I miss when Alt meant like heavy eye makeup and putting a pile of your zine style campus newspaper on a table in the college student union, and not like people who won't get vaccianted but insist on drinking non-pasteurized poo milk.

Odontolabis cypri are stag beetles. They live in Southeast Asia including Borneo, Indonesia and Viet Nam. #illustration #drawing #sketchbook #insect #insectsandbugs #entomology #arthropod

The ASPS has come out against trans youth surgical care. The AMA then endorsed the ASPS. Meanwhile, WPATH's president-elect testified on behalf of a detransitioner who won their case. And hospitals capitulate to Trump. I write my indictment of the American medical system on trans youth care.

I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.

Tucked in little claws 🦀 A crab sitting like a cat loaf. So cute𓈒𓏸︎︎︎︎

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Highlights from #Edinburgh cemeteries last week: Male Pale Brindled Beauty, Ocys quinquestriatus (nationally scarce), cluster of 2-spot, Harlequin, 10-spot & Cream-spot Ladybirds & Buchananiella continua with Anthocoris nemorum. #insects #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

The infamous human bot fly (Dermatobia hominis). This specimen is from a rainforest in Honduras, deposited at the Biological Museum, Lund University. [MZLU 00131504] #Diptera #Oestridae 🪰

Recently got a copy of the out-of-print #Dune Encyclopedia (1984) and am obsessed with the design of these tarot cards. These are the only ones there are illustrations for, but the entire major arcana is described in-text. The book even provides sample spreads for divination!

Taxonomists, which names are you workshopping right now? For this cave cricket I'm thinking aedituens (temple-keeper). Found in the same caves as the oldest known fossils of coral reef fish, so I like the idea of it "guarding" them and their memory. #bugsky #taxonomy 📷: Hannah Zurcher

These three stories were all published this week. Abolishing ICE is a reproductive justice issue

It can get lower!

First, the Board decided not to implement motions passed by members to make trans rights a key focus of this year's festival - intended as a response to rising persecution in the US. Now, the only openly trans director has not only been censured by the Board but also misgendered in the process.

The last thing we need right now is a reason for MAHA/MAGA to discredit science further. Please, for the love of microscopes, don’t cite shit you haven’t read.

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

Common Eucalyptus longhorn beetle (Phoracantha semipunctata) relaxing near my regular cafe on campus. This species is invasive pretty much anywhere Eucalyptus has been introduced - that is, anywhere except Australia. #entomology #bugsky

New paper out! 🦀🦐💧

A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity

This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday. AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.

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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

now that I'm back from this conference I can finally get back to my real passion: checking inaturalist multiple times a day for new orthopteran observations in need of an ID

My first article in The Conversation! I was a co-author on this paper led by the fantastic @dr-brock-hedges.bsky.social. We used environmental DNA to detect invertebrates reliant on rock-holes as freshwater sources in Australia's arid lands. #bugsky theconversation.com/meet-the-wei...

Rhipidioides sp. This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳 #ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist

I will never tidepool at night without a uv light again 🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑

CEO of KillCorp: “If you’re not willing to work for slave wages, you should be ground up for meat and served to subhumans who are” Normal_Guy: “Oh man, it’s not good for society to have people in charge who think like this. I hope something happens to him” [Normal_Guy’s account has been suspended]

I’ve seen so many of these weirdly shaped flyers on trees advertising this band and finally met the frontman 🔊 clicking ambertail cicada, Yoyetta robertsonae #bugsky

And for #ArtAdventCalendar day 2, some fishing lures 😅 Variations on this design have trended on social media for a while. I used creme polishes for the bases, some with gradients, and topped them all with a sheer holographic magnetic polish. Then I added details using more creme polishes.

Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.

photo from September of me sticking my hand into the water underneath a concrete tunnel while looking for shrimps and the swimmy beetles literally eating me alive (very slowly)

Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday Here is the positive and negative impressions of Bathyuriscus fimbriatus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Formation in House Range, Utah. The Marjum is age equivalent to the Wheeler Shale but with slightly better preservation.

sorry I literally cannot stop talking about bugs and getting upset about injustice and then getting even more upset at how injustice will affect bugs, who cannot post

the duality of amphipods

it finally rained, so the yard is filled with funny guys again

“COAT BATH” “MASTER R6SKN”

This is a squat lobster, one of the most confusing names because they are not lobsters. They are also not crabs. Welcome to Anomura, the false crabs (also includes: hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, mole crabs) #Crustmas

false killer whales are basically the alien from alien but without any limbs

Right now I'm doing this big writing project on rare species in Florida and thinking about how much they might suffer because of this AI grift, especially the poor freshwater crustaceans, already loved by almost no one, now trapped under Orlando during a water crisis. I hope they get to live.

actual image of me describing new species and naming them after pokemon

...I would want this tho

thrips

#Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

The right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe.

So... seems like Meta's AI has gone rogue flagging accounts for suspension. No idea what I did to trigger this. Can't access Messenger and all of my recent messages in group chats have been deleted. Appealed, but have heard it can take months to reverse, if ever. Has this happened to anyone else?

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years. "Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third." This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government. www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

Ashley Bui of UCR is giving a great talk on eucharitid phylogeny, but most importantly she tells us what the giant scutal spines are for: handles for grabbing by suspicious ants (their hosts)

across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one