The only reason I understand this map is because I read @nkjemisin.bsky.social's The City We Became & The World We Make....

Odo should have to pay property taxes on his bucket.

When you decline an invitation to review a manuscript but suggest colleagues you’d like to keep occupied as “suitable alternative reviewers”

Here @picardonhealth.bsky.social rightfully takes on Parliament’s attacks on academic research in Canada.

Every parent in my neighborhood this evening at 745: Alright let's wrap it up.

C'mon guys the game is at 8. My neighborhood is a ghost town by 9 because the candy is all gone. The keeners are out by 6 and counting Reese's pieces by 830.

You have no idea how hard it is to get a tag on this wall...

It's great to see the kids so excited and R and coding.

Can one of my Ameri-friends explain the purple category in today's @nytimes.com Connections? 'Cause I thought I was pretty good at US geography but I don't get it: Connections Puzzle #872 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟦🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

If you see this quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.

An invasive species of slithering, blood-sucking parasites in the Great Lakes has long been curbed by a small government program—one that may not survive the Trump Administration.

Record highs in October

@bryanbrunet.bsky.social @nphavill.bsky.social et al. present the genome of the hemlock woolly adelgid, one of eastern North America's most destructive and invasive forest pests. The 216 Mbp genome is highly complete (97.7% BUSCO). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf170 #genome #evolution

Does your ecology journal even lift, bro?

Wild boar exorcist job opportunity just opened up in Manitoba...

Our new paper from #EntoPOC led by Dr. Evangelista! Evaluating perceptions of STEM majors to explain diversity gaps in entomology and other sciences url: academic.oup.com/aesa/article...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Department of Biology, Lakehead University is seeking a CERC in Freshwater Sustainability and Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems. On the shores of Lake Superior, Experimental Lakes Area and Large Lakes Observatory both just down the road... Deadline Dec 1. DM for questions! www.lakeheadu.ca/faculty-and-...

🆕🍁 #JOB ALERT: Associate Director at agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 🌐 Kentville, NS. 💲 $128,830 to $163,780 📆 Closing date: 24 October 🆔 25-AGR-ATL-EA-STB-62393 🫵 Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad. 🔗 emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

The idea of being able to ask your computer to do stuff and it does it is pretty cool. But I can't imagine working in an office with dozens of people talking at their computers.

What's wrong with being over the age of 40? #askingForAFriend

Guess it's back to behaving myself here. HQ folks have hit town.... :-) [Hi Social Media Team! Hope you're all doing well!]

Might have to track down a copy of this! Theft, lies and butterflies: the Englishman who stole thousands of specimens from our museums theconversation.com/theft-lies-a...

Registration is now open for the ESBC 2025 (Nov 21st – 22nd, Univ. of Fraser Valley Abbotsford). The conference theme this year is "Better together: celebrating partnerships from micro to macro". For details and to register please visit our meeting page - entsocbc.ca/meetings/

Being a (decent) scientist means having a high-quality BS sensor. Just sayin...

HWA in The Muskokas

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What a neat paper. At our lab we would give kids spruce budworm larvae in artificial diet cups to take home and rear.

Rearing insects in class is an excellent science education tool, but using non-native insects can lead to ethical and environmental issues. Native insects should be prioritised! Great paper exploring this overlooked issue #RESInsectConsDiv 🌏🧪 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Saskatchewan

BRB off to cheese off my genetics friends

🧪@romtoronto.bsky.social is hiring, yay! 🐦,🌱curators in our Deparment of Natural History. Come work with us! royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO... royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...

🔥 New fire paper out - Fire regime changes in Canada: an update. Overall, the big-picture trends remain consistent: annual area burned, the annual number and size of large fires are still increasing, but the total number of fires for all sizes continue to decline. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Most (all?) of my research collaborations over the past 15 y have come from social media. I'm not where I am now without it. Oh, and I once got to trade posts with the guy who wrote/directed the Usual Suspects. We have the same name and a friend tagged him by accident. That was cool.

It's been a while since we added a new country to EAB's roster, but I think this ups the count to 5 - Canada, US, Russia, Ukraine and now Belarus. journal.asu.ru/biol/article...

Just a small thing we do in the lab to help students indicate how much mental space they need that day. www.gvsu.edu/ours/faculty...

➡️REGISTRATION OPEN for the EPPO-REUFIS-BFW Conference ‘Safeguarding Forests in Europe: Emerging Risks of Agrilus Wood Borers' ❓The conference is for NPPOs and academia. 🌲The focus is the protection of European forests against quarantine forest pests. 🔗See more www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...

Through a four-month fellowship in South Carolina, a scientist from the isle of Jersey learned from local experts, built professional collaborations, and gained in-depth experience that will advance invasive species response efforts on both sides of the Atlantic. entomologytoday.org/2025/10/03/b...

Describe your Blue sky account in a single image

Entomologists conference: American PI: Canadian PI; European PI

I started a list for scientists and others interested in leaf litter fauna, please share and let me know if you want to be added! Do you love a good hand lens, soil sieves, and Berlese funnels? Perhaps this is the place for you.

Today felt weird and then I realized it's because for the first time in 5 years I'm not spending a Sunday at a @canentomologist.bsky.social Board meeting. Hope everyone there is having fun!

Not so sure this is a spurious correlation...

see you can tell it's AI because it spells 'centre' wrong...

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Adding a fist bump to our pals in the US Forest Service. Hope you're back in the woods soon.

1) This is some pretty remarkable shade thrown at the big AI companies by a startup that's hiring away their researchers 2) That those researchers are giving up millions to do this indicates a rising level of discomfort with OpenAI/Meta/Google/etc's moral standing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...