Greg Pask

Something I wish more people would realize.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

You’re invited to discover all about fireflies, straight from the experts! Join us this month for a free, three-day virtual symposium on firefly research and conservation in the USA and Canada! 🪲💡 🗓️Oct 27-29 at 9am PT / 12pm ET 🔗Register for this free event: lp.constantcontactpages.com/cu/6GFrtHL

Please RT: Do you use math to address interesting biological problems? Join us at Vanderbilt BioSci! We are conducting an open-rank TT search in Theoretical Biology: apply.interfolio.com/194619. We are a friendly and collaborative department with interests spanning a range of biological disciplines!

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

Does this surprise anyone?

More academics should take up embroidery. It can be good to have something socially acceptable to stab over and over during certain meetings. 🪡 🧵 🪲 #academicsky

#SICB #job board update The Division of #Invertebrate #Zoology at the (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant #Curator/Assistant Professor with expertise in the #evolution of #Lepidoptera, careers.amnh.org/postings/4923. read more sicb.org/jobs-and-fel...

Come work here, it is a fun place and we would love to have you as our colleague: careers.amnh.org/postings/4923 #Lepidoptera #Insect #Entomology #AMNH

Was lucky enough to catch an annual cicada just as it emerged!

For more than 30 years, Vermont scientists have been setting up floating rafts where loons can build their nests. But now, they say loons are doing so well that it’s time to let them nest without human aid. Read more: https://ow.ly/yV9j50ZygOX

Reposting!

There's one more day to preorder the newly updated version of my first comics collection, Birding Is My Favorite Video Game, and get a PDF download of one of my most popular comics that you can't buy as a print. site.andrewsmcmeel.com/birding-is-m...

Working with @cosplayforscience.bsky.social at #SDCC today! Come check out our panel, "Pokopia: The Science of Saving the World!"

New Ant Lab video today! youtu.be/nTXAZoX7ji0

I'm at SDCC and my 1st panel was awesome and about teaching and learning with comics. Some audience members were championing AI for coming up with new superheroes in the activities... 🥱 Like, aren't we here to celebrate creators and artists? If you can't do that without AI, stay in your lane! 🤬

🐜 New in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: We show that leaf-cutting ant OR gene expression is colony-specific and that it changes after exposure to non-nestmate odours. We think that this means they tune their antennae for nestmate recognition. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #Ants #Olfaction #Behavior (1/2)

Congrats Mohammed, this looks like an amazing study!

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

#WorldFireflyDay is July 4th-5th! Why is a “day” running over a night? Because that’s when these amazing animals are out and about! 🪲🎆 Get involved in firefly conservation ➡ fireflyatlas.org Learn more about fireflies & where to go see them ➡ xerces.org/fireflies

Middlebury Biology department is hiring two VAPs for the upcoming years. Please help spread the word, and positions like these can be very helpful in gaining experience to be competitive for TT positions at small liberal arts colleges (it helped me a lot!). www.middlebury.edu/college/acad...

Welcome, everyone, to our annual meeting for the International Society of Chemical Ecology!!!! Tag us or use #chemecol2026 to share your journey!

A conversation science communicators need to have about AI art 🧪🐙🐡🧵

Spent the weekend with the family doing the Plein Air Festival with Sparrow Art Supply 😊

🚨 Lifer alert! 🚨 Check out this deer bot #fly that @dradriansmith.bsky.social found while we were hunting bugs - my first time getting pics of a wild adult of this family! It's a convincing bee mimic, whose babies live in the sinuses & throats of deer 😋 👀 #Oestridae: #Cephenemyia phobifer NC, USA

Do you know an outstanding aquarist? We're hiring a Senior Aquarist to help run our cephalopod facility at Columbia University. Our team maintains a colony of 250+ cuttlefish, develops new husbandry techniques (inc transgenics) & studies cuttlefish camouflage and social behavior. 1/3 [Pls repost!]

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

"The rise in the island’s invertebrates – beetles, weevils, bush cockroaches and other bugs – has come after a campaign seven years ago to rid the island of about 300,000 invasive rats and mice." #Environment #LordHoweIsland #Biodiversity #Invertebrates #Insects #Conservation

We (me and @njdowdy.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD student! Come work with us! We seek a PhD student to investigate the evolution of acoustic behavior in Lepidoptera within a comparative evolutionary framework... Job closes this week! Apply ASAP! njdowdy.gitlab.io/balogh-fello...

Some beautiful moths out tonight with our family blacklighting!

The technology the shits out D papers is impossible to grasp. Yes, that’s it. 🙃

Alright we’re in business here. Crank the cuteometer to 11 and full steam ahead, boys!

So much #HKAM26 catch up (I’m very behind!) Day 5: Mother Day 6: Grand Hunt (and also mother)

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

My daughter absolutely loved drawing this Day3: hot spring prompt for #HKAM26

Love this #HKAM26 drawing by my son. Apparently ice cream preference is a huge topic at the Hallownest hot springs 🤣

Big #HKAM26 catchup day! Day 3: Hot Spring Day 4: Mr. Mushroom

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

Posting the kids’ #HKAM26 Day 2 art (Plasmium) as well! 😍

#HKAM26 Day 2: Plasmium PSA: Watch where you leave your Plasmium Phial!

THE LIST IS HERE! See www.hollowknightam.com for more info throughout the event Shares are very much appreciated <3 #hollowknight #silksong #hollowknightartmonth #hkam26

It’s back baby! Hollow Knight Art Month 2026! #HKAM26 Day 1: Hornet (from me and the kiddos)

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

Love living on a natural landscape that is abundant with my research firefly species!