Kevin Keegan

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See you in the streets on Oct 18 for the #NoKings rally against authoritarianism! ✊

We encourage all AAUP members and chapters to tag us in your photos & videos: we want to boost your displays of solidarity and peaceful protest!

Use the hashtags #NoKings #DefendHigherEd #NoKingsAAUP

Long suspected this may be true - some characters pulling double duty and resolving clades in different parts of the tree. Good to see it bear out in simulation.

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

If anyone is looking to do a postdoc on plant-insect interactions in the Sonoran Desert, I would love to sponsor one of these fellowship applications: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

I have a bunch of project ideas ready-to-go, but I'm also happy to support independent projects as well!

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

65 years later, they still show up.

Every Oct. 13, @pirates.com fans gather at #ForbesField to relive the moment — Mazeroski’s walk-off in Game 7, 1960.

Hot dogs. Radios. Jerseys. Tears.

Because in #Pittsburgh, baseball history still matters. @triblive.bsky.social

⚾🖤💛 LINK IN COMMENTS

Lol absolutely

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Looks like maybe a Catocala with white and black hindwings

jumping spider with large central eyes, a white diamond sitting directly between the central eyes, all surrounded by a striking red mask which flows to the sides of the face, itself expanded laterally

an amazing Habronattus jumping spider known only from a single spring in the bottom of an impossibly isolated and lonely desert valley

Lolololol

maybe next time

HILL DISTRICT SAYS NO KINGS! October 5th at 12:30. Freedom Corner -- Centre and Crawford, Pittsburgh. Event by Indivisible Black Neighborhoods United, Indivisible Pittsburgh, B-PEP, and 1Hood Power.

HILL DISTRICT SAYS NO KINGS! 🚫👑

Sunday, October 5th at 12:30.
Freedom Corner -- Centre and Crawford

Event by Indivisible Black Neighborhoods United, Indivisible Pittsburgh, B-PEP, and 1Hood Power.

www.mobilize.us/indivisiblep...

Reminder to submit a talk for the Dipterists Meeting at @entsocamerica.bsky.social if you're interested.

Please also share with others 🙏

A chromolithograph depicting the “nightly activities of insects” from the natural history series ‘Brehms Tierleben,’ first published from 1864-1869.

Alfred E. Brehm was a German zoologist and explorer who became the first director of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg.

#insectart #naturalhistory

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Lol what the fuck are you smoking

A dark, hairy gall midge fly on a white sheet. It has long legs and antennae and a red neck.

Quiz results showing I'm a gall midge or cecidomyiid

Dark taxa are extremely diverse organisms that remain largely undescribed due to small size, subtle differences, & few experts.

Take this quiz to find out what you are - I'm a gall midge! whatdarktaxonareyou.static.domains/insect-quiz....

by @vivianfeng.bsky.social & @flyliceresearch.bsky.social

black and white group photo of the international zoological congress, taken at the statue of Van der Werff, in the Van der Werff Park in Leiden in 1895.

Yesterday was the 130th anniversary of the #ICZN, the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature. It was founded during the zoology congress in Leiden, organized by the then director the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Frederik Jentink.

They're just doing their own research

Mrs. Scott's House - 1932
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104328

Eat shit

What the fuck are you smoking

The Uncertainty of the Poet, by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913

Brazil envy hitting real hard right now

Losing my goddamned mind.

We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

This gall looks like something you'd imagine a mythical fairy-like creature living in. It's shaped like a mushroom and has a small hole in the front.

The stem of a plant has a couple round growths with small holes in them.

'Tis the season to search for lumps on plants, aka galls! These growths are created in response to other organisms — often insects, fungi, or bacteria — injecting their chemicals into the plant. 🧵⤵️

Join the gall celebrations: tr.ee/ziMCEH

Pittsburgh says, "No KINGS!" · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

Here's the Pittsburgh NO KINGS rally on October 18th!

City-County Building, 412 Grant St
Saturday 10/18, 12:30pm

Rare Ball-Nosed Planthopper Rediscovered by Entomologists in Iowa A 12-year effort by entomologists in Iowa solves mysteries about an elusive planthopper, Fitchiella robertsonii, including key host plants and environments.

A 12-year effort by entomologists in Iowa solves mysteries about an elusive planthopper, Fitchiella robertsonii, including key host plants and environments. The 219 specimens they caught are 90% of those ever collected by scientists, marking a leap forward for potential conservation of the species.