Karl Magnacca
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Entomologist, naturalist, all-around bug nerd.
https://www.hawaiianinsects.com
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Peter
about 4 hours ago
women are always saying ālord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.ā ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what youāve wrought.
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Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'ās West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-excerpt
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Alex Wild
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Eric Panzer
about 14 hours ago
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
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A. Elizabeth West
about 21 hours ago
Whew, I've been working on this all day. My discussion of
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#Frankenstein
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aelizabethwest.com/2025/11/16/g...
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Guillermo del Toroās Frankenstein: The Disabled Child
**WARNING!!!! THIS POST CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR FRANKENSTEIN. DO NOT READ UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE!** Poster designed by Empire Design If you havenāt yet seen Guillermo del Toroās Frankeā¦
https://aelizabethwest.com/2025/11/16/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-the-disabled-child/
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Entomologists:
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Jess Calarco
2 days ago
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.
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Grant Lorrell
2 days ago
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.
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Smooth Dunk
3 days ago
your dead AI mother loves you so much ā¤ļø
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Bipedal Meatbag
3 days ago
Big brain stuff happening in Hilo. Turns out you shouldnāt drive a backhoe on a pedestrian bridge.
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Steph is back at work
3 days ago
Federal science 1. is better when its work force is diverse and 2. is worth saving.
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Mia Sato
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5 days ago
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
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Everybody is posting amazing aurora pics AND for once in my life I happen to be in a place theyād be visible, and itās solid clouds š
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Well Developed Postclypeus is my new band name
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Ainsley S
6 days ago
Thanks to Jordan Rainey in the Staphylinid Madness symposium for sharing some full-color photos of the most upsetting beetle Iāve ever seen in my life
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Ainsley S
6 days ago
Standing room only in the Queer Entomology symposium, especially for Chris Marshall and the greatest grad student T-shirt ever created
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Michael Heads is finally vindicated!
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Brian Lovett
6 days ago
Submitted an article to a middling journal. Itās 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 āhigh impactā of the journal 4x. Donāt do this shit people!!
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italianstylemeats
9 days ago
Tiffany, glass. scroll down
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http://tiffany.com/world-of-tiffany/collaborations/netflix-frankenstein.html
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If youāre at
@entcollnet.bsky.social
or
@entsocamerica.bsky.social
, itās still playing in Portland! I saw it last week in Honolulu and couldnāt help notice Elizabethās beetle necklace. š§Ŗš¦
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10 days ago
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The evil opposite of David Bowie
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12 days ago
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Tim Onion
13 days ago
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.
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Jeet Heer
14 days ago
This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
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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 donāt have a blender.
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14 days ago
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CJ Ciaramella
14 days ago
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.
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Wayne Maddison
14 days ago
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...
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The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life andā¦
https://subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/the-passing-of-the-tree-of-life-web-project/
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No doubt this will fully convince their kids how correct their beliefs are
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15 days ago
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Sarah Murphy
17 days ago
Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.
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Matt Bertone
16 days ago
Still looking for horror now that Halloween's over? Fortunately/unfortunately it's all around! š 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 š³ š¤¢
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
18 days ago
The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Donāt 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.
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NY Times Pitchbot
18 days ago
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?
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Frontiers in Laziness
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20 days ago
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I last checked in here when the World Series was in extra innings. Made dinner, watched a movie, came back and itās still going onā¦
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SwiftOnSecurity
22 days ago
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
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Jo Wolfe, PhD
22 days ago
Lol added to crab feed š¦
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Jeff VanderMeer
23 days ago
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.
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Colette Delawalla
23 days ago
Itās not comfortable, there is a risk, and thatās 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 Trumpās name. Call out people and places to take a risk. Courage is contagious.
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Colette Delawalla
23 days ago
Iāve received some feedback this week about generally having a more āpalatableā messageāe.g., not naming Trump or calling out other orgs. I need folks to understand something: Iām not trying to make a palatable message. Iām using the message of science to try to stop authoritarianism in America. š§µ
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Disable
24 days ago
You date your cameras but you marry your lenses.
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P.J. Shapiro
25 days ago
AI is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.
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Coffee Porter Jr.
25 days ago
āoh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-ā itās a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. thereās a reason the aliens in Independence Day donāt aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
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Julia Lynch
29 days ago
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will āvolunteerā for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
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Comics Covers
29 days ago
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Honolulu No Kings. About 30-50% more than June I think (my pictures didnāt capture the crowd very well).
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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 arenāt even billionaires.
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āIt is important that everyone use Skynet,ā says Skynet.
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Coffee Porter Jr.
about 1 month ago
so much for the woke marxist pope, out here abolishing Dei
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