Elaine T
@elntangle.bsky.social
birder, biologist, bedoodler: birds and bugs 🐦🐜🎨 (they/them) currently living in Sydney AUS
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My brother moves in this weekend & I’m panicking. I still have all this Skype a scientist merch in his room & there’s a crab in the kitchen. Who let me own a home?!
If you were ever thinking about buying one of these t shirts today is a GREAT time lmao 😅😅😅
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If you were ever thinking about buying one of these t shirts today is a GREAT time lmao 😅😅😅
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You can't put biology into a box. Whatever rule you try to impose on nature, a species, population, or individual will break that rule. Embrace...
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July 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
My brother moves in this weekend & I’m panicking. I still have all this Skype a scientist merch in his room & there’s a crab in the kitchen. Who let me own a home?!
If you were ever thinking about buying one of these t shirts today is a GREAT time lmao 😅😅😅
squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...
If you were ever thinking about buying one of these t shirts today is a GREAT time lmao 😅😅😅
squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...
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I have to hand it to Ruri Rocks for nailing how a grad student's workstation looks like
July 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I have to hand it to Ruri Rocks for nailing how a grad student's workstation looks like
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basically I painstakingly took hundreds and hundreds of professional glam shots of these things. you can glean some very niche shrimp-related information from the shape of the shell
July 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
basically I painstakingly took hundreds and hundreds of professional glam shots of these things. you can glean some very niche shrimp-related information from the shape of the shell
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![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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must resist the urge to despair. I have now photographed and digitized my entire collection of georeferenced Florida Clam Shrimp, no AI involved whatsoever, 100% trustworthy handcrafted artisanal dataset. Apparently about half of the Eulimnadia records on gbif (globally) are now mine. shimp
July 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
must resist the urge to despair. I have now photographed and digitized my entire collection of georeferenced Florida Clam Shrimp, no AI involved whatsoever, 100% trustworthy handcrafted artisanal dataset. Apparently about half of the Eulimnadia records on gbif (globally) are now mine. shimp
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The crab spider Amyciaea in Asia and Australia mimics Oecophylla in order to eat them.
July 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The crab spider Amyciaea in Asia and Australia mimics Oecophylla in order to eat them.
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🌱 New partnership between GBIF and #Esri gives the #ArcGIS community seamless access to biodiversity occurrence records!
This first-of-its-kind collaboration aims to increase overall use, delivery, data quality and citation of open access biodiversity data. 🌏
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/esri-partn...
This first-of-its-kind collaboration aims to increase overall use, delivery, data quality and citation of open access biodiversity data. 🌏
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/esri-partn...
July 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🌱 New partnership between GBIF and #Esri gives the #ArcGIS community seamless access to biodiversity occurrence records!
This first-of-its-kind collaboration aims to increase overall use, delivery, data quality and citation of open access biodiversity data. 🌏
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/esri-partn...
This first-of-its-kind collaboration aims to increase overall use, delivery, data quality and citation of open access biodiversity data. 🌏
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/esri-partn...
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New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10)
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
Big data, changing taxonomy, and ghost records: permanent preservation of collected specimens is essential for insect monitoring
Abstract. Successful long-term biodiversity monitoring requires consistent identification of all specimens, both those newly collected and those collected
doi.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New paper out on an important issue — monitoring insects requires preserving the specimens. We explored this issue using data from the Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, which has systematically destroyed most of their specimens for decades. A 🧵(1/10)
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
doi.org/10.1093/aesa...
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Plants that make structures to house ant colonies use architecture to avoid conflict among the ants.
Some plants have a strategy to prevent violent ant fights
Fijian plants stop rival ants from fighting by creating separate chambers inside them. This keeps peace and benefits both ants and plants.
www.earth.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Plants that make structures to house ant colonies use architecture to avoid conflict among the ants.
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This baby pterosaur is no bigger than my thumb
July 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This baby pterosaur is no bigger than my thumb
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July 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I've been slacking on the sea slug skeets.
Enjoy a recent nudibranch from a Sydney tidepool. Jorunna pantherina (I think). From a distance, these tiny 1cm nudis look pale, plain, grey. Up close, they are full of stars! 🐙🦑🧪 #MarineLife #Inverts
Enjoy a recent nudibranch from a Sydney tidepool. Jorunna pantherina (I think). From a distance, these tiny 1cm nudis look pale, plain, grey. Up close, they are full of stars! 🐙🦑🧪 #MarineLife #Inverts
May 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I've been slacking on the sea slug skeets.
Enjoy a recent nudibranch from a Sydney tidepool. Jorunna pantherina (I think). From a distance, these tiny 1cm nudis look pale, plain, grey. Up close, they are full of stars! 🐙🦑🧪 #MarineLife #Inverts
Enjoy a recent nudibranch from a Sydney tidepool. Jorunna pantherina (I think). From a distance, these tiny 1cm nudis look pale, plain, grey. Up close, they are full of stars! 🐙🦑🧪 #MarineLife #Inverts
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Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year?
I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥
Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...
I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥
Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...
Building giants: tissue relationships during skull growth in large mammals | Courses | University of Liverpool
From elephants to rhinos to bison, enormous increases in body mass have repeatedly evolved within Mammalia over relatively short timescales, leading to a diversity of size and shape. In this project, ...
www.liverpool.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year?
I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥
Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...
I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥
Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...
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I avoid National Parks for research because working with them involves a huge amount of pointless bureacracy, heavy restrictrions, and onerous subsequent reporting requirements. Also, they claim ownership over any specimens collected, while not paying any of the storage costs.
why are some national park service people so hostile to taxonomists and museums, we are on the same team my guys
July 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I avoid National Parks for research because working with them involves a huge amount of pointless bureacracy, heavy restrictrions, and onerous subsequent reporting requirements. Also, they claim ownership over any specimens collected, while not paying any of the storage costs.
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This funky beetle is a Black Bladder-bodied Meloid. The beetle is a flightless blister beetle and it can secrete a defensive fluid that causes blistering. It's not from Arizona, @alexwild.bsky.social did some bug hunting on the way to #BugShot and picked it up in west Texas.
(Cysteodemus wislizeni)
(Cysteodemus wislizeni)
July 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This funky beetle is a Black Bladder-bodied Meloid. The beetle is a flightless blister beetle and it can secrete a defensive fluid that causes blistering. It's not from Arizona, @alexwild.bsky.social did some bug hunting on the way to #BugShot and picked it up in west Texas.
(Cysteodemus wislizeni)
(Cysteodemus wislizeni)
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Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
July 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧
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In Australia, millions of newly hatched Bogong moths embark on an impressive journey twice a year.
A new study has found that the moths, with no parents to guide them, rely on bright stars and the Milky Way visible in the night sky to aid their migrations.
A new study has found that the moths, with no parents to guide them, rely on bright stars and the Milky Way visible in the night sky to aid their migrations.
Bogong moths use stars and the Milky Way to make epic migration
In Australia, millions of newly hatched Bogong moths embark on an impressive journey twice a year. Each spring, they hatch from eggs in their breeding grounds in Australia’s southeast and fly up to…
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July 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In Australia, millions of newly hatched Bogong moths embark on an impressive journey twice a year.
A new study has found that the moths, with no parents to guide them, rely on bright stars and the Milky Way visible in the night sky to aid their migrations.
A new study has found that the moths, with no parents to guide them, rely on bright stars and the Milky Way visible in the night sky to aid their migrations.
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*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
July 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
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In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
Call for Support: – About BHL
about.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
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Did you know you can view the evolutionary lineage of any group on PhyloPic (not just humans)? Here’s monarch butterflies, for example: www.phylopic.org/nodes/a71ca7... #sciart
Lineage of Danaus plexippus - PhyloPic
Illustrated evolutionary lineage of Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus 1758).
www.phylopic.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Did you know you can view the evolutionary lineage of any group on PhyloPic (not just humans)? Here’s monarch butterflies, for example: www.phylopic.org/nodes/a71ca7... #sciart
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Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org.
Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social 🧪 #evolbio
Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social 🧪 #evolbio
June 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org.
Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social 🧪 #evolbio
Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social 🧪 #evolbio
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Babydid 🥹
June 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Babydid 🥹
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by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam.
seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.
seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.
June 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam.
seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.
seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.
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Only on the darkest arctic nights can you encounter this Primordial Pokémon. It manifests as aurora and ice, gently towering over the pole's frigid denizens...
✨❄️🧊
(There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)
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(There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)
June 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Only on the darkest arctic nights can you encounter this Primordial Pokémon. It manifests as aurora and ice, gently towering over the pole's frigid denizens...
✨❄️🧊
(There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)
✨❄️🧊
(There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)