@arthropodabbey.bsky.social
Entomologist working to understand evolution + adaptation of arthropod phenotypes 🦗 Non-binary + disabled in STEM 🧪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿ B.S. @St Mary's College of California ⏩ Ph.D. in Entomology @ WSU ⏩ NSF Postdoctoral Fellow @ UConn ⏩ Postdoc @ UVA
Its been a minute since I've shared my cats, so enjoy this picture of Peaches in a long cardboard box and Saki sitting on a foot stool which we call his "special little pedestal".
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Join Xerces and help protect pollinators in Tennessee! 🏙️🌾🐝
Job Title: Pollinator Conservation Specialist, NRCS Partner Biologist, Urban Farms and Small-Scale Operations
🌎Location: Jackson, TN
💲Compensation: $65,998/yr
📅Apply by: Mar 26
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
I am going to revive this and make some insect paper embellishments next time I can get my hands on cool rubber stamps. Very cool work, and glad it reminded me of this long lost art I used to make
Wow you have just activated an old memory - I used to use rubber stamps as moulds and toilet paper and water to make little paper embellishments like this when I was a kid. Never thought to combine it with my love for entomology! Thank you!!!
This article puts words to the tragedies we are currently seeing unfold in Iran in a way that was very clarifying, definitely worth a read!
Today in ants doing weird things: queens all the way down 🐜👑https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516695-everyones-a-queen-the-ant-species-with-no-males-or-workers/
Thank you for doing this!!! As a nonbinary biologist I'm always so stoked when I see folks doing work like this that I can reference, especially in these times. 🌈🙏
New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social
We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
Ok now I'm sad I didnt get a picture of the "CIGARS" sign I just saw where C and I were both burnt out 😜 If I drive that direction again and its still like that I'll make a point to snap a pic for you
Meet Belonocnema mesoamericana, a new species of Belonocnema that we described on Mexican live oak! This is a fun little critter that makes velvety root galls, a great find by @scottpegan.bsky.social and Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón's team at UNAM.
jhr.pensoft.net/article/1851...
Have I ever told you about the WSU Beehicle? I definitely have a photo on my laptop if I haven't shown you....
I was literally like "wow those are so cute" when I watched the video today. 10/10 job
I’ve made a bunch of acrylic key charms, they turned out really cute and are available online now! Link in bio 💚 which one is your fav?
They also spread diseases to native bees and preferentially pollinate non-native plants: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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)
Everyone go buy cricket art, 🦗I recently bought a piece from this artist and cannot recommend enough!
Had our first group meeting yesterday with the H.A. Brown Principal & Nick (the artist!)
The school is psyched. I'm going to talk about pollinators next week, & have the kids vote on their favorite bug!
We have a wall!
We have a plan!
We just need a little more funding 😅
givebutter.com/KenzoMural
Being In an interdisciplinary field, it is easy to feel dumb because you are a "jack of all trades, master of none"
But that feel is greatly improved when you learn this sentence is often misquoted. The full version is:
"jack of all trades, master of none, but often better than a master of one"🎃
Butts!
I don't have unlimited budget so it's taking a while to expand this collection, but if you're interested in being part of it, DM me! Mutuals prioritized.
*clack-clack of tiny teef*
PERILAMPUS 😍 I hadn't seen one of these stunning blue nuggets in like 3+ years. Perfect, perfect creature. 💙
(they're hyperparasitoids of hyperparasitoids, and so damn cool enough on that merit, but also they can look like this)
Hey Philly!
I need your help finding 3 walls for 10x10ft murals this fall all about the most charismatic bugs in the city.
Each mural must be in a different neighborhood, so we have to cast this net as wide as possible.
Please help us spread the word!
Submit your wall at bit.ly/bugwalls
Greeting committee at the field station cabin
this is so stupid i'm laughing
Brother Bostrichid was known far and wide for his expertly crafted wooden furniture. unfortunately he also had a bad habit of eating it.
We also looked at stomata on leaves by painting the leaf with clear nail polish and then peeling it off and mounting it on a slide, check out the two different plants my students prepped
What we bug lovers can do in the Year of the Horse? To admire the humble camel cricket! Known as Zao Ma in Chinese, which means “kitchen horse”, it is the mount of the Kitchen God Zao Jun, and brings good fortune & indicates plenty of food on the plates.
The lack of fight has been pretty
... disgusting. So thankful to all of my colleagues out there that are still fighting the goof fight even if we haven't been able to use *those words* to describe what we are working toward