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Charles Wallace

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PhD candidate at ASU in hist/phil of biology, dissertation on Dictyoptera. One half of @asabpod.bsky.social. Particular fan of Dictyoptera, Diptera, and freshwater macroinvertebrates. www.inaturalist.org/people/cockroac…

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Arizona Luminaria @azluminaria.org · 17h
Protesters had protected the tree for more than 70 days. It was cut down Monday to make way for a double border wall
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Final “grandmother” cottonwood toppled, protesters arrested in Lochiel - AZ Luminaria
Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after pro...
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C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec @squamiferum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
[New Paper] Presents the first record of tubeworm-parasitic copepod Dirivultus spinigulatus from Japan! A range extension from Papua New Guinea. And a new Japanese name, based on a devil fruit from the manga series ONE PIECE! OPEN ACCESS in the journal Species Diversity: doi.org/10.12782/spe...
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Çağrı Çevrim @cagricevrim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your favorite website for illustrations of almost all organisms is looking for donations to help cover its running costs! Please consider donating to help keep this open-source platform running: www.phylopic.org/images
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All Silhouette Images on PhyloPic
Browse all the free silhouette images in PhyloPic.
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Biodiversity Data Journal @bdj.pensoft.net · 01/10/2026
🔍Every time a species is redetermined, someone, somewhere, has to update the specimen record - often manually & years later. Our new collection on #OpenDigitalCuration is looking for workflows, tools, and case studies that make this process transparent and automatic. 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
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Beyond Digitization: Open Digital Curation of Collections-based Biodiversity Data
Open digital curation can be a continuous, inclusive process that explicitly incorporates annotations, enhancements, and round-tripping across the biodiversity data lifecycle. This issue aims to illus...
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 30/09/2026
It’s been more than 150 years, but a small piece of Arizona land has been returned to the Apache people. The Oklahoma-based Fort Sill Apache Tribe recently bought 55 acres of land in the Dragoon Mountains in Southeastern Arizona. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
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Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 29/09/2026
🧬 It has been revealed that high-quality DNA can be recovered from arthropod specimens preserved in formalin for decades, opening new possibilities for evolutionary research using natural history collections. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.200681 @uni-kiel.de @leibnizlib.bsky.social
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sisko is simply the greatest to ever do it.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I kind of accidentally ended up double majoring in linguistics alongside bio as an undergrad and although I've never "used" that part of my degree, I'm glad I did it! I got so much out of it and still do.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sisko is such a good dad. Love that guy.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More relieved than ever that Ro Laren didn't get ported over. Nothing against Michelle Forbes but Kira is such a better character. Also, Nana Visitor was a dancer on Broadway. You can see her in the ensemble of the Tonys performance of My One and Only. And that's fun.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just finished the first rewatch of TNG in yeaaaaars - Picard remains the greatest babe of all human history, but I am nevertheless eager to get to DS9, the greatest Show of all time.
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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A male Suillia bicolor lording it over a grove of False Chanterelles...autumn must be here. 🍄 #heleomyzidae #spiny-wingedflies @ynuorg.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Termitodesmidae is an elusive family of millipede that lives exclusively in the fungal chamber of termite nests where they get to chow down on an all-you-can-eat fungal buffet 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ceylondesmus kistneri in the fungal chamber of a termite mound.Dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) view of Ceylondesmus escherichi
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CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hairy-legged, red-eyed sea spider among 2 new species discovered on B.C. coast
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Hairy-legged, red-eyed sea spider among 2 new species discovered on B.C. coast
A discovery has been made for the first time in about a century: new species of sea spider have been found the Salish Sea.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This absolutely sucks.
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Florida confirms a death from #dengue as the state struggles with one of its worst recent outbreaks medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09...
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Florida confirms a death from dengue as the state struggles with one of its worst recent outbreaks
Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue fever in decades, and the toll now includes a death.
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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fake figs, fooled fig wasps & rewarded flies: this plant has one of the strangest #pollination systems yet found in #Apocynaceae. I’ve written about the new study and how it fits into our wider work on this extraordinary plant family. Read more here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/18/f... #Biodiversity
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Fake figs, fooled wasps, and another extraordinary Apocynaceae pollination system
One of the things I love about working on the milkweed and dogbane family (Apocynaceae) is that it has an apparently inexhaustible capacity to produce strange and wonderful interactions with animal…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you like podcasts, Behind the Bastards did a couple episodes on the Zizians which gets into rationalists. That's how I first learned about them.
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Claire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gettting rid of protections for 94% of wetlands and 1/3 of streams and rivers (especially out West). "Relatively permanent" as a rule from the Supreme Court is ambiguous and essentially meaningless - some of the most important ecologically waters dry up seasonally! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Drop Protections for More Wetlands
The proposed rule could strip federal protections from most U.S. wetlands, many of which help feed drinking water systems.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I recently finished reading all of the Discworld novels in chronological order (after having read all of them at some point in mostly random order) and - they aren't perfect, but there's such a strong throughline of how much Pratchett just LOVED people, even when we're stupid and mean.
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Rachel Storm @rachelsstorm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Listen to Zoe, listen to trans people. Also, this is one of those rare times I'm going to say "don't check this out at the library" because if you keep doing that, we're going to have to keep buying it. Go to the library, but ask your librarian for OTHER magical fantasy kids books!
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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A great example of the annotations you’ll find in our new book, The Best Science Stories and How They Work! Here, @maryroach.bsky.social annotates a story from @sabs.bsky.social, originally in @defector.com. Order now: www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’ve got a new book coming out Next Month! Help a trans lady author out and pick up a story full of face biting, primordial forests, and sapphic tyrannosaur trysts, backed by the latest dinosaur science. Tyrant Lizard Queen, October 27th. 🧪
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
jstor is cutting their monthly free article limit from 100 to TEN??? ten articles??? per month? I'm lucky that I have a real job now so I can just request permission to expense the extra $200 per year this change is going to cost me, but that's not the case for everyone who wants to learn!!!
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Creating the third-largest university plant collection" may seem celebratory, but remember: this is happening because Duke administration decided to axe the herbarium as a cost-cutting measure. Natural history collections are a precious scientific resource, and too many are at risk of being lost.
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Gil Wizen @wizentrop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This cutie patootie was one of the highlights on my recent visit to Ecuador. This little guy is a nymph of the beautiful cockroach Rochaina metae. While the adults are brightly colored and flat, the round-bodied nymphs are adorable, running around charismatically on their short legs.
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Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We might have had some rain in the last week or so, but its been a long dry summer, so what happens to life in the pond when it dries out? In my latest video I explain, which you can what here on my YT channel: youtu.be/PBw40QZm67A
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What happens to wildlife when a Pond dries out?
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In the 1780s and 90s George Washington kept his Philadelphia-based household staff enslaved despite Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition laws by trafficking them out of the state and back into the state to reset the clock every 6 months despite the fact that he had publicly supported the laws.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm rewatching TNG right now and reflecting on how sad it is I've never adopted a female cat and therefore never named a cat Lwaxana. Lwaxana and Mr Homn is an iconic duo.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 26/08/2026
Mexican police coordinating with DHS to enforce border wall construction on sovereign Tohono O'odham land.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕
Dolly Partons IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
Dolly
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Libraries across the country have the same message: their communities rely on the internet E-Rate enables. More: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026… Use our tools to tell Congress to #SaveOurERate & submit your own public comments to the FCC: ala.org/erate
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FCC considers cuts to funds for internet access at schools and libraries
A program called E-Rate has helped expand public internet access for 30 years. As the Federal Communications Commission challenges whether the subsidies are still needed, schools and libraries say cuts could leave them with hard choices.
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Judith A.H. Smit @judithsmit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Caterpillars eat plants, right? 🌿 Not always, some are carnivorous! 🥩🐛 Our new paper documents the life history, behavior, and vibrations of Juditha odites. It feeds on treehoppers, then moves into ant nests to consume ant brood! 🐜🐛🦋 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @insectessociaux.bsky.social
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An insect-eating caterpillar associated with arboreal ants: life cycle, diet, social integration and substrate-borne vibrations - Insectes Sociaux
Herbivory is the predominant feeding strategy in Lepidoptera, whereas carnivory has evolved rarely. The life cycles of carnivorous species, however, remain poorly documented. Here, we confirm that Jud...
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 23/08/2026
From Feb, reporting on last year. I’m sure we can get these numbers up.
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US food, drink recalls “hit nine-year high”
Food and drink recalls in the US increased in 2025 to reach a nine-year high, according to new research.
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Corentin Jouault @cocomacro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
~35 Myr ago, a female pseudoscorpion grabbed a fly's hind leg and got caught in resin, with a brood sac of 12 eggs still attached. µCT let us count every one. 🦂 ✍️ Earliest fossil evidence of parental care and phoresy together, in iScience (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 22/08/2026
Ants were thought to eat this parasitic plant's fruit, but cameras revealed hermit crabs as the culprits! Each crab carried off 86 fruits on average, helping spread the seeds. Its ripe scent attracts crabs and the cockroaches that pollinate it! 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A land hermit crab (Coenobita brevimanus) scrapes off the tiny (3mm) fruits of a fungus root (Balanophora fungosa). As it feeds, it picks up the plant's minuscule seeds that can travel on its claws, body, and shell!

Credit: Kenji Suetsugu
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Today is World Mosquito Day. 🦟🧪🔬 To celebrate here is an image of a female Limatus durhamii from South America. A forest species they do bite humans but don't appear to be implicated in pathogen transmission. They do have some beautiful body scales, whose purpose is unknown.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You can make your voice heard for broadband in libraries, too. Use our new template to submit comments to the FCC, and find more resources at ala.org/erate And tell Congress to protect E-Rate: action.ala.org/campaign/saveourerate/
Show up for E-Rate. ALA American Library Association.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I only learned this wasn't the case when I took sociolinguistics as an undergrad. If my double major hadn't included linguistics I might still believe this.
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Steve "Whistling Joe" Everett @whistlingjoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ammophila Sandwasp burying her caterpillar along #Digger Alley @rspbminsmere.bsky.social @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social
Picking up a stone to block the hole - they can lift 10x their own bodyweightGrabbing the caterpillar to position it carefully on the edge of the burrow entrancePulling the caterpillar down the holeDigging out a bit more sand - they bring up loose sand an armful at a time
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/08/2026
NEW: i dove deep into the plans for several massive power plants being built specifically to power data centers crucially, they're designed much less efficiently than gas-fired power plants that are connected to the electric grid: www.wired.com/story/real-r...
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The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty
A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12/08/2026
The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.
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Charles Wallace @chwallace.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This would be my true form, in a just world.
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