A company in Mexico hired a stray orange cat as its Emotional Support Director and named him “Miauricio.” Daily duties include roaming the workplace, delivering smiles & reducing stress levels. He has his own workspace and ID badge. #AGoodPlace
🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻
@entobiologist.bsky.social
한지실 • 🇰🇷🇺🇲 • any pronouns phd student studying insect migration. accessioned and catalogued in a museum near you! dubbed expert bug surgeon by america's top entomologists. makes art sometimes :> 한국말 배우고 있습니다! (personal account! expect unscientific nonsense)
How beautiful are these handmade creatures by kinetic artist and paper sculptor Lucy Jean Green! #beautifulbizarre #papersculpture #art
managed to jam it in my suitcase AND passed tsa after they were like "do you.... have a walking stick?" and i explained what it was after a higher-up came and they were like "oh that's so fun!! sorry i had to bring the big kahuna over" love regional airports at 3 am man
🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻@entobiologist.bsky.social · 2d agocrapppp even when disassembled the handle for my net doesn't fit in my carryon or backpack
I had no idea mammals had teeth like this - seen similar in lots of algae feeding fishes
Claudia Astorino@claudistics.bsky.social · yesterdayit’s #ToothyTuesday! some of my fav teeth are colugo lower incisors. these teeth are pectinate or “fan-like,” exhibiting many long, thin projections used for grooming! while colugos are sometimes called flying lemurs, they’re not actual lemurs: lemurs = primates, and colugos = dermopterans!
🐝 Are you advertising a job or PhD in social insect biology? Get the word out by adding it to the PhDs/jobs noticeboard on the main IUSSI website! www.socialinsects.org/positions @iussi-nwes.bsky.social @ceiussi.bsky.social @iussi-nas.bsky.social #IUSSI2026 #IUSSI
Student and Postdoc Positions in Social Insect Biology
PhD, masters, and postdoc positions in social insect biology.
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Fuck AI slop, I want my sense of wonder back...
Eastern screech owl Mixed media of watercolor, pencils and gouache on 13x19" hotpress paper For #OwlAwarenessDay
The mint chocolate chip flavor of flies [I imagine] 😋 #Stratiomyidae: #Promeranisa #FlySchool2026 Costa Rica
The Rawls Lab is hiring! We are seeking a motivated research technician to support cutting-edge studies in gastrointestinal physiology using zebrafish & mice. To learn more about this hands-on & in-person position at Duke University in Durham NC, click here: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-R...
This just in! Orthoptera trying to look like grass! Shocking!
crapppp even when disassembled the handle for my net doesn't fit in my carryon or backpack
my entry for 'Happy Hunting!: A Monster Hunter Zine' @monsterhunterzine.bsky.social had a blast working on this, and checking out all the other talented artists involved The zine turned out amazingly!
#langsky #linguistics i have a completely beginner curiosity in linguistics, was this person wrong because the application of a word changing is essentially the meaning changing? in the "sinister" example, while its current meaning is derived from the original meaning of "left," does the fact that--
oh look a siphonophore or salp, the ctrl+c+ctrl+vvvvvvvv of the ocean
SFGATE@sfgate.com · 2d agoThe animal was discovered over 6,000 feet below the ocean's surface.
Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!
I'M TA'ING ENTOMOLOGY LAB THIS SEMESTER LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs
bug is out of the rug, I got commissioned by @theguardian.com to #SciArt illustrate this year's goobies for #InvertebrateOfTheYear there are some really good ones stay tuned! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year
At last! It’s time for our invertebrate of the year competition as voted for by you. Today, the common woodlouse – come back on Tuesday to find out who else made the top 10
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Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6d agosomething exciting coming your way on Monday #BugSky
this evening we are enjoying Frank & Barrera's 2010 paper on staphs in the genus Belonuchus lurking around water-filled Heliconia bracts and snatching tasty mosquito pupae out of the water like inverse crocodiles
I watched ONE clam video and now my youtube feed is full of clam videos, so let me inflict 3 minutes of clam close up clips onto your algo
Must see: cute Clam / Sea Scallop swimming / jumping underwater. Морской гребешок. Almeja あさり 多头
YouTube video by Underwater Ireland
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You ever think about how, even with the vastness of our natural world as it is now, there's whole ecosystems and ways of life that we never got to see in the past, and then you get really sad? Amyways that's how these baby dinosaurs make me feel.
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 3d agoLook at them tiny babies
Some things are easier to paint from life vs a photo... aquatic macroinvertebrates are not one of those things
a horror manga author was talking about how he relies on unusual behavior he sees in public for inspo like drunkness or people staring at telephone poles. which reminded me i was staring at a tree for half an hr on fri as people walked by me because of a cicada
my 84th "should i get tested for adhd" thought this year
NPR@npr.org · 3d agoFor decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.