🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻

i love the new starters so much i turned them into paper #pokemonwindsandwaves

Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

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Gengar original

Quantifying fossil displays at natural history museums Over the last few years, I’ve gradually been assembling what I imaginatively call the Big Spreadsheet. It’s a record of every single vertebrate fossil on display at a number of natural …

New blog post: what can we learn from quantifying the kinds of fossils on display at different natural history museums? extinctmonsters.net/2026/02/27/q...

If you want to read voices of young artists in Iran, please support the comics anthology "Young in Iran" published with @comicsworkshop.bsky.social It's 264 pages, 6x9 inches, and was censored by Kickstarter. Take a look: www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/saw-shop/p/y...

One consequence of having the good fortune of living the life of a tropical ecologist is the random photos you rediscover. This from 2008 Peruvian Amazon.
I wonder if anybody has studied Darth Vader here—a scarily defended critter that seems to be mimicking an even scarier, well-defended, wasp.

A black katydid in lateral view resembling a pompilif wasp

Or these cute katydids of the genus Aganacris. The movements, antennae, and overall coloration are really convincing too.
colombia.inaturalist.org/observations...

kingfisher

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Contraption

The evolutionary line of Pombon, which are definitely not hastily edited sprites of Lesser Dog and Greater Dog from Undertale

guys my uncle tobyfox works at nintendo he said this was gonna be the pombon evolutionary line

happy birthday chun-li

chubby frog waving a taegeukgi

대한 독립 만세!! 🇰🇷
happy 3.1 everybody
#삼일절

"women are defined by heterosexuality and reproduction" is what practically the entire history of feminism has fought against, actually.

This is just a patriarchal propagandist framing her regressive beliefs as a righteous crusade.

teeny tiny digital doodle of a mosquito wearing a grey monk rob with a red thread to wrap around her

@ascalaphid.com consider:
tiny medic mosquito monk

she only ever prescribes bloodletting to heal anything 🩸

scabies? bloodletting
tb? bloodletting
papercut while manuscripting? more bloodletting

a weird animal lineart on a graphic background of blue-green plants and orange flower and sun

I really love the idea of getting a tattoo of the Sparlosa runestone animal, but I'm very squeamish.

#berensart2025

Today I learned that I can film darter gill parasites live!! Here's a fantail darter parasite throwing the teeniest tiniest tantrum I have ever witnessed (40x magnification).This might be the first time this species has ever been filmed. Look how cute it is!!

To Slay the Great Regurgitator

how are there no photos of magnolia warblers flying on ebird. i thought you guys were hardcore

photos from an excellent study by Cohen et al (2021) of a cerambycid beetle just straight up doing it with the flower of Disa forficaria, in a classic example of a ~sexual mimicry pollination system~

the humiliation of going on a hot date then finding out she wasn't even in the same PHYLUM (then someone writes a whole paper about it, with photos of your wiener)

it would be funny if the first stage did exactly that steppy thing but since the second stage is bipedal it did the like russian knee dance

digital illustration of various antiques including, a ceremonial dagger, a netsuke, a pistol, a bell, a whistle, a music box, and a statuesque container

drew some things from the v&a museum catalogue

🎉 happy 30 years to the OG
🔍how many secrets and shiny #Pokemon can you find?

An ink painting of a Vaporeon smiling happily at the camera. Many big morning glories are tangled on a vine around their tail. The inside of the morning glories mimic the spiky collar shape around Vaporeon's neck.

A vaporeon sitting in profile and smiling with a few morning glories around them, and the vine curling around their tail again. Do you think surf would be useful for gardening purposes? Vaporeon wants to find out.

Happy 30th birthday Pokemon! Here are some paintings of my all time favorite. My only objective every game is to locate my dog.

Transgender Chicago man hospitalized after saving baby from drowning in Lake Michigan “I wasn’t going to let that baby die,” Lio Cundiff said.

This 30-year-old transgender man, who can’t swim, jumped into Lake Michigan after a wind gust blew a baby in a stroller into the freezing water.

He’s being called a hero. But now he has medical expenses, and people are donating to a fundraiser to support him.

www.advocate.com/news/lio-cun...

A stack of old risograph calendars that are out of date, a slide cutter, and a big stick of glue

Now let’s cut up old calendars to make mini prints

Niche Eastern European memes brought to you by me and @windlass.bsky.social

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school