Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD
@pbeasleyhall.bsky.social
entomologist researching biodiversity, taxonomy, and evolution of weird, spindly things underground. #1 ensifera enjoyer 🦗
also: queer liberation 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ + neurodiversity 🧠 + solarpunk ☀️🌱 they/she 🌈
also: queer liberation 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ + neurodiversity 🧠 + solarpunk ☀️🌱 they/she 🌈
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Meet the weird, wonderful creatures that live in Australia’s desert water holes. They might not be there much longer
From water fleas to seed shrimp, Australia’s desert rock holes shelter unique animals found nowhere else. But as the climate warms, their homes are at risk.
theconversation.com
My first article in The Conversation! I was a co-author on this paper led by the fantastic @dr-brock-hedges.bsky.social. We used environmental DNA to detect invertebrates reliant on rock-holes as freshwater sources in Australia's arid lands. #bugsky
theconversation.com/meet-the-wei...
theconversation.com/meet-the-wei...
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A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity
Majority of local insect biomass decline linked to species loss
A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function.
www.idiv.de
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity
Health and NDIS fall under DHDA, third down. Welfare is under Services Australia.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Health and NDIS fall under DHDA, third down. Welfare is under Services Australia.
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This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.
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That’s for sure!
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
That’s for sure!
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
I like the headbutting dance it does back and forth. stimming
December 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I like the headbutting dance it does back and forth. stimming
now that I'm back from this conference I can finally get back to my real passion: checking inaturalist multiple times a day for new orthopteran observations in need of an ID
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
now that I'm back from this conference I can finally get back to my real passion: checking inaturalist multiple times a day for new orthopteran observations in need of an ID
My first article in The Conversation! I was a co-author on this paper led by the fantastic @dr-brock-hedges.bsky.social. We used environmental DNA to detect invertebrates reliant on rock-holes as freshwater sources in Australia's arid lands. #bugsky
theconversation.com/meet-the-wei...
theconversation.com/meet-the-wei...
Meet the weird, wonderful creatures that live in Australia’s desert water holes. They might not be there much longer
From water fleas to seed shrimp, Australia’s desert rock holes shelter unique animals found nowhere else. But as the climate warms, their homes are at risk.
theconversation.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My first article in The Conversation! I was a co-author on this paper led by the fantastic @dr-brock-hedges.bsky.social. We used environmental DNA to detect invertebrates reliant on rock-holes as freshwater sources in Australia's arid lands. #bugsky
theconversation.com/meet-the-wei...
theconversation.com/meet-the-wei...
Reposted by Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD
Rhipidioides sp.
This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist
This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Rhipidioides sp.
This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist
This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist
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I will never tidepool at night without a uv light again
🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑
🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I will never tidepool at night without a uv light again
🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑
🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑
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CEO of KillCorp: “If you’re not willing to work for slave wages, you should be ground up for meat and served to subhumans who are”
Normal_Guy: “Oh man, it’s not good for society to have people in charge who think like this. I hope something happens to him”
[Normal_Guy’s account has been suspended]
Normal_Guy: “Oh man, it’s not good for society to have people in charge who think like this. I hope something happens to him”
[Normal_Guy’s account has been suspended]
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
CEO of KillCorp: “If you’re not willing to work for slave wages, you should be ground up for meat and served to subhumans who are”
Normal_Guy: “Oh man, it’s not good for society to have people in charge who think like this. I hope something happens to him”
[Normal_Guy’s account has been suspended]
Normal_Guy: “Oh man, it’s not good for society to have people in charge who think like this. I hope something happens to him”
[Normal_Guy’s account has been suspended]
i thought this was the reference 😆
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
i thought this was the reference 😆
I’ve seen so many of these weirdly shaped flyers on trees advertising this band and finally met the frontman 🔊
clicking ambertail cicada, Yoyetta robertsonae #bugsky
clicking ambertail cicada, Yoyetta robertsonae #bugsky
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I’ve seen so many of these weirdly shaped flyers on trees advertising this band and finally met the frontman 🔊
clicking ambertail cicada, Yoyetta robertsonae #bugsky
clicking ambertail cicada, Yoyetta robertsonae #bugsky
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And for #ArtAdventCalendar day 2, some fishing lures 😅 Variations on this design have trended on social media for a while. I used creme polishes for the bases, some with gradients, and topped them all with a sheer holographic magnetic polish. Then I added details using more creme polishes.
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And for #ArtAdventCalendar day 2, some fishing lures 😅 Variations on this design have trended on social media for a while. I used creme polishes for the bases, some with gradients, and topped them all with a sheer holographic magnetic polish. Then I added details using more creme polishes.
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Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.
December 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.
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photo from September of me sticking my hand into the water underneath a concrete tunnel while looking for shrimps and the swimmy beetles literally eating me alive (very slowly)
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
photo from September of me sticking my hand into the water underneath a concrete tunnel while looking for shrimps and the swimmy beetles literally eating me alive (very slowly)
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Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday
Here is the positive and negative impressions of Bathyuriscus fimbriatus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Formation in House Range, Utah. The Marjum is age equivalent to the Wheeler Shale but with slightly better preservation.
Here is the positive and negative impressions of Bathyuriscus fimbriatus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Formation in House Range, Utah. The Marjum is age equivalent to the Wheeler Shale but with slightly better preservation.
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday
Here is the positive and negative impressions of Bathyuriscus fimbriatus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Formation in House Range, Utah. The Marjum is age equivalent to the Wheeler Shale but with slightly better preservation.
Here is the positive and negative impressions of Bathyuriscus fimbriatus. This specimen comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Formation in House Range, Utah. The Marjum is age equivalent to the Wheeler Shale but with slightly better preservation.
Reposted by Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD
sorry I literally cannot stop talking about bugs and getting upset about injustice and then getting even more upset at how injustice will affect bugs, who cannot post
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
sorry I literally cannot stop talking about bugs and getting upset about injustice and then getting even more upset at how injustice will affect bugs, who cannot post
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the duality of amphipods
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
the duality of amphipods
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it finally rained, so the yard is filled with funny guys again
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
it finally rained, so the yard is filled with funny guys again
“COAT BATH”
“MASTER R6SKN”
“MASTER R6SKN”
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“COAT BATH”
“MASTER R6SKN”
“MASTER R6SKN”
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This is a squat lobster, one of the most confusing names because they are not lobsters. They are also not crabs. Welcome to Anomura, the false crabs (also includes: hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, mole crabs) #Crustmas
or the aegla. I would live in south america and just hang out with aegla, silly little water roaches guilty of nothing
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is a squat lobster, one of the most confusing names because they are not lobsters. They are also not crabs. Welcome to Anomura, the false crabs (also includes: hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, mole crabs) #Crustmas