let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons

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Giant Clothespin by Mehmet Ali Uysal

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day! She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome. Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽 #WomenInScience

Luckily, I was in the company of fantastic tropical ecologists (and friends). @mattgreenwell.bsky.social and Paddy Cannon, poined out that the colours of this katydid closely matched that of delayed greening leaves which many tropical plants produce as a defence against herbivores… 🤔🤔 4/n

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

#NewSpeciesAlert! We discovered & described a new species of gall wasp, Belonocnema mesoamericana, on the central American live oak, Quercus oleoides. Great collaboration between Alejandro Zaldivar & lab at #UNAM, @ymilesz.bsky.social at #EdinburghUni, and my lab at #RiceUniversity. #biodiversity

TAXACOM is being reborn. After the mailing list was abruptly discontinued (and its archives apparently deleted) it is being relaunched in Google Groups groups.google.com/g/taxacom Let us rejoice knowing there is once again a place to endlessly argue about “what is a species?” I’ve missed it.

This is cool. Our researchers have "grown" muscle fibers in bioreactors. This and similar tech should replace petrochemical materials used in manufacturing and textiles. The time to scale up biomanufacturing is now. 🧪 #ChemSky #ScienceSky #ClimateSky #AgSky source.washu.edu/2026/02/putt...

Ooh I like this game! My underrated life hack suggestion for academics, including graduate students is: pick an organization system and use it. Getting Things Done, Full Focus Planner, Bullet Journal, something. Academia is not a place for trying to do things haphazard.

We're excited to announce registration is open for the 19th Dipterists Society Field Meeting, to be held June 15–19th at the Itasca Biological Station in northern Minnesota! For more information & to submit talks please visit: dipterists.org/field_meetin... We look forward to seeing you there!

Trump’s Department of Education has moved to strip nurses of our professional status and make school more expensive — but there's still time to push back. From now until March 2, we need you to raise your voice and submit a public comment in opposition: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Acanthogammarus from Lake Baikal #amphipodstoday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Sticky Feet: How Insects Inspire Technology 🐜 Join us & @amentsoc.bsky.social for the Young #VerrallLecture, where Prof. Stanislav Gorb will explore how insects’ adhesive abilities inspire innovation & design. 📍 Staffordshire Invertebrate Science Fair 🎟️ Free buff.ly/LXW0q5V #BritishScienceWeek

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the support of our institutional subscribers, all Royal Society subscription journals will be open access in 2026 through #S2O. Researchers can read all articles and publish #OpenAccess in our eight subscription journals for free buff.ly/4Lu9VpW

Air pollution isn’t just bad for us—tiny increases in ozone can scramble ants’ chemical signals, making them misidentify nestmates and unraveling their social order. 😮🪲 In Smithsonian Magazine: https://ow.ly/jYcx50Yh6vI In PNAS: https://ow.ly/EW2T50Yh6r4

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

one of the few bad bunny facts i know is his incorporation of said toad in his music led to a boost in awareness and popularity and therefore funding for conservation projects for it! my local zoo has been helping w it for a while and talked about it! share.google/SqYuqRVsLEmp...

The cutest wasp in the whole world! It attacks spider eggs

Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.

INSECT TAXONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY @entsocamerica.bsky.social Online, April 27-29! Featuring keynotes from Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social, Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, and Dominic Evangelista. Now accepting contributed talks! Grant deadline Feb 4, abstracts due Mar 6. entsoc.org/membership/b...

Hey bsky! I’d like to share some cool work I recently coauthored that integrates entomology, paleontology, and German cultural history. 🔶🐜⚡️ We discovered a fossil ant in the amber collection of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Read on for a delightful story of #museomics and #collectomics. >> 1/

This was a very interesting read: An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A new special issue of Florida Entomologist details how rapidly invasive arthropods are entering the southeast U.S. and highlights urgent needs in detection, diagnostics, and management—calling for stronger regional research to keep pace with accelerating biological threats.

Red admirals (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Vanessa atalanta) are widespread across most of the northern hemisphere during summer and can be found year-round in the southern parts of their range. Larvae feed on a variety of plants and often roll leaves into shelters. Blissfield Michigan, 25 Jul 2025.

Great Lakes ice update for January 21, 2026: Combined 26% | Lake Superior 11% | Lake Michigan 19% | Lake Huron 32% | Lake Erie 85% | Lake Ontario 8% | #GreatLakes

This is really cool, it's a display of all the bugs found on a single tree. #Invertebrate

Today for #Cheliceratime, a bit of etymology! We are used to certain names, but what did they mean in the first place? If you want to learn more, read bellow! ⬇️ #Spider #Arachnid #Arthropod #bugsky #science #etymology 1/3

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

Back from holiday and it's finally time to post about this. I am taking on a section editor role for the new diamond open access journal Biogeography, put together by @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social. That means that it's free to publish and free to read. (thread) biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

We describe Badmaateridae, a new beetle FAMILY from Chile! Badmaater chilensis is blind, wingless, and extremely small (~1mm). 📄 Open access in Systematic Entomology doi.org/10.1111/syen.70020 #Entomology #NewSpecies #Beetles

News | Giant mechanical scorpion free to good home, says Natural History Museum 🔗https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/natural-history-museum-offers-giant-mechanical-scorpion-free-to-good-home/

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"To the Lakes? What delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend!" 'Pride and Prejudice' (Jane Austen) @freshwaterbio.bsky.social #JaneAustenDay #limnology #envhist

Bee-flies mimic solitary bees with their furry bodies, long proboscis & darting flight 🪰 Join Dr @tonymadgwick.bsky.social on 25 Mar 2026 for an entoLEARN covering all 9 UK species, their ecology & how to record them with Bee-fly Watch. 🧪 Book your space now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976745510...

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Wow! Our long-term collaborator and friend Martín Ramírez is the winner of the @royalsocietypublishing.org photo competition, with a SEM image from our joint research on spider silk!! royalsociety.org/journals/pub...

We have video now, so I can WAY better show off the incredible details preserved in pyrite. From 518 million years ago, we didn't know this fossil had limbs preserved at all until putting it in the micro-CT! (specimen ~6mm long) #Crustmas 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

These are fun educational puzzles to improve debugging skills of students! thanks to @robert.bio for creating these sandbox.bio/puzzles

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated to BHL’s Fundraising Campaign so far! 💚 Your generosity will help us build an independent, sustainable future for open biodiversity knowledge. 🌿 📖 🌏 🧪 Every gift helps: 🔗 ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess

Institut Micalis is hiring: Postdoctoral position in chemical ecology and genomics: Mechanisms of honey bee resistance to varroa

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

Bat, Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus, c.1310. 🦇 #Gothtober #BatWeek #31daysofhalloween

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn... Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR... Applications due December 5th!

Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠

Origins of the ‘London Underground mosquito’ uncovered, shedding light on West Nile virus transmission 🧪🦟🧬 www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu