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@stevetypesstuff.bsky.social
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Ants, fossils, beer, macro photography. Drone mapping & GIS. Science PhD. Bambu Labs P1S. He/him, will also respond to “Oi you!”. AuADHD - if I seem over familiar in posts etc. that is probably why. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A gallery of Pseudomyrmex, the elongate twig ants:
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Pseudomyrmex - Alex Wild
is a largely tropical genus of elongate ants, usually arboreal, found throughout the warmer regions of the New World. Several Central American species have evolved complex and specialized relationship...
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A parasitic Apocephalus ant-decapitating fly closes in on her target, a Camponotus chromaiodes carpenter ant. Sand Ridge State Forest, Illinois.
Macro photo of a large black and red ant, slightly backlight, standing with antennae raised as a small black and yellow striped fly approaches from the right.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fall deeply in love with the vertical archive that is peat, and the incredible life it supports. If you love bogs, moss, and all things peaty, share your thoughts with me!
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ooh the first of this year’s #chili crop have dried! Var. ‘Big Devil’ ~2000 SHU they are described as jalapeno-like. I’ve tasted one and it is warm and smokey. Not many fruits this year but I’m going to try over wintering the plants to get ahead next year. Next pair in the greenhouse to dry.
Two dark red, dried chillies sit on my hand.Two large chilled hang from the greenhouse roof to dry above Drosera binata.
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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#TDWG2026 presenting (virtually) this morning (local time in Oslo) on tool for automated transcription of digitized insect specimen labels - using machine learning to extract, transcribe + itemize data into Darwin Core fields - we call it Labellum - slides at @figshare.com doi.org/10.25573/dat...
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Jitte @jittebug.nl · 23/09/2026
Just a blur and a butt, but at least we're sure we found some Strongylognathus testaceus in a Tetramorium nest last weekend! #Myrmecology
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What was your first computer growing up? Zenith Z 171. First person on my BSc to have a PC in student accom. Still used it during my PhD. IBM compatible. Ran a pirate copy of ‘AsEasyAs 123’ spreadsheets. * booted from 5.25” floppy 256Kb RAM - 128Kb as virtual drive. (Not Gb, not Mb, that’s Kb!
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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773
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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI
The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...
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ecoleg sazer @ecologycymru.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Poor phone photo through window of tiny spider with ghost eyes pattern on abdomen. Gower, SW Wales is it possible to ID it? (It’s gone now so I can’t measure it). @britishspiders.bsky.social
Small upside down spider. Relatively long thin brownish kegs, black, shiny round abdomen with white pattern.
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t know if any #fungi folk can ID these little guys as they are not opened but they were all over a rotting log above Cheddar Gorge this week. Wee crusty little things! About 8mm across but you can see the scale from the moss. Maybe @lukaslarge.bsky.social would know?
A number of spherical cream-coloured fungi with a bumpy texture, emerging from a mossy bed on a rotting log.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The magic of an Irish rainforest
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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For all autistic freshers and returning autistic college students, do listen if you get a chance!
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Face to face with an Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae).
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nearly #HamOrJam but we didn’t have ham in our cream tea… so just jam! I put some jam on the pot lid & held it in front of the wasp as she circled our plates. She followed it back to the tray. I think she’s Vespula vulgaris. Video of her enjoying the jam. #WaspLove @waspwoman.bsky.social
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
An army ant worker plugs a hole in the trail using her own body, allowing her sisters to run more efficiciently on their way to the raiding front. Amazonian Ecuador.
Macro photo of a small, dull black and orange ant spanning a hole in a dead brown leaf, with two larger ants running over her.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ah, I’ve been waiting for this…
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oops!
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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A Hornet Vespa crabro nest with a one-way system! @rspb Brading Marshes, Isle of Wight this evening. Thanks to the local birders who let me know about this fascinating nest @waspwoman.bsky.social
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ltwlauren🤸‍♀️❤️🎶🎨🐾 @ltwlauren.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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RogerWagnerMDPhD @rogerwagnermdphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Tube #MedSky #UKSky
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
dear men: having healthy views on gender and all the expectations that come with it is hot, actually
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Educating haters (again)
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Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Five years back in Berlin #4a: Finding the small and mighty Most species are <5 mm. But small ≠ unimportant: ants outweigh all wild birds + mammals and spiders eat as much prey as humans meat/fish: ~400–800 Mt per /lyear. Meet EntoSieve for size sorting onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A year ago a small boy at #Latitude festival asked “When was the first animal?” Here is are some potential answers! @helenczerski.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social #evolution #phylogeny #fossils
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stopped for coffee on the motorway and was joined by a small #fly. Maybe 5mm long, covered in setae (hairs). I think that it is one of the #Psychodinae or drain #flies. It’s so fluffy! And look at those antennae. #diptera #entomology #insects iPhone photo so a bit blurred.
A small fly with hairy edges to its wings. Lovey hairy antennae.
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favourite film that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Sigourney Weaver as Ripley: 'Nuke from Orbit'
ALT: Sigourney Weaver as Ripley: 'Nuke from Orbit'
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DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lots of Diptera 'good stuff' coming up in October from those nice people at @biologicalrecording.co.uk. The days are getting colder and the nights are drawing in so let's get prepped ready for next year! dipterists.org.uk/events/robbe... dipterists.org.uk/events/surve... @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The desert field ant Formica perpilosa is a common insect in washes and riparian areas of southwestern North America. Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas.
Macro photo of two ants with red heads an thoraces and black abdomens facing each other, the one at the back slightly larger, its mandibles touching the head of the other, on a sandy substrate.
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yellow dung fly says “WOOHOO!”
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Polyrhachis trapezoidea here to teach you geometry with its thorax.
Macro photograph of a golden spiny ant walking towards us on a pure white background.
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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🔬 Micrographia illustrata London, Printed for the author, 1771. [Source]
Microscope illustration from historical archives
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🦋 As #Ento26 at @cardiffuni.bsky.social draws to a close, we'd like to thank all delegates, speakers, exhibitors, sponsors, volunteers and organisers for making this year's conference such a huge success. Hope to see you for #Ento27, 7 – 9 Sept 2027, at @lancasteruni.bsky.social! buff.ly/qWxC4FT
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Thank You for Coming and See You Next Year!
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Scored these beautiful pieces of art by the very talented and fun Lizzie Harper @lizzie-harper.bsky.social at #Ento26! Be sure to visit her booth for lots of other insect art! 🐜🐝🦋🐞🪲🪰🪳🦗🦟
Ant art by Lizzie Harper
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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great label generation tool presented by Ian Engelbrecht at SPNHC - developed through South African National Science Collection Facility - labels.nscf.org.za - it’s free + labels are customizable + makes nicely standardized labels + works best with larger screens
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The last plenary for #Ento26 will be up soon - Warm welcome to Prof. Seirian Sumner, University College London with a talk on The World of Wasps: from science to sci-com and back again 🐝 Don't miss the plenary talks! Read more about our plenary speakers 🔽 buff.ly/7Wr4D4N
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Welcome the final Plenary of Ento26 - Wasp Prof, Seirian Sumner!
Professor Seirian Sumner is a behavioural ecologist at UCL whose research explores insect behaviour, social evolution and ecology, with a particular focus on wasps. A passionate science communicator, she is co-founder of the Big Wasp Survey and Soapbox Science, and works to improve public understanding and appreciation of these often-misunderstood insects.
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyone who was at the #ento26 @royentsoc.bsky.social dinner will recognise that @flygirlnhm.bsky.social could have used this figure in her talk🤣 It could also have been titled “Steve dancing” but I’d only had a couple of glasses of wine, so everyone was spared that!
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Behind the scenes at the National Museum of Wales #entomology collections. I was impressed by a whole drawer of beautiful pinned micro #Lepidoptera… until I read the label and the full horror was revealed! #ento26 @royentsoc.bsky.social
A whole entomology drawer of micro Lepidoptera (tiny brown moths). Beautifully arranged.The label reads “BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA Unidentified”
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lab freezer alarm
There is a pencil with a drop of blood and the text reads “Write a horror story using only 3 words”
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
- Harrison here! I’ve found a new bat! - Cool! What’s it like? - Well it’s got large ears, it’s very big and it kind of looks like a dog. - Sounds amazing! I wonder what those imaginative bat taxonomists will call it? - …
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A plenary from @corriemoreau.bsky.social on day 2 of #ento26. Outstanding research and a dozen papers to go and read in detail. @royentsoc.bsky.social
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well that’s true creativity. A shirt (even one with ants on it) is not going to compete with that!
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Melvin Opolka @melvinopolka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One of the photos I took during the macro photography workshop led by @alexwild.bsky.social as part of the IUSSI in Freiburg. Even though it’s not an ant, I still really like it!
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AIM @aim-mirmecologia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📄 Our AIM partners, Matvey Logachev and Paco Alarcón, participated in a study that revealed an increase in the known presence of Messor erwini in the provinces of Córdoba and Málaga, as well as providing new records in Granada.
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Following @yamnin.bsky.social’s spectacular plenary at #ento26 @royentsoc.bsky.social I am now stuck with an unfortunate earworm due to #LoveAMaggot. In my head it is a constant “Baby fly, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo” Remarkable results of maggot therapy for patients with non-healing wounds.
My hand holds a ‘teabag’ containing young common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) larvae or maggots, used in medical treatment of non-healing wounds such as infected ulcers.
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That’s the #ento26 accommodation sorted! It turns out that there is a tiny campsite next to the University so I’m parked and snug!
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 07/09/2026
Breaking News! Code: Hot! The Nino 3.4 SST-anomaly is rising fast, now at 2.89°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. The all-time daily peak (3.03°C, Nov. 19, 2015) is within reach in a few days. The Climate 8-Ball is sober, hasn't had a drink, waiting for the Jack of Hearts.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
assassin progress video
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Steve @stevetypesstuff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seen on a #Goth ‘s car in #Whitby… if you see this, you know who you are! #neurodiversity #ADHD
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Imagine having a giant parasitic crab latched on under your chin that steals food every time you try to eat. Such is life for this Lasius fuliginosus ant with an Antennophorus mite. (Germany)
Macro photograph in side view of a shiny, jet black ant running along a stick with a big lump under its head, small legs curling up around the sides.
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The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 04/09/2026
Up now!
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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...
Bee trajectories in agricultural landscape and two photon microscope for in-vivo calcium activity imaging.
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