🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery)

PREORDERS ARE OUT TODAY FOR MY NEWEST FIELD GUIDE, "WIDOW SPIDERS OF THE WORLD"!!!! www.owlflyllc.com/publishing

🕷️💤 New paper in time for 🎃! Do #spiders really sleep? In our new study on #Portia fimbriata we tested all behavioural criteria of #sleep and found evidence for regulated, two-stage sleep with recurring REM-like stages. Out in @pnas.org! @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/3fky8ze7 🧵1/9

Muito bem Brasil!!!!! 🇧🇷

Brewer ants, Cyphomyrmex, are small relatives of the more famous leafcutter ants that cultivate their fungus as a yeast (the little golden globules), rather than as hyphae. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

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

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.

Ok yeah since multiple people asked, I'm personally fine. But no, Indonesia as a whole is not fine. We haven't been fine for a while. I'm actually surprised this didn't make international news earlier.

Just thinking about the Amyciaea crab spider. I don't generally think of spiders as evil, but this thing is an empathy predator. It lurks alongside weaver ant colonies, pretending to be an injured ant, and when gullible ants go to help out what they think is their sister, they get eaten.

I hope y'all are ready to learn about spiders! #sciart 🧪🕷️🕸️ www.owlflyllc.com/publishing

Certified Bug Fact™

Coming this Halloween! 🎃🕷️🕸️

OOF. "the conservation status of 88.5% of described insect and arachnid species in North America is unknown...Of US insects and arachnids known to be at-risk throughout their range, 94.7% are not protected by any state or federal law" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I think Papilionidae is finally going to make me study Botany... 😩

According to my research so far, the most reliable way to get a butterfly named after you is to build a sandcastle on your dick somewhere off in the background of the Trojan War.

Found a midge this morning, Goeldichironomus carus, that appears to mimic a jumping spider.

#invertober 9, spined micrathena! bit experimental with the frame here #invertober2026

Oh my gosh

I cannot stress enough how important natural history collections are to my biodiversity research.

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🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Alie is so right about caterpillars. Read her alt text

Nearly every medical procedure used in transgender healthcare was originally invented for cisgender people. Estrogen treats menopause. Mastectomy treats breast cancer and gynecomastia. Vaginoplasty treats injuries from childbirth. Puberty blockers stop kids from menstruating before high school.

Gubby factory. >:3

It should be illegal to have more than a billion dollars in assets and I am so fucking serious

Please remember to check your voter registration this week if you live in the US vote.gov/register

anyone else feel like this

A profusion of sketchy #chelicerates! I've become very fond of these this year thanks to @trigonotarbida.bsky.social, all of them are so charming and adorable in their own way!

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I'm probably going to get muted or blocked for this, but as a fellow science communicator, using AI-generated imagery/text is really a bad look all around. It not only steals from your fellow scientists because it's all trained on stolen data, it also makes up fake science.

This is like the fourth consecutive night of waking up from dreams about industrial electrical wiring... I'm sure you can guess what we're doing at work this month. -w-

Video by @oddpride.com youtube.com/shorts/Zetiz...

"The Wind" Painting created in 1988 By Pang Maokun

Attention Philly Families! It is critical that we show Drexel and city government that our enthusiasm for the Academy of Natural Sciences is going strong! Bring your kids, friends, & neighbors down to the parkway on Saturday from 2-6pm. It's a kid-friendly rally to support the academy!

#deltarune Heh, you know we got this

We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.

It's crazy that recreational children's sports in the US aren't co-ed by default.

Interested in how species diversity is split between major animal groups? Here is the infographic for you! 🧪⚒️🦀🦑 #evosky