Reminded by @adapalmer.bsky.social on the Dwarkesh podcast and of Bacon's classification of knowledge gatherers: ants, spiders, and bees. I wonder how Bacon would have described the contemporary desire to *look like* one who has acquired the "how-to" knowledge of accessing all knowledge...

Perhaps assassin flies,... with their predatory nature masked by a bee-like appearance would best describe the way grifters make use of our respect for science in pushing technocratic wealth schemes.

Please help my colleagues, who are working on an important survey! #NaturalHistory

When I read this PhD opportunity announcement I swear my face actually morphed into this emoji. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 🐛🦋🐞🪰🐜🪲🪳🦟🦗🕷️

Okay this is the only situation where I'd gleefully leave academia for industry (if only I had Japanese language skills) www.ign.com/articles/the...

Does anyone recognize this wing? It was found inside a fish stomach from Northern Vancouver Island.

ASSASSIN BUG DEFEATS BONE COLLECTOR CATERPILLAR and becomes the #16 seed of the THAT'S SO METAL DIVISION OF MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS!!! #2026MMM

All March Mammal Madness results will be available at the LibGuide in MMMAGAZINE, text (in English & Spanish), play-by-play, and VIDEO FORM in the minutes and hours after the events happen here libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... #2026MMM

Welcome to the 14th Annual March Mammal Madness! This year MMM Celebrates LIBRARIES in honor of 10 years since the launch of the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... #2026MMM

Dear 🪰folks, for a project I am looking for D. buzzati, D. gaucha, D. recens and Z. sepsoides. Please get in touch if you have them in your lab and willing to share.

Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org

Inspired by the amazing @sarahmackattack.bsky.social, the ABClab made their first zine. We had a great time. So probably first of many. #GuerrillaSciComm #SciComm

Apropos of nothing in particular. (Finally found a use for AI tool)

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

Als jullie morgen de #lente in de bol krijgen en de #tuin op willen ruimen..... Doe nog maar ff niet! Laat dode stengels nog maar even staan en het dode blad nog maar even liggen. Daar zitten namelijk beestjes in en onder en die zijn nog niet klaar voor jullie lente! Ga maar lekker fietsen. 😉

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

We rent in MSP. Rental company did send a letter - not to tell us that rent will be lowered but to let us know that maintenance calls would be suspended - their trusted workers not able to come to work bc too scared to leave house/family or (self)deported/kidnapped. 🤷🏻‍♀️

On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial. ❤️ #FirstAmendment #ArtisticExpression

The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Lepidoptera. Candidates should have a strong research background in Lepidoptera. Applications due March 22, 2026. Info: https://snm.dk/en/about-museum. #job

Important 🧵 Hope you’re ready.

The is a good place. And it should not be under occupation from our own government.

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

With the shuttering of the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit last year by the US Army we are loosing a lot of expertise and future expertise in insect taxonomy and ecology.

Yup @weratedogs.com is pretty much only reason why I’m still on social media. (I’m now too scared to meaningfully engage with my science skeeters as I am an immigrant scientist mentoring immigrant students) But I need dog content, even posts like this. 14/10 Also, tell your dog I said hi

this is beautiful

Unidos somos América.

All of this. ⬇️ (Fifth - dominoes game. So iconic Carib)

Immediately watching all that again! So fun. #BadBunny. And again.

Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

i've seen enough, rewrite the constitution and ship this dude directly to the oval office

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

Solidarity! Same = immigrant, proud of my t-shirt, and all my students. And the life I built in the US. Not quite the same = research in biology, engineering, and entrepreneurship. 🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞 At a different land-grant university. With #scipol experience. And someday I will write a book.

Scientists have developed a bioinspired policy that enables a multifingered robot to combine visual and tactile cues, like humans, to perform learned and new manipulation tasks even under poor lighting conditions. Learn more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/4k1ivSt

🔬 Did you know insects carry chemical clues about where they grew and what they ate? Discover how Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis (SIRA) can trace insect pests like the Asian Longhorn Beetle in our FREE entoLIVE with Katharina Heinrich on Tue 7 Apr 2026 🌍 🧪 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915871496...

College towns. 🥰

As the sun set on another day I wondered what advice Lincoln would have had for how to live through these times. Urbana, IL

Owww.

Current conditions in Minneapolis for those abroad that think Americans aren't pushing back.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Apropos of everything. This picture of an aurora was taken almost 7 years ago. In TRØMSO, NORWAY. A town within the arctic circle, with an amazing tunnel system of roads, that includes many roundabouts. And amazing scenery like this. And an excellent university.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

De feloranje larven van zwartkopvuurkevers (Pyrochroa coccinea) kunnen best groot worden en zijn roofdieren die achter schors op andere insecten jagen. Maar kijk dan naar dat snoetje. 😍 #ElkeDagEenInsect

if you need a moment's distraction from Events, pls consider @monotomidae.bsky.social's extremely good new paper on passandrid beetles stridulating with their armpits. THERE'S VIDEO, WITH SOUND link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New work from Princeton’s BAM-lab and Illinois’s ABC-lab. What can we learn from grasshoppers wings for gliding UAV design? news.illinois.edu/grasshopper-...

Deja vu all over again. #EntSoc25 #SICB26

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

It’s been raining a lot today. Oh well. #WelcomeToJamrock #HappyNewYear #RainbowsAndUnicorns

The countdown begins… ⏰ Sunday at #SICB2026 is already STACKED! 🗂️ Whether you’ve built your itinerary or you’re still deciding, we’ve got you covered with these at-a-glance schedules. 👉 DCB & DVM folks: tag us so we can hype your talks and posters! More at-a-glance posts coming soon 👀

See ya, same place, ~ 15 years from now. I’ll promise to do my best to ensure that there will still be a sandy beach for you (or your female special friend) to land. #WelcomeToJamRock