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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It isnât âfor no reasonâ. The tariffs allow Trump to hold large corporations hostage until they pay him massive bribes. The reason is to enrich Trump, whatever the cost. Iâm tired of people thinking thereâs some deep policy or something when itâs just mundane mob shakedown shit.
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Dr Briana Pobiner
about 4 hours ago
Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Assistant Professor - Curator of Education (Tenure-Track)
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=69188
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Adrian Smith
about 7 hours ago
New Ant Lab video today about pincer wasps and a new research project. This one has some really cool, newly-filmed insect behavior in it!
youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk
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Spring-Loaded Claws on a Wasp â Parasitoid Pincer Wasps
YouTube video by Ant Lab
https://youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk
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Finally got some photos of Australiaâs âblue antâ, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.
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I donât understand vertebrate taxonomy. They keep making pointless genera for one or two species. Which defeats the entire purpose of genera. There should only be like nine genera of mammals.
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Jennifer Ouellette
2 days ago
Ants Make Individuals Weaker to Build Bigger Societies
www.discovermagazine.com/ants-make-in...
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Ants Make Individuals Weaker to Build Bigger Societies
Learn how ants traded individual protection for collective power â and what it reveals about how complex societies evolve.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/ants-make-individuals-weaker-to-build-bigger-societies-48437
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Ana Marie Cox
about 19 hours ago
So Bari Weissâs first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Found a nest of one of my favorites! A true oddball. Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus, the red-headed spider ant.
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Australia road trip update
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Shepherd
about 24 hours ago
This is misinformation. The current problem with the New World Screwworm began in 2023, when the supply of sterile flies used to keep them out of Panama was interrupted. DOGE did not have time machines.
asm.org/articles/202...
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Thatâd be a start, but weâre not getting closure on this era until all these fuckers are in prison, and their assets distributed to regime victims. They donât get to murder so many people and get away with mere impeachment.
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A real treat to watch a male Lyrebird perform at the Healesville Sanctuary yesterday. Truly magnificent.
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Kristi Ellingsen
1 day ago
My daughter had a very snooty visitor today.
#echidna
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Why are rich people paying trillions for âartificial intelligence?â I know people who have genuine intelligence. The real deal. None of this fake shit. Give them your money. Itâs a better product.
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Australian news has been covering the Epstein-Trump story a surprising amount.
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Found a nest of one of my favorites! A true oddball. Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus, the red-headed spider ant.
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Hanging out in an old deck chair with lots of cobwebs, in a yard filled with mosquitoes, taking bets.
3 days ago
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The redactions just make it clear that Trump is, in fact, a central figure in what may have been the world's largest network of criminal pedophiles.
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A real treat to watch a male Lyrebird perform at the Healesville Sanctuary yesterday. Truly magnificent.
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I'm sorry but Australian horse flies are insane.
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Emu update.
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Given the location, it won't be bears that take down this Libertarian Utopia. But it could be dengue or, hopefully, screwworm.
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5 days ago
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Wombat update.
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Dr. Jenny Morber
5 days ago
Propublica is arguably the most trusted and influential investigative reporting publication running today. Its management would only do this if they wanted to destroy it.
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Wombat update.
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5 days ago
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Australia sky update.
6 days ago
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Wombat update.
7 days ago
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Bill Grueskin
7 days ago
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Thank God for this vital information, wasnât sure how weâd get out of our cabin in an emergency.
7 days ago
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Australia sky update.
8 days ago
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Yashar Ali đ
8 days ago
UPDATE Australiaâs New South Wales Police Force say that 16 people have been killed in the Bondi Beach massacre and 40 people remain hospitalized.
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Mass shooting in Australia
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9 days ago
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Australia sky update.
10 days ago
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10 days ago
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Another "came across this while looking for some other photo" photo. Steller's Jays excel at that sweet/haughty expression.
#birds
#becurious
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Nancy Jane Moore
12 days ago
Words cannot express how much this breaks my heart.
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This reminds me of an old joke in South America, that Paraguay came in second on Transparency Internationalâs Corruption Scale because the number one country, Cameroon, bribed the judges.
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12 days ago
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Conservatives ran an op at A&M to create a controversy, then used that controversy as an excuse for a purge. The whole thing is fake.
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Think of it this way: many rich parents want their kids in colleges surrounded by smart people, otherwise whatâs the point? Thus, they are tacitly happy to overpay the privates at full price to ensure the place is crammed with actually smart students. Which means your kid gets an aid package.
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13 days ago
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Gil Wizen
13 days ago
A few months ago I shared this beautiful and mysterious hawkmoth caterpillar from the Amazon, and it seems that now more than ever we are finally close to revealing its ID thanks to
@gwentomologist.bsky.social
, who decided to rear it to adulthood. I highly recommend following this story on IG!
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I would like a religious exemption for paying taxes to a government that kills its own people.
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13 days ago
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Texas ground update.
#atxwx
13 days ago
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southpaw
13 days ago
âThese political parties, theyâre like shipwrecks: metal structures, theyâre dead. Street protests, youth politics come into them like shoaling fish, to turn them into living reefs.â
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish theyâd known sooner. Hereâs what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what theyâve learned about authoritarians
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/09/experts-authoritarian-regimes-trump
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Reuters
13 days ago
Australia is set to become the first country to implement a minimum age for social media use, with platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube forced to block more than a million accounts, marking the beginning of an expected global wave of regulation
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I keep looking for signs that the normies have figured out weâre in danger, but Iâm not sure how to tally this
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14 days ago
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The point is to use activist students to purge schools of teachers and staff who are not Party supporters. This is all very Soviet.
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14 days ago
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Read to the end, and youâll see it was the Hitler Youth behind the suspension of the second instructor. Turning Point USA is a toxic, bigoted organization incompatible with the modern university. Which is their point, I guess.
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We are discovering new species at the fastest rate ever.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A cool story about sacrifice and social immunity in ants.
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Sick baby ants sacrifice themselves to save their colony
New research shows ill pupae emit a chemical signal before ever leaving their cocoons.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/ill-infant-ants-sacrifice/
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David Ho
18 days ago
Our infrastructure isnât ready for whatâs coming.
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One of the founding members of the UT Austin TPUSA chapter was later arrested for animal cruelty at a Neo-Nazi training camp, where they were doing something awful with a goat. True story.
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