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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Jul 28

New article I co-wrote about the financial struggles of graduate school and what you can do to help! academic.oup.com/ae/article/7...
#unions #entomology #grad @entsocamerica.bsky.social

Underpaid, Overworked, and Essential: Graduate Labor Organizing

Graduate students—including those in entomology—are severely underpaid, almost always falling far below the local living wage (Kirchner and Petzoldt 2022,

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · May 10

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · May 10

Coreopsis is POPPING right now

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Apr 25

Get it diva. So much fun performing at EarthGAY! 🌍🌈🏳️‍🌈♻️
Queer joy, y’all!
#InverteBrittany #drag #bugs #firefly #lightningbug #lampyrid

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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · Apr 17

Well, I’m shocked. The Endangered Species Act is under attack (again).

By redefining the meaning of “harm” to remove protections for habitat, the path to recovery for listed species is grim.

It would be like burning down your house and expecting you to thrive.

We are living The Lorax.

#Resist

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Neil @uk-wildlife.bsky.social · Dec 5

A close up of a Water Stick Insect...which isn't a type of Stick Insect but a type of Water Scorpion...which are not Scorpions but insects, members of the True Bugs as demonstrated by that needle like rostrum mouth
What is confusing about that? Lol

#bugsky #inverts #PondLife

Head area of a Long bodies insect with large spherical red-brown compound eyes, long pointy face with long needle like mouth pointing out and top part of long front kegs stretching out of the photo

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Mar 20

When you get distracted by your nails under the scope. 💅 🪲 🔬 #chrysomelidae

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Mar 20

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points.

She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine.

“Deport Elon, Deport Elon!”

Watch to the end…

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Mar 20

The antidote to despair is activism. WORKERS OVER BILLIONARES. #unionstrong #fuckfascism

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thanks for showing up Alex! ✊

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · Mar 18

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Mar 19

🤣 6.9 on the CV Riley Scale

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Mar 4

FRIDAY: Join @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies around the US to protest funding cuts, illegal firings, and censorship of scientists. In response to the attacks, the most important thing we can do is to visually show that science has strong support in this country, so please show up if you can!

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Feb 27

Folks attending @entsocamerica.bsky.social SEB meeting!! Got any cool #insect #photos you’d like to share? Submit by 3/6 to be featured in the banquet slideshow. Categories include macro, micro, entomologist at work, and memes! Upload to: forms.gle/PqMNteMx2Xmc... #arthropodPOTW #bugmemes #ESASEB

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Feb 23

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Feb 20

First pub of the year in the books

Dave Coyle @drdavecoyle.bsky.social · Feb 19

New work in the @entsocamerica.bsky.social's Journal of Economic Entomology examines an eruptive native herbivore, the baldcypress leafroller (Archips goyerana), in the southern U.S. (aren't baldcypress swamps cool?) and shows they're more common than we thought...

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Feb 13

Dr. Roger Airliner Young earned her PhD in 1940. Dr. Young studied #marine #biology and was the first African American woman to publish on #zoology in Science in 1924!

marinesanctuary.org/blog/celebra...

#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

Celebrating Wave Makers for Women's History Month: Dr. Roger Arliner Young | National Marine Sanctuary Foundation

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Jan 26

Any coleopterists get it? #coleoptera #beetle #puns

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jan 22

The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Jan 17

Pin-striped vermillion slug #moth from October on Sapelo Island, GA. No touchy!! ‼️⚠️ but absolutely beautiful. #Lepidoptera #Monoleuca

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Jan 16

Solidarity. Love. Community.

Athens Politics Nerd @athenspoliticsnerd.bsky.social · Jan 16

UGA students held a “march against Nazis” on Wednesday protesting a university employee, George Haynie, who has ties to the Aryan Freedom Network, a neo-Nazi group.

Should Haynie be fired for his neo-Nazi ties? Opinions varied.
athenspoliticsnerd.com/students-pro...

Students protest UGA employee with ties to neo-Nazis | Athens Politics Nerd

Students at the University of Georgia held a “march against Nazis” on Wednesday protesting a university employee, George Haynie, who has ties to the Aryan

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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · Jan 16

Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help?

Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...

Transgender Inclusion | Linktree

Resources for transgender inclusion in STEM and beyond.

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · Jan 14

This is an incredible image of insect behaviour.

One individual (probably male) has its pheromone glands protruding (pair of yellow organs). It's fanning its wings to puff pheromone toward the other individual (probably female).

The mating display involves scent and likely vision and sound.

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bony1.bsky.social @bony1.bsky.social · Jan 14

I have been photographing butterflies but never captured what something like this … i was pleasantly surprised.. love was on the air definitely #butterflies #nature #insects #sony #photography

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Tom Sheehan @bughuntertom.bsky.social · Jan 12

Holly with slush, Athens, GA January 10, 2025. I’m grateful I didn’t have to shovel!

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · Jan 7

Whenever you hear about water issues in the west it's like "wow that sounds like a really complicated problem" and it's not. literally just stop growing cattle feed and lettuce in desert or semi-arid places

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Jan 7

potatoes 1%
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%

someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying

(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)

Alfalfa (and hay) production play a big role in shrinking the Great Salt Lake. Agriculture is responsible for 31% of water depletion and of that, 56% is crop water consumption to grow alfalfa and 27% is to grow other hay

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