Fresh off the printer an Epopostruma ant! Collected by @pipilika.bsky.social, scanned by @pranavjoshi8.bsky.social, and printed by me! #prusa #PLA #ant #microCT

Second try! This 32hr print failed last time but here he is in all his sparkly glory ✨ Check out the massive chelicerae on this Canama jumping spider collected and scanned by @pranavjoshi8.bsky.social #microCT #jumpingspider #Prusa #salticid #invertebrates

Today I gave my first ever scientific presentation in Spanish! Thank you at @dinrao.bsky.social for the invitation, even though you did make me wake up at 5am 🥲 ¡Hoy di mi primera charla en Castellano! Gracias a Dinesh Rao por invitarme, aunque me hiciste levantarme a las 5am 🥲

There is a foraminifera sculpture park in Zhongshan, Guangdong, the outcome of the vision of Pakistani-American marine geologist Bilal Haq and Chinese marine biologist Zheng Shouyi, honestly there should be more in more cities

Jonathan Parkes Allen@jparkesallen.bsky.social · last wk.

Gorgeous larger than life models of foraminifera sculpted by the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny (1802–1857) alongside a page of drawings he made of the tiny exquisite little organisms:

We are very excited to be hosting the 2027 ASSAB conference at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch. This will be held from the 7th to the 9th of July, 2027. Please save the date. Haere Mai from Aotearoa New Zealand. We look forward to seeing you next year!

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s getting into grad school workshop begins this Saturday. All are welcome!

Krista Koeller@kristalerista.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Do you want to go to grad school in #paleontology 🦖, #geology ⚒️, or #biology🧪? Join the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Graduate School Application Prep Group! We’ll walk you through the application process in weekly workshops. Sign up with this form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A busy weekend of #3Dprinting!! Three long prints all between 19-31hrs. Unfortunately, the longest and probably coolest print failed from a suspected spool jam 😭 We were out for some of the weekend so I couldn't catch it in time. Time to remove all these supports! #Prusa #spiders #microCT

Today is the last day to submit abstracts for the @austentsoc.bsky.social Conference!!! It is also the last day for early bird registration if you haven't registered yet!!

this brings me so much joy :) thanks for sharing @nikkichin.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/justgalsbe...

From the justgalsbeingchicks community on Reddit: Miss Universe Thailand contestants dress up as food for costume round

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A wild story that sums up so much about this moment. Rare books bought up by a hyperscaler, driven across the country by truck, scanned and fed into the woodchipper by low wage workers so the rich can build and own systems that squeeze, surveil, and automate labor and control knowledge generation.

404 Media@404media.co · last mo.

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

AI is not inevitable.

We Are Better Than This@better-than-this.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Governments around the world are protecting Big Tech’s interests instead of the people. It doesn’t have to be like this. Together we can shape a better future. Join us. www.wearebetterthanthis.co.uk

Calling out all #microCT / #photogrammetry / #3Dprinting nerds who work in #entomology in #Australia! We are having a symposium at the @austentsoc.bsky.social conference in December and we would love to hear from you!!! Abstract submission closes 31st August! event.mq.edu.au/aes2026/symp...

Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc position on vision in trilobites! Come and explore the exciting world of reconstructing vision in the fossil record, using some of the most iconic extinct animals to grace our oceans! Please reach out + RT! (*Deadline in fact 23.59 BST on the 26th August!*)

Lauren Sumner-Rooney@laurensr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Chicken nugget fish?

Great Southern Reef Foundation@greatsouthernreef.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A thumb-sized fish collected from about 50m in South Australia has been described as a new species. Researchers gave members of this newly recognised genus the common name “sea muppets”. Full story: greatsouthernreef.com/sea-muppets

Science peeps, please re-share! We're hiring for a level D, research-only position. Despite the weird job title it's very broadly molecular ecology, evolution, or -omics more broadly. Must already have the right to work in Australia. external-jobs.csu.edu.au/cw/en/job/49...

Join my department! It's a pretty great place to work.

callista yee@csybio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

hiiii everyone! my department @zoology.ubc.ca is hiring an assistant professor in cell and developmental biology! deadline is october 1! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32408 // please share!!!!!

🦤 What do we really know about the Dodo? The dodo was likely nocturnal and, less surprisingly, its telencephalon was perfectly normal for a pigeon of its size. This paints a very different picture of one of history's most misunderstood birds. @evoneuro.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.1093/zool...

New Brain Scans Suggest the Dodo Was Active at Night

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Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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It was very special to get to see @pipilika.bsky.social plenary at #ICN2026 this past week. After so many years working together it was very nostalgic to see all these pieces of work coming together in one place! Didn't expect to get choked up at seeing the old Canberra field sites come up 💖

Had a great time hanging out with these goofs at #ICN2026 @dinrao.bsky.social @pipilika.bsky.social @m3d-biology.bsky.social @annaseibel.bsky.social

I saw this work presented at #ICN2026 and it's absolutely gorgeous and mind-blowing!! Cannot recommend enough, a must read!!! The videography alone is *chef's kiss* 🤌

Yichen Luo 骆奕辰@camellyc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our (with @plewin.bsky.social) @currentbiology.bsky.social Dispatches is out today (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...). Covering two recent papers about bird eye movements during flight, using homing pigeons as model species.

How do parasites reprogram brains so your host becomes a zombie? If you are still at #ICN2026 tomorrow Friday, come to my talk at 3:30 pm (room 2306/2309) #strepsiptera #zombiewasp

Here's the working prototype of my setup. It's a 3D-printed black block with a socket to hold a watch glass, and a 3D-printed diffuser that sits on top of the block. Recessing the glass greatly reduces stray light & glare. #NaturalHistoryCollections #Macrophotography #FocusStacking #DIYImagingStage

Craig B@mutillidae.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've been working on a better setup for capturing focus-stacked images of immature insects in alcohol...and it's working well. 🙂 #NaturalHistoryCollections #Macrophotography #FocusStacking #Psephenidae #APennyForYourThoughts

After the Heiligenberg plenary lecture, there was another session of concurrent participant talks, for example a session on #evolution of sensory and motor systems chaired by @fiorella.bsky.social who also gave the talk "One and done or back for more: stinging strategies in bees and ants" 🐝🐜

At #ICN2026 @pipilika.bsky.social brings Kannada to Canada and gives a fantastic plenary on ant navigation in deserts, the night andVR (never mind his early interest in cricket(s)) ಸಕ್ಕತ್ talk!

Walking on webs isn't easy. @natashamhatre.bsky.social tells us all about her amazing work researching how black widow spiders use their forelegs to sense and walk at the same time! #ICN2026 @neuroethology.org

saw @andrewmatheson.bsky.social 's talk at #ICN2026 today and it was fantastic!

Maria Antonietta Tosches@matosches.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab, by @andrewmatheson.bsky.social and team, where we dive into the superpower of newts: plasticity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Like many good projects, this started with a serendipitous observation... 🧵1/5

Cool new behavior caught on video! This is a special type of octopus known as a #papernautilus (aka #argonaut) and her shell is a little less than 5cm. Watch as she extends and retracts her fleshy mantle - at the end, she rapidly retracts it all! #blackwater #blackwaterdiving

Andy Warhol meets Joy Division as Mike Rauscher tells us how predator sounds lead to changed wing beats and escape responses in mosquitoes #ICN2026 @neuroethology.org