy wasps can sometimes look like actual humanoid fairies when they hover 🌿🐝🧪

🦋 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Well RATS. Climate change might mean more of them. A new paper from @jrichardson44.bsky.social shows that cities with increasing temps and more urbanization ended up with more rat complaints over time. www.sciencenews.org/article/rats...

Ssssso not that I’m bitter or anything but that reminds me that there was once a domestic cat constellation called Felis but it was eliminated by the International Astronomical Union in 1930. ☹️ www.ianridpath.com/startales/fe...

I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

Six years ago today 🌿 Brighamia insignis, the Hawaiian endemic ʻŌlulu, blooming at the Maui Nui Botanical Gardens. Extinct in the wild since 2019 but now in cultivation, it’s believed its sole pollinator was a now-extinct hawk moth. This has made it impossible for it to reproduce on its own.

ocean soup ✨ (2021, acrylic paint)

Thanks to everyone who joined in on the @cosplayforscience.bsky.social TAL-X workshop at #SICB2025! Much was had and it was awesome seeing you all embrace the C4S Method!

My fabulous colleague Cathy Bevier from @colbycollege.bsky.social at #SICB2025 talking about thermal ecology and physiology affecting mink #frog distribution

If you came to my talk today at #SICB2025 (or didn’t!) and want to get a copy of the science communication logistics worksheet, check it out at bit.ly/heySICB

Hey #SICB2025! Want to level up your science outreach? Join @cosplayforscience during the Tal-X workshop tomorrow night to learn how to develop pop culture themed immersive experiences for science outreach and education through the C4S method! #SciComm #Cosplay #CosplayForScience

My first Bluesky post and I'm excited to say if you're at #Sicb2025 - come check out my talk tomorrow at 9:45a in A707. Learn about quantitative proteomics of dentition! For my #EvoDevo, #VertPaleo, #Rodent fans - it should be fun!

Just having read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay I’m absorbing Scott Gilbert’s talk on holobionts rather differently #SICB2025 #iykyk

Scott Gilbert celebrates @sicb-dedb 25th anniversary in his plenary at #SICB2025

New #paleoart for some big #dinosaur news! The UK's largest dinosaur tracksite has just been unveiled – tracks made by a Middle Jurassic theropod and multiple sauropods stretch for hundreds of metres across an Oxfordshire quarry. Short thread on the #sciart I made for this remarkable site...

I'm gathering that Bluesky is less interested in long science threads 🧪, but I need you all to know the majesty that is the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum: It can 'feed' on sunlight; gives birth to live, pregnant clone-babies; needs to be bacterially infected to survive. Photo by Shipher Wu.