Celebrate the positive when it comes along:
Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papu
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪
EntSoc's Chrysalis Fund gives out grants to K-12 educators for insect-themed projects. Applications due June 1st.
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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This was lovely and made me cry.
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.
I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
Dipterology has been handed a major blow: as a result of the Federal Gov.'s Work Force Adjustment Program, research on Diptera (true flies) at the Canadian National Collection, a hub of excellence in this field, is being discontinued
Please sign the letter to support our fly friends & colleagues! ❤️
An invasive insect called the rice delphacid was a major problem for some farmers in 2025. With low prices for their crop and a high cost of doing business, many are wondering how they’ll make a profit in 2026.
Question for Entomology curators: what printers are you using these days for archival specimen labels?
Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.
This is not what the problem is. We have many excellent, talented, engaging science communicators.
Their reach is deliberately truncated by the social media companies, and billionaire-owned news outlets do not platform them.
I was also confused! Missed this life update in the transition to bluesky!
Follow up fun fact: Roses have prickles not thorns, they pop right off because they don't have any vascular tissue, unlike thorns.
Rose stem covered in prickles
Rose stem covered in prickles
Two rose stems covered in prickles on a white background
We've had quite a few samples of roses coming into the lab showing symptoms of Rose Rosette Disease. Symptoms vary by cultivar, but overgrowth of prickles is one of them.
The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight. n.pr/4qeQhWS
This rules
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Fundamentally, Republicans are trying to bring forms of slavery back.
This is so good!
Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
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This joke is in every dang insect ID thread I've ever seen
I figured he was a hymenopteran which is why is middle name is Haploid.
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A poster saying "Wanted: Robber flies, Promachus and Allies. Wanted: freshly caught specimens of Promachus or other large robber flies for DNA extraction. Contact Teagan Mulford at teaganmulford@gmail.com with any questions or leads. Thank you! PC: Steve Collins"
Tired of doom scrolling? Want to help a PhD student out? Check your collection for Promachus (and friends) and I'll be forever indebted! If you need an excuse to get outside and go collecting this weekend, this is it! #Asilidae #Diptera
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.
And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Two new simple guides to growing and harvesting vegetables (and other specialty crops) for farmers in the Northeast US.
Written by small/mid-sized farmers for farmers and published by NE SARE. Emphasis on organic practices, but useful to anyone.
There's a person on inaturalist identifying Scyphozoa with the username "readyforthisjelly" and that's just... very good.
maybe I'm just an awesome grandpa photographer
A photograph of a scale on a table.
Am I the only field scientist who hates every scale they've ever used??
I want one that can handle abuse, doesn't weigh a ton, doesn't have a masthead to catch the wind, and is precise to 1g and ~10 kg aaaaaaand ideally has a rechargeable battery. Does that exist?
this is very close to being the best selling item ever in the squid shop, and it's not even about a squid
help my bee reach the top lmao
