#WorldFireflyDay is July 4th-5th! Why is a “day” running over a night? Because that’s when these amazing animals are out and about! 🪲🎆 Get involved in firefly conservation ➡ fireflyatlas.org Learn more about fireflies & where to go see them ➡ xerces.org/fireflies

Middlebury Biology department is hiring two VAPs for the upcoming years. Please help spread the word, and positions like these can be very helpful in gaining experience to be competitive for TT positions at small liberal arts colleges (it helped me a lot!). www.middlebury.edu/college/acad...

Welcome, everyone, to our annual meeting for the International Society of Chemical Ecology!!!! Tag us or use #chemecol2026 to share your journey!

A conversation science communicators need to have about AI art 🧪🐙🐡🧵

Spent the weekend with the family doing the Plein Air Festival with Sparrow Art Supply 😊

🚨 Lifer alert! 🚨 Check out this deer bot #fly that @dradriansmith.bsky.social found while we were hunting bugs - my first time getting pics of a wild adult of this family! It's a convincing bee mimic, whose babies live in the sinuses & throats of deer 😋 👀 #Oestridae: #Cephenemyia phobifer NC, USA

Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

"The rise in the island’s invertebrates – beetles, weevils, bush cockroaches and other bugs – has come after a campaign seven years ago to rid the island of about 300,000 invasive rats and mice." #Environment #LordHoweIsland #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #Insects #Conservation

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

Some beautiful moths out tonight with our family blacklighting!

The technology the shits out D papers is impossible to grasp. Yes, that’s it. 🙃

Alright we’re in business here. Crank the cuteometer to 11 and full steam ahead, boys!

So much #HKAM26 catch up (I’m very behind!) Day 5: Mother Day 6: Grand Hunt (and also mother)

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

My daughter absolutely loved drawing this Day3: hot spring prompt for #HKAM26

Love this #HKAM26 drawing by my son. Apparently ice cream preference is a huge topic at the Hallownest hot springs 🤣

Big #HKAM26 catchup day! Day 3: Hot Spring Day 4: Mr. Mushroom

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

I suspect that the Powers That Be looooove AI because it disengages your brain and softens your thinking. Your free thought, your imagination, gets unplugged and into the socket, the AI node goes. And they control that node. Which means they control your mind. So: they start with kids.

Posting the kids’ #HKAM26 Day 2 art (Plasmium) as well! 😍

#HKAM26 Day 2: Plasmium PSA: Watch where you leave your Plasmium Phial!

THE LIST IS HERE! See www.hollowknightam.com for more info throughout the event Shares are very much appreciated <3 #hollowknight #silksong #hollowknightartmonth #hkam26

It’s back baby! Hollow Knight Art Month 2026! #HKAM26 Day 1: Hornet (from me and the kiddos)

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

Love living on a natural landscape that is abundant with my research firefly species!

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me: Nature-inspired neuroscience We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨ tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Had a great time talking with you David! Very nice job on the article!

🎉New paper out from the lab, led by @baptistepiqueret.bsky.social: ant larvae chemically suppress the reproduction of their caregivers. bit.ly/4t8uZLG An example of how social interactions are regulated at the molecular level. The work was made possible by the unique environment @mpi-ce.bsky.social

Spring has sprung here in Vermont

For shame, @mayorwu.boston.gov. Study after study show that these chatbots deliver misinformation, damage cognition, and some apparently have driven kids to suicide. How do you justify forcing this untested, dangerous, right-wing-billionaire controlled garbage on kids?

Our most accomplished work on chemical evolution 🥳 These N,S-cardeneolides have unique structures and bioactivities, and they also have divergent macroevolutionary histories 🤩 Structural innovation in the evolution of plant chemical defense | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am very happy to share that the latest work from the lab, led by Dr. Qi Xue, has been published in PNAS and is now online: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

our latest publication is now published! 🍾 Sensitivity to cuticular hydrocarbons across the odorant receptor family in the Indian jumping ant, Harpegnathos saltator Congrats to all of my co-authors, many of whom are undergraduates and this is their first paper! www.frontiersin.org/journals/ins...

Enjoyed a nice amphibian crossing in Salisbury, VT tonight and saw red-backed, four-toed, spotted, and so many blue spotted salamanders. Plus dozens of wood frogs!

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First one of my little buddies emerging… It’s winter firefly season yall!

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Yo Philly, I'm scheming again. I spent the morning with our board member who runs point on grants. We're submitting proposals for a fall project that will require 3 walls with at least 10x10ft of space in Philly. The mural theme: Philly Bugs. Have a wall? Tell me here 👇 forms.gle/KjMpNKcgwDbV...

Students shouldn’t squander years of their life, stumbling about to see what jobs accidentally present themselves that maybe they won’t hate. —Peter Hostrawser growbeyondgrades.org/blog/tell-me...

Would love to get more biologists willing to volunteer and speak with my students. Please consider signing up!

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE! My intro biology course has an "Interview a Biologist" project where students connect with a wide range of biologists using cell/molecular tools. If you are willing to speak with a student for ~30 minutes on Zoom, please fill out this form: forms.gle/BCjJPgURsgSr...

Squirrel Girl is back - in Webtoon form! Marvel has reformatted our earliest adventures with Doreen, Nancy, Tippy-Toe and everyone else for online reading and is releasing 'em all for free on Webtoon! ENJOY www.webtoons.com/en/graphic-n...

In this video, I learned that our new butterfly species is a larval grass flinger!!! Look at that poo fly!

They're growing (and admittedly having a good time too!)