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/...

1/2 A small but provocative new study finds that students with the ability to formulate sophisticated questions - which is an important marker of, and contributor to, deep thinking - did better on an open-ended project but *worse* on a standard multiple-choice course exam […]

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!

Literally me on any social media platform

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...

AI researchers rationalize the damage they're doing by invoking inevitability - that "powerful tranquilizer of the conscience," as ELIZA's inventor put it. But "if we don't change course, many people's closest confidant may soon be a computer" and "human connection will be]...reshaped beyond […]

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!)

Today marked a new era for the lab! We're beginning our butterfly phase, rearing our own Squinting Bush Brown butterflies! Look at those adorable eggies!!!

So excited to have @matthewcobb.bsky.social join our Hacking Inheritance class today to discuss gene-editing, including the science, the history, and the ethics! Highly recommend this book for all those interested in diving into this topic!

Looking forward to our #SICB2026 session on Technology, Games, and Play in Biology Education tomorrow at 8am in Oregon 203! So many amazing talks and people lined up! My talk at 8:45am on CYOA fun in an organismal biology class!

When you surprise each other with exactly the same shirt on Christmas 🤣 @rosemarymosco.com, Bloodcheep is the gift that keeps on giving all year long!

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

Thrilled to share that @corriemoreau.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in Evolution, digging into the varied ways that extreme worker plasticity impacts genome evolution in turtle ants! Paper 📃: doi.org/10.1093/evol... Image 📸: Steven Wang, tinyurl.com/2rbjbyjh

Getting fired up for my Entomology class's community outreach event this Saturday! Partnering with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social, we will be opening up the multiverse of insects and insectoids with... The Museum of the Multiverse: Insects! #entomology #insects #vermont #cosplay

1,000 butterfly and moth genomes have been sequenced… and guess what they are using them for? Understanding how these insects will cope with climate change. 🌍🦋 phys.org/news/2025-11... #Biology #ClimateChange #AcademicChatter

This month's #InvertArtChallenge is one of our Pacific Northwest fireflies. They're largely overlooked because they don't light up in spectacular displays, although the larvae can glow. But they still deserve attention.

Birds y’all

I’m seeing a lot of men incredulous that even a giant, overwhelming pile of evidence doesn’t seem to be enough to take down a sex offender, and I’m like…