UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Read the thread for a lovely story of teens making a difference 🪲🦋🙂
I'm heading off to EntSoc and here's my take on navigating your first scientific conference. Hope to see lots of you there!
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-... #EntSoc25 🧪
#Entsoc25 #EntoPOC
Hope to see you at #EntSoc25 ❤️🐞🌱
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙
Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
Close-up image of a bright orange, fuzzy moth with feathery antennae and black eyes perched on the edge of a green leaf. Black background.
Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 15, 2025
Tangerine furry-legs moth
Acraga moorei
Lepidoptera: Dalceridae
By Tom Myers, Kentucky, USA
#arthropodPOTW
MSU faculty and students behind a table covered with live and pinned arthropods
Graduate student handing a large cockroach to a small child
A distance shot of children engaging with the content and students at the table
Insect displays and graduate students talking about insect locomotion with visitors
Grossness is in the eye of the beholder🐞💀🐜👻🐛🎃🧪! The lab hosted a table on "Creepin' and Crawlin' Creatures" at the @museumoftherockies.bsky.social "Grossology" event last weekend
#insects #bugsky #bug #inverts #scicomm
We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...
"When someone attacks one party member, we all roll for initiative".
As a DnD player and a concerned scientist, thanks @phytoseiid.bsky.social for the great piece in AE that made me weirdly emotional on an airplane.
The other animal feeds have thousands of likes, but the invertebrates feed only has around 600. Invertebrates are roughly 95% of all animal species on this planet, so they should have millions of likes to be properly proportionate to those other, less diverse animals.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Science didn't turn partisan! It's been politicized & partisanized by conservatives whose cruel, theocratic, destructive policies (banning books, forced birth, climate denialism, gender essentialism) are all directly contradicted by scientific evidence.
Entomology graduate student adjusts a tent like insect trap with majestic mountains in the background
Two stellar researchers stand proudly next to a tent like insect trap with majestic mountains in the background
Malaise trapping with a view ⛰️👀. Intercepting flying insects in potato fields to better understand disease dynamics in our state.
#entomology #fieldseason
Text reads: Birds symbolize movement, migration, and breaking barriers, mirroring our experiences as Black birders as we navigate and thrive in environments where we have historically been excluded. "Flock to Freedom" aims to provide space for empowerment, self-expression, and connection to ancestral roots while challenging stereotypes about who belongs in nature. Join us as we reconnect online and in person to rise, soar, and flock to freedom.
Welcome! It’s Day 1 of #BlackBirdersWeek, “Flock to Freedom”. Introduce yourself & connect with other Black birders using #BlackInNature ✊🏽
#scicomm #blacksky #blackinnature #blackbirdersweek #blackbirder #ecojustice #conservationjustice #birding #nature #wildlife #birds
San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.
Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.
Back again for another great summer short course in chemical ecology this time in Jena, Germany! Hope to see folks there! events.gwdg.de/event/1003/
Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social
We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL.
Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?
"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."
Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.
I'm reviewing applications for our Science IRL grant. The application pool is stupendous with a lot of fantastic & frankly weird ideas for how to connect people w/critical science info.
I want to be able to fund more than we currently can. Wanna throw a few bucks at the pool?
givebutter.com/29Ow9Y
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Well, I might as well use this platform to share some of my teaching memes. I give you "Mate finding in Saturniidae".
Frontal view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax
Side view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head, thorax, and abdomen
Top view of scarab beetle with very setose (=hairy) head and thorax,
Feast your eyes on Sparmannia flava. Maybe the greatest melolonthine of them all. That "winter" coat though...
#AmazingBeetles #Coleoptera #Africa #Scarabaeidae #Winteriscoming
@anapineda.bsky.social has some excellent resources and tricks on focusing priorities and cultivating productivity! I use her strategy of identifying my "golden" most productive hour or two in the day and blocking it in my calendar for those important tasks. www.ifocusandwrite.com/free-resources
A grayish brown darkling beetle on its back with legs in the air, on a rock. It is encrusted with dirt.
Mondays after a holiday, amirite?!?!? 😴
#Tenebrionidae: #Stenomorpha parallela
Phoenix, Arizona, USA (November)
My friend "This is the first time I've watched someone walk TOWARD a tarantula hawk wasp"
Me: 😍
4 #Entomology #StarterPacks have filled!
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Drive for Five!
Nominate widely: grad students, early career, colleagues around the world, equity deserving
#entomología
#entomologie
#Invertebrate
#Arthropod
🪲🐞🐜🐛🦟🪳🦋🐝🦗🪰🕸️
Deadline Extension!📢📢 Submit your abstract by December 2nd to be considered as a speaker in the GRS! The GRS/GRC is a fabulous way to make expand your network (interaction web ?🤔). Join the incredible scientists who have already submitted applications - see you in CA 🌱🐛!
