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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 9h

I found a cricket leech after work today! :0 Cricket leeches are the larval form of solitary wasps in the family Rhopalosomatidae, which is the ancestral branch of all paper and potter wasps.

A photo of a dark bean-like entity stuck to the side of a cricket between its body and left hind leg. The cricket's posture looks like if a basketball player was trying to hide the fact that they got bit by a tick the size of a poodle, carrying it casually under one arm. The wasp may not directly kill its host, but the loss of so much hemolymph will likely reduce the cricket's lifespan.

A photo of the same unfortunate pair from further away, so you can see the scale of the parasite. The cricket is gravid and will likely lay her eggs soon, parasitic wasp be damned. #girlpower

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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 22h

Current Affairs: Tissue flow creates mechanical cues to coordinate immune-cell migration during development 📹 Hoang Anh Le et al @mayorlab.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @natcellbio.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @antdlewis.bsky.social

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 14h

this is my pfp for my school email and one of our undergrads was like "i love how you look like a pokemon trainer in it" and i always love when people say this about my style of dress but it's interesting how people see a colorful outfit and equate it with fictional characters

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 18h

With these museum closures I feel strongly both for the communities themselves and for the museums' education and collections staff who not only lose their jobs, they lose what they have devoted themselves to and care deeply about. That is a crushing loss.

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Monks of New Skeet @amagire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

grazing animals' eyeballs rotate when they lower their heads to keep their pupils aligned with the horizon. you know this now. you're welcome

a sheep with its head up and with its head lowered to graze, showing the freaky eyeball thing

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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 23h

Want to conserve #birds, #mammals and other vertebrates? Then don’t forget their #insects. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper explores the many ways vertebrates depend on insects — for food, shelter, protection and much more. I’ve written about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/30/w...

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Want to conserve birds and mammals? Then conserve their insects – our new paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity sets out the details

It’s sometimes easy to forget quite how much of the living world depends upon insects. That might seem an odd thing for someone who has spent much of his career studying insects and their relations…

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 19h

I like these Zaprionus with the little racing stripes

Zaprionus fruit fly is mostly brown with two white stripes going down its head and back. Native to Africa, but introduced around the world

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Drew Anderson @andersonevolve.bsky.social · 19h

A very talented former lab-mate of mine, Dr. Sarah Flanagan, is looking for a PhD student to work on adaptive management of some Antarctic penguins 🐧! Work would be out of the University of Canterbury and Sarah is one of the best people I know. Please spread the word.

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Leveraging lessons in international conservation from Antarctica to build adaptive management plans for taonga species in Aotearoa | UC

This project focuses on the conservation of two iconic penguin species, who live in two extremes: emperor penguins, the largest penguins who breed on the extreme cold, isolated ice in Antarctica; and ...

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 19h

UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺

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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 21h

"St George and the Pterodactyl" 🎨 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1873) #WyrdWednesday

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 30/09/2026

watch out that thing's mad

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Emotional support crab (emoji) 🦀

A yellow round cartoon, with eyestalks and claws because it is a stylized crab. It is holding a pink heart and smiling

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Nina Modaffari @ninamodaffari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

absolutely no hatred towards teen fantasy but I heard someone once call titles that are like 'a crown of blank and blank' stories as 'A kraft of mac and cheese' and I cannot stop thinking about it

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

inat county record for leucochrysa insularis!!! not only are the larvae debris-carrying, they largely carry around snail shells AND SOMETIMES LIVE SNAILS

photo of a green lacewing with a brown spot on the abdomen and some on the wings

article photo of a lacewing larvae with a variety of very small snail shells on its back

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Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 29/09/2026

My group is recruiting a Ph.D student for Fall 2027! We're a friendly group of mathematically-minded and computationally-inspired biologists studying topics including social evolution, host-pathogen interactions, genetics, and demography. See vancleve.theoretical.bio for more info!

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van cleve research group

Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Looking for life sciences 🧪 faculty/staff/trainers who want science communication to be more valued w/in academia We built an NSF-funded coaching program to help you w/ #SciComm in job & award apps, promotion materials, curriculum proposals, etc. We want to help you get more respect, credit, & pay

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SORRY back to 5, we keep getting more information. Planning emergency protests is uniquely challenging!

same poster as above but now it says 5pm

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

roughly my fav 9 games :> tf2 is last because i read the comics and watched the animations more than i played the game

grid of video game covers. pokemon silver, pokemon black, monster hunter generations ultimate, monster rise and sunbreak, katamari damacy, animal crossing new leaf, i spy spooky mansion deluxe, slender the eight pages, team fortress 2

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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW SEA SPIDERS :) 🧪🌎🦑🌊 "...found in shallow waters in the Salish Sea, ...the first to be found in that area in more than 100 years..."

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Scientists discover two new species of sea spiders along Canadian coastline

So far, scientists have identified more than 1,300 species of sea spiders.

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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

literally once bystander-intervened at a sidewalk cafe by going up to a guy and infodumping at him about something I'd read recently so that the woman he was being weird to had a chance to slip away unnoticed. little everyday things, not hard to do.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Anthony of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I submitted my letter of support for the Sternberg Museum to the Kansas Board of Regents. Let's hope it helps

TEXT: Closing the Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Dear Kansas Board of Regents,
My name is Anthony Maltese, a former Kansas resident from 1990-2004, University of Kansas
graduate, and professional paleontologist specializing in the sea life of ancient Kansas. It has been
recently disclosed that Fort Hays State University intends to close the Sternberg Museum of Natural
History, with likely serious consequences to both its staff and collections. I cannot think of a more
disastrous and short-sighted response to a budget shortfall. Over the past three decades of my
career, I have worked closely with the Sternberg Museum excavating fossils with staff, using the
museum for research, leading field trips for students and professionals, and making replicas of
specimens that educate museum visitors worldwide. The collections housed at the museum are an
irreplaceable record of the history, both modern and ancient, of Kansas and are unique in that they
are housed in the area where they were excavated from.
The collections are so important that I have helped donate many scientifically significant specimens to
the museum, understanding this places them in the public trust for perpetuity. Budget decisions are
difficult; however, the destruction of this extremely valuable institution is not a reasonable solution.
While I no longer reside in Kansas, I think about the Sternberg Museum on a nearly daily basis and
use its holdings to advance our understanding of what came before us. Destroying this vast resource
is absolutely the wrong thing to do to address these problems. Keep the Sternberg Museum.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Claire Spiller @claireaspiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She's on her way 🐸🔎

An illustration of a common brown frog in herping gear - wellies, a bucket hat, head torch, backpack with magnifying glass, and a net.

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Ollie @olliemnjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Virus

Digital painting of a dimly lit computer lab. All monitors are switched off except for one at the centre showing a small, blank window

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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spread the word! I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to grow the Paulinella project. Some details can be found here: www.vanettenlab.org/join

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Join! — Van Etten lab at UMD

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that

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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Owl Attacking a Bat, by Horaku, early to mid-19th century

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olyester 🌼 @cco00oo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

on sale

A digital painting of Leafeon

A leafeon naps in a basket of peppers at a produce stand bathed in sunlight. Partly eaten peppers sits nearby, while the price tag has been replaced with a half-off label: "leftovers" They're a bargain, so pepper stir-fry it is tonight. Now then... let's make sure we don't wake the little sleeper

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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thunderstorm developed over the Salton Sea just about an hour ago. Cloud-based lightning can be seen as it got darker (Video: Sicco Rood).

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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GGBN @ggbnoutreach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congrats to the NEON Biorepository at Arizona State University for receiving funding from NSF to co-lead a project aimed at creating a national resource for sequencing and analysing the DNA of important species! news.asu.edu/20260924-env...

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Decoding important wildlife DNA | ASU News

There is a wealth of knowledge to be found in the DNA of our nation’s spectacular wildlife. A team of researchers co-led by Arizona State University will create a national resource to sequence and ana...

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

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Julia McHugh @drjmchugh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Online Petition for the Sternberg Museum of Natural to remain open. www.change.org/p/save-the-s...

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Sign the Petition

Save the Sternberg Museum of Natural History from Closure

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a little overwhelmed by all the museums and collections closing. after everything i've worked for, i feel like i'm bittersweetly watching the credits roll on so many people's careers and hopes for the future

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.

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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

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The awesomeness of museums

Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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