The First Guy To Ever Dance YouTube video by Ryan George

This supports all of my theories that dance isn't really about finding a mate or ritualize fights, but is really about insects

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🏝️The Land Hermit Crab Workshop has come to a meaningful close right where it all begins: the ocean 🌊

🙇‍♂️Thank you for all that join us in #Okinawa & online - looking forward to continuing supporting the conservation of this amazing animal group 🐚🦀

#Conservation #HermitCrabs #MarineBiology #SciComm

⏳ It's almost time for the Terrestrial Hermit Crab Conservation Workshop 🌴

Joinus here at the University of the Ryukyu in #Okinawa or online

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you #Tambopata river, sad to leave the rain forests of #Peru, but I hope to see you soon 🙏

#NYC here I go 🤞

Insects inspire wonder and drive many to develop a sense of curiosity

"Liu grew up in Riverside, California, and traces his interest in science to playing with bugs in his back yard."

🐛🐜🐞🦗🪲🐝

My flight was cancelled⛈️, no other options to return to Lima - except a flight from Chiclayo, which is 10 h night bus away. Which turned into a 23h mountain drive due to land slides. But I made new friends, hopefully made new conservationists - looking forward to explain all these tickets to finance

How Fungi Move Among Us Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.

From @nytimes.com, “How Fungi Move Among Us.” Follow @spun.earth to learn more! 🌍🧪🍄

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/s...

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From Indiana Native Plant Society, “How Native Plants Stabilize Ecosystems.” Prepare for spring with this helpful information about native gardening. 🌍🧪🌷

indiananativeplants.org/the-science-...

It's 3:30 am as we prepare to enter the cloud forest at Yerba Buena Community Conservation to monitor one of the rarest mammals on earth with Yunkawasi 🟡🐒

I'm I know how lucky I am 🙏

... all I am saying is that if we were looking for spiders we didn't need to be up this early ⏰

Fanny Cornejo is not easy to find:
- After flying to Lima 🍋 #Peru
- I had to fly to Chachapoyas 🦙
- long drive in the Andean mountains ⛰️
- along the Utcubamba River 🏞️
- into the Amazonian forest in Corosha

Well worth it to discuss conservation science with a great group of people

Very grateful to @indianapolisprize.bsky.social for supporting conservation work in #Peru
Looking forward to collaborate with National Wildlife Services (SERFOR) to benefit the country's amazing biodiversity 🦋 including tackling the Illicit Wildlife Trade in invertebrates 🕷️

IFLScience We Have Questions: How Do You Rediscover A “Lost” Species? Find out how the epic mission of rediscovery unfolds.

How do you rediscover a lost species? Global Center Invertebrate Conservation Coordinator Dr. Sérgio Henriques speaks with @iflscience.com "We Have Questions" podcast about how he rediscovered Fagilde's trapdoor spider in Portugal. 🌍🧪🕷️

www.iflscience.com/iflscience-w...

Just landed in #Peru and found an old friend over lunch - #Paddington

I lived in London for over a decade so we go way back, I wonder if he will visit me in Indiana, when the @childrensmuseum.bsky.social Peru exhibit opens this summer

As I prepare to fly to #Peru, the @childrensmuseum.bsky.social celebrated its 💯th anniversary with a #TRex skeleton at the Indianapolis Airport - well worth a visit (or a selfie) - Looking forward to seeing their Peru exhibit this year!!!

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If you haven't yet, here is chance to go... Into the Bush Episode 4.2: with the great Nikki Roach & Cat Kutz
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💬 thought experiment: Invertebrates are 97% of all animals and there's 6 fungi per plant sp.

How would this #WWF report look, if we cared about all biodiversity?

🧮 we would have found 1038 Fungi and 2069 Inverts - but none of those groups were even mentioned

asiapacific.panda.org/our_work/wil...

A wiser colleague once told me:

There are many ways to measure productivity...

all of which are wrong

Has a bee ever landed on you, and instead of getting scared, you appreciate the possibility that you got confused for a flower.

Pholcids don't get the love they deserve, but I think they are awesome predators. The symmetry of the spines in their legs alone should make them prime nature photography models...

5 authors I've read 5 + books by:

- Stephen Jay Gould
- José Saramago
- Douglas Adams

and maybe not what you would expect but honestly:

- Georges Remi (Hergé)
- René Goscinny

Hey folks going to the #AGU24 meeting in December!

AGU used to organize a fun run for attendees in the before times, but in lieu, @dabail10.bsky.social and I thought we’d try to organize an informal one: Wednesday 11th Dec at 7am at the Lincoln Memorial.

Invertebrates, like insects or spiders, would be really cool too see on this chart. But I guess this particular data source would not include those, as they are not considered worth rescuing ...

An infographic detailing facts about the impacts of invasive alien species from the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Report. The infographic also depicts images of various different invasive alien species such as the grey squirrel, alexandrine parakeet and red fox.

Invasive alien species are a threat to #nature, nature’s contributions to people, and good quality of life.

Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at: www.ipbes.net/ias
🧪🌍

Why plastic pollution talks flopped, again "Over 30 million tonnes have leaked into oceans, harming wildlife, poisoning ecosystems."

I don't know why this isn't bigger news, but this was a massive missed opportunity
www.the-star.co.ke/climate-chan...

“It has now been more than 1,000 days and 5 negotiation meetings since governments agreed to establish a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution" and we still got nothing

Your photo of Aphantochilus eating a Cephalotes is one of my favourite nature photos of all times (and I have been working with spiders for more than 20 years).

This is such a meaningful photo for me that my wife once gifted me a small framed photo composition with a photo of us and your photo ...

There is no evidence given here that this man’s condition was actually a spider bite. Most likely an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection.

No spider was seen, no venom test, recluses are uncommon in his area, and bites cannot be diagnosed by vague “marks”.

Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.

Took them long enough... theconversation.com/climate-scie...

Endangered snake found in unlikely places near Bloomington, good sign for recovery The Sycamore Land Trust is partnering with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to restore a wetland north of Bloomington. While doing an initial species survey there, they found Kirtlands snak...

From @wfyi.bsky.social, "Endangered snake found in unlikely places near Bloomington, good sign for recovery." The Sycamore Land Trust is an Indianapolis Zoo grant recipient for their conservation work with Kirtland's snake. 🌍🧪🐍

www.wfyi.org/news/article...