I'm proud of our li'l Schoolhouse Rock for Insect Taxonomists cartoon, but if you're not in Bug World here are some annotations for you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI... cc @danlwarren.bsky.social
Starting Monday off with an accepted paper 🐝
Heartbroken to be missing the Southeastern Branch Meeting this week 😢@entsocamerica.bsky.social
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
Thank you. The number of people /colleagues who seem to be business as usual/missing the world on fire is wild.
And onto sprayer calibration with Jay McCurdy
Photo of a bright yellow slug oozing and eye level toward the camera against a bright gray sky, green hillside and dark tree, and foreground of moist dirt and leaves. The slug’s eye stalks are a warm gray tipped with lighter color, and they blur out slightly as they reach directly for the camera
Just a truly photogenic slug to bless your Thursday morning
Flier for my talk
Friends in the DC area:
I will be giving a Profs and Pints talk about the science of sustainable seafood. It's based on my upcoming book on the topic.
Please share with interested folks!
Get tickets here: profsandpints.ticketleap.com/net/
🧪🦑🌎🐟
Next up is the best part: pest management and pollinator 🐝 health with Jeff Harris
On to Alan Henn talking about disinfectants/disinfestants
Next up is @msstate.bsky.social entomologist Blake Layton, talking about fire ant biology and determining the longevity of termiticides.
Starting our Stoneville day with the great pesticide education coordinator Gene Markel and @msstate.bsky.social extension John Byrd talking about Cogon grass, a noxious weed.
Coauthored with a great team - @jaydevans.bsky.social and @renamschweizer.bsky.social are the only two on this platform right now.
Spending the day doing recertification:continuing education for my commercial pesticide applicators license
Our new #beenome preprint is out! Protandrena passiflorae is a cool specialist pollinator that only visits Passiflora lutea, a subtle vine with small yellow flowers.
Maybe cats are right and we’d all feel better if we sat in a cardboard box.
Wordle in TWO 🎉
Ran across some great #entofashion yesterday at the consignment store…. They were sadly not my size. Has anyone else seen these before?!
Notification of a paper accepted. Good start to a Monday!
Is there a way to teach others what you’re looking for? I’d love to know more about how to evaluate questionable ones I run across.
Finally deactivated X/twitter.
My sleep schedule has been off and struggling - logged in at two am this morning and there were awful gruesome photos.
No thank you. And now I’m clearly not getting back to sleep.
Not a problem! Always looking for new authors 💕
Crossposted… Let’s do this again! I’ve read almost all the recommendations made the last few years (way more than 12!)
2025 BOOK CHALLENGE 🚨
Read 12 books recommended by 12 friends.
📕You can only make one recommendation and it should be a book you have already read and LOVE.
I *really* hope a bunch of real taxonomists apply to this based on experience in classification…..
Never done taxonomy at the university scale before but I'm excited to find out whose genitalia you get to dissect
This.
Watching the challenger explode on TV at school.
Oooh. I’ve been looking at it. What are your first thoughts?
A nerd in a teal sweater holding a stack of books about railroads in front of a wall of framed maps.
Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com
Are you open the 26th?