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Caroline S. Chaboo
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entomologist, beetles, Chrysomelidae
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Caroline S. Chaboo @cschaboo.bsky.social · Sep 21
Our lovely volume cover @zookeys.pensoft.net! #beetles
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This tribe in Kansas is building new products — and houses — with its hemp
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is one of the first hemp fiber processors in Kansas, and wants the investment to benefit both the tribe and the environment. The new products include insulation and ...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity
A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.
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January 22, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Making plans for plants #museum #exhibitions
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January 21, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Two of these cool art renderings are based on my photos of Lamprosoma, from this post:
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January 19, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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#WomenInSTEM
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Zoologist & primatologist Dian Fossey was born #OTD in 1932.

She is best known for researching the endangered #gorillas of the Rwandan mountain forest. #WomenInSTEM

Fossey's memoir 𝘎𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵 was adapted into the 1988 movie of the same name (w/Sigourney Weaver).

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Left: Candid photograph of Dian Fossey in the Virunga mountains, long dark hair in a braid, smiling softly next to a young curious mountain gorilla. She is holding an open notebook and is surrounded by lush green foliage. Right: Theatrical poster for Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey cradling a baby gorilla, misty rainforest background, title in bold yellow, tagline “She left everything she knew and entered a world few have ever seen… The Adventure of Dian Fossey.”
January 17, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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A comedic take
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Opinion | Dear America, We’d Like to Speak to the Manager
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January 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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An integrative taxonomic treatment of the Mycetophilidae of Singapore, describing 98 new species of fungus gnat

Now also with a brand new cover, featuring Integricypta fergusondavie gen. et sp. nov.

Free download: doi.org/10.18476/202...

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The cover of Vol. 8 (3), featuring an outline of the island of Singapore and the striking, newly-described fungus gnat Integricypta fergusondavie gen. et sp. nov.
January 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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#Inca mummy #indigenous #Argentina #Peru
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWao...
500 Years Frozen: The Inca Children Who Changed History
YouTube video by Journal - History Documentaries
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January 15, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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DOIs being added to articles @theconversation.com
Tiny treetop flowers foster incredible beetle biodiversity
In the Amazon, beetles and flowering trees have developed a tight bond. Hundreds of beetle species thrive off of and pollinate blossoms, helping to maintain some of the highest biodiversity on Earth.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.

The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.

But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.

Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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#Watercolor #Illustrations by Steeven Salvat Cloak Natural Specimens with Elaborate Metallic Motifs

Link for more information and to see more of hos amazing #art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/08/stee...
January 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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#WomenInSTEM
minouette.bsky.social Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 13d
Another scientist in my collection with an unknown birthday is one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. 🐡🧪👩🏾‍🔬 #histsci #histmed She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official & overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty c. 2400 BCE. 🧵
This is my linocut portrait of Peseshet, the earliest named woman in the history of science or medicine. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official and overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the "Overseer of the Women Physicians." This linocut was printed by hand, using three blocks, in black, bronze, indigo and magenta ink on white Japanese kozo paper, 11" by 14" (27.9 cm by 35.6 cm). I have shown her dispensing medicine, with hieroglyphics spelling out her name (horizontally) and indicating that she was "wer snwnt per aa" or chief doctor (who happened to be female) of the great house (or palace).
January 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Meant to post this some days ago but I got distracted.

My latest for @invertebratepal.bsky.social's work on Hallucigenia's ecology, interpreting the little fellas as scavengers of soft-bodied carcasses.

Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Art #SciArt #FossilFriday
Seafloor scene from a low angle, showing a swarm of 13 Hallucigenia, essentially worms with long legs and spiky backs, sitting on and around the carcass of a clear jellyfish on a seafloor. Digital illustration.
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Congratulations to Dr Margaret Bradshaw, who has done more than anyone to promote understanding and conservation of Upper Teesdale's unique arctic-alpine flora.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Teesdale botanist and mountain rescue team founder turns 100
Dr Margaret Bradshaw receives a card from King Charles and Queen Camilla on her 100th birthday.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 13d
German astronomer Caroline Herschel died #OTD in 1848

Widely considered the first 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 female astronomer due to receiving a salary (1787, £50 per year).

She was the first woman to receive the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal (1828; 2nd to Vera Rubin in 1996). #WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Portrait of the Hanoverian scientist and astronomer Caroline Herschel in oil painting by the Belgian artist Melchior Gommar Tieleman, who was appointed Royal Hanoverian Court Painter around 1815 or 1816, dated 1829 on the left and with the artist's signature "M. S. Tieleman, F. 1829." It depicts a head-and-shoulders view of an elderly woman with a calm, composed expression and rosy cheeks, gazing to the left. She wears an elaborate white lace bonnet with ruffled edges framing her face and a high, frilled white lace collar over a dark velvet dress. The background is a rich, deep red.
January 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
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January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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Explorer & naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born #OTD in 1823. He independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection & was the father of biogeography.

His portrait hangs at the Society alongside Charles Darwin, commemorating the 1858 reading of their joint paper on evolution.
Roger Remington's portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace. He sits in a chair with a picture of a butterfly on his knee. In the background is a painting showing a young Wallace on an expedition.
January 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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A living fossil...
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Meet The Animal That Hasn’t Changed In 300 Million Years — A Biologist Explains
With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient biology still underpins human survival.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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#OTD in 1823, Alfred R Wallace was born.
He independently co-discovered the "Darwin-Wallace" theory of evolution by natural selection, & much more!
Suggested reading: Costa's book (2023 @princetonupress.bsky.social)
Summary: jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2024/01/06/h...

🧪🌍💙📚👀📅🗃️ #histsci #ecoevo
Cover of the book: Costa J.T. 2023. "Radical by nature. The revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace." Princeton University Press
January 8, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
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January 8, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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if you need a moment's distraction from Events, pls consider @monotomidae.bsky.social's extremely good new paper on passandrid beetles stridulating with their armpits. THERE'S VIDEO, WITH SOUND link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Armpit squeaks: first recorded sounds, video, and images of the stridulatory apparatus in two parasitic flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Passandridae) - Zoomorphology
Zoomorphology - Stridulation is an important sound production mechanism in many groups of insects but is less well-known in beetles (Coleoptera). Recently a new sound production mechanism was...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Sick young ants send out a 'kill me' scent to prevent deadly epidemics
Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part of a strategy to keep deadly pathogens from spreading through the colony.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Why scientists are planting tiny forests in big cities : Short Wave
Healthy forests help combat climate change, provide humans with drinking water and even improve mental and physical health. But it’s hard to imagine an entire forest in the middle of a big city. That’...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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a giant has passed
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January 6, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Of Bats and Women.
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The Bat Woman of North London: ‘It’s Like Tuning In to Another World’
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January 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM