Enjoy this little demon, #Bugsky At first I thought this was just a small fly, but when I got my macro on it I found this alien creature. I think it's in the genus Poppea, a type of treehopper. Found at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #nature #insects

Say what you will about crusty old museum collections, but in regards to pubic lice, collections are leaving iNaturalist in the dust.

A few west coast mushrooms to entice you to register and attend the Global Soil Biodiversity #gsb2026 conference: globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/registration/ in Victoria, Canada April 12-15th, 2026 #soil #biodiversity @thegsbi.bsky.social

VANCOUVER RISE FOR THE WIN Vancouver Rise are the first-ever Northern Super League champions after a 2-1 win over AFC Toronto at BMO Field. Congratulations to all of the teams for a great ⁦‪@NorthernSuperLg‬⁩ season. www.cbc.ca/sports/socce...

Hey @dictionarycom.bsky.social I submit “cowpooling” for word of the year

I want to meet someone in the 14% who don't trust the weather network...

If I ever become the leader of a small island nation, citizens will be required to be vaccinated for everything. We will also have Ice Cream Sundaes every Saturday, and tax breaks for cycling to work.

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

🚨 One month away from the end of the early-bird! Register now: globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/registration/

I think that every professor at Texas A&M should now plan a class on race and gender, and wouldn't it be too bad if there were 1000s of emails to the president suddenly looking for an ok... might be hard to get other presidential work done and all

🧪 Keys to the genera and subgenera of the bee subfamily Euryglossinae (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pemb...

Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a very small weevil posing majestically. (Brazil) #Bugsky 🐙🌿

Eye of the Beholder Robert Davidson ~ Haida 1993

"...examines peer-reviewed literature (2014–2024) on aquatic health research in Alberta’s Bow River Basin to assess the inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge & collab. in Western scientific studies...analysis of 69 regional publications reveals minimal meaningful co-creation with Indigenous communities"

Yeeesh.

Three tidbits from this I found interesting 1. The 'quarantine' protocol was even worse than I thought - they didn't even change clothes after interacting with the birds 2. South Africa regularly tests large amounts of ostriches for avian flu 3. People on the farm openly admitted to having H5N1

In Summer 2024, a team of palaeontologists and geologists undertook an expedition to the Little Dal Group in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Their purpose was to uncover some of the oldest fossil ecosystems that record complex life.

JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a... #envhist

Crime: Man steals bus with passengers on board. Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off. Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired. globalnews.ca/news/1152251...

Today is a big day in Oregon. The 55th Anniversary of Oregon's Exploding Whale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...

I think the ostrich situation is best understood as: The Canadian cranks don't have Trudeau to fixate on, and nothing else at the federal level has gained traction, so they just need some kind of esoteric outrage that keeps the machine running. It's basically a mid-season filler episode.

Big news - I’ll be starting an #insect #systematics lab at University of Nebraska-Lincoln this coming academic year! I’m looking to #recruit #PhDstudents to work in #wasp systematics, especially gall systems, to begin Fall 2026. Please help me spread the word — more details on the flyer below!

@steveburgess53.bsky.social: In fairness to Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer, perhaps Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont is a snake. After all, someone must have given Poilievre that apple. 🐍🍎 #canpoli

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

The beautiful nighttime sky of Saskatchewan tonight #northernlights

Answering your questions about the Ostrich story your uncle won’t stop posting about

We’re a small team of seven journalists who investigate stories wealthy and powerful people don’t want Canadians to know about Now we need your help to defend our journalism and continue shining a light on information politicians want to keep secret Help us out 👉 JournalismDefence.ca

Pro-tip if you are new to writing reference letters: Don't regurgitate what's on the CV. I can read. Do tell me about the person. Provide context. That is all.

A reflection on what November 11 means in a year when our nation is under threat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPCN...

Got out to Shenandoah Universoty’s Cool Spring Campus. It’s a 200 acre forest that has been recovering since the 00s next to Rolling Ridge Conservancy, a forest recovering since the 50s. Really pretty streams and cool bugs.

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

Pseudostigmatidae are back! Great talk on #damselflies from Laura Sutherland! #GEODE #SysEB #Entsoc25

Chlorocyphidae are so cool—-great talk by Judicäel! #Entsoc25 #SysEB

Erpetogomphus systematics—-morphology and molecular data agree! Cool talk by Zack Stack! #REU #Entsoc25 #SysEB

Super huge phylogeny of the second most species rich family, Gomphidae, by Violet! #Entsoc25 #SysEB

Everything Erythemis by Kate Montana, cool systematics reveals monophyly of the genus! #Entsoc25 #SysEB

My Family’s 240-Year Journey Shows Why Canada Will Never Bow to Trump thewalrus.ca/my-familys-2...

Once again I'm begging people not to compare politicians to invertebrates. Inverts are cool and diverse and play an important ecological role. Politicians are the lower order.

No proof will ever be enough for the denialists but here’s yet another example of the thing they say isn’t happening - children’s remains being returned to their families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The BC Ale Trail (#bcaletrail) just announced their winners for BC's top 10 coziest Breweries. One of our favs made the cut - the Wheelhouse Brewery in Prince Rupert! bcaletrail.ca/2025-top-10-...

New species of Labiobaetis Novikova & Kluge from Thailand (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) by Thomas Kaltenbach, Jean-Luc Gattolliat, Boonsatien Boonsoong, Chanaporn Suttinun

After much behind-the-scenes work on this new journal and learning so, so much about contaminants in the process, I'm excited to share that submissions open at @contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social on Nov. 18! Please get in touch with me if you're considering CES as a home for your research 🧪

Thank you so much to @entsocamerica.bsky.social for this honour of being a #fellow! We celebrated with Voodoo donuts!

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.

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It is generally frowned upon to mount multiple insects on the same pin. It makes databaseing difficult + the chance that multiple species could be mounted together - a nightmare! Even so, you have to admire the creativity and precision of this example from the UK Latridiidae collection at the NHM

Reposting this for no particular reason at all. ⚒️