Male Andean Cocks-of-the-Rock hanging out a lek. Males show up in groups and like to show off for the ladies. These birds can be found in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains. Nono, Ecuador, 2023 🪶

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

A gallery of Australian bull ants. Some of these are huge!

Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

I regret to inform you all that we are now a vinyl household.

How does the rapture work with modern air traffic?

Golden Hornet is a great Austin non-profit that supports young composers. www.goldenhornet.org

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Corncob specializes in this kind of thing

I would watch a lot of the shows thought up in the comments.

Oak Treehopper Mama Update! Here she is with entire brood. They're getting big! So, why is it nice to leave some leaves around? These kids will hibernate over winter as adult females in leaf litter. (Platycotis vittata) PA

What happened to plan to invade Panama? I never hear about that anymore.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Stand up comedy special where the viewers call in and correct the comedian and/or submit slightly worse jokes.

a new series called "And This Surprises You?"

sucks to be this moth, whose most embarrassing day is now immortalized on wikipedia 😫

There it is. New H-1B rules are a bribe solicitation. Lots of dark areas for officials to enrich themselves. Again, don’t look to ideology to explain Trump policies when simple crime will do.

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

Food is expensive, utilities are going up. People don’t have money and are eyeing their entertainment subscriptions anyway. Terrible time for Disney to create a righteous reason for subscribers to boycott. Many aren’t coming back.

24 hour update: bleeeeeeeergggghhhhh

America's Funniest Tesla Crashes

Because I use FB primarily to see what Oregon right wingers are saying, it thinks I'm a 50-something white conservative. Because of this, my algorithmic FB timeline has been giving ever more intense, Radio Rwanda vibes this year.

Guess Jay Graber’s Politics

Alf: the Next Generation Why Are You Doing It Like That? Jerry, No! So You Think You’re A Furry?

Disney’s collapse following the most successful boycott in human history opens up the streaming market, and Bluesky spins up a streaming service. What are the hit shows on BlueSky Max?

Republicans love political violence when it isn’t directed at them.

Lone Star state ill-equipped to recognize lone planet.

Everybody Loves Jerry

Disney’s collapse following the most successful boycott in human history opens up the streaming market, and Bluesky spins up a streaming service. What are the hit shows on BlueSky Max?

You are allowed to commit vast, sprawling crime if you pay Trump enough.

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Don’t waste much time thinking about any ideology or policy reason for the H-1B visa change. This is so tech companies will have to pay Trump for exemptions. Same as they paid him for tariff exemptions. It’s just a standard mob shakedown.

When given the option, travel. Even if it means delaying school or putting off work. It’s a big world.

I know it’s to keep away bots but I like to imagine they had to do this to keep ants from editing their own pages.

I spent a year at UT Austin on a H-1B. There is ZERO chance I’d have been able to afford this.

Pharmacists will now be required to recite weird conspiracies about mRNA at you if you want a Covid vaccine.

This is a cool study. Researchers put otherwise acceptable food in ant nest garbage piles and the ants stopped foraging for that kind of food outside the nest. It's like ants get icked out by their trash and avoid anything they find in it.

We've crossed the Cruz horizon.

If one politically motivated student can sink a professor, a department head, a dean, and a president any time a single employee of a 50,000 person university says something controversial, there can be no university. It'll just collapse.

The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!. www.science.org/content/arti...

New Ag pest in Texas just dropped

Portrait of a human bot fly. Belize. Friend? Maybe not. But cuter as an adult, I'd say.

Flu and covid vaccines. Barely felt either of them. Now I have superpowers.

Watching the United States deliberately kneecap itself is so painful. We’re going to be a much poorer country, all because the elites chose white supremacy as their number one main goal, instead of general prosperity.

Best food region, Austin edition?

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new... Mosquitoes that have been in the collection for nearly a hundred years are helping us in dealing with an even older but also current problem - malaria @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social

Texas sky update.

Best food region, Austin edition?