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Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.

Biologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists. We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026

New sneakers for one son, new bunker for the other son

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

In 2026, may you all find interesting beetles under the dead vole of the previous year

[reading one book by Nabokov] truly this man was troubled but inarguably brilliant, a pedlar of the voluptuous to his fellow embarrassed and abused sybarites [reading six books by Nabokov] truly this man loved bugs

"That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports."

higgledy-piggledy whale statements

Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions at 30 yrs old, 1943: woodyguthrie.org/newyearsruli...

The sun has set on 2025 for the last time in Western Australia. Wishing everyone a happy, healthy, and safe New Year, I hope 2026 brings exciting adventures and opportunities. Happy New Year 🥳 #sunset #newyear #wildoz #Perth #WesternAustralia

…okay, I’m stumped. Anyone know this dasytine-looking freakazoid who goes to the same antenna stylist as Cerocoma??

~pitfall jackpot~

Hubert Rogers, 1939

Oh man I 100% would have called it a bushtit and gone about my business :(

never forget stay vigilant pelicans: not even once

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This micromoth from Ecuador (Struthoscelis semiotarsa) is the epitome of 'kawaii'. Large head with emerald green eyes, long antennae, short forelimbs, fancy hindlimbs, and fluff. It also moved in a very cute way. It cannot use the hindlegs for walking, so it drags them behind like a dragon's tail.

We wish you a Merychippus, and a happy New Year! This Miocene, three-toed horse hopes everyone has a safe and cozy holiday season. 🐴🎄

We, and the birds in the trees, and the rats in the cellar, and the snake in the grass; all of us are descended from incredibly friend shaped animals, such as Acanthostega

Day 24 of #InsectAdvent and the flying reindeer have arrived! Oh no they haven’t… It’s a Ricardia sp (Richardiidae) that I collected from Honduran Cloud Forest, one of the many species of antlered flies. @royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social

posting just so I don't forget the name of this fantastic animal again: the land snail genus Whittenia is doing the horrible (said with deep and pure love) Nipponites heteromorph thing with its shell. maybe the worst shell on a currently living thing I've ever seen (I love it)

Hey, it's my print debut for National Geographic! This fall, I got to accompany folks from the Fort Worth Zoo on an incredible adorable mission: releasing tiny Texas horned lizards to new lives in the Hill Country. (You will want to click on this one, trust me. The photos are adorable.)

“That’s a fairly specialized technological skillset, I bet it pays more than the usual UK museum pos- …ope”

“All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is life’s only irreducible essence”—Gould Evolutionary biology is the study of how complicated and diverse life can be; the field has its jerks, but a good evolutionary biologist learns pretty fast that life doesn’t like boundaries or binaries

The journal @ento-ea.bsky.social has a Call for Papers on the topic of Dipterans for Biological Control and Pollination. Submission deadline: Saturday, 28 February 2026 #Entomology

@mothpotato.bsky.social NIGHT! SHIFT! POLLINATORS!

New Ant Lab video today about pincer wasps and a new research project. This one has some really cool, newly-filmed insect behavior in it! youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk

stupendous thread, not a bad jpg in the bunch

my modest collection of flies with WIDE heads 🙇 a hammer-headed Richardia (Ecuador), a stalk-eyed Chaetodiopsis (Mozambique), a pointy-eyed Ophthalmoptera (Colombia), and an antlered Richardia (Colombia) why though? male-male competition? sexual selection? chime-in if you know!

Save the date for a day of memories, music, and mementos honoring the life and legacy of Claude, San Francisco’s beloved albino alligator. Join us for a free community celebration on Jan. 18 11am-1pm in Golden Gate Park, or worldwide via livestream. bit.ly/ClaudeForever

Finally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.

U gotta have the spines for collecting The Gunk

Seems like it's worth posting this one again.

The Christmas Tree Crayfish (Procambarus pygmaeus) is found in freshwater streams in the southeastern US, although they're only vividly colored like this after a molt and with the right diet & lighting. The common name was inspired by comparison to a decorated Christmas tree. (📷: Chris Lukhaup)

A happy solstice and a Good Riddance to the largely putrid year of 2025

Given all the recent buzz about how great ChatGPT has gotten, including its prowess with images, I figured I'd check in on its anatomical skills. Nope.

I personally believe in affirmative action. I especially believe that public universities should have faculty that local students from marginalized communities can see themselves in. But we can have “diversity the field” conversations and should but WHAT FIELD THERE ARE NO JOBS!

Metal bashing is good for the soul, if not neighbourly relations. I have been making lichen and brackets and am wondering if I can remain enthusiastic long enough to decorate a load of books, decorate an entire book case or create a jewellery collection. #fungilove #fungiart #coppersmithing

flawless creatures detected

I love the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group website ("Angiosperm Phylogeny Website"), which radiates a genuine 1998 charm along with the classic flavor of systematist madness

the tail curl!!

HONK IF YOU LOVE SUCKERS

As someone not with NCAR, I use NCAR-based software everyday to help identify and track regions of excessive precipitation to help NWS forecasters protect lives and property. NCAR is extremely valuable and we need them.

PER MY LAST TABLET,

I love hearing about fossils that hold more than meets the eye, especially when they hint at how different species interacted millions of years ago! In this article by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social, scientists found fossil evidence that ancient bees nested in tooth cavities of dead rodents' skulls 🧪🐝💀

Summers absolutely deserves to be more than scrutinized, but I think this headline is misleading: if your school has a policy against recording profs in class without consent (IMO, a good policy), then you might have to enforce that policy.

What kind of moths were they tho? WAS IT CALPINE EREBIDS AGAIN??