Codey Mathis

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Science knows of 21,000 bee species. There are likely thousands more A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

Most bee folks are used to saying there are about 20,000 bee species in the world, but this new study estimates that number of more like 25,000!

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Dissertation defense advertisement for Codey Mathis. Dissertation is titled "Assessing the impact of floral resources and vertical stratification on insect behavior and biases of common trapping methodologies for insect communities". Defense is scheduled for Wednesday, January 28th, from 10-11am Eastern time at Penn State and on Zoom. Top left image is Codey holding a bunch of ropes that have gotten tangled and botom right image is Codey sitting in the middle of one of her research plots holding her late beagle Remus.

I'm defending my dissertation next Wednesday, EST. I'll record it on Zoom, but also if folks are interested in the Zoom link, please DM me 🙂 Thank you to everyone who supported me through this journey. I currently have no plans post-graduation, but no matter what I'm excited for these next steps!

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Me whenever I "check in with the outside world" for the last month, horse blinders on to focus on dissertation

A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Amber Glenn wearing her gold medal after winning the US National Championship Women’s Singles Competition. She is dressed in a black short sequined gown and proudly holding a progress pride flag behind her. There is a gaggle of photographers in front of her.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

I would vote for you

🧪🌎❤️👇

Congrats: You are sent to the bug planet.

If you are in line for the bug portal, STAY IN LINE!

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I would like the good people at @skypeascientist.bsky.social to know that my marine-biology-obsessed 11 year old starting texting #squidfacts yesterday and it has literally made her whole month

She reads every fact out loud, I know more about squids now than I every thought humanly possible

Not me about to tattoo what the difference between i.e., and e.g., are on my hands.

I literally check this multiple times daily during dissertation writing. I'm not sure why my brain will not soak in this particular thing.

But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.

-Samwise Gamgee to Frodo Baggins when things looked bleak, JRR Tolkein

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why.

It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened.

And word is some of the survivors of the Brown Uni shooting also survived mass shootings at their high schools. :/

one of my besties has been just hanging out with me the last few days b/c I'm struggling to function post-conferences and my husband has to work LOL it do be that way sometimes. Ain't no issues functioning when you got that parallel bean!

"undiagnosed with anything" doing some heavy lifting

"AHDH" bb I love you big same

From left to right: Bombus bimaculatus female, Syrphidae fly (Probably Mallota sp.), and Bombus impatiens female

One of these things is not like the other!

Two australian shepherds, background is a black tri 3 year old named Stella, foreground is a 4 month blue merle named Peopercorn.

Codey in the foreground with fancy hat on to protect from the sun, pooter around neck, and a beautiful drainage area in a SE Arizona mountain in the background.

Me with a male chaco golden knee tarantula on my face during the 2025 PA Special Olympics where I volunteered and showed participants and their families how cool bugs are. Also prominently featured is my two Pokemon tattoos - vulpix and shiny party hat wurmple.

New intro who dis? Hullo my name is Codey, I'm interested in forest biodiversity, management, and conservation. I'm finishing up my Doctorate in Entomology at Penn State in the spring and will be looking for employment in this wild timeline. I love pokemon, hiking, and my dogs. AMA

that joke is such a deep cut

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Sometimes, spending 5 hours getting the aesthetic of your graphs just right and trouble shooting dodges, geom_text in the strip plot but with alpha=0.7 background (not changing the actual font of the text), manual colors, and adding in axis breaks is just

Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)

Fish have committed credit card fraud

Drawing of a very shiny praying mantis. It has chunky, shiny forearms and is mostly green and red.

A close up of the drawing, showing the metallic shine on the mantis' green and blue forearm.

Earlier this year I drew this magnificent Metallyticus splendidus. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. That's all.

I think this is a bot tbh. It scraped your blog post and saw that you mentioned politics and thinks you're trying to make claims about Chinese politics 🤷🏻‍♀️

Morning fog rolls over a tightly cropped mountaintop, glowing warmly in the early morning light. A handful of particularly tall trees stand out along the ridge line.

Coastal mists over the Olympics 🌫️

This is an incredibly moving thing to hear about our work and I deeply appreciate it.