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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Safe travels to all the Canadian entomologists en route to the JAM this weekend. May your flights be on time and your road trip snacks plentiful!

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Kermit & Fozzie: On The Road Again

ALT: Kermit & Fozzie: On The Road Again

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They’re ending democracy via post office

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fun bug wednesday with a bigfoot photo through a scope lens: Latridiidae with clear edges in the thorax? @bertonemyia.bsky.social

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Skype a Scientist connects classrooms to scientists who can talk about their work and inspire young minds. The annual map filling donations go to support this non-profit and is one of the ways we can show our support for this amazing cause. If you have spare $ for science, consider donating!

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bleddwgan @radekllundain.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It's very much this

Ben Rosen
@ben_rosen
FOUNDING FATHER: we must always have an electoral college and 2 senators per state
ME: ok but what if 40 million people live in california
FOUNDING FATHER (spits out tea prepared by a slave): there's HOW many people in WHAT

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

LOL just after some optimal weather for mass emergence of many night flying bugs 🥳 Do your thing little ones

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I need local folks to do this for me so i can live vicariously

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Today is the big day! Join us at 11am at 50 riverside drive in Willimantic, CT for our community paint day! CT folks, spread the word!

A mural with a turtle hummingbird fairy shrimp, cicada, raccoon, and plants, all prepped with paint by numbers

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Teegan @teegan.dog · 06/06/2026

bisexual final boss

Bisexual flags everywhere on the person and also a huge bi flag display like a peacock

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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I remember when Michelle Obama was criticised for wearing a sleeveless dress, saying her attire was inappropriate for a First Lady.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

You know what? People who don’t like kissing don’t have to watch romances. Sober realists aren’t forced to sit through SFF. Grouches can eschew comedy and squeamish people are welcome not to watch horror films. Just let things exist for their target audience.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 Behold the lesbian Laysan albatross. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

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Same-Sex Mothers: Letting Albatrosses Be Albatrosses

There was a time when the Laysan albatross might seem a perfect icon for the virtues of marriage. When naturalists visited the bird’s nesting grounds in the Pacific, they’d find males and females bond...

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The shirts are real and they’re spectacular.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Love this video from @powells.bsky.social featuring @nan69.bsky.social, who has hand-sold so many books over the years for so many authors.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It’s almost June. Do you have a plan to bring up shrimp at every possible opportunity this summer yet?? Don’t worry, omg, Skype A Scientist can help!!! We have a shrimp shirt you can use as a visual aid to give people shrimp facts at every pool party all summer 😎 SquidFacts.net

A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull
As a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to
Him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”

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Paula Whyman @paulawhyman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A high-voltage power line turned stork apartment building in the Alentejo region, Portugal 🌿#birds

Against a backdrop of thick clouds, a high-powered electrical tower is covered with a dozen large stork nests

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Everyone who pre-orders shrimp city shirt will get a free shrimp temporary tattoo 😘 These shirts are how we’re funding our fall mural series - 3 murals created by Philly women & gender non-conforming artists, about our city’s most charasmatic bugs! We’re almost 20% funded! SquidFacts.net

A jumbo- no, himbo shrimp pumping iron and holding a chain with a heart on the bottom

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Raw on the cattle drive with me? 😚👉👈

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jtkindt @jtkindt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Metallic wood-boring beetle (Genus Agrilaxia, new one for me) looks like it is wearing a too-tight turtleneck. #bugsky #insects #beetles

Beetle on white petals of a daisy-like fleabane flower. Body is elongated, coloring with muted metallic red, green, and blue-black, thorax looks like a tube that is swallowing a little round head.

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In the last two months I've gone from "what is this crippling abdominal pain" to "is this all in my head? am i being ridiculous?" to a doctor saying it's like 95% that I have endometriosis to now wanting to count down the days until this is cut out of my body. 54 days. 1/n

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Marianne Alleyne @cotesia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Excuse me?

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 08/05/2026

I mean this with 100% sincerity, is the spider ok

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

10 years is tin, 20 years is china, 50 years is gold and 100 years is wasps.

Parasitic wasp named after Sir David Attenborough for his 100th birthday

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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/05/2026

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

doing one last call—if you are a trans entomologist/trans researcher studying bugs (in the most capacious sense) please dm me, I'd love to interview you!

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Things currently legal that should be illegal #7294729

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Houdini fly (Cacoxenus indagator) lurking near Osmia nests at my insect hotel. This introduced species has made it down to Salem, Oregon, on the west coast and D.C. on the east coast. Please report on iNaturalist if you see them. 🌿 #diptera #flies #insects www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Houdini Fly (Cacoxenus indagator)

Houdini Fly from Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA on April 24, 2026 at 02:20 PM by Colin Purrington

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Rachel she/her @rachbehm.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day except @ucf.bsky.social has just bulldozed site 2 on this map and then is moving onto site 1. This area by the way, is home to 3 different habitats, 5 endangered plants, and a minimum of 29 potentially inhabited gopher tortoise burrows. For a sports complex... tinyurl.com/54vurj8p

Google Maps image of an area on UCF between the Softball Field and Garage D that is actively being destroyed.

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🧵 BOOKS FOR EARTH DAY 🌎 While writing my book, Becoming Earth, I read — and have continued to read — *a lot* of books about our extraordinary planet. Here are a few of my personal favorites, old and new, with a particular focus on Earth as a dynamic, interconnected, evolving system 🧪 📚💙

Collage of nine book covers:
Strata by Laura Poppick
The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything by Peter Brannen
A New History of Life by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink
Revolutions That Made the Earth by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson
The Ages of Gaia by James Lovelock
The Cosmic Oasis by Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz
Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis
Here on Earth by Tim Flannery
The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Alright Philadelphia, this is a city-wide alert! We have an event this Wednesday that you're not gonna want to miss. We've got babes, rain barrels, drag queens, native plants, a diversity of butts, and trees! At 254 (in center city!) doors 7, show 8 Get tickets here: biodiversitease.eventbrite.com

A poster for an event called biodiversity on April 22, 2026 an Earth Day cabaret at 254254 S. 12th St. door seven show 8 PM Burlesque and dragged performances in local vendors and educators performance performances by jaida MX Monstera, Victoria Reno, honey tree evil eye, DJ Carl michaels kitten pony Corbo benefiting by scientist. there are many girls interspersed among flowers, and one hot dude

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

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JPE - Journal of Pollination Ecology @jpollecol.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Complementary insights from transect observations and palynological analyses on Andrena and Lasioglossum foraging in field margins by Giovanetti et al. out now! doi.org/10.26786/192...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

NYT: US Fertility Rates Drop to Another Record Low

The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, in large part because of a plunge among teenagers

There are some clues in the age breakdown: The fertility rate for teenagers dropped by 7 percent from 2024’s figure, setting another record low for the group. Since 2007, the rate for teenagers is down by 72 percent, and since 1991, when teenage fertility rates were at a high, the rate is down by 81 percent.

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

That plant native plants one will be mine

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

we need to adopt a no mow (april and) may policy to allow for *checks notes* the dignity of this country to survive

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Adam Haberski @ahaberski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thank you Field Museum for preserving this important resource!

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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Most bee folks are used to saying there are about 20,000 bee species in the world, but this new study estimates that number of more like 25,000! theconversation.com/science-know...

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Science knows of 21,000 bee species. There are likely thousands more

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

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Codey Mathis @codeymathis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I'm defending my dissertation next Wednesday, EST. I'll record it on Zoom, but also if folks are interested in the Zoom link, please DM me 🙂 Thank you to everyone who supported me through this journey. I currently have no plans post-graduation, but no matter what I'm excited for these next steps!

Dissertation defense advertisement for Codey Mathis. Dissertation is titled "Assessing the impact of floral resources and vertical stratification on insect behavior and biases of common trapping methodologies for insect communities". Defense is scheduled for Wednesday, January 28th, from 10-11am Eastern time at Penn State and on Zoom. Top left image is Codey holding a bunch of ropes that have gotten tangled and botom right image is Codey sitting in the middle of one of her research plots holding her late beagle Remus.

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