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Seems we have enough Australian Entomology / other insect people to start a starter pack. Who have I missed? go.bsky.app/8d9RtMC

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Really excited to share that the first paper I’ve contributed to has been published! With the help of citizen science, we described 34 new Australian parasitoid wasp species, including Apanteles darthvaderi. doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Conservation #CitizenScience #DNAbarcoding #Entomology #Hymenoptera

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

What scientific discovery absolutely blew you away? Of course there are many for me, but this one comes to mind (one I discuss in ENDS OF THE EARTH): freshwater lakes, some the size of the Great Lakes, buried under 2 or more miles of ice in Antarctica. With living creatures inside, no less.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

submitted 20 days ago • 51 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 23 days ago • 604 comments

#pixelart #artpost

submitted 45 days ago • 31 comments

Those curl grubs could be Christmas beetles as well as other native Australian scarabs which are important for the soil.

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NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

submitted 45 days ago • 995 comments

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄 Image: The Latest Kate

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Picked up this gorgeous book to introduce some positive and informative conservation stories into little ones’ lives. I often feel that we are overwhelmed by the abundance of negative events and it is important to remember the good progress too. 📚💙 #BookSky #Science

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

time to highlight my favorite christmas gift of all time from last year

submitted 65 days ago • 12 comments

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

submitted 66 days ago • 60 comments

love this! What an amazing resource iNat has become for both science and engaging folks in the natural world around them 🌍 🪲 🌐 🦔 🧪 🕷️🌺

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Chauvet Cave was discovered on the 18th December 1994. 30 years ago today. To many it is the most arresting expression of cave art in the archaeological record & it is one of the oldest examples in Europe. Here are four of my highlights. archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/chauvet/en #AncientSky 🦣🏺

submitted 68 days ago • 20 comments

Here is a very fantastical isopod I drew in the excitement of multiple slaters turning up to visit our home, which I take as a good omen for my upcoming program #SciArt #Art #Crustmas

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Some cool things about sea spiders: - they’re not really spiders, although they’re related. - they respire through their legs. - their bodies are so reduced that their internal organs are mainly in their legs. - males care for the eggs. - various species range through all earth’s 🌏 oceans.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

I've been accepted into masters! Endangered isopods, here I come!! 🥳

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Have you ever seen a pufferfish skeleton? The spines are modified scales. (Image source unknown)

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Over a third of professors are married to other professors. That creates a puzzle for hiring. I wrote about this curious practice that's immensely common to academia but nowhere else: Hiring the spouses of a person you want to recruit. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 78 days ago • 11 comments

A warm and humid walk through the Adelaide Botanic Gardens yesterday 😊

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

submitted 92 days ago • 55 comments

I haven't been this excited about a 'daily' game before 😁

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

First we zig, then we zag. #bugsofbluesky #entomology #macrophotography

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

Definitely worth checking the thread for the video of these microscopic cells in action 👌

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

submitted 91 days ago • 33 comments

as both a scientist and an occasional scientific illustrator i'm pretty grossed out by a journal using AI imagery. not only are AI image generators fundamentally based in plagiarism (y'know, the thing we're really not supposed to do?), they're a major source of emissions + environmental degradation

submitted 85 days ago • 6 comments

Have you noticed fewer Christmas beetles in recent years? If you spot one, you can contribute your observation to this project to help their research! 🪲 #science invertebratesaustralia.org/christmas-be...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Thought I'd create a starter pack for arthropod evolutionary work. Sure I've missed people so let me know people to add.

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

submitted 86 days ago • 201 comments

Is the SciArt Feed 🐡 just a couple of days away from 2k subscribers? Please share!

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

Thankful for large bees

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

Any random shape around you might actually be a wasp nest.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

one of my favorite little things this year was reviewing beetle books for American Entomologist: not just because I got to read two excellent beetle books, but I also got a chance to sneak a little cartoon in there too academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 91 days ago • 12 comments