A newly discovered comet might — MIGHT — get bright enough to put on an interesting show. Also, astronomers may have found evidence of the very first stars! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-new-come... [Thursday issues are for Premium subscribers, but you can become one! All the cool kids do it.] 🧪 🔭

A few more reflections from a lunchtime wander - the patterns are just amazing! #CanaryWharf #abstract #iphone15pro #reflections

You're currently looking at fungus (specifically Gibellula alata) emerging from a spider. Right now, there are only six observations of this species on iNaturalist! 📷 cajqld on iNaturalist 📍 Australia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

A diver saw something incredibly special at the ocean's surface: this juvenile King-of-the-salmon (Trachipterus altivelis), a kind of ribbonfish that spends the majority of its time in the deep. 📷 tedjudah on iNaturalist 📍 United States 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Consider your sign to stop and stare at logs a little more often because just LOOK at this glorious velvet mite! (Third photo is where it was spotted.) 📷 jeremyhegge on iNaturalist 📍 Australia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

snowflake caught in a spiderweb

One of my favorite photos from yesterday

Cold here, which makes for some good photos

For the #fossilfriday here is one of my favorite #fossil species I ever described - a 38 MYA mantid fly from Baltic amber. Enjoy my CT reconstruction of the specimen! fr.pensoft.net/article/8013... 🦖⚒️

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What an utterly stunning spider!

Since the bug season is done for the year, here in northeast USA, here is a selection of my bug photo highlights from this past year alittlewild.blog/best-insect-...

The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own. Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.

Honey Hollow trail, Vermont

Spiders Will Hunt in Groups and Share Meals if They Have Enlarged Brain Structures www.discovermagazine.com/social-spide...

Hey, everyone! I made a new website for my photos and just released it publicly. It's anaturalslant.wordpress.com. I would love it if you could take a look and give me feedback.

Bug photos from Hammond Pond, Brookline, MA. alittlewild.blog/2025/08/17/h...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Urbana State Park, NY. Hands down the best bugwatching area I’ve ever encountered. This may be normal for some people, but it feels incredibly rich for me! The highlight had to be the three observations of scorpionflies within half an hour of each other. alittlewild.blog/2025/07/30/u...

Any artists who like creating creatures and need inspiration from time to time, please feel free to peruse my bugs! I would be delighted. For the record, encyrtid wasps are perfect creatures, and you may not have heard of them, because they're tiny, and wasps. But LOOK 🖤 #InverteFest 🌿🐝🐡

Rare intermediate-mass black hole caught devouring star in distant galaxy phys.org/news/2025-07...

1) Lasioglossum, sub-genus Dialictus? 2) Ichneumonidae, I think Cryptinae. iNaturalist goes further and suggests Mesostenus 3) Damselfly, perhaps dancer 4) Damselfly that took off just as I was pressing the trigger :-)

Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

"Be sure and tell them Large Barge sent ya!" <maniacal laughter>

3I/ATLAS now recovered back to May 22 (mag 20.5 in g) in ZTF imagery, thanks Quanzhi Ye. In the latest MPEC

Borderland State Park, Massachusetts, USA. 2025-07-05. 1) Six-spotted tiger beetle, Cicindela sexguttata 2) Naphrys pulex jumping spider 3) Pseudacris crucifer spring peeper 4) same