Republican immigration "policy" is best understood as a scam where the racism of the Republican base is cultivated to produce public money for fraudulent contracting schemes.

Job! Biodiversity science communications. Austin, Texas.

killing minorities in Memphis is necessary to protect national security, you see

Introducing the world's only known cave-adapted spider wasp... Troglopompilus miracaecatus (Pompilidae) from the caves of the Nullarbor, Australia. A world first: Eyeless, long limbs and antennae, highly reduced wings. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #cave #wasp #biodiversity

I should provide a source for all this:

Here is what seems to be happening at KUT, Austin's NPR affiliate. 1. The GOP regime cuts NPR funding. 2. KUT organizes a festival to raise money. 3. GOP political appointees at the University of Texas try to kill the festival by banning it from UT facilites just before it starts, with no warning.

More and more, it seems to be the time to move KUT/KUTX out of the University of Texas and away from the whims of the political appointees fundamentally collapsing the school. Hiott pulled off a successful KUT Festival even as UT tried to ruin it, and that’s embarrassing for the school.

The Republican party is attempting to subvert Austin's public media via the party's control of the University of Texas.

crazy to think that perhaps because trump is not an ideologue and is a little attentive to public sentiment he is less likely to go full tiananman square than miller and vance

To my friends in soil science, If your goal remains sharing your peer-reviewed research papers on social media and disucssing them with the public, I might suggest considering changing the name of this journal. (Yes, I know what the term means in the context of soil.)

you ever thing about how all the various “canaries” of south america are named after a bird which is named after islands which is named after dogs?

If anyone happens to be at the White House event and catches some of the forecast insects, I will happily take them to accession into a public research collection for posterity.

🕊️ Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope Paris, Briasson, 1754-1755. [Source]

Air conditioning is also a help in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases, which I never see discussed outside of Florida where it's considered one of the factors that's keeping dengue from becoming endemic.

Love what the Australian soccer team says about modern Australia. Seriously, watch this video, and you'll be cheering for them too.

Taxonomist: Eureka! I have discovered a small orange ant that is very timid and is only 3mm long and never comes above ground. Regular person: That's great! What will you name it? Taxonomist:

The world's first trillionaire did this

Just logged on to Bluesky and I guess the Knicks are playing Scotland?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an arid region in possession of a good formicine ancestral stock will evolve from them a honeypot ant species," I think to myself, as I read about the Proformica of the Asian steppes.

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

Countries with ants vs countries without ants

Any entomologists know what they are referencing with the “insect swarms”? Seems like a weird exaggeration of normal east coast summer insects activity

To whom it may concern.

Headed to Puerto Rico for 🦟 and 🦎 🦠 research. A bit bittersweet as NSF funding for the Luquillo LTER has been cut and the future of the program is in doubt. Going to collect the crap out of the data just in case this is my last trip. 🧪 🇵🇷🌴

Pogonomyrmex desertorum, a small native harvester ant from Texas.

Federal Bureau of Intimidation

We all know that when Trumpism falls it’s not going to be people watching workers taking down signage. It’ll be masses of people gleefully pulling down the fucking wall themselves and taking sledgehammers to the gold statues.

The good news is, this is just crime. The goal is for regular Americans to fund elite cocaine parties on regime donor's yachts. No one's going to actually build a coal mine.

I feel terrible for all the space nerds whose aspirations are now being subverted by a violent white supremacist cult.

As the US squares against the mighty nation of Paraguay in tonight's game, here is a reminder of what Paraguayans did with a statue of their US-sponsored dictator after they deposed him in 1989.

As the only American political scientist that studies Paraguay (that I know of sorry if there is anyone else) today is a very exciting day with the US playing Paraguay in the World Cup

#SciComm Job!

That we looked at the white supremacist who is still carrying out the vile murders of hundreds of thousands of children and decided, yep, this is the dude who should get all of our money, is the most scathing indictment of American culture in my lifetime.

A gallery of ant warfare.

There's still time to apply! University of Nebraska State Museum is searching for a Collection Manager for one of the most important Paleontology Collections in North America. Come join us and work with nice people and incredible fossils. Please apply! employment.unl.edu/postings/100...

A crime syndicate is never going to pick an honest person for any of these roles.

A lot of media coverage of screwworm misses that screwworm is a fly, and flies can move themselves around without livestock shipments. Cattle shipments are good for quick long-distance spread, but if the climate is right and there are mammalian hosts, it will arrive just fine on its own wings.

Who trusts a bitcoin miner? One may as well trust a drug cartel.

Job! Biodiversity science communications. Austin, Texas.

Because I follow a lot of bug scientists, my first thought when I log on to this website and see people posting excitedly about something with no context is that they have discovered a new weevil.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

welp this bee thread might end sooner than any of us want it to be, but still worth checking out if you missed it

bees writing racist tracts about "the elephant question"

Frankly, Elon’s purchase of Twitter—where despite backlash, libs and lefties continue to use the site and keep it relevant—was proof of concept. We’re seeing the same thing happen now with Paramount/CBS. There’s always a choice. The right one is abandonment.

I am old enough to remember Republicans pointing to Saddam Hussein's "rape prisons" as a justification for their Iraq invasion. Republicans are now gleefully and enthusiastically running their own rape prisons.

I see that the media is having a hard time figuring out what a “protestor” is. Pro-tip: it’s someone protesting the government or other large institution about an official policy. People targeting private homes and bodies for destruction are *terrorists* or *mobs*.

It is a real statement of priorities for the United States to give endless money to sociopathic killers, while taking food from children.

Unlimited money for murderers.

A few years ago, one of UT's field stations burned in an intense wildfire. As there had been a moth survey of this same forest in 1992-94, we took the opportunity to do some moth science: