🐝HYMATHON 2025 is ONGOING NOW! 🤩Session 1 was full of amazing talks, showdowns and socials! 🗳️Dear participants, please don’t forget to vote for the best entry in the ART COMPETITION and in the SHOWDOWN! (Link to our website in bio) 🔜See you all in SESSION 2 at 00:00 UTC (5 Dec)

My friend Sequoia who is the bestest isopod in the world needs help funding grad school! Over the past few years she's completed the work equivalent of a whole MSc and a half in isopod zoology all by herself as an amateur, and now she's getting the chance to go get the degree!! gofund.me/4568dd521

ittle critters playing dead! 🐛🪲💀 I’ve been sick after a period of intense work but on the other hand I was able to slow down and draw something fun & relaxing… hope you folks enjoy it too!

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

New #PhD ad alert! Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England? Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Reason 37518 to not skip lunch when working - everything starts to look delicious, including this egg of a chalcidoid wasp (left)

Hey 🇨🇦! Looks like conservative MPs (derogatory) are trying some anti-intellectual fuckery with NSERC (+ tri-council) because they can't do long division 😔. Please sign the petition to protect applicant EDI data! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Had some fun looking through the entomological collections at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung!

Apply apply apply!!!

Hi y'all! I'm back from #Wikimania in Nairobi! Here's a cheetah eating some kind of ungulate :)

In anticipation of #Wikimania2025, here is my favourite wikipedia meme.

If you can, please donate to help with funeral costs and supporting her family. RIP Sheila Colla. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

Babe, wake up. Anxious snails just dropped

Finally photos (1st ever?) of a living Liebelia, the other (non-Diplolepis) genus of rose gall wasp that's endemic to Asia. We've confirmed it is L. fukudae, previously only known in Japan, so new genus record for China thanks to @inaturalist.bsky.social www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Please share. We have a fully-funded PhD position on animal migration. If interested, please apply by 27 July. More about us: shawanchowdhury.com. @idiv-research.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social #PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

happy pride month please consider throwing a few dollars my way bc being trans + mentally ill while giving back to the ND community is expensive and exhausting ko-fi.com/hemipepsis

Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Job in Mexico: UNAM busca investigador/a en Entomología Sistemática para plaza de tiempo completo en el Instituto de Biología. UNAM is a hiring full-time researcher in Systematic Entomology, Institute of Biology. Fecha límite/Deadline: 4 agosto/Aug 4 tinyurl.com/2557avf6 🧪 #entomology #sciencejobs

Based on actual real-life field observations:

Hello friends, my first first-author publication has just released! Please take a read, its open access! rdcu.be/eq1xQ

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💫 PLEASE SHARE 💫 I’m hiring a short-term program manager: * Flexible location in 🇨🇦 * Start date ASAP * Apply by Fri June 20 * Must already be legally allowed to work in 🇨🇦 * www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar... #ConservationJobs

I want to connect with and highlight more trans voices working with plants, wildlife, and the natural environment so I've created a starter pack! If this sounds like you, introduce yourself by quote-posting this skeet and I'll add you to the list 🏳️‍⚧️

Shirts printed for the no kings rally today, no #monarchs!

Even if iNat seems dispensable to you due to your abundance of local resources, it's the only thing people like me have. They're now taking feedback from the community so this is our chance to steer them in a better direction. I don't want the platform to die, I want it to do better.

Ok we found the perfect game everyone go home

All of my subtle pride bird stickers will be 25% off for all of June! www.etsy.com/shop/LiliumN...

Lasaga

Calling all those interested in bees, wasps, sawflies, and ants!!! The International Society of Hymenopterists (@hymenopterists.bsky.social) is putting out a survey to both non-members and members to find out what you would like to see from the society: forms.office.com/e/ekULRH4Tdt Please share! 🫶

Calling all those interested in bees, wasps, sawflies, and ants!!! The International Society of Hymenopterists (@hymenopterists.bsky.social) is putting out a survey to both non-members and members to find out what you would like to see from the society: forms.office.com/e/ekULRH4Tdt Please share! 🫶

Hi #Czechia, quick question - why do you guys sell jars of pineapple flavoured pumpkin? Pls im scared

"New species" often get a lot of hype, but there's a difference between generating names and describing species. New names can actually be bad news for science! Here's a great overview of the "taxonomic vandal" problem by @tetzoo.bsky.social

Silly me forgot to link to the online version! You can read my #Biologist article here... www.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe... #taxonomy

I wrote about one of the most extreme examples of this phenomenon – termed taxonomic vandalism – at Tetrapod Zoology in 2024: tetzoo.com/blog/2024/5/... 3/n

Anyone else planning on attending #Wikimania in Nairobi this year? :)

Anyone else planning on attending #Wikimania in Nairobi this year? :)

Two academic (lecturer) positions available at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand! One in Conservation Biology, another in Evolutionary Ecology. Links for positions below: otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

peanut butter, a type of American hummus,

After 3 years of procrastination, my bachelor's thesis is finally published in The Canadian Entomologist! We present the first record of the native beetle (Mordellina ancilla) 🪲 feeding on the invasive garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) 🌿. doi.org/10.4039/tce....

Hi everyone, I am launching a community science scheme "Spider Spies" where we are asking you, to send us pictures and if you're keen and able samples of Misumena vatia, the Flower Crab Spider to investigate their interactions with their host flowers and the invertebrate community around them.

I'm thrilled to announce that the Entomology department at the NHMLAC is hiring a full-time collections manager! 🪰🐜🕸️🦋 I'm biased, but the museum is a great place to work, and our department is full of fun, thoughtful people. Job description and information for applying are here: shorturl.at/iRqOB

The Wasp Factory™ is coming together nicely :)))

At some point scientists need to take an interest, collectively, institutionally, in defending democracy and justice for all, and not just their own resource access

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Certified international student moment™: Showing up at school only to realize today is a random holiday you've never heard of