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Emily Blake @blakeemily.bsky.social · 11h

"If women are jumping through hoops to learn how to navigate their lives to be safe, why aren’t we teaching boys and men to speak up and stand up when they see behavior that degrades, threatens or endangers women?"

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 10h

The great antlered giant prairie snail is rare, but an awesome inspiring sight to behold

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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 20h

I recently started working on the history of peatland restoration science in Finland, with a focus on forestry-drained #peatlands. Here are some beautiful peatland landscapes from this week's field trip, for y'all. #histsci #envhist #peatlandrestoration #moss

Pristine mire in Seitseminen National Park. Everyone uses them as references for what the restoration landscapes might one day become

A recently restored peatland, where the water table has been raised by blocking old drainage ditches.

Avoiding sloshing and geting wet in the bogs

Papers on the agency of moss coming soon

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 16h

It is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. I am thankful that there are jumping spiders in the world. For a bit of joy today, check out some of the photos being posted with the #InternationalJumpingSpiderDay hashtag

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How is it looking after the fires? I'll be there next spring.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tranquil Harmony XIV Monica Morrill n.d.

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Arachtober @arachtober.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Difoliate Orbweaver - #Arachtober 7 I have always liked these small orbweavers. They have such a pretty pattern across the abdomen, and their eyes shine red when caught in a flashlight. Found in South Texas. #spider #arachnid #macrophotography

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Sean McCann @ibycter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For #Arachtober, those interested in spider identification should check out the Spider Genitals project on iNaturalist. It's a really great source of close up imagery of palpi and epigyna for reference when you are doing ID's. Often has habitus images too! www.inaturalist.ca/observations...

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

20 years ago today was my first day at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. It’s been packed with learning, travelling, listening, curating, researching and shouting about the wonder of flies & the collection Thanks to everyone who made my double-decades amazing 🤘🪰🦟🤓

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 09/10/2026

managed to ID 45 different genera from the horrid unsorted pteromalid bin so far

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Liam Dougherty @liamdougherty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New pre-print led by the amazing @patricepottier.bsky.social - very little evidence for evolution of life history traits in response to warming, even in insects. Rapid adaptation is unlikely to mitigate the continuing impacts of climate change 🔥🔥🔥

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today in the carabid section, a question we all must ask

Unit tray of many multi-mounted beetles (Oxypselaphus obscurus) with a large typewritten note from the previous collection manager (in what might have been his 1st or 2nd year on the job). The note reads “What the hell’s the story with these?” and notes that a bunch of specimens were mixed in with a similar North American species, despite the fact that they are exclusively palearctic

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

was honoured to receive this back in 2004... a highlight of my career!

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 08/10/2026

NEW BEETLE FAMILY DROPPED

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

*tiny airplane noises* (Mr Phidippus richmani, being a very silly lad 🖤) #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Fancy floofy Phidippus jumping spider boy, his 1st segment on his 1st leg pair so magnificently floofy it's brushing his bluish green face. He's perched on an oak twig, that 1st leg pair spread wide likes he's doing pantomime flying airplane

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Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Only 3 more days to apply for our Assistant Professor in Arthropod Biodiversity position! The application deadline is October 9, 11:59pm! 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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Eos @eos.org · 07/10/2026

In Finland, rewetting forestry-drained peatlands could yield climate benefits within decades, a @restorationecology.bsky.social study suggests. eos.org/articles/res... Read more in our October issue: eos.org/themes/secre...

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Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades - Eos

That’s much faster than what most scientists thought.

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Richard Cannings @dickcannings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very disappointed in the recommendations from the Standong Committee on Science and Research ( of which I was a founding member) to remove references to EDI in funding decisions. Good article below on why this is a very bad idea.

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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This striking (tiny, ~1.5mm) ciid beetle, genus Octotemnus, was introduced about 20 years ago, first appearing in Texas, now in all the gulf and south Atlantic states. We still don't know what species it is or where it comes from! Eats polypore fungi, so isn't considered a pest (sorry mycologists!)

Lateral view of the head of a light brown beetle. There are large horns on the mandibles, and a pair of hairy projections on the head. Antennae with a 3-segmented club extend backwards towards spiny front tibiae.

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Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences @cjfas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Monitoring fish biodiversity in rivers and streams: a review of sampling effort requirements ow.ly/HNTU50ZPj1k by Jacob Bowman and Nicholas Jones in Environmental Reviews

Estimates of sampling effort requirements in terms of number of mean stream widths sampled, to estimate fish species richness.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2026

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

tiny brown creatures who all kind of look the same and you can only tell them apart by dissecting the genitalia? CHIPMUNKS ARE NOW BEETLES

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Ekwo-tuktu-caribou @ekwo-tuktu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Want to study barren-ground #caribou in Canada? There's a scholarship for that!

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love this larva of a tiger beetle hiding in it's burrow. "Nope, no big jaws here! Just predatory mud." www.flickr.com/photos/nicka...

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Tiger beetle larva (Cicindelidae) - P3292866

View more at Cicindelidae Checklist: Tiger Beetles www.nickybay.com

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here’s a gift link to the Globe and Mail investigation about American interference in the Alberta referendum, and the separatist operatives (one of whom is a UCP President) who went to the United States to offer them our water and oil. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/64d9ad7...

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The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #rivers #dataviz #hydrology

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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Beetle chromolithograph from ‘The Intellectual Observer’ periodical published in London in 1863. #naturalhistory #sciart #insectart

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Joanna Blaszczak @joannablaszczak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Check out our new paper led by former PhD student Kelly Loria in which we observed >90% reduction in mountain stream ecosystem metabolism from a drought year to one of the wettest water years on record in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains! Part of our UNR Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network

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Syd Cannings @sydcannings1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#BirdOfTheDay as a #BirdSupermodel. This Dusky Grouse in the Yukon (back in June) is staring down the camera and demanding attention! #birds

A male Dusky Grouse with a big flared black tail, bright orange combs above its eyes, and inflated red neck sacs... looking right at the camera

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Syd Cannings @sydcannings1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Winter has indeed arrived in the northern Yukon... but is the Dempster a "major Canadian highway?" It's definitely a great one... www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...

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First blizzard warning of the season for major Canadian highway - The Weather Network

A powerful, low-pressure system ushers in the season's first significant winter storm for Northern Canada

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Up Here Publishing @upherepublishing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🛶 "I paddled the Wind River when I was pregnant with my daughter. Last year, I did it again—with her in the bow" 'A Child of Whitewater' Story/photo by Genesee Keevil Read it here: uphere.ca/articles/chi...

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 06/10/2026

The first-of-its kind program could set a model for bear conservation worldwide. But in providing an alternative to simply protecting old-growth, some worry building dens gives an easy excuse for logging to continue without pause.

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Logging took the trees that bears called home. The Haida Nation is building them new dens

With centuries-old trees disappearing due to logging, the Haida Nation is crafting artificial dens from stumps to shelter coastal black bears for the upcoming winter, while hoping the effort doesn’t b...

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Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences @cjfas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Carey et al. | Potential loss of salmonid spawning habitat in the Arctic due to rusting rivers ow.ly/zvvR50ZPjig

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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Louie Lopez @pinoyplankton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How can we monitor salmon in remote, rapidly changing watersheds where conventional surveys are hard to implement due to inaccessible sites? In our latest study in Ecological Applications, we used eDNA to detect Pacific salmon in emerging habitats within the Skeena watershed in British Columbia

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a friendly reminder that plague is prevalent, including in the western United States (see, prairie dogs), with multiple cases annually. It is also highly treatable and, yes, lab acquired infections (incl. fatal cases) have happened over the years, including e.g., UChicago.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 05/10/2026

Canada has more lakes than any other country. With devastating wildfire seasons becoming more common, scientists are learning how they affect the water.

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When a forest burns, what does it mean for lakes? Scientists are trying to find out

Canada has more lakes than any other country, and nearly every one has been exposed to wildfire smoke

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Arachtober @arachtober.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans) - #Arachtober 4th Another from our Arachtober 1st spider hunting before the rain. I always like to check prickly pear for spiders. #spider #macrophotography #arachnid

Green Lynx Spider on Prickly Pear Cactus.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One neat thing about my grad students all picking individual species for their research us that I think of them ever time I see their critter in the field. Thankfully, my grads have all been nice folk that I enjoy the reminder. I'm a lucky mentor.

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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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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh my gosh, I hope this is true. it is too funny.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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