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· Oct 1
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New paper from the Martinson Lab! A fun study where we find a nice example of cascading speciation and describe three new species. Plus some exciting data to suggest that ecological guild may influence the impacts of host-associated differentiation. A 🧵. #galls #insects 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
January 6, 2026 at 9:35 PM
New paper from the Martinson Lab! A fun study where we find a nice example of cascading speciation and describe three new species. Plus some exciting data to suggest that ecological guild may influence the impacts of host-associated differentiation. A 🧵. #galls #insects 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/mec....
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Idk who needs to hear this but because Reddit is now the highest ranked search results for basically anything, a lot of bad actors are using it to farm info (probably for training) using AI posts. It's probably a good idea to not believe most of what you see on there anymore. Esp popular subs.
January 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Idk who needs to hear this but because Reddit is now the highest ranked search results for basically anything, a lot of bad actors are using it to farm info (probably for training) using AI posts. It's probably a good idea to not believe most of what you see on there anymore. Esp popular subs.
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Gender is a big way colonialism wove itself into people's identities
Under colonialism, a (white) "man" is someone who builds a house on someone else's land, keeps his wife & kids there as property, & uses violence to "protect" them (from the ppl who's land he stole); every man a king in his home
Under colonialism, a (white) "man" is someone who builds a house on someone else's land, keeps his wife & kids there as property, & uses violence to "protect" them (from the ppl who's land he stole); every man a king in his home
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Gender is a big way colonialism wove itself into people's identities
Under colonialism, a (white) "man" is someone who builds a house on someone else's land, keeps his wife & kids there as property, & uses violence to "protect" them (from the ppl who's land he stole); every man a king in his home
Under colonialism, a (white) "man" is someone who builds a house on someone else's land, keeps his wife & kids there as property, & uses violence to "protect" them (from the ppl who's land he stole); every man a king in his home
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You can hate wolves but a wolf will never hate you. That’s the difference. In the hearts of men there is room for darkness yet in the heart of a wolf there is none.
December 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
You can hate wolves but a wolf will never hate you. That’s the difference. In the hearts of men there is room for darkness yet in the heart of a wolf there is none.
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This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
there should be an option to get tranq'd at the beginning of your flight and woken up again when you land. i HATE red-eye flights.
January 6, 2026 at 11:22 AM
there should be an option to get tranq'd at the beginning of your flight and woken up again when you land. i HATE red-eye flights.
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all of my posts are made from this device
January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
all of my posts are made from this device
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D is for Dichotomosiphon (it's the algae)
January 6, 2026 at 2:33 AM
D is for Dichotomosiphon (it's the algae)
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Peru 🇵🇪 has given legal rights to 175 native bee 🐝 species:
"...stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats..."
🪲🪳🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
"...stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats..."
🪲🪳🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights
Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually significant to Indigenous peoples and help maintain a healthy rainforest ecosyst...
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Peru 🇵🇪 has given legal rights to 175 native bee 🐝 species:
"...stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats..."
🪲🪳🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
"...stingless bees now have the fundamental right to exist and flourish in a healthy environment, without pollution, habitat loss, climate change, human activity or other threats..."
🪲🪳🌎
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
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This is pretty 😮 (yes, pun intended): ticks found embedded in an electric eel.
(Also, this once again highlights the importance of long-term, well-curated, and well-researched biological collections.)
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
🪳🪲🌎🧪
(Also, this once again highlights the importance of long-term, well-curated, and well-researched biological collections.)
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
🪳🪲🌎🧪
Ticks on an Eel: Museum Specimen is a First of its Kind
Two ticks found on an 1873 electric eel specimen mark the first recorded case of ticks parasitizing a fish—but only documented just this year.
entomologytoday.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:16 AM
This is pretty 😮 (yes, pun intended): ticks found embedded in an electric eel.
(Also, this once again highlights the importance of long-term, well-curated, and well-researched biological collections.)
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
🪳🪲🌎🧪
(Also, this once again highlights the importance of long-term, well-curated, and well-researched biological collections.)
entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...
🪳🪲🌎🧪
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January 2, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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white supremacists are pathetic
January 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
white supremacists are pathetic
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I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.
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wind-down style swap, luna in the GNG and Balto style.
January 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
wind-down style swap, luna in the GNG and Balto style.
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Man some of y'all need to delete your social and new apps from your phones and get better habits
No you don't need to be informed 24/7
No you don't need to join the latest batshit discourse
No the world isn't going to get better if you depress yourself so hard you become uselessly lethargic
No you don't need to be informed 24/7
No you don't need to join the latest batshit discourse
No the world isn't going to get better if you depress yourself so hard you become uselessly lethargic
January 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Man some of y'all need to delete your social and new apps from your phones and get better habits
No you don't need to be informed 24/7
No you don't need to join the latest batshit discourse
No the world isn't going to get better if you depress yourself so hard you become uselessly lethargic
No you don't need to be informed 24/7
No you don't need to join the latest batshit discourse
No the world isn't going to get better if you depress yourself so hard you become uselessly lethargic
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my last giant(ish) centipede had a clutch of babies a few months ago, here she is cuddling them right after they hatched
January 5, 2026 at 2:53 AM
my last giant(ish) centipede had a clutch of babies a few months ago, here she is cuddling them right after they hatched
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In other Hymenoptera macro size comparison news:
~3/4" Sweat Bee so sweet and teeny...
...then there's the chalcid wasp following her...
#inverts #becurious
~3/4" Sweat Bee so sweet and teeny...
...then there's the chalcid wasp following her...
#inverts #becurious
January 4, 2026 at 2:46 PM
In other Hymenoptera macro size comparison news:
~3/4" Sweat Bee so sweet and teeny...
...then there's the chalcid wasp following her...
#inverts #becurious
~3/4" Sweat Bee so sweet and teeny...
...then there's the chalcid wasp following her...
#inverts #becurious
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look at this! it's just a handful of blue triangles with vertex colors. virtually nothing on disc space for this gorgeous backdrop
January 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
look at this! it's just a handful of blue triangles with vertex colors. virtually nothing on disc space for this gorgeous backdrop