Srsly

A flock of wild turkeys roaming the grounds of Pittsburgh’s Homewood Cemetery

Solitary turkey striding grandly past a very large “Minions” memorial display in the veterans area of the cemetery (???)

Dinosaurs! At the cemetery

a pelican looking at the camera with their pouch slightly open so their top beak(not sure if this is what its called) is open over a large gap

First of all, bird.

Second of all, bird.

Mostly importantly, bird. 🪶

The Sensory Ecology of Tsetse Flies: Neuroscience Perspectives on a Disease Vector Tsetse flies (Glossina sp.) are important disease vectors that feed on vertebrate blood. Host-seeking depends on a combination of sensory systems, from long-range senses like olfaction and vision, to...

Exciting review on the sensory ecology of Tsetse flies.
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Work with me!

Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University invites applications for a Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ocean Sciences. This competitive postdoctoral fellowship will be awarded for a one-year period, + 2nd year possible. Please see apply.interfolio.com/183855!

please, I can pay you in delicious acorns

(If anyone can explain to me a single external morphological character that places Notaris and Dorytomus in two different families by GOLLY I’d love to hear it)

snippet of one of my Weevil ID Notes ppts, observing that "Pnigodes looks like a dirty Bagous" (this is slide 1 of the 3-slide series titled "Hated Erirhines")

hello again from the weevil mines

They're just little guys. You can look at them for free and you can look at them up close if you pay for Bird Premium (binoculars or camera). They're just doing behaviors. They will never email you.

Magicus INDEED

Still thinking about your Columbo proposition tbh

Humbly submitting r/weeviltime

My feelings PRECISELY, apparently all published work on this genus is based on fully denuded specimens bc the wax was getting in the way of all the morphological characters :[

SEM of holotype of Camarotus dilatatus from Ruben Dario Collantes Gonzalez's unpublished (?) revision of the genus

Joao Burini's iNat phenomenal photo of a SOMEHOW UNIDENTIFIED species of Camarotus found in Brazil. It is covered with waxy filamentous secretions that are deep fuchsia pink and fluorescent yellow, and has flattened itself to a leaf like the tortoise beetle this genus clearly wants to be. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111690886

a productive morning of weevil IDs fully derailed by the existence of Camarotus, the curculionine weevil who couldn't decide whether to be an attelabid or a cassidine chrysomelid

Tbf I shouldn’t oversimplify this, we must also appreciate the knife fish hat

I bet this is a very good and important review paper but most importantly: chickadee hat

You can help here www.catefaehrmann.org/gwydir_turtles or here (NSW only residents) www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/Pages/ePe...

Coffee breaks are greatly enhanced if you can step outside and watch bees while the kettle boils ☕️

Ohhh good job li’l Phanaeus!!

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Very cool #ant stuff for the weekend.

Original paper here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Dang that IS gay

hot pink flowers that sort of look like primitive jet planes. Like the name suggests, the leaf to flower ratio is really skewed to the flowers.

gayfeather is Liatris. Gaywings is this banger, Polygaloides paucifolia

Picture of a rubber mallet with SSB on it, on a table with a rasp, a file, and a sanding block

I still have (and use) the SSB ( @systbiol.bsky.social ) mallet Luke Harmon gifted me for being the “hammer of SSB” (sending “not angry, just disappointed” emails to our then-publisher who was having issues putting our papers in the right journal, with correct authors, etc.)

#ScientificPublishing

lol sorry, just “spring ephemerals,” the bugs of plants (???)

I love them, any teeny tiny predator is my friend

lol that’s not inaccurate I guess, I could have just stuck to garlic mustard

Sliced-up forearm, fully shredded by hateful invasive plants

Child said I looked like I’d been “abused, or attacked by a very small bear”

Hatred ended with Japanese knotweed, multiflora rose is my nemesis now

teeny tiny brown snake who was under a log with the carabids

A spring wildflower I’m told is called “blue-eyed Mary”. It is blue and white.

Spring beauty, the one non-trillium wildflower I correctly IDed on the first try

A fat n sassy erebid (?) caterpillar in the leaf litter

assorted friends from the weed pull this AM

hell yeah!!