GIVE 📢 THE 📢 POKEMON 📢 PREDATION 📢 DYNAMICS 📢 I want to see the bellsprout populations crash if we don't commit to catching enough weedles

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Hey bsky! I’d like to share some cool work I recently coauthored that integrates entomology, paleontology, and German cultural history. 🔶🐜⚡️ We discovered a fossil ant in the amber collection of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Read on for a delightful story of #museomics and #collectomics. >> 1/

Uh oh. It looks like I accidentally prompted rstudio to update every package that exists... Time to go get a sweet treat 🤷‍♀️

Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

A very belated shout out to Aaron and Damien, who received 3rd place for undergraduate presentations at their first ever conference (TxSER) for their first ever independent research project and poster! 🌟 I could not attend and they didn't send me any pics (!!) so this is the brag they get.

Using my previous semesters' course eval as positive mantras* as I deal with the influx of stressed and angry emails about final grades. I am respectful, I am cool, I deserve a raise 🙌 *with the exception of the one student who never did find the turnitin button to access my grading comments.

It takes drastic measures to keep a seminar focused in the last week of the semester.

Antlions are everywhere in Austin right now. Thank you for your service protecting us from fire ants 🙌🏼

I haven't changed my starter word in a year. C'mon October 👻

As a general rule I only look respectfully at wildlife I'd love to cuddle, but this morning I got to add geckos to the list of Houstonians I've gently evicted from my apartment. Anoles ✅ Skinks ✅ Geckos ✅ Snakes ❌

Doomscroll break ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sweat bee on horsemint

When you finish the data analysis on a pilot experiment but the results are both insignificant and patternless

Note to self: buy a shirt with pine trees on it so I can match my posters. (I promise I'm having a good time in this picture)

A liminal end-of-the-semester mood.

thegallanttreesband.bandcamp.com/album/music-... Do me a favor and just click on it

Happy last day of microbiology lab! 🎉 Good luck on finals, everyone 🫡

Drama in the bird community today.

@johnv-nguyen.bsky.social spent a year in Panama with the Smithsonian, investigating color morphs in female anoles. His NSF RaMP Fellowship research uncovers the genetic and ecological drivers of phenotypic diversity in these charismatic lizards. Manuscript in progress! #GradStudentHighlight 📣

I was invited to teach a fiber arts demo class in sericulture with the Society for Creative Anachronism at Sherwood faire last weekend. I had a great time combining my hobbies of living history with teaching, and sharing entomology and history facts. #LookMomImUsingMyMastersDegree #mysca

I am #hiring! Do you like #lidar #data and #forests? Enjoy both computational & field work? I am hiring a Computational and Field Senior Technician to join my UKRI FLF project team for 2 yrs, based in Cambridge, UK (not remote). More details here (closing April 7th) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50700/

Checking if my plants are still alive after spring break.

Around 4,300 years ago, an Egyptian artisan carved a little frog, a grasshopper, and a dragonfly. Lovely details from nature depicted on a wall relief in the Tomb of Kagemni at Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, c. 2345-2323 BC. Photo by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

Yeah, that tracks.

Behold! the Christmas mystery bird

I just found out there's a new Philomena Cunk series coming out next week and my heart is beating in anticipation much like the thumping beat of Belgium dance band Technotronic's 1989 hit single Pump Up The Jam

The bird is back but we still can't figure out what it is. Binoculars older than me offering little assistance.

My partner's family does a huge pile of scratch off lottery cards as a Christmas activity every year and I've lost every single one BUT I saw a leucistic bird AND a weasel today, so. I think that luck averages out.

Ginger is the spice of the sky and if you don’t believe me you’ve never felt your body crave a ginger ale the moment the drinks cart appears on your flight

Am I too late to #GarWeek? Inaugural sticker for my gar colored nalgene. Thanks @garlab.bsky.social 💚

📣 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & @philstevenson.bsky.social within @treesdla.bsky.social on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 🧪🌍 Apply by 20 Jan www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

Why Texas is the best US state to be a climate advocate: 1. Highest CO2 emissions 2. Oil & gas industry’s home 3. Most weather & climate disasters 4. Most wind energy 5. Most utility-scale solar 6. Rapidly growing storage & geothermal capacity If change can happen here, it can happen anywhere!

If you know someone that is looking for a grad student opportunity in 2025 in fire ecology / dendroecology / spatial analyses -- please pass on this announcement. Julia Burton, Jed Meunier, Eric Rebitzke and myself are looking for a student to join our team and be based here at Michigan Tech.

Getting back into a cell service zone on the drive between St. Louis and Shreveport. Bluesky ping let me know that in the time I've been on the road an attempted coup has started *and* ended in South Korea. This wasn't on my interstate highway bingo card.

When did insects first show up in art? The earliest example was carved into a bison bone dated to 15,000 years ago (!) found in the Cave of the Trois-Frères in France. It shows a cave cricket which probably represents Troglophilus, a genus not found in the region in the present day. 🦗🎨 #bugsky

A very small very smooth friend just paid a visit to my front door

The audiobook I have on just mentioned 10k strong snake orgies in Manitoba. I need someone to tell me they've seen this and what do that many snakes look like in real life ??

I’ve found that listening to hammered dulcimer music to turn inconveniences into quests has done amazing things for my mental health despite many saying otherwise.

Kids, they grow up so fast... Our cane toad struggles with the size of hornworms and doesn't care for dried mealworms so we're trying out sericulture in place of box store feeders. *Disclaimer that I don't condone exotic pets. We've become somewhat of a halfway home for abandoned animals.

Li'l worm dude

Flea beetle in the car park 📢

My spouse asked for an apple pie for his birthday. My paring knife is very dull and I don't have a sharpener (maybe that'll be my Christmas present) so I'm being honest when I say it took a good 30 minutes to pare the apples. What I do have is a vegetable peeler (spousal purchase)

We are 90 people in this #bioinvasions starter pack! I bet that we are more here! If you work on biological invasion/related areas, please comment on the post below and I will add you. Also, please repost so more people sees the call ⭐ Starter packs the best way to find people working on a topic

I'm in the pharmacy struggling to find the same off-brand acetaminophen I always get and I want to know who was in charge of putting out 27 identical types of Tylenol before we got DawnQuil or DuskQuil.

The air is finally crisp in Houston which means it's time to transition my packed lunch from fruit gummy snack pack and a slab of cheese to can of creamed corn and a big spoon.

DKB 📢‼️ Change that bio

Happy birthday to my best friend and the world's worst photographer @jarededwards.bsky.social

Reposting since we have an influx of bluesky fellows! We are looking for 2 PhD students to study global trends in #phytochemical diversity and #plant-insect interactions! Includes really cool fieldwork opportunities (Czech Republic, Minnesota, Japan, Cameroon, and Panama)~ Deadline is on December 9!

DID YOU KNOW that NZ has an annual 'Bug of the Year' contest? Voting opens in Jan 2025, and I've championed... GIANT SPRINGTAILS! Anyone globally can vote, so get ready to cast your ballot for these amazing minibeasts, and expect lots of giant springtail promotional content from me in the runup! 🧪