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I run a support group for early career biologists who are looking for grad student, postdoc, or permanent positions. If that is you, check us out! discord.gg/9gW6yZY6q We also share recruitment ads in the server - If you are recruiting, please respond here so we can share it in the group!

In June and all year long, ESA celebrates LGBTQIA+ scientists who do their part to advance entomology. ESA is proud of its commitment to fostering a safe, welcoming professional community for entomologists. Happy #PrideMonth! #LGBTQ+ #EntoDEI

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The other design I did for Artiss’ Pride collection 🏳️‍🌈

The compression gloves are great for bench work, I always wear a pair under my latex gloves (bonus, they absorb the hand sweat and then you can wash them, it makes the sensory experience a lot better for me too)

Only the real ones know where I'm at based on this ant! #bugsky

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

PROFESSOR Hayes sure has a nice ring to it! Proud to announce I will be joining Virginia Commonwealth University as an ecology faculty over in the School of Life Sciences and Sustainability. Moving to Richmond at the end of next month 🥰🕺🥳 Hit me up if you need RVA samples for a project! 🧪 #bugsky

Job! Biodiversity science communications. Austin, Texas.

Just got an alert that views for the Biology PhD Stipends database spiked over the past weekend! Lets keep this database up-to-date, if your program increased their EEB PhD stipend, submit an update: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

the only character creation sliders that matter #InvertebrateShitposting

So varying selection pressures, rather than genetic associations, are contributing to the maintenance of the wing colour polymorphism in this species. Thanks for a big group effort @aplantaginis.bsky.social in Jyväskylä, and Eva and co. at the University of Cambridge 🐛

Clockwise from top left: Nectopsyche sp. - White Miller Caddisfly Petrophila jaliscalis - Jalisco Petrophila Cyllopsis gemma - Eastern Gemmed-Satyr Cerastipsocus trifasciatus - Barklouse maybe the depicted salticid is at a low anterior angle: how real jumpers may encounter another face-to-face?

I will never stop being furious that people kill carpenter bees because theyre "deck pests". LOOK AT HER 😍😢

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

A beautiful Vespula doing her thing 😍 #bugsky

Hey @spavel.bsky.social I hope you don’t mind but we did the thing for real

The @sse-evolution.bsky.social crowdfunding campaign for student research grants is at 10% of its $30k goal! Chip in here to help evolutionary biologists in the first stages of their scientific careers: gofund.me/70d1ce65e

Darklings

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is hiring for a Research Zoologist (Curator of Crustacea) trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

CT technician position available at the U-M Museum of Zoology/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

My (mostly) macro photo flags - I try to make new ones every year. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

science and space travel are best done by people in love with the science not people in love with profit

A4 Watercolour and silver leaf on Arches paper. ‘By the Light of the Silver-y Moon’ Many Silver-Ys nectaring in the garden this evening, never seen so many before! Moon rising 🌕 94% full Moth trap is on… #teammoth #watercolour #sciart

Picture it. You're drinking a cold beverage with a body of water in view. You sigh happily. You couldn't be more relaxed. It's as if you were a yeti crab, secure in your food supply, relaxing in the heat. Wait. Your friend doesn't know what a yeti crab is?! We have a shirt for that. SquidFacts.net

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

💗Girl summer💗

Aaah!!!! 🥳 I have always wanted to find a warty leaf beetle in person!!!! Checking another off my bugket list! #bugsky

Revisited one of my go to grad school dinners and it still slaps. Rice topped with vegan orange "chicken" nuggets, edamame, and raw cabbage. Comes together in ad long as it takes to cook the rice! Added some roasted carrot and a jammy egg. 😋

~treasures of the dirt~

Color contrast is the difference in brightness between foreground and background colors. You can check your color contrasts with the @webaim Color Contrast Checker to determine if people with low vision can tell the colors apart and see your content. webaim.org/resources/co...

moth mushroom quilt block

New Risopost print!

We are so cooked

Happy International Bee Day! In the Rethinking Lawns lab @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social Chicago Botanic Garden, we're working to help turn our lawns into better spaces for native pollinators. To celebrate, have some id keys for Midwestern/NE American bumblebees! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Here's a new cartoon, enjoy! 🐝 #invertebrates #WorldBeeDay

May 20 is World Bee Day. 🧪🐡🐝 There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend

#WorldBeeDay There are ~20,000 known species of bee; 85% are solitary bees like this one. Hardworking single moms with no hive or workers to help. Honey bees are an important domesticated species, but not representative of bee diversity

Don't write your manuscript reviews using AI. DEFINITELY do not feed someone else's manuscript into AI and have it write the review for you.

New Beetles ready to frame. Message me if you have your eye on one.

sometimes you see a good beetle and all you can think is “wow”

What a good title

I know I've become a fly guy (aka Drosophila wrangler) bc now I find the larvae cute, when they used to be one of the few inverts that squicked me out. Look at their cute lil mouth hooks! #bugsky 🧪

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

This is the money paragraph for me.

My students do a sci comm project where they take an idea from class and come up with a communication piece to explain the topic to non-scientists. Winner for "wow factor" from aquatic #entomology: #macroinvert nails! Trying to convince her there's a market for these.

coloring page done for event tomorrow, feel free to color it yourself and ask if you want to know about the various included goobers! #ColoringPage #SciArt