WANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!

Merry Christmas to all insect and moth lovers 🎄 @projectpsyche.bsky.social @10klepgenomes.bsky.social

Spoiler: for the love of shrimp please do not let chatGPT/genAI anywhere near data retrieval. Search bars exist. Thanks

We wish you a Merychippus, and a happy New Year! This Miocene, three-toed horse hopes everyone has a safe and cozy holiday season. 🐴🎄

‘‘Tis the season. Tra-la-la-lobe-ite, painted in ArtRage, like 17 years ago. Merry Merry, everyone. 🐡🎨🧪

Crab yourself a merry little Crustmas! #Crustmas The Christmas Island crab, Gecarcoidea natalis, is known for its annual migrations, in which tens of millions of crabs move from the forest to the coast to mate.

I forget where I found this, but have this lovely music video by Euni Cho. "Welcome to O'Town" is an illustration of Hem's song "Tourniquet". It's got a musician bunny and a band of kind Brooklynite bears

Wow, the K-State meat lab and wheat milling club sell beef and flour for under market price. I think I'll need to start buying groceries at the college this year.

congrats to OP and their daughter Vaporeon

this time of yesr can be hectic, so please ensure you're maintaining a proper work/life balance during the holidays! achieve this by pushing your code straight to production on christmas eve so that the any remaining work does not linger over your head. spend time with loved ones, focus unabated!

party larva

You don't really believe in evolution, do you? Constant Reader, I still get this on occasion.

HAPPY BELATED SKUNCH DAY, EVERYONE

Baltimore, I am in you

people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

Grunk is Grunk. Grunk learn code. Grunk see many talkers. Grunk get smart. Pink is good.

I hate to say it, but I found that there were 69 genes in an expression network that I built, and my first thought was "nice"

Shrimply having a prawnderful #Crustmas time! This came to me in a dream in like June. Peppermint shrimp are born male but can switch to being hermaphrodites later in life. They lay festive green eggs. 🧪🦐⛄

I'm not an audiobook person, but The Left Hand of Darkness is a great read.

I will never get tired of photos of octopuses looking at you suspiciously. 🐙📷Lawrence Hylton (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

If any of you are in the central Midwest or thereabouts, Savoy Tea Co. (formerly Fayetteville AR, now KCMO) is one of my favorite regional tea blenders. Their lapsang souchong tea and basil tisane really help with sore throats

dredd (2012) is a christmas movie

fighting your way up or down a building is inherently christmas

Finally wrote this up as a blog post, with lots of links. Enjoy! I'm an "A.i." abolitionist gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

He's real

An early start to holiday leave as I'm home sick with a sinus infection

SOON

Grateful to @pewtrusts.org for funding our snow fly work, in collaboration with Sebastian Brauchi at Universidad Austral de Chile. We are now looking for post-docs to work on the biophysical mechanisms that allow snow fly neurons and muscles to function below zero. newsroom.uw.edu/news-release...

this guy uses AI to generate images based on the work of other artists, and then he directly copies from the AI generated image with paint. he straight up can't invent a painting on his own. why should i care about a painting nobody bothered to conceive of? dude should just mix paints at home depot

I will never apologize for a post

lol, lmfao

Ridiculously plush fly, Lordotus zona, probably

Music that I can only describe as "wet" youtu.be/CXkBQzpRGc0?...

Another Stomatopod! Cloridopsis dubia. #crustmas #sciart #art

ANOMURAN SPOILERS! #crustmas

🅱️vil 🅱️ee room

Fluffy amphy

if you see this I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

This still one of my favorite Pokemon. fanarts

“Some plants produce heat, and a new study reveals for the first time that this warmth attracts insects, which in turn aid pollination. In fact, this may have been among the first pollinator-attracting strategies to emerge in the plant kingdom…” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/an-ancient-f... 🧪

Love this new paper from @leafhopper.bsky.social and Tierney Brosius! Stitching Science: How Knitting Insects Sparks Curiosity and Conversation. American Entomologist Winter 2025. (1/2) academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

Give me your favorite unconventional Christmas movies! The Thing is on my list. #christmas #christmasmovies