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Brian Lovett

@lovettbr.bsky.social
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Upstanding Scientist | Insect Pathologist | Entomologist | Mycologist | He/Him/His | Skies are my own

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
These tiny creatures come in so many fun colors! They have a tail that they can flick to launch themselves into the air, they have a belly that absorbs water directly from below, and they have little bumps and tufts all over their bodies for cuteness. 🥰
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I love springtails so much. 🥰
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
How about a springtail instead? Orange nonetheless...
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This looks like dog nose fungus possibly. www.mushroom-appreciation.com/dogs-nose-fu...
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Dog's Nose Fungus: Identification, Lookalikes, and Edibility
The dog's nose fungus (Camarops petersii) is for sure one of the most bizarre-looking fungi species found in the woods. This fungus has an uncanny resemblance to an actual dog’s nose: the surface is b...
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pack it up folks, he got em.
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You got em!
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Octopus Mosaic in Pompeii, Italy
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is an unbelievable honor to accept the 2026 Nobel Prize for Posting
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The basic fact remains about the Trump Administration was asked by @annabower.bsky.social: who is in charge of DOGE? Since DOGE we have lived in unrelenting attack on the Congressional power of the purse. Ask: if Russ Vought is “pocketing” 810 million dollars of money, where is that money going?
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WHO’S COMING???
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Really good stamp from @bittelmethis.bsky.social
Possum playing possum stamp
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
2. Knowledge has cultural, social, civic, political, AND monetary value to society.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The reason @standupforscience.net wrote America’s Compact for Higher Education is higher ed has *dramatically failed* to coalesce around a set of shared values in light of Trump’s attacks. This Compact puts the bar on the floor and encourages ANYONE who agrees to join us! TLDR: 11 Affirmations 🧵
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/09/2026
Introducing, America's Compact for Higher Education!
The graphic reads: "America's Compact For Higher Education” is our unified response against Trump and his effort to bend the will of America’s higher ed leadership to his authoritarian control. Swipe to learn how you can join."
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Get in, Dorks! @standupforscience.net is here to unite the STEM arm of the pro democracy coalition!
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Pokémon Eeveelution Unite Squad
ALT: Pokémon Eeveelution Unite Squad
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Greed is a disease.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Checking the "No food poisoning" box on DoorDash but it raises my price by $2 so I frown and uncheck it
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What a lovely backronym!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New sticker alert! Squidfacts.net
a heart shaped sticker with a lightning bug standing on a blade of grass, butt aglow, with purple flowers near their face. Words say Grow Native Plants
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms
Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 29/08/2026
“I’ve learned that the First Amendment obviously allows me to state things that are factually accurate. So I can say that allegations of Rep. Max Miller being violent towards women go back decades…” Queen shit
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Rep. Max Miller made me delete a tweet
Some thoughts...
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hearing that NSF is going to pilot moving awards from institutions to individuals. Hello compliance nightmare. Especially because a lot of federal requirements for these awards (research security) are tied to institutional requirements. Potentially devastating for scientific collections/archives.
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There is a similar crushing feeling in science. 😔
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Oh yeah?! According to my nature paper, I’m composed of rubber and you are glue.”
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Double dose of products from the @standupforscience.net Foundation policy institute this morning. @irenesufs.bsky.social with her analysis of the contents of the National Science Foundation Guidance to align with OMB rulemaking.
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Here is What You Should Know About NSF’s New Guidance on Financial Assistance — Stand Up for Science Foundation
On June 24, 2026, less than one month after the Office of Management and Budget released its proposed revisions to the Uniform Guidance on federal financial assistance—the National Science Foundation ...
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Mali 💤 MCM London G-23 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hey guess what 😌
Photo of my fingers holding a sticker of a yellow and black road sign featuring a snail and the text "SNAILS CROSSING"
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Marie's Sigh
ALT: Marie's Sigh
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Hi, I am emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to address the nicotine stains on my anti-smoking report. It’s not what you think, I just like smoking and hypocrisy.
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
David! 😂 It’s a Netflix trope of the person pensively getting ready for a tell all doc to humanize them before they reveal themselves to be out of their mind. 😅
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If I record the sounds my sputtering body makes, does it count as scicomm?
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Your commitment to field epidemiology is unmatched. 🙌
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hedy bach @hedybach.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
British Columbia probably has more lichens than Costa Rica or the Amazon. This is the Amazon of the lichen world — and we have a global responsibility for the conservation of this organismal group. wildsight.ca/2026/06/23/c...
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Conservation through the lens of lichens — an interview with lichenologist Toby Spribille
Toby Spribille was 18 years old when he first discovered a new-to-western-science species of lichen, and became hooked on lichenology. “I realized there was quite a bit of unrecognized species diver...
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Sharks can have a little Zoloft, as a treat
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights.
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Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.
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Personne dans ma bulle @pdansmabul.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Évangiles dorés d'Henri VIII",vers 980 La couleur pourpre des pages obtenue à l'aide d'un pigment végétal à base de lichen (l'orseille). Dans l'Antiquité & au M_A, l'utilisation du parchemin pourpre et de l'encre d'or était le symbole ultime du luxe, de l'autorité et du prestige impérial >ALT
Bien qu'il ait été produit en Allemagne, ce manuscrit doit son nom moderne au roi Henri VIII d'Angleterre, qui en est devenu le propriétaire quelque cinq siècles plus tard, au XVIe siècle
Aujourd'hui, il est précieusement conservé et exposé à la Morgan Library & Museum à New York
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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Am I crazy to be writing an NSF proposal when they aren’t giving any grants right now? But I’m getting close to having to close down my lab, which is so sad I feel that I have to do something
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.
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BBC requests Trump’s diary and phone logs in editing scandal lawsuit
The US president is demanding $10bn in damages from the BBC
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
After reading @blekhernia.bsky.social's great blog post on lab AI usage policy (blekhman.substack.com/p/you-need-t...), we made one in lab meeting. Feedback welcome! rilab.ucdavis.edu/ai_expectati...
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Ross-Ibarra Lab Policy on AI Usage
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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After The Rain
Lianne Steeman · After The Rain · Song · 2023
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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After The Rain
Libby McCrory · After The Rain · Song · 2026
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I’m pleased to say (as its President Elect) that @resmedia.bsky.social board of trustees agreed on Friday that the Society will stop using X (FYI @sundersays.bsky.social )
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Plecos at your local pet store are voracious algae eaters and get to a shocking 2 feet long. Just saying. 😜
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Vote for @alexlando.bsky.social for VP of the @msafungi.bsky.social #Student and #Postdoc section! Renew your membership and vote right now! Voting ands today @ 4. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @msastudents.bsky.social
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MSA Student and Postdoc Section Executive Board Election Ballot 2026-2027
Hello Student and Postdoc members! It is the time of the year where we select the new MSA Student Student and Postdoc Section. With the following link you can learn about the nominees and the positi...
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hey @msastudents.bsky.social members! There’s still time to vote for Alex Lando for VP! Get your votes in and tell a friend, whoever you vote for (Alex). 🍄 msastudents.org/msa-sps-elec...
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MSA SPS Elections! – MSA Student and Postdoc Section
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Double bubble #cantharelluscibarius
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