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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Job Alert 📣! Tenure-Track Position in Agronomic #Entomology at Montana State. Looking for candidates with molecular -> field expertise who identify novel ways to combat pests🐛. Teaching: Insect Physiology and IPM. Come and join us in beautiful Bozeman. Share broadly! jobs.montana.edu/postings/52653

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

These two are the same insect, 26 minutes apart. The picture on the left is the regular appearance. The one on the right is what the insect looks like after it is scared and produces a chemical that spreads between its body and its elytra. 🌿🌱 #beetle #insect

A side by side composite image of a beetle. The image on the left shows a gold beetle with some reddish iridescence. The one on the right looks blue with a gold spot in the middle. These are tortoise beetles so they have clear elytra that extend well beyond the shape of its body like a helmet.

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

docs.google.com

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Read the thread for a lovely story of teens making a difference 🪲🦋🙂

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm heading off to EntSoc and here's my take on navigating your first scientific conference. Hope to see lots of you there! scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪

scienceforeveryone.science

Getting the most of out a scientific conference

A slightly unconventional guide to your first time

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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 15, 2025 Tangerine furry-legs moth Acraga moorei Lepidoptera: Dalceridae By Tom Myers, Kentucky, USA #arthropodPOTW

Close-up image of a bright orange, fuzzy moth with feathery antennae and black eyes perched on the edge of a green leaf. Black background.

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Grossness is in the eye of the beholder🐞💀🐜👻🐛🎃🧪! The lab hosted a table on "Creepin' and Crawlin' Creatures" at the @museumoftherockies.bsky.social "Grossology" event last weekend #insects #bugsky #bug #inverts #scicomm

MSU faculty and students behind a table covered with live and pinned arthropods

Graduate student handing a large cockroach to a small child

A distance shot of children engaging with the content and students at the table

Insect displays and graduate students talking about insect locomotion with visitors

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

"When someone attacks one party member, we all roll for initiative". As a DnD player and a concerned scientist, thanks @phytoseiid.bsky.social for the great piece in AE that made me weirdly emotional on an airplane.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 07/07/2025

The other animal feeds have thousands of likes, but the invertebrates feed only has around 600. Invertebrates are roughly 95% of all animal species on this planet, so they should have millions of likes to be properly proportionate to those other, less diverse animals. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Science didn't turn partisan! It's been politicized & partisanized by conservatives whose cruel, theocratic, destructive policies (banning books, forced birth, climate denialism, gender essentialism) are all directly contradicted by scientific evidence.

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Malaise trapping with a view ⛰️👀. Intercepting flying insects in potato fields to better understand disease dynamics in our state. #entomology #fieldseason

Entomology graduate student adjusts a tent like insect trap with majestic mountains in the background

Two stellar researchers stand proudly next to a tent like insect trap with majestic mountains in the background

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BlackAFinSTEM @blackafinstem.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Welcome! It’s Day 1 of #BlackBirdersWeek, “Flock to Freedom”. Introduce yourself & connect with other Black birders using #BlackInNature ✊🏽 #scicomm #blacksky #blackinnature #blackbirdersweek #blackbirder #ecojustice #conservationjustice #birding #nature #wildlife #birds

Text reads: Birds symbolize movement, migration, and breaking barriers, mirroring our experiences as Black birders as we navigate and thrive in environments where we have historically been excluded. "Flock to Freedom" aims to provide space for empowerment, self-expression, and connection to ancestral roots while challenging stereotypes about who belongs in nature. Join us as we reconnect online and in person to rise, soar, and flock to freedom.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.

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Jared Ali @jaredali.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Back again for another great summer short course in chemical ecology this time in Jena, Germany! Hope to see folks there! events.gwdg.de/event/1003/

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL. Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I'm reviewing applications for our Science IRL grant. The application pool is stupendous with a lot of fantastic & frankly weird ideas for how to connect people w/critical science info. I want to be able to fund more than we currently can. Wanna throw a few bucks at the pool? givebutter.com/29Ow9Y

givebutter.com

Help fund our Science IRL mini-grant program!

By Skype a Scientist

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

washingtonpost.com

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Well, I might as well use this platform to share some of my teaching memes. I give you "Mate finding in Saturniidae".

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Oliver Keller @drfirefly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Feast your eyes on Sparmannia flava. Maybe the greatest melolonthine of them all. That "winter" coat though... #AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Africa #Scarabaeidae #Winteriscoming

Frontal view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax

Side view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head, thorax, and abdomen

Top view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax,

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Mondays after a holiday, amirite?!?!? 😴 #Tenebrionidae: #Stenomorpha parallela Phoenix, Arizona, USA (November)

A grayish brown darkling beetle on its back with legs in the air, on a rock. It is encrusted with dirt.

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My friend "This is the first time I've watched someone walk TOWARD a tarantula hawk wasp" Me: 😍

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

4 #Entomology #StarterPacks have filled! go.bsky.app/Fq2CQNw go.bsky.app/7CaCbMC go.bsky.app/JVRwhS1 go.bsky.app/2nEuqKX Drive for Five! Nominate widely: grad students, early career, colleagues around the world, equity deserving #entomología #entomologie #Invertebrate #Arthropod 🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Deadline Extension!📢📢 Submit your abstract by December 2nd to be considered as a speaker in the GRS! The GRS/GRC is a fabulous way to make expand your network (interaction web ?🤔). Join the incredible scientists who have already submitted applications - see you in CA 🌱🐛!

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Few things are more shameful than being employed in a Plant Sciences department and almost killing the pothos in your office 💀🌱

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Always wonderful to be reunited with this Entomology dream team! This friend collab is about 10 years old now! @morrisonlabusda.bsky.social #EntSoc23

Three friends of 10 years smiling with the Potomac in the background

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Rebecca @phytoseiid.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I know we don't have critical mass on here like we did at the Other Site, but would anybody be interested in a neurodiversity in entomology workshop and symposium at the next EntSoc meeting?

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Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Who else is coming to #EntSoc2023 #EntSoc23? @entsocamerica.bsky.social Here is the list of talks from my lab!

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McGregor Lab @mcgregorlab.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

PhD project available to work on spider eye development, evolution and vision with me @laurensr.bsky.social and @viveknityananda.bsky.social iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships... Please RP.

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Jess Kansman, PhD @jesskansperson.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Hey there! I'm Jess😄. I am an insect ecologist fascinated by how abiotic and biotic stressors influence trophic interactions in agricultural systems. I love engaging students and the public in the wonderful world of bugs 🌱🐛🐞. Here for the science (and for the jokes, always).

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