Tiny parasitic wasp named after David Attenborough for his 100th birthday. Specimen from 1983 lay forgotten until recently, when spotted by a volunteer & identified as new genus. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... #biology #wildlife #entomology #STEM #SciChat

Tiny parasitic wasp named after David Attenborough for his 100th birthday

Specimen from 1983 lay forgotten at Natural History Museum until recently, when spotted by a volunteer and identified as new genus

theguardian.com

Mark Harvey's work has been profiled in a new Invertebrate Systematics collection, '1000 new species—a lifelong dedication to biodiversity discovery'. connectsci.au/collection/2... Photo: Gymnobisium inukshuk, a troglobitic pseudoscorpion species described by Mark. #InvertebrateSys #FreeToRead 🕷️🧪

Dr Mark “Spider Man” Harvey, Western Australian Museum Research Associate and Associate Editor of our journal Invertebrate Systematics, has reached an extraordinary milestone: he has described 1,000th species. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #InvertebrateSys

Naming species is crucial to conserving them according to spider expert - ABC listen

Living scientist Dr Mark Harvey reaches rare milestone of naming 1000 species of invertebrates.

abc.net.au

An elephant mosquito in my backyard! These nectar-feeding beneficial #insects don't drink blood and are the largest species of mosquito in the world! The larvae eat other mosquito larvae, too 🥰🎉🦟 Toxorhynchites speciosus, Macquarie Park NSW #Invertebrates🦑

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

indivisible.org

I'm watching Twilight for the first time. Does Bella steal a cactus from the wild to take with her to her Dad's house?! That is pretty irresponsible. 🌵

I just found a small ichneumon wasp in my room and I'm like "hey little one, I'll help you out" and I gently cupped my hands around it to shift it 15cms to fly out the door, and she bloody stung me on the finger - a tiny zap, but excuse me, you are not the friendly little wasp I thought you were. 🦑

A fossil from about 66 million years ago reveals a species of dinosaur that is new to science, with claws that would have ripped through its prey's flesh

Dinosaur found with a crocodile in its jaws named as new species

A fossil from about 66 million years ago reveals a species of dinosaur that is new to science, with claws that would have ripped through its prey's flesh

newscientist.com

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

xkcd absolutely nailing what it's like to be an entomologist. xkcd.com/3140 Except for "horrifying", read "fascinating". Entomologists are hard to horrify. About bugs, anyway.

Biology Department

xkcd.com

✨ It’s published! ✨ 🕷️ Social spiders have bigger brains… but only in the right places! Our new study shows that in social huntsman spiders, regions for memory & vision processing are proportionally larger, supporting group living. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Soc...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Trying to use #StrainSeeker and the website seems down - anyone have any news about this? 🧪 #Microbiology #bacteria #academicsky

🎖️ Are you, or do you know, an exceptional entomologist? A student looking for support to attend the 5th Combined Australian & New Zealand Entomological Societies Conference? Then check out the awards & grants offered by the Australian Entomological Society buff.ly/eGXRjaC Nominations closing soon!

AES | Call for Director Nominations

The Board of The Australian Entomological Society (AES) is calling for nominations from eligible Members of AES for the vacant positions of Member Elected Director.

buff.ly

I'm reviewing my fifth manuscript for the year, and I've decided that scientists overuse conjunctive verbs, and it annoys me SO much. Additionally, stop it. #AcademicSky

I feel like I should win an award for how many times I've attached the wrong file when I'm replying all. 🙇🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

You too should have to think of Big Dick Bigfoot whenever someone mentions ChatGPT

Irish Sharkboy 🤠🦈🇮🇪🍀@poopoobanoonoos.bsky.social · last yr.

What the fuck kind of stupid arguement is this? A typical Farm also uses up more power than a 20ft neon sign of Bigfoot with an erection; the difference is that one is necessary for food supply, and the other is a big stupid fucking waste of power and resources JUST LIKE CHAT GPT!

Shame on you, @albomp.bsky.social & Senator Watt, shame. "If the old power plant damaged the art then contemporary industrial emissions will be damaging the rock art at least five times faster." theconversation.com/how-the-nort...

How the North West Shelf expansion risks further damage to Murujuga’s 50,000-year-old rock art

Murujuga has more than one million petroglyphs, some up to 50,000 years old. The North West Shelf extension places them at risk.

theconversation.com

NSW floods: death toll rises to four after man’s body found in car as intense rain moves south

NSW floods: death toll rises to four after man’s body found in car as intense rain moves south

Severe weather warning for areas further south as 48,000 stranded and water levels at their highest for 100 years * Australia news live: latest politics updates * NSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and maps * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The death toll in the New South Wales flood disaster has risen to four after a man’s body was found in a car in flood waters near Coffs Harbour on Friday morning. Police said a passing driver saw a vehicle that had run off the Orara Way at Nana Glen about 30km from Coffs Harbour. Officers found the body of a man, believed to be in his 70s, inside. Police said he appeared to be the only occupant of the vehicle. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Trans men’s insight on this is so fucking valuable in understanding the nuances of what’s going on with men. We need to be amplifying them, and hopefully cis men can realize what is actually the source of their loneliness.

Dan | Commissions Open@danximenes.bsky.social · last yr.

This and

Good morning, Bluesky.

New #RSOS paper investigating chemical defences and visual signals in a wasp #moth. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @hannahmrowland.bsky.social @amatageorgeii.bsky.social @liisahamalainen.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social

#LiteratureNotice Zhang et al. A #NewSpecies of the genus Anoplophora Hope, 1839 ( #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae, #Lamiinae) doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Beetle #Beetles #LonghornBeetles

Complex signals, complex defences: there’s more to defences than meets the eye. New from @amatageorgeii.bsky.social & @liisahamalainen.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @mpic.de royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #aposematism #chemecol

New paper alert! 🎉 We found some interesting differences in defensive strategies in our cute little Amata wasp moths. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @hannahmrowland.bsky.social @liisahamalainen.bsky.social @mherberstein.bsky.social @kateumbers.bsky.social @gmramon.bsky.social #OzInverts

A sign of how far right the Republican party has moved. The first Earth Day in 1970 was supported by then president Richard Nixon (a Republican) who also signed the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and other key pieces of environmental legislation.

Mark Chediak@mchediak.bsky.social · last yr.

White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Crowded room. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Scenes from John Heritage's The Mysterious World of Dinosaurs. Art by W Francis Phillipps and others. I find it baffling that people were still illustrating animals like this in 1980, but they were.

Paper alert! I'm happy to share that my first research paper has been published! 🐝🌸 Road verges can support #pollinators but their potential for preserving representatively diverse and even communities is limited, due in part to high densities of non-native plants. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Psst, mainstream media reporting on the upcoming federal election 👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/20... The environment IS a key election issue. Australians care A LOT about the environment.

I agree 100% and get so mad about this topic. We don't deserve these animals when we can't even look after what we have! 😠

Ethan Kocak@ethankocak.com · last yr.

I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.