Caroline S. Chaboo

BBC Audio | You're Dead To Me | Hypatia of Alexandria: mathematician, martyr and feminist icon Join Greg and his guests to learn about the life of mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria.

#WomenInSTEM Hypathia www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Catalina Silva: La bióloga que alza la voz para proteger los ecosistemas de la Patagonia - Cooperativa Ciencia Tiempo de lectura: 2 minutos La bióloga ambiental y divulgadora científica estudia la biodiversidad del extremo sur para conectar el conocimiento académico con el activismo ambiental.

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To aficionados, fungi are freaky, mystical and overlooked. They're helping scientists learn more Fungi have long fascinated scientists and aficionados alike. These strange and often misunderstood life-forms are sought-after for food, medicine, building materials, psychedelic journeys and much mor...

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Rhizanthes lowii "flower" photo by Ch'ien Lee, a terrible plant structure that looks like a free-range rectum, positively swarming with delighted flies

"flower" of Mitrastemon yamamoti from Suetsugu (2018), another stinky plant structure that attracts a VAST array of insects (including flies, beetles, cockroaches, orthopterans, etc) to come nibble its horrid pink flesh

reading up on holoparasitic plants, regretting it instantly

You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before

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Hayford, Jurotich, Malik & Chaboo. 2026. Aquatic #Diptera in #Phytotelmata of #Bromeliaceae and #Zingiberales. In (Lin et al. Eds) Aquatic #Insects #Biodiversity and eDNA Monitoring. Insects. www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/17...

‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out? Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

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Cover of book ‘Ask for it’ Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever is a guide that teaches women negotiation skills for professional and personal situations, offering a four-phase program to help them identify their worth, strategize, and overcome common barriers like the fear of asking. The book uses real-life stories to illustrate how to ask for raises, promotions, and more, emphasizing that negotiation is essential and can be done in a way that feels comfortable for women.

My academic coach (a very cool privilege I have) just told me about ‘Ask For It’ a guide for women to negotiate a raise. It came up after I mentioned equity in pay 💰 in academia.

A Kansas City museum may be interested in your childhood toys from the 1980s Maybe you have a pink Care Bear with a rainbow belly, a blue Smurfette with long blonde hair, or one of those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures in an old box somewhere. A national museum in ...

#museums www.kcur.org/arts-life/20...

Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

A slender, translucent white insect with two antennae emerging from its head and two long antennae-like appendages forking out from its rear.

A slender, translucent white insect with two antennae emerging from its head and two long antennae-like appendages forking out from its rear.

A slender, translucent white insect with two antennae emerging from its head and two long antennae-like appendages forking out from its rear.

Not all six-legged creatures are insects — meet Haplocampa wagnelli, a hexapod adapted to life underground. They were first discovered in 2018 living deep inside caves on Vancouver Island, and to this day are known from just seven caves in the world.

#AnimalArchitecture

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru The Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru are home to many seabird species that cover their island homes with thick layers of poop, or guano. New research now suggests that ancient Peruvians in the…

Ancient Peruvians in the Chincha Valley used seabird guano from the Chincha Islands to fertilize maize, helping pre-Inca societies expand.

Nitrogen in 2,200-year-old maize matches local seabirds — evidence of an early, tightly managed fertilizer system later controlled by the Inca.

#leafbeetles to the rescue

I’ve been a supporter of @wwf.org.uk for over 40 years & I think it’s the first time I’ve seen flies in their magazine!

Hoverflies (& 100000s more spp) are not just excellent pollinators as adults, as the larvae are either recyclers of organic waste or predators of your garden pests 🤓🪰

Hope you get out of there alive!🙏

A bunch of deep sea fishes including a gulper eel and some angler fish.

Creatures from the deepest sea

#beetles

Epstein’s Ties With Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fund-Raising

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

Navalny Was Poisoned With Frog Toxin, European Governments Say

#frogs #toxin
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Glenn Wiggins' love of #AnimalArchitecture #insects
Finally, I have a copy of this book on my shelf.

U.S. colleges received more than $5 billion in foreign gifts, contracts in 2025 New data from the U.S. Education Department show the extent of international gifts and contracts to colleges and universities.

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Photo of the famous statue of seated Darwin in the Natural History Museum, London.

Happy Darwin Day!!!! Last year, for Darwin Day, I gave a presentation to the Piedmont Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society, “Celebrating the Botany of Charles Darwin.” You can see a recording here: https://bit.ly/4qNCYMS 📷: Matt Brown CCBY2 #DarwinDay #Darwin

#WomenInSTEM

Pharmacophagy in insects: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on the non‐nutritional use of plant specialized metabolites Insects interact with plants not only for nutrition but also to actively seek plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) for chemical defense, reproduction, and self-medication—a behavior known as pharmaco...

Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess
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Saalumarada Thimmakka Dies; Planted and Nurtured Thousands of Trees

Planting #trees 🌴 #India
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“Exquisite Creatures: An Immersive Journey into Nature's Art” #Seattle bio-sculptural #nature #art #exhibition by artist Christopher Marley

Women secure a future with pumas in the Andes AYACUCHO, Peru — High in the Peruvian Andes, fear of wildcats once meant survival. Pumas, pampas cats and the elusive Andean cat were seen only as threats to livestock — and were hunted without hesita...

#cats #puma #conservation #Andes #Peru #Quechua
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FLAWLESS DEPICTION OF HOLOLEPTA