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 🧵)

Nice article by @jimrobbins.bsky.social in @nytimes.com on one of my favorites - marbled murrelet - and its potential fate given changes to our forests, oceans and the US Endangered Species Act. @coforegonstate.bsky.social 🧪

one of my favorite goofy acronyms & pathways!!

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

The 'too liberal' is coming from inside the house.

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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡? Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses. The results are eye-opening: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

I’m trying to find a way to work hippoboscids into it but they closed the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit where all the biting fly taxonomists worked :( extension.psu.edu/deer-keds

Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper. Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is. www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

A wee bit of drawing and sketching. #insects #arachnids #sketchbook #natureart #biodiversity

In today's article, learn how a chance discussion with the chair of Harvard’s statistics department changed everything about how I think about learning statistics. Click here to read the full article: kareemcarr.substack.com/p/the-hardes...

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

baby from today's field work to pre-celebrate ant day

baby from today's field work to pre-celebrate ant day

𝘞𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘢 @consletters.bsky.social 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳! Anyone still around? Or are you all on a sunny beach🏖️ or hiking epic mountains⛰️? Coast or mountain, I think we all 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 it's holiday time! An 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 was also found among +350 forests conservation stakeholders. Curious? Join the thread!

I am so incredibly honoured to have been elected a fellow of the @entsocamerica.bsky.social! Congratulations to me fellow fellows!

I spent a bit of time this weekend trying to put a name on this Polyrhachis worker from the Eyre peninsula in south Australia, but I'm up against the taxonomic impediment: there are no published resources and no taxonomic synthesis. No one even knows what the species are. So it stays "indet"

New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7... #unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social

Weight is a visible, cheap and easy metric – but it doesn’t reflect what matters most: diet quality, physical activity, blood pressure, stress or metabolic health.

Say hello to Florida's newest established species, Typhlonectes natans - the Rio Cauca Caecilian! You can read about their relative abundance, distribution, & natural history, in our brand new paper: journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda... Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!

I love to see my friends killin' it. Alie Ward's @ologies.bsky.social was listed by Time Magazine in the 100 best podcasts of all time! This rocks. Ologies rocks. Funny compassionate science communication rocks. time.com/collections/...

Wait sorry I forgot the best quote anyone ever said about him

Ozzy Osbourne: Welcome to Hell (affectionate) Hulk Hogan: Welcome to Hell (derogatory)

One like, one clam fact

If anyone knows a way to monetize taking amateur-grade photos of insect specimens, let me know.

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living. On average, $10kCAD below cost of living. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Thought I was just really 💩 at my job and life but I looked it up and the cost of living has increased by 38.4% since 2015 - nearly 40% in 10 years. No illustrators I know have had a pay rise - in fact some fees are going down. No wonder it feels so bloody hard atm. Send cute gifs or money lol.

CSEE joins the broader ecology and conservation community in mourning the passing of Prof. Sheila Colla, a highly respected Canadian conservation scientist and fierce advocate for wild bee conservation