Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

A poster for an event called biodiversity on April 22, 2026 an Earth Day cabaret at 254254 S. 12th St. door seven show 8 PM Burlesque and dragged performances in local vendors and educators performance performances by jaida MX Monstera, Victoria Reno, honey tree evil eye, DJ Carl michaels kitten pony Corbo benefiting by scientist. there are many girls interspersed among flowers, and one hot dude

Alright Philadelphia, this is a city-wide alert!

We have an event this Wednesday that you're not gonna want to miss. We've got babes, rain barrels, drag queens, native plants, a diversity of butts, and trees!

At 254 (in center city!)
doors 7, show 8
Get tickets here: biodiversitease.eventbrite.com

I love Silver Falls! Depending on where you're located, highly recommend Alsea Falls as well.

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Complementary insights from transect observations and palynological analyses on Andrena and Lasioglossum foraging in field margins by Giovanetti et al. out now! doi.org/10.26786/192...

A generated edit of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom boxart with a logo that reads: 'I NEED WORK AND ALSO MONEY PLEASE HIRE ME I WROTE A BOOK AND EVERYTHING'

NYT: US Fertility Rates Drop to Another Record Low The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, in large part because of a plunge among teenagers

There are some clues in the age breakdown: The fertility rate for teenagers dropped by 7 percent from 2024’s figure, setting another record low for the group. Since 2007, the rate for teenagers is down by 72 percent, and since 1991, when teenage fertility rates were at a high, the rate is down by 81 percent.

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

That plant native plants one will be mine

we need to adopt a no mow (april and) may policy to allow for *checks notes* the dignity of this country to survive

Thank you Field Museum for preserving this important resource!

Science knows of 21,000 bee species. There are likely thousands more A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

Most bee folks are used to saying there are about 20,000 bee species in the world, but this new study estimates that number of more like 25,000!

theconversation.com/science-know...

Dissertation defense advertisement for Codey Mathis. Dissertation is titled "Assessing the impact of floral resources and vertical stratification on insect behavior and biases of common trapping methodologies for insect communities". Defense is scheduled for Wednesday, January 28th, from 10-11am Eastern time at Penn State and on Zoom. Top left image is Codey holding a bunch of ropes that have gotten tangled and botom right image is Codey sitting in the middle of one of her research plots holding her late beagle Remus.

I'm defending my dissertation next Wednesday, EST. I'll record it on Zoom, but also if folks are interested in the Zoom link, please DM me 🙂 Thank you to everyone who supported me through this journey. I currently have no plans post-graduation, but no matter what I'm excited for these next steps!

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Me whenever I "check in with the outside world" for the last month, horse blinders on to focus on dissertation

A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Amber Glenn wearing her gold medal after winning the US National Championship Women’s Singles Competition. She is dressed in a black short sequined gown and proudly holding a progress pride flag behind her. There is a gaggle of photographers in front of her.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

I would vote for you

🧪🌎❤️👇

Congrats: You are sent to the bug planet.

If you are in line for the bug portal, STAY IN LINE!

Distraction from the Epstein Files

Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach Scientific writing is hard (but my book can help) – but teaching scientific writing is even harder. Nearly all of us teach writing – sometimes in a formal classroom setting, sometimes as advisors t…

Over the holiday, while folks were on well-deserved breaks, our new book was released!

Mentoring writers is hard - we can make it easier for you. Please help spread the word - repost this, tell your colleagues, etc.

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I would like the good people at @skypeascientist.bsky.social to know that my marine-biology-obsessed 11 year old starting texting #squidfacts yesterday and it has literally made her whole month

She reads every fact out loud, I know more about squids now than I every thought humanly possible

Not me about to tattoo what the difference between i.e., and e.g., are on my hands.

I literally check this multiple times daily during dissertation writing. I'm not sure why my brain will not soak in this particular thing.

But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.

-Samwise Gamgee to Frodo Baggins when things looked bleak, JRR Tolkein

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why.

It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened.

And word is some of the survivors of the Brown Uni shooting also survived mass shootings at their high schools. :/

one of my besties has been just hanging out with me the last few days b/c I'm struggling to function post-conferences and my husband has to work LOL it do be that way sometimes. Ain't no issues functioning when you got that parallel bean!

"undiagnosed with anything" doing some heavy lifting