Amy Parachnowitsch

T-shirt design with monarch butterflies and Statue of Liberty

By popular demand, I'm offering "More #MONARCHS - No #Monarchy!" shirts and mugs at cost (no profit, just joy). Spread the word, decent quality for <$20

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#NoKings #butterfly #peace #naturalhistory #plantinsect

Detail of the water pot decoration. Grasshoppers carrying flowers are also accompanying a palanquin, used to carry... presumably high ranking lady grasshoppers. A couple might also be katydids based on antennae length, but let's not get uptight about imaginary anthropomorphized bugs, eh?

The little freshwater pot, with a wooden top. This side shows more grasshoppers (possibly a katydid) carrying fruit and flowers as they march along on their hind legs.

Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort!

We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

Creation Story The most unlikely origin of an evolutionary biologist.

Great RadioLab interview with Ella al-Shamahi, about her journey from religious anti-evolutionism into evolutionary biology. New perspective but also familiar if you (like me) grew up among Christian creationists; really moving on what faith, even "denialist" faith, means to people

Talk to @stephenbheard.bsky.social !

DEEP seeks Associate Professor in Plant Ecology – apply now! - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences DEEP seeks Associate Professor in Plant Ecology – apply now! - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

Come be my colleague! Tenured Associate Professor position opening in Plant Ecology at my department @stockholm-uni.bsky.social www.su.se/department-o...

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

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Oak tree on a football field – Tree of the year Is there a place in the world where you can find a stadium which has an oak tree in the middle of it? For the locals in Orissaare its a common thing, but this tree is at heart of the community. Before...

Did you know that Europe names a Tree of The Year? Looks like Quercus spp. do quite well. Here's the 2015 winner, a ~150 year old Oak tree in Estonia that footballers have learned to play around. #bloomscrolling

Trinity College Dublin Herbarium

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

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A three-panel comic. The first panel is a scrap from a dictionary that says crypsis, noun: patterning or coloration that allows a bird to remain concealed by blending in to its environment. In panel 2, labeled effective crypsis, an american bittern blends in with a marsh full of tall plants. In panel 2, labeled ineffective crypsis, an american bittern fails to blend in among some short plants, next to a wet floor sign, and behind a stop sign.

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

This thread is a delight.

So happy with this one!

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!

We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

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#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ... Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ...

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

How I am thinking about GenAI in the classroom Student use of GenAI is not the problem, it's a symptom of bigger problems.

Resharing my post from earlier this week, just in case you're working on your syllabus and want to give a think about how you're going to be dealing with AI with assignments.

scienceforeveryone.science/how-i-am-thi... 🧪

Upcycled bag from traditional Swedish cross stitching and fabric. Tapestry cross stitch of two birds on a branch looking into a candle lit window in a red house. Snow flakes and a winter scene with snow and ice on the window sills. Fabric striped with mainly light and dark blue, and red and white to a lesser extent

Congratulations to Ada Clarke who had an excellent master’s defence today. She was an absolute pleasure to work with! Forgot pictures but found this lovely bag in Sweden as a gift.

Old Swedish school poster with information about the flower parts. Multiple line drawings of flower forms

Just like that my sabbatical in Sweden is done! Sad to be leaving but looking forward to adventures ahead!

A meta-analysis found that high-density managed honeybee populations can:

👉disrupt local biodiversity🌏
👉reduce pollinator richness🧪
👉alter plant-pollinator relationships🐝
...all with minimal benefits to crop yields!

Calls for evidence-based hive density guidelines 📑

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I'm so excited to share my master's research! Do pollinators change their foraging behavior depending on floral and ambient temperatures? Do flowers that thermoregulate experience higher rates of pollinator visitation? Check it out below! 🏵️

It is with great sadness I have pinned the tab for D2L once again (sabbatical ending sad face). To be clear I do like teaching but educational software and admin, well let's just say I haven't missed that part!

♻️🆓: A functional view of flower–pollinator trait matching. A commentary on ‘Mismatching explained: constricted corolla tubes in Roscoea elevate the nectar’
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Did u know?Some pollinators we know less about than others. This amber & black beauty is a Rose Sawfly. Sawflies aren't flies,but are related to bees, wasps & ants.They're approx 600 species in the UK & 1000's,world wide. The adults feed on nectar & pollen,making them excellent pollinators. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🪲🌍🐜🐝

A row of five enamel pins in the shape of six-petal flowers in nonbinary, pan, bi, trans, and LGBTQ+ flag colours. Each is on a backing card that reads "A perfect flower by canopy robin. Did you know that 90% of flowering plants have individual flowers with both male and female parts. Botanists call this a perfect flower." The bi flower's backing card is purple and the others are green.

Did you know that bisexual flowers are perfect? Botanists do.

My latest pin celebrates the fact that 90% of flowering plants have individual flowers with both male and female parts. Botanists call these 'bisexual' or 'perfect' flowers. Please share!
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A product photo showing a mockup of a phone wallpaper, and below is the text "phone wallpaper". The wallpaper features two white bunnies sitting among some flowers.

Wahoo I made a phone wallpaper!

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Fig.3 Micropatterns on the petal surface are created by variation in epidermal cell pigment, shape and cuticle textures.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale
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Keep in mind that this is a list appropriate for Europe (some invasive plants in NA) but great to see this!

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

‘Sheila just went for it’: York University scientist Sheila Colla remembered as a fierce advocate to save wild bees Colla, 43, died Sunday of cancer. She successfully fought for the rusty-patched bumblebee to become the first bee listed as an endangered species in Canada and the U.S.

“York University scientist Sheila Colla remembered as a fierce advocate to save wild bees. Colla, 43, died Sunday of cancer. She successfully fought for the rusty-patched bumblebee to become the first bee listed as an endangered species in Canada and the U.S.”

www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...