Grand fourmilion (Palpares libelluloides) réalisé pour une édition des "Bestioles du mois" de @la_bestiologie. #Illustration #Insectes #SciArt 1/3
Max Aubry
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Entomologist, storyteller Probably in a park somewhere in Vienna
I found something pretty cool. I will know more once I can get a close look with the microscope, but this looks promising 😁 #insects #cityWildlife
Hint: the two things on this photo usually don't go together!
Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is a much more interesting image than you might think at first glance. Give yourself 10 points if you know why.
Really cool paper! The clonal raider ants make an amazing model to study really cool things in ants #ants #science
Tomas Kay@tomaskay.bsky.social · 4w agoIn an article published today, we show that ancient feeding-related neuropeptides have been repurposed to control brood care in clonal raider ants. Photo: Bart Zijlstra, UNIL /1
Sounds like a quite important paper and sadly not open access! "Insecticide resistance in disease vectors: Challenges and opportunities for effective and sustainable vector management strategies" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #science #insects #insecticideResistance
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Whilst most sensible people were snoozing at 6.50am today, I was on #BBCRadio4 #TodayProgramme, talking about wasps, heatwaves & how you can help #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey2026 Listen @BBCSounds 50' www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Read more: theconversation.com/where-have-a... @uclnews.bsky.social
Where have all the wasps gone this summer?
And why you should let them share your picnic ham and jam.
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Somehow I managed to only now listen to the episode of @rossbryant.bsky.social's Push the Roll where everybody has terrible french accents. Very entertaining. I highly recommend Push the Roll if you like actual play or horror btw! #ttrpg
🦀 Les crustacés S’ils ont en commun d’être (parfois) roses et de se rencontrer dans les récifs, ces crustacés sont par ailleurs bien différents ! Cette sélection n’est qu’un (bref) aperçu des crustacés qui habitent auprès des coraux. #Art #Illustration 1/2
I had an amazing time attending the eleventh THINK #conference last week. I had many inspiring conversations as we discussed AI, Science Theater, and many other topics. Here are some #insects seen in between talks, around the wonderful location we are able to organize the event at! #science
I just voted for the future euro banknote design proposals! I liked many of the designs, but I am also quite surprised at the subjects picked for the illustrations. No hate on Wallcreepers, but they don't pop up when I think of "Patrimonial European bird" www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...
Future banknotes
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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Researchers from Hamburg came up with a deep-learning model able to very accurately identify plant pathogens! On a single plant and 3 different pathogens (both fungal and viral) for now, so let's see how it works on more diverse cases though. #science #agriculture journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A novel deep-learning approach for robust identification of plant diseases
Rising temperatures and changing weather conditions are accelerating the spread of plant diseases and increasing the threat to global food security. Reliable detection of leaf diseases is therefore…
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Thrilled to announce our final keynote speaker: @mirjahartimo.bsky.social! Mirja Hartimo is a phenomenologist working on the history of analytic philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of mathematics and logic, and philosophy of mathematical practice.
tbh I follow the 'urban' keyword on Science Daily because I want to be updated on research about urban processes, urban biodiversity, etc... And most of the papers in this category are about ancient cities, so not really fitting, but soooo cool 😂
Max Aubry@strepsipzerg.com · 2w agoVery interesting piece showing how ancient DNA can be used to investigate urban history and ancient social dynamics. Very cool! #dna #evolution #history www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Very interesting piece showing how ancient DNA can be used to investigate urban history and ancient social dynamics. Very cool! #dna #evolution #history www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Ancient DNA reveals a chilling secret at China’s 4,000-year-old Shimao city
Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended fr...
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Was not expecting the return of Electric Mayhem. Ok I approve of this halftime show
Eines der neuesten Citizen-Science-Projekte: Griaßdi! Eine App zur Kartierung und Erforschung der Vielfalt bayerisch-österreichischer Dialekte #citizenScience www.citizen-science.at/projekte/gri...
Making sure you're not a bot!
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Like every summer for the past 5 years, I am taking part in the THINK conference! It is a wonderful space created for interdisciplinary exchanges on scientific communication, consciousness, policy, and many other things! thinkcommunity.network/
THINK Conference – Interdisciplinary Exchange
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on Sunday, it's important to take a break from insects and focus on other wonders of nature (jk we can do both)
Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 3w agoFor my geologist friends: some andamooka opal from Australia featuring cross-bedding!
For my geologist friends: some andamooka opal from Australia featuring cross-bedding!
And people will try and be asked to do the same amount of work for a while, ending up in even more stress, more burn out, more depression, in a field that's already heavily burdened by it.
Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 3w agoMost of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.
I am surprised there isn't a lot of Open Bookshelves close to where I live in Vienna. The closest one seems to be half an hour away on foot! I guess there might be an unregistered one closer... I am relying only on the wikipedia page listing them. Anybody knows of another register? #books
A few others from last night's outing. I wasn't able to photograph all species as the light wasn't good in the woodland. #TeamMoth
Let's all enjoy this headline and do what we can so the Permian–Triassic mass extinction remains the greatest. It would be nice not to break this record. #ecology #extinction #science www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists finally solved the mystery of Earth's greatest mass extinction
Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests the answer lies in Earth's greatest mass extinction, when warming oceans and falling oxygen ...
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Oh, this Crocothemis was my 600th observation recorded on @inaturalist.bsky.social 🥳🪲🦗
Max Aubry@strepsipzerg.com · 3w agoI went in the water in Lobau, and enjoyed the dragon/damselfly diversity. Many of them I couldn't photograph, but here's Crocothemis erythraea and Erythromma viridulum! #insects #dragonfly #wien #macrophotography
Oh, I just realized you can also see the cute Waterlilly leaf Bettles a bit on the last picture. Adult and larvae! They're pretty cool I think. #beetle
Max Aubry@strepsipzerg.com · 3w agoI went in the water in Lobau, and enjoyed the dragon/damselfly diversity. Many of them I couldn't photograph, but here's Crocothemis erythraea and Erythromma viridulum! #insects #dragonfly #wien #macrophotography
I write and edit science clearly, accurately, with zero AI slop. Specialty: Australian flora, ecology, conservation, threatened species. Manuscripts, comms pieces, thesis chapters, grant copy. If it needs to be both correct and readable, that's the whole job
European lizards, who were already struggling, are going to be facing a new thread with introduced species of Mantises apparently... #science #invasive #insects
Scientists warn invasive Asian mantises are threatening Europe's wildlife
Two striking Asian praying mantis species that have rapidly spread across Europe have now been officially classified as invasive, raising new concerns about their impact on native wildlife. Boosted…
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