I once spent five days lost in the mountains, and got out by climbing 600 feet down a near-vertical valley wall. This was my first “vacation” as an adult lol.

Hayford, Jurotich, Malik & Chaboo. 2026. Aquatic #Diptera in #Phytotelmata of #Bromeliaceae and #Zingiberales. In (Lin et al. Eds) Aquatic #Insects #Biodiversity and eDNA Monitoring. Insects. www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/17...

wow buddy that’s really epic! amazing work! so can you put your mommy on the phone

CO-SIGNED! I’ve met so many folks who want to study bugs and learn how to find new species, there are absolutely more interested parties than there are jobs

Periodic reminder that even if you view grammar checking as an ok use case (which is justifiable in the abstract IMO), the people running these companies have zero morals or ethics and will twist it in the most evil way possible.

TAXACOM is being reborn. After the mailing list was abruptly discontinued (and its archives apparently deleted) it is being relaunched in Google Groups groups.google.com/g/taxacom Let us rejoice knowing there is once again a place to endlessly argue about “what is a species?” I’ve missed it.

This more than anything is what makes me so mad all the time

New band name: Whale Carcass Event

Also the model for chalcidoid wasp taxonomy

Yes yes yes

(with barely contained rage) I'm going to have a nice weekend

The Screenwriters' Guild is inherently Pastafarian.

I'd probably be more enthusiastic about AI if everyone involved weren't just the dumbest guys?

Anthropic when Chinese companies use Claude to train their own AI models vs Anothropic when they’re stealing everyone’s data to train Claude

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

Huge new work on Hawaiian (and adjacent) weevils! 🧪

This is a great piece of journalism, but it’s telling of the NYT’s editorial slant that they label it “opinion”, probably because it uses objectively accurate terms like “gross” to refer to admin policies.

“Training a human takes 20 years of food”

The Gen X urge to feel good when things are going wrong.

It's Laysan albatross breeding season, so I went to Kaena point on the northwest end of Oahu to see them. A bunch of monk seals hanging around too.

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

this is all racism, obviously, and multiculturalism is great, but i'll note that i'm pretty close to being a median american, and i can't think of too many other people in america with whom i share fewer cultural values that elon musk

Today in staphylinids: found that I had identified the same species under three names in two subfamilies, and also it’s something that apparently hasn’t been recorded here before and I still can’t quite say what subfamily it is 😖

This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in… Credit: Volcano Hideaways

Oh NO I just saw this one, what a sterling example of an image that says “do not take me seriously”

A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories. Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.” You can’t make this shit up. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

A wasp that parasitizes earwigs! Very cool finding. 🧪🦋

My dad was a manufacturer's' rep for high-end audio gear, so I was exposed to many people who would spend literally hundreds of dollars on just speaker wire. Bananas ARE cheaper, boys. :)

this is yet another example of DHS employees literally doing the kind of thing that would get your entire family bloodline erased in morality tales from medieval times, like, bread and salt shit

Having grown up around Boston drivers I know this won’t happen to me (because crossing against the light and/or not in a crosswalk is safer)

Most of Hawaiis endemic flora is threatened. New study shows experimental translocation of a rare Hawaiian tree reveals disparity between remnant and potential habitat doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111686 Great collaboration led by Julia Douglas @dendromecon27.bsky.social, @ntbgarden.bsky.social

Scientists use rigorous language to avoid ambiguity, said no one who's read a species description.

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.

And almost a year after a paper in Science, still doesn't have a scientific name. Not that I would do such a thing, of course. I'm just saying that if somebody wanted to... 🧪

Post a banger that's not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=shNm...

The cutest wasp in the whole world! It attacks spider eggs

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

We submitted a manuscript ,dealing with impacts of war and colonialism on geodiversity of #Ukraine. I am not at liberty to discuss unpublished research - but I want to highlight some published sources and amplify Ukrainian voices, and impact of war on #fossils in UA @nataliajagielska.bsky.social

Interesting result that’s somewhat buried in the data: wire-clip closure jars with rubber(ish) gaskets had the best alcohol retention against evaporation, BUT also the highest failure rate where they completely dried out. Suggests it actually is the best design, just needs the right materials.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

Me trying to use beetle keys:

The release of the Epstein Files really lays bare the evils of (among other things) networking.

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

Maybe this sounds harsh (to editors), but I don't think you should be able to replace fabricated figures with new figures (that are also fabricated) 🧪

The shirt I’m wearing right now is from 1996 :/

no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part

And to give you an idea of the difference in scale it would take to do this for insects, there are about 11,000 species of birds. So an equivalent effort for bees alone would take about 400 people. 🧪

As someone living on a small island who has to fly to get pretty much anywhere, I think we do need very very good rules thank you very much.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n