In their rebellious adolescent years, Guayaquila gracilicornis treehoppers sport garish stripes and spikes, before maturing into more stately and traditional thorn bugs.

Our recently published work in @royalsociety.org was featured on Spectrum News! Thanks for a great story featuring @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social's work on how antibiotics disrupt the collective cooling in honey bee colonies in my research lab @marquetteu.bsky.social spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...

My lab is hiring a full time lab manager! Come join our terrific team! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29947

Behold the Cyborg Cicada!

The "mean" in "Greenwich Mean Time" actually means "mean" (like, average). I did not know this! To calculate GMT they took the position of the sun throughout the year and averaged it out to find the average solar noon in Greenwich and based the time on that!

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Not that the internet needs more photos of monarch butterflies, but they’re just so pretty. Here’s my favorite stage, the chrysalis, with its golden ornamentations. The other image shows the fully grown caterpillar as it enters pupation. Woodstock, NY.

Looking to appoint a PhD candidate with background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field to work on discovery of infection combatting therapeutics in marine sponge-associated bacteria. Closing date 31st May 2025. International applications welcomed!🌎

Hello Community! Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)

Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵] 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...

Each spring, a hidden spectacle unfolds when subterranean citronella ants (Lasius subgenus Acanthomyops) bring their mutualistic mealybugs (the large fluffy white thing) up under rocks to warm up. Here, the prolific mealybugs produce vast numbers of nymphs (the small purple things).

Please share! Do you work at the intersection of plant volatiles and insect management? 🌿🪲 Submit to our special issue in Enviro Ent: Plant Volatiles in Insect Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture. MS drafts due Aug '25, anticipated pub. Feb '26; DM for details! @entothompson.bsky.social

❣️ Community ❣️ I need your help! Does your department do "intro" videos where each faculty has a short video on who they are and what their research/teaching is? Or have you seen something like this? If so, can you share it here? THANK YOU!

My group is hiring a new Postdoc to work on gene regulation and chromatin in Nematostella. Please RT! For more information see here: gahanlab.com tinyurl.com/34xke35d

At #UBC, in Vancouver, 🇨🇦, we are welcoming applications from folks as part of US applicant week - we recognize that many potential grad students may have had their offers revoked, and other complications - we have great research & fab colleagues - so check us out www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

Some fun #honeybee 🐝 press for our paper! today.marquette.edu/2025/04/marq...

Spring beauty, Claytonia caroliniana in the Montiaceae, flowering today in #Ithaca. A single pair of narrow leaves, edible, along with the tuber. Seeds are said to have explosive dehisence, less than 1M, and also have eliasomes collected by ants #WildflowerHour #bloomscrolling #botany

Two PhD Scholarships to study Australian stingless bees 🐝 and crop pollination at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney Uni - deadline March 31. Sounds like a great project - reach out with questions - I did my PhD in this lab! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

❗CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE❗ Biological invasions in the context of global environmental change. Deadline for abstracts: 31 July For more details and how to apply -> https://www.oikosjournal.org/blog/call-papers-biological-invasions-context-global-environmental-change Please share around 😊

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: In response to numerous media inquiries about an octopus seen riding on a shark, marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman has released the following statement for attribution: “Neat!” www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

🎉🎉I am SO excited to share our lab's first data paper published in ProcB @royalsociety.org! This research is part of @jlotusnguyen.bsky.social 's PhD dissertation and explores how social #behavior is organized in honey bees. 🐝 Let me share the story...! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

21 US states, as far south as #Ohio and #Illinois, could see an #aurora tonight. www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...

Watching barnacles sweep the ocean for food is so mesmerizing. They look like eyelashes opening and closing. I could watch this for hours. #barnacles #intertidal #marinelife 🦑

What an incredible couple of days! So thankful to know this wonderful group of people now!

🇬🇧Oleander hawk-moth or army green moth 🇩🇪Oleanderschwärmer 🔬Daphnis nerii Look at this stunning wing scales. It is impossible not to fall in love with this beauty. Rare colors in lepidoptera have a special charm.

Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.

Such a great paper! Fascinating! Collective food sharing and storage facilitated evolution of these complex societies.

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

We are amidst an alarming #honeybee die off, rivaling colony collapse disorder. And dozens of #bee researchers were just fired from the #USDA - these scientists are our first line of defense to figure this out. Our own government is destroying food security. How does this make sense?!

Dr. Lonnie N Standifer earned a PhD in #entomology and went on to study #bees, Hymenoptera! In particular, Dr. Standifer advanced our knowledge about chemicals that are toxic to bees, honeybee #toxicology. #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth academic.oup.com/ae/article/4...

Our lab @CUBoulder is growing, and we are looking for a part-time lab manager! Please help spread the word 🙏 We’re excited to welcome someone who can help keep us organized and thriving as we explore collective behavior! 🎉 More info👇 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Continuing the recruitment trend! Our lab has 2 (!) open postdoc positions🥳 We're looking for creative and curious scientists to lead new projects: one on deep-sea biological rhythms and another on the evolution of biological communication🐚🦗🦋🐙🦉 If you know someone who'd be a good fit, please share!

Thank you @joshkaulwi.bsky.social for standing up for science and research here in wisconsin! Federal research funding is critical for our state and communities.

It’s the start of #BlackHistoryMonth! This is a great time to read about Vernard Lewis, who is an entomologist working on #Blattodea, especially #termites. He recently retired after an illustrious career in #entomology! #28daysofBlackSTEMHistory ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2017/07...

True love is when my snore-prone husband charges my noise cancelling headphones.

There is little else in life that I love more than columnar basalt. Yes, they're "just" rocks, but I mean come ON 🤩

Today is a good day to hang home (it feels like -12*F here in MKE), write, nurse a cold, and listen to women rocking out - on the playlist today is Mannequin Pussy, Blondshell, Amyl and the Sniffers, Bully, etc. In for 2025: female angst.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

Have you never seen a baby Lumpfish? Well, today is your lucky day!

Our REU summer program just went live. Here is the application form... etap.nsf.gov/award/499/op... And here are the project descriptions... fhl.uw.edu/research/sum... There is a short time line on this. Please pass it to any interested undergrads.

🐛 🌱👩‍🎓 The ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity is offering 10 PhD projects with a $40,000 scholarship, industry placements & training, covering topics like pest management of exotic moth borers, fall armyworm biocontrol & identifying Tetranychidae eggs. For details:

The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

Has anyone done any course-based undergrad research projects that are good enough to publish? I am teaching an electrophysiology-based neuro lab and have flexibility to do a fun project - I'd love your input! #neuroethology #electrophysiology #undergradresearch #academicsky #physiology #neurobiology

Great information from a direct source about incarcerated firefighters in California.

physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

And now that number has doubled — CDCR confirms there are 783 incarcerated firefighters currently battling the Los Angeles blazes: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

If you’re in the fire zone in pasadena and need a place to evacuate, let me know. We also have our rental south of Washington with lots of space

*Be my new work supervisor!* Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor. *I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!* apply.interfolio.com/159166