women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

The fact that the butterfly ballot had pretty much the strongest butterfly effect of anything we can readily identify might be some sort of indication that the coining of the phrase "butterfly effect" was actually some botched warning from the future

Whew, I've been working on this all day. My discussion of @realgdt.bsky.social's heartbreakingly beautiful film, #Frankenstein 💕😭 aelizabethwest.com/2025/11/16/g...

Entomologists:

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

I generally treat land acknowledgements like I do corporate DEI trainings: I may inwardly roll my eyes on occasion, but I'm instantly suspicious of people who become outwardly aggrieved by them. For that reason alone I think they actually provide some value.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Big brain stuff happening in Hilo. Turns out you shouldn’t drive a backhoe on a pedestrian bridge.

Federal science 1. is better when its work force is diverse and 2. is worth saving.

hung out with some beetle people, mentioned fairy shrimp, and they mentioned a specialist ground beetle which is a fairy shrimp predator. how can you know that much of the story and then not know the best part, which is that the beetles only hunt at night because the shrimp GLOW IN THE DARK

Everybody is posting amazing aurora pics AND for once in my life I happen to be in a place they’d be visible, and it’s solid clouds 😭

Well Developed Postclypeus is my new band name

Thanks to Jordan Rainey in the Staphylinid Madness symposium for sharing some full-color photos of the most upsetting beetle I’ve ever seen in my life

Standing room only in the Queer Entomology symposium, especially for Chris Marshall and the greatest grad student T-shirt ever created

Michael Heads is finally vindicated!

Submitted an article to a middling journal. It’s a good, but complex study on an important topic. The editor sent us advanced comments. He requested additional experiments, yelled about our title in all caps, and mentioned the “high impact” of the journal 4x. Don’t do this shit people!!

Tiffany, glass. scroll down tiffany.com/world-of-tif...

If you’re at @entcollnet.bsky.social or @entsocamerica.bsky.social, it’s still playing in Portland! I saw it last week in Honolulu and couldn’t help notice Elizabeth’s beetle necklace. 🧪🦋

The evil opposite of David Bowie

What I learned tonight is the future of the Democratic Party is a trans Muslim CIA agent wine mom who wants to eliminate capitalism and barter with people on the free bus.

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

Pork chile verde, one of my go-to meals to prep for a camp trip. I make half this recipe, $6 of meat and $5 of vegetables makes 5-6 meals. Recipe is for an Instant Pot which takes almost no work but you could do it in a pot, and it cooks so soft you can mash the sauce if you don’t have a blender.

Your average Subway 6-inch has an effective range of about 15 feet, making it best for CQC or a sidearm (side-sub?). For increased range and stopping power, you're going to want something baguette-based, like a Croque Monsieur.

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

No doubt this will fully convince their kids how correct their beliefs are

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Still looking for horror now that Halloween's over? Fortunately/unfortunately it's all around! 💀 A parasitoid laid a few eggs in a moth egg. As the caterpillar hatched & grew, wasp embryos multiplied inside to 100s of larvae that ate the entire host, eventually killing & turning it into a husk 😳 🤢

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

Emperor Justinian's invasion of his own country hastened the fall of the Roman Empire. But after a thousand years of darkness and poverty Italy saw a Renaissance. Could the same thing happen here?

Frontiers in Laziness

I last checked in here when the World Series was in extra innings. Made dinner, watched a movie, came back and it’s still going on…

I want my eyeballs fucking irradiated. My 'balls better be fucking sterilized when I'm looking in my rearview mirror. im talkin 100% retinal death Those the kind of headlights i need in my ideal society

Lol added to crab feed 🦀 bsky.app/profile/did:...

try explaining the internet to monks on an island who inexplicably own ebook rights to an obscure translation and think you're pirates trying to steal their gold.

It’s not comfortable, there is a risk, and that’s what makes it powerful. So, when you feel the need to crouch down and not rock the boat: TAKE THE OPPOSITE ACTION. This is AMERICA! Rock the boat. Say Trump’s name. Call out people and places to take a risk. Courage is contagious.

I’ve received some feedback this week about generally having a more “palatable” message—e.g., not naming Trump or calling out other orgs. I need folks to understand something: I’m not trying to make a palatable message. I’m using the message of science to try to stop authoritarianism in America. 🧵

You date your cameras but you marry your lenses.

AI is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Honolulu No Kings. About 30-50% more than June I think (my pictures didn’t capture the crowd very well).

Good article. I think this is the case in science as well except the hype people who will pile on those they see as excessively skeptical aren’t even billionaires.

“It is important that everyone use Skynet,” says Skynet.

so much for the woke marxist pope, out here abolishing Dei