That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

Last behind-the-scenes part of my magical sandwich making

Miniaturized versions of sleep lab equipment are revealing the extreme and somewhat quirky ways animals snooze while flying, deep diving or parenting their young. #birding #nature #science bit.ly/4qnGCMZ

Hello from 65°N on the shortest day of the year. Here in Reykjavík we have four hours of "daylight." Many years, the solstice is shrouded in clouds, but even when it's sunny out, we stay in perpetual golden hour because the sun does not rise more the 3.5° above the horizon. #iceland #wintersolstice

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

New paper with @matthewzipple.bsky.social out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We tested how living outside influenced anxiety in lab mice. Time in outdoor enclosures blocked and reversed anxiety responses. A little time in nature does a lot of good! Free link: tinyurl.com/44u7bn32

"City dwellers looking to add a touch of nature to their homes are often the ones interested in the nests." Gift link. #wasps #hymenoptera #dolichovespula #vespidae #insects #nature www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/r...

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

eggNOG v7, the first release implementing a fully phylogenetic, domain-centric workflow - Speciation and duplication events are detected using a noise-tolerant algorithm to generate hierarchically consistent, evolutionarily dated OGs academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #orthology #evolution

Saw a stunning Pine Marten this evening

The #BEASTLab won second place in the departmental holiday decoration contest!

For our 2019 #Genome #Biology study we had just 6 beetle 🐞 genomes 🧬 to work with link.springer.com/article/10.1... ... today there are >300 chromosomal-level reference genomes for Coleoptera! #biodiversity #genomics

A giant clam the size of a small clam

At @skypeascientist.bsky.social we were able to give out more grant funding than we took in this year, thanks to people who support us! That grant funding went to 13 science communicators across the country on their in-person projects. YOU can support us here: givebutter.com/SupportSAS25

WHO reaffirms no link between vaccines and autism www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Today the members of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior graduate program at Indiana University celebrated the upcoming retirement of Dr. Ellen Ketterson. Ellen was a bastion of civility and scientific excellence. The program would not be what it is without her presence over these past decades.

Good research takes time. It’s important to wait for more tests, peer review, etc. But it’s been over a year since scientists made mice translucent with Doritos food dye. Where’s my “look through your skin” cream?! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

Wizard makes a sandwich 🥪✨

✨ Nominate an entomologist or educator and recognise their achievements in entomology 🐝 ⏰ Deadline: 31 December Some open awards include: 🦋 Insect Conservation Award 🐝 Eleanor Ormerod Award 🪲 Higher Education Teaching Award Nominate or apply now 🔽

This is HUGE! (Read it!!). I'll be cheering Doris and Astera Neuro on the entire way. Doris is a genius, both in the scope of her vision and in making things happen (that combination is rare). SO EXCITING! I can't wait to see what Astera Neuro discovers. astera.org/neuroscienti...

Huh

Every time I read a new excerpt from the Nuzzi book, I think of this onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...

New review out! 🔥🧊 We break down how rodents, primates & insects encode temperature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... View-only: rdcu.be/eThU1

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

New paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Link below. Congrats PhD student @smthmpsn.bsky.social, on your first paper. All about how wild birds learn to avoid a novel aposematic warning signal. And a nice nod to Britney Spears in the paper title.

Doesn’t seem great that all the animals are turning to booze.

I'm at the combination

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

An eel donated to a natural history museum in 1873 had two ticks embedded in its skin, making it the first known instance of ticks parasitizing a fish. But it was only first documented this year, when a tick specialist identified the ticks and reported the case in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

I am pleased to announce that from Jan 1 2026 I take over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Theory. My first act, with the support of the editorial team, is to bring the journal to BlueSky from X. Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.

‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Someone who bought a frog facts advent calendar for a friend's kid last year just emailed me. Apparently that kid got a different advent calendar this year, and when he opened it he said, “These are HORRIBLE! They’re not teaching me anything about frogs!” This kid gets it.

It was an honour to bring some #WaspLove to the #Oxford @naturerecovery.bsky.social last week, in the framework of the natural capital of wasps and their contributions to people. What a fabulous audience 🥰. Thanks to @ymalhi.bsky.social for the invite! @uclcber.bsky.social

On Thantsgiving, the ants eat too much.

We had a new paper out yesterday in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. About how the cranial feathers of male Golden and Lady Amherst’s Pheasants affect their visual fields. Nice to see it picked up The New York Times and Science. Paper link below.

NO ONE FORMS POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY SEE IN THE WORLD. THEY FORM POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY HEAR FROM OTHER PEOPLE. There are many, many, many important implications of this!!

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org

I’m not crying - you’re crying www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The cover art is finished for my new book and I LOVE IT! This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱

#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy 🇺🇸US Senator Chris Murphy Just Released This Video🇺🇸

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith