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Codey Mathis
@codeymathis.bsky.social
PhD Candidate - Penn State Entomology
forest insect conservation • habitat management • critically assessing monitoring methods
cribbage player • she/they • black lives matter • audhd • 🏳️‍🌈
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New intro who dis? Hullo my name is Codey, I'm interested in forest biodiversity, management, and conservation. I'm finishing up my Doctorate in Entomology at Penn State in the spring and will be looking for employment in this wild timeline. I love pokemon, hiking, and my dogs. AMA
Me whenever I "check in with the outside world" for the last month, horse blinders on to focus on dissertation
a man is sitting in a car with the word yikes on the side
ALT: a man is sitting in a car with the word yikes on the side
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January 11, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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🧪🌎❤️👇
08-Jan: Born on this day in 1823, the man who independently of Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Here’s a post I wrote about Darwin’s and Wallace’s friendship…
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar...
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Modesty and candour: the Darwin-Wallace friendship
To mark the 200th anniversary of Wallace’s birth, an article exploring the friendship between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
friendsofdarwin.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Congrats: You are sent to the bug planet.
January 7, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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If you are in line for the bug portal, STAY IN LINE!
January 8, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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Over the holiday, while folks were on well-deserved breaks, our new book was released!

Mentoring writers is hard - we can make it easier for you. Please help spread the word - repost this, tell your colleagues, etc.

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Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach
Scientific writing is hard (but my book can help) – but teaching scientific writing is even harder. Nearly all of us teach writing – sometimes in a formal classroom setting, sometimes as advisors t…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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I would like the good people at @skypeascientist.bsky.social to know that my marine-biology-obsessed 11 year old starting texting #squidfacts yesterday and it has literally made her whole month

She reads every fact out loud, I know more about squids now than I every thought humanly possible
January 2, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Not me about to tattoo what the difference between i.e., and e.g., are on my hands.

I literally check this multiple times daily during dissertation writing. I'm not sure why my brain will not soak in this particular thing.
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened.
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
And word is some of the survivors of the Brown Uni shooting also survived mass shootings at their high schools. :/
The government has banned a “woke font” to keep us safe from...something? 🤔

Meanwhile, mass shootings keep happening. And all we get is “thoughts and prayers”.
December 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
One of these things is not like the other!
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
New intro who dis? Hullo my name is Codey, I'm interested in forest biodiversity, management, and conservation. I'm finishing up my Doctorate in Entomology at Penn State in the spring and will be looking for employment in this wild timeline. I love pokemon, hiking, and my dogs. AMA
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sometimes, spending 5 hours getting the aesthetic of your graphs just right and trouble shooting dodges, geom_text in the strip plot but with alpha=0.7 background (not changing the actual font of the text), manual colors, and adding in axis breaks is just
a cartoon of a man giving an ok sign and the word perfection below him
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November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Earlier this year I drew this magnificent Metallyticus splendidus. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. That's all.
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Coastal mists over the Olympics 🌫️
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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This is an incredibly moving thing to hear about our work and I deeply appreciate it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
or Edgewater New Jersey
You could go to the tropics to see wild parrots, or you could go to, say, Pasadena 🦜🦜🦜
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
FEISTY GRANDMA
hey so A Witch in Isenshire is a humdinger and y'all should read it. You want fall/wintery vibes? We've got it. Tech + magic? Oh YEAH we've got it. We've got CLOSURE, we've got AUTOMATONS, we've got FRIENDSHIP. Give this steampunk inspired book of witches a try!
A Witch in Isenshire is a bold cup of coffee made with determination, personal growth, and adventure. Maggie and Basil find closure in Emelle before being called to the tech-advanced city of Isenshire.

www.books2read.com/awii
azaleaforrest.itch.i...
📚💙 #writing #books #fantasy
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Boeing is paying Charm Industrial to remove 100000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back by 1 minute and 15 seconds. 🥲
Boeing has a carbon emissions problem. Startup Charm Industrial is cleaning up. | TechCrunch
The deal will see Charm Industrial collect forestry waste and transform it into a bio-oil it buries underground.
techcrunch.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Pls share with grads and undergrads! Multiple grant opportunities from @xercessociety.bsky.social
Deadline is January 7, 2026.
Spread the word: we are providing multiple $5k awards for grad & undergrad research on invertebrate conservation !! In addition to our continuing DeWind Award (for Lepidoptera research), we now have the 1st annual BanDrosky Award (for any invert in decline). Details in thread🧵 ⤵️
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Betcha didn't have money on the Catholic Church being the only institution with the spine to stand up to fascism this time round.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM