This was a fun collaboration, led by Guerin Brown @guerin-brown.bsky.social in the Forbes Lab @lordforbington.bsky.social - our teams found European parasitoids emerged from North American oak gall wasp species in western and eastern North America, which were likely separate introductions.

1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

In my capacity as a professional scientist, once again, I say to my colleagues:

A study to document two separate introductions of European parasitoids of oak gall wasps into North America. #wasps #alienspecies #parasitoids ‪ ‪ @lordforbington.bsky.social @kirstenmprior.bsky.social doi.org/10.3897/jhr....

I challenge all of you to go to Jesse's channel and look at the song titles. Then subscribe because this kid may be the most important music voice there is right now. I have been asking for years where the protest songs are. Jesse is it.

Good morning bright eyes. Paracantha genera, a tephritid fruit fly. The larvae live inside sunflowers and adults hang around. From the Pollinator Garden just now. 🌿

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Old and rare David Brooks banger

#NewSpecies alert! We just published a paper in Zootaxa describing two gorgeous species of #Ormyrus parasitoid wasps associated with herb #gall #wasps! Ormyrus bellbowl is named after the Bell Bowl #Prairie in opposition to its abhorrent partial destruction in 2023. #PreserveOurPrairies

Microwasp sorting day

What a devastating loss. Thank you to the program officers and others who lost their jobs at NSF for your dedication to the science community and efforts toward advancing science.

Hi new followers. I don't post often, but to give you a sense of what I've been working on, here is a short article I wrote a few months ago. The article summarizes a recent paper from my postdoc examining how tree diversity influences emerald ash borer in post-invasion forests.

I walked away from a 100K follow account on twitter when that asshole bought it and built what I've got here back up from scratch THE OLD FASHIONED WAY by shitposting and riffing, that's how we did it in MY DAY

You asked for it...

Through a quirk of scheduling, today's entomology class just happens to be on crop pests, the one where I show the 2008 presidential election results overlaid on a cotton production map.

I vote in every election and the line at the polling place today is the longest I’ve ever seen.

Wow! The Selzer poll is considered among the best in the business. It already had Harris outperforming Biden earlier this year, but this news… huge if true. A good reason for cautious optimism and to #vote even if you live in a red state! Things can change. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

I'm so excited to announce that my department is now hiring TWO ECOLOGISTS at the Assistant Professor Level. We will be really excited to substantially expand research in ecology in our EEOB Department at UCR. Please Repost and share widely! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01983

Straight from the Harris campaign. Do these things and remember to breathe.

"I'm gonna do it whether the women like it or not."

“We will call it linkage disequilibrium.” Named for the connection between proximity on a chromosome & a stable state, sir? “No, for the non-random association b/t alleles at different loci, where detecting LD will not necessarily show linkage or a lack of equilibrium.” I’m confused, sir.

Sometimes I think about how my grad school advisor assigned her ex's book to be read in our seminar and then specifically tasked us with poking holes in its various arguments, thus exacting the nerdiest possible revenge

After some trials, some errors, some tears and many curses, my creation is ready to be painted. Shout out to the Michael's employee who walked the store with me, suggesting various decorative balls to shove into buggy eye holes to make sure I had the very best bug eyeballs possible.

I don't necessarily endorse this but it's a heroic effort that will get them lots of flowers if they are proven right. app.vantagedatahouse.com/analysis/The...

One more time, for all the new folks on #academicsky: review of applications starts today! (For clarification, Recent Invertebrates means extant taxa, so #entomology #arachnology #mussels and other cool living #invertebrates, as opposed to paleontology!)

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Honey bees are not only not in trouble, they may cause harm to environments where they aren’t native (like the Americas).

I was looking for an #Entomology Starter Pack but I couldn't find one - so I started to build one! It's already morphing into more of a list of invertebrate aficionado/lovers. Did I miss you? Aplogies! Reply to this post and I'll remedy that! #StarterPack #Invertebrate go.bsky.app/7CaCbMC

Aww, you guys!! Thanks so much for all the wonderful birthday wishes. And special thanks to the great Stan Kelly for gifting me with my very own Kelly cartoon!

Hello to the new followers! I’m Carly and I’m a an entomologist at an undergraduate-only institute. Unsurprisingly, I’m part of the team pushing to create the FIT (Formal and Informal Teaching) section @entsocamerica.bsky.social

Ever wondered what preprints are? Or what I and our amazing Preprint Editorial Team does with them for the Royal Society of London's Proceedings B? Check out our new Preprint Team website! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/preprints

rough times for satire when you have a republican candidate for president praising hitler

Today is World Wombat Day so I must again say that my favourite ever blessing is an Indigenous Australian one and it goes "may the wombat of happiness snuffle through your underbrush"

Definitely the most well-educated social media platform I’ve ever been on /derogatory

I have come to the conclusion that public political polls are poison to democracy. They serve no public good and in fact probably cause harm.

Ceroptres sp. ovipositing into a furry oak leaf gall (Callirhytis furva). Possibly an inquiline but there's chatter in the literature that some in the genus might be parasitoids. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. 🌿 #gall #wasp #cynipidae #insects

i’m about halfway done, how far in are you

My Ugandan Brachycyrtinae wasps are now online. No pics yet, and only about half processed up to now. But 11 wasps of a subfamily not known to exist in continental Africa before 2021 isn't bad.

Annual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪

As a biologist married to a chemist, I’d like to add an extra note about “chem lab” glassware: Unless YOU bought that cool looking lab glass BRAND NEW and KNOW where it came from, IT IS NOT FOOD SAFE ALWAYS assume it was used for something awful, and that it CANNOT be fully cleaned. ALWAYS.

Females drive postmating reproductive trait evolution across Drosophila species, but not via remating rate http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.10.15.618555v1

playing the long game

birders rejoice! my Extremely Accurate Birds calendar has returned for 2025 with all-new bird illustrations, drawn with 100% accuracy and attention to detail! tasteful and photorealistic, i believe this edition to be the most precise bird calendar ever created! www.tommysiegel.net

I visited the Canadian Potato Museum last week and the highlight was an exhibit of tubers that had succumbed to pests and disease: June beetle, potato wart (Synchytrium endobioticum), bacterial soft rot (Pectobacterium carotovorum), & skin spot (Polyscytalum pustulans). Rest in peace. #pei #potatoes

Become ungovernable