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Chris Anderson

@cnanderson.bsky.social

I study evolution, ecology, & behavior and teach at a Hispanic Serving Institution. Interested in Broadening Participation in STEM. Greater Chicago Area. He/him.

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Tom Astle@tjalamont.bsky.social · 5d ago

Look at this little lump. It's a barely 2 mm. springtail (class Collembola), which are hexapods (6 legs) but not insects. This one was at almost ten thousand feet in the mountains of Montana, living its best gummi life under a rock. #BugSky 🌿🐙

A macro photo looking down at a dark blue-gray creature called a springtail, on the surface of a pale brownish-yellow rock. The springtail is oval shaped, kinda squishy looking, with multiple body segments and a few sparse, short hairs. It has two short thick antennae.
Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920. Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51). She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel. 🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

Cartoon of Franklin with a microscope, while Crick and Watson drink beer and expostulate, at a bar stylized as a double helix. By Quentin Blake.
Gwen Pearson@bug-gwen.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's always nice to have biological collections acknowledged as "irreplaceable evidence bases" and essential records of life on Earth. 🧪🪲 iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Gil Wizen@wizentrop.bsky.social · last mo.

Love is all around. Sometimes you just have to look at the forest floor to see 💕 Atta laevigata is one of the largest species of leafcutter ants, and my absolute favorite. Observing the big workers with their shiny heart-shaped head fills me with joy every time! Photographed in Amazonas, Brazil

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Gil Wizen@wizentrop.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Look at this goofball sticking its tongue at you! This leafhopper nymph (Amblyscarta) is one of the most brightly colored insects you can find in the Amazon region. This is a freshly hatched nymph.

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Chris Anderson@cnanderson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here’s a damselfly mid-molt from its larval to adult stage. They have incomplete metamorphosis, so they have wing pads as nymphs. You can see them above the legs parallel to the abdomen.

A damselfly mid molt from its aquatic larval stage to the flying adult stage.
Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wasn't joshin' about the swimming! Though this was the *first* time I captured it! Good eatin' on this twig. In addition to dining on plant roots, they love mosses, fungi, algae and organic muck. Submerged twig is a buffet! #inverts #becurious

macro photo of a motled gray-brown and brown pygmy grasshopper on a red twig which is submerged in a creek. The grasshopper's head and bard of their back are out of the water, the rest of them is submerged.
Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anyway... Pygmy Grasshoppers exist - and you will never be this goth. Aztec (Paratettix aztecus) As the common name implies, they are smol ~7mm They almost always live near water. #inverts #becurious PS - they swim, you know...

macro photo of a pygmy grasshopper on a dry river rock. their back is dark tan, their legs are earthy orange and their head is gray. they are facing left angled down toward the lower left of the photo.
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty. The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry. What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change. Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets. The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing. We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report. We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them. Vanderbilt University AAUP vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com Wa…
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”