Karl Magnacca
@kmagnacca.bsky.social
Entomologist, naturalist, all-around bug nerd. https://www.hawaiianinsects.com
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Taking pics of random bugs in the yard to take my mind off the crap going on
January 4, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Taking pics of random bugs in the yard to take my mind off the crap going on
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Time to re-up this one, folks. The words are Hunter S Thompson's from the Dubya administration's war-of-choice on Iraq. The sad part is: I had to do almost no editing beyond changing the dates and the main name to make it sound like it's from today. Same as it ever was. 🤬
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Time to re-up this one, folks. The words are Hunter S Thompson's from the Dubya administration's war-of-choice on Iraq. The sad part is: I had to do almost no editing beyond changing the dates and the main name to make it sound like it's from today. Same as it ever was. 🤬
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not a fan of living in a pariah nation tbh
January 3, 2026 at 6:52 AM
not a fan of living in a pariah nation tbh
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Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
greeting the new year like
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 AM
greeting the new year like
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you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry
"You really know your plants, for an entomologist."
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"You really know your plants, for an entomologist."
Isn’t that always how it goes?
come the fuck on, man
December 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Isn’t that always how it goes?
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i am actually pretty interested in the psychic violence suffered by the people carrying out crimes against humanity, but not while they’re still committing the crimes! that’s something i start considering decades after their institutions are abolished and the ground salted behind them
Just thinking... we give so much attention (as we should!) to the victims of state violence, ie, people sent to CECOT.
But, we give little consideration to the psychic violence suffered by those tasked with carrying out the physical violence.
Yes, they "chose" those jobs. But...
But, we give little consideration to the psychic violence suffered by those tasked with carrying out the physical violence.
Yes, they "chose" those jobs. But...
December 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
i am actually pretty interested in the psychic violence suffered by the people carrying out crimes against humanity, but not while they’re still committing the crimes! that’s something i start considering decades after their institutions are abolished and the ground salted behind them
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It may not be the explanation, but it is an explanation.
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December 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It may not be the explanation, but it is an explanation.
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where the shadows lie, One Tim to rule them all, One Tim to find them, One Tim to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, blew up the Death Star.
December 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms
🎶 I want a girl with a short cephalothorax
and a looooooong opisthosoma
(Ariamnes uwepa, Waianae mountains, Oahu)
and a looooooong opisthosoma
(Ariamnes uwepa, Waianae mountains, Oahu)
December 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
🎶 I want a girl with a short cephalothorax
and a looooooong opisthosoma
(Ariamnes uwepa, Waianae mountains, Oahu)
and a looooooong opisthosoma
(Ariamnes uwepa, Waianae mountains, Oahu)
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I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
Always repost Zagrammosoma, the stripiest wasp
December 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Always repost Zagrammosoma, the stripiest wasp
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“That’s a fairly specialized technological skillset, I bet it pays more than the usual UK museum pos-
…ope”
…ope”
JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
CT Data and Micro CT Specialist :South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk
December 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“That’s a fairly specialized technological skillset, I bet it pays more than the usual UK museum pos-
…ope”
…ope”
This is such great footage. Dryinids are amazing!
New Ant Lab video today about pincer wasps and a new research project. This one has some really cool, newly-filmed insect behavior in it! youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk
Spring-Loaded Claws on a Wasp – Parasitoid Pincer Wasps
YouTube video by Ant Lab
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is such great footage. Dryinids are amazing!
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Sorry folks, but unfortunately the super cool study you are promoting here has some sketchy data. 2 of the images were re-colored to represent two distinct experimental conditions. Salt will remain an issue for agriculture & cyanobacteria won't change that... pubpeer.com/publications...
December 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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But I’m sure it’ll be fine having it be the front end for iDigBio
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
But I’m sure it’ll be fine having it be the front end for iDigBio
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The Church Evolution Lab (CEL@NYU) is hiring a postdoc! We have several new projects to study the genomic basis of biodiversity in model clades – especially Hawaiian Drosophila. apply.interfolio.com/179354
Come join our new group, you can study bugs and live in NYC! Feel free to share widely!
Come join our new group, you can study bugs and live in NYC! Feel free to share widely!
December 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
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If you claim to be an 'academic' or a 'researcher' or similar and your position is that you should not have to read things and/or write things and you would like the plagiarism machine to do that for you then please step aside and let someone who would like to work in the field have your job.
December 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you claim to be an 'academic' or a 'researcher' or similar and your position is that you should not have to read things and/or write things and you would like the plagiarism machine to do that for you then please step aside and let someone who would like to work in the field have your job.