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Looking to make some eye-catching graphics for your next presentation or poster? You don’t have to make your own!
Check out our blog post on illustration & image resources for your science to find out more!
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There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on
A photo of a wetland scene featuring various labeled wildlife species standing near water, including an American Alligator, Great Blue Heron, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbills, Black Vultures, Great Egret, and a Limpkin against a green, forested background.
I hiked out to a sinkhole that hosts hundreds of alligators and stumbled across a rather surreal surprise: a grand gathering of #Birds.
We get a reprimand if spending on a working dinner for a speaker we invite to campus - which is the only compensation they get - goes above about $70 per person.
On screen display showing progress of a new operating system (ugh)
Nothing like a terrible sequence of events that ends up with breaking the “never upgrade” rule….
This #PhilTransB theme issue, organised by @ellileadbeater.bsky.social and @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social, explores how and why animal minds have evolved to be so different from one another: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
Honesty, ingenuity, precision, and self-dignity are core principles in research from the development of ideas to their implementation. Write your fucking own grant!
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.
Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
These images show live embryos of animals (jellyfish, crustacean, worm, sea urchin, sea squirt, beetle) and one of animals closest single-celled relatives. They were captured taking advantage of fluorescent proteins localised on the outer membrane of cells, allowing us to observe cell outlines. 1/9
Goldfinch courtship
#Birds
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Not entirely behind this move, but it is a much better idea than cutting the gas tax and driving up demand, and likely is a more progressive (in a distributional sense) policy.
WANTED: Lead Collections Manager. Smithsonian NMNH Botany is looking for a Supervisory Museum Specialist to manage the United States National Herbarium and a top-notch collections team. For more information, visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications due in two weeks (1 May 2026).
White-throated Sparrow sticking its face into a dandelion on an overgrown lawn. The bird is likely foraging for insects within the flower. They are a brown and gray bird with elaborate black and white stripes on their head and a white throat, plus dandelion yellow above their eyes.
White-throated Sparrow here to remind you that sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses
and if there's no roses around, don't let that stop you
#birds
A small fly with bright red elongated eyes, tan on the underparts and legs with brown and black stripes on the thorax. It is standing on a mushroom.
Champion of the fruit fly lek. 🏆
Zygothrica sp.
Intag Refugio, Ecuador
A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fight continues with the challengers evenly balanced. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fight continues with the fly on the right seeming to gain an upper hand and pushing the fly on the left backwards. The fly on the right is putting all his might into the battle, back legs in the air. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
The fly on the right emerges victorious with the fly on the left exiting toward the back of the scene. A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.
We noticed these fruit flies are behaving like tiny big horn sheep of fly world so we went back today to see if I could get some photos of the action. Here you have it, a play in 4 acts! Make me wonder if they evolved the elongated eyes for this purpose.
Zygothrica sp.
Intag Refugio, Ecuador
NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology LIGHTNING TALKS: 9:15 - 10:30 AM EDT Focus on the collective: what can our community do in a time of uncertainty? PROTHAMA MANNA, CLEMSON UNIV. MOHAMED NOOR, DUKE UNIVERSITY RUTH SHAW, UNIV. OF MINNESOTA JOSEPH GRAVES, NC A&T STATE UNIV. SCOTT EDWARDS, HARVARD UNIV. EMILY JOSEPHS, MICHIGAN STATE UNIV. ALISON DAVIS RABOSKY, UNIV. OF MICHIGAN WORKSHOP & BREAKOUTS: 11 - 12:30 PM EDT Focus on the individual: how scientists can respond constructively, creatively, and sustainably in the face of instability NELIA VIVEIROS, UNIV. OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS
đź‘‹ đź‘‹ SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium:
Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology
Pls RT to help get the word out!
This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.
The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.
The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is home to the rarest fish in the world. One of my UNLV biology profs, Dr James Deacon studied them, testified in defense of the pupfish in the 70s during a legal fight over groundwater pumping, and helped establish the Refuge 🧵 🌎
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_...
Rockwell guy standing up painting
This chair is uncomfortable.
“In China bats have long been considered lucky creatures because the written symbol for bat has the same pronunciation as that for happiness. Consequently, bats are frequently featured in textile patterns and porcelain designs in both China and Japan. Since the perfection of the full moon is also viewed as an auspicious occurrence, the combination of a bat and the moon suggests exponential happiness.” color woodblock print of a black bat flying in front of a full moon
Happy International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇!
Takahashi BihĹŤ (Japan, b.1873)
#Bat and Moon, c. 1928–30
Woodblock print (shin hanga / kachĹŤ-e), ink & color on paper
Sheet 10 3/4 x 11 3/16 in. (27.3 x 28.4 cm)
MIA P.77.28.46 collections.artsmia.org/art/91665/ba...
#JapaneseArt
I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:
mhibbins.github.io
I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
Poster of a talk “social and population biology of temperate bats” by Dr Hugh Broders from the University of Waterloo
Celebrating #BatAppreciationDay with this #LaurierBiology seminar poster from 2018! #SciArt
Resharing for International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇
For International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇:
Art Inspiring Science: The Moche Bat medium.com/cma-thinker/...
