🆕 Fresh off the Press: the 2nd fascicle treating New World apameine #fauna! 🔓 Published as an Advanced Book on our #openaccess platform: doi.org/10.3897/ab.e..., the monograph presents complete revisions of genera, 77 #species treatments, 11 #newspecies, numerous new life histories & more!

134 days until Opening Day

“You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”

very lovely day in alexandria, va. this morning

I will have an opening for a Ph.D. student (M.S. required) to begin Summer 2026, studying impacts to high Appalachian arthropod communities following Hurricane Helene. I'll be at Ent. Soc. America meetings next week. Please point interested students my way. More: sites.google.com/site/caterin...

If I can get a little too sincere: Tonight is the first time where I can believe with my whole heart that I can live in the place I love for the rest of my life, and live in the way I want to, and I am jubilant at the possibility. This is what politics is supposed to feel like.

JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.

An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night

FUCK YES: Democrats have retained a 5-2 seat majority in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. This is what democracy looks like.

maybe the most brutal strikeout in baseball history

What do we do now, without baseball?

James Earl Jones agrees.

Still looking for horror now that Halloween's over? Fortunately/unfortunately it's all around! 💀 A parasitoid laid a few eggs in a moth egg. As the caterpillar hatched & grew, wasp embryos multiplied inside to 100s of larvae that ate the entire host, eventually killing & turning it into a husk 😳 🤢

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

yyYello. Captain speaking. Our course to Parva Planum? Still on-schedule. As we exit Tharsis—seats on the right side?—lovely view of Olympus Mons. Just out the window. A reminder. The in-flight film? Tomorrow night—7:30PM—via www.twitch.tv/trashnightvi.... A can't-miss. Belts on for the snack cart.

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

Rust Lakeview, OH

#nokings Portland frog brigade

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

Happy No Kings day, y'all. Get out there and join a protest! youtube.com/watch?v=qv6O...

If Shohei Ohtani can hit three home runs while pitching six shutout innings, you can spend a couple of hours marching for democracy.

See you in the streets on Oct 18 for the #NoKings rally against authoritarianism! ✊ We encourage all AAUP members and chapters to tag us in your photos & videos: we want to boost your displays of solidarity and peaceful protest! Use the hashtags #NoKings #DefendHigherEd #NoKingsAAUP

Long suspected this may be true - some characters pulling double duty and resolving clades in different parts of the tree. Good to see it bear out in simulation.

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map. ( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

If anyone is looking to do a postdoc on plant-insect interactions in the Sonoran Desert, I would love to sponsor one of these fellowship applications: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... I have a bunch of project ideas ready-to-go, but I'm also happy to support independent projects as well!

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media. www.facebook.com/100000960660...

65 years later, they still show up. Every Oct. 13, @pirates.com fans gather at #ForbesField to relive the moment — Mazeroski’s walk-off in Game 7, 1960. Hot dogs. Radios. Jerseys. Tears. Because in #Pittsburgh, baseball history still matters. @triblive.bsky.social ⚾🖤💛 LINK IN COMMENTS

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

an amazing Habronattus jumping spider known only from a single spring in the bottom of an impossibly isolated and lonely desert valley

maybe next time

HILL DISTRICT SAYS NO KINGS! 🚫👑 Sunday, October 5th at 12:30. Freedom Corner -- Centre and Crawford Event by Indivisible Black Neighborhoods United, Indivisible Pittsburgh, B-PEP, and 1Hood Power. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblep...

Reminder to submit a talk for the Dipterists Meeting at @entsocamerica.bsky.social if you're interested. Please also share with others 🙏

A chromolithograph depicting the “nightly activities of insects” from the natural history series ‘Brehms Tierleben,’ first published from 1864-1869. Alfred E. Brehm was a German zoologist and explorer who became the first director of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg. #insectart #naturalhistory

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Dark taxa are extremely diverse organisms that remain largely undescribed due to small size, subtle differences, & few experts. Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz.... by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social

Yesterday was the 130th anniversary of the #ICZN, the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature. It was founded during the zoology congress in Leiden, organized by the then director the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Frederik Jentink.

Mrs. Scott's House - 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104328

The Uncertainty of the Poet, by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913

Brazil envy hitting real hard right now

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

'Tis the season to search for lumps on plants, aka galls! These growths are created in response to other organisms — often insects, fungi, or bacteria — injecting their chemicals into the plant. 🧵⤵️ Join the gall celebrations: tr.ee/ziMCEH

Here's the Pittsburgh NO KINGS rally on October 18th! City-County Building, 412 Grant St Saturday 10/18, 12:30pm

A 12-year effort by entomologists in Iowa solves mysteries about an elusive planthopper, Fitchiella robertsonii, including key host plants and environments. The 219 specimens they caught are 90% of those ever collected by scientists, marking a leap forward for potential conservation of the species.

It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.

Marshall's House - 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104322

Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity? Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info: www.systbio.org/idea-award.h... You may self-nominate!!!

The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House

#LiteratureNotice Sutherland et al. Diversity of Color in #PleasingFungusBeetles ( #Coleoptera: #Erotylidae: Erotylinae) doi.org/10.3390/d170... #Beetle #Beetles #Biodiversity