Squirrel Cuckoo looking for a meal at Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #nature

In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ... #academicsky *actually just the good decisions of our new Dean www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...

The eagerly awaited follow-up to @aptshadow.bsky.social's bestselling Children of Time series, Children of Strife follows our MC as she tries to determine what has happened to her crewmates who left the ship to explore an interstellar ark. Signed preorder: www.waterstones.com/book/childre... 💙📚🪐

Day 19 of my 2025 Favorites: Schizomida mom and her cluster of baby clones! I've had many generations of these tiny arachnids from 2 females (they're parthenogenic) collected in a public park near Miami a few years ago, and happened to spot this one with her babies one evening. Delightful lump 🥹

Black turnstone leaving no stone unturned. 🪶

Kelp at Ogden Point

Oystercatcher at Ogden Point

Some ravens at Mt. Tolmie

Deer looking all majestic and stuff

Some guys at the garbage can

Harlequin ducks are very beautiful

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Kingfisher in Oak Bay

Song sparrow in the duff

Field botanist job with Virginia Natural Heritage, based in Roanoke, VA. $55-65K pay range. Please share widely! www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/field-b...

Day 9 of my 2025 Favorites: Habronattus alachua (again) I think this species has featured in every one of my favorites run-downs, and I can't help it. They're perfect: the floof and crimson red face of the boys, and the stripy eye makeup on the lasses ❤️ #EmotionalSupportSpood

Sandcut Beach

Looking up at China Beach

Great Blue Heron

Black Turnstone from Esquimalt Lagoon today

Harbour seal chillaxing in Oak Bay

Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar Ms. Crested Caracara feeding her trio of mini dinosaurs 🪶

New paper on bark spiders, who build the largest webs made out of the toughest silk. We show that their extremely tough silk, which is potentially metabolically costly, is limited to large females. Juveniles and males use inferior silk.

#EmotionalSupportSpood Young Hamataliwa helia, the fiercest of Lumps ♥️

Diego looks dreamy at F0.95

Look at those eyes! #flyday #bugskye #entomology #macro

90% of the time when Rashford barks at "something" through the floor level window...it's nothing. Now and then he gets it right (deer were utterly unbothered by his barking). Bebe Black-tailed (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) demonstrates the origin of the moniker! #mammals #becurious

Got a 10 mm F2 lens from TTArtisan, so here is Zora shot at F2

Latrodecta, Organ of the Laboratory of Arachnology, National Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Company "Fauna" Ltd, Weissenburg ISSN: 0940-8185 Mainly scientific articles on the breeding & maintenance of arachnids, but it also includes faunistic works. Anyone know more about this journal?

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Who wants another baby earwig update? Everyone? Thought so. The babies are now two days old and slightly darker than when they hatched. Mama is guarding them and will stay on the job until their second molt. Btw, in the earlier post, the newly-hatched babies only had--

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Way too much politics on my timeline right now, deploying weird marine life image. :) Here's up close and personal with an unusually cooperative Flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans). Night dive, Ulua Beach Maui. 🌿📷🐟🦑

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#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Earwig Egg Update! Yesterday I took a photo of earwig eggs, and when I lifted the rock today, they were hatching. The new babies are transparent except for their compound eyes and mandibles; those were the orange spots you could see on the eggs yesterday. Check out this cropped photo--

We found oyster spiders today during my oyster lab field trip for my Invertebrate Zoology class! These are marine spiders! They have special setae (hairs) that trap air and let them live underwater. #invertebrates #spider

When Riley and Jonesy find a family of pseudoscorpions riding on them: "PHORESY!"

Habronattus borealis male, from Pomquet Beach, NS

A pretty portrait of one of my year-round Black-capped Chickadee backyard buddies. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada March 2025 📸 #birds #chickadee #BCCH #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor800pf

I'm still on strike as a PT CUPE professor at SMU, and it's a little mind-boggling how much money SMU has made off of my students. We are now up to $24,272 that my students have paid and had no education in return. That's 2 whole domestic students' worth of tuition they just created out of nothing.

Had to work late yesterday, and at dusk I was leaving the building I was at when I noticed a familiar tiny shape on a young maple they had planted on site. Surprise sleepy nugget (resin bee) 🥹 Goodnight y'all

The globular springtail Dicyrtomina saundersi in our #Staffs garden this morning. Between 1-2 mm long. #collembola #mesofauna #macro #photography

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Independently evolved supergenes control colony social organization and queen reproductive strategies in several ant lineages. Sigeman et al. uncover a novel 9 Mb supergene controlling queen size and social organization in Myrmica ruginodis. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf255 #evobio #molbio #ants

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I don't think I've actually posted this one on its own, a travesty Asian Tiger Mosquito #pixelart #украрт

I've wanted to see Purseweb Spider since I was a kid, but've never managed to find one despite much searching, so I was overjoyed when one of the other volunteers found this amazing arachnid during this morning's survey work - just look at the size of those chelicerae! @britishspiders.bsky.social

Beautiful wood nymph (Eudryas grata) The "beautiful" is part of the name 😵‍💫 - add your own adjectives if you'd like ... When resting with wings folded, this moth resembles a bird dropping (at least, to some observers) #Inverts

Little man with a big snack (Habronattus notialis 💚) #EmotionalSupportSpood