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Mantis lover, cat lover, Ph.D. Student at the American Museum of Natural History | he/him | Interested in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution

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World Athletics wants to go back to mandatory sex testing This is not the news I was hoping to share with you all, but here we are. Yesterday, World Athletics released a new set of recommendations surrounding the...

If you've heard Tested you know that athletes, doctors, and ethicists worked for nearly 30 years to end mandatory chromosome tests for all women athletes. They succeeded in 1999. Now, World Athletics wants to bring them back: buttondown.com/tested/archi...

11.02.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7
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This β€˜hidden figure’ of entomology fought for civil rights Margaret S. Collins, the first Black American female entomologist to earn a Ph.D., overcame sexism and racism to become a termite expert.

What an amazing woman and researcher! www.sciencenews.org/article/mara...

21.01.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
A poster on a wall shows a black ink outline of a figure holding and eating a human body, in the style of the painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco de Goya. Text around the illustration reads: "Amerika is devouring its children", against a black and red background.

A poster on a wall shows a black ink outline of a figure holding and eating a human body, in the style of the painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco de Goya. Text around the illustration reads: "Amerika is devouring its children", against a black and red background.

A few years ago I worked across the street from NYPL, and they hosted the exhibit "You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 1960s." Most of those protest signsβ€”denouncing war, racism, sexism, police brutalityβ€”are still plenty relevant today. This one's by artist Jay Belloli, from 1970

23.01.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Those eyes are just sinister looking!
Sweet fly!

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I would like to be added if possible!

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Please add me!

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Never jumped on the twitter bandwagon but great to be part of this community and share the wonderful world of praying mantises!

14.11.2024 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cambrian explosion

12.11.2024 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1470    πŸ” 496    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

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