I truly enjoyed the collaborative nature of making this video, and you might enjoy that mine is not the only face in it. This topic is amazing. youtu.be/_QF6kaOAuYg?...

Q: Why are Bugs so silly? A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body *loud booing* Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper

The largest Nephila I’ve ever seen! 📍Laos

Only hot girls (gender neutral) study arachnids. I don’t make the rules.

bbno$ is so fuckin based for supporting artists so much you can love or hate his music but man that man uses his influence for the right thing huge respect for him 🔥💪

#arachtober Six-spotted fishing #spider - Dolomedes triton (Shot near Cincinnati 4-24-24) 🕷️🕸️ #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #arachnid #fishingspider #spidersky #ento

Dolomedes sulfureus 황닷거미 keeping her peets clean.

Day 13 #Invertober2025 - Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) 😬 holy hell this thing took the most time out of any other #invertober critter i have ever drawn, partially because there are NO GOOD REFS except for its face #SciArt #invertebrates

I *might* be biased, but this is the best art ever.

A perfectly placed spider. 📍Seoul, Korea

🧵 ARACHNOPHOBIA GREATEST HITS A thread of my favorite arachnophobia papers dedicated to my friends @humanbyweight.bsky.social and @entobiologist.bsky.social, with increasingly unserious character limited summaries. Is this the science version of making somebody a mixtape? Okay, here we go 👇🕷️

🧵Arachnophobia, while common, is unique amongst phobias bc often invokes an overlap of fear and disgust! This is not prevalent in other arthropod phobias. Interestingly, fear & disgust utilize the same neural network and have similar outputs, making them difficult to disentangle.

hello fellow ecologists has anyone successfully applied to the grfp (in its current format) and would be willing to send me their application materials for my own reference? many thanks!! 🧪

The RAPTURE? Ohhhh I thought you said D. RAPTOR. Damnit.

Female fishing spider (Dolomedes sulfureus) glaring at us as she clutches the egg sac with her jaws. I’ve posted a photo 3 months ago of one that's selensulfur color. This species come in wide range of colors. Tokikubo, Komoro, Nagano #Invertebrate #Insect 卵嚢を抱いたイオウイロハシリグモ。八つの目で睨みつける。長野県小諸市鴇久保 #虫

Not enough of you liked this. I was sitting on the couch cracking myself up making it. Have we given up on frivolity as a people? Smh.

The Empress!! I was so worried when I started because like ... all the spindly eggs - but where we have a whip scorpion with her noodly babies.

UNL is hosting a ✨FREE✨ virtual symposium on games and SciComm FEAT 🌱Matt Montrose, creator of Ecologies 🌱Jenny Keshwani, science literacy specialist 🌱Ryan Tan, games for community resilience And I’m giving a workshop on turning science into games! Link: scimath.unl.edu/conferences-...

I finally finished the first draft of the illustrated plate series for Widow Spiders of the World! This book is going to be so good, y'all. Expect its release in early 2026. 🕷️🕸️

Teaching the bugs how to appreciate anime.

A baby Dolomedes raptor attempting to balloon in lab 🥹 Only 2mm in size, this one could grow to be ~35mm and weigh nearly 2g if female.

❗ATTENTION SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, WRITERS❗ Cohosted by me, Data Bloom LLC, & the UNL NoCoast SciComm Symposium — it’s the Science Remix Game Jam! 🧪🎮 No game dev experience needed! We’ll match scientists + devs into teams to make science games. More info below Signup here: 🔗 itch.io/jam/science-...

the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵

Blue isopods with ribbons🎀

🚨 Your Opinion Needed 🚨 We've had a number of people asking for a Bigger than Binaries shirt, so @franzanth.bsky.social & I discussed... ... and we will DO IT! But we need your opinion! Which color should we print?! We can only do one. Vote here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/5ZYWPHS

My favorite season is field season! #spider

I am pleased to share that I have been selected for the 2025-26 Fulbright Presidential STEM initiative award. This initrive was created by presidents Joe Biden and Suk Yeol Yoon to celebrate the 70 year alliance between our countries. I am excited to study the Dolomedes spiders of South Korea! 🇰🇷🕷️

A perfect 🍤

Early Bird Registration for the 2025 AAS Conference in Golden, Colorado ends April 30th! Additional events include an exclusive Linyphiid ID workshop and and a group excursion to Rocky Mountain National Park. Have questions? Send a DM! Register here: www.americanarachnology.org/aas-meetings...

We don’t know where fruit flies go in the winter and one species of fruit fly has 6cm, yes cm, long sperm.

@montereybayaquarium.org is amazing. I found my new study playlist and I am OBSESSED. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...

I just came here to say Linyphiids are so cool and I miss looking at them and whenever I read papers about them I get sad I am not studying them. Like, why does he look like squidward hello? www.inaturalist.org/taxa/233633-...

Born to write a spider dating sim, forced to write grants about mating spiders. Or maybe they’re the same thing. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Big day for weird art girls who are not afraid of bugs and snakes.

My friend crocheted our cat a crown and-

When to invest in love? We re-analyzed the sex pheromone of a black widow using multidimensional chromatographic mass spectrometry, then measured the newly identified sexual signals in the field for a year. Open Access @ Journal of Chemical Ecology. doi.org/10.1007/s10886-025-01590-6

Hello! My name is Alie. I write (and illustrate) books about bugs! ☺️🐝 My most recent book is "The Social Wasps of North America", which is about wasp species that form complex societies. I'll also have a fantastic field guide to cicadas out later this year! www.owlflyllc.com/the-social-w...

I also got a stress sperm.

Ostracod having a crappy day 💩✨

Standing up for Science in Iowa City

I’m not ready for field season, but I miss my study species dearly. Enjoy these fishing spiders in copula. Males always expire shortly after insemination while still inside the female. Females cannibalize shortly after. Here, a male hangs from a female’s reproductive opening as she sits on my arm.

I was having a bad day, so my friend offered to take me to the field for an hour and collect pond water. I feel better now. (Btw I don’t know anything about freshwater ecology so somebody tell me what I’m seeing bc it looks amazing)

Powerful moment at the public hearing for the anti-trans legislation being fast tracked through Iowa. Faith leaders gathered above the rotunda to pray and just started singing until people listened. I believe they are singing "we are trans and queer together, we are singing singing for our lives. "

New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes. If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME. 🦀🧪🦑⚒️

I want to thank the entomology community. I called around the world, not knowing what to expect, and was amazed, nearly everyone picked up and offered help unconditionally to the ~50 entomologists terminated by the US government. But many still need support. Let’s keep this going. #entomology 🧪

Love hearing my Canadian partner laughing in joy as Canada beat USA in hockey.

I kept telling my friend how sad I was that I missed Lunar New Year in the States and couldn’t celebrate while in Germany. I returned to work this week and she surprised me with 약과 and 다식! I feel so loved. Happy year of the snake! ❤️🐍

Apps are due FRIDAY for the Science IRL grant We're funding projects that tackle humanity's big science-centric problems, while reaching people who are NOT engaging with science. Bring me your creative, unique projects that put science where there currently is none. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🕷️ Hey, it's #MacroMonday! Today's #spider is a six-spotted fishing spider (Dolomedes triton), showing that walking-on-water surface tension. I hope your week is off to a good start! 📷 #photography #macro

When I say I want to be comfy and cozy this is what I mean