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Lee Dyer @gusanero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are looking for an excellent evolutionary biologist doing cool stuff. No taxonomic focus or specific approaches needed. Reno is a GREAT place to live, and the Biology Department and EECB at UNR Program are fabulous! nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...

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Assistant Professor, Evolutionary Biology

The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Umbrella crab! Cryptolithodes sitchensis.

A small flat, smooth, red, crab testing on a hand its eyes are visible but no legs.

The underside of the same crab, all legs and now you can see that the shell, which is white on this side, extends well beyond the legs.

The same crab in a tidepool, no real features are visible and it looks more orange underwater.

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

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Assistant Professor – Plant or Macroalgae-Associated Microbial Communities and Interactions - Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How often do I ride the bus with a bug or plant? More often than an average human, of that I'm sure

Someone holding a giant green caterpillar on thebus

A large green caterpillar climbing up a striped shirt

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There is a clear reason* I fell in love with Sesiid moths during my PhD. They are spectacular. Is it a wasp? Is it a 80's gal with leg warmers gone wild? Why not both? (*Sesiidae, clear-wing moths)

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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 08/09/2026

hercules beetle and adventurer (2020)

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

TAKE ME TO BURCH* *bug church

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We're advertising for a field crops entomologist who will lead extension & research on soybean, sweetpotato, & peanut in North Carolina. I'm excited to have a new future colleague!!! 🥳 To see the description + apply, please use the link below. Please share! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/234...

A red and metallic blue sweetpotato weevil sits on a sandy background. It is elongate and ant-like, with sausage-like antennae.

A black peanutworm moth with a pale orange saddle sits on a white background.

A velvety gray stem borer longhorn sits on a green leaf. Its antennae are striped black and gray.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just a few days left to preorder Celebrate Invert Biodiversity shirts & totes! 🪱🐜🪲🐌 get yours here: shop.fossilforager.art (a big thank you to those who preordered so far!)

A mockup of a natural-color Celebrate Invertebrate shirt design that is up for preorder and designed by me, with lupine flowers in the background of the image. The shirt design is brown and has arched text encircling a bunch of insects and invertebrates that reads “Celebrate Invertebrate Biodiversity”.

A mockup of a natural-color Celebrate Invertebrate tote bag design that is up for preorder and designed by me, with lupine flowers in the background of the image. The screen-printed design is brown and has arched text encircling a bunch of insects and invertebrates that reads “Celebrate Invertebrate Biodiversity”.

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cicadas are easily one of my favorite parts of the east coast

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Watching the destruction of scientific research in my home country has been incredibly hard. I am thankful to be teaching faculty right now even if hanging up the lab coat was tough

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Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We're hiring! Our search for an Assistant Professor in Arthropod Biodiversity just opened. Come join us at UC Berkeley in the amazing Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management! Feel free to contact me if you have questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05523

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Assistant Professor - Arthropod Biodiversity - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton did so much good in the world, which means we all have to do a little more to make up for her loss and honor her memory 🫡

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J💿rge Manchola @manyojo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#InverteFest Bee fly sketch

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Ash Whiffin @ashwhiffin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We currently have TWO collections-based vacancies at National Museums Scotland! As part of the upcoming DiSSCo UK program, we’re seeking a Digitiser and Senior digitiser to work with our insect collection: careers.nms.ac.uk/vacancies (Apply by 31st August) #Digitisation #Insects #MuseumJobs

Preserved bumblebee specimens with data labels below each individual

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Vap / Katie Emma @trulyavaporeon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

More monsters I designed and illustrated for Rainsporest Odyssey! 😄

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BOOTS 👢 👢 👢 👢 👢 👢 N' SNOOTS! Yeehaw, it's acorn weevil season partners! 🥹🥰🪲🌰🤠 #bugsky #entomology #weevil #acornweevil

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How your email finds me.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another neat #bug from Costa Rica, but this time it's very smooth and beautiful, like a little abstract painting. I love the iridescent green punctures! Hnnnggg 😋 #Scutelleridae: #Pachycoris torridus

A smooth shield shaped bug sits on a white background facing right. It has orange to reddish circular markings, ringed with dark color on a light olive colored background. The body is covered with fine metallic green punctures.

Close up of a smooth shield shaped bug showing orange to reddish circular markings, ringed with dark color on a light olive colored background, stippled with fine metallic green punctures.

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daltonthetart.bsky.social @daltonthetart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Made a bell! Did I post this here yet? Idk it was in my drafts so probably not. I made a couple bells after seeing the lovely ones @transfiguredearth.bsky.social makes. Pretty fun thing to mess with, will definitely make more

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

She is gone and I'm so broken. Hug your pets yall

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Everyone send their best wishes to my girl Peaches, she's off to her oncology appt tomorrow with suspected lymphoma. We think we caught it pretty early and can use all the good vibes that oncology has a treatment plan for us to keep her happy and healthy. She's been with me through so much 🥰🥹

A beautiful black, brown and white cat stretched out on a blanket

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

if that stupid as fuck terf t-shirt was ACTUALLY* biologically accurate * don't get me started on XX/XY mosaicism, Swyer syndrome, de la Chapelle syndrome and more, we only get the one t-shirt

#SciArt silly doodle of a stickfigure in sunglasses on a white background wearing a really long black t-shirt basically a dress with a series of neon green text on it:
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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Quick question, why are isopods so dang cutie? The way they hold their little antennae when they eat gets me all 🥹😍🥰😭 #bugsky #isopod #rolypoly

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Rappenem @rappenem.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I can't stop drawing shiny things

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

These are certainly on my "bug"ket list, I've never seen a live stalk eyed or otherwise hammerhead like fly irl and I want to so bad 😭🥰🥹

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

…bugs is shrimp.

A bug that looks SO much like a shrimp it’s crazy

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

jumping on the jimothy train

unfired ceramic plate painted with the image of jimothy the raccoon on a tree

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

a nicely framed silverfish for @baezil.bsky.social!

art of a silverfish in the center of an elaborately gilded dark blue frame. the middle, where the bug is, is circular in contrast to the outer square edges of the frame, and the silverfish's posture curves to somewhat match the curve of the circle. there are faint fiddlehead ferns patterning the negative space behind the bug

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And they're all sorted! Ended up dumping like half my stash because there is no way my buddies need ONE MILLION first instar nymphs to trian folks on 🤣🤦‍♀️

All the life stages of spotted lanternflies laid out on paper towels

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Playing bobbing for SLF this friday evening 🍎 (cleaning up specimen to prep for training purposes)

A bunch of bugs floating in liquid, someone is picking them out with tweezers and laying them on a paper towel to dry

A bunch of adult lanterflies being washed and laid out to dry

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up.

A cockchafer beetle, demonstrating its talent for multitasking by showing us its pad while also listening with great sympathy to our problems.

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Death Cab for Callie, MS @deathcab4callie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I am 0% interested in what faculty do when things are easy. What you do for and to your students when you have hard decisions to make 100% tells me everything I need to know about your actual character and if it's not good, I'll never forgive that.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🐛 ENAMEL PIN SALE! 🐛 take 15% off all pins in my shop! we just restocked some of our most popular designs. ends 6/28! ➡️ shop.fossilforager.art

A graphic showing 6 enamel pin designs created by me: Anomalocaris, a peacock mantis shrimp, a leopard shark with kelp + ray + garibaldi fish, a giraffe weevil, Goliath beetle, and garden eels. In between the 6 designs laid out, white text on a green background reads: “ENAMEL PIN SALE! Take 15% off ALL pins!” A link next to a shopping cart reads “shop.fossilforager.art”. Text below the link reads “sale ends 6/28 @ 11:59 pm PDT”.

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I run a support group for early career biologists who are looking for grad student, postdoc, or permanent positions. If that is you, check us out! discord.gg/9gW6yZY6q We also share recruitment ads in the server - If you are recruiting, please respond here so we can share it in the group!

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Join the Early Career Biologist Support Network Discord Server!

Check out the Early Career Biologist Support Network community on Discord - hang out with 55 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In June and all year long, ESA celebrates LGBTQIA+ scientists who do their part to advance entomology. ESA is proud of its commitment to fostering a safe, welcoming professional community for entomologists. Happy #PrideMonth! #LGBTQ+ #EntoDEI

White text over a gray-blue background reads "ESA Celebrates LGBTQIA+ Pride Month." At right is a partial image of a moth.

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This is the sort of content I'm on the internet for

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snake-wing @snake-wing.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The other design I did for Artiss’ Pride collection 🏳️‍🌈

A digital piece of art showing instances of quietness in nature. Text reads:

Queerness in Nature:

Schizophyllum commune has over 20,000 sexes.

Around 31% of Laysan
Albatross couples on Oahu
Island consist of two females.

Clownfish can transition from male to female.

Around 10% of rams are gay.

Mourning geckos can reproduce asexually.

Most male walruses are bisexual.

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The compression gloves are great for bench work, I always wear a pair under my latex gloves (bonus, they absorb the hand sweat and then you can wash them, it makes the sensory experience a lot better for me too)

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Only the real ones know where I'm at based on this ant! #bugsky

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

PROFESSOR Hayes sure has a nice ring to it! Proud to announce I will be joining Virginia Commonwealth University as an ecology faculty over in the School of Life Sciences and Sustainability. Moving to Richmond at the end of next month 🥰🕺🥳 Hit me up if you need RVA samples for a project! 🧪 #bugsky

A person with a fun bug shirt standing in feont of a VCU door

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