Rainbow mixer at #entsoc25 always a blast. 💋 InverteBrittany 🌈 💩 🪲

New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7... #unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social

Coreopsis is POPPING right now

Get it diva. So much fun performing at EarthGAY! 🌍🌈🏳️‍🌈♻️ Queer joy, y’all! #InverteBrittany #drag #bugs #firefly #lightningbug #lampyrid

Well, I’m shocked. The Endangered Species Act is under attack (again). By redefining the meaning of “harm” to remove protections for habitat, the path to recovery for listed species is grim. It would be like burning down your house and expecting you to thrive. We are living The Lorax. #Resist

A close up of a Water Stick Insect...which isn't a type of Stick Insect but a type of Water Scorpion...which are not Scorpions but insects, members of the True Bugs as demonstrated by that needle like rostrum mouth What is confusing about that? Lol #bugsky #inverts #PondLife

When you get distracted by your nails under the scope. 💅 🪲 🔬 #chrysomelidae

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

The antidote to despair is activism. WORKERS OVER BILLIONARES. #unionstrong #fuckfascism

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!

Folks attending @entsocamerica.bsky.social SEB meeting!! Got any cool #insect #photos you’d like to share? Submit by 3/6 to be featured in the banquet slideshow. Categories include macro, micro, entomologist at work, and memes! Upload to: forms.gle/PqMNteMx2Xmc... #arthropodPOTW #bugmemes #ESASEB

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

First pub of the year in the books

Dr. Roger Airliner Young earned her PhD in 1940. Dr. Young studied #marine #biology and was the first African American woman to publish on #zoology in Science in 1924! marinesanctuary.org/blog/celebra... #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

Any coleopterists get it? #coleoptera #beetle #puns

The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.

Pin-striped vermillion slug #moth from October on Sapelo Island, GA. No touchy!! ‼️⚠️ but absolutely beautiful. #Lepidoptera #Monoleuca

Solidarity. Love. Community.

Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help? Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...

This is an incredible image of insect behaviour. One individual (probably male) has its pheromone glands protruding (pair of yellow organs). It's fanning its wings to puff pheromone toward the other individual (probably female). The mating display involves scent and likely vision and sound. 🪳🪲

Holly with slush, Athens, GA January 10, 2025. I’m grateful I didn’t have to shovel!

Whenever you hear about water issues in the west it's like "wow that sounds like a really complicated problem" and it's not. literally just stop growing cattle feed and lettuce in desert or semi-arid places

Two bark #scorpions with a #pseudoscorpion between them. 🦂 So cuuuuuute! From the canopy of a longleaf pine tree 🌲

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

Interviewer: Can you please explain this gap in your resume? Entomologist: Pupation.

My talk last week at The Coleopterists Society: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Pi... Listen if you dare. #Coleoptera #longleaf #beetles

SO NOW EVERYONE CAN STOP SENDING ME IMAGES OF EUROPEAN HORNETS, CICADA KILLERS, FLIES, BEETLES +++ RIGHT?!?!?!? 😵 This is great news and shows with early detection there are chances to eradicate invasive pests before they establish. www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...

When your morphology tries to make you look like bird poop, but you dress like a rock star. #Chlamisus #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #FSCA #AmazingBeetles #Bolivia

here you go. my scarabs

Horrifying, repressive, and racist behavior out of @universityofga.bsky.social, banning Students for Socialism for supporting Palestine 🇵🇸 An all-white panel voting to ban a student group fighting racist terror? Unbelievable, and part of a horrible national trend.

Know your #spiders. #Araneae

PI: Should we add field assistants as co-authors? Co-PI: mmm... They did not write anything... You know that writing is the hardest part! PI: OK! Field assistants 👇🏿

Interested in labor #organizing and #entomology? Do you have experience organizing? Do you have no experience but at least some interest? Fill out the form below! forms.gle/HLsTfeGQ2zpp... Mostly to gather voices but maybe it will turn into a workshop/symposium at EntSoc2025! Spread the word!

You can support the Gaza Soup Kitchen in Chef Mahmoud's honour here

Why not post bugs banging again? I have a lot of this content apparently lol. Typocerus zebra The Zebra longhorn #beetle #Cerambycidae #Coleoptera #getaroom

Bow chickah wow wow round two. Two redheaded #sawflies going at it. Neodiprion lecontei #Hymenoptera #Diprionidae #getaroom

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Buh buh buh bow chickah wow wow. Two Carolina metallic tiger #beetles going at it. Tetracha carolina #Coleoptera #Cicindelinae #getaroom

Folks, it's coming up on That Time of Year. If you ever shop via the Evil Online Giant Named Like A River (and most of us do sometimes), here's something to consider: an easy, free way to divert a few bucks from Jeff Bezos' pockets into more worthy ones. scientistseessquirre...

Termite emergence in May 2023 Mississippi Gulf Coast. (This was at our campsite so we had to eat inside our tent!)

Mama wolf #spider with her babies. 🐺🕷️ #Lycosidae

Not exactly the clearest picture but check out this cuuuuutie from Saguaro National Park 🌵 Dasymutilla no idea what species. This a velvetant (no space!) #Mutillidae #velvetant

One of my favorite bycids! Ancylocera bicolor. The color and sculpting is simply fantastic. Collected from a white bucket trap in #longleaf pine forest. #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

The belief that wage rises for the poorest workers must make everything more expensive is one that conservatives (and companies) have pushed hard for 40 years. It is rooted deeply in the psyche. It is often accepted without question by journalists. It is also total bullshit.

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Here’s my pet ox beetle flying around in the lab #Coleoptera #Strategus #Shesflappingfast

What a cute ox #beetle #Strategus aloeus I found back in July at a bridge light! She made such a good pet 🪲 #Coleoptera #Scarabaeidae

I couldn’t find a starter pack for POCs working in STEM, so I started one myself - my network here is still small and I didn’t want to assume how people identify, so please reply or DM me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR