There were small dragons enjoying the sunny stairs yesterday. Green Anole 🦎

A few more photos of my friendly neighbourhood voles. I'm going to miss these little guys once the snow melts. #mammals 🌿

As the ice begins to break up, the muskrats start to reappear on the water. #wildlife #muskrat

pleased to report we have accomplished our primary objective of visiting Vienna, e.g. glimpsing some wild cemetery hamsters

Because I love you all I will share my snowberry clear wing moth.

Beautiful collection!

Tierney Thys was truly an amazing advocate for the oceans and for the wonderful ocean sunfish, Mola mola, and its relatives. A grad school friend in the Wainwright lab at Duke, truly saddened to hear that she is gone. Great tribute by her sister. 🐟🧪🌿🦑 thys-danielle.medium.com/the-ocean-le...

Until you change the incentive structure of academia you will continue to see people fear losing their status and use AI as a way to fast-track productivity bc academia doesn't currently value the meaningful production of knowledge, only the performance of producing it.

Ms Geolycosa says hi 👀 (will always stop for burrowing wolves) #EmotionalSupportSpood

March rewind ⏪ 🪶 Raptor edition

Mr Habronattus carolinensis, a handsome perky boy who was intrigued by the weird giant biped (who in turn was very happy to see him) 🤎 #EmotionalSupportSpood

whenever I am traveling with younger folks for conferences and stuff (especially bipoc/first gen college students) I always offer to do things like put my card down for hotel incidentals or pick up dinner in my early career waiting for reimbursements was so stressful and could break my finances

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster. They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters. So why so colorful?

Phazaca interrupta - the Plain Roll-moth A new moth for our Perth Hills garden last night and definitely one of the more unusual ones we’ve seen. This moth concertinas its wings while at rest, giving it this unusual resting posture. #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist

Micro-moths/micro-leps are catch-all terms for the precisely eleventy-zillion species (although experts say there may be as many as umpteen-gazillion) of tiny moths from various moth families. They're always worth a close look; zoom in for the lovely blue eye. (Anza-Borrego Desert, CA) 🌿🐙 #Bugsky

Humpback whales perform an incredible bubble feeding spectacle right in front of a lodge in Canada. Witnessing this behavior is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The medical shit on this timeline, at least, is pretty incredible

What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime ! This post aims to serve as a simplified tool for you to better understand Cheliceratime’s entries by summarizing the main information about each large chelicerate groups, so unroll the thread to find the group you're looking for!⬇️ 🧵 #sciart #arachnid 1/6

Out sampling ponds this morning with my aquatic invertebrate class. Lots of Chaoborus (phantom midges).

022 delivering a huge bass to CJ7 on first arriving at the nest this morning! @careyssecretgarden.bsky.social

Creative spaces that haven't been invaded by AI slop exist. The SciArt Feed has over 1,500 approved artists engaged with science sharing inspiring work to see every day. Like & Pin a Bluesky Feed with real creators, not slop-feeds.

Moths of Western North America by Seabrooke Leckie is now available worldwide! This is the first photographic field guide to present the moths of western North America as they are found in nature, making it easy to use for novices & experts alike. Find it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Treated myself to this for my 70th birthday last week 😃 @jonathanslaght.com

Hey if you need a fantasy story that I wrote specifically as a middle finger to JKR and other utter human disappointments check out my comic, The Unfamiliars. Theunfamiliars.site

I've been working on something. 🙂 #NaturalHistoryCollections #3DPrinting #CurationCorner

So cute, so fierce, SO CUTE! Rufous Hummingbird #birds #becurious 🪶

‪For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Preeners&Scratchers (any bird preening/scratching itself) I'm taking a bit of artistic license and presenting a Mute Swan having a good shake in the midst of a bath. There was plenty of preening going on, just not at this very instant. :) #birds #photography

1. 344 hummingbird pics just this morning - you've been *warned* 2. Rufous ARE amazing, but y'all! LOOK AT THIS MR. ANNA'S 👀 #birds #becurious 🪶

Note to self: post it notes make horrible impromptu sample labels #entomology

Attack of the killer zweefvlieg

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🧪Science friends: Participate in this (quick) survey-based study of GenAI use in ecology & evolutionary biology research clemson.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨 It's finally out! 🚨 A new bizarre harvestman from Eocene Baltic amber, named Balticolasma wunderlichi! This wonderful little guy was quite the challenge to work on as I don't do inverts that often...

Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection! Details here: tinyurl.com/bdduefsy

My big monograph is finally out in @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social right on #taxonomistappreciationday! 169 new species of flat wasps from Australia, many of them with remarkable head modifications for seeking their hosts. So excited to see this published after 8 years, available free and open access. 🧪

We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS

Well, I captured a Red-tailed Hawk diving right at me this morning on Central Park's Harlem Meer. I'm not sure what it was after--the only thing I could see was a Red-winged Blackbird. But it gave me an image I've never captured before! 😍😍😍 #Hawks #CentralPark #birdsseenin2026

A critically endangered smalltooth sawfish cruised through a murky Coral City today (and might’ve bumped into Glenn Nevis in the process😅). How privileged we are to have a fish like this swimming through Miami waterways! When it comes to civic pride through biodiversity, Miami wins #coralcitycamera

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Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word! 🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...

Happy release day @aptshadow.bsky.social !

This survey is looking for more participants outside of France and honestly looking at photos of forests for 10 minutes is a great way to procrastinate 🌳

In case you missed it, my FIREFLY books got banned in Alberta for "explicit sexual images" that... they don't actually contain? gregpak.com/my-firefly-b...

Pileated woodpecker in #MtDoug #pkols today. Right on the trail, didn’t see it until a metre away #yyj birding

I made myself a light diffusion box. Each panel attaches to adjacent ones via matching, recessed, neodymium magnets. This allows me to collapse the whole thing flat for storage. #photography

Mr Maevia intermedia, a handsome pale blue-grey leggy boy found in our savannahs. Shy, and very likely they see you much more than you see them #EmotionalSupportSpood

Please help my colleagues, who are working on an important survey! #NaturalHistory

Héhé, j'ai commencé à tourner quelques images pour le docu puisque j'ai trouvé ces juvéniles d'Eresus ! Je ne pensais pas voir quoi que ce soit si tôt dans la saison.

If your're a bird watcher, why not be a bugwatcher as well? Many of the skills of the former cross-over to the latter, and in his "Bugwatching" (@princetonupress.bsky.social) @bugeric.bsky.social explains the finer points of arthropod observing. #Booksky www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2026/03/bugw...

Anna’s hummingbird looks like a tiny dancer as he displays his gorget and flares his tail feathers #PerfectlyPerched #birdoftheday #hummingbird #photography #birds