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LOL just after some optimal weather for mass emergence of many night flying bugs 🥳 Do your thing little ones

One year ago.

I need local folks to do this for me so i can live vicariously

Today is the big day! Join us at 11am at 50 riverside drive in Willimantic, CT for our community paint day! CT folks, spread the word!

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I remember when Michelle Obama was criticised for wearing a sleeveless dress, saying her attire was inappropriate for a First Lady.

You know what? People who don’t like kissing don’t have to watch romances. Sober realists aren’t forced to sit through SFF. Grouches can eschew comedy and squeamish people are welcome not to watch horror films. Just let things exist for their target audience.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 Behold the lesbian Laysan albatross. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

The shirts are real and they’re spectacular.

Love this video from @powells.bsky.social featuring @nan69.bsky.social, who has hand-sold so many books over the years for so many authors.

It’s almost June. Do you have a plan to bring up shrimp at every possible opportunity this summer yet?? Don’t worry, omg, Skype A Scientist can help!!! We have a shrimp shirt you can use as a visual aid to give people shrimp facts at every pool party all summer 😎 SquidFacts.net

A high-voltage power line turned stork apartment building in the Alentejo region, Portugal 🌿#birds

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Everyone who pre-orders shrimp city shirt will get a free shrimp temporary tattoo 😘 These shirts are how we’re funding our fall mural series - 3 murals created by Philly women & gender non-conforming artists, about our city’s most charasmatic bugs! We’re almost 20% funded! SquidFacts.net

Raw on the cattle drive with me? 😚👉👈

Metallic wood-boring beetle (Genus Agrilaxia, new one for me) looks like it is wearing a too-tight turtleneck. #bugsky #insects #beetles

In the last two months I've gone from "what is this crippling abdominal pain" to "is this all in my head? am i being ridiculous?" to a doctor saying it's like 95% that I have endometriosis to now wanting to count down the days until this is cut out of my body. 54 days. 1/n

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Me, bleeding profusely from my balls: "Actually it's a herring gull" www.suffolkgazette.com/seagull-rips...

Excuse me?

I mean this with 100% sincerity, is the spider ok

10 years is tin, 20 years is china, 50 years is gold and 100 years is wasps.

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

doing one last call—if you are a trans entomologist/trans researcher studying bugs (in the most capacious sense) please dm me, I'd love to interview you!

Things currently legal that should be illegal #7294729

Houdini fly (Cacoxenus indagator) lurking near Osmia nests at my insect hotel. This introduced species has made it down to Salem, Oregon, on the west coast and D.C. on the east coast. Please report on iNaturalist if you see them. 🌿 #diptera #flies #insects www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Happy Earth Day except @ucf.bsky.social has just bulldozed site 2 on this map and then is moving onto site 1. This area by the way, is home to 3 different habitats, 5 endangered plants, and a minimum of 29 potentially inhabited gopher tortoise burrows. For a sports complex... tinyurl.com/54vurj8p

🧵 BOOKS FOR EARTH DAY 🌎 While writing my book, Becoming Earth, I read — and have continued to read — *a lot* of books about our extraordinary planet. Here are a few of my personal favorites, old and new, with a particular focus on Earth as a dynamic, interconnected, evolving system 🧪 📚💙

Fifty books for Earth Day, including my Annihilation. I've blurbed or rec'd 11 of these. bookshop.org/lists/50-boo...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Alright Philadelphia, this is a city-wide alert! We have an event this Wednesday that you're not gonna want to miss. We've got babes, rain barrels, drag queens, native plants, a diversity of butts, and trees! At 254 (in center city!) doors 7, show 8 Get tickets here: biodiversitease.eventbrite.com

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Complementary insights from transect observations and palynological analyses on Andrena and Lasioglossum foraging in field margins by Giovanetti et al. out now! doi.org/10.26786/192...

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

That plant native plants one will be mine

we need to adopt a no mow (april and) may policy to allow for *checks notes* the dignity of this country to survive

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.

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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