Wisdom teeth removal at this age is brutal. 0/10. Do not recommend.

Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org

Some indoor fun for the cold days

I personally dislike doing merch myself so thank you to @nervousjessica.bsky.social for doing all the hard work for me! You won't find these anywhere else. #Art #SciArt

Naš javni prevoz v Mariboru. 49 min zamuda

Folks, today (20 Nov) is Transgender Day of Remembrance and I hope everyone can take some quiet moments to reflect and acknowledge on the violence and harm that has taken many from our wonderful Trans+ communities historically. And a reminder that it costs nothing to be kind to everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ 🩵💜🤍

I feel this is a common theme in academia. The worst shit is imposed on us, and we take it upon ourselves to solve the problem. And I think this is because we’re all huge nerds who love to solve problems and who see ourselves as people who should be able to! We accidentally weaponised our own values

Ah, the pre-teen years. One day I think I'm raising the sweetest kindest child and the next, I'm convinced I'm raising a tyrant

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It was a tough ADHD/ASD parenting day. I just wish the world met us with the same understanding and compassion that we pour into our children

Always here for a giant spider web story www.livescience.com/animals/spid...

Mamdani visiting Puerto Rico first, eating mofongo, and saying "Puerto Rico no se vende" (Puerto Rico is not for sale) was not in my bingo card for 2025

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

The last two days have brought good news in the political sphere from both sides of the pond 🥰

Como diría Liliana Felipe: Se fue a la mierda el viejo de mierda!

Happy Halloween!! Another fun but exhausting #Arachtober. Tropical Orbweaver (Eriophora ravilla) #Halloween #Spider #stereography #HappyHalloween

For Halloween I dressed up as my severe vitamin D deficiency

This one is for the Children of Time fans (scale should be about right)! Enjoy this jumping spider (Pancorius sp.) Jack-O'-lantern!! Thanks to @nickybay.bsky.social for the reference image (www.flickr.com/photos/nicka...). #halloween #jackolantern #arachtober #jumpingspiders #salticidae

"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy

Here are some places to donate $$ to help. In south FL, there are places to donate provisions. 1. American Friends of Jamaica: shorturl.at/HqzGw 2. Americares Hurricane Fund: shorturl.at/dkdqB 3. Direct Relief: shorturl.at/uLeWw 4. WCK: shorturl.at/l6tgj 5. Other vetted charities: shorturl.at/WI4q6

Florence pls stop tugging at my heartstrings

It's fascinating how when the immune system is overactive it also sucks at focusing on fighting what it has to fight. So relatable

A reminder to all scientists & data viz people 🧪: It's Spooky Science Time. Adjust your models to use the paranormal distribution 👻from now until November 1st.

@matjazgregoric.bsky.social in 2011: You know what's easier (logistically) than dolphin research? Spider research! Me: *does PhD on spiders, but later goes back to working with dolphins* Matjaž in 2025: You know what's easier than dolphin research?...

I'll be gooooone 🎶

A pair of golden orb weavers from S. Africa (Trichonephila inaurata) mating back in 2016. #Arachtober

One of the benefits of WFH is that, when I have to revise dolphin calf photos, I can squeal in peace

I work in an incredibly niche field and every paper I publish builds on the ones before. There is absolutely nothing wrong with citing yourself and I never understood this critique, either.

It's funny when your culture's social dance becomes famous worldwide and someone from Slovenia ends up teaching you that salsa can be danced "on one" or "on two". I had no idea 🙈

#Arachtober 12 - Small Grass Lynx #Spider with huge egg sac. Lynx spiders guard their eggs but I wonder why it was at the end of a leaf. Lynxes don't carry their egg sac, but some will move them if necessary. Looks like Oxyopes acleistus, I think. South Texas USA #macrophotography #naturephotography

for adhd awareness month they should take all the executive function away from people without adhd and distribute it evenly among us

Here is your Saturday Spider. It's a twig spider (maybe Ariamnes sp.?) in Madagascar, at night in the forest; it has captured another spider, which is the soccer-ball thing near its fangs. About 1 inch long. (I've shared this elsewhere before, but I think not here. Sorry, if so.) #Arachtober 🐙🌿

#Arachtober is here Consider the Sapphic Orb Weaver (Acacesia hamata), a perfect sexy lump 🤎

Tomorrow marks the start of #ADHDAwarenessMonth, so here are some phrases about ADHD that make me cringe (in no particular order): - "It's a superpower!" - "neurospicy" - "it's not a disability, it's a different ability" - "everyone is a little ADHD" - "just [insert useless advice]"

We're about to be even more insufferable

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

Okay, I warned you yesterday but SPIDER POST SPIDER POST SPIDER POST. Look. Spiders are great! They're our friends. They do good work out there and in our houses. I love spiders and how can you not love THIS spider, who is both a work of art *and* wildly successful at this game of hide-and-seek?

In a new publication, we focused on the little-known African spider Megaraneus gabonensis, in which females are 4x larger than males. We provide an overdue taxonomic description, phylogenetic placement, and reconstruct the evolution of sexual size dimorphism. www.ezlab.si/post/taxonom...

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

I'm a bit sorry I missed the livestream of Bad Bunny's concert, but watching it alone from Slovenia at 3am would have been so sad

La cucaracha más feliz del mundo

A gallery of insects having sex. Insex, I guess. It’s a wild world out there.

Howdy from Austin, Texas! It's home to the largest urban bat colony in the world, with an estimated 1.5 million bats🦇 If you are ever in Austin, it's a must see! It was spectacular!

8 yrs fly by when you're having a good time. Happy wedding anniversary @matjazgregoric.bsky.social Čin-čin 🥂

Earlier this week a paper dramatically reduced the realistic potential for forest carbon storage. Now another downgrades the capacity of geological storage. Emissions reductions are the only effective climate action.

After this first week of school without my husband around, a good night's sleep is not enough. I need to be put in a 3-month coma