Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social
entomologist, beetles, Chrysomelidae
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Caroline S. Chaboo
@cschaboo.bsky.social
· Sep 21
Our lovely volume cover @zookeys.pensoft.net! #beetles
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Tiny treetop flowers foster incredible beetle biodiversity
In the Amazon, beetles and flowering trees have developed a tight bond. Hundreds of beetle species thrive off of and pollinate blossoms, helping to maintain some of the highest biodiversity on Earth.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
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#Watercolor #Illustrations by Steeven Salvat Cloak Natural Specimens with Elaborate Metallic Motifs
Link for more information and to see more of hos amazing #art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/08/stee...
Link for more information and to see more of hos amazing #art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/08/stee...
January 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM
#Watercolor #Illustrations by Steeven Salvat Cloak Natural Specimens with Elaborate Metallic Motifs
Link for more information and to see more of hos amazing #art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/08/stee...
Link for more information and to see more of hos amazing #art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/08/stee...
Another scientist in my collection with an unknown birthday is one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. 🐡🧪👩🏾🔬 #histsci #histmed She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official & overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty c. 2400 BCE. 🧵
January 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Meant to post this some days ago but I got distracted.
My latest for @invertebratepal.bsky.social's work on Hallucigenia's ecology, interpreting the little fellas as scavengers of soft-bodied carcasses.
Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Art #SciArt #FossilFriday
My latest for @invertebratepal.bsky.social's work on Hallucigenia's ecology, interpreting the little fellas as scavengers of soft-bodied carcasses.
Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Art #SciArt #FossilFriday
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Meant to post this some days ago but I got distracted.
My latest for @invertebratepal.bsky.social's work on Hallucigenia's ecology, interpreting the little fellas as scavengers of soft-bodied carcasses.
Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Art #SciArt #FossilFriday
My latest for @invertebratepal.bsky.social's work on Hallucigenia's ecology, interpreting the little fellas as scavengers of soft-bodied carcasses.
Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Art #SciArt #FossilFriday
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Congratulations to Dr Margaret Bradshaw, who has done more than anyone to promote understanding and conservation of Upper Teesdale's unique arctic-alpine flora.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Teesdale botanist and mountain rescue team founder turns 100
Dr Margaret Bradshaw receives a card from King Charles and Queen Camilla on her 100th birthday.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Congratulations to Dr Margaret Bradshaw, who has done more than anyone to promote understanding and conservation of Upper Teesdale's unique arctic-alpine flora.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
WomenInSTEM
German astronomer Caroline Herschel died #OTD in 1848
Widely considered the first 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 female astronomer due to receiving a salary (1787, £50 per year).
She was the first woman to receive the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal (1828; 2nd to Vera Rubin in 1996). #WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Widely considered the first 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 female astronomer due to receiving a salary (1787, £50 per year).
She was the first woman to receive the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal (1828; 2nd to Vera Rubin in 1996). #WomenInSTEM #astronomy
January 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
WomenInSTEM
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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Explorer & naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born #OTD in 1823. He independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection & was the father of biogeography.
His portrait hangs at the Society alongside Charles Darwin, commemorating the 1858 reading of their joint paper on evolution.
His portrait hangs at the Society alongside Charles Darwin, commemorating the 1858 reading of their joint paper on evolution.
January 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Explorer & naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born #OTD in 1823. He independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection & was the father of biogeography.
His portrait hangs at the Society alongside Charles Darwin, commemorating the 1858 reading of their joint paper on evolution.
His portrait hangs at the Society alongside Charles Darwin, commemorating the 1858 reading of their joint paper on evolution.
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A living fossil...
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Meet The Animal That Hasn’t Changed In 300 Million Years — A Biologist Explains
With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient biology still underpins human survival.
www.forbes.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A living fossil...
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#OTD in 1823, Alfred R Wallace was born.
He independently co-discovered the "Darwin-Wallace" theory of evolution by natural selection, & much more!
Suggested reading: Costa's book (2023 @princetonupress.bsky.social)
Summary: jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2024/01/06/h...
🧪🌍💙📚👀📅🗃️ #histsci #ecoevo
He independently co-discovered the "Darwin-Wallace" theory of evolution by natural selection, & much more!
Suggested reading: Costa's book (2023 @princetonupress.bsky.social)
Summary: jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2024/01/06/h...
🧪🌍💙📚👀📅🗃️ #histsci #ecoevo
January 8, 2026 at 8:17 AM
#OTD in 1823, Alfred R Wallace was born.
He independently co-discovered the "Darwin-Wallace" theory of evolution by natural selection, & much more!
Suggested reading: Costa's book (2023 @princetonupress.bsky.social)
Summary: jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2024/01/06/h...
🧪🌍💙📚👀📅🗃️ #histsci #ecoevo
He independently co-discovered the "Darwin-Wallace" theory of evolution by natural selection, & much more!
Suggested reading: Costa's book (2023 @princetonupress.bsky.social)
Summary: jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2024/01/06/h...
🧪🌍💙📚👀📅🗃️ #histsci #ecoevo
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if you need a moment's distraction from Events, pls consider @monotomidae.bsky.social's extremely good new paper on passandrid beetles stridulating with their armpits. THERE'S VIDEO, WITH SOUND link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Armpit squeaks: first recorded sounds, video, and images of the stridulatory apparatus in two parasitic flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Passandridae) - Zoomorphology
Zoomorphology - Stridulation is an important sound production mechanism in many groups of insects but is less well-known in beetles (Coleoptera). Recently a new sound production mechanism was...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:41 PM
if you need a moment's distraction from Events, pls consider @monotomidae.bsky.social's extremely good new paper on passandrid beetles stridulating with their armpits. THERE'S VIDEO, WITH SOUND link.springer.com/article/10.1...
a giant has passed
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January 6, 2026 at 6:32 PM
a giant has passed
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Of Bats and Women.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
The Bat Woman of North London: ‘It’s Like Tuning In to Another World’
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Of Bats and Women.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...
Mary Somerville - the person for whom the word scientist was coined by William Whewell in his 1834. She was a polymath, an intellectual tour de force at a time when teaching women to read and write let alone think deeply was frowned upon or ignored ⚒️🧪🌊
www.geological-digressions.com/mary-somervi...
www.geological-digressions.com/mary-somervi...
January 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Fieldwork carries real risk in rural Mexico.
That context matters in the disappearance of biologist Miguel Ángel de la Torre Loranca, kidnapped in Veracruz in Nov 2025 after a “request for dialogue.”
His family says he was taken alive and is calling for visibility.
That context matters in the disappearance of biologist Miguel Ángel de la Torre Loranca, kidnapped in Veracruz in Nov 2025 after a “request for dialogue.”
His family says he was taken alive and is calling for visibility.
Biologist kidnapped in Mexico
In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that…
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January 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Fieldwork carries real risk in rural Mexico.
That context matters in the disappearance of biologist Miguel Ángel de la Torre Loranca, kidnapped in Veracruz in Nov 2025 after a “request for dialogue.”
His family says he was taken alive and is calling for visibility.
That context matters in the disappearance of biologist Miguel Ángel de la Torre Loranca, kidnapped in Veracruz in Nov 2025 after a “request for dialogue.”
His family says he was taken alive and is calling for visibility.
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Creature Commish from way down deep.
January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Creature Commish from way down deep.
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The cover art is finished for my new book and I LOVE IT!
This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱
This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The cover art is finished for my new book and I LOVE IT!
This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱
This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱
January 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Asháninka scientist Richar Antonio Demetrio blends Indigenous knowledge and science to study stingless bees—revealing deep ecological insight and warning that over half their habitat faces deforestation.
‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees
In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a traditional Amazonian fermented beverage. Every day, she would boil and mash…
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January 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM
