Please take some time to look through some of the discoveries photographed in 2025. It should interest some invertebrate enthusiasts. yes? yes? bit.ly/nickybay2025

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Day 26 of my 2025 Favorites: Parenthood be like– When I first catch a glimpse of a giant Hogna wolf mom absolutely covered in babies, my brain refuses to process what I'm seeing, it's just bizarre. And then realization dawns and it's sweet. That's just the invertebrate experience. 🖤 #InverteFest

A list of climate programs Carney has scrapped ... #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...

tired: you should watch Die Hard because it's a Christmas movie wired: you should watch Die Hard because it is a perfect action movie

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time. If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Instead of spending big money to recruit a few dozen academics from outside of Canada, I wish the Liberals invested in the outstanding talent coming out of our PhD programs. Postdocs could be extended (#, duration) for large numbers for the same price. It is top-down, headline seeking politics.

Especially for "uncharismatic" species, remote locations, and historic observations. I think people *vastly* overestimate how much information is digitized, and how there's strong biases in what *is* digitized. And the lie LLM sells is it can fill in the gaps with "logic".

THIS SO MUCH THIS If you want to know "has this specific species been observed on this small island in Alaska", odds are the answer is not online, but in some typewritten USFWS or USFS report in the library Even with wonderful resources like iNat and eBird, huge gaps remain!

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

Mite harvesters (Cyphophthalmi) are super interesting from a biogeography perspective - the six families have distributions which reflect plate tectonics of ancient landmasses. The family here in New Zealand can be traced to Gondwana breaking from Laurasia some 200ish MYA! #TheWorldBeneatOurFeet 🧪

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Day 11 #artAdventCalendar The loggerhead shrike, endemic to North America, is also known as the butcherbird for its carnivorous tendencies and habit of ostentatiously displaying stored prey dramatically impaled on convenient spikes like tree thorns or barbed wire. 🧪🐡🪶 Its usual prey are insects, 🧵

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: 10 springtails leaping, 9 dance flies dancing, 8 ants a-milking, 7 wasps a-swimming, 6 flies a-laying, 5 gold beetles! 4 buzzing bees, 3 French worms, 2 turtle bugs, And a painting of a small flea. 🦗🩰 🐡 #invertebrate #advent #ArtAdventCalendar

We're excited to announce the finalists of the #RSPPhotoComp 2025! 🎉 Starting with #microimaging and overall winner, 'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Dr Martin Ramirez, capturing two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider (sample obtained by Dr Jonas Wolff @evoimec.bsky.social).

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And/or borrow them from your local library! 📚📖

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Forget Snakes on a Plane; how about Ticks on an Eel? cc @greenleejw.bsky.social entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...

So. . .will Canadian universities change their reliance on MS Teams?

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

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Pls share with grads and undergrads! Multiple grant opportunities from @xercessociety.bsky.social Deadline is January 7, 2026.

I think it's safe to say that people are pretty 'aware' right now. What we actually need is safety and allyship but happy #TransgenderAwarenessWeek anyway. If you want a trans pin, either as a pride symbol or in solidarity, this is your regular reminder that I sell a bunch at canopyrobin.etsy.com

Read the thread for a lovely story of teens making a difference 🪲🦋🙂

It's almost the weekend! 🥳 If you're looking for something for you and/or your kids to do, I've recently re-uploaded my arthropod coloring guide 🎨 Please feel free to share, print, and [definitely] have fun with it!!! drive.google.com/file/d/1V59i...

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If you have or have had Tri-Council funding you, too, may be concerned about this Parliamentary Committee request for confidential data. Also, these clowns asked for 5 years of data on applications from everyone from MA students to Canada Research Chairs in... an excel spreadsheet. 15 days notice.

Signed. It’s important that Canadian academics sign this letter to protest this hateful, anti-DEI & anti-academic freedom attempt to control research funding in Canada. This is an attempt to weaken & politicize research funding.

One small thing people can do is refuse to consume shitty art that isn’t made by people Interact with art made by real artists

Pseudoscorpions are small arachnids that are often overlooked. They prey on clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice, ants, mites, and small flies. Pseudoscorpions will sometimes hitch rides to new locations on other insects. #Arachtober

more people need to realize that honesty and jank, in this economy, are charming. lots of science youtubers reach millions of people with low effort stick figures/doodles.

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts! Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking! Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November. SquidFacts.net

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

“We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count.”

“It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products.” As @lollardfish.bsky.social notes, it’s not currently possible to use these tools ethically. And they are frankly dangerous. www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

"Knowledge is worth your time because of how it shapes your mind...even when it's not obvious how you will profit from it. You are more than a future source of profit, and humanity's survival depends on all of us understanding this."

Bookmarked this for teaching but also for my own kid when he's old enough. "You'll probably forget most of what you learn, especially if you don't end up using it repeatedly in future. What you will always have, though, is the mind that taking the courses made."

In "the most rigorous test to date of how AI would perform in the real world," researchers found that workers using AI completed tasks 19% slower than when working without it -- but thought they were faster. #AI #GenerativeAI 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Hello Canadian followers. Here's how you can "help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership. Unfortunately, the ❓s are skewed & circular, but if you are passionate about how AI should be used and regulated in Canada, this is your chance to weigh in. ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Big-headed fly sex. Real acrobatic stuff #BugSex

Xylethrus superbus is a fabulous species of orb weaving spider from the Amazon rainforest. While she looks a bit like a strawberry, eating her is not recommended. #Arachtober Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna. On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]