@stbehmer.bsky.social
ENTO Prof at Texas A&M. Physiology, Ecology, Behavior, Evolution, and Locusts. Always pay attention. Get outdoors!
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25.09.2025 01:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“This Executive Order is nothing short of obscene," said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). "In what world does Donald Trump think that Americans want political appointees – who, need I remind the President, are unelected bureaucrats – making decisions on what science gets funded?”
07.08.2025 23:43 — 👍 76 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 1
This new paper documents a tenfold increase in research papers using community-collected iNaturalist data over just five years: tr.ee/89Ot3I
According to the study, here are four key ways that iNaturalist data directly powers science 🧵⤵️
A good morning out with @theswordlab.bsky.social
exploring the Skunk Trail at the Soltis Center 🇨🇷. Always something that catches the eye.
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
28.06.2025 02:15 — 👍 31898 🔁 13530 💬 1283 📌 1360
Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
25.06.2025 13:04 — 👍 28670 🔁 4256 💬 646 📌 419
"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.
22.02.2025 02:34 — 👍 22858 🔁 8468 💬 1049 📌 518NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
They look aposematic but I don’t know if any work has explicitly tested them. Would be easy. And they are gorgeous grasshoppers!
18.02.2025 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do you for sure know it is distasteful?
17.02.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Just hours after taking the oath of office, Donald Trump took down reproductiverights.gov — a website to help women find health care and understand their rights.
They’re wasting no time assaulting freedom.
A dead tan wasp from Borneo rainforest is sprouting Cordyceps fungal fruiting bodies while also adorned with the stalked egg of a lacewing attached to its head.
A light-yellow and rusty-brown striped very large huntsman spider from Borneo with a fuzzy reddish-orange winged ant it has just snatched from the other side of this post seconds earlier. I'd never see something so big, catch something so fast seemingly out of nowhere. <shivers!>
A most unfortunate dogday cicada that was in the process of emerging from its pupal skin was discovered and preyed upon by an earwig and an orb-weaving spider.
A brown-colored stinkbug with orange legs is sucking-up its liquified dinner from a monarch butterfly caterpillar it has killed and now hangs limply from the underside of the milkweed leaf it was once feeding upon
“The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive” ― William Ralph Inge. Indeed, the arthropod world offers examples in abundance to support of this statement! #Predation #Parasitism #Illinois #Borneo #spider #wasp #caterpillar #cicada #earwig #stinkbug #cordyceps
16.01.2025 04:25 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Love this.
14.01.2025 02:42 — 👍 35918 🔁 7738 💬 780 📌 312As DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem would enforce Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
In her own state, she’s banned from tribal lands after spreading lies: cartels “holding up shop” on reservations and are “recruiting tribal members.”
Tribal leaders see it what it is: racist, dehumanizing fear-mongering.
Great photos! @talkingrootworm.bsky.social
10.01.2025 03:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mating pair of Myiomyrmica fenestrata flies resting on a diagonal stem. Both sexes are brownish-red in color with typically "gas-mask" looking faces and narrow wings with a single white-ish patch near the wing tip.
Mating pair of Myiomyrmica fenestrata flies resting on a diagonal stem. Both sexes are brownish-red in color with typically "gas-mask" looking faces and narrow wings with a single white-ish patch near the wing tip.
One of my summertime favorites: the ant-mimicking #fly #Myiomyrmica fenestrata (Order #Diptera, Family #Ulidiidae). I've found this species at only one location: Loda Cemetery Prairie, Loda Illinois. They look & act like #ants. I haven't a clue about their role in #tallgrass #prairie ecosystems
10.01.2025 03:23 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court DENIES Trump's bid to stay his criminal sentence in NY.
Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissent.
Given the new Bob Dylan movie…what is your favorite Bob Dylan contribution? Here’s mine.
09.01.2025 04:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02025 in a nutshell.
08.01.2025 15:58 — 👍 4066 🔁 1270 💬 212 📌 76
Nothing like a Tucson sunset 🌵
05.01.2025 02:13 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Incredible video here from Violet Wu. Apparently this is Macaulay Library’s top-rated video of 2024. Featuring the GOAT duck- Torrent Duck.
22.12.2024 16:23 — 👍 410 🔁 94 💬 9 📌 18We are going from this amazing, empathetic, and genuine man to an apathetic and lying man. 😔 So sad. I love my president, and it makes me sad that half of the population of this country never appreciated him for who he truly is, a good man who loves his country and tried to help its people.
21.12.2024 02:21 — 👍 1010 🔁 168 💬 45 📌 8Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.
19.12.2024 23:13 — 👍 52934 🔁 16650 💬 1027 📌 878Not ONE single Democrat should vote to confirm ANY of Trump’s nominees.
Like and share if you agree!!
Your turn.
Can Gaetz go any lower than this demotion?
New episode with guest @hodgman.bsky.social on @meidastouch.com!
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
- Lao Tzu
Take heed, Democrats.
The world stared into an abyss of dictators, appeasement, and looming world war when suddenly the sky began falling...in central New Jersey
We were here in 1938, and now we're back. What's really behind a moral panic over drones? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
All of this! 👇
02.12.2024 23:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
