πHYMATHON 2025 is ONGOING NOW!
π€©Session 1 was full of amazing talks, showdowns and socials!
π³οΈDear participants, please donβt forget to vote for the best entry in the ART COMPETITION and in the SHOWDOWN! (Link to our website in bio)
πSee you all in SESSION 2 at 00:00 UTC (5 Dec)
For whoever donates, DM me and I will draw/sketch for you the best possible isopod I can do ποΈποΈποΈ
My friend Sequoia who is the bestest isopod in the world needs help funding grad school! Over the past few years she's completed the work equivalent of a whole MSc and a half in isopod zoology all by herself as an amateur, and now she's getting the chance to go get the degree!! gofund.me/4568dd521
I'm hoping to get more familiar with the wiki ecosystem and maybe give a short talk at ECE in Tours next year :)
ittle critters playing dead! ππͺ²π
Iβve been sick after a period of intense work but on the other hand I was able to slow down and draw something fun & relaxingβ¦ hope you folks enjoy it too!
*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?
Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
This is super cool Siobhan! I'll share it around to anyone who might find this of use :)
As part of my Wikimedian in Residence position at the Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute I've recently created documentation on linking publications to Natural History Collections in #Wikidata doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Is my brand that strong
Side by side comparison of pictures of a chalcidoidea egg on the right and a sour gummy worm on the right. The egg is shaped like the gummy worm with a reddish half and a yellowish half. There are small bumps (papillae) on the surface of the egg making it resemble a sour gummyworm.
Reason 37518 to not skip lunch when working - everything starts to look delicious, including this egg of a chalcidoid wasp (left)
Hey π¨π¦! Looks like conservative MPs (derogatory) are trying some anti-intellectual fuckery with NSERC (+ tri-council) because they can't do long division π. Please sign the petition to protect applicant EDI data! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Me looking at a drawer of specimens with Dr. Jing-Fu Tsai. The corridor is lined with wooden drawers of varying amounts per column.
Had some fun looking through the entomological collections at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung!
Apply apply apply!!!
Zoomed out profile shot of cheetah with a young antelope-like animal it its mouth.
Hi y'all! I'm back from #Wikimania in Nairobi! Here's a cheetah eating some kind of ungulate :)
Tumblr post with fake screenshot of Wikipedia header comment "This college football 1932 season article is boring as fuck. You can help Wikipedia by adding yaoi to it."
Feel free to add you own. I also particularly like this:
Tumblr post with two pictures of dubious blurry food, a casserole? On the left and cake? On the right. Caption reading "when me and my boyfriend make meals we have a tradition of sending each other unappetizing off-centre photographs of them in poor lighting. We call this "wikipedia food".
In anticipation of #Wikimania2025, here is my favourite wikipedia meme.
If you can, please donate to help with funeral costs and supporting her family. RIP Sheila Colla. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...
Tiny, colorful baby scallops β a total cuteness overload in one dish!
You might think, βThis person posts the same creature every year!β But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderfulππ«§βͺ
Babe, wake up. Anxious snails just dropped
Finally photos (1st ever?) of a living Liebelia, the other (non-Diplolepis) genus of rose gall wasp that's endemic to Asia. We've confirmed it is L. fukudae, previously only known in Japan, so new genus record for China thanks to @inaturalist.bsky.social
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Please share.
We have a fully-funded PhD position on animal migration. If interested, please apply by 27 July. More about us: shawanchowdhury.com. @idiv-research.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social
#PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter
happy pride month please consider throwing a few dollars my way bc being trans + mentally ill while giving back to the ND community is expensive and exhausting
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π’ π’π’JOB AD! π’π’π’ πPosition: Research Assistant πLocation: The University of Hong Kong - HK SAR, China πDuration: 16 months (Full-time) β³Application Deadline: June 25th (in 3 days!) πOverview: Working with the research team to assess the insect biodiversity of old growth forests in HK. πTasks: -Specimen collection and curation -Planning collection efforts -Various admin tasks πΈFor more info, scan the QR code on the poster.
Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Job in Mexico:
UNAM busca investigador/a en EntomologΓa SistemΓ‘tica para plaza de tiempo completo en el Instituto de BiologΓa.
UNAM is a hiring full-time researcher in Systematic Entomology, Institute of Biology.
Fecha lΓmite/Deadline: 4 agosto/Aug 4
tinyurl.com/2557avf6
π§ͺ #entomology #sciencejobs
Digital drawing of a Eucera nigrescens bee chatting up an Ophrys bee-mimic orchid. There is a speech bubble saying "Hey shordy you mad thick fr ππ. I bench 250 btw πͺπ₯π₯."
Based on actual real-life field observations:
Hello friends, my first first-author publication has just released! Please take a read, its open access! rdcu.be/eq1xQ
Large bumblebee mimic robberfly, staring right at you. Big black eyes peering out of yellow floof like a beard or a lion's mane covering its face.
Bee*
