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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Celebrating a Detective Beans birthday (by @exocomics.com). My wife crushed it with the cake, and he’s now solving a Beans-esque mystery

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

More academics should take up embroidery. It can be good to have something socially acceptable to stab over and over during certain meetings. 🪡 🧵 🪲 #academicsky

Embroidery hoop with white fabric being stitched with colorful beetles. Two beetles are finished, one is in progress, and one is outlined but not yet started.

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#SICB #job board update The Division of #Invertebrate #Zoology at the (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant #Curator/Assistant Professor with expertise in the #evolution of #Lepidoptera, careers.amnh.org/postings/4923. read more sicb.org/jobs-and-fel...

We seek an innovative #evolutionary #biologist who will develop a world-leading, collections-based research program in Lepidoptera. The successful candidate will integrate modern approaches in evolutionary biology with genomics, imaging, computational biology, #biodiversity informatics, and/or other emerging computational approaches. We are particularly interested in scientists who envision natural-history collections not simply as repositories of specimens, but as powerful research platforms for addressing fundamental questions about evolution, biodiversity, and environmental change.

The ideal candidate will have a record of high-impact scholarship, strong potential for extramural funding, and the vision to establish an internationally recognized independent research program. Research interests may include, but are not limited to, systematics, morphology, comparative genomics, biogeography, and/or macroevolution. We are especially interested in candidates who combine organismal biology with emerging computational approaches, including machine learning, computer vision, automated specimen identification, large-scale image analysis, and other data-intensive methods for understanding biodiversity.

Excellent knowledge of #moth and #butterfly diversity is essential.

Research and Collections

The successful candidate will conduct original scientific research on Lepidoptera; steward and develop the Museum’s #Lepidoptera collection; and expand the collection through fieldwork, strategic collecting, and other accessions.

Opportunities include developing methods to extract new information from historical specimens; applying machine learning and advanced analytical methods to specimen images and biodiversity data; integrating museum specimens with genomic and environmental datasets; and developing computational approaches that accelerate species discovery, identification, classification, and our understanding of evolutionary change.

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Was lucky enough to catch an annual cicada just as it emerged!

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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 10/08/2026

For more than 30 years, Vermont scientists have been setting up floating rafts where loons can build their nests. But now, they say loons are doing so well that it’s time to let them nest without human aid. Read more: ow.ly/yV9j50ZygOX

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 27/07/2026

There's one more day to preorder the newly updated version of my first comics collection, Birding Is My Favorite Video Game, and get a PDF download of one of my most popular comics that you can't buy as a print. site.andrewsmcmeel.com/birding-is-m...

The cover of a book called Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Updated edition, cartoons about the natural world from bird and moon, by Rosemary Mosco, New York Times bestselling author. It shows various birds flying against a bright blue sky with a fluffy cloud background, assigned points values. Ivory-billed woodpecker is 5000 points, painted bunting is 60, cerulean warbler is 55, chipping sparrow is 5, and a wayward balloon is 0.

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Working with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social at #SDCC today! Come check out our panel, "Pokopia: The Science of Saving the World!"

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm at SDCC and my 1st panel was awesome and about teaching and learning with comics. Some audience members were championing AI for coming up with new superheroes in the activities... 🥱 Like, aren't we here to celebrate creators and artists? If you can't do that without AI, stay in your lane! 🤬

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Volker Nehring @volkernehring.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🐜 New in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: We show that leaf-cutting ant OR gene expression is colony-specific and that it changes after exposure to non-nestmate odours. We think that this means they tune their antennae for nestmate recognition. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #Ants #Olfaction #Behavior (1/2)

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Exposure to non-nestmate odors changes the odorant receptor profile in Acromyrmex echinatior leaf-cutting ants

zoology; entomology; neuroscience

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

People who choose AI as their creative output: - hate people and having to work with them - are all hat and no cattle, which is to say, they have "ideas" but don't want to even learn the work to implement them - hate the craft itself, and care only about content, about product, about "end results"

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Congrats Mohammed, this looks like an amazing study!

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#WorldFireflyDay is July 4th-5th! Why is a “day” running over a night? Because that’s when these amazing animals are out and about! 🪲🎆 Get involved in firefly conservation ➡ fireflyatlas.org Learn more about fireflies & where to go see them ➡ xerces.org/fireflies

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Middlebury Biology department is hiring two VAPs for the upcoming years. Please help spread the word, and positions like these can be very helpful in gaining experience to be competitive for TT positions at small liberal arts colleges (it helped me a lot!). www.middlebury.edu/college/acad...

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Open Positions

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International Society of Chemical Ecology @chemicalecology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Welcome, everyone, to our annual meeting for the International Society of Chemical Ecology!!!! Tag us or use #chemecol2026 to share your journey!

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A conversation science communicators need to have about AI art 🧪🐙🐡🧵

WHY THIS ARGUMENT IS FULL OF CRAP
"Al graphics allow me to communicate science to people who may never get to interact with a scientist"
A CONVERSATION
SCIENCE
COMMUNICATORS
NEED TO HAVE
@invertebabe

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Spent the weekend with the family doing the Plein Air Festival with Sparrow Art Supply 😊

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🚨 Lifer alert! 🚨 Check out this deer bot #fly that @dradriansmith.bsky.social found while we were hunting bugs - my first time getting pics of a wild adult of this family! It's a convincing bee mimic, whose babies live in the sinuses & throats of deer 😋 👀 #Oestridae: #Cephenemyia phobifer NC, USA

A large bodied, fuzzy yellow fly, looking like a bumble bee, sits on a leaf, viewed from above.

A large bodied, fuzzy yellow fly, looking like a bumble bee, sits on white background, viewed from the side facing right.

A large bodied, fuzzy yellow fly, looking like a bumble bee, sits on white background, viewed from above next to a US dime.

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 09/04/2025

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

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Chelsea Cook @phdbee.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

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Kenneth F. Balogh Graduate Student Fellowship

A PhD position investigating the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera, co-advised by Dr. Nicolas J. Dowdy (Milwaukee Public Museum) and Dr. Chelsea Cook (Marquette University). Apply by June ...

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Some beautiful moths out tonight with our family blacklighting!

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The technology the shits out D papers is impossible to grasp. Yes, that’s it. 🙃

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Alright we’re in business here. Crank the cuteometer to 11 and full steam ahead, boys!

The front of Sarah’s house which has a fuckton of native plants in pots and two signs- one for a bug count and one for a bug of the month, and a little free library in the middle

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

So much #HKAM26 catch up (I’m very behind!) Day 5: Mother Day 6: Grand Hunt (and also mother)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/05/2026

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My daughter absolutely loved drawing this Day3: hot spring prompt for #HKAM26

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Love this #HKAM26 drawing by my son. Apparently ice cream preference is a huge topic at the Hallownest hot springs 🤣

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Big #HKAM26 catchup day! Day 3: Hot Spring Day 4: Mr. Mushroom

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I suspect that the Powers That Be looooove AI because it disengages your brain and softens your thinking. Your free thought, your imagination, gets unplugged and into the socket, the AI node goes. And they control that node. Which means they control your mind. So: they start with kids.

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Posting the kids’ #HKAM26 Day 2 art (Plasmium) as well! 😍

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

#HKAM26 Day 2: Plasmium PSA: Watch where you leave your Plasmium Phial!

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Hollow Knight Art Month @hollowknightam.com · 13/04/2026

THE LIST IS HERE! See www.hollowknightam.com for more info throughout the event Shares are very much appreciated <3 #hollowknight #silksong #hollowknightartmonth #hkam26

A prompt list for Hollow Knight Art Month

01 - Hornet
02 - Plasmium
03 - Hot Spring
04 - Mr Mushroom
05 - Mother
06 - Grand Hunt
07 - Bellhart
08 - Vessel
09 - Phantom
10 - Mount Fay
11 - Divine
12 - Skarr
13 - Zoteling
14 - Sands of Karak
15 - Relic Seeker
16 - Memory
17 - Bretta
18 - Garamond & Zaza
19 - Surface Memento
20 - Snail Shaman
21 - Weavenest
22 - Shellwood
23 - Mask Maker
24 - Abyss
25 - Silkeater
26 - Knight
27 - Kingdom's Edge
28 - Second Sentinel
29 - Dream No More
30 - Courier
31 - Flea

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It’s back baby! Hollow Knight Art Month 2026! #HKAM26 Day 1: Hornet (from me and the kiddos)

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Rachael Nevins ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Love living on a natural landscape that is abundant with my research firefly species!

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me: Nature-inspired neuroscience We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨ tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Had a great time talking with you David! Very nice job on the article!

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Yuko Ulrich @yukoulrich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🎉New paper out from the lab, led by @baptistepiqueret.bsky.social: ant larvae chemically suppress the reproduction of their caregivers. bit.ly/4t8uZLG An example of how social interactions are regulated at the molecular level. The work was made possible by the unique environment @mpi-ce.bsky.social

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Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Spring has sprung here in Vermont

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/04/2026

For shame, @mayorwu.boston.gov. Study after study show that these chatbots deliver misinformation, damage cognition, and some apparently have driven kids to suicide. How do you justify forcing this untested, dangerous, right-wing-billionaire controlled garbage on kids?

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