Not bad! Ei hullumpaa! Inte illa! Modelled and actual catches of a Ugandan wasp genus. Soon have the code updated so these pics are easy to draw.

Taasko se talous on ihan kohta toipumassa? (OK, minua pätevämmät talousasioissa vaikuttavat uskovan, että voisi vihdoin pitää paikkansakin. Ehkä.)

My R code has decided that simply writing '4' is far too boring. "3.997413e+00". That's how many Xanthephialtes wasps were caught per trap and day in swampy Ugandan forest.

Apparently there's another bout of belief in a Rapture trending at the moment. I prefer Christianity myself. (OK, so many would argue that rapture-belief is still Christianity, albeit a very unusual offshoot.)

Itsekin huomaan tämän. Koko elämäni olen sisimmissäni ajatellut, että kävi miten kävi niin asiat kyllä järjestyvät. Nyt tämä luottamus on monilla rikottu ja minullakin kokenut kolauksen.

Ajdå, nu blir det kristider!

Kannatan. Näin käsittääkseni usein tehtiinkin esim. 1800-luvun Britannian laivastossa*: yksi kiiltävä koristeltu seremoniamiekka, ja toinen joka oikeasti toimi miekkana. * lähde: muistelisin lukeneeni jossain

Pääsin kokeilemaan (tai lähes, MPK:n versio). Vaikken mikään aseintoilija olekaan, niin aika hieno laite! Lättare än RK62, skjuter bra, och är inställbar.. t.o.m. jag tyckte de här är tydligt roligare att använda. To me, a rifle is "that lump of metal that needs cleaning". But even I'm impressed.

Joku minua taitavampi merieläinten tunnistaja joka osaa vinkata keitä kaikkia tuossa voisi olla? Jäin itse kilkki + katkaa tai leväkatkarapua -tasolle.

And it sometimes shows. 😀

How does my flat get cleaned? How does my laundry get washed? This is how.

Tfw u scream into the abyss and abyss screams back 〰️😱😱〰️ #whitegrunt #mouthoff #mouthfight #grunt #gruntfight #screamingintotheabyss #staghorn #acerventura #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Unfortunately there's nothing new about this, Russia regularly tests Finnish airspace with "accidental incursions". So much so it barely makes news. But unusually brazen this time. I suspect they'll be trying a lot more of this until/unless one of them gets shot down.

Här har vi nu gårdagens fina #Kållby När TV program. I rollerna Hans Höghet Bää den första (ett lamm) och Bzzt (en stekel). Youtube-versionen har undertexter.

"Academic style" is what people write to cover the fact they don't have anything to say. I prefer stuff to be interesting to read.

Här har vi nu gårdagens fina #Kållby När TV program. I rollerna Hans Höghet Bää den första (ett lamm) och Bzzt (en stekel). Youtube-versionen har undertexter.

Nu vill och kan jag inte gå i frågor om skuld, men man får nog en bild av att säkerheten allmänt inte är i skick i Dragsvik (och annanstans?).

I've now updated these in the database. One of the wasps, mus.utu.fi/ZMUT.11395, I actually remember from the forest in Uganda! We saw a tree hollow, put a net over it just for the fun of it, then when we tapped the wood.. out flew this wasp. Turns out to be a new species.

This is why everyone needs to make me Supreme Dictator of the World. I'll immediately abolish apostrophes and the letter c. Especially "c". Even in the word "consistency", the c are pronounced inconsistently.

Ei ole opettajien helppoa keskittyä opettamiseen muuallakaan. Tämä kertoo paljon hyvää kyseisistä opettajista, ja huonoa alueen virkakoneistosta.

#Kållby När TV har sändning imorgon torsdag 19:00 finsk tid. Med det bästa programmet jag nånsin gjort! Och två andra nya program som är nåja så där. Kan ses på TV eller YouTube.

#Kållby När TV har sändning imorgon torsdag 19:00 finsk tid. Med det bästa programmet jag nånsin gjort! Och två andra nya program som är nåja så där. Kan ses på TV eller YouTube.

It truly shivers me timbers that if, instead of our tepid two-step, EU and USA had responded to Russian aggression with all the means we are going to end up using anyway, the war would almost certainly be over - and tens of thousands of Ukrainians AND RUSSIANS would’ve been saved.

After heroic resistance*, the Royal Society may end up being dragged kicking and screaming into finally doing the right thing. * OK so it might instead be hapless lethargy

JURASSIC NURSE LOG. A 150 million year old Scottish conifer log shows the same processes of white fungal rot, insect boring, then growth of new seedlings seen in modern forests. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Research by @sandyheth.bsky.social & co-authors.

Ei ihan aukene minulle onko tämä sama pistiäislaji kuin Ugandassa keräämämäni. 😀 Not perhaps the most clear picture of the African wasp species Laticoleus palpalis. I can't even find the "H.T. claws" here. (presumably the hind tarsal claws = back feet claws) www.gbif.org/occurrence/4...

Torille juhlimaan! Tanssimaan! Ennen kuin nuhakausi alkaa.😎

when I give presentations on queer natural history I usually include a slide with various journal articles highlighting the biases in scientific publishing over the years, and this one will be added! curious use of "unexpected" when it's been seen in 1000s of species (incl. other shearwaters!) 👀

@gbif.org is amazing. And so is Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), for photographing and putting online so many of their African wasps. I can sit at home in Finland, and get a first impression of how well my Ugandan wasps fit a Madagascar species whose type specimen is in France. 🧪

Näemmä lehmäsuklaa on yhä juttu. 🍫🙂 Aikoinaan oli erittäin tärkeää olla hyvissä väleissä lehmätilallisten lasten kanssa, varsinkin joulunaikaan. Märker med glädje från videon att kochocklad fortfarande finns.🐄😋🍫

Looks like Ugandan opposition parties are (wisely!) going to present a united front in the next elections.

Tämä ei nyt liity pistiäisiin mitenkään, mutta onpa hieno selostus kiinnostavasta paikasta.

Hankoniemellä koulutetaan sukeltajia globaaleihin tarpeisiin. Kurssin pääoppeja ovat tutkimussukellusten suunnittelu, vaaratilanteiden ennakointi ja rutiinien luominen.

At the beginning of the Cretaceous period, fish took over the ocean – the end of cephalopod domination 🐟🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #geologia #paleontologia #paleontology #paleobiologia #paleobiology

I've got a new rule for finding out if a wasp belongs to the same species as my Ugandan wasps: "If it's from Madagascar, it's a different species. No I don't care how similar it looks, it's a different species." This rule useful to all 1 people trying to match Ugandan Ophioninae to known species.

OTD 11 years ago I saw these creatures in the Ugandan forest, which I confidently identify with great precision as: 🐦 bird 🦋 butterfly 🐛 caterpillar 🐸 frog or toad or something Yes, I'm a trained biologist, why do you ask?

Please share widely! The Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research, focused on dark taxa & unknown species, pref. including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

I was just looking at ont of the photos from @mcaterino.bsky.social. It’s beautiful but I wouldn’t have immediately recognised it as a beetle!

The right attitude. I'm not entirely comfortable with exemptions to environmental etc regulations, but there's an urgent need, and the exemptions are only temporary.

Only very slightly exaggerated, I'd say 😀

Wow I've been off Bluesky for so long I forgot about the emojis If you're interested in a PhD about tracking Antarctic wildlife, consider joining my group... And, spread the word! 🧪🌍🦑🦉🦊

"Party foot soldiers don’t typically menace one another in public squares. But in the spaces where many who are inclined toward deep political engagement spend their time, the atmosphere is thick with rage, contempt, and a punishing layer of dehumanizing detachment."

I'm with 'everyone' on this one.

Well, I must confess to being chuffed!🙂 Aikas kivaa 🙂 Känns ganska roligt, måste jag medge 🙂 New African species include Stenarella hopkinsi doi.org/10.3897/asp.... 🧪

Feels like I should know this, but how do I find COI barcodes on BOLD? If an article says they uploaded the barcode as "BOLD: OPHY082-15", where do I find it? 🧪

Lots of interesting news recently! (OK the political / societal news is a bit iffy) Behold the bumpy snailfish!

I hear we're cute posting. Not quite as cute as polar bear cubs, but baboons come close.

Tämän viikon uutiset sen kuin paranevat. /s

I think I've finally found something! The thingy which I don't know if it even has a name is kinda more outjutting in one species!! AHHAHAAA!!! (and a few more !!!!!) May have to rephrase this for the species description.