Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDfrank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026just a gazillion smol bean mushrooms 945280
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDAshkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I'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... 02840
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDSophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Your bad art is better than AI slop. 72107204764
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDAndrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I 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. 711449180
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDEmily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 27/07/2026You have been visited by a disapproving blenny 3437
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I have things to say about the accuracy of Ant Man 517215
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDAriel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I 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/190184apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 14857
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDDr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Worth 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 0193
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDhannahcole04.bsky.social @hannahcole04.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Do 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 33327180
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDLoukas Theodosiou @bioinformatician.bsky.social · 19/07/2026After 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... 216940
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDiNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A 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. 219148
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDFrank Swain @frank-swain.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It'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) 561536703
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Lots 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 🧪🌍centerforwildlifestudies.orgPublic Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies 15114
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDanother morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar 264137483530
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDCraig B @mutillidae.bsky.social · 24/06/2026A 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 071
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDPetra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026our uncurated, unmowed, unwatered lawn during a heatwave vs community centre lawn 611315
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Job! Beetle systematics, Australia:jobs.csiro.auResearch Scientist in ColeopteraResearch Scientist in Coleoptera 12321
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDMoths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026And 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!! 215547
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDDr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This 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 1133
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This 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. 313521
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDArthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The 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) 1149
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDiNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Some spectacular parasitic fungus for your feed: Ophiocordyceps curculionum! 119946
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDPlazi @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 073
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 10/06/2026Since 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... 7705190
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDAinsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/06/2026lunch break with the lads 1732141073
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDAromie Kim ~Commissions open~ @aromiekim.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Happy #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 527488
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDbookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Gyroceras 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 🦑 🐙 0163
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Every 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...slate.comDrowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. 253133939735
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Chinese 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...phys.orgBamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditionsA 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... 285146754444
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/05/2026As 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. 🥺tampabay.comFire 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. 13819196
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDDenis Angelov @denisillustrates.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Bugs from 2021 #kidlitart #illustration #art 010227
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Margaret 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 171139221
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDNicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 11/04/2026New Cambrian mystery keychains just dropped! 🦐 shop.fossilforager.art #sciart 6511137
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDEcology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · 10/03/20263-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...stri.si.edu3 Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Animal Behavior 13984
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDTapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 27/03/2026My 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.) 37222
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026i 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. 710910
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDPetra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026today's nice #invertebrate is her rotundness the dark-edged bee-fly 1305
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This 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...drawdown.orgOnly half of calories produced on croplands are available for human consumption, study findsStudy: 1/2 of the calories produced on croplands are unavailable for human consumption 20989354
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDBarbara Feldmeyer @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Two 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.11-26011senckenberg.deStellenanzeigen Archiv | Senckenberg NaturforschungHeute geöffnet (9 — 17 Uhr) 078
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Strong 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...insidehighered.comCanvas Unrolls AI Teaching AgentThe 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... 14711329
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDSandra Steiger @steigerlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Job alert! PhD position "Evolutionary Genomics of Transcriptional Regulation in Beetle Sociality" with @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social in collaboration with me and the fantastic burying beetles! 036
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDmyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026Ants 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 […]sauropods.winOriginal post on sauropods.win 1413
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDKell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026hey 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 175
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDMuseum 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 0246
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDMenno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Small 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.) 16822
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDIda B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20/03/2026You 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 480244917559
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDThe Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Applications 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 01514
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDEmily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026‘Alpine Scene,’ Gustave Doré, circa 1865 0608
Reposted by Jill Oberski, PhDMichigan State University Department of Entomology @msu-entomology.bsky.social · 19/03/2026New 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 🧪🌍🍁msutoday.msu.eduMSU study finds bees swim and use dark areas to surviveNew MSU research confirms that honeybees can propel themselves across the water’s surface, including swimming toward darker areas for survival. 0169