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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 15h

It's #WorldOctopusDay! These beauties from our collection are both by French pharmacist and naturalist Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800-65).

Octopus vulgaris - the common octopus, which can grow to 9kg and change colour to match its surroundings.

Common octopus with brown and yellow colouring with hints of blue. It has yellow eyes and fills the image.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 1d

🪡 Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs bd. 4 plates
Berlin ;bei Gottlieb August Lange, 1780-1789. The largely nocturnal spot-fin porcupine fish spends most of its time in caves or underneath coral & is poisonous 2 eat

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Illustration of a spot-fin porcupine fish, shown head-on with a round, spiked body covered in sharp, conical spines. The fish has large, protruding eyes and a small open mouth. Its fins, spotted with red and brown markings, are visible on the sides and top of the body. The image is a detailed, vintage natural history drawing emphasizing the fish’s protective spines and distinctive facial features.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5d

I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.

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Peter Moonlight @petermoonlight.bsky.social · 7d

Calling botanical researchers, the School of Natural Science at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a tenure track Assistant Professor in Plant Biodiversity and Conservation.

I know this is someone's dream job, so let me know if that is you and you want to chat!

my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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Natalia Pérez-Amaya @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social · 9d

🔬 I led this research as a doctoral student at @UNALoficial, together with a great team of collaborators in Colombia and the US. This work shows that museum collections are time machines — letting us track how species change through time.

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Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 9d

Natalia’s paper on morphological changes in forest birds in 100 years is having some coverage on the national news

blogs.elespectador.com/cultura/pazi...

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Aves de Barbacoas | Blogs El Espectador

Entre 1911 y 1914 el Museo Americano de Historia Natural de los Estados Unidos auspició la Expedición Chapman a Suramérica, la intención era observar y estudiar las aves del continente y dejar registr...

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Australian Entomological Society @austentsoc.bsky.social · 9d

Newly published in Austral Entomology: Liu et al describes the new assassin bug Rasahus ellipticus sp. nov., reinstates R. sipolisii as a valid species, reports the macropterous male of R. bifurcatus for the first time, and designates lectotypes for several related taxa.

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Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 11d

En Los Monos, con el grupo de Taxonomía Animal de la UNAL. En camino hacia la cascada. Hermoso paisaje y muchas cosas para ver.

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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 13d

A chromolithograph depicting the “nightly activities of insects” from the natural history series ‘Brehms Tierleben,’ first published from 1864-1869.

Alfred E. Brehm was a German zoologist and explorer who became the first director of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg.

#insectart #naturalhistory

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Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 14d

Incluyendo una nueva especie de Membracidae!!!

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Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 14d

Aca en la reserva Los Monos (Antioquia) con el curso de Taxonomía Animal. Pocos bichos, ¡pero interesantes todos!

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Michael Middlebrooks @secretsluglab.bsky.social · 20d

We had one of my favorite crabs in the invertebrate teaching lab today! This is Dromidia sp. a carrier crab. Their last pair of legs is modified to carry sponges and other animals as a defensive mechanism. This one is carrying a colonial tunicate. #invertebrates 🦑🦀

A cute carrier crab in an aquarium. The crab is red with large claws and is carrying a white colonial tunicate on its back.

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AU Bioacoustics @bioacousticsau.bsky.social · Aug 13

Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Bioacoustic Physiology - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Zoofysiologi, Aarhus Universitet

www.au.dk

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Pablo Sciuto @pablosciuto.bsky.social · 20d

Muchas y muchos, llevamos un Julio Cortázar en el interior... ❤️🙌

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Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 20d

Gorgeous!

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Diego Rodríguez Toribio @paseantetartesico.bsky.social · 21d

Hay que seguir apretando porque el objetivo es salvar vidas de seres humanos inocentes y parar la barbarie de los genocidas y sus cómplices. ¿Somos más? Pues demostrémoslo haciendo que este video se viralice. Compártelo republicano… como sea pero hazlo por humanidad. GRACIAS

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Samanta Orellana @coleopterasam.bsky.social · 21d

It's #WeevilWednesday! Perfect day to introduce our #Symbiota Weevil Portal! Still under construction, but already with some data. This beautiful Curculio, deposited in #KUSEMC, was originally digitized in #Specify and has been mobilized to our portal 💚. ➡️ weevil.symbiota.org/portal/colle...

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Cuestión Pública @cuestionpublica.com · 21d

Coca-Cola bajo la lupa 🚨: en La Calera la empresa habría cubierto con cemento siete manantiales de los que capta agua desde 1983. La representante María del Mar Pizarro denunció que la CAR permitió a la multinacional explotar el recurso por más de 40 años, a pesar de las irregularidades. 🤯

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Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 21d

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a scientific illustrator most famous for her 'Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium'. In this book filled with beautifully illustrated plates she explored the then poorly understood concept of insect metamorphosis.

Owl butterfly in all its life stages on a branch of cardinals guard that has twisting red flowers. The butterfly, shown in two positions, has large golden brown eyespots on the outer part of the wings whereas the inside are blue and brown. The caterpillar is orange with grey hairs, and the chrysalis is light green and pink with a slight fishhook shape. The butterfly’s eggs are also shown on the leaves of the plant. A small dark red wasp flies in the background

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22d

The scale of this volcano is immense. That main caldera is about 600 km across. Colorado is 600 km across.

Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22d

Olympus Mons Caldera - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qkqVX9

Download/Browse full size image 7000x3938: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54041132578/sizes/o/

Credit:
Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin

Image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int/

Mission: ESA Mars Express
North is approx on the left
Altitude: 273 km
Orbit: 37
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2004-01-21T11:43:16.443Z
Filters: RE+GR+BL+S2
Product IDs:
H0037_0000_RE2
H0037_0000_GR2
H0037_0000_BL2
H0037_0000_S22
Learn more about the caldera here: pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3470/sim3470_sheet.pdf

Credit:
Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Thorben Danke @sagaoptics.bsky.social · 22d

Clouded buff, Diacrisia sannio. It worked; with a little patience, I was able to document the final phase. It was exciting to see how the larva developed a shiny, metallic head shortly before pupation.

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Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 22d

Fortunate enough to have great visitors in our entomological collection. This time Dr. Dani Takiya, Cicadellidae expert.

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Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 24d

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¡Invitados a esta charla!

Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 24d

¡Muy invitados a una nueva charla en nuestros #EncuentrosdeBiodiversidad del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN)! Tendremos este miércoles 17 de Sep a las 5pm a la Dra. Laura Lagomarsino @tropicalbotany.bsky.social, quien hablará sobre macroevolución de la flora Andina 🌱🌿🌳🌴

Poster de la charla de la Dra Lagomarsino este miercoles 17 de septiembre. Muestra a la Dra Lagomarsino y algunas plantas representativas de su charla

Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 24d

¡Muy invitados a una nueva charla en nuestros #EncuentrosdeBiodiversidad del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN)! Tendremos este miércoles 17 de Sep a las 5pm a la Dra. Laura Lagomarsino @tropicalbotany.bsky.social, quien hablará sobre macroevolución de la flora Andina 🌱🌿🌳🌴

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 24d

The BHL online collection just hit 200,000 titles! A title could be a single rare book or an entire 200-year journal run, so 200,000 titles is huge (63+ million pages!). Check out BHL's MAMMOTH collection here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org 📖 🧪 🦣 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ILoveBHL

A large orange-red shaggy mammoth with big white rusks, walking through the snow. There are trees and a rhino in the background.

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