@abohnet.bsky.social
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Stick! It's Stick. It's Bug. It's both Bug and Stick. It's Stick Bug
🤎
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May 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Stick! It's Stick. It's Bug. It's both Bug and Stick. It's Stick Bug
🤎
🤎
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One of the most bizarre-looking insects at @tapirvalley.bsky.social is the Leistotrophus versicolor, a species of rove beetle that feeds on tapir dung.
The first time I saw one of these, I thought I had discovered an alien.
#bugsky #insects #costarica #nature
The first time I saw one of these, I thought I had discovered an alien.
#bugsky #insects #costarica #nature
May 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
One of the most bizarre-looking insects at @tapirvalley.bsky.social is the Leistotrophus versicolor, a species of rove beetle that feeds on tapir dung.
The first time I saw one of these, I thought I had discovered an alien.
#bugsky #insects #costarica #nature
The first time I saw one of these, I thought I had discovered an alien.
#bugsky #insects #costarica #nature
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Rare piglet bug sighting! Bruchomorpha minima. Tiny shiny greenish black nugget creature. 🖤
May 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Rare piglet bug sighting! Bruchomorpha minima. Tiny shiny greenish black nugget creature. 🖤
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#FlyWeek
worked in fly collection of KwaZulu-Natal Museum today - here are some of my favorite assassin fly genera from Afrotropics - note prey insects pinned with predator
Alcimus (Asilinae)
Oratostylum (Stenopogoninae)
Sporadothrix (Willistonininae)
Gonioscelis (Stenopogoninae)
#asiloidflies
worked in fly collection of KwaZulu-Natal Museum today - here are some of my favorite assassin fly genera from Afrotropics - note prey insects pinned with predator
Alcimus (Asilinae)
Oratostylum (Stenopogoninae)
Sporadothrix (Willistonininae)
Gonioscelis (Stenopogoninae)
#asiloidflies
May 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#FlyWeek
worked in fly collection of KwaZulu-Natal Museum today - here are some of my favorite assassin fly genera from Afrotropics - note prey insects pinned with predator
Alcimus (Asilinae)
Oratostylum (Stenopogoninae)
Sporadothrix (Willistonininae)
Gonioscelis (Stenopogoninae)
#asiloidflies
worked in fly collection of KwaZulu-Natal Museum today - here are some of my favorite assassin fly genera from Afrotropics - note prey insects pinned with predator
Alcimus (Asilinae)
Oratostylum (Stenopogoninae)
Sporadothrix (Willistonininae)
Gonioscelis (Stenopogoninae)
#asiloidflies
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excited to share we're preparing a themed section in @criticasianstds.bsky.social, slated for mid-summer, & it's the basis for this upcoming webinar on 5/5: What can democracy movements learn from Korea’s vigorous history of citizen engagement? w/ @yoonkyung.bsky.social & @jamiedoucette.bsky.social
Standing Up for Democracy: Studies of Democratic Renewal in Korea
May 5, 2025, 7:00-8:30 PM (central U.S.) Via Zoom
csd.wustl.edu
May 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
excited to share we're preparing a themed section in @criticasianstds.bsky.social, slated for mid-summer, & it's the basis for this upcoming webinar on 5/5: What can democracy movements learn from Korea’s vigorous history of citizen engagement? w/ @yoonkyung.bsky.social & @jamiedoucette.bsky.social
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Blue Eye Samur-fly (with a golden rump to boot)
#Tachinidae: #Belvosia bifasciata; emerged from parasitizing a Hemaris sphinx moth pupa
#FlyWeek #Diptera #FliesRule
#Tachinidae: #Belvosia bifasciata; emerged from parasitizing a Hemaris sphinx moth pupa
#FlyWeek #Diptera #FliesRule
May 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Blue Eye Samur-fly (with a golden rump to boot)
#Tachinidae: #Belvosia bifasciata; emerged from parasitizing a Hemaris sphinx moth pupa
#FlyWeek #Diptera #FliesRule
#Tachinidae: #Belvosia bifasciata; emerged from parasitizing a Hemaris sphinx moth pupa
#FlyWeek #Diptera #FliesRule
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It’s incredible that now the *best case* scenario is basically Trump engaging in a humiliating climb-down, but having already inflicted permanent damage and uncertainty that never be undone.
April 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It’s incredible that now the *best case* scenario is basically Trump engaging in a humiliating climb-down, but having already inflicted permanent damage and uncertainty that never be undone.
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Absolutely every scientist involved in the book this post is lampooning should be ashamed of themselves. Instead, I bet they'll write more propagandist pablum about how the current situation is a consequence of injecting politics into science discourse post-2020 & how they were right all along
Trump has slashed the NIH and NSF budget, hired an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services, and filled the government's web page with crazed conspiracy theories. Here's why we just published a volume on the left's war on science.
by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.
by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.
April 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Absolutely every scientist involved in the book this post is lampooning should be ashamed of themselves. Instead, I bet they'll write more propagandist pablum about how the current situation is a consequence of injecting politics into science discourse post-2020 & how they were right all along
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Resharing this for #InverteFest. There's just something so relaxing about watching insects pollinate plants
Bee flies are so cute 🥹
Here's a dark-edged bee fly (Bombylius major) feeding on some apple blossoms
Here's a dark-edged bee fly (Bombylius major) feeding on some apple blossoms
April 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Resharing this for #InverteFest. There's just something so relaxing about watching insects pollinate plants
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The Ford Government is trying to give themselves carte blanche to do horrible things like dump raw sewage into Ontario Place West Channel. Have your say here! ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0... #topoli #onpoli
April 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Ford Government is trying to give themselves carte blanche to do horrible things like dump raw sewage into Ontario Place West Channel. Have your say here! ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0... #topoli #onpoli
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Did butterflies invent the solar panel? A few springs ago, I saw this marble butterfly (Euchloe sp.) land on the desert floor, then tilt its wings at an angle exactly perpendicular to the sun - like a motorized solar array - to efficiently warm up on a chilly morning (Mojave Desert, California). 🐙🌿
February 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Did butterflies invent the solar panel? A few springs ago, I saw this marble butterfly (Euchloe sp.) land on the desert floor, then tilt its wings at an angle exactly perpendicular to the sun - like a motorized solar array - to efficiently warm up on a chilly morning (Mojave Desert, California). 🐙🌿
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"The wu have also been a source of lively debate and controversy, to which this book bears eloquent witness. Can the Wu even be called shamans, and if not, what are they? What was the extent and status of their social role in early China?"
purplecloudinstitute.com/product/the-...
purplecloudinstitute.com/product/the-...
The Legacy of Chinese Shamanism: The Wu and Their Successors - Purple Cloud
The Chinese Wu, often characterized as ‘shamans’, have been a major force in China’s history and culture. From the early dynasties, where they played a key role, they underwent a gradual process of ma...
purplecloudinstitute.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
"The wu have also been a source of lively debate and controversy, to which this book bears eloquent witness. Can the Wu even be called shamans, and if not, what are they? What was the extent and status of their social role in early China?"
purplecloudinstitute.com/product/the-...
purplecloudinstitute.com/product/the-...
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Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected].
Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
April 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected].
Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.
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in chinese culture, it is considered rude to offend the people you want to negotiate with by calling them dumb peasants. few know this
April 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
in chinese culture, it is considered rude to offend the people you want to negotiate with by calling them dumb peasants. few know this
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Just delivered a dozen or so Chalcoscirtus nuggets to GB Edwards for science (he's planning on revising the genus or their placement in it soon) this past weekend. I'm always a little stressed when they're in my care, it's difficult to feed creatures so tiny. Glad to know they're in good hands. 🖤
April 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just delivered a dozen or so Chalcoscirtus nuggets to GB Edwards for science (he's planning on revising the genus or their placement in it soon) this past weekend. I'm always a little stressed when they're in my care, it's difficult to feed creatures so tiny. Glad to know they're in good hands. 🖤
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I know my warnings about something like ignoring administrative law notice-and-comment requirements may sound trite. But attacks on *that kind* of democracy makes attacks on *this kind* of democracy much, much easier.
Constituents were forcibly removed from a town hall meeting held by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday and officers used a stun gun on at least two of the men. Listen as they drag one of the men out and he says, "is this really happening?"
April 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I know my warnings about something like ignoring administrative law notice-and-comment requirements may sound trite. But attacks on *that kind* of democracy makes attacks on *this kind* of democracy much, much easier.
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My follow up story today: An effort by Canadian entrepreneurs to cut public spending is distancing itself from DOGE, Elon Musk’s federal employee slashing agency.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
April 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My follow up story today: An effort by Canadian entrepreneurs to cut public spending is distancing itself from DOGE, Elon Musk’s federal employee slashing agency.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
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This is happening today in Tucson, AZ, in front of the El Salvador Embassy, 5447 E. 5th St, 3:30-4:30pm. #BringHimHome
🚨 Today, April16th, in Tucson.
Vigil for Kilmer Abrego Garcia
3:30-4:30pm
Bring candles and signs if you can. 🕯️
Vigil for Kilmer Abrego Garcia
3:30-4:30pm
Bring candles and signs if you can. 🕯️
April 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is happening today in Tucson, AZ, in front of the El Salvador Embassy, 5447 E. 5th St, 3:30-4:30pm. #BringHimHome
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You can't be serious?
April 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
You can't be serious?
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LEGGGGGGGGS
Mostly certain this lad is in genus #Philodromus.
#Fujifilm X-S10, #laowa 65mm #Macro.
#Spiders
#Arachnids
#invertebrates
#MacroPhotography
#LegsForDays
Mostly certain this lad is in genus #Philodromus.
#Fujifilm X-S10, #laowa 65mm #Macro.
#Spiders
#Arachnids
#invertebrates
#MacroPhotography
#LegsForDays
April 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
LEGGGGGGGGS
Mostly certain this lad is in genus #Philodromus.
#Fujifilm X-S10, #laowa 65mm #Macro.
#Spiders
#Arachnids
#invertebrates
#MacroPhotography
#LegsForDays
Mostly certain this lad is in genus #Philodromus.
#Fujifilm X-S10, #laowa 65mm #Macro.
#Spiders
#Arachnids
#invertebrates
#MacroPhotography
#LegsForDays
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🤯🤩
April 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
🤯🤩
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Greater Thorn-tipped Longhorn Beetle, Pogonocherus hispidulus.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #UKWildlife #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #UKWildlife #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
April 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Greater Thorn-tipped Longhorn Beetle, Pogonocherus hispidulus.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #UKWildlife #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #UKWildlife #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem