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This katydid from Ecuador has been affectionately named by photographers "candy-cane katydid". The truth is... we are not sure which species it is. One possibility is a Harroweria nymph, but until someone witnesses the transformation into the adult stage it will remain a mystery.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Finally, some good news today.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Where can we donate to the legal fund for NSF employees fired without cause today?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

submitted 7 days ago • 153 comments

blanketed ❄️

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

They’re going to get us all killed.

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submitted 8 days ago • 149 comments

friday. spicy dead lady. yep.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Edward Ruscha, OOF, 1962 (reworked 1963) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135163

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

terrifying and devastating. exactly as intended.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 9 days ago • 1052 comments

Big day to be an infectious disease. Huge.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

every day for the foreseeable future

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Top five grumpy notes written by the father of evolutionary biology, naturalist, and humanist Charles Darwin. #DarwinDay

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

In celebration of Darwin Day 2025, Darwin Online has issued the largest collection of Darwin caricatures ever assembled, including, they claim, 30 that were previously unknown. Here’s a link: https://darwin-online.org.uk/Caricatures.html 🌱🐋🧪🐡 #HistSTM #EvoBio

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

I have shut down your work in the lab that does science at which you were probably making new knowledge Forgive me it was expensive so gender and so woke

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

🧪🧬🔬◼️ !!happy international day of [redacted] and [redacted] in science!! ◼️🔬🧬🧪

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Late-stage PhD students: We want to bring you to NYU Biology to meet peers and make connections with potential postdoctoral mentors. Apply to be part of our Emerging Scholars Symposium!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The news remains shit so why not enjoy this video of someone trying to clean a water bowl for tortoises while the tortoises repeatedly try to get in it? (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DF0jAMl... )

submitted 14 days ago • 113 comments

Aye-ayes are clearly unusual, but @glom.bsky.social @3rdreviewer.bsky.social &co show that they also have an unusual pattern of #MutationBias; older females transmit more mutations than males. This is a first for mammals, raising questions about other #lemurs 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/40SR4kj

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

friday, lightbox

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

White House Announces Appointment Of Virus As Head Of Pandemic Response

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

New paper with Sarthak Mishra! Maybe it will bring you some joy given all this (waves arms around). "Estimating recombination using only the allele frequency spectrum" 1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments

winter mushrooms (bloomington, indiana)

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 21 days ago • 312 comments

“Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025.” new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

January has been a hell of a year

submitted 23 days ago • 101 comments

friday. whiskey.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Also worth keeping in mind: every program director, program officer, and other NSF staff I've ever interacted with are kind, thoughtful, & professional. They are working through a challenging situation & deserve kindness on the other side of this. Direct anger & frustration at leadership, not them

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submitted 25 days ago • 88 comments

[me, looking at the rest of today's news]: is there any way we could speed this thing up?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment