Tom Sheehan
@bughuntertom.bsky.social
Lover of animals, drinker of tea, student of bugs, worker
🪲🐞🦋🐝🍄🏳️🌈✊
Coleoptera is the best optera, but I love them all. He/him/his Views are my own
Moonlights as InverteBrittany
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Coleoptera is the best optera, but I love them all. He/him/his Views are my own
Moonlights as InverteBrittany
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social
Underpaid, Overworked, and Essential: Graduate Labor Organizing
Graduate students—including those in entomology—are severely underpaid, almost always falling far below the local living wage (Kirchner and Petzoldt 2022,
academic.oup.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social
Coreopsis is POPPING right now
May 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Coreopsis is POPPING right now
Get it diva. So much fun performing at EarthGAY! 🌍🌈🏳️🌈♻️
Queer joy, y’all!
#InverteBrittany #drag #bugs #firefly #lightningbug #lampyrid
Queer joy, y’all!
#InverteBrittany #drag #bugs #firefly #lightningbug #lampyrid
April 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Get it diva. So much fun performing at EarthGAY! 🌍🌈🏳️🌈♻️
Queer joy, y’all!
#InverteBrittany #drag #bugs #firefly #lightningbug #lampyrid
Queer joy, y’all!
#InverteBrittany #drag #bugs #firefly #lightningbug #lampyrid
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Well, I’m shocked. The Endangered Species Act is under attack (again).
By redefining the meaning of “harm” to remove protections for habitat, the path to recovery for listed species is grim.
It would be like burning down your house and expecting you to thrive.
We are living The Lorax.
#Resist
By redefining the meaning of “harm” to remove protections for habitat, the path to recovery for listed species is grim.
It would be like burning down your house and expecting you to thrive.
We are living The Lorax.
#Resist
thehill.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Well, I’m shocked. The Endangered Species Act is under attack (again).
By redefining the meaning of “harm” to remove protections for habitat, the path to recovery for listed species is grim.
It would be like burning down your house and expecting you to thrive.
We are living The Lorax.
#Resist
By redefining the meaning of “harm” to remove protections for habitat, the path to recovery for listed species is grim.
It would be like burning down your house and expecting you to thrive.
We are living The Lorax.
#Resist
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A close up of a Water Stick Insect...which isn't a type of Stick Insect but a type of Water Scorpion...which are not Scorpions but insects, members of the True Bugs as demonstrated by that needle like rostrum mouth
What is confusing about that? Lol
#bugsky #inverts #PondLife
What is confusing about that? Lol
#bugsky #inverts #PondLife
December 5, 2024 at 7:58 AM
When you get distracted by your nails under the scope. 💅 🪲 🔬 #chrysomelidae
March 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
When you get distracted by your nails under the scope. 💅 🪲 🔬 #chrysomelidae
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Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points.
She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine.
“Deport Elon, Deport Elon!”
Watch to the end…
She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine.
“Deport Elon, Deport Elon!”
Watch to the end…
March 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points.
She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine.
“Deport Elon, Deport Elon!”
Watch to the end…
She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine.
“Deport Elon, Deport Elon!”
Watch to the end…
The antidote to despair is activism. WORKERS OVER BILLIONARES. #unionstrong #fuckfascism
March 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The antidote to despair is activism. WORKERS OVER BILLIONARES. #unionstrong #fuckfascism
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!
March 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!
Folks attending @entsocamerica.bsky.social SEB meeting!! Got any cool #insect #photos you’d like to share? Submit by 3/6 to be featured in the banquet slideshow. Categories include macro, micro, entomologist at work, and memes! Upload to: forms.gle/PqMNteMx2Xmc... #arthropodPOTW #bugmemes #ESASEB
February 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Folks attending @entsocamerica.bsky.social SEB meeting!! Got any cool #insect #photos you’d like to share? Submit by 3/6 to be featured in the banquet slideshow. Categories include macro, micro, entomologist at work, and memes! Upload to: forms.gle/PqMNteMx2Xmc... #arthropodPOTW #bugmemes #ESASEB
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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
February 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
First pub of the year in the books
New work in the @entsocamerica.bsky.social's Journal of Economic Entomology examines an eruptive native herbivore, the baldcypress leafroller (Archips goyerana), in the southern U.S. (aren't baldcypress swamps cool?) and shows they're more common than we thought...
academic.oup.com/jee/advance-...
academic.oup.com/jee/advance-...
February 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
First pub of the year in the books
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Dr. Roger Airliner Young earned her PhD in 1940. Dr. Young studied #marine #biology and was the first African American woman to publish on #zoology in Science in 1924!
marinesanctuary.org/blog/celebra...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
marinesanctuary.org/blog/celebra...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
Celebrating Wave Makers for Women's History Month: Dr. Roger Arliner Young | National Marine Sanctuary Foundation
marinesanctuary.org
February 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Dr. Roger Airliner Young earned her PhD in 1940. Dr. Young studied #marine #biology and was the first African American woman to publish on #zoology in Science in 1924!
marinesanctuary.org/blog/celebra...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
marinesanctuary.org/blog/celebra...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
January 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.
January 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.
Pin-striped vermillion slug #moth from October on Sapelo Island, GA. No touchy!! ‼️⚠️ but absolutely beautiful. #Lepidoptera #Monoleuca
January 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Pin-striped vermillion slug #moth from October on Sapelo Island, GA. No touchy!! ‼️⚠️ but absolutely beautiful. #Lepidoptera #Monoleuca
Solidarity. Love. Community.
UGA students held a “march against Nazis” on Wednesday protesting a university employee, George Haynie, who has ties to the Aryan Freedom Network, a neo-Nazi group.
Should Haynie be fired for his neo-Nazi ties? Opinions varied.
athenspoliticsnerd.com/students-pro...
Should Haynie be fired for his neo-Nazi ties? Opinions varied.
athenspoliticsnerd.com/students-pro...
Students protest UGA employee with ties to neo-Nazis | Athens Politics Nerd
Students at the University of Georgia held a “march against Nazis” on Wednesday protesting a university employee, George Haynie, who has ties to the Aryan
athenspoliticsnerd.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Solidarity. Love. Community.
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Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help?
Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...
Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...
Transgender Inclusion | Linktree
Resources for transgender inclusion in STEM and beyond.
linktr.ee
January 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help?
Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...
Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...
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This is an incredible image of insect behaviour.
One individual (probably male) has its pheromone glands protruding (pair of yellow organs). It's fanning its wings to puff pheromone toward the other individual (probably female).
The mating display involves scent and likely vision and sound.
🪳🪲
One individual (probably male) has its pheromone glands protruding (pair of yellow organs). It's fanning its wings to puff pheromone toward the other individual (probably female).
The mating display involves scent and likely vision and sound.
🪳🪲
I have been photographing butterflies but never captured what something like this … i was pleasantly surprised.. love was on the air definitely #butterflies #nature #insects #sony #photography
January 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is an incredible image of insect behaviour.
One individual (probably male) has its pheromone glands protruding (pair of yellow organs). It's fanning its wings to puff pheromone toward the other individual (probably female).
The mating display involves scent and likely vision and sound.
🪳🪲
One individual (probably male) has its pheromone glands protruding (pair of yellow organs). It's fanning its wings to puff pheromone toward the other individual (probably female).
The mating display involves scent and likely vision and sound.
🪳🪲
Holly with slush, Athens, GA January 10, 2025. I’m grateful I didn’t have to shovel!
January 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Holly with slush, Athens, GA January 10, 2025. I’m grateful I didn’t have to shovel!
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Whenever you hear about water issues in the west it's like "wow that sounds like a really complicated problem" and it's not. literally just stop growing cattle feed and lettuce in desert or semi-arid places
potatoes 1%
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
January 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Whenever you hear about water issues in the west it's like "wow that sounds like a really complicated problem" and it's not. literally just stop growing cattle feed and lettuce in desert or semi-arid places
Two bark #scorpions with a #pseudoscorpion between them. 🦂 So cuuuuuute! From the canopy of a longleaf pine tree 🌲
December 28, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Two bark #scorpions with a #pseudoscorpion between them. 🦂 So cuuuuuute! From the canopy of a longleaf pine tree 🌲
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Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
phylopic.org
December 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.