Alex Wild
@alexwild.bsky.social
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Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
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The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own. Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.
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business idea: sandwich truck that caters to protests
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Anil Dash
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The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. Thatâs the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogueâs stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the CondĂ© portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
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I was going to do gardening today and not photography, but the shovel exposed this little incipient Pheidole lamia ant colony and I had to get a shot.
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Did Ross Douthat ruin the NY Times? A conversation with all of Ross Douthatâs ex girlfriends.
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Bill Grueskin
about 10 hours ago
âMommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!â â Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agentsâ tear gas. Leiaâs age: 2. Via
@natashakorecki.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement
A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasnât a âwar zoneââ until immigration agents swept through.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-immigration-enforcement-children-tear-gas-border-patrol-rcna241629
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This tiny hemerobiid lacewing, Sympherobius occidentalis, arrived to the porch light last night. With magnification, we can see its hypnotic wing venation.
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Brandon Friedman
about 20 hours ago
This is chilling. "Yaâakub isnât being accused of breaking immigration law â his DACA protection doesnât expire until May 2026. In fact, Yaâakubâs lawyers say he hasnât been accused of any crime. Rather, the Trump administration is alleging heâs 'glorifying terrorism' via social media posts."
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When Storytelling Is Called âTerrorismâ: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE
As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandreâs arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/how-my-friend-and-fellow-journalist-was-targeted-by-ice/
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The good news is, with free tuition students will now be getting exactly what they pay for.
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Kat Abughazaleh
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I donât know how many times Iâve watched this video. I donât know how weâve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while theyâre watching children. But I do know that this isnât sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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Gwen Pearson
1 day ago
And now for something completely different:
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Entomologists! Please contribute to the iNaturalist collection of pubic lice! It's mostly from the EU at the moment.
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-...
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Crab Louse (Pthirus pubis)
The crab louse or pubic louse (Pthirus pubis) is an insect that is an obligate ectoparasite of humans, feeding exclusively on blood. The crab louse usually is found in the person's pubic hair. Althoug...
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-Pthirus-pubis#map-tab
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Watching billionaires burn their own money warms my heart.
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There will soon be a town in rural Argentina called "Nueva Icelandia" that's full of ICE agents who fled prosecution, living under new names and doing temp ag work to survive.
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How do ICE agents go to restaurants, knowing all the shit people will put in their food? Do they have a special squad of scrawny little undercover dweebs who pretend to be normies put in the orders?
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That UPS crash looks horrific. Planes full of fuel for a long flight have immense destructive potential.
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 days ago
Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
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Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
https://www.al.com/news/2025/11/auburn-university-requires-faculty-to-review-courses-for-dei-compliance.html?outputType=amp
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The different colors of the cells indicate pollen from different species of plants, packed away to be used as food for hungry honey bee larvae.
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This is horrifying.
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molly
2 days ago
like this post to find out what type of slug moth you are
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Jessica Luther
2 days ago
If you live in Travis County (TX), you can vote anywhere you see a sign today sayingâvote here/aqui." You can find polling locations, wait times at those locations, a sample ballot, and more here:
votetravis.gov/current-elec...
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Current Election â Travis County Clerk
https://votetravis.gov/current-election-information/current-election/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025114_Newsletter_Austin&utm_term=Austin
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Andrea Pitzer
2 days ago
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
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The response by
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
to UT Austin's new "Academic Integrity" statement is good. "The statement contributes to a climate of fear that is not conducive to high quality education."
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Press Release: AAUP at UT Austin Expresses Concerns about UTâs âStatement on Academic Integrityâ
Austin, TX November 3, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karma ChĂĄvez, 480-586-5848,
[email protected]
Polly Strong,
[email protected]
AAUP at UT Austin Expresses Concerns about UTâs âStaâŠ
https://aaup-utaustin.org/2025/11/03/press-release-aaup-at-ut-austin-expresses-concerns-about-uts-statement-on-academic-integrity/
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Dave Karpf
2 days ago
Dick Cheney lived long enough to witness the horrors he had unleashed.
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Andrew D Thaler
2 days ago
Every high school friend I buried was buried because of Dick Cheney.
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Peter Onyisi
3 days ago
It is a, let's say, interesting fact that "academic integrity" is discussed here primarily not as a question of, say, honesty or disclosure of conflicts but as one of "respect for differences" and "balanced treatment of disputed issues"
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Texas Statement on Academic Integrity | University of Texas at Austin
https://www.utexas.edu/academics/texas-statement-academic-integrity
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Ashton Pittman
3 days ago
They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
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dan sinker
3 days ago
if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.
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A colony of aphids tended by a Camponotus noveboracensis carpenter ant. South Bristol, New York.
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UT Austin students are amazing.
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Katharine Hayhoe
3 days ago
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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Peter Sagal
3 days ago
It me.
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Ethan Kocak
6 days ago
If this post gets 500 likes Iâll put a tokay gecko in my pants
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This is why Bari Weiss spends $10,000 dollars a day on security. There are ton of sandwich shops within range of the CBS building. She could be walloped with a turkey club at any moment. Terrifying.
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I'm not necessarily pessimistic about the climate future. The world is mostly moving in the right right direction. Other powerful countries, with wiser governments, are leading. I'm pessimistic about the United State's role, as it cedes power and will likely fall apart anyway.
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And the United States government is working to accelerate climate change. The global damage of letting a criminal government run roughshod over the planet will be immense, governments must stand together to contain the United States.
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JW Mason
3 days ago
This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized.
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I wasn't that excited about this stock standard photo of a darkling beetle (Eleodes goryi), until I noticed the parasitic tachinid fly egg attached above the insect's midleg. This beetle is on borrowed time.
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Trump planning to take control over the drug trade and its profits?
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A small huntress ant, Neoponera crenata, foraging along a rotting log in the Peruvian Amazon.
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David Roberts
4 days ago
BBC News - Rare wolf spider rediscovered on Isle of Wight after 40 years - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rare wolf spider rediscovered on Isle of Wight after 40 years
The team that found the tiny orange-legged arachnid have named it the white-knuckled wolf spider.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg1y66y80ro
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Dave Levitan
4 days ago
I wrote about the growing body of research showing how hurricanes continue to kill for a long time after they hit â and why it will be even worse in Jamaica.
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The Long Tail of Hurricane Death Will Be Even Longer in Jamaica
A growing body of research has demonstrated that hits from tropical cyclones leave more than just damaged rooftops in their wake, in fact raising mortality rates through a likely wide variety of mecha...
https://www.gravityisgone.com/the-long-tail-of-hurricane-death-will-be-even-longer-in-jamaica/
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Brendan Nyhan
4 days ago
If you thought masked, unidentified federal agents grabbing people off the street were a frightening step toward dystopia, wait until it's private contractors chasing cash bonuses for rounding up human beings at scale
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Another thing I'm doing- or rather, not doing- is passing along job announcements here at UT Austin. If UT wants to use my personal platform and personal social media accounts, it can contract me to do so. Otherwise, it feels super gross to try to convince people to come to a dying institution.
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UT Austin is a disgrace.
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From the UTAustin community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the UTAustin community
https://www.reddit.com/r/UTAustin/comments/1om81fp/queer_history_erased_from_ut_course/?utm_source=share
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Heather Bruce
5 days ago
Cool rotifer feeding with it's cilia beating đđ§Ș
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I think where it started going downhill was when we allowed dudes under the age of 35 write a hit song called âReelinâ in the Yearsâ. No consequences.
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A better shot of the Beelzebub bee-eater fly, Mallophora leschenaulti.
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Classic authoritarian move to weaponize famine
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Used to be that effective career advice was âwork hard and acquire marketable skillsâ, and now itâs âdonate to the Republican Partyâ so theyâll elevate you over all the suckers who worked hard and have skills.
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Itâs Halloween and the monarch butterflies are coming through the neighborhood
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Last minute addition to this yearâs Spider zoo: Mallophora leschenaulti, found by a neighbor just now.
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