On the heels of his tenth album, “Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me,” Kurt Vile catches a show at Le Poisson Rouge and reminisces on how Beck and Pavement ignited his passion for live music. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

lunch break with the lads

美しい日本の昆虫たち。これから先もずっと見続けられるように自然環境が豊かであってほしい。 #虫の日

Member action is needed. Please read the email, review the proposed SSE response, and consider signing on before the June 15 deadline. **Importantly, submit your individualized comment to OMB by July 13!** Screenshots of the full message below. ⬇️

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

NSCA expresses profound concern about the future of the Academy of Natural Sciences of #Drexel University. The Academy is a globally important natural history #collection & center for #biodiversity #research. #naturalhistory #NSCA nscalliance.org/statement-on...

~treasures of the dirt~

Check out the latest volume of Faunistic Monographs published by our 🦏 Institute ➡️ a systematic revision of Thyrosticta and Melanonaclia, two previously messy genera of Syntomini tiger moths 🦋 from Madagascar 🇲🇬 🐧. An important contribution to studies of endemic Lepidoptera! doi.org/10.3409/f-mo...

the world needs more guinea pig cartographers

Wong et al. present IQ-TREE version 3, with new features including mixture models, gene and site concordance factors, integration with phylogenomic divergence time estimation, and a fully featured sequence simulator. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag117 #evobio #molbio #compbio

🦋 Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1898-1920 [Source]

THATS FUCKING RIGHT BABY, LIVING IN THE CITY IS FUCKING SICK AND MORE PEOPLE WANT TO DO IT!!! DRIVING EVERYWHERE FUCKING SUCKS WHY NOT WALK OR BUS, COEXISTING WITH OTHER PEOPLE IS COOL AND GOOD AND CREATES MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY THAT MAKES LIFE WORTH LIVING! I WOULD DIE FOR MY COUNTRY PITTSBURGHHH!!!!

🦋 The butterfly book / The moth book Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. [Source]

The elections division has deployed portable toilets (aka Mr. Johns) to two polling places this morning. All polling places are open and operating.

this is crazy I had no idea there were marine caddisflies, let alone ones that laid their eggs in sea stars?

Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...

@bubbaprog.xyz why does the ESPN broadcast of wild vs avalanche have such low arena volume and every once in a while sound like it's being passed through a very long straw

DYK? You can get an enamel pin of this little guy from @solsticehandmade.bsky.social www.solsticehandmade.com/pins/cecropi... 🌿🦋

🐶 Trees as good citizens. Washington, D.C.American Tree Association[1922] [Source]

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

Or hypnotize you and steal your soul

Important new study out today highlighting unequal impact of NIH grant terminations. “If the NIH is to serve the health of all Americans, it requires urgent course correction to ensure all scientific careers are sustained without targeted discrimination.” www.thelancet.com/journals/TLR...

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Are you part of an immigrant family in Pittsburgh and afraid to send your kids to school and activities amid the current ICE climate? I'm looking to speak with parents and kids, as well as therapists and counselors to provide some expert input. Text me at 412-629-3981 @triblive.bsky.social

Getting called on after zoning out in a meeting and replying "this used to be a vast prairie"

We are SELLING these BEAUTIFUL stickers at the Annual Meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society so register for the meeting and get yer stickers. (Also available to purchase and pick up at the museum even if ya aren't going to the meeting)

Is it just me or are sticks breaking way more often this NHL season?

If I didn't study moths I'd study flies for sure

Well this was not an angle on entomophagy (insect eating) that I expected biblicalprotein.com/product/holy...

Pirates are good.

This is really really good and I hope a LOT of people read it www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

A little gnat ogre from Pennsylvania for #WorldRobberflyDay www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Another moth eclosed, so we took graduation pictures

Every species has a story—but without a name, that story may never be told. 🌍✨ On May 23, we celebrate #Taxonomy, the science that names, classifies, and describes life on #Earth. We invite you to join us—discover how on our website 🔗 tettris.eu/trd/

Da Boygh. Go Bucs!

Question for my fellow native plant enthusiasts & observers of nature- how would you characterize the total insect population in your area over recent years? Please specify your general area. * substantially increased * increased * about the same * decreased * substantially decreased #NativePlants

I am having second thoughts

Well, here's some news. The Banner's parent company is buying the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette www.thebanner.com/economy/bann...

As the NFL Draft approaches, read about a vision one architect has for the Roberto Clemente Bridge connecting the North Shore to Downtown — close the bridge to traffic permanently and turn it into a linear park. buff.ly/H3uOYfR

🐯 The living world: . Boston: Samuel Walker & Co., 1868-1870, c1868.. [Source]

Good riddance

There is a growing section of shirtless Rockies fans at Coors Field chanting "Take it off, take it off!" the group is getting bigger as more topless people join

New paper! If trees are closely related, does it matter where they are from to plant-eating insects? We raised >950 Promethea moth caterpillars on 14 Prunus species to answer that question. Turns out, it matters a lot! Non-native trees = Lower performance OA paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Come to Allegheny Cemetery in beautiful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! We have: • radioactive golfer mausoleum • big titty sphinx mausoleum • a fuckin shark