Jeffrey Heilveil (he/him)
@nigronia.bsky.social
Stream ecologist and entomologist at SUNY Oneonta.
#PUI #macroinverts #insects
#PUI #macroinverts #insects
Humanities for the win!
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Humanities for the win!
Definition "hope": eating breakfast at seven thirty in the morning, staring at your phone and hoping that classes are canceled for snow.
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Definition "hope": eating breakfast at seven thirty in the morning, staring at your phone and hoping that classes are canceled for snow.
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Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets.
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets.
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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- raised as an artist, made some money, hated making art for others & lost my passion
- followed a whim & pursued making ocean documentaries w/ a marine bio degree
- research writing course my first year introduced me to rna editing in 🐙
- entire life plan out the window to follow my curiosity
- now
- followed a whim & pursued making ocean documentaries w/ a marine bio degree
- research writing course my first year introduced me to rna editing in 🐙
- entire life plan out the window to follow my curiosity
- now
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
- raised as an artist, made some money, hated making art for others & lost my passion
- followed a whim & pursued making ocean documentaries w/ a marine bio degree
- research writing course my first year introduced me to rna editing in 🐙
- entire life plan out the window to follow my curiosity
- now
- followed a whim & pursued making ocean documentaries w/ a marine bio degree
- research writing course my first year introduced me to rna editing in 🐙
- entire life plan out the window to follow my curiosity
- now
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
I feel like some people in government don't understand the difference between socialism and communism. Social security, the postal system, arguably the CDC, are socialist constructs.
I feel like some people in government don't understand the difference between socialism and communism. Social security, the postal system, arguably the CDC, are socialist constructs.
House passes bill condemning "horrors of socialism" as NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani arrives in Washington
The House passed a bill condemning socialism hours before New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, arrived in Washington, D.C.
www.cbsnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
I feel like some people in government don't understand the difference between socialism and communism. Social security, the postal system, arguably the CDC, are socialist constructs.
I feel like some people in government don't understand the difference between socialism and communism. Social security, the postal system, arguably the CDC, are socialist constructs.
I admit, I haven't been on science direct lately, but WTAF?!?! This is NOT the direction we should be going. LLMs are not intelligent and trust in science is already really low.
It's bad enough we still have so many misIDed taxa in GenBank being used as a basis for molecular ID.
It's bad enough we still have so many misIDed taxa in GenBank being used as a basis for molecular ID.
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I admit, I haven't been on science direct lately, but WTAF?!?! This is NOT the direction we should be going. LLMs are not intelligent and trust in science is already really low.
It's bad enough we still have so many misIDed taxa in GenBank being used as a basis for molecular ID.
It's bad enough we still have so many misIDed taxa in GenBank being used as a basis for molecular ID.
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A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi parasitoid wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 29.7.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A beautiful 0.22mm long female Megaphragma noyesi parasitoid wasp of the Trichogrammatidae found 29.7.2025 in the old meadow at Great Dixter.
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
Very pleased with the detail in this picture, probably the best one of this species thus far.
#UKWildlife #wasps #Trichogrammatidae #HighWeald
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Part of the problem is that many of these same higher ed leaders fell for the smear campaign, hook, line, and sinker. It’s hard to lead a mission-driven organization when you don’t believe in the mission and think your employees are your enemies.
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Part of the problem is that many of these same higher ed leaders fell for the smear campaign, hook, line, and sinker. It’s hard to lead a mission-driven organization when you don’t believe in the mission and think your employees are your enemies.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
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Listen…If y’all want to talk honesty, then let’s be honest about all of it.
The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts.
Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.
The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts.
Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Listen…If y’all want to talk honesty, then let’s be honest about all of it.
The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts.
Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.
The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts.
Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.
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a cool thing that happened is ppl destroyed a remnant prairie at Rockford Airport. While the rusty-patch bumblebee foraged there, there was no proof it *nested* there. So 💥
Publications only had proof they nested in forests
This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Publications only had proof they nested in forests
This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Prairie and edge habitats provide valuable nesting resources for bumble bees (Bombus) in the midwestern U.S - Apidologie
Bumble bees use three main habitats to complete their life cycle: foraging habitat, overwintering habitat, and nesting habitat. Overall, the majority of bumble bee research has focused on the foraging...
link.springer.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
a cool thing that happened is ppl destroyed a remnant prairie at Rockford Airport. While the rusty-patch bumblebee foraged there, there was no proof it *nested* there. So 💥
Publications only had proof they nested in forests
This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Publications only had proof they nested in forests
This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I keep coming back to Sara Ahmed’s book “Complaint!”, in which she demonstrates how people who criticize institutional problems are made by those institutions into The Problem. You can see this dynamic in the way voters who object to policy are told to shut up
“You can’t be mad at Democrats for not fighting because they’re the only thing we have to fight fascism” is an interesting political philosophy that I would like to unpack, not in the sense of giving it further examination, but in the sense of throwing it out the back window.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I keep coming back to Sara Ahmed’s book “Complaint!”, in which she demonstrates how people who criticize institutional problems are made by those institutions into The Problem. You can see this dynamic in the way voters who object to policy are told to shut up
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If you ever see a mantis, spider, or other predatory bug with prey (like this mantis with a bee), look closer and you may spot tiny jackal flies, aka freeloader flies (family Milichiidae), gleaning food while carefully avoiding becoming part of the meal themselves. (Two are visible here). #Bugsky 🐙🌿
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you ever see a mantis, spider, or other predatory bug with prey (like this mantis with a bee), look closer and you may spot tiny jackal flies, aka freeloader flies (family Milichiidae), gleaning food while carefully avoiding becoming part of the meal themselves. (Two are visible here). #Bugsky 🐙🌿
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In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.
I want to make sure I got this straight...
On the anniversary of the Berlin wall falling, Dems caved to fascism without helping the people.
On the anniversary of the Berlin wall falling, Dems caved to fascism without helping the people.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I want to make sure I got this straight...
On the anniversary of the Berlin wall falling, Dems caved to fascism without helping the people.
On the anniversary of the Berlin wall falling, Dems caved to fascism without helping the people.
I think I am having a mid-career crisis. What's the equivalent of buying a Ferrari or whatever? Took my first sabbatical (after 14 years) too recently to take another.
I mean this is my last year as Department Chair (9 of my 19 years here), so maybe that counts.
I mean this is my last year as Department Chair (9 of my 19 years here), so maybe that counts.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I think I am having a mid-career crisis. What's the equivalent of buying a Ferrari or whatever? Took my first sabbatical (after 14 years) too recently to take another.
I mean this is my last year as Department Chair (9 of my 19 years here), so maybe that counts.
I mean this is my last year as Department Chair (9 of my 19 years here), so maybe that counts.
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“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”
i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...
i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”
i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...
i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...