Okay biogeographers. Have at it.

The Death of Empathy. Frame it.

This statement about “young children” being something under 14 seems particularly detestable given Trump’s close personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles youtu.be/BbiXMQwBEaA?...

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t... www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t... Future folk etymologists are going to have a field day, aren't they.

Nature is healing

Do full-eaten ants smell differently?

Horrific bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/treat-2 #smbc

ANTIFA is using fake wasp nests to hide cameras KNOCK THEM DOWN

I met president of Mongolia and made mistake of mentioning historical ownership of territories...

We're taking our knowledge of robotic and drone aided plant conservation to the extreme cliff habitats of Madeira Island in the waters off the coast of Morocco. Read more about our work here: ntbg.org/stories/ntbg...

Hot tip for anyone trying to teach entomology on a budget: simply embed yourself in a department full of talented designers who will build you an elegant rolling cart that holds AND charges 20 tomlov scopes at once

International shipments and museum loans: some helpful, aggravating notes from Chris on the ECN listserv that I'm leaving here for future reference.

Just when you thought you could fish…

THIS is good.

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

> @jasonkander.bsky.social

‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies

Through the power of digitisation, millions of Kew's plant and fungal specimens have stepped out of the archives and into the hands of the world 🌿 Explore the new Data Portal yourself and uncover centuries of botanical history - now just a click away! www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

“Welcome to the awkward new reality of global science: one superpower is turbocharging its research engine, while the other is pulling out spark plugs." -- a #Chinese professor #EconSky #Harvard

Six months ago we came into the port of Algier just before sunrise. The dipterist JMF Bigot spent winters here in the 1890s.His place still exists and I was fortunate to be able to see it later that day.#FlyFriday

Look at the bombyliids LOOK AT THEM

A Japanese researcher has taxonomically classified fish-shaped soy sauce bottles into 76 different ‘species’. (📷: 沢田佳久)

An update from the WH Easter Egg Roll.

“I don’t want foreigners bringing their weird traditions to my country,” says man hiding chocolate eggs to honour dead deity

This is f**ked up

5/ Some wings have evolved strategies to help reduce damage resulting from collisions. For example, we learned a few years ago that wasp wings have a flexible joint that acts like a reversible crumple zone, allowing the wing tip to easily bend out of the way when it hits things...

📌Mother knows best ...

The lack of precision in the committee’s methodology is “obviously laughable,” said Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of international affairs at Princeton University who studies the rise and fall of constitutional governments. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

It took a while, but they did it.

The Moscow Institute of Computer Science has "caught fire", I felt a great disturbance in the algorithm, as if millions of bots suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

The NFL shouldn't have allowed Trump to attend #SuperBowlLIX    . He bankrupted the last football league he was involved in.

This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.

New Species Alert! Say hello to Enica adelphe! This new bee fly is native to the Richtersveld in the Northern Cape of South Africa. NHRE intern Lisa Rollinson and I synonymized the genera Enica and Nomalonia, in addition we described a new species. Happy #FlyFriday ! doi.org/10.3897/afri...

Some of Trumps Executive Orders www.facebook.com/JimmyKimmelL...

"NSF is doing an honest job" enacting the new world order of a fascist government is really not very confidence building.

Trump starts pointless trade war. Canada threatens to retaliate by withholding electricity from the US. Trump’s press sec says this is fine because Jesus didn’t have electricity. Literally the dumbest possible timeline.

There was a time that imposing a tax on certain imported goods would result in Americans rising up against their rulers. These days the rulers just have to lie to them about what a tariff is and they cheer the tax they're forced to pay.

We are now 33 hours into Trump’s promise to end the war in Ukraine within the first 24 hours of his presidency.

The box I have sent to my enemies labeled "Live Scorpions," containing another, smaller, box also labeled "Live Scorpions" has my enemies asking a lot of questions already answered by the boxes of live scorpions.

Geology jokes hittin' the mainstream

We ichthyologists have lost a legend: obits.csnh.com/william-bill...

Just out! The 4th edition of Authors of Fly Names containing over 7100 names of people who authored a fly name hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications...

A slideshow of the things Charles Darwin’s kids drew on the back of the pages of his original manuscript for ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. Incredible. www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-...

Watching Musk and Bannon fighting over the internet is the social media equivalent of watching crabs and syphilis duke it out over body counts in a Wild West whorehouse.

The weather outside is frightful, but Burlington House is just delightful, especially now that we know we can stay! After much posting and planning and signing and stamping, our 999 year lease has been confirmed.