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exit strategy: 🌿🏡🌿

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

I spent the saturday sorting and identifying rove beetles I collected last summer for my bachelor thesis, which I'm going to write this year. The thesis is going to be about the #Staphylinidae diversity in a local nature reserve and I can't wait to go there again! I'm definitely ready for spring.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Great news, you’ve collected enough plastics in your body to start forming an exoskeleton. The universe will always bend toward crab.

submitted 11 days ago • 55 comments

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

Today is my birthday and if you want to give me a gift, please repost my art 😊 #sciart

submitted 13 days ago • 59 comments

Sometimes the best medicine is dissapearing into the woods

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes that’s the way it is

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Valentines Day lab meeting in the UT Insect Collection was unconventional.

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

animal valentines

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Die genetische Vielfalt von Tieren und Pflanzen nimmt weltweit ab – das zeigt die bisher größte Studie zur genetischen Diversität. Forschende um Dr. Catherine Grueber haben das Erbgut von 628 Arten analysiert und festgestellt, dass zwei Drittel davon genetische Verluste erlitten haben. 1/4

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

❤️ 🐞

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

submitted 262 days ago • 1243 comments

Lasst uns auf die Straßen gehen, die Debatte zurückerobern und gemeinsam für eine lebenswerte Zukunft kämpfen. Deshalb rufen wir zum bundesweiten Klimastreik vor der Wahl auf – am Freitag, 14. Februar 2025 überall in Deutschland!

submitted 73 days ago • 9 comments

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

submitted 23 days ago • 53 comments

This is a photo of a woodlouse/pill bug I took the other day whilst in the woods. Isopods are so under appreciated. #Bugs #Isopods #Invertebrates

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Stag beetles! They are just like stags, equipped with supposedly intimidating weapons on their heads but end up extremely cute and adorable! Well a stag can be deadly if you don’t keep a respectable distance, but stag beetles are totally harmless!

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

The world: 🔥🔥🔥 Me: Do u wanna see a cool bug

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

submitted 26 days ago • 108 comments

Niemals genug Flechtenfotos. #sorrynotsorry

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Ich hab mal gelesen, dass man abends bis zu 2 cm kleiner ist als morgens, weil niedergedrückt und müde, aber so schwer, wie das Gewicht der Welt gerade ist, sind es momentan wohl eher 10

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

🐌 Weinbergschnecken können rund 40 Jahre alt werden! 🐌 Ihre Bestände schrumpften stark durch exzessives Sammeln für den Eigenbedarf. 🐌 Weinbergschnecken können dank symbiotischer Bakterien und spezieller Enzyme Zellulose verdauen – eine Fähigkeit, die uns Wirbeltieren fehlt. 🌿 #RäuberDesTages

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Unpopular opinion: you can’t call yourself an animal lover if you only like the cute fuzzy ones. Saying you love animals but hate bugs for example means you only love 5% of known animal species. It is estimated that 95% of living animals on Earth are invertebrates #entomology #entomemeology

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

The world feels overwhelmingly scary right now. So here’s a Puffin.

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

But still: Gibt immer noch Hoffnung. Wandel ist möglich, und es liegt an uns, ihn zu gestalten. Unsere Zukunft ist nicht durch „Schicksal“ etc. vorgezeichnet – sie wird durch unsere Entscheidungen bestimmt. Also lasst uns gemeinsam dafür sorgen, dass diese Wahl ein Sieg für die Demokratie wird. ✊🏽

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Ich will keine Zeitzeugin sein. ._.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I think I'm going to have to log off of the internet for a bit before the news cycle breaks my brain entirely. Hundreds of millennia of human evolution have not provided us the cognitive tools required to process this level of administrative chaos.

submitted 33 days ago • 296 comments

Because I have no words for the political disaster in Germany today, here are some lichens I saw in Sweden last year

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Wollte ich schon länger mal machen: Habe meine liebste Science-Accounts hier mal aufgelistet; verschiedene Fachbereiche, deutsch- und englischsprachig: go.bsky.app/8nQFhiR

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Sometimes, all you need is a lovely lighthouse bollard to brighten your day. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 33 days ago • 15 comments

I am breaking my own rule about posting genAI crap because this one oh my god

submitted 34 days ago • 72 comments

...well? Would you? 🐙

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

Nach 3 Jahren Naturarium die erste Ausnahme: ein politischer Text. Heute ist der 27. Januar, der Tag der Befreiung von Auschwitz – ein Tag des Gedenkens. Es ärgert mich, das Gefühl zu haben, heute so einen Text schreiben zu müssen. But here we go: steadyhq.com/de/db21f24b-...

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

Bakterien sind allgegenwärtig. Nicht nur auf der Erde, auch die Internationale Raumstation #ISS beherbergt ihre eigene mikrobiologische Weltraumgemeinschaft. Ein #MibiFacts in Space Thread 🛰🦠 1/9

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Heute ist Welttag der Ruderfußkrebse, der Copepoda (nicht wirklich). Deswegen ein paar Bilder zu Copepoden. Copepoden sind sehr schwer zu bestimmen, weshalb ich das gleich gar nicht versuche. Am Anfang eines Copepodenlebens steht das Ei das in Säcken am Muttertier befestigt ist.

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Flechten, my love, always

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments