I discovered the elusive chestnut mining bee in New York after a gap of 119 years

It’s almost like public education is in a manufactured budget crisis designed to create a scarcity mindset so they can justify closing programs and firing people.

Reposting this meme (with alt text) as a stand alone for any future usage needs where someone might prefer it not being already part of a thread:

Reminder that the reason you're seeing so much weird Chappell Roan news is that just a few weeks ago she fired her Epstein-adjacent agent, Casey Wasserman. Wasserman is still the chairman of the 2028 LA olympics, but has started stepping back from his ad agency.

New iron-on patches for invertebrate lovers are now available! 🐛❤️ available here: shop.fossilforager.art Let me know in the comments which invertebrate or creature patches you’d like to see from me next! 🪳

This is very grim “This erodes roughly one-fifth of the average worldwide decline in maternal mortality achieved since 1985.”

I think writing your stories with AI so you can "focus on reporting" is both disrespectful to your audience and a guarantee that you don't do good reporting, because you're clearly not a fan of quality information. Negative levels of respect for people that do this.

A 🧵on #conservation and humane treatment of one of the world's most overlooked, underdog pet #animals... 🧪🌎🦑 When I first met Crab Con founder Mary Akers in 2024, I was floored by what she told me... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...

Fundamental foundational reminder: It's human biases and human values all the way down. The particular technology in question can matter in how exactly said values express, but the core remains: Human biases, human values, human choices, and unquestioned human assumptions, leading to human death.

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

The dorado catfish migrates 11,000 km between its spawning waters in the foothills of the Andes and feeding sites in the Amazon estuary. On the astonishing yet threatened journeys of freshwater fish & the urgent need to protect transboundary, free-flowing rivers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meet some brand new oak apple galls from Mexico! We described five new Amphibolips species, including A. megakokka which produces the largest known gall by a single wasp in the Americas (>11cm in diameter). mapress.com/zt/article/v...

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Really nice piece by @brianckeegan.com and Emily K. Merchant tracing connections between Ehrlich and today's population politics theconversation.com/the-long-sha...

This really seems like a historically dire time to be an ECR. It's genuinely feeling like academic research will completely unravel if this keeps up for 2-3 more years

Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829... We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

I know beauty exists because bugs are so full of it💞 . #bugs #myart #arthropods #biology #art

Local bees are getting the spotlight!! I went out this weekend and found a lot of great mining bees, including one named Andrena nuda lololol

When someone cuts off the head of the Forest Spirit and you have to return it to its body before it kills everyone.

the same way eliminating car dealers, realtors and other parasitic right-wing industries needs to be a goal of the left for its own survival, eliminating chriorpactors, the supplements industry and other quack medicine needs to be on the agenda too

What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.

🌰 weevil

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

it's Friday post rude weevil names

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Sorry ladies, I'm married.

Our leaders are failing us, part 63,234.

"A chief cause of Japan’s Fukushima accident, investigators found, was the cozy relationship between the country’s industry and oversight body, which opened the door for thin safety assessments and inaccurate projections overlooking the possible impact of a major tsunami." This is a bad bad road

The fact that many tech CEOs find LLMs extremely useful for their day-to-day work says more about what these CEOs bring to the table than it says about the capabilities of LLMs.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

On #TaxonomistAppreciationDay I want to highlight some of the recent new species that I've described along with colleagues, many are from the global south where much of this diversity is from (and still awaits discover). First up, two species of herb gall wasps and a parasitoid from Sichuan, China.

Happy #TaxonomistAppreciationDay! Please support biodiversity science by citing taxonomic literature & acknowledging museum collections. Here at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, our Invertebrate Paleontology collection houses millions of specimens, including ~10k type & figured specimens 🧪

I AM IN THE TOP 20! As of March 2026 I have described 186 species-based on data from Carter&Sands 2025 who summarize the top 20 echinoderm taxonomists (by total species) that puts me in the TOP 20! All these others are dead, white guys. I am the first who is not. #taxonomistappreciationday

Cops have unlimited ability to ruin our lives and as soon as they get a little pushback they turn into the biggest babies in the world part 100,000

This guy is so good at his job and I wish we had more leaders like this who weren't chickenshit.

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

We are searching for a new Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Come work in lovely Blacksburg with some pretty cool people and spectatular students. Please repost and spread the word. Review Date 4/26/26. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/profess...

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

I hate this type of vial so much. Constricted neck. Stopper material always cracks or does something weird. Also produces sticky juice. Begone from me.

Ah, yes, we’re all just secretly jealous we didn’t make the varsity team and don’t have any valid critiques whatsoever about unorthodox approaches to research or animal welfare by a company that’s running on CIA venture capital and co-founded by a Harvard professor in the Epstein files.

The regime moves to censor news about the regime's failing wars.

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

If you want more understanding about f this case and why it is so dangerous as it is now law to say wearing black at a protest makes you a terrorist bsky.app/profile/harm...