“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago

A common Evan Waite W!!!!

Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Hey it's a good sign when the taxonomic paper you're reading starts with the phrase "where angels fear to tread," right?

Hi, I'm setting up a peer support platform for ECRs in ecology & evolution in China, aiming to address a huge problem --- academic burnout driven by hyper-competition and a system that often prioritizes elite background/title over actual research. #ECR #AcademicSupport #科研互助 #ecology #evolution

oh captain my captain!

Steven Hammer, one of our regular collection users, co-developed a new #insect pinning block, with staff and volunteers from the museum. It’s 3D-printed and open source, so you can try it for yourself: cults3d.com/en/3d-model/... #ECN2025

Another unnecessary blow to public safety for the whole pacific www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...

As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

🧡 @americanbeetles.bsky.social has really delivered again, with stickers for our meeting. Behold… the most adorable Rain beetle you have ever seen! 😍 #ECN2025

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Just about everyone, regardless of political party, can agree: food poisoning is the worst. But Trump’s FDA staffing cuts mean fewer safety inspections of food facilities, putting us all at greater risk of getting very sick, or in the most severe cases, dying. www.propublica.org/article/fore...

Among items included in this agreement are an extortion payment of $30M & the requirement of admissions data restricted to race, GPAs, test scores, & school/college of students for what will likely be misconstrued analyses of admissions processes & student academic capabilities & achievement.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

This is so hard to grapple with. I know with everything else there is always so much to devote our attention to, but this is so ... big? Irredeemable?

You won the election! Stop acting like you lost! WHAT ARE WE DOING

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

No pop ups. All the links are there. Beautiful, pro-worker design.

Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South? We are now funding memberships! Apply from October 1st to December 15th. More info: www.entopoc.org/apply.html Apply: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

whos in the social media bubble now you gooncel freaks

There are more of us than there are of them.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

I don't have access to this article, but the abstract makes very good points. It's also applicable to millipedes and centipedes, which have increased in popularity as pets, which presents similar issues. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I normally am a cheerful optimist, but I am just at a loss about what to even say to young scientists right now. Devastating overview of the cuts: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Get out there and vote, Virginia! Let's make sure we elect Spanberger, Hashmi, and Jones today!

Nor does it stand up to any basic economic sniff test. BY DEFINITION an acquired company cannot continue unchanged. Companies are acquired for ROI. Their valuation accounts for the current expected future growth. The whole point of an acquisition is thinking “we can do better”.

Thinking about buying a macro lens for insect photography? Along with @ageofarthropods.bsky.social we have been testing many options! Our results are summarized in 2 blog posts in the field www.insectid.org/post/macro-l... and in the lab www.insectid.org/post/lab-tes...

Hey EntFriends #EntSoc25: This high school entomology club in California is looking for funds to support their pinning and collections. Can we make that happen? Any donations large and small will help! www.donorschoose.org/project/inse...

New awareness campaign

'Federal prosecutors opposed Dunn’s lawyers’ motion to dismiss the charge, writing that Dunn was “recorded throwing a sandwich at a federal officer at point-blank range". POINT BLANK RANGE. A SANDWICH. LMAOOO

Adams has railed against vaccines, and science in general, for many years. Kennedy cut funding for promising work including mRNA vaccines for prostate cancer. Just, the audacity here.

GAR WEEK 2025 is November 3-7!!! Join @garlab.bsky.social & Oklahoma Dept of Wildlife Conservation to learn more about these amazing fish & freshwater conservation! We’re excited to hear from Maya Higa and more of your favorite conservation & #scicomm folks! Get those gar puns ready! #GarWeek

Worked on a lot of specimen ID this weekend. Check out this supercoil snail (Paravitrea sp) from Alleghany Co., VA I collected back in July. Less than 5 mm wide.

I wonder where anyone would get the idea that they should use their position in the federal government to carry out personal vengeance missions?

The party of “small government” intervenes, as always, only when it can make life more miserable for the non-wealthy.

Capitol pressroom interview with the Paleontological Research Institution's director Warren Allmon about PRIs connections to science education throughout NY and the fundraising campaign for the next 60 days to make sure the end of the year isnt the end of PRI capitolpressroom.org/2025/10/31/u...

happy shreween

My phone again won't text photos to my boy @tyuge.bsky.social so everyone gets to see them now. Leaf litter from Halifax County VA gave me a pale yellow big palped Pselaphine, do you want it Curt? Otherwise it'll go directly to VMNH.

1. You can't even get hot food on SNAP, much less use it for nails or "weave". It doesn't work like a credit card. Items that do not qualify do not ring up. 2. Let's call a spade a spade. That right there was not a dog whistle. It is old school pure uncut Reagan era racism. What he said was RACIST.

Looks like AI isn't so inevitable, huh?

Colin Wright’s expertise is in… social spiders. I knew him in grad school and went to his defense. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Last year we got a tip about a children's pastor who'd managed to stay in ministry for decades even as allegations of sex abuse trailed him across four states. I kept pulling thread and found something far bigger: a 50-year pattern of abuse and cover-up in the largest Pentecostal denomination 🧵 1/

Your health insurance is renewing, congratulations, and by the way, it’s going to cost a lot more next year. Maybe twice as much, maybe five times, depending on how much you make and how little Congress feels like doing its job.

So many own goals. Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

The contrast with SNAP is deafening. The White House is stretching well beyond what anyone could claim is legal in order to pay the troops — while simultaneously stretching beyond what’s legal to NOT pay SNAP benefits.