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Charla Replogle 🪲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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they/them | Entomology PhD student studying Tenebrionid Systematics at Purdue University | beetle enthusiast | queer, AuDHD, and proud 🌈🔬🪲| opinions my own
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Sometimes the first thing nature makes you say is "what the heck is that?!" In this case, we're looking at a bunch of Jacobson's Giant Scale Insects (Icerya jacobsoni).

📷 beizi125 on iNaturalist
📍 China
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
These insects (of which there are almost twenty gathered on the underside of a leaf) have oval, beige-colored central bodies with lots of white, spindly appendages growing off them. They are quite spectacular to behold.
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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arimcollection.bsky.social
🦟 This week, discover the unique ornaments of Mimomyia mimomyiaformis (Newstead, 1907) ⬇️!
Explore details and distribution on GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1652540 .
Fascinating diversity of #mosquitoes !

Photos by @nil-rahola.bsky.social

#Entomology #Biodiversity 🧪🌐
A photographic plate of Mimomyia mimomyiaformis (Newstead, 1907)
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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sohkamyung.bsky.social
A Two-tailed Spider (genus Hersilia) spotted on the trunk of a tree at MacRitchie Nature Trail, Singapore on 23 Nov 2025. A spider with very long legs, characterised by its two long spinnerets.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].

#iNaturalist #Singapore #Spiders #Araneae
A mostly brown, patterned spider resting on a tree trunk. Two long spinnerets stick out of the abdomen, looking like two long pointed tails. Spread out around the spider are its long legs. A slightly farther view of the spider on the tree trunk, showing the spread of the legs. Three pairs of legs are very long, with one pair relatively shorter. An even further view of the spider. Here, the legs can be fully seen, extending for two to three body lengths away from the spider.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
There are so many that they form the base of a lot of food webs, including filter-feeding whale sharks who swallow them by the thousands.

Those that survive a few months will return to forage in the forests until they're about 3 yrs old & reach sexual maturity, ready to join Crab Spring Break.
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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astrokatie.com
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 8d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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nickybay.bsky.social
Meet bob the red velvet mite
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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sagaoptics.bsky.social
Tiger beetle, Cicindela hybrida. Here I have attached a dorsal view of the beetle for you to have a better reference. The brownish appearing beetle becomes more colorful the closer you get. A real color boost 🌈
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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kirstimiller30.bsky.social
68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth on HRT says new report.

In a time when the term ‘science says’ is used against the trans community, the release of this report has never been more important.

Gender affirming care saves lives.

qnews.com.au/68-reduction...
qnews.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.

Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!

🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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arnoldtortoise.bsky.social
The remarkable wings of a 0.3mm long Alaptus minimus wasp of the Mymaridae. If you look closely toward the left end of the pair you can see the hamuli (hooks) that link the hindwing to the forewing.

#wasps #entomology
A pair of wings (forewing and hindwing) of a tiny wasp. Each wing has a very long fringe, and the fringes of the forewing and the hindwing overlap.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
charlareplogle.bsky.social
AI psychosis is one of those things that keep me up at night
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 4d
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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elvarobinson.bsky.social
These wood ants are edge specialists... but not all edges are equal. Jacob Podesta used a decade of population expansion data to show that wood ants spread more quickly along certain edges, depending on the edge orientation. Currently available open access here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Large wood ant mound on the edge of a plantation forest
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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hbrappap.bsky.social
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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clio2.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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ageofarthropods.bsky.social
On this #tenebtuesday — a favorite teneb (& favorite photo of a heap of 'em), Neomida bicornis (Fabricius, 1777) [Diaperinae: Diaperini]? Their pronotal coloration is variable, from shining metallic green in some beetles to red in others, & the males have two tiny horns!
A heap of small beetles with green elytra and red pronota partly hidden under a piece of bark
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
charlareplogle.bsky.social
Byrsax!!! I'm biased but bolitophagines are some of the cutest tenebs
americanbeetles.bsky.social Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 8d
Byrsax tsushimenis, great example of a species I would like to 3-D print so our visually impaired museum visitors can experience Full Beetle Weirdness for themselves
A tenebrionid beetle with the samurai helmet of a Byrsax but the rectangular physique of a Bolithotherus. It also appears to have a dust ruffle around the lateral pronotal and elytral margins.
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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bertonemyia.bsky.social
Jen's fabulous pics/post reminded me I recently encountered two spined assassin bug nymphs on separate Queen Anne's lace seed heads, only feet apart.

It was spikes all around!!! I couldn't help but be enamored with the texture of these scenes 😍

#Reduviidae: #Sinea
Raleigh, NC, USA
A small brownish-red, rough and spiky bug with wing buds and large front legs sits among a dense bed of spiky seeds that developed from a Queen Annes lace flower head. A small brownish-red, rough and spiky bug with wing buds and large front legs sits among a dense bed of spiky seeds that developed from a Queen Annes lace flower head.
September 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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ageofarthropods.bsky.social
Adult & larval forked fungus beetles (family Tenebrionidae) are found on/in shelf fungus across the eastern U.S. & Canada—& despite their appearance they can fly! #TenebTuesday
A bumpy brown beetle with two rounded pronotal horns sitting on a white and brown shelf fungus. A bumpy brown beetle sitting on a white sheet.
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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dmacalvert.bsky.social
Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
An image of a robot with a "NO" circle around it and the text "AI IS FOR LOSERS! REJECT FASCISM! THINK FOR YOURSELF! I CAN MAKE ART THAT'S UGLY AND BAD ALL BY MYSELF, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!"
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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jencross.bsky.social
Mama Oak Treehopper watching over her babies. She'll stay with them as they grow so I'll keep checking back on progress.
(Platycotis vittata) PA
A dark green insect with yellow patches on a hardened "helmet" that extends from her head over her back and clear wings with brown veins. She is clinging to bottom of a thin oak branch and there is a pile of dark brown babies to the right on the bottom of the branch.
September 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.

For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!

Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...

Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol
A raccoon and possum yell on the cover of a zine. the title is "everything sucks" and the racoon and possum yell "let's do something!" and between them it says "a zine by sarahmackattack"
September 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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jennifilm.nz
This is a fascinating story: SEGM commissioned systematic reviews on gender affirming care, claimed they showed care should be banned, so the authors have released this statement saying their research is being misused and that it is unconscionable to ban gender affirming care:
Systematic reviews related to gender-affirming care  - Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)
[...]Read More...
hei.healthsci.mcmaster.ca
September 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
I reread this over and over again and this absolutely breaks my brain
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
It's wild that Chagas Disease was not considered endemic in the United States, despite ample evidence for over a decade that it's been here all along.

Chagas had been thought of as a disease of impoverished Latin American countries. Blinded by our own xenophobia.
September 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM