Derek Hennen, Ph.D.

As usual for Chamberlin, source is: "trust me bro." For no reason at all, I'm thinking about the time he described the same millipede under 7 different names in the span of two years.

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Same for movies and shows! I like seeing grain and small tears in the image quality. Especially with newer cartoons, the lines and colors are too perfect and unnatural.

Coming up, an episode about house centipedes (thanks to listener Laura for the request).

Send your house centipede questions here or via e-mail at bugsneedheroes@gmail.com! Let us know if you'd like us to read them on the podcast or keep it anonymous.

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Perhaps a lawnmower!

Holy cow look at these beauties

Archway with text over the door part of a longer message, message over door reads "Be trans"

Hell yeah

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Look at those beautiful Winklers!

Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ne Zha, with its head replaced by Diplolepis nezha

Movie poster of Nezha II featuring Ao Bing, with its head replaced by Orthopelma aobing

More wasps from Sichuan! This time we describe a new rose gall found on a protected endemic rose from China. We named the gall wasp Diplolepis nezha and its ichneumonid parasitoid Orthopelma aobing, after characters from the Chinese legend/popular animated film.

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Lisa Cook is still the standout for me. Firing her requires rewriting the relationship between Congress, the President, and the Courts, but it won't have a meaningful impact on policy, she's not particularly hawkish on FOMC. All that effort *solely* because she's a Black woman.

Revision of the millipede genus Apheloria Chamberlin, 1921 (Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae, Apheloriini) | Zootaxa

Millipede fans rejoice: we published our revision of Apheloria! This is the most common cherry millipede genus, but its taxonomy has been riddled with nebulous subspecies names. No longer! We clarify species limits and provide a distribution map. mapress.com/zt/article/v... @apheloria.bsky.social

This is the lesson of 2025

I have learned so many local shibboleths since moving here! Then I forget the pronunciation and the cycle begins anew.

Brag time: I just excelled at small talk on the elevator. Made a topical joke and everything, big laughs. Felt good.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Surprised Pikachu GIF Alt: Surprised Pikachu GIF

Academics when they hear not all science jobs are research jobs

An excellent Narceus! A male, you can see the enlarged 7th ring.

Of course!! Winkler, Berlese, potato-potato :)

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Done! Welcome aboard!

Happy to add you if you want! I'll post my set up soon.

There's no better place to see pretty millipedes than the Appalachians! They come in all colors of the rainbow here.

I started a list for scientists and others interested in leaf litter fauna, please share and let me know if you want to be added! Do you love a good hand lens, soil sieves, and Berlese funnels? Perhaps this is the place for you.

Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
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