That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...
UNDERGROWTH - Sanjuro tries to bargain with The Twins
Holacanthella paucispinosa on the cover of this month's issue of Nature Ecology and Evolution. Photo by Frank Ashwood
Breaking news: giant springtail from Aotearoa NZ made the cover of @natecoevo.nature.com!
This amazing pic of H. paucispinosa by @frankashwood.bsky.social should lure readers to the global study by @zheng-zhou.bsky.social et al on soil animal trophic diversity 🌍🌿🕷️🪱🪳🧪
www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Galeommatoids are one of the most diverse and yet least known groups of clams. They can be free-living, commensal or parasitic, they can filter feed and some are carnivores that suck the bodily fluids of their prey! Many are brightly coloured and very active, like little nudibranchs
Any UC Berkeley grads who are early career faculty? Im first gen academic and didn’t get my regalia for years after starting as faculty because I didn’t know why I’d want it, but it’s sooo nice to wear when your own grads are crossing the stage! #AcademicSky 🧪
photo of a green caterpillar with antlers with its mouth against a metal tube
lol apparently those cute little japanese emperor butterfly (sasakia) caterpillars that have antlers and a :3 face have such bad breath that they scare away predatory wasps. look they're making them take breathalyzer tests. the results are in: stinky!!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Wayne Maddison (waynemaddison.bsky.social), professor emeritus at UBC, captured this video of a nearly transparent jumping spider (tribe Amycini) from Canandé Reserve, Ecuador.
Look closely & you'll see the principal eyes moving as it scans the area visually.
Let's talk about spider-vision! 🕷️🧪
Slender black wasp with a long booty like a carrot, and an ovipositor longer than the creature herself, feeding on the nectar of a cluster of white flowers
The creature still face deep in nectar, carrot abdomen and ovipositor forming a straight line perpendicular to her thorax
Top down of the creature, still face deep in nectar
This isn't a Wasp, it's a Wisp
(Gasteruption* sp? In the family of Hymenopterans known as Carrot Wasps)
macro photo of the head of a queen anne's lace flower still mostly closed. there is a single green lacewing egg on the flower head.
Want a more challenging Egg Hunt? Try arthropod eggs!
Can you spot the Green Lacewing egg on this still-closed head of a Queen Anne's Lace flower?
#inverts #becurious
A QUICK VISUAL TOUR OF CHELICERATES’ ANATOMIES Chelicerates’ morphologies are widely variable: from spiders to horseshoe crabs or mites & scorpions, it can be hard to navigate, even more so with the numerous words used to describe these animals’ body parts. This post aims to serve as a simplified tool for you to better understand Cheliceratime’s entries by summarizing the main information about each large chelicerate groups, so don’t forget to swipe if you’re looking for a group in particular!
What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime !
This post aims to serve as a simplified tool for you to better understand Cheliceratime’s entries by summarizing the main information about each large chelicerate groups, so unroll the thread to find the group you're looking for!⬇️ 🧵
#sciart #arachnid
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For millions of years the traits of predators and prey have dictated their interactions. In the Anthropocene, humans are altering these traits. In @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, we explore how human-induced traits shifts reshape predator-prey interactions.
tinyurl.com/TREEshifts
Grey and white slender bee with big greenish eyes, mandibles clamped on a dry stalk to rest
Sleepy Coelioxys sharptail bee this evening 🥹
I love them
Little mottled green and orange treehopper with a magnificent red-tipped horn, on an oak twig watching over a few dozen little stripy red, black, and white nymphs
She guard ❤️
Oak treehopper moms are the best. I know I've posted about them here before but I love that they stay and watch over their children from egg til they all disperse near adulthood. They're just good lumps.
#InvertebrateParenthood
All creatures large and small are welcome at the water bowl. 👍
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I like how the spider uses its silk string to leave the water bowl. I zoom in to the bowl so we can see the spider a bit better as it was really small.
No place safer to sunbathe for this baby gator then right on top of mom. 🐊
Red and black ant with a flat pug-like face used for plugging holes (aka, "gatekeeper")
Little red and black ant-like jumping spider running along a board
Ant/An't
(Colobopsis gatekeeper ant, and a little Synageles noxiosus jumping spider lad)
a beetle glued to a point. Its head points left, with sausage-like antennae attached to large shielding scapes. The body is punctate, dark brown, and the elytra have gigantic, ear-like rounded bulges, with a golden fringe of setae along their inner edge (handles, we believe, for the ants to grab).
It is a unique pleasure to have someone send you pictures of a species you described. It's like a report that one of your kids is doing all right. This beauty is Orectoscelis westwoodi, a myrmecophile (probably with Pheidole) described back in 2005 from Queensland, AU. (photo by Jan Pražák)
Thanks for sharing, Dinesh!
Share with all mosquito researchers. 🧪🦟
I'm co-organizing a special issue in the Journal of Medical Entomology on systematics, taxonomy, and natural history of mosquitoes. See details in the link. Happy to answer questions. Proposal Deadline 15 April 2026.
academic.oup.com/insect-scien...
Stick-colored/textured orb weaver, being a lump on a twig
Side view, showing off the tall humped abdomen towering over her head, from which 1 of her eye pairs protrudes
Also last night I found another old friend I haven't seen in a couple years, an Ocrepeira orb weaver! A silly lump of a spider with a tall humped booty who loves to blend into Stick and I love them.
@vannabartlett.bsky.social around 25 very small Harvestman at Brandon Country Park this morning. 🤍
Congrats, great to hear! 🥳
(P.S., if you're ever trying to get an earthworm identification, be sure to take photos of the many angles you see in this thread!)
stylized, simple drawing of a horseshoe crab colored in yellow, green, and blue, with the name Tachypleus gigas in the corner
We're horseposting post your horses.
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Attention science communicators!
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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
Apply here!
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This is the medal you win in the Flylympics.
🚨Awards Alert 🚨
Its award season here at SSB!
First up: Graduate Student Research Awards. Due March 20, these awards are for collecting data or otherwise enhancing your dissertation. Open to graduate student society members
Apply here:
www.systbio.org/graduate-stu...
In our new paper, we demonstrate the potential of social media data for tracking range-shifting species, particularly in the leading edge of the expansion. doi.org/10.1111/cobi... (1/6) @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social
Extremely floofy grey lynx spider with legs bunched around her, looking very stern
Floof Lump, if needed
(Hamataliwa grisea)
#EmotionalSupportSpood
The hummingbird mechanic in this game sounds amazing 😊🪶
