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I'm proud of our li'l Schoolhouse Rock for Insect Taxonomists cartoon, but if you're not in Bug World here are some annotations for you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSI... cc @danlwarren.bsky.social

They don't write 'em like they used to

New extension position in urban and community forestry at the University of Illinois: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree.... Short notice, as it closes November 9th - happy to answer questions about the position, department, and Urbana-Champaign.

This is the appropriate way to react if you come across a fossil fish.

A potential new data center in West Virginia is “almost certain to kill” 1.2 acres of American Chestnuts that have thus far managed to survive the chestnut blight and produce chestnuts, according to the American Chestnut Foundation. wvpublic.org/story/energy...

Earthstars are having a good season in this part of Scotland. Collared Earthstars (Geastrum triplex) are the largest and most common of the earthstars. Taken in SWT Bawsinch and Duddingston Nature Reserve, Edinburgh. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #iPhone @scotwildlife.bsky.social

Job Alert! I am recruiting for a post doc in my group. The position will focus on establishing how changes in climate cause population change in birds and mammals. @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Editors, because you're drowning in AI slop, check out this clever intervention with a link to an evaluation app medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

First they put elytra in Minecraft, now they have brochosomes in Overwatch? Yes, good, more entomology content for the teens

Now THAT’s good research, you love to see it

Rifling thru one of the Miscellaneous Invertebrates cabinets, a jump scare in three acts

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Winter is coming, but there will be moths www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...

Plant genomes broadly are such a disaster because apparently they just do not care about about anything as far as I understand

There are certainly animals with weird complex genomes. But let me update your graph with the maize numbers.

The Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at U. of Tennessee, Knoxville is accepting applications for MS or PhD. Admitted graduate students are fully funded through teaching assistantships that cover tuition, fees, and an annual pay of $28,134. Deadline Dec 1 2026. eeb.utk.edu/graduate-stu...

The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

Evening of doodling

Please share! Our department has two tenure-track job ads up today. Here is the #botany job, with an open mind towards multiple subdisciplines. Fantastic facilities, perfect-sized institution, easy living. Come work here! bsu.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... @botsocamerica.bsky.social

🦎*Please share!*🦎 Review begins Oct 5. The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...

Happy Hagfish Day! Today we’re celebrating hagfishes - hagfishes are ancient marine animals perhaps best known for their remarkable ability to produce large amounts of slime when threatened. When the slime hits seawater, it expands to form a gel which can clog a predator's mouth and gills.

OMG IS THIS MOTHS