The INHS Med Ent lab has some good things lined up for #entsoc2025 !

I’m always thinking about a deluxe version of DND bugs with more classes, and after a long time of chaos and intense work among shows I’ve finally got some time to finish it! Which one would you choose? 💚🐛🐞🐝🪲

Mechanistic evidence of widespread insecticide resistance among the Illinois West nile virus vectors Culex pipiens and Culex restuans - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Mechanistic evidence of widespread insecticide resistance among the Illinois West nile virus vectors Culex pipiens and Culex restuans

I'm excited to share that my second dissertation chapter (and my first, first-author article!) has been published! 🥳🦟
www.doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Large block letters reading "YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME", in marbled trans Pride colors (light blue, pink, white, pink, light blue) against a black background. Design is from Stevie Bees/Stevie's Safe Spaces.

I'll stand up and speak up for my trans and LGBTQ+ family, friends, and neighbors. Art/design by @steviesafespaces.com:

colorful digital illustration of several invertebrates (a scorpion, a beetle, a worm, a fly, a lantern fly, an inchworm, a treehopper, and a moth) surrounding the words “love the unloved”

where are my invertebrate lovers? 🐛🐞🐜🦂

#bugsky #bug #invertebrates #entomology #art

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay.

They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence!
Mustard on the [Be][At] bro.

Happy Black History Month!

Charles Darwin from @lettersofnote: I loathe, I abhor the sea and all ships which sail on it. --Charles Darwin to his sister, 4 Aug 1836 I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before -- Charles Darwin to William Fox 24 Oct 1852 I am very tired, very stomachy and hate nearly the whole world. -- Charles Darwin to Thomas Haxley 10 September 1860 I am poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything -- Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell 1 Oct 1861 I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees. -- Charles Darwin to John Lubbock 3 Sept 1862

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

Last days to see my show "Relics" at Beinart Gallery in Melbourne. 🎨 Until the 23rd!
Process of "snapshot", fauna, flora and fungi sculptures on a thrifted camera.
beinart.org/collections/...

#mushroomart #rainbowart #sciart

An annual tradition is coming up Sat Feb 22: the INSECT FEAR FILM FESTIVAL!

Info HERE: www.chambanamoms.com/events/insec...

This year’s festival will feature:
🕷 An insect petting zoo – featuring tarantulas
🪳 Bugscope (scanning electron microscope)
🪲 Insect arts and crafts for the whole family

Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.

Pictures of the two books I read in January: “The word for world is forest” by Ursula K. Le Guin and “the mercy of gods” by James S. A. Corey.

Video games frequently won over reading last month…these books were great though!

Compassion is not weakness. Neither is showing kindness.

Please take care of yourselves and others around you. Please take breaks when you need.
You are important. 💜

New World Biologists🌿✨

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

Possibly my favorite #microCT scan I've done all year - A mosquito pupa (Culex pipiens)! 🥰

Thank you! 😊

Doctoral hooding ceremony was this past weekend and my husband gifted me a sword 🤩🥳 How cool is that?! #PhDONE