Thank you Field Museum for preserving this important resource!

Most bee folks are used to saying there are about 20,000 bee species in the world, but this new study estimates that number of more like 25,000! theconversation.com/science-know...

I'm defending my dissertation next Wednesday, EST. I'll record it on Zoom, but also if folks are interested in the Zoom link, please DM me 🙂 Thank you to everyone who supported me through this journey. I currently have no plans post-graduation, but no matter what I'm excited for these next steps!

Me whenever I "check in with the outside world" for the last month, horse blinders on to focus on dissertation

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

🧪🌎❤️👇

Congrats: You are sent to the bug planet.

If you are in line for the bug portal, STAY IN LINE!

Over the holiday, while folks were on well-deserved breaks, our new book was released! Mentoring writers is hard - we can make it easier for you. Please help spread the word - repost this, tell your colleagues, etc. scientistseessquirre... 1/2

I would like the good people at @skypeascientist.bsky.social to know that my marine-biology-obsessed 11 year old starting texting #squidfacts yesterday and it has literally made her whole month She reads every fact out loud, I know more about squids now than I every thought humanly possible

Not me about to tattoo what the difference between i.e., and e.g., are on my hands. I literally check this multiple times daily during dissertation writing. I'm not sure why my brain will not soak in this particular thing.

It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened.

And word is some of the survivors of the Brown Uni shooting also survived mass shootings at their high schools. :/

One of these things is not like the other!

New intro who dis? Hullo my name is Codey, I'm interested in forest biodiversity, management, and conservation. I'm finishing up my Doctorate in Entomology at Penn State in the spring and will be looking for employment in this wild timeline. I love pokemon, hiking, and my dogs. AMA

Sometimes, spending 5 hours getting the aesthetic of your graphs just right and trouble shooting dodges, geom_text in the strip plot but with alpha=0.7 background (not changing the actual font of the text), manual colors, and adding in axis breaks is just

Fish have committed credit card fraud

Earlier this year I drew this magnificent Metallyticus splendidus. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. That's all.

Coastal mists over the Olympics 🌫️

This is an incredibly moving thing to hear about our work and I deeply appreciate it.

or Edgewater New Jersey

FEISTY GRANDMA

Boeing is paying Charm Industrial to remove 100000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back by 1 minute and 15 seconds. 🥲

Pls share with grads and undergrads! Multiple grant opportunities from @xercessociety.bsky.social Deadline is January 7, 2026.

Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Betcha didn't have money on the Catholic Church being the only institution with the spine to stand up to fascism this time round.

Dear grad students: please stop second-guessing whether your email sounds good, this is what the richest people on earth are sending each other. you can stop sweating over whether to sign off with "sincerely" or "best".

"or whatever the precise term is" LMAO house oversight committee doc 029154 #epsteinfiles

Looking through some of the House oversight #Epstein documents that were leaked and yikes yikes yikes document 021241 in folder 001

what the actual?

#EntSoc25 Are you neurodivergent (ND), care about someone who is ND, and/or employ ND folks? If so, we invite you to our workshop "Diverg-Ent" on Tuesday from 2-6p! We have EntSoc member panelists of many neurotypes and want to hear from you, and hope to make Entomology a safe science for diversity!

I am an author being overwhelmed by emails from people offering their services to promote my new book. This is a brand new problem, and I do not have an agent or publicist to sift through the offers. Help? #writingcommunity #authors

The deadline is fast approaching! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll... Deadline: November 14th.

I realize that many scientists are not confident in their art skills. Simple drawings made by scientists who may not be artistically talented are significantly better than the ai art because **the ai stuff is full of errors**. “Bad” but correct figures are better than “prettier” wrong ones.

the last pic is giving the razzle dazzle

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Patterns of October temperatures in the #Antarctic when averaged by decade... Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

More pictures of the brilliance that is (lab manager) Aida de la Cruz with her creation.

Fighting fascism with the frogs! Portland Proud! @wyden.senate.gov

State College Pennsylvania doesn't want any kings. #NoKings

Quite pleased with this shot of an Urosigalphus braconid wasp I got in central Austin today. I suspect the wasps are emerging from live oak acorns, having parasitized the grubs acorn weevils. Not many live photos exist of this genus, it seems.

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Y'all I'm making a wish list of entomology reference books (like the Arnett books, Marshall books, etc) for North America. I would love recommendations!

Please share with anyone interested in a PhD project! Come work with us!

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students! caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

Become ungovernable

"The world has seen a lot from Portland lately. It may be about to see a lot more." www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)