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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD

@pbeasleyhall.bsky.social

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entomologist researching biodiversity + taxonomy + evolution of weird, spindly things underground. #1 ensifera enjoyer 🦗 also: queer liberation 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ + neurodiversity 🧠 + solarpunk ☀️🌱 they/she 🌈

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 25d

Say hi to Micropathus ditto and M. zubat, two #NewSpecies of cave cricket from forests in southern Tasmania! These crickets are threatened by climate change, land clearing, and logging. Giving them names is an important step towards their conservation. But why did we choose these ones? #bugsky 🧵 1/6

Macro photos of the morphology of Micropathus zubat, showing the head, ovipositor, and genital plates. Superimposed in the corner is a sprite of the Pokemon Zubat.

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 7h

today I learned there are THREE officially non-binary characters in the wiggles... excellent news

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 21h

Little Phidippus cardinalis man paused in his busy day to peer at Bugfriend for awhile 🥹
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Fuzzy Phidippus jumping spider with black legs and dark red body topped head to tail with a bright fiery red. He's peering up and to left of frame from the wet white sand

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 16h

I was so confused for a second looking at that graph 😆

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 18h

ANT HAT ANT HAT

Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 23h

Unfortunately it looks like we won’t be hitting the preorder minimum for these hats unless we get some more orders!

So if you’re interested in a leafcutter ant hat or are considering holiday gifts, please preorder! 🐜🌿

Available below ⬇️

A photo of an olive green dad cap with two embroidered brown leafcutter ants holding leaves. It is photographed on top of a rock.

A photo of an olive green dad cap with two embroidered brown leafcutter ants holding leaves, but photographed from a different angle. It is photographed on top of a rock.

Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 18h

Like other members of the Hyperbaeninae, Dialarnaca zhoui spins silk to create shelters from rolled leaves. What ISN'T common is the species' striking pink and gold colouration! This gorgeous leaf-roller is known only from the Yunnan province in China. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: Zhou Yu

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189864718

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 20h

No idea to both questions! 😂 It could act like a peacock's tail to attract mates, but who knows.

Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 1d

Field crickets (Gryllinae) aren't just plain brown chirping things in backyards - the group is actually pretty diverse, with >3,000 species. Maybe the weirdest are in the genus Sciobia, which all have these delightful Pikmin-like "hats" 🥺

📸: Sciobia barbara, Pierre-Henri Fabre

#EverydayEnsifera

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 2d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 2d

The Mexican Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatus talpa) calls to mates by beating its chunky abdomen against the ground, producing a drumming sound. Each species of Stenopelmatus has a different drumming song. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: Jalil Rodríguez M

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 3d

Just came across Ray Troll's artwork (trollart.com). So beautiful!

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 3d

oh my god this is PERFECT

don’t talk to me until I’ve had my toxic blood spray

Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 3d

it's NFTs all over again

Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 3d

The koringkriek (Acanthoplus discoidalis) is a katydid found in southern Africa. Not only does the species have a powerful bite, it's also known to squirt toxic blood or throw up its stomach contents as a defense mechanism! #EverydayEnsifera

📸: Rudi Bosbouer

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 3d

Does it help if they've very slow-moving and heavy? 🥺

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BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #SquidAndCuttlefishDay!

We love checking in on McCoy’s “Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria” for images like these of the Australian giant cuttlefish. These images don’t, however, capture the cuttlefish’s ability to change colour & patterns quickly.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5220064

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

So late to this, but this @bloomberg.com piece on the impact of sudden surges in power demand from new data centres on local electricity prices is really, really good - lots of original analysis.

So many still shrug this off as a non-issue. Tell it to these ppl

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

a chart shwoing price impacts near data centres

a photograph of a man sitting on some stairs o nthe street

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 4d

Strange dog

Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 4d

Me too - my main concern is that the end product is clear/accessible so others can use it. This was with the European Journal of Taxonomy. I get the impression they're normally very thorough with this stuff and it was an unfortunate case of human error. Still sucks, though!

Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 4d

This means there are big sections of our key/figure legends/treatments etc. that are empty, nonsensical, or actively misleading for ID! No idea how they'll handle the corrigendum, but I just hope it isn't too messy. Super disappointed. I was really proud of this paper, too. ☹️ 2/2

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 4d

The final proof was correct, but something went wrong when it was uploaded and the published version is different. It would have been okay-ish if my edits just weren't incorporated, but in the online version ANY text I edited has been completely deleted. 1/2

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 4d

The Cook Strait giant wētā (Deinacrida rugosa) is an anostostomatid from New Zealand. It's one of the largest insects in the world! Major threats to this cutie include land clearing and predation by rats. It's listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. #EverydayEnsifera

📸: d_kluza (iNaturalist)

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/6343096

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 4d

Update: reached out to an ex-ICZN commissioner and he unfortunately confirmed that it can't be changed. Huge corrigendum time, I guess...

Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 4d

Calling #ICZN people: we had a #taxonomy paper come out w/ literally dozens of publisher errors. Told it can’t be fixed online as that’s against the Code & needs a lengthy correction notice. 😤 imo that would make it even less accessible - is it really our only option?

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CuttleDreams 🪱🪳 @cuttledreams.bsky.social · Aug 26

Bug time!! Got this one done just in time for #Invertefest ~

An illustration of the earwig Oreasiobia fedtschenkoi. It is swooping down wings outstretched. Around it is a wavy golden boarder and star shapes. The background is waves of pastel purples pinks and greens with glitter-like sparkles.

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Perry Beasley-Hall, PhD @pbeasleyhall.bsky.social · 5d

I relate to this so much 💀