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Jill Oberski, PhD

@jilloberski.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Biology @ Hope College, a PUI SLAC. 🐜 🧬 🌎 | Entomology | Phylogenomics | Biogeo | Evolution | Diversifying STEM 🧠 ♿️ 🏳️‍🌈 [she/her]

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 20/09/2026
生物多様性にもほどがある🦀
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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
just a gazillion smol bean mushrooms
many, many tiny lilac-grey bell-shaped fungi
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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'd be grateful if you could circulate to good students: I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall '27 in the areas of species interactions and animal behavior. Ad here - jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your bad art is better than AI slop.
four frame comic. first frame shows a typical AI poster that says : All chatgpt flyers look the same, especially with this font! the text above it reads : I won't go to your event if the poster was made by AI. second frame shows a still frame from a Hank Green youtube video. text above reads : I won't read your post or email and I won't watch your video if they were made with AI. third frame shows an AI restaurant poster of burgers and chicken in a window. text reads : I won't patronize your shop  or restaurant if it is advertised with AI. last frame shows an MS paint window with badly written : Your bad art is better than AI slop. text reads : if you can't take the time or make the effort to interact with me yourself, then why should I do it?
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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I find it fascinating that in the 1990s, the US managed to re-create early twentieth-century Vienna café culture only to have it gradually decay over the first quarter of the twenty-first century such that now most coffee shops are closed by six PM.
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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You have been visited by a disapproving blenny
A small fish with what looks like a frown on his face.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I have things to say about the accuracy of Ant Man
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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am thrilled to share that the biology dept at Hamilton College is hiring a TT Evolutionary Ecologist to start in fall of 2027! This position would teach an upper level Evolution lect/lab, a section of Bio-100, rotate through our 200-level Eco/Evo course, and a seminar. apply.interfolio.com/190184
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Worth noting: over 217 million of those genes came from hadal ecosystems, 6 to 11 km down. The hardest place on Earth to sample turned out to be one of the richest genetic libraries we have. 🧪 #marinelife
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hannahcole04.bsky.social @hannahcole04.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm
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Loukas Theodosiou @bioinformatician.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
After four years, several updates and a handful of CRAN releases, 𝗹𝘁𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗥-𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲, reached a version I feel genuinely good about sharing with the community. github.com/loukesio/ltc...
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A cute, not-so-little snail face for your feed: meet the Red Giant (Indrella ampulla), a stunning species native to the Western Ghats of India.
A bright red snail with a dark brown shell crawls across dirt.A bright red snail with a dark brown shell crawls across dirt.A bright red snail with a dark brown shell crawls across dirt.A bright red snail with a dark brown shell crawls across dirt.
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Frank Swain @frank-swain.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Lots of folks have expressed interest in attending one of my social media science communication training workshops, but have asked if there are any opportunities to sign up as an individual rather than bringing me to your institution. Yes there is! #SciComm 🧪🌍
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Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies
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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
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Craig B @mutillidae.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A perfect little nugget to share on this #WaspWednesday. It's in the genus Holcencyrtus and was collected in AZ in the company of some Pheidole ants. #NaturalHistoryCollections #FocusStacking #Hymenoptera #Encyrtidae
A teeny tiny point-mounted wasp against a grey background. Did I mention she's tiny?! Its body is metallic green with purplish tints. The legs are brown, transitioning to yellow at the feet. The antennae arise low on its face and are clearly geniculate (elbowed).
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
our uncurated, unmowed, unwatered lawn during a heatwave vs community centre lawn
photo of a bright green lawn with yellow and white tiny flowers interspwrsed,  few blades of grass flower, and a pole of our hammockDead grey yellow mowed lawn, some green bits remain below the dead fluff on top
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Job! Beetle systematics, Australia:
jobs.csiro.au
Research Scientist in Coleoptera
Research Scientist in Coleoptera
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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And now a message from the Moth Promotional Board: Want to see cute moths like this? Grow 'weeds'. That's right. Do less gardening, be less tidy, make less effort! & get ecologically super-important, pollinating, beautiful, fluffy flying kittens!!
A beautiful pink and olive green elephant hawkmoth shaped like a tiny adorable jet plane. It's sitting on a grey cardboard egg tray from my moth trap. A+ good moth friend.A wildflower patch in my garden, filled with sorrels, bedstraws, burnets, long grasses, and various other small plants that moths like to eat. A tiny furious grass veneer moth, a wedge shaped micromoth with lightly striped wings, round blue eyes, and worry black antennas that look like angry eyebrows. It's livid because it's being photobombed by a fuzzy brown heart and club moth in the background. They're both delightful moths though.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This scale worm, Macellicephaloides grandicirra, lives almost entirely below 7,000 metres in deep ocean trenches and unlike most of its relatives at that depth, it never gave up the hunt to hide in a burrow. #marinelife
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is Psalidomyrmex. It hunts earthworms. Which is a habit that probably merits weird mandibles. But I just learned they don't need to have slicing mandibles, just grabby ones, because earthworms drop their tails when attacked, so the ants just haul them off like they were harvesting fruit.
Macro photo of Psalidomyrmex reichenspergeri, a large purplish black ant with curved jaws that taper to a fine point like ice tongs.
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Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The compression gloves are great for bench work, I always wear a pair under my latex gloves (bonus, they absorb the hand sweat and then you can wash them, it makes the sensory experience a lot better for me too)
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Some spectacular parasitic fungus for your feed: Ophiocordyceps curculionum!
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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#NewSpecies! New pill #millipede from #thailand just tiptoed in: Zephronia tratensis Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/F24EBD4F-... Publication: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.... #EJTaxonomy #ZephroniaTratensis #FAIRdata #OA #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #fauna #diplopoda
Male paratypes of live Zephronia tratensis.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 10/06/2026
Since I do not see the New World Screwworm issue going away any time soon, I’m just gonna make a thread I can pin to my profile. Do you want to know why the screwworms have come back? Check this thread: bsky.app/profile/tkin...
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
lunch break with the lads
Assorted North American caterpillars eating their lunches on a branch high over the forest, posed in the manner of that one famous photo of construction workers sitting along an I-beam
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Aromie Kim ~Commissions open~ @aromiekim.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Happy #WorldOceanDay I am terrified of the ocean but it's beautiful and it's full of freaky incredible creatures like the vampire squid and even more amazing stuff that I can't even fathom
A painting of a vampire squid with its tentacles flayed out. A little heart is next to its head
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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Gyroceras burlingtonense, an extinct nautiloid cephalopod with a logarithmic spiral shell, closer related to squid & octopuses than the bivalves & brachiopods around it. Plate from my 1852 copy of ‘Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, [etc]’ by David Dale Owen. #MolluscMonday 🦑 🐙
A page from an oversized book with illustrations of various mollusc and brachiopod species. In the center is a large, spiral shell.



#sciart #fossilfriday 🐡
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
As a scientist, this is my worst nightmare. There are one-of-a-kind instruments that you spend your life perfecting. When they’re lost, no amount of time or money will bring them back. My thoughts are with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social @ashevenell.bsky.social and others @cmarinescience.bsky.social. 🥺
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Fire breaks out at USF St. Pete Marine Science Lab. Building likely ‘total loss’
More than 60 units and 200 firefighters were called to the scene.
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Denis Angelov @denisillustrates.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Bugs from 2021 #kidlitart #illustration #art
Mixed media illustration of a child with his head to the ground, looking at ants, a worm, a snail and a shield bug
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Margaret Knight (1838 – 1914) was the American inventor of a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags. A man, Charles Annan, stole her design and patented it, claiming that "she could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities of the machine", but she sued him and won. #CelebratingWomen
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
New Cambrian mystery keychains just dropped! 🦐 shop.fossilforager.art #sciart
A photo of colorful acrylic keychains, featuring illustrations by me of various Cambrian invertebrate animals. They are photographed against a grey stone background.
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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
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3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Animal Behavior
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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
My advice to biologists tempted to use AI/LLMs to code their analyses: don't. (I'm continuing with reviewing the analyses for our article, and it's taken me all morning to figure out what the code is trying to do.)
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
i love m-dashes. i use 'not only but also' type of constructions in certain kinds of writing. i am not ai. i find the implication that i might be depressing. just as i dislike defensive academic writing targeting reviewers, i'd regret having to adopt defensive writing habits to prove i'm not a bot.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
today's nice #invertebrate is her rotundness the dark-edged bee-fly
photo of a very round dark to light brown fuzz beefly sitting on a concrete and red brick wall, snoot straight up, only the left legs are visible the others are hiding or missing, two very long thin wings with a dark top half and transparrent bottom half, majestic shadow going towards the bottom right.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored. Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels. drawdown.org/news/only-ha...
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Only half of calories produced on croplands are available for human consumption, study finds
Study: 1/2 of the calories produced on croplands are unavailable for human consumption
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Barbara Feldmeyer @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Two PhD positions available in our lab! www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan... a) "Genomic Mechanisms of Olfactory Adaptation and Plasticity in Wasps, Ants, and Bees." 🐜🐝 REF.11-26010 b) "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Beetle Sociality."🪲🪳 REF.11-26011
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Stellenanzeigen Archiv | Senckenberg Naturforschung
Heute geöffnet (9 — 17 Uhr)
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...
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Sandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Job alert! PhD position "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Beetle Sociality" with @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social in collaboration with me and the fantastic burying beetles!
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026
Ants are social creatures and so they are no strangers to social exploits. Kidnapping! Coups! Slavery! Hi-jacking! Highway Robbery! Protection Rackets! Wars of Territory Conquest! Wars of National Security! Wars of resource extraction! Wars of stealing your house! You can find ants doing […]
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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
hey biology people, do you remember reading a paper about "folklore" in bench biology procedures? Stuff like how exactly you grow up your cells or whether you put lids face up or face down? At the moment, I can't find it because I keep getting like anthropology literature about fairy tales
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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
'If everyone were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.' - C. Darwin
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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Small is beautiful! In a new pre-print in @elife.bsky.social, a team led by Alexey Polilov do the first-ever 3d electron-microscopic analysis of a miniaturized eye: the 29-lens compound eye of a 0.2-mm-long parasitic wasp! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... (whole wasp image by Andrew Polaszek.)
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Applications are open for the LinnéSys Systematics Research Fund: we offer up to £1,500 for research in taxonomy & systematics - from fieldwork to equipment, specimen prep, and more. Open to researchers at any stage (UG+). Deadline: 27 March 2026, 23:59 Apply now: buff.ly/8eryOMN
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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
‘Alpine Scene,’ Gustave Doré, circa 1865
tall dark pines, massive like giants, surround the scene with a parting and break in the forest showing bluesky & light and sea in the far distance and background…a quiet work
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Michigan State University Department of Entomology @msu-entomology.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
New research from MSU Entomology shows honeybees can “swim” across water and orient toward dark areas that likely mark the shore, but a commonly used insecticide disrupts this life-saving behavior. Read the MSUToday feature: msutoday.msu.edu/news/2026/03... #Entomology 🧪🌍🍁
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MSU study finds bees swim and use dark areas to survive
New MSU research confirms that honeybees can propel themselves across the water’s surface, including swimming toward darker areas for survival.
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