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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 · 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 · 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 · 28/05/2026

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 · 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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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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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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 07/09/2025

Insects from morning till dusk next Saturday, 13 September in La Crosse, Wisconsin! Join me for an insect walk at Myrick Park from 10am till noon (part of a BioBlitz), then at Pearl Street Books at 6pm for insects, insect stories, and Q&A. I'd love to see you.

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Is your hobby or hidden talent a distraction from your science, or could they augment each other? You can probably guess where my thoughts gravitate: drive.google.com/file/d/1YaoE...

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It isn't difficult to see that cutting science funding will make us globally weaker and dangerously more ignorant. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Join me at Boswell Books for a celebration of insects and how they affect our lives. It's free! I will be talking on the eve of 11 June... and would love to see you there.

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If you happen to be checking out a book at the La Crosse, Wisconsin Public Library on Monday, I will be talking about material featured in my book The Insect Epiphany at 10am! www.lacrosselibrary.org/event/monday...

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Entomology... coming to a La Crosse, Wisconsin classroom near you.

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Danielle Hudson, with the first Colletes inaequalis male of the season (in La Crosse, Wisconsin)... circling and circling, with no females daring to emerge this early. At least he has Danielle.

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Rivyn designed a flag for our home! Every element symbolizes something poignant and of historical relevance.

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Steven Kutcher brings the arachno-fear to May Berenbaum's 42nd annual Insect Fear Film Fest!

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Flanked on all sides by entomophiles, I celebrated this weekend with May Berenbaum's 42nd annual INSECT FEAR FILM FEST! Featured guest: Hollywood arthropod wrangler, Steven Kutcher. Cultural entomology has reached new arachnid heights in this 42nd year of fear (and love).

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

25 ways... drive.google.com/file/d/1C9Fd...

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If you happen to be in La Crosse, Wisconsin on 10 January, please consider joining me for a presentation about sleeping insects while you gobble some food!

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Andrew Bradford triumphantly returns to complete his master's... about collections and curating an insect collection for research and educational purposes. Andrew helped to resurrect a dilapidated, abandoned insect collection into one that is now a valuable and dynamic resource.

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Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Danielle Hudson, bee biologist, conservationist, and superb Pupating Lab member shall hence forth be titled Master! Danielle has been conducting research to figure out exactly which flowering plants are being pollinated by an array of solitary ground nesting bees.

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