Anyone else have the goofy gut reaction of surprise that the latest @xkcd.com is called "Holes" despite not really showing a single hole for a thing that's usually pretty obsessed with thinking about topology? xkcd.com/3266/

Here's a nice article by Hubert in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social blog about the history of our Mothbox project! methodsblog.com/2026/06/30/d...

NOT ALLOWED TO SAY HOW TO FIX ANY OF THIS - dashare.zone ADMIN

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Man Effective Altruism bullshit infuriates me so much. Their train of logical leaps that lead to absolute absurdity would be hilarious if they weren't actively destroying the world and draining money from poor people who actually need help now.

DEADLINE TODAY: June 30 - Call for talks and posters and abstracts for with some travel funding "Toward Integrative Social-Ecological Knowledge Systems: Conceptual and Computational Foundations for Ecological Synthesis" Friedrich Schiller University Jena indico.rz.uni-jena.de/event/329/ab...

New paper out suggests there are a LOT more species of insects in the world. Their estimate: 20.3 million species, of which we have described 5% 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Mothing journey using #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth . . Here's no. 22 - Comet moth (Argema mittrei)💚 Living for 4-5 days as adults with "speckled eyes" on wings #comet #moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek mothing with @dinalab.bsky.social @amnh.org

Methodology for assessing the suitability of immature stages of Lepidoptera for nocturnal surveying using ultraviolet flashlights. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... #Butterflies #Leipdoptera #entopmology

I should add that higher education has just worn away my respect for “cleverness.” Im an academic and scientist, everyone I know is “smart” in some way 🤷🏻‍♀️ Humility, integrity and compassion are what truly matter.

Our whole pipeline (labeling to training to detecting) is done entirely LOCALLY on a LAPTOP. And we even proved it this week doing this at a remote hacking retreat with low internet. You can have amazing AI stuff without giant data centers if you have actual use cases!

me + @wellreadpanda.bsky.social have been hand crafting another artisanal, open, machine-learning insect detector for #Mothbox like devices w data from a dozen more countries and using the new Yolo26-obb model, and works wonderfully! We use rotated boxes to reduce cognitive load of human reviewers.

I am pretty sure we have reached the point where at least 50% of all dogs are named "Luna"

“Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.” Of course, why not?

Another one from last year.

if, in some glorious future, we are past the trump years, and institutions start wanting to look cool in front of marginalized communities again, please hold your institutions accountable. make them pledge if they are at this pride parade when folks don't need help, they will continue when they do.

Happy Pride Day in Panama! If you are in Panama, help each other organize to have fun at the Pride Parade today! and reminder: institutions that say they are "allies" when it benefits their image at parades and social media, but don't show up when queer folk actually need support were never allies.

go buy/play this it’s smart and weird and brilliant

I am helping organize the fun Moth outreach event at @amnh.org on July 23 for #Mothweek! Can hang out with us and learn about moths and moth art! www.amnh.org/calendar/mot...

good morning please observe Sam Jaffe’s footage of Flannel Moth Play Group m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6lr...

3. It's big pink moth season!

I got an itch and added a Pixel Mass feature in our software. You can do a fun process to calculate how much real-world area your insects would cover. This is apparently a heuristic some scientists can use as a proxy for biomass estimations and has been a requested feature during our travels.

I got an itch and added a Pixel Mass feature in our software. You can do a fun process to calculate how much real-world area your insects would cover. This is apparently a heuristic some scientists can use as a proxy for biomass estimations and has been a requested feature during our travels.

Massive congrats to @maartjevandenderen.bsky.social for defending her fantastic thesis! 🥳 Maartje did her scientific illustration thesis with us on #spider #sleep @sleeblab.bsky.social Super cool experience & a pleasure to advise her. 👀 to hire an #illustrator >>> 💻 📞 Maartje!!! Colored pencil 🤯:

There's now a Wandrer Garmin datafield: apps.garmin.com/apps/31955e6... See your live Wandrer map data and new roads count. Currently only the 840, 1040, and 1050 are supported, and this is for the upgraded folks too. More devices to come!

a lot of fun coverage of our Heliconius longevity paper last week! here's me on NPR's All Things Considered for those of us who prefer audio: www.npr.org/2026/06/20/n...

Correction: The Lincoln Reflecting Pool water is not “killing” ducks The ducks entered a state of heightened enlightenment where they can perceive all of time and space as a single crystalline moment. They have no need to move because they are everywhere and everything

More of the fantastic @jessicafoley14.bsky.social 's cool butterfly pollen munching and strength research in the news! ( She fails to mention, though, how a Coati ate a bunch of the pollen and gained superintelligence as well though)

In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀

A lot of folks in the USA will still be like, OH yeah it socks, but it's not that bad, you should get a job here! Or like "you can help change from within". But like I don't want to risk going to jail for life for protesting a concentration camp?

We were sitting around playing drawing games last night and I saw some gigantic creature slowly plow through the moth sheet and I was like what the fuck was that?! Oh, just a beaver dragging a branch straight through the moth sheet. Sheets are of no importance to beaver.

There's a cool course you can join that is a whole year of learning about DIY technology for conservation (and you visit like 5 different field sites!). And it's a course you can join from whatever institution i think! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'll just keep posting this reminder everytime i have to give a talk because i am somehow "inspiring" and "impactful," you too can have this apparently cool stuff by just hiring us!

You can be a successful scientist without any funding or real institutional affiliation (like me!) and you can also have nice paying jobs at fancy institutions and totally just make up data (like an unfortunate amount of academic scientists out there feeding the institutional pressures!)

danggg got rejected from 2 more fellowships and grants today! it's a strange thing doing half a year of keynotes and invited talks and workshops where people talk about how "inspiring" or "impactful" your work is, when also you aren't able to get any funding to keep doing the work

Check out how many bugs @wellreadpanda.bsky.social drew rectangles around today for training our newer and even more robust insect detector model! IT'S A LOT OF BUGS

is hosting a DHAM DHAM digital music production Bootcamp in Berlin: 20–30 July, Mon–Thurs, 13.00–18.00, @90milartschool. Over 8 days we will make a song via a series of exercises. Sliding scale fee €150–200, but get in touch if you can’t afford. Register: artschool90mil.lovable.app/courses/dham...

Mothing journey continues with #SciArt challenge! In conjunction with #YearOfTheMoth . . Here's no. 21 - Hornet moth (Sesia apiformis)💙 Batesian mimicry makes them unappealing to predators #Hornet #moth #teamMoth #mothweek2026 #mothweekart26 #mothweek mothing with @dinalab.bsky.social @amnh.org

Are you an artist who wants to draw a millipede but doesn't want to draw a lot of legs? Would it help if I introduced you to the pincushion millipede, which only has 12 pairs of legs? Plz, I want to purchase your millipede art.

I just opened registration for autumn cohorts of my Binoculars to Binomials course: www.jerthorp.me/learning There's a morning and an evening cohort, running from the end of September to the middle of November. I love teaching this course, I hope you'll consider joining me!

Hackers Clip number 0024 #Hackers #hackbot #hacktheplanet

We'll do a proper launch announcement Monday, but as of now, the latest OpenCTD, the Sixth Edition of the Construction and Operation Manual, and all the firmware, shapefiles, and gerbers are live! OpenCTD Rev8 is here! github.com/Oceanography...

More People making #mothart during #YearOfTheMoth www.bbc.com/news/article... #sciart

fun fact that's not covered: with a bright enough 720nm LED in the dark, you can see beyond CIE 1931. i use a custom-made ~40w Emisar flashlight. it lies outside the rod cells' spectral response curve and only stimulates the cones, which is ordinarily impossible for light

Cervical cancer gets the headlines because it’s the first one they proved was linked to HPV, but now we know it also causes really deadly head and neck cancers, anal cancer, and penile cancer. Every person, please get the vaccine

Dinocon and Dinacon are pretty aligned on this point

We have a little mailing list where we send monthly-ish email updates about what our little rainforest laboratory is up to, and opportunities and events in conservation, tech, art, and science! you can sign up here: www.dinalab.net/contact/ Also message me if you want to be on the mothbox news too

Open Healthware Speaker highlight !! Alex Hornstein will be sharing his talk "The epilepsy treatment gap, and a close look at where open-source hardware can help, and where it can't" at this year's Open Healthware Conference! Check out his talk! #OHWC2026