Good news! From now until January 1, you can get 25% off your pre-order of my new book!!! 🧪🐻🦑🦉🐜🐍🦀 GRIZZLED: Love Letters to 50 of North America’s Least Understood Animals Here’s how! open.substack.com/pub/jasonbit...

Extending application deadline to early January so still time to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM

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Come learn with us! #REU!

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...

Excited to have collaborated with this team on this 🇬🇭 #dragonfly project led by Dr. Kofi Adu! #Pantala #wings #Raman analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#DYK? Trilobites ruled the Earth longer than the dinosaurs! It took three major mass extinctions to end trilobites’ more than 250-milion year evolutionary lifespan. Join Museum Curator Melanie Hopkins to explore these arthropods through the Museum’s extensive collection of trilobite specimens.

Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of @systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

🪱🐜 Happy #WorldSoilDay!! 🕷️🪲 Although we celebrate soil everyday, today is a great reminder to appreciate the breadth of diversity beneath our feet. Check out the GSBI atlas to explore the organisms that call soil home! www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/atlas-introd...

🚨The CDC panel just recommended delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Newborns are the MOST vulnerable to chronic Hep B, and delaying vaccination will increase lifelong infections, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...

Longevity John Rombough ~ Dene n.d.

This popped up on our smart tv YouTube this am, so my husband and I watched & were enthralled. So awesome to not only grow my appreciation for pronates, but also gain this insight into why they are so interesting to my colleague, @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social. youtube.com/watch?v=neEF...

What are the most pressing questions about the status of #insects? Our survey is available here in multiple languages: bit.ly/insectquestions! #insect #entomology #biodiversity

Gabba gabba hey!

If you have a student, anywhere in the world, who would like and entomological society membership please have them come on over to our entopoc.org website to sign up for up to three free memberships per student!

Memberships for @odonataamericas.bsky.social @entsocamerica.bsky.social WDA (dragonflies), SOL (dragonflies), The lepidopterist society @canentomologist.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @coleopsoc.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social @hymenopterists.org.web.brid.gy @arachnology.bsky.social

Fantastic work by #HeadLab PhD student Andrés Alfonso Rojas! Anacondas have been (resiliently) giant since at least the middle Mioncene. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/twel...

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)

🎁 This #GivingTuesday, give the gift of #InsectScience 🪲 Explore our #GiftGuide for sustainably made products, inspiring books and items crafted to last. Spread the love this season of giving & support #entomology🔽 🔗 buff.ly/yVVHXEU #SustainableGifts #GiftIdeas

Sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we planned, but even so, it still surprises us. Read this story written by John Abbott, when the weather wasn't on his side, but luck was. 🇺🇸 www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/en/blog 🇨🇴 www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/es/blog #dragonfly #speciesofthemonth

Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.

What does representation in natural history look like? Mark your calendars for Giving Tuesday (Dec 2) — we’re excited to share how you can support #BlackinNHMs.” #GivingTuesday Donation link: www.blackinnhms.org/donate

Time slots for lightning talks and seats in workshops will start being assigned tomorrow (Dec. 1st). @systbiol.bsky.social

A quick reminder for everyone registered for SSB2026: please take a moment to complete the survey to submit lightning talks, sign up for workshops, and indicate your interest in other meeting activities. If you haven’t filled it out yet, today’s the day! We're excited to see you all in January!

🚨 Talk slots and workshops will start being assigned tomorrow 🚨 If you’re attending #ssb2026 and have not filled out your survey, please do ASAP

Out late for #FossilFriday, it's our invited @annualreviews.bsky.social paper with @sarahlsheffield.bsky.social and @bigfacecats.bsky.social on why Phylogenetic Paleoecology is useful and how to do it. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

🚨 FINAL DAY to submit your 10-minute talk abstract for #AquaticInsects SIG! If you’re working on freshwater #biodiversity, #eDNA, #AquaticMonitoring or data-driven #ecology, we want to hear from you 🌊🪲 📅 Deadline: 30 Nov 🔽 🔗 buff.ly/Dy9mPG1 #AquaticsSIG26

Happy #Thanksgiving to our friends and members across the pond 🌍 Celebrate with us by making sustainable choices - our Teemill products are eco-friendly with reusable packaging ♻️🎁 Thank you for supporting #InsectScience and making thoughtful choices for the Earth 💚

Terrific new paper by @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social and others on dragonfly wings, in particular the hydrocarbons which act in multiple ways - structurally, pheromonally and in terms of water resistance. Wish I were still teaching, I'd use this as a great example. of multiple adaptations.

Ahhh happy Sunday night everyone. The wonderful @nhcooper123.bsky.social and @joshlukedavis.com thought it wise to ask me to talk about my fav specimens… Enjoy. @dipterists.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social

It's tomorrow! 🪲 We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to our Outreach, Culture & Education SIG meeting - See you there! 📅 22 Nov | 📍 National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 🔗

Under the rainbow with @cotesia.bsky.social 🌈

Now that you've presented your research at #EntSoc25, when you're ready to publish, publish with ESA! Learn more about ESA publications: academic.oup.com/insect-scien...

Had the best time at #entsoc25 in Portland! So many cool interesting talks and great people (and a 75 year old karaoke tiki bar)

Had a great and productive Status of #Insects #RCN working group meeting! Thank you @cbahlai.bsky.social and Eliza, Matt, Dave, Chris E and Chris H and everyone there! 🦋🐝🐞🐜🦗🦟🪰🪲🪳

Xenopsylla on a penny farthing! #Entsoc25

@flygirlnhm.bsky.social at tattoo parlour with Lauren getting guess what????

Congrats again to @pkuper.bsky.social on his scientific communications award from the Entomological Society of America!

So excited to see Melissa Siebert’s Closing plenary—-2026 is going to be such a fun year! #Entsoc25

Amazing talk by Kelly Tolman this morning about a trailblazer in #entomology studying #Membracoidea and other #insects! #Entsoc25

Come for the last few T shirts at the #Entopoc booth (booth 712)! #Entsoc25! All proceeds go to supporting student memberships and our new travel and research grant!

#Entsoc25 is so fun! Congratulations to Avery Pennington on winning the student competition for her section!

The last collected specimens of this Enallagma #damselfly species from Cuba from 1962, which John Abbott is discussing in the awesome #collections symposium ! #Entsoc25 #SysEB

Rainbow mixer at #entsoc25 always a blast. 💋 InverteBrittany 🌈 💩 🪲

🚨 FINAL DAY TO ENTER! 🚨 Win one of two copies of ‘How to be a Dragonfly’ 🪰📚 ✨ Follow royentsoc & dkbooks on Instagram and tag a friend by midnight tonight. Winners to be selected next week 🔽 buff.ly/UL8yZ0h #Giveaway #FreeBook #Dragonfly #Entomology #ChristmasGiftIdeas