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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 6h

One neat thing about my grad students all picking individual species for their research us that I think of them ever time I see their critter in the field. Thankfully, my grads have all been nice folk that I enjoy the reminder. I'm a lucky mentor.

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

A winter view of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains with snow on the ground and trees

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some bee species can look very similar but be completely different behaviourally. 🐝 The Ivy Bee and the Honeybee are good examples of this. If you’re not looking closely you might not realise they are different… 🧵👇

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having my students do in-class group work to build community and connection. Tricks on me, they divvied up the questions and worked silently and individually anyway. 😭

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Thomas Cullen @thomascullen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With all the news of museums being closed and/or defunded, I feel the message of our paper on the importance of natural history research (and the collections housing those specimens) is just as relevant (or more) today as it was when it was published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our next step in this project is a bibliography of avian type publications. It's incomplete, but 1120+ refs to 210+ collections is a good starting point! Searchable by institution, country, city. albnd.github.io/bird_types/ #Ornithology #Taxonomy

albnd.github.io

Bird Type Specimen Bibliography — Directory of Collections

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists are always much more willing to hold violent students accountable that university administrators. And their call out of the “educational interventions” used by schools to left rapists off the hook is a must-read.

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Tofte @tofte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I finished my first jewelry pieces!

Glass pendant of a monstera leaf in shades of green

Glass earrings of monstera leaves in shades of green

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Please share! We're looking for an entomologist to join our dept.! I'm excited as it's broadly advertised to find someone who can build a stellar teaching program w/research on insect ecology. Deadline is tight (end of Oct.). Read more & apply at jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/235...

Flyer that says:

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY
AND PLANT PATHOLOGY

We're hiring!

The Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology is seeking applications for a nine-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Insect Ecology (60% teaching/40% research). The position will play a central role in the department’s undergraduate curriculum, including ENT 201: Insects and People, as well as additional undergraduate and graduate courses. The position also provides an opportunity to build a nationally recognized research program in insect ecology, secure external funding, and mentor undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead instruction for ENT 201: Insects and People and teach additional courses using effective, technology-enhanced approaches. Mentor undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs.

Establish a nationally recognized, externally funded research program in insect ecology (e.g., behavior, plant–insect interactions, community ecology, conservation, or global change biology). Publish in peer-reviewed journals and engage students in research.

Contribute to departmental, college, and university service, engage with scientific societies, review manuscripts and grant proposals, and participate in outreach.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

Demonstrated teaching experience at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.

Expertise in one or more areas of insect ecology (e.g., IPM, invasive species, pollination biology, vector ecology, trophic interactions, global change, or molecular/community ecology).

Ph.D. in Entomology or a related field, with a proven publication and funding track record (as PI/Co-PI or lead author).

JOIN OUR TEAM!

For more information and to submit your application, please visit:
https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/234875

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Sarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🧪🚨ATTENTION: TENURE TRACK JOB POSTINGS!🚨Come work with me in Buffalo! We are hiring TWO TT faculty lines: -Physical/Analytical Chemistry -Genetics/Microbiology Biologist Please Share!! 1/7

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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Need a #mosquito taxonomist to weigh in on the existence of Culex cancer. #entomology #culex

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#AcademicChatter Is there a site that consolidates academic job openings in Europe? Higheredjobs.com is nice, but mainly North America jobs.

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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🗃️ Some of us have been saying this for awhile (like Lindsay and OP). It’s simple. Give faculty time and resources to teach, per basic pedagogy practices, no innovation needed. It’s a matter of prioritizing this as necessary for the university to do well as an institution of higher learning.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shana tova! I was maybe overgenerous on the raisins.

A braided raisin challah crown on a breadboard.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

May this year be sweeter and kinder than the last.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Another reason a business model will never be appropriate for #HigherEd : had to update a lecture for tomorrow (base slides and concept already done) spent 3 hrs reworking the lecture and getting it ADA compliant... for a 1 hr lecture. Class is IN my speciality and been writing lectures for 20 yrs.

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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We're advertising for a field crops entomologist who will lead extension & research on soybean, sweetpotato, & peanut in North Carolina. I'm excited to have a new future colleague!!! 🥳 To see the description + apply, please use the link below. Please share! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/234...

A red and metallic blue sweetpotato weevil sits on a sandy background. It is elongate and ant-like, with sausage-like antennae.

A black peanutworm moth with a pale orange saddle sits on a white background.

A velvety gray stem borer longhorn sits on a green leaf. Its antennae are striped black and gray.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

ADL has become a hate organization

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

so democratic socialism is good

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It often feels like the modern understanding of indigeneity and tribal life is stuck in the 19th century so as a reference point: my hapū are currently tracking h5n1, giving us updates on seabird migrations, and providing biosecurity advice and contact numbers.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

yesterday, jonathan greenblatt of the ADL claimed 85% of jews support israel. it was a claim that was so obviously bogus on its face, but then completely blown out of the water when the most jewish district in the country picked a progressive jew over a pro-israel one. don’t tell us what we believe.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

NY-10 is, according to the Jewish Electorate Institute, the second most Jewish Congressional district in the US. (www.jewishelectorateinstitute.org/p6611) It voted overwhelmingly for a candidate who says Israel is committing genocide. That should challenge assumptions about what American Jews want.

jewishelectorateinstitute.org

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

a screenshot of a nyt opinion piece titled: we have to stop freaking out about a.i.
published june 22, 2026 at 5am et

the image accompanying it is a (presumably ai generated) cartoon of a white bald man lying in bed terrified of pixel monsters lurking under his bed

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Madeline G. Eppley, PhD @madeline-eppley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Although my poster only had space for some of the pop gen results, the rest is available as a preprint! We surveyed wild eastern oyster genomics from 40 pops across thousands of miles of seascape to characterize genetic structure, adaptive loci, structural variants, and human mediated impacts. 🦪🌊

biorxiv.org

Range-wide genetic population structure and environmental adaptation in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) provides insight for aquaculture

Selective breeding in aquaculture is necessary to establish food security and meet demand for sustainably produced protein. An informed selective breeding program requires understanding how population...

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hey, Red! Milwaukee Mining Bee came to sit with me a while 🌿🐝 #invertebrates

Close up of a small bee with black face and legs and rust coloured fuzzy back standing on the arm of a cedar deck chair. One of its back legs has a dusting of yellow pollen on it.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Great electrofishing workshop for my summer stream ecology course kindly provided by a colleague!

Four people electrofishing in a river just below a dam.

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

FYI avoid Springer Nature as much as possible. It's pioneering new avenues for slop, such as this book, translated with AI: link.springer.com/book/10.1007.... Complete with an AI cover, which of course is nonsense. Also includes a 4 page chapter on millipedes which includes a misidentified photo.

Cover image of book "The invisible language of nature" which includes an AI illustration of an anatomically incorrect insect and weird looking flowers.

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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

From the CEO of AAAS: “If this rule becomes final, Americans' hopes for future cures, national security and economic strength will rely on the scientific sensibilities of the nation's chief bureaucrat. Alzheimer's disease will not be cured by a budget analyst from either political party.”

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

forms.gle

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Finally! After 9 years as Department Chair, scrabbling and scrounging for resources, I have managed to upgrade the department to having BINOCULAR compound microscopes for all our labs. Can't believe it took that long. The Leeuwenhoek era is FINALLY over! Now I can stop being chair.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

NOW: I’m outside the Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ where protesters are supporting detainees inside who are on a hunger and labor strike because of inhumane treatment. Follow this thread for updates.

press conference with activists and congressman jerry nadler

congressman dan goldman leaving delaney hall

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Dexter Patterson aka Wisco Birder @wiscobirder.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Happy Black Birders Week! 🫶🏾

A smiling man stands outside in front of green shrubs and a red house, pointing down at his white “Black Birders Week” t-shirt that reads “We Bird. We Belong.” He is wearing a green hat with a bird design, a wedding ring, and posing in a sunny backyard garden setting.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

My campus just had to make across-the-board 7% budget cuts (after making cuts last year as well) yet UMS found $1.39 million for a 2-year contract with OpenAI.

themainemonitor.org

Maine public universities nears $1.39M deal for systemwide AI tool

The two-year contract will cost about $1.39 million and serve an estimated 25,200 students and 5,600 employees, likely starting in July.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My students do a sci comm project where they take an idea from class and come up with a communication piece to explain the topic to non-scientists. Winner for "wow factor" from aquatic #entomology: #macroinvert nails! Trying to convince her there's a market for these.

A red press-on nail with a Nigronia serricornis 3-d gel larva on top. It's incredibly realistic.

A pink press-on nail with a Notonecta (backswimmer) on it.

A red-tipped pink press-on nail with a realistic Helicopsyche case on it.

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Robin Heinen @robinheinennl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We have been doing quite some chemodiversity work in recent years, but often focus on the plot-level environment. However, we also have a pretty neat stock-garden of Tansy lines, where last summer we did an intensive sampling (17 events) of plant growth and insect colonization. (1/2)

Image displaying 120 independent Tansy plant lines, planted in a 6 x 20 grid formation

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I tell my students that an important part of good communication is to avoid misleading terms and jargon. Therefore, from now: "capitalism" => "profiteering" "socialism" => "community-centered governance." That way people actually understand the difference.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Here’s another bee! The Blue Mason Bee (Osmia caerulescens). The males seem to be territorial and this one has claimed the herb garden as his. He chases away any other insects that try to land there!

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Same energy:

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Well this was not an angle on entomophagy (insect eating) that I expected biblicalprotein.com/product/holy...

Biblical energy bar: Holy Locust. Reviving a lost biblical food. Bible Quote: "and his meat was locust and wild honey." They are wrapped in a brown wrapper with a blue locust on it.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My Uni buys a book in honor of each Academic Achievement Award winner. One award winner from our department had taken #entomology with me because she was afraid of insects; mastered her fear and the class. They got the perfect book in her honor: A Secret Life of Flies by @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This semester I developed and taught a course on applied population genomics. Lab activities proceed from the basics of the command line and Git to variant calling with workflow managers and a suite of downstream analyses (e.g., ADMIXTURE). All materials can be found here: elinck.org/genomics_eco...

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Any administrators who claim faculty only work 10 months per year because they have a 10 month contract are lying to themselves.

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Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him) @nigronia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Robin on her nest Me projecting Hitchcock's Birds So she won't be bored Robin on her nest House painting will have to wait Nest on my ladder

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