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Barrett Klein

@pupating.bsky.social
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Entomologist and entomo-artist reveling in cultural entomology, sleep research, and the intersection of science and art

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Aldo Leopold Foundation has asked me to give an online talk and all are invited! (Thursday 8 October) events.zoom.us/ejl/Au822v9O...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bre Harris has created a podcast devoted to exploring questions about nature. She invited me to participate in her first episode! open.spotify.com/show/0xhsHZ6...
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The Wild Quiet
Podcast · Bre Harris · The Wild Quiet is a podcast about nature—and our place within it. Host Bre Harris follows her curiosity into conversations with scientists, gardeners, writers, farmers, artists,...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please join me for a virtual visit to the NJ Butterfly Club! This Tuesday, I will talk about how insects affect human culture... and have throughout our history as a species. Can register through njbutterflies.org us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Are you a food scientist? Consider applying to UWL! wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Com...
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Assistant Professor - Biology Food Science
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Position Title: Assistant Professor - Bio...
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Chris Jernigan @chrisjernigan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Less than one week to apply! Please reach out if you are interested!
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What some call "unused land" is often the last safe haven for countless living creatures. Wetlands are not empty spaces waiting to be developed. They are nurseries for birds, natural water filters, flood defenses, and wildlife habitats that cannot be replaced once lost.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
William Stobb, poet and fellow UWL professor, recorded a conversation with me for the latest issue of Conduit, a literary journal. Snippet here: www.conduit.org/barrett-klei...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDZg... My mom (Karen Anne Klein) drew sleeping ducks--showing that when sleeping in a group, those on the periphery do so with one eye open, and that eye is facing away from the group (alert for danger). See 15 min 0 sec.
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The 13 Animals With The Most Extreme Sleep Behaviours
YouTube video by Animalogic
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'll be giving a talk in Ohio about cultural entomology: www.arcofappalachia.org/culturalento... If you would like to join a three-day workshop about insects, there are still 5 open spots! www.arcofappalachia.org/insectepiphany
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@rno Klein has not only published the most comfortable, optimized keyboard layout ever created ("Engram"), but is the first person I am aware of to publish his Halloween costume as supplemental materials! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I joined Joe Gardener to spread the word about our insect allies! joegardener.com/podcast/how-...
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470-How Insect Allies Shape Human Culture - joegardener® | Organic Gardening Like a Pro
To discuss how insect allies are important partners in gardens and elsewhere, joining me this week is entomologist and artist Barrett Klein.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Deepanjana and Arno Klein produced the most beautiful and scholarly work celebrating the Ellora Cave Temple site in India. The book is, again, glowingly reviewed (in Take On Art)!
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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The highlight of today's butterfly transect was ... a cranefly! This is the fabulous Wasp-banded Comb-horn, Ctenophora flaveolata. I've been lucky enough to see this species several times over the years, and each one is equally stunning 😍
A large cranefly with a black-and-yellow striped body, presumably mimicking a wasp. Photographed on a path surface in Wendover Woods, Buckinghamshire.
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Nature @nature.com · 29/04/2026
These highly sentient creatures have weak protections for their well-being. That must change. go.nature.com/48vuHGw
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Cephalopods deserve higher welfare standards in research
These highly sentient creatures have weak protections for their well-being. That must change.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
For stories about human-insect interactions, feel free to join me this Sunday in La Crosse!
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Myrmecophily (love of ants) is back at the Bruce Museum! Please join as I give a talk at 2pm this Sunday about how ants (and other insects) have affected our lives and our cultures throughout history. (Free with admission; registration recommended.) brucemuseum.org/events/exper...
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Experiences at the Bruce: Discussion with Barrett Klein, author of The Insect Epiphany - The Bruce Museum
The Bruce is a world-class family-friendly museum of art and science in Greenwich, CT. Interactive exhibits for curious minds of all ages.
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Simon Knott @sjbknott.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Two Stylops sp. males today in Bengeo garden. Males live for only few hours seeking out females on their Andrena bee hosts & so are very rarely observed. @hans-pohl.bsky.social @vannabartlett.bsky.social #Strepsiptera
Stylops sp. male x2
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It’s me!
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
My mom's (Karen Anne Klein's) art graces the cover of the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience! "The cover portrays the brighter phase of this [infraslow brain] rhythm in a panther chameleon sleeping at night." www.nature.com/neuro/volume...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
High and Just-As-High are two mysterious Asgardian informants in Valhalla. After reading O'Connor's "Asgardians," Rivyn and I teamed up with Arno and Ellora Klein to create our own masked versions of these two Nordic enigmas. There is a third, called "Third," and his marionette will come later.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Declining birthrates come with huge benefits for people and the planet. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...
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Opinion | Are Declining Birthrates Really a Problem?
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Cower in the shadow of GROTTU -- and join me for a presentation about ants and other insects... and how they affect human culture! The Bruce Museum, now on Tuesday at 10:30 am.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
While reading Theodore Gray's "The Elements" together, Rivyn decided to create a periodic table of the elements, interpreting each of the 118 known elements that make up matter in the universe. He now unveils his "Periodic Box of the Modeled Elements." Details: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The grand premier of Rivyn's "Periodic Box of the Modeled Elements" for his 5th grade class! Months in the making, Rivyn interpreted each of the 118 known elements that make up matter in the universe. Close ups to come!
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I am so excited to give a talk on 22 February to complement The Bruce Museum's "ANTS: Tiny Creatures, Big Lives" exhibit. My super-talented friend Sean Murtha is an artist and exhibit-maker who has helped to make the Ants exhibit come to life. Join me if you can! brucemuseum.org/events/exper...
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Experiences at the Bruce: Discussion with Barrett Klein, author of The Insect Epiphany - The Bruce Museum
The Bruce is a world-class family-friendly museum of art and science in Greenwich, CT. Interactive exhibits for curious minds of all ages.
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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso...
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The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs
My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced
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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced. 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #visualscicomm #sciviz #dinosaurs alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
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The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs
My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I enjoyed giving a talk about insects and human culture to the fine folks at Morbid Anatomy last night. If you haven't explored the writings of Morbid Anatomy's founder, Joanna Ebenstein, I recommend exploring: www.morbidanatomy.org/press.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
plant literature always sends a chill down my spine, like what if this is what WE sound like to non-entomologists? Could something as ordinary and harmless as the beetle taxonomist be this violently inscrutable??
snippet from Wendy B. Zomlefer's 1994 treatise on Tofieldiaceae of the SE United States, Harvard Papers on Botany. She notes that you can recognize the anthers of Tofieldiaceae because they have a "terete apical appendage, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, introrse [latrorse]; pollen grains ellipsoid, 2 sulcate, reticulate." It just goes on like this.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One week till Morbid Anatomy: www.morbidanatomy.org/events-ticke...
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Free Online Talk · The Insect Epiphany: How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human Culture with Professor of Entomology and Animal Behavior and Entomo-Artist Barrett Klein — Morbid Anatomy
Monday, December 15, 2025 7pm ET (NYC time) Free! RSVP with email at checkout PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE . ...
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Look at this amazing amblypygid mom who brought all her babies to the jungle bridge building with us!
Arachnid with babies on abdomen
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Danielle Hudson officially and triumphantly defended her master's thesis: "Pollination behavior of solitary ground-nesting bees in Wisconsin’s Driftless and beyond." Danielle is an ambassador for invertebrate conservation, spreading the word about our local, native pollinators. Congratulations!
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
For all of those entomologists wondering what book Dr. Frankenstein is holding up in Guillermo del Toro's new cinematic masterpiece: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Scientists' Call on Congress to Commit to Preventing Extinction, Safeguarding the ESA | Center for Conservation Innovation
Join this scientists' letter calling on Congress to commit to protecting species threatened with extinction by upholding the ESA and the science-based framework that underpins it.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Ready for an entomo-doubleheader deluxe at Daedalus Books? The great Peter Kuper and I will be giving talks about our insect-centered books (Insectopolis & The Insect Epiphany) and doodling in books afterwards. All are welcome to join the fun on 10 November in Portland, Oregon!
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The Sericulturist! Raising silkworm moths from eggs this summer, my body partially transformed into the mulberry branches on which they feed, and was promptly overtaken by voracious Bombyx mori caterpillars -- spinning their silk cocoons, then eclosing into winged, but flightless adults.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
NO KINGS, in Ferndale, Michigan.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The mama and I know how to spend a Saturday afternoon in Ferndale, Michigan. Protesting!
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I will be giving a talk about sleeping insects as part of the Brain and Behavior series in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan. Join if you can! It will take place on October 21 at 12:00 PM in East Hall, room 4464. medicine.umich.edu/dept/michiga...
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Sleeping in a Society of Honey Bees: The Tale of a Sleep-Deprived Dancer and Her Unwitting Followers, and the Search for Insect Dreams | Michigan Neuroscience Institute | Michigan Medicine
Foragers of western honey bees (Apis mellifera) famously exhibit waggle dances capable of advertising the destination of a food source to nest mates. When restricted of sleep, a forager dances, but th...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I will have the grand pleasure of joining Tracey Gallup for a double-header book celebration at Book Beat in Oak Park, Michigan on October 19th from 5-8pm. Expect some epic insect tales! www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
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The Book Beat
A new post was just added to the Book Beat website and newsletter.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
If Cranbrook Science Center is within reach, join me on Friday eve for a talk (and book signing) about insects and how they affect human culture! science.cranbrook.edu/visit/events...
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Ignite Your Curiosity
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I've long marveled at and been stumped by those wacky head extensions of treehoppers. This careful research exposes a convincing reason (detect electric fields of enemies) to sport such burdens: www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When humor and consequential horror collide -- Peter Kuper's latest masterwork: www.fantagraphics.com/products/wis...
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Wish We Weren't Here: Postcards From the Apocalypse
New York Times and Rolling Stone cartoonist Peter Kuper addresses climate change and our oligarchical future in an all-new graphic novel / political cartoon hybrid. 45 years after his first political ...
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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"The greatest danger to our future is apathy. ... What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Vale Jane Goodall (1934-2025).
Jane Goodall in a tall rainforest looking up into the canopy with binoculars in her hands.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It's difficult to imagine a world without Jane Goodall. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4...
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Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jobs! Would anyone like to be a professor of cell biology or of anatomy & physiology at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse? wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Com... wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Com...
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Assistant Professor - Cell Biology
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Position Title: Assistant Professor - Cel...
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Go Maydianne Andrade! She's a superstar. (And not only because she studies black widow spider mating behavior.) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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It’s not wokeness — it’s human rights
Maydianne Andrade focuses on action and support, not guilt, when helping people to recognize biases and identify ways to change unfair outcomes.
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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Any food scientists looking for a tenure track position? wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Com...
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Assistant Professor - Food Science
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Position Title: Assistant Professor - Foo...
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