When I visited the AMNH for a seminar on Ants and Palestine last Spring, someone on the zoom chat suggested I "stick to the ants"... but they missed the whole point. motifri.com/ants-in-the-...

Important read! "We must come together to resist attempts to undermine our identities and our work." @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social www.nj.com/opinion/2025...

Starting my second decade as a #trans #womeninSTEM on the faculty at Providence College. We've got ants to study, biology to teach, and barriers to break down! motifri.com/ants-in-the-...

Not sure who wants a postcard but look at these gorgeous USPS stamps!

Fun story about needle ants causing a wicked bit of embarrassing confusion in Massachusetts... www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/e...

Assemblage of Joy, a poem for our Ants in the City column with Motif RI motifri.com/ants-in-the-...

Myrmecina americana ants filmed in #slomo exiting and returning to their nest through a portal they constructed from nest debris #myrmecology

“I really wanted to get stung for you” Grateful for this quote, and others: www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

#pridemonth SICB- Resources for how to support #trans colleagues : “1)Create a #Gender-#Inclusive #Environment Research institutional, governmental, local, and other bureaucratic procedures and policies that recognize and support gender transition…” For the full post: sicb.org

This TikTok is probably my favorite, it shows needle ant vibe checks and a queen too! #lovetheants #brachyponera #myrmecology

We used to post a lot of needle ant tiktoks… maybe should share a few?

Not sure who needs to hear this but Needle ants (Brachyponera chinensis) can really be quite lovely.

@sipappas.bsky.social needle ants are often quite gentle, their stings are pretty mild, this story amplifies unnecessary hype and and should be corrected www.scientificamerican.com/article/inva...

Join us for the 26th annual Rhode Island Bioblitz, June 6-7th! www.rinhs.org

Privileged to meet with students and staff at @amnh.org last week and honored to get to speak about how the integrity and future of our biology research programs depends on political activism and the call for a Free Palestine, in our classrooms and across our communities.

Just a slightly belated post about #TDOV #trans visibility from a transfem prof and a nonbinary theoretical anthropologist and flight attendant doing a little exploring in Arizona (ft. @skylerjay.bsky.social)

Thank you so much, SICB, for sharing the resource that @lovetheants.bsky.social and I created & the survey!

“Her relentless determination is proof that there is always a way, so long as you are willing to put the effort into discovering it.” Kaylee Mulligan reflecting on being inspired by myrmecologist and postdoc Dr. Ioulia Bespalova

Metabolic scaling mysteries and a bit of fiery rage motifri.com/ants-in-the-...

In times of hopelessness, lend a hand where you can, we need each other. motifri.com/ants-in-the-...

What better demonstrates that ‘biological sex’ is but a social construct than the u.s. president needing to declare it to be binary by political fiat in order to uphold its legitimacy.

Remember to keep your eyes on the prize: the future world you want to build Don’t drown thinking only of the things you are against Remember to dream of and work to create what you’re for

Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help? Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...

Rep Zephyr rises.

The cognitive dissonance necessary to work a shelter and get to know folks, night after night, and then have to abandon them to their fate on the cold streets as facility space was no longer available… beyond heartbreaking.

This is the kind of action that we need as we face the rise of fascism in this country. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/jackie-gol...

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center job opportunity: serc.si.edu/get-involved...

Lighting three candles tonight from New Hampshire with love

Merry xmas, happy chanukah, and free Palestine! May genocide be stopped, capitalism uprooted, and may we all experience trans and collective liberation, from the River to the Sea, and beyond.

What was supposed to be a simple story about tribalism and cuticular hydrocarbons was actually way more complex motifri.com/ants-in-the-...

By all means, the resources DO exist its just not popular in public discourse which is frustrating www.nature.com/articles/518... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.cambridge.org/core/journal... bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/1... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There is a deep and mysterious taxonomic language far beyond Latin, spoken only by those chosen by the bugs themselves... 🤭

Not sure if this is super common knowledge but I just learned that if you navigate to a starter pack, you can slide over to see the recent *posts* from everyone in that group! 💕🐜💕 go.bsky.app/zo95qR

School's out ya'll!

A quick insect pinning tutorial featuring Brachyponera (needle ants)! (Also quickly saving/sharing here in case we lose TikTok) #entomology

At the last bondage class I took they explicitly said to keep the shock collars *away* from our necks. Also: wtf?!?

“When cruel injustice becomes enshrined in law by politicians fueled by hate the only conscionable response is to dissent.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Simon Levin has a famous paper, cited almost 10k times, on scale in ecology… and @hormiga.bsky.social just matched it for impact! “If you’re concerned about <x>, then engagement and advocacy at the local scale is where it can make a big difference.” scienceforeveryone.substack.com/p/be-sure-to...

Please forgive the hubris, but don’t think I’ve ever felt so much pride in one of my lab’s undergrad research students as just now when she caught *and corrected* the error in a formula in a PhD student’s dissertation! Let’s go!!!

Sixth in our local paper’s Ants in the City column: featuring a little inspo from @pogonokwap.bsky.social on myrmecophiles! motifri.com/ants-in-the-...

Gathering together some of my ant digital drawings and thinking about doing more this winter. I start missing ants a lot during winter. My colonies are asleep and there are no ants outside.

When you win the bluesky lottery! Thx @queergeog.bsky.social!

UPDATE: NYPD have arrested at least two of those faculty members. Arrests ongoing!!

The footnotes are <chef’s kiss> not to be missed

Dark skies and fireflies: What light pollution means for insect conservation Talk by Avalon Owens tonight at the Cambridge Entomological Club (in-person or on zoom)!

On the Eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Eight ants a-milking, Seven wasps a-swimming, Six flies a-laying, Five gold beetles! Four buzzing bees, Three French worms, Two turtle bugs, And a painting of a small flea. 🖋️ 🐜 🐡 #invertebrate #advent #ArtAdventCalendar

“Just write from your heart, and share a draft with me when you’re done…”

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today about Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for young people. This is not a both-sides story. One side is right and the other is dangerously wrong. Nazis were the first people to try to destroy trans health care. @bschillace.brandyschillace.com (1/n)

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in US v. Skrmetti, a case challenging TN's ban on hormonal therapies for transgender minors. This case threatens not just transgender kids but everyone who wants to live their lives outside government enforced gender roles. A thread. 1/x