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The Partnership @ourpublicservice.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🪲 Meet @bughuntertom.bsky.social. He studies beetles because these tiny insects help pollinate plants, recycle nutrients and keep forests healthy. That research helps improve forest management, conservation and wildfire planning, but recent federal cuts can impact this important work.

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Adrián Sánchez Albert 🐛 @adsalbert.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Between error and discovery ⚖️ #NHMs house lots of labelled specimens; some representing occurrences outside spp known distributions! 🗺️🪲 But, how do we know we are seeing an actual collection event rather than a mislabelling error? Today we talk about an unresolved case! ⤵️ doi.org/10.7717/peer...

A collage of two images showing a high-resolution dorsal photograph of a brownish beetle (Acentroptera norrisii), and the screenshot of the cited article titled: "The enigmatic historical record of the leaf beetle Acentroptera norrisii in Spain: failed biological introduction or curatorial artefact?".

Source: my own
Photo credits: A. Sánchez Albert and MNCN-CSIC

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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

Drag Queen in rainbow dress throw brown balloon into crowd. Background video of dung beetle on screen

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Get it diva. So much fun performing at EarthGAY! 🌍🌈🏳️‍🌈♻️ Queer joy, y’all! #InverteBrittany #drag #bugs #firefly #lightningbug #lampyrid

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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 17/04/2025

Well, I’m shocked. The Endangered Species Act is under attack (again). By redefining the meaning of “harm” to remove protections for habitat, the path to recovery for listed species is grim. It would be like burning down your house and expecting you to thrive. We are living The Lorax. #Resist

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Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A close up of a Water Stick Insect...which isn't a type of Stick Insect but a type of Water Scorpion...which are not Scorpions but insects, members of the True Bugs as demonstrated by that needle like rostrum mouth What is confusing about that? Lol #bugsky #inverts #PondLife

Head area of a Long bodies insect with large spherical red-brown compound eyes, long pointy face with long needle like mouth pointing out and top part of long front kegs stretching out of the photo

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

When you get distracted by your nails under the scope. 💅 🪲 🔬 #chrysomelidae

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The antidote to despair is activism. WORKERS OVER BILLIONARES. #unionstrong #fuckfascism

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/03/2025

FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Folks attending @entsocamerica.bsky.social SEB meeting!! Got any cool #insect #photos you’d like to share? Submit by 3/6 to be featured in the banquet slideshow. Categories include macro, micro, entomologist at work, and memes! Upload to: forms.gle/PqMNteMx2Xmc... #arthropodPOTW #bugmemes #ESASEB

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

First pub of the year in the books

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Dr. Roger Airliner Young earned her PhD in 1940. Dr. Young studied #marine #biology and was the first African American woman to publish on #zoology in Science in 1924! marinesanctuary.org/blog/celebra... #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

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Celebrating Wave Makers for Women's History Month: Dr. Roger Arliner Young | National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/01/2025

The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Pin-striped vermillion slug #moth from October on Sapelo Island, GA. No touchy!! ‼️⚠️ but absolutely beautiful. #Lepidoptera #Monoleuca

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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help? Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...

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Transgender Inclusion | Linktree

Resources for transgender inclusion in STEM and beyond.

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 14/01/2025

This is an incredible image of insect behaviour. One individual (probably male) has its pheromone glands protruding (pair of yellow organs). It's fanning its wings to puff pheromone toward the other individual (probably female). The mating display involves scent and likely vision and sound. 🪳🪲

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Holly with slush, Athens, GA January 10, 2025. I’m grateful I didn’t have to shovel!

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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Whenever you hear about water issues in the west it's like "wow that sounds like a really complicated problem" and it's not. literally just stop growing cattle feed and lettuce in desert or semi-arid places

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Two bark #scorpions with a #pseudoscorpion between them. 🦂 So cuuuuuute! From the canopy of a longleaf pine tree 🌲

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

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PhyloPic

PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you please explain this gap in your resume? Entomologist: Pupation.

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

SO NOW EVERYONE CAN STOP SENDING ME IMAGES OF EUROPEAN HORNETS, CICADA KILLERS, FLIES, BEETLES +++ RIGHT?!?!?!? 😵 This is great news and shows with early detection there are chances to eradicate invasive pests before they establish. www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...

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APHIS in Action: Victory Over the World’s Largest Hornet Species | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

A Milestone in Invasive Species Eradication After five years of relentless effort, the northern giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) has been eradicated from Washington State and the United States. The Was...

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

When your morphology tries to make you look like bird poop, but you dress like a rock star. #Chlamisus #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #FSCA #AmazingBeetles #Bolivia

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

here you go. my scarabs

cartoon character designs based on four genera of large scarab beetles; Chalcosoma atlas beetle, Megasoma elephant beetle, Dynastes hercules beetle, and Allomyrina rhinoceros beetle. the beetles are drawn in a simplistic style reminiscent of Lucy Cousins or the original tamagotchi

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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Horrifying, repressive, and racist behavior out of @universityofga.bsky.social, banning Students for Socialism for supporting Palestine 🇵🇸 An all-white panel voting to ban a student group fighting racist terror? Unbelievable, and part of a horrible national trend.

RACIST
FRET PALESTINE
KANGAROO COURT SUSPENDS
STUDENTS FOR SOCIALISM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOR PRO-PALESTINE PROTEST

UGA SUSPENDS STUDENTS FOR SOCIALISM BUT CANNOT STOP THE MOVEMENT FOR PALESTINE
After a 6-month long battle against repression, Students for Socialism has been suspended by the University of Georgia for a Palestine protest.
UGA has sided with Zionist organizations and their weaponizing of the student conduct process. This is no surprise. Like many universities, UGA is hell bent on doing everything in their power to prevent students from criticizing the racist apartheid state of Israel and its genocidal bloody slaughter of the Palestinian people paid for by U.S. tax dollars.

This suspension comes in response to a counter-demonstration of "Israel Fest" held on April 10th, 2024 where pro-Palestine students exercised their right to free speech and assembly to hold signs, flags, & give out flyers in opposition to the blatant celebration of the genocidal occupation of Palestine.

Despite protesting completely within their legal rights, 3 months later, the University of Georgia took up a frivolous complaint by Zionist forces against SFS to further silence pro-Palestine organizations on campus after suspending Students for Justice in Palestine at UGA a semester earlier. This is a violation of our constitutionally protected free speech rights and the Georgia FORUM Act law.

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

PI: Should we add field assistants as co-authors? Co-PI: mmm... They did not write anything... You know that writing is the hardest part! PI: OK! Field assistants 👇🏿

Sherpa in the Himalayas carrying a super large and heavy handmade backpack.

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Interested in labor #organizing and #entomology? Do you have experience organizing? Do you have no experience but at least some interest? Fill out the form below! forms.gle/HLsTfeGQ2zpp... Mostly to gather voices but maybe it will turn into a workshop/symposium at EntSoc2025! Spread the word!

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Why not post bugs banging again? I have a lot of this content apparently lol. Typocerus zebra The Zebra longhorn #beetle #Cerambycidae #Coleoptera #getaroom

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Bow chickah wow wow round two. Two redheaded #sawflies going at it. Neodiprion lecontei #Hymenoptera #Diprionidae #getaroom

Two redheaded sawflies mating on green pine needles

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Bands I’ve seen by letter Adrianne Lenker Boygenius Clairo Death Cab 4 Cutie Eric Bachmann Family & Friends Gregory A Isakov Honeychild Iron & Wine Japanese Bfast Kishi Bashi Ladysmith BM Madi Diaz Neko Case Of Montreal Page France River Whyless Slaughter, Beach Dog Tallest Man on Earth Waxahatchee

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Buh buh buh bow chickah wow wow. Two Carolina metallic tiger #beetles going at it. Tetracha carolina #Coleoptera #Cicindelinae #getaroom

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Folks, it's coming up on That Time of Year. If you ever shop via the Evil Online Giant Named Like A River (and most of us do sometimes), here's something to consider: an easy, free way to divert a few bucks from Jeff Bezos' pockets into more worthy ones. scientistseessquirre...

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How to give Jeff Bezos less money – and support an author, artist, or craftsperson

Jeff Bezos (the founder of Amazon) has a lot of money. Not “a lot” in the sense that you or I might have a lot of money if we’d just been paid, or received an inheritance, or even won the lottery –…

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Termite emergence in May 2023 Mississippi Gulf Coast. (This was at our campsite so we had to eat inside our tent!)

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Not exactly the clearest picture but check out this cuuuuutie from Saguaro National Park 🌵 Dasymutilla no idea what species. This a velvetant (no space!) #Mutillidae #velvetant

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

One of my favorite bycids! Ancylocera bicolor. The color and sculpting is simply fantastic. Collected from a white bucket trap in #longleaf pine forest. #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The belief that wage rises for the poorest workers must make everything more expensive is one that conservatives (and companies) have pushed hard for 40 years. It is rooted deeply in the psyche. It is often accepted without question by journalists. It is also total bullshit.

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