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New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles 159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist) 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A few months ago, KQED did a segment on my regal jumpers. I loved wrangling the spiders and helping put the pieces together. They'll be releasing videos gradually, but the first one just came out! It's both gnarly and cute, so feel free to watch!♥️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=soBe... #SciComm #Bugsky

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Besides the pain level (which seems evolutionarily tuned for its effect on mammals): "...one species, the Maricopa harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex maricopa), (possesses) the most toxic venom known for insects." 😖 🐜 🐜 🐜 🐜 🧪 🪲 🪳 entomologytoday.org/2025/04/17/p...

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Because of last night's rains in central/north Austin, I anticipate leafcutter ant mating flights around dawn tomorrow. Look for massive, goofy-looking bugs with round butts and reddish wings.

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Big day for the genus Dactylopius

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Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 23, 2025 White-lined sphinx moth Hyles lineata Lepidoptera: Sphingidae By Dustin Huntington (www.dustinhuntington.com), New Mexico, USA #arthropodPOTW

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One week to get your applications in for our Blue Carbon Canada positions! Come join a collegial productive team with @taragmartin.bsky.social Sara Knox, Mary O’Connor, Graham Clark, me and our stellar set of PDFs and grad students! 🇨🇦 🌊 #dreamteam

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Saugeen Rita Letendre ~ Abenaki 1976

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“Me too,” said a field mouse. “I have not seen anything funny in a long time.”

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I hope this is encouraging for other post-secondaries. But many (most) institutions have nowhere near the resources of the Harvards of this world. It’s important for the big, rich schools to fight, but it will also take a united, long-term team effort comprised of big and small schools.

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I’m convinced we need to engage people of all faiths in the context of their diverse faiths to make both local and global headway on climate change and the biodiversity crisis. I’m going to miss Pope Francis in that regard. theconversation.com/three-ways-p...

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We lost the only true moral leader on the world stage. It's immense. But Pope Francis led by listening to the grassroots, lifting up the people's demands. He put "ecological debt" in the climate encyclical, a concept that emerged in Ecuador's oil-poisoned jungle. Millions of leaders remain.

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“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis

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so they're mycoblogging

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Cumulus Cottontail-ius I Jason Carter ~ Cree 2024

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🦇 Whether you've just discovered you have a bat roost, have had a known bat roost for a while or are just curious about what having bats means this page is for you: buff.ly/hB0v79Y . It's designed to help answer your questions and offer advice and support.

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This whole thing is a delight and it also has the single greatest Acknowledgements section ever written.

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Happy #Caturday to all floofy bellies in sunbeams.

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NEW - Advanced Polls are now open across British Columbia for the federal election. Voting will be open from 9am until 9pm today through Monday. Then again in April 28, election day, between 7am and 7pm. #bcpoli

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I’ve always found this argument odd: “If simple life forms are found to exist that is no guarantee that more complex life forms are out there.” …because “simple” life isn’t really very simple. 🧪 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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WOW. A teacher just told me, "I gave one of my 2nd grade (dyslexic) students your nature poetry prompt. He is reluctant to write because of challenges with spelling, but I suspect he’s gifted. I told him just to write and we’d sort out the spelling later. This is what he wrote."

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A couple of our entomological outreach drawers in the UT insect collection.

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Happy #InternationalBatAppreciationDay! Hooray for Alaskan bats! hakaimagazine.com/features/bat...

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Hey Canadians, some early polling stations are now available. Go vote! #elxn45 🗳️

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This post captures the joy of science in a way that elevates my heart and perfectly illustrates the point I was hoping make in this thread: bsky.app/profile/carl...

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16,500-year-old robber fly from permafrost-frozen ground squirrel burrow in the Klondike Goldfields! Cool new paper just out in the #CanadianEntomologist by Scott Cocker, Rob Cannings, and Tristan McKnight. Photo by Hugh McIntosh, Royal BC Museum. #Beringia #Asilidae doi.org/10.4039/tce....

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For anyone who does fieldwork: How excited are you to start at the beginning of the field season? I get giddy, even after 10+ years. Beautiful AB prairie views like this help, though!

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New dinosaur species just dropped www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 16, 2025 Eggplant horned planthopper Leptocentrus taurus Hemiptera: Membracidae By Vijin Varghese, Kerala, India #arthropodPOTW

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A friend showed us some of his Tawny owl research today. What a beautiful species, and what a privilege to be able to just watch people gathering data on the parents and their owlets! Tawny owls live around my house, but I never see them, let alone this close. Wow!

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To track hoped-for shifts in engagement towards previously under-appreciated taxa, we ask the #ZOO2700 students at the start and the end of their intro to #invertebrate morphology & evolution term about their favorite #species of invertebrate and to which phylum it belongs. @sherihincks.bsky.social

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I walk to work almost every day, and I cross streets ranging from quiet residential roads to major highways. I've had near misses at almost all of them over the years. Commit to walking more, and you'll soon recognize the car-centric nature of our society.

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Tachinid fly. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California, USA. March, 2025. #santabarbarabotanicgarden #insect #insectphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #amateurphotography #omsystem #om1 #mzuiko40150pro

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Description of a new tarantula species from Romblon Island, Philippines: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #tarantulas #biogeography #spiders #Invert

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In syilx Okanagan territory, First Nations-led controlled burns are helping to mitigate wildfire risk and replenishing the land. story and photos by Aaron Hemens, first published by our friends @indiginews.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/syilx-cultur...

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"Academics should carefully consider what information they have, or need to have, on their electronic devices when crossing borders and take actions to protect sensitive information where necessary."

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Yet another way for microplastics to get into the food chain – by getting into leaves via the air. When the fossil fuel industry says "we'll always extract oil because we'll always need plastics," remember that that's not without consequences either. 🧪 🌎 🛢️ 💨 🍃 🌾 🥬 🥗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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#bees queen red-tailed bumblebee (b.lapidarius) and common carder (b.pascuorum) 🐝

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This should be the template for every university’s website: let the public know what they gain from research and what they stand to lose. www.harvard.edu

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The devil is always in the details when it comes to managing the interacting complexities of forest resource use, biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience. 🌳 That said I don't really trust the current administration to be considering complexities. 🌲 🌎 www.latimes.com/environment/...

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We asked our #BatTeam which was their favourite bat on the planet? (the hardest question to ask a bat biologist). Jason Headley picked the Wrinkle-faced Bat (Centurio senex) - which is really a fan favourite. This little south American frugivore is just neat. #BatAppreciationDay

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Some work days are better than others. Great to see adult sturgeon beginning to show up in the Milwaukee River after two decades of rehabilitation efforts.

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