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Binaries shirt Pre-order 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...

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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Screenshot from the anime Ruri Rocks. Nagisa sitting at her workstation while talking to Ruri who is standing in front of her, holding a newly published scientific paper.

Screenshot from the anime Ruri Rocks. A tray holding various rocks and a box of Kimwipes

Screenshot from the anime Ruri Rocks. Corner of a desk with stacks of haphazardly arranged piles of books and scientific papers on and next to it, along with a backpack leaning against it all.

I have to hand it to Ruri Rocks for nailing how a grad student's workstation looks like

Photo of a clam shrimp, shelled freshwater crustacean, on a black background next to a centimeter ruler. The shrimp is about 5 mm long. The orange circles are her eggs

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

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.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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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

The crab spider Amyciaea in Asia and Australia mimics Oecophylla in order to eat them.

Green background with a collage of biological illustrations including plants, animals and fossils

🌱 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...

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

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)

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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.

Plants that make structures to house ant colonies use architecture to avoid conflict among the ants.

This baby pterosaur is no bigger than my thumb

I liked the bird a lot (much more than the tiger) but I'm very biased and I love magpies. I enjoyed the movie overall, I agree that there should be more funky demon designs and traits in the main guy and main girl.

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I'm in the first group, though my job options were not good either way. I'm now in a pretty good job so I get to enjoy my work while spending time with my partner, though that necessitated using up some of my savings and I don't know how long the good times will last.

A photo of a black swan floating on water below a concrete ledge. Three metal wires from a fence cross the photo, separating the viewer and the swan. Dewdrops speckle the swan's head.

A photo of a black swan's head, out of focus. The swan's beak juts forward over the concrete ledge in front of the swan's body, under the metal wire of a fence between the swan and the viewer.

Hey, y'all got any snacks? #birds #WildOz

A tiny nudibranch, textured white, silver and grey. Bright and sparkling against a dark backdrop of brown algal turf

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

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 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.

A beetle with a very large humped appearance and a small head. The elytra (hardened wing covers) and metallic green and dimpled like a golf ball. The beetle is standing on a dead branch with green in the background.

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)

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🫧‪

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…

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 news story: "Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise"

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

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.

Lineage of Danaus plexippus - PhyloPic Illustrated evolutionary lineage of Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus 1758).

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

The two Mesquite logos. At left, a mesquite tree leaf is against a black background. At right, a leaf is against a blue sky and sun.

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

Baby katydid, pale blue and green with black spots, feasting on a closed flower. The creature is all spindly legs and wavy antennae

Babydid 🥹

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.

Gigantic aurora Pokemon in a nostalgic nighttime dreamscape of ice and sparkling stars. There are 12 kinds of creatures in this illustration - some obvious, others well hidden. Can you find 'em all?

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...

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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! 💕)

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A pile of plushie planaria. They're brown flatworms with triangular heads, with silly little beadie eyes. They are floppy. Some of them have two heads!

Planaria party! I've been over-feeding my giant plush aquarium and look what turned up!

If you'd like to take your own giant (for a planaria, they're 18cm long) beanie plushie planaria home, I promise they won't mulitply.

They're for sale (£20gbp, worldwide shipping) here: www.palaeoplushies.com

Painting of Megarhyssa atrata (giant black ichneumoid wasp) from the top down, in an unnatural pinned position

Another painting of Megarhyssa atrata, this time a top down angle (minus its longgggg ovipositor) #sciart #wasp