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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I learned so much from HASTAC over the years. Thank you.

Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just found out HASTAC is sunsetting. I learned so much from their work over the years. I’m eternally grateful for the people who put in the work to educate so many of us over the past 25 years, and to the one guy at VCU who pointed me in their direction when I first started teaching.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones."

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A treehopper and its attendant ant. Treehoppers drink sap and ants drink the waste. In exchange, ants protect treehoppers from predators and parasitic mites. 🌿🌱

A green and brown treehopper. It’s very shiny. An ant is standing near its butt, probably waiting for some sugary water

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Around here, sometimes you catch a bit of moss suddenly walking away from you. Little unidentified phasmid. 🌱🌿

A very small green walking stick, maybe 2cm long. It is spiky and lumpy all over so it looks like moss.

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Chick Gone Bad 🐸🐱🦖🏳️‍🌈♀️🇺🇦 @chickgonebad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unexpected moth colors, again. This is Adhemarius sexoculata. The dorsal view shows an olive green and brown moth with black spots. The ventral view is all bright pink. And the nose is snowy white. The underwings have yellow, pink, and black spots. Just beautiful.

Close-up of the moth’s face. The underside is pink. The eye is dark brown. The top is green and brown. The nose is white.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When I lived in the US, I’d hear of people getting vaccines before traveling abroad. Tomorrow I’m getting a measles booster before traveling to the US to visit my children.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Insect eggs, probably Hemiptera, stacked like tiny barrels on the edge of a leaf. 🌱🌿

Pink insect eggs stacked in an alternating pattern like barrels. Each egg has a tiny white dot

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes it’s a miracle anyone spots these moths. They blend in perfectly with their transparent wings and little dots. This one is in the genus Gaujonia. 🌿🌱 #moth

A moth with clear wings with white veins and little black dots along the edges. The thorax is covered in white and green furry scales. The moth is on a twig covered in lichen that matches the green on the thorax very closely.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is Agylla nitidalis and that’s it. I don’t have anything else to say about this moth. I think I’m done taking pix tonight 💀💀

A white moth with a black mark across its wings that looks like a skull 💀

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are having some fun clouds across the valley. Would be nice to have some rain.

Large cumulonimbus clouds over mountains. They are tinted pink by the sunset to the west although this picture was taken facing east.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Ceci n’est pas a caterpillar either 😜 This is a sawfly larva. It’s related to wasps, not butterflies. How can you tell? The big eye and the number legs. And also they look a bit hunched over. This one is a bit translucent. Check out the poop that came out a moment later

A larva on a mostly eaten leaf. The larva is light green near the legs and the top looks dark because it’s full of chewed up leaf. The head is orange with a big black eye.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Gavin Newsom is a Dem" "Gavin Newsom is actually a Republican" No, Gavin Newsom is rich and that's the only allegiance he has. The only thing that scummy fuckwit would ever to help others would be accidentally falling of a pedo-friend's mega yacht and making himself into a snack for the fish.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One-hit-wonders looking for relevance in all the wrong places. Added to “don’t play this artist” on my streaming service and sending this to the fam.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is Euclera meones, with very little blue but bright enough blue to be included here.

A moth with black wings bordered in red. There are clear spots and blue spots. The body is black with brilliant blue spots.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The blue moths I’ve photographed seem to have more blue bodies than blue wings. Here is this Calonotos longipennis with its polka dotted wings.

A moth with a blue and black body. The wings are black with white dots.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is also an unusual one. The common blue skipper has brown on the dorsal side and blue on the ventral side. If it hadn’t landed on a window I would have never seen the blue. Quadrus cerialis

A butterfly on a window pane. The body and legs are visible and gray. The underwings are blue and the forewings are black with some white spots.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The largest of the bunch, and the only one I don’t have a still image of. The common Morpho, M. helenor. Nothing common about it, though. Each wing is as big as my hand.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Andean metalmark, Rhetus periander. The female is slightly smaller and the colors are muted.

A tailed butterfly with black, blue, pink, and white wings. Mostly blue, though.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This one has a deceptive name. Mesothen roseifemur. It makes me think it should have pink legs.

A clearwing moth. The wings are clear with black veins and the body is blue.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A thread of blue Leps because I’m sorting my photos and need a little break. This category seems to warrant its own folder. Genus Mesosemia. #moth 🌱🌿

A butterfly with blue wings. The tips of the forewings are black with a thin white line. There are black markings that look like eyes in the blue.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A thread of blue Leps because I’m sorting my photos and need a little break. This category seems to warrant its own folder. Genus Mesosemia. #moth 🌱🌿

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tesla started dumping cars in Colombia earlier this year. They are cheap, stripped down versions. There are so many on the road and people are so proud of them. Wednesday night on our way home we stopped at a light. There was a Tesla in front, behind, and next to us. Gross.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Megacheilacris vallensis, a grasshopper endemic to the western Colombian Andes. 🌿🌱

A grasshopper with big blue eyes, yellow antennae, maroon and green striped body, and maroon back legs with yellow knees.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have 28,231 pictures on my phone and I’m sorting them into folders to help me find things slightly faster. It will take a while and might not help, but at least I’ll delete duplicates. One of the folders is for bug faces. Here’s one, Markia hystrix, the lichen katydid

Katydid face close-up. Light green with white lines that simulate lichen so the katydid is pretty much invisible when standing still on a branch.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, There is such a thing as too many eyelashes. Can’t even see the eyes. 🌿🌱 #moth

A moth’s face. It is standing on the edge of a leaf. The eyes are completely covered in long, hairy scales.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey, Bluesky! I just realized there is no Docktober presence over here and I need the 🌿🐙🦑 communities to know that we are bio-blitzing docks all of October to document urban marine biodiversity. Luan Roberts has a website and iNaturalist project about it: www.naturelookings.com/docktober

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Docktober | Nature Lookings

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tonight I got to shoot this beauty in the genus Feigeria. Fingers in photo for scale, of course, and to show this month’s sparkly green nail polish. 🌱🌿 #moth

A large moth on a yellow leaf. My hand is in the picture. The moth’s wingspan is about the length of my middle finger. The wings are mostly brown with silver but some of the brown is iridescent and shines purple. The edges of the wings are scalloped with little points like cut with crafting scissors.

The underside of the moth. It is mostly tan with bands of dark brown.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sitting here thinking about Luthen Rael. I suspect I'll be thinking about Luthen Rael for years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RC...

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Andor | Luthen Rael’s Monologue | Disney+

YouTube video by Star Wars

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So disappointed this isn’t in the Outlier dictionary.

Outlier game board with the word “hyperflatulent” in the submission space.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So disappointed this isn’t in the Outlier dictionary.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

why is it not enough that vulnerable people must give up their rights for the greater good? why must they also accept their own sacrifice quietly and graciously? ask yourself if you would be so forgiving if you were the one expected to suffer for the greater good

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blue-eyed baby A katydid nymph 🌱🌿

A recently hatched katydid nymph on a leaf. The body is about 2.5mm long. It is reddish brown with a blue line along the back and another along the abdomen. The head is orange and the eyes are the same blue as the lines on the body. The legs and antennae are orange near the body and darker reddish brown near the tips.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is my sister’s family. Having a trumpy president here in Colombia is throwing a wrench into the lives of so many families. When they come for one small group’s rights they come for all our rights. www.elespectador.com/genero-y-div...

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«La única discriminación fue del Estado»: 12 años del fallo que reconoció a dos madres

Ana Leiderman y Verónica Botero fueron la primera pareja del mismo sexo en Colombia en lograr que el Estado reconociera legalmente a ambas como madres.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When it comes to civil rights, that slope is a vertical line. You trade away those of your countrymen and you WILL be losing yours. It's only a matter of time.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A moth with the most perfect waves Genus Megalopyge #moth 🌿🌱

A very furry moth, mostly dark yellow with white highlights. The edges of the wings and legs are gray. The furry texture is arranged in very neat waves along the edge of the wings. They form a perfect sine wave.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A country run by failsons and dead men.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A moth with the most perfect waves Genus Megalopyge #moth 🌿🌱

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Marzipan-filled challah. May everyone have a sweet and healthy year ahead.

Three round-braided loaves on a cooling rack

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