Rebecca Wang 王思寧
@rebeccawang.bsky.social
Science Edu👩🏻🔬~ Entomology🪲~ Nat.History🌱 Sci Tutor + FHEA @ HKU. HKBM volunteer. Fmr MPhil Cantab Zoology. Texan, Taiwanese & HK-er (She/Her/她). 📍Hong Kong now, moving to NYC for PhD🗽
Man... something extremely heartwarming about a mayor genuinely trying to speak Mandarin (which I was picked on for as a kid in TX), about participating in theater (which my Asian fam were hesitate about but sorta sustained me during HS & my time at Cambridge - shout out ADC & BME Shakespeare!) 🥰
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago演出现场见! on.nyc.gov/broadway
One thing I absolutely adore about Taiwan is how much casual human-made art there is everywhere, instead of your generic corpo stock photos or weird AI slop. From postal pigeons promoting bank cards to airport sniffer dog collages to cartoon mascot mall billboards to exploding powerbank PSAs.
Everyone does things differently, and that's cool. Folks have different safety & privacy concerns. Some are publicly quiet, but do absolutely critical work in their communities and in other ways, and that's fantastic. But everyone has to do SOMETHING. That's the rule. We all have to do SOMETHING. 🙂
Debated how much I should post about 🇺🇸 politics (esp as early career), but F- it! * 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 & 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅🗳️ * (Yes 2026 Midterms in Nov but it takes MONTHS & need to RE-REGISTER after Jan 1st EVERY year you vote outside the US. ) START TODAY!👇️ [🧵 - 1/23]
Fun Easter Egg for your next HKBM trip!🐣 See that big insect case when you enter? Look toward the bottom left, near glass sticker, between the stick insect legs for a green fly 🪰 Notice the Col. R. Wang from 3-X-2018 label? Yeah, that’s one I caught & pinned for my 1st ever insect collection. 🥹
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 4mo agoGreetings from Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum, an University collection of various Hong Kong animals 🐍 🪸 🐡
When people ask why I keep a diary & encourage them to just WRITE their hearts out, it's to capture human moments like this!🥰 What a GAME! Not really even a basketball fan🏀 (despite my brother's best attempts to convert me otherwise😆), but feel like it's going in my "where were you?" life moments.
@knickerbacker.bsky.social · 2mo agoI started writing my recap down 21 in the second quarter because I didn’t want to stay up late. I just kept typing. I have not gone back and read or edited it. It’s 3400 words. Also, my house lost power when Castle was at the line at the end. Read it here: knickerblogger.net/2026/06/2026...
Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈
THIS!!📣 Don't trust AI for bug ID-ing, your brain is so, SO much more powerful than you give it credit for! 🧠 Quick eg: Friend sent me this SUPER blurry photo that AI tools can't make heads or tail out of. But I bet most bug ppl can ID its insect order in a min & HK bug ppl know what it! 😜 #Bugsky
Entomemeology@entomemeology.bsky.social · 3mo ago💯
AI generated cover, probably all 56 figures inside as well, with absolutely no genAI use disclosure on the main page. Not to mention if AI was used for the cover, who is to guarantee that the text wasn't AI generated as well? Did a human check the text or references for hallucination? Very sloppy...
People here gleeful the crazier guy won TX's GOP🟥 primary cus he's "easier to beat" in midterms scare me... Like did y'all learn NOTHING from the last few USA elections?!😬 Flip side, people who are now writing off my entire state of 31 MILLION ( > pop. than 🇦🇺 ), that's pretty messed up too ngl. 🫠
The biodiversity found in 🇭🇰 never fails to amaze me! 😍 Clockwise from top Left: - Spiny leaf insect (family Phasmatidae): idk specific 中文名，but a type of 竹節蟲 - Cicada (family Cicadidae): 蟬 - Moth larva (order Lepidoptera)：蛾幼蟲 - Centipede (class Chilopoda)：蜈蚣 or 百足蟲 Very whimsy indeed! 👍
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhimsy rating: high
Ending my April 2026 #InverteFest with a 7th post (so technically one-a-day😉)+ non-insect inverts... Watch HKBM's "Biodiversity Explorers" series! Hour-long convos on 🇭🇰 critters! This 蚯蚓/Earthworms🪱eps with Michelle is in Canto, but there are Eng ones too- all with proper Eng & 中文 subtitles!
【Biodiversity Explorers EP.5 | Michelle Law // 蚯蚓的奇特世界 The Weird and Amazing World of Earthworms】
YouTube video by HKBM 香港生物多樣性博物館 Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
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For #InverteFest (Day 4-ish?): Some entomology field work photos from last year that I just never got around to posting ! 🪲🪳 🦋🦗🐝 (📍 Tung Chung River project with @hkbm.bsky.social )
Woah... 53 pages of invertebrate artwork (10 more than last time)?! And that's not including the anthology? Crazy! 🤯 Thank you to all the awesome artists, your contributions never fail to make me smile! 🥰 ( #InverteFest Day 3)
franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe present: The Art of #InverteFest - April 2026 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1RJ5m... #Art #SciArt
Day 2 of #Invertefest! Amplifying some cool insect papers that have crossed my feed recently!📣 ~~ Q: Why do rewardless flowers still exist, rather than being shed? 🌺 A: 🤷♀️ We still don't know, but this test with bees & fake flowers show it's probably not "decoy" effects! doi.org/10.1111/een....
Tomer J. Czaczkes (@tomerczaczkes.bsky.social)
Some plants change the colour of flowers which were already pollinated, and are now rewardless. We thought perhaps they were using a behavioural economic trick - the decoy effect - to make the…
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For Day 1 of #Invertefest - I'm (once again) highlighting the Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum @hkbm.bsky.social! 🏛️ Specifically it's wonderful "Meet Your Neighbors / 左蟲右里" series on BSky (as well as IG and FB) that showcases some of the stunning insects 🇭🇰 has to offer!
Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum@hkbm.bsky.social · 4mo agoBecause they process so much sugar, 𝘗𝘺𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 excrete a sweet, sticky substance known as honeydew. In the delicate ecosystem of Hong Kong’s village edges, this waste product becomes a sought-after resource, often attracting swarms of ants and even certain species of moths.
#InverteFest is here again, whoop whoop! 🎉 Go check out some absolutely AMAZING art and writing from some incredibly talented & hard-working creatives! 🥰 (Seriously. It's got a lil' of everything from linocut prints to comics, inked illustrations to poetry, collages to short stories...🤩)
Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ@saimihanma.bsky.social · 4mo agoIT IS TIME! To kick off our spring #InverteFest, I'm very proud to present our first ever #InverteFest Anthology. This was a collaboration between artists and writers and inside you'll find 17 absolutely wonderful submissions. Please enjoy! Download here: saimihanma.com/wp-content/u...
Happy Year of the Horse everyone! 🐎🧧 新年快樂，心想事成！祝大家今年步步高陞,龍馬精神，萬馬奔騰，萬事如意！ Tricky time finding a suitably "horse-y" invertebrate for y'all, but the Saddleback Catterpillar (𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘢 - photo by Mathew Orwat) is pretty close imo! 🏇 #LunarNewYear #YearoftheHorse #ChineseNewYear #春節 #Bugsky
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A lil' Anurognathus cutie to hopefully brighten up your day! 🥰 Fun facts: It's name comes from the Greek for "frog jaw" and it's thought to have used its pin-like teeth to capture insect prey! 📍 *Boop!*
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 8mo agoDoodle for Hong Kong Boop-able Anurognathus (for @diegooa.bsky.social l @rebeccawang.bsky.social)
Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real. Easy. Scorpionflies (Panorpidae family). (Pictured is a P. helena from Carderock, Maryland - taken by Judy Gallagher www.flickr.com/photos/52450... )
Tom Astle@tjalamont.bsky.social · 8mo agoPost a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real. Giant Anteros (Anteros kupris), Colombia
Thanks everyone involved for running such a fantastic #Hymathon2025 yesterday! 🥰 Learned a ton and great getting to know/catching up with hymenopterist from all around the world! See you all again next year!
International Society of Hymenopterists@hymenopterists.bsky.social · 9mo agoHYMATHON 2025 SESSION 4 SUMMARY! The last session! Thank you to all the attendants and the organising committee! It was a wonderful HYMATHON, with exquisite talks, showdowns, art entries and, of course, discussions! See you next year!
🐝HYMATHON 2025 SESSION 3 SUMMARY! 🗳️Dear participants, please don’t forget to vote for the best entry in the ART COMPETITION and in the SHOWDOWN! (Link to our website in bio) 🔜See you in 2h at SESSION 4!
Great presentation on such cool wasps! "Super beautiful insect" indeed 😍 Shame they were all the same D. burksi species not a new one, but very important discovery of their range extension all the way up to Taichung/台中！
Taisuke KAWANO/ eupelmidologist@tkawano-hym-ist.bsky.social · 9mo agoHello Bluesky! I’m finally here too! I’ll be speaking at #Hymathon2025 about Doddifoenus—those long, metallic-blue “small giants” of Chalcidoidea. My talk is 07:40 UTC on Dec 5. Would love to see you there!!
Finishing off a lovely pt2 of #Hymathon2025 with: - the Bush Blitz Blood Pact (may contain helicopters 🚁) - Taxonworks BBQ party (sadly, no actual food 😆) - ISH private jet (looks like showdown winners ofc🏆) - Even MORE galls! (the gall of it all) - Hymenopterist or Film Director? Pt3 in ~3 hours!
Whoop~ Taiwanese wasps mentioned! 🇹🇼 🎉 (Hsuan-Pu Chen @Hokkaido Uni & NTU) Species richness in Taiwan Bassobates (subgenus of Darwin wasps) up from 3 to at least 35 sp. (due to temperate taxa found in mountainous area of otherwise tropical island). New # moves it to 2nd most Netelia! #Hymathon2025
Continuing #Hymathon2025 w keynote 2 by Andrew Forbes @ Uni of Iowa! "For specialist insects, there is far more evidence supporting strong, ecological forms of reproductive isolation than post zygotic isolation" aka. Ecological factors (eg. where they live) > Offspring repo issues for speciation!
Man, listening to sci experts share research (esp. stuff you don't know much on) is SO FREAKING COOL! Like oh asexual repro of ♀s (thelytoky) is often due to maternally-inherited microbes eg. Wolbachia🧫. We know cus we gave wasps antibiotic honey🍯, now investigating specific genes. Like what? 😮
Rebecca Wang 王思寧@rebeccawang.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat's that buzzing noise I hear...? 🐝 It's #Hymathon2025 , a 24-hour online marathon of all things wasps, bees, sawflies and ants starting up soon! 😄 @hymenopterists.bsky.social ~~~ Will mainly be around for session 2 & 3 cus time zones but looking to catching some comp entries & showdown! 👍
