We’re excited to launch the URBAN-VECTOR Training Program! A new initiative by the Urban Malaria Network (lnkd.in/eBUGMbcu) designed to equip researchers and public health professionals with the skills needed to detect, study, and respond to An. stephensi invasion in urban settings.

Bees 🐝

MERRY #CRUSTMAS

New this year: a fossil crustacean preserved in this manner that displays the sternum (underbelly) complete with food groove, and possible labrum in part I! These animals may have been up to 10 mm long and may resemble modern fairy shrimp #Crustmas 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

eye stalks!!!

Omg #Crustmas

Merry #Crustmas and Merry Christmas yall! 🎄🦀🐚💗

i havent logged on here in a bit AND ALMOST MISSED #CRUSTMAS !!!!

Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪

I'm not a tattoo person, but if i was ......

Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Danarma eurymerus found in Okinawa Island. Watch how he moves the eyes. This species was recorded from Japan just this month. (ref/参考文献) u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/20216... ルリメベンケイガニが目をきょろっとさせるあざとい動画です。沖縄本島にて。本州は先月日本から記録されました。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #invertebrate

Isopods!! 🧡

We'll have snacks! #Entsoc25 and #FITatEntSoc25

Wonderful plates with lice, fleas, fairy shrimps, mite, mosquitoes, copepods and other tiny beasts, from The Micrographic Dictionary, published in 1883 Full source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...

you know what is cool? being interested. being sincere. not being mad all the time. committing. especially to hard things but also knowing how to not take it too personally hard on yourself. deep focus. taking care of yourself. and especially, being good to other people.

Cicada adult and nymph, designed and folded by @brianchandesigns.bsky.social using handmade Origamido paper. A birthday gift for my partner, keeping her company on her sabbatical 💚💚

See U in Portlandia! 😇

The stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) — from the first sketch to the final drawing. 🪲 First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on. #SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates

Made it onto the local news this evening talking about #FallColors #Phenology www.wbir.com/video/news/s...

Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪 Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dogs are the best!

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...

Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

We are hiring!! The Department of Entomology at Cornell University is seeking applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Field Crops Entomology. Position details & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30498 Apply by: November 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM

there is also @jopabinia.bsky.social crustacean-posting which is also a highlight here for me on bluesky!!

idk im kind of wtaf about bluesky generally, never have i feel like im inside of a smaller echo chamber than ive ever been before but the science posts are good and the @solomonrdavid.bsky.social gar posting is elite !!!

It’s ok to put the phone down.

New paper about trade-offs between defensive strategies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

GO BILLS! Amazing final 13 sec against the Ravens! Woohoo!

I'm going 2 and 5!

Psst: entomology2025.eventscribe.net

where is the @entsocamerica.bsky.social programmmm?!?!?!

Tried to get away from work for a bit, but #avocados are in the Central American jungle, so I got a few reminders....

Hermit crab in Japan

Sampling clonal grapevine scions and grafted rootstocks across three states to determine how the epigenome of roots, shoots, and berries change across environments, NY sampling team edition.

Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

if you're not following this account, you need to. pure joy!

anyone have any ideas on interesting ways to present diversity indices that are not a table? 😅

A new #RESInsectConsDiv article looks at the influence of traffic-related pollution and seasonality on #tardigrade diversity in urban ecosystems Learn more here🔽 doi.org/10.1111/icad.12838 @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

we need to do something about upping the quality of grant reviews asap. idk if we need outside reviewers to go alongside "inside" reviewers or what. but it needs to happen.

"Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million, it wastes $4 million." Exactly this.

It's Addison Day.

be still my heart. 😍

Are you looking for a faculty job? We are hiring in my department at Roswell Park NOW. Contact me for details as I await the formal ad. (Please RT.)

You CANNOT rebuild trust between people when the trust in centered on shared identity as it currently is. The meta has changed. We cannot approach scicomm the same way anymore. Our expertise and alienation from the average American IS THE PROBLEM and until we train to address that our scicomm will

It’s alive! Our Mycorrhizal Networks special issue is out in Functional Ecology. Packed with spore-tacular science. A collection that highlights advances, identifies unresolved questions & the future research directions. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...