This was my first time combining two of my photos, at different focuses, to get a clear, in focus, subject. These Amegilla sp. are currently pollinating all the salvia and tomato plants in my backyard. #macrophotography #bees #auspollinatorweek #pollinatorweek #insectphotography🐝📷

It's Australian native pollinator week! I'll be trying to post a native bee a day. Here's today's (10/11) bee the Ferruginous-tailed Austral-Nomia (Lipotriches phanerura), capable of buzz pollination. #auspollinatorweek #pollinatorweekaus #australianpollinatorweek #entomology #nativebees #science🧪

How many pollinators can you fit in one photo? Found these two brown flower beetles mating next to flying ants and two foraging native bees (Hylaeus and Parasphecodes). #nativebees #bees #entomology #pollinators #science🧪

I have officially heard back that I have passed my PhD! I’m giving myself a day to celebrate before I tackle the corrections. #PhBee #PhD #doctorbee

Last day of teaching for this year! The semester went by so fast! I’m now looking for full-time work so please keep me in mind if something comes up! I’ve got experience in research and undergrad teaching.

A beautiful spot to do some assessment marking!

I’ll be giving a short talk on Aussie bees their cognition in a few weeks for the @neuroethology.org webinar series! Tune in if you want to learn about bees! #science🧪 #entomology #neuroethology #bees

In the park across from my house, these bottlebrush trees attract a ton of native bees. Here is a Lasioglossum (maybe L.bicingulatum but was hard to tell they were so fast) #wildoz #nativebees #entomology #bees

Another native bee during teaching this week. This one is a masked bee (Hylaeus sp.) They (usually) have facial markings, typically in bright yellow - hence the name. #hylaeus #wildoz #nativebee #entomology #australianbees

Dangerfield releasing a bug print line of clothes including bug bags called the entomologist print / bugs galore, feels extremely targeted towards me.

Not a honey bee (Apis mellifera) but an Australian native bee, Trichocolletes sp. on flowering Bossiaea scolopendria. #nativebee #wildoz #australianbees

A memorial piece I did for my partner’s dad, who’s 17 year old cat, Sherlock, recently passed away. I’ll miss you Mr. Sherlock.

Day 2 of our invertebrate prac was great! My students caught a beautiful ichneumon wasp. While o wish I could have shown them some native bees (It’s still a little too cold and no flowers), I was happy to show them at least one Hymenopteran!

We have a fun new prac for the ecology unit I help teach, all on invertebrates! Trying to get the students excited about insects 😭

People protesting against genocide get ticked off about ‘social cohesion’ Racists marching against immigration don’t Welcome to Australia from your political class

Ecology practical I’m teaching this week was on parasites! I think it was a hit with the students 🪱🪰 (we need more invert emojis!)

Just saw a dream job get posted to teach entomology! I am shaking I’m so excited! I’d love to teach uni kids about insects (and other inverts but mostly insects).

Addressing anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination should be on the Albanese Government's agenda for its Economic Reform Roundtable, to be held later this week. But sadly it probably won't be. #auspol #economicreformroundtable 🧵1/

Absolutely massive turnout from people of Sydney marching over Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an immediate ceasefire and end to the genocide in Gaza. March so big NSW Police have now turned us around back over the bridge.. #freepalestine

Over 100,000 Australians marched across the symbolic heart of Sydney today, and together we showed more leadership on one rainy afternoon than our PM and Foreign Minister have shown in 2 years from the comfort of their offices. Free Palestine. Sanction Israel. 🇵🇸 🕊️

The cops closed the bridge, that’s an interesting move.

Some oil pastel spider art I did for my art clubs monthly theme (escape!) I’m enjoying getting back to non-academic art a lot while I wait for my thesis results. #oilpastels #entomology #entoart

Just switched over to using the Fable app for all my book organisation and I’m really enjoying it! You can find me there under FumblebeeFae #booksky #fable

Been taking a big break while waiting for the response for my submitted PhD thesis. So I’ve decided to take up a more physical art medium, oil pastels! Slowly starting to get the hang of it featuring my blue banded bee and European garden spider. #bees #art #oilpastel #insects

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Australia was invited to this Hague group meeting of 30 nations seeking to end the genocide in Gaza, but has chosen not to attend. The Foreign Minister Penny Wong needs to explain to the Australian public why Australia rejected the invitation.

the Minns government is refusing to find $30 million pa to retain public system psychiatrists while announcing over $100 million for prisons - places that cause and exacerbate mental health conditions - in case you were wondering about NSW Labor priorities.

I can’t get over the whole Anti-Semitism Envoy’s Personal Trust Donating to Anti-Immigrant, Islamophobic groups thjng but then, she did say that Palestinian-Australians were a threat to Jewish Australians so why am I still shocked?

Had a book club meet up at one of my favourite places in Sydney, The Australian Museum!

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? A majority of the world’s insect species have no living expert who can identify them.

Acquired two new cats! My first two cats were both older adults we adopted from shelters but these two are my first kittens (rescued from an abandoned property).

For #PrideMonth , an updated reading list by @jjinsing.bsky.social via integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w... List jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/ & be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited. doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #LGTBQI #Pride

Time to move on. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

I'm so happy people are so into these shirts! Pre-orders will be open until the end of the month. They were designed by @franzanth.bsky.social & will be printed here in Philly on 100% cotton Next Level Tees. Pink is *only* available until 5/31 Get 'em here: Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Happy world bee day! Featuring some of the native Australian bees (and honey bees) I’ve gotten to work with through my research. I’m hoping I’ll be able to find future work with native bees and contribute to our growing knowledge of these amazing insects #worldbeeday #entomology #bees #science🧪

Thanks to those who came, listened and asked questions during my talk on stingless bee brains. Small but mighty 🧠🐝 #pintofscience #pintofscienceaus #science #entomology

I can't stop thinking about how the "Gender Critical" response to hundreds of leading UK biologists signing a letter saying sex isn't binary or immutable is "I can't believe that school kids know more about biology than these biologists". Can you imagine saying that out loud without thinking?! Mad

In hoverflies, Target Selective Descending Neurons are differently modulated by background motion than presynaptic Small Target Motion Detector neurons suggesting additional neural inputs. A new model predicts which inputs are required to fit the empirical data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Hey my trans authors. I need one of you to write a historical fiction / retelling of Caeneus. Cheers. #books #💙📚 #booksky

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Post-PhD beach time!

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PhDone! Three years and three months, 186 pages and 45,000 words. And all on learning and brains of one of my favourite Aussie bees 🐝🧠 #phd #phdone #phinished #entomology #science🧪

Thesis is done and all ready for submission first thing tomorrow morning! 186 pages, 45k words and three years. #phdchat #phdthesis #phdone

I'd go even further on this as a trans person who is also a biologist and say that this refusal to consider how being trans can be intertwined with biology means we miss out on understanding facets of *human* biology more generally.

Only one more day until submission day! Last edits being made in between lots of pets from the cats. Bittersweet. #phdchat