Share with all mosquito researchers. 🧪🦟
I'm co-organizing a special issue in the Journal of Medical Entomology on systematics, taxonomy, and natural history of mosquitoes. See details in the link. Happy to answer questions. Proposal Deadline 15 April 2026.
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Stick-colored/textured orb weaver, being a lump on a twig
Side view, showing off the tall humped abdomen towering over her head, from which 1 of her eye pairs protrudes
Also last night I found another old friend I haven't seen in a couple years, an Ocrepeira orb weaver! A silly lump of a spider with a tall humped booty who loves to blend into Stick and I love them.
26.02.2026 02:48 — 👍 74 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0
@vannabartlett.bsky.social around 25 very small Harvestman at Brandon Country Park this morning. 🤍
24.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Congrats, great to hear! 🥳
23.02.2026 20:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(P.S., if you're ever trying to get an earthworm identification, be sure to take photos of the many angles you see in this thread!)
20.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 49 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
stylized, simple drawing of a horseshoe crab colored in yellow, green, and blue, with the name Tachypleus gigas in the corner
We're horseposting post your horses.
18.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 1011 🔁 236 💬 16 📌 42
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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!
Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
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This is the medal you win in the Flylympics.
18.02.2026 01:42 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Awards Alert 🚨
Its award season here at SSB!
First up: Graduate Student Research Awards. Due March 20, these awards are for collecting data or otherwise enhancing your dissertation. Open to graduate student society members
Apply here:
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In our new paper, we demonstrate the potential of social media data for tracking range-shifting species, particularly in the leading edge of the expansion. doi.org/10.1111/cobi... (1/6) @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social
16.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 29 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
Extremely floofy grey lynx spider with legs bunched around her, looking very stern
Floof Lump, if needed
(Hamataliwa grisea)
#EmotionalSupportSpood
The hummingbird mechanic in this game sounds amazing 😊🪶
16.02.2026 03:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After a few years of benign neglect I am rebuilding bionames.org, which is a database of 5.4 million taxonomomic names for animals, linked to half a million DOIs and 278K PDFs. Dream is for every species name to be linked to its original publication using a persistent identifier #PID
09.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 67 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 1
nine illustrations. from top left: a yellow mariposa flower, a golden beetle, a yellow sparrow, a spotted blue jellyfish, a brown spotted snake, an orange spotted fig, white mushrooms, a grey snail with a brown shell, and four pinkish pill-shaped bacteria
to highlight the fact that species epithets can repeat in separate genera, here are three species named "yellow", three named "spotted", and three named "from India". it took a while to come up with a nice spread of lifeforms
08.02.2026 21:10 — 👍 364 🔁 111 💬 2 📌 0
teeny tiny wingless parasitic wasp, probably genus Baeus. It is so round and fat and perfect. Its head is the size of the rest of its body.
just a little baby child (from @mosquitolab.bsky.social's pitfall samples; I can see how this one got sorted into the beetle pile)
06.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 177 🔁 35 💬 8 📌 7
Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
05.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 125 🔁 74 💬 6 📌 24
Extremely leggy pale brown ogre spider, big eyes peering ahead, fuzzy square silk net at the ready held by her 4 front legs
Baby Ogre; perfect child, proper web technique (always) 🤎
05.02.2026 02:27 — 👍 135 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 1
If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons:
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
So fierce
30.01.2026 01:42 — 👍 103 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0🕸️ The #silk of this gorgeous little cribellator is not your standard silk - read @evoimec.bsky.social new study here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🕸️
27.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 30 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Oh shit BoW might really be goated for this. My guy @eliotmiller.bsky.social changed the damn game. This thing is fcking incredible. Hats off to the whole damn team. 👏
For those not in the know- BoW is worth the price of admission, now more than ever.
The slide summarizes the meaning of 5 words: -Chelicerata (="claw horn") Arthropods with chelicerae (pincers/fangs front appendages) instead of antennae. -Pycnogonida (="thick knee") Marine chelicerates with slender bodies, proboscis, and ridiculously long legs. -Arachnida (="spider") Terrestrial chelicerates, including spiders, scorpions or mites to cite a few. -Eurypterida (="wide fin/wing") Extinct paleozoic aquatic chelicerates often called “sea scorpions” even tho they aren’t related at all. -Xiphosura (="sword tail/body end") The horseshoe crabs group, easily recognizable with their wide cephalothorax and pointy telson.
Today for #Cheliceratime, a bit of etymology! We are used to certain names, but what did they mean in the first place?
If you want to learn more, read bellow! ⬇️
#Spider #Arachnid #Arthropod #bugsky #science #etymology
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A comic graphical abstract by illustrator Rush Dhillon showing two wood warblers and their spider prey. The graphs illustrate the read abundance of these spiders in the warbler's fecal samples.
I could give you a great summary of our new warbler diet paper… but if a picture says a thousand words, this awesome graphical abstract by @rushstudio.bsky.social tells the whole story. 🦉🧪
academic.oup.com/auk/article/...
This one's giving off Pokemon vibes 😁
15.01.2026 15:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Silly brown mantidfly with her grabby arms neatly folded, clutching a blade of grass, with her clear old skin still clutching that blade of grass below her
Newly emerged mantidfly with her old clothes nearby, wings dried, in my yard 🤎
15.01.2026 02:04 — 👍 271 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 0Our international journal Arachnology is freely available to our members (see britishspiders.org.uk/join) and we are also very pleased that it is made available to a much wider audience via BioOne.
12.01.2026 17:56 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens peering over its wet waiting for its prey.
Creeping over the edge waiting for the cricket… I love this #spider, it’s so colourful and active #tarantula #Chromatopelmacyaneopubescens
12.01.2026 15:36 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
This seems like a really great initiative! If you know any Trans scientists who might be interested in joining a broader community, please pass along!
transscientistcollective.carrd.co
Still working to get 100 plants for the Botany & Dragons Bestiary! Submit your favorite plant today! #iamabotanist
22.12.2025 16:27 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
A curious tropical Pacific brittle star called Ophioteichus with a thick, crenulate edge! I love that word! CRENULATE! #echinoday
10.01.2026 17:26 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
