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soulsynapse.bsky.social

PhD student @ ASU's Social Insect Research Group 🐜🐝 ants, bees, wasps, social behavior, phylogenetics, evolutionary game theory ❤️ Community science, documenting the natural history of ants @ AntSciHub.com, discord.gg/antkeeping, reddit.com/r/antkeeping

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Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

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High quality An't 🖤 Gelis species ichneumonid wasp.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

A timely assist.

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Pretty happy with this feeder. Ants seem to like it too.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Currently figuring out how to print this in high enough quality that it does it justice

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

Pheidole rhea annoyed that I'm looking at em.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

No, YOU'RE making increasingly elaborate conceptual diagrams instead of grading papers

submitted 120 days ago • 16 comments

Gonna repost this every so often until it's full: If you're into ecological niche modeling / species distribution modeling (ENM or SDM), here's a starter pack for you! And if you're an investigator in the field and you'd like to be added, please let me know in the replies. bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 121 days ago • 28 comments

Cephalotes clypeatus?! 🤯 via @alexwild.bsky.social

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I'm doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow 1:30-3:30 Eastern. Looking forward to answering some questions! www.reddit.com/r/askscience...

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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

submitted 122 days ago • 176 comments

Well, it is sufficiently costly for scientists to be wrong. It is not sufficiently costly for news orgs to spread lies. The voters eat the cost of those lies; temporal discounting alone makes it hard for any reasonable string of accountability, à la an iterative prisoners dillema.

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I agree with this article. It is time for scientists to build trust - we only do it by bringing everyone in and teaching the scientific method. We only beat misinformation and authoritarianism with the freedom that science brings. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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More reports out of the ant-keeping hobbyist community about canned crickets killing colonies. Latest: www.reddit.com/r/antkeeping... Previous: www.reddit.com/r/antkeeping... More: www.reddit.com/r/antkeeping...

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A starter pack for myrmecologists and our allies 🩵🐜🩷 go.bsky.app/zo95qR

submitted 128 days ago • 11 comments

So icy and cool Cricket-cockroach I think not Grylloblattidae #insecthaiku #EntSoc24 (photo by Joyce Gross)

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Legend has it that if you cite all five Wheelers in one manuscript, you can slot them into the myrmecology gauntlet and solve eusociality with a snap of your fingers. This paper got pretty close..

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Taking a stab at a starter pack of Evolutionary Biologists — this was trickier than expected both because of the interface setup and because of the 150-person limit go.bsky.app/TUNHbNu

submitted 151 days ago • 14 comments

I tried to build a starter pack for researchers in ecology sensu lato. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/2MdGeqi I can add more people and spread it around.

submitted 152 days ago • 89 comments

Temnothorax quercicola with featherweight forceps for scale

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It is amusing that all the new entom people joining here are being flooded with anime and stuff, but if that is you and you would like it to stop, follow this starter pack.

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School admissions forums are an interesting game. The resources' value decays over time, but contributions aren't even necessarily valid. If I'm being optimistic, it feels like a producer/scrounger game running on empathy. 1/2

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Ornithology bsky punching air over the new icon 😤 Entomologists rise up

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Me: "I hate people. They're selfish, cruel, and mindless. I want to run away to the woods." Also me: "There are so many interesting people online. It's cosmically unfair that I don't have the time to become friends with every single one of them."

submitted 460 days ago • 12 comments

The way I've been grappling with this for the last several months 😭

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What? Conservatives used asian-american racial tensions to strike down affirmative action and it didn't benefit Asian-Americans and instead benefitted legacies? Say it isn't so. Who could have warned us this would happen? Other than the ENTIRETY OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. www.nber.org/papers/w31527

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I love how blue sky feels like early twitter. Between what's been happening on Reddit and Twitter I am somewhat waiting for the other shoe to drop, though.

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