Driving and hiking the ice roads over Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories - the deepest lake in Canada and the second largest lake fully within our borders. Pics from a few years ago. #hiking #roadtrip #lake #ice

The first two hours this morning

A diver saw something incredibly special at the ocean's surface: this juvenile King-of-the-salmon (Trachipterus altivelis), a kind of ribbonfish that spends the majority of its time in the deep. 📷 tedjudah on iNaturalist 📍 United States 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

I feel inspired! New Year’s resolution. (I.e. not QUITE YET). What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

New post doc funding opportunity: Are you outside Canada & interested in a post doc on insects & environment/climate? Our lab studies insect evol & ecol, esp reproduction/sexual selection. Our university seeks a nominee. Let's chat! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

New video from the always wonderful @kqedscience.bsky.social Deep Look! Peppermint stick insects really do smell like peppermint. Do not lick them. Especially if you are an ant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPC... 🧪

Occasionally Instagram tricks me into clicking on Threads. This is the first time EVER I’ve seen something there that delighted me

It's not a mantid, it's not a fly, it's a mantidfly! #entomology #bugskye #insect #photography #macro #nature

Box turtle! Another of this year's batch of wooden ornaments, printed by hand here in our home studio. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨

This is pretty much everything the vandals accuse federal science funders of doing wrong: money to foreign scientists for a fundamentally unethical experiment on children

Burial of wildlife dung by insects provides many benefits! However, our latest study shows little benefit in mitigating E. coli transfer from dung to kale via water droplets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congrats to @dalhousieu.bsky.social undergrad saran Jayaselvam on this achievement!

wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys

#TodayInQueerHistory December 15 (1973) Campaigner Barbara Gittings quips that homosexuals have been "cured en masse by the psychiatrists" after efforts by her, her partner Kay Lahusen and others result in the American Psychiatric Association no longer defining homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I love the no-right-on-red in Montreal. Makes me feel so much safer as a cyclist and pedestrian, and less worried as a driver!

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

Aah, that reminds me: I designed an article-appreciation postcard ages ago, in the style of old reprint-request cards, but never got around to buying stamps to actually send them! First thing on my to-do list this weekend!

A carolina mantis inspired by one observed on the oak leaf hydrangea outside the studio window. Three color screen print, edition of 23. 2025. #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡🎨

plant literature always sends a chill down my spine, like what if this is what WE sound like to non-entomologists? Could something as ordinary and harmless as the beetle taxonomist be this violently inscrutable??

"Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential."

Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect. “Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”

Caw caw and some berries #art ✧ #bird ✧ #painting ✧ #berry

Lichen collage. On lakeside rock, Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Nocturne: Labrador Gorge Christine Koch 2011

You're looking at the very first observation of this species (Symplocos psiloclada) on iNaturalist! 📷 jhon_yuca on iNaturalist 📍 Peru 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Rhipidioides sp. This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳 #ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist

Anyone know what this is? Popped out of a water strider in Nova Scotia. Observation by @jennyperry.bsky.social. 🌿🪱 #gerridae #hemiptera #parasite #inaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

The East Room Thomas Forrestall 1965

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

The final journal club in my entomology class is Stucky (2015) link.springer.com/article/10.1... Infection behavior, life history, and host parasitism rates of Emblemasoma erro (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), an acoustically hunting cicada parasitoid. It is *SUCH* a cool paper!

One of the joys of poking around iNaturalist is learning about organisms I had never heard about. Enough surprises to fill several lifetimes. E.g., here are millipede assassins doing their thing in Namibia. #inaturalist #hemiptera #millipedes #namibia www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Part 174 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd Lid weight made of Haematite carved in the shape of a grasshopper,hand-carved between 1800-1700 BC, in ancient Babylonia.

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Terrific new paper by @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social and others on dragonfly wings, in particular the hydrocarbons which act in multiple ways - structurally, pheromonally and in terms of water resistance. Wish I were still teaching, I'd use this as a great example. of multiple adaptations.

No Longer Feel Alone Mike Gough 2025

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

There are over a million insect species (that currently have scientific descriptions, at least), and they're *everywhere* ... under rocks, on flowers, around lights at night, in tree bark, and more.

Trioza urticae. #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Triozidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem

Salt marsh on Dorchester Cape to be protected by First Nation #NewBrunswick Land deemed valuable for its climate role and sacred medicine www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🍃📣Upcoming CSEE Event! Join us online on Nov. 26th for a panel discussion Q&A on faculty positions. CSEE members will receive the link in their mailbox. (Event in English) #CSEE #online #paneldiscussion #eeb

Aberdeen, Scotland, 57.2°N, 1:45 AM local time. Taken with a sufficiently ancient & cheap camera that it basically looked like this to the naked eye, no joke.