Marianne Alleyne

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Insects’ contributions to people: ecosystem services and functions provided by insects academic.oup.com/aesa/article...

🚨🚨🚨 ACTUAL ART JOB FOR HUMAN ARTIST🚨🚨🚨

Honored to be supporting these two guys 💕. This weekend and the past 35+ years. (They are a great source for me too!)

What’s your favorite (auto)biography by an “entertainer”? I just finished audiobooks of those by Debby Harry and Mike Nichols. These days it’s a genre I like to listen to while walking to work.

wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...

Research led by an immigrant... (Congrats! Francis Halzen.)

ESA Webinar | This Friday, October 9: Get a practical overview of the current federal science and policy environment influencing entomological research. entsoc.org/events/webin...

Shakespeare (& Sir Ian Mckellen) vs Far Right Xenophobia

I have been obsessed with this story all week. This scandal is going to have so many consequences, including geo-political.

A female senator from Minnesota schooling a senator from Missouri about an Iowa mascot (associated with one of today’s most popular female athletes) during a high-stakes Senate hearing = Modern-day American politics.

A female senator from Minnesota schooling a senator from Missouri about an Iowa mascot (linked to one of today’s biggest female athletes) during a high-stakes Senate hearing. =Modern American politics. (While also sneaking in a gopher reference. 👏👏👏👏)

Updated our #5 shrine. Let’s gooooo Lynx. #WNBA #MinnesotaLynx (Art by SetAdriftArt)

I’m excited about this truck.

So, I’ve lived in the US legally for more than 40 yrs, but I’m not a US citizen. This latest SCOTUS ruling scares me. I KNOW those records are faulty because I get mailings sent to me that are intended for citizens only. Never signed a voter reg form, never set foot in a polling place. On purpose

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

We've long known mosquitoes travel with us including via plane. But infected mosquitoes carrying malarial parasites is a nightmare situation. Going to need to start fumigating. 🦟🦠✈️🧪

Me, me, me, pick me….to do the review! I’m independent, external, fed up, fan of voetbal/football/soccer, I’m pro player, and i haz ideas.

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

Florida confirms a death from #dengue as the state struggles with one of its worst recent outbreaks medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09...

Hi if you are in Minneapolis and are this 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog, get medical attention immediately!

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

Vaccinated! (Covid-19 & Flu) =Blue State living. Now will try to be as productive as possible for the rest of the day, before my body starts complaining for 24-48 hours as it usually does after these shots. Still, totally worth it. Thank you, Science!

Tempted to have a T-shirt printed for walking around campus that says: “Yes, I’m almost 60 and thus almost invisible to you, but please move one step to the side so I don’t have to walk through the bushes to let you pass.” But more concise and with profanity.

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

This movie was produced to speak to a very specific audience: those on Team Jesse, & who have loved Costner’s voice since forever (swoon), are dog people, an regularly watch classic F1 races. And need something pulpy after a tough week. IOWs, specifically produced for ME! I didn’t stand a chance.

World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki designed eight buildings in Minnesota, 1958-1981. www.docomomo-us-mn.org/minoru-yamas...

Sign of the times. Everyone in this train car looking at their phone. Everyone missing a gorgeous sunset right outside their window. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Enjoyed my walk in the woods today. Finally traveled to a place (NH/VT) that wasn’t currently experiencing a heatwave. I haven’t felt chilled in an outdoor setting for many months. This suits me much better. Good to find inspiration in nature again.

I always approve of a double serving of insect and resistance art. #minnesotastatefair #mnstatefair #minnesota #mnsf

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Left a wish at Haedong Yonggungsa Temple. (Busan, South Korea)

RE: freedom of speech, academic freedom, and race science. In this (long) thread, I’m going to 1) establish my bona fides on academic freedom and race science, 2) show why academic freedom and freedom of speech are different and… 1/34

Unrelatedly, 🚨🚨COOL BUG JOB ALERT🚨🚨 arthropod biodiversity at good ol’ Cal! I think lepidopterists are encouraged (in the Jerry Powell tradition) but for sheer “biodiversity” we can all admit beetles deserve this aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05523

Left a wish at Haedong Yonggungsa Temple. (Busan, South Korea)

Tried to capture and channel this spirit. #HulkSmashNazis

Schwärmende Eintagsfliegen an der Donau in Budapest. Ephoron virgo, bei uns etwas wenig liebevoll „Uferaas“ genannt, ist dort die Danube fly, also Donau-Fliege. Wenn sie schwärmt, prägt sie das nächtliche Stadtbild. Nach wenigen Stunden ist das Spektakel vorbei.

Laugh all you want at Trump's Hormuz claims, but this is the historical tweet that the fire ants sent out in May 1975 and we all know what happened next

🦟 It’s #WorldMosquitoDay — and Day 4 of Entomology Advocacy Week! Join entomologists in asking Congress to support critical vector-borne disease legislation, the Kay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act and SMASH 2.0 Act. Send your message: buff.ly/PZ53LmH #EntVocate

Annyeonghaseyo, I’m visiting your amazing country and capital from the United States. I’m impressed by many things, including public transport, your food, and this reflecting pool. We have so much to learn. Teach me how it’s done.

New paper on seeing in air and water with compound eyes! The problem: physics The solution: physics Elegantly described with the dream team @tannermierow.bsky.social and @alexkingston.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

My Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications from entomologists with research portfolios in which INSECT BIODIVERSITY LOSS is a key element (at the assistant professor level). illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Zooming in on insects.

Come be our colleague!!!! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

It’s that time again, friends. Time to share the greatest eclipse explainer ever.

Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a small child to feed at home. What does she do? She turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants: www.themarginalian.org/2020/01/29/e...

Guess the Fauci lawyer has not seen Rodgers play in a while.

There is pressure for universities to offer degrees that promise students higher incomes than they could have with a high school degree. This is problematic for several reasons 1/n