Steve
@stevetypesstuff.bsky.social
Ants, fossils, beer. Drone mapping & GIS. Science PhD. Bambu Labs P1S. He/him, will also respond to “Oi you!”. AuADHD - if I seem over familiar in posts etc. that is probably why. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Another one of these Australian #Gondwana relict species.
Reminds me of the joke about cooking Galahs:
How do you cook Idiospermum seeds?
Boil it with a brick. When the brick is tender throw away the seed and eat the brick.
Reminds me of the joke about cooking Galahs:
How do you cook Idiospermum seeds?
Boil it with a brick. When the brick is tender throw away the seed and eat the brick.
I support fully nude magnoliid fruits, even if this is just another one on the long list of Australian plants that can kill you by dropping a seed on your head
![screenshot of the wikipedia page for the Australian ribbonwood tree (Calycanthaceae: Idiospermum australiense, aka "idiotfruit"), in which we read that in the fruit, "all the layers surrounding the seed decay while still on the parent tree [...] What then falls from the tree is just the extremely large named plant embryo, measuring roughly 6cm in diameter"
This is accompanied by a photo of a hand holding a hard-looking seed the size of a cricket ball.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywua4qjetzwsq5hzyty3exua/bafkreid4smwygnrgwxa67rvdpfi5pvrc4d5j7tqkyvgmvmqpb6zwjwnxrm@jpeg)
January 24, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Another one of these Australian #Gondwana relict species.
Reminds me of the joke about cooking Galahs:
How do you cook Idiospermum seeds?
Boil it with a brick. When the brick is tender throw away the seed and eat the brick.
Reminds me of the joke about cooking Galahs:
How do you cook Idiospermum seeds?
Boil it with a brick. When the brick is tender throw away the seed and eat the brick.
Oh ye gods…
The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole.
🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻❄️
🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻❄️
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Oh ye gods…
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One of my favorite things to see in Costa Rica: the leafcutter ant. They're extremely fascinating to watch!
📷 Canon 5D Mk III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/5.6, 1/200, ISO 640
7/1/22
Parrita, Costa Rica
#ant #ants #leafcutterant #invertebrates #invertebrate 🐜
📷 Canon 5D Mk III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/5.6, 1/200, ISO 640
7/1/22
Parrita, Costa Rica
#ant #ants #leafcutterant #invertebrates #invertebrate 🐜
January 12, 2026 at 3:38 PM
One of my favorite things to see in Costa Rica: the leafcutter ant. They're extremely fascinating to watch!
📷 Canon 5D Mk III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/5.6, 1/200, ISO 640
7/1/22
Parrita, Costa Rica
#ant #ants #leafcutterant #invertebrates #invertebrate 🐜
📷 Canon 5D Mk III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/5.6, 1/200, ISO 640
7/1/22
Parrita, Costa Rica
#ant #ants #leafcutterant #invertebrates #invertebrate 🐜
Whew. Self Assessment Tax Returns in for both my wife and myself (before the end of month deadline!).
I think we deserve a bottle of wine this evening.
I think we deserve a bottle of wine this evening.
January 22, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Whew. Self Assessment Tax Returns in for both my wife and myself (before the end of month deadline!).
I think we deserve a bottle of wine this evening.
I think we deserve a bottle of wine this evening.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Metamorphosis: How Insects Shape Our World, by myself and Adrian Washburn, translated by Su Zhimei, published by China Textile Press.
《蜕变：昆虫如何塑造我们的世界》，［英］艾丽卡·麦卡利斯特 ［英］阿德里安·沃什伯恩著，苏志梅译，中国纺织出版社出版。
文津奖得主、古生物学家苗德岁“一晚上读完”并倾情作序，直叹有趣！有料！有益！
😎🥰🤓 @nhm-london.bsky.social
How beautiful it looks!
《蜕变：昆虫如何塑造我们的世界》，［英］艾丽卡·麦卡利斯特 ［英］阿德里安·沃什伯恩著，苏志梅译，中国纺织出版社出版。
文津奖得主、古生物学家苗德岁“一晚上读完”并倾情作序，直叹有趣！有料！有益！
😎🥰🤓 @nhm-london.bsky.social
How beautiful it looks!
January 22, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Metamorphosis: How Insects Shape Our World, by myself and Adrian Washburn, translated by Su Zhimei, published by China Textile Press.
《蜕变：昆虫如何塑造我们的世界》，［英］艾丽卡·麦卡利斯特 ［英］阿德里安·沃什伯恩著，苏志梅译，中国纺织出版社出版。
文津奖得主、古生物学家苗德岁“一晚上读完”并倾情作序，直叹有趣！有料！有益！
😎🥰🤓 @nhm-london.bsky.social
How beautiful it looks!
《蜕变：昆虫如何塑造我们的世界》，［英］艾丽卡·麦卡利斯特 ［英］阿德里安·沃什伯恩著，苏志梅译，中国纺织出版社出版。
文津奖得主、古生物学家苗德岁“一晚上读完”并倾情作序，直叹有趣！有料！有益！
😎🥰🤓 @nhm-london.bsky.social
How beautiful it looks!
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Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
I’m in the lounge, nearest bookAnts, standard methods…
“Little is known of fungal diseases of ants, although ant-pathogenic fungi have been described in the families Clavicipitaceae, Hyphomyce-tales, and Laboulbeniales…”
I’m in the lounge, nearest bookAnts, standard methods…
“Little is known of fungal diseases of ants, although ant-pathogenic fungi have been described in the families Clavicipitaceae, Hyphomyce-tales, and Laboulbeniales…”
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"The key to drawing cute skeletons is simplifying the body as much as you can."
"The key to drawing cute skeletons is simplifying the body as much as you can."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
"Both of these assumptions, that of a "ready-made" world and that of an objective reference relation, are incompatible with Nagarjuna's theory of emptiness, since each would entail the existence of entities with svabhava."
"Both of these assumptions, that of a "ready-made" world and that of an objective reference relation, are incompatible with Nagarjuna's theory of emptiness, since each would entail the existence of entities with svabhava."
January 21, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
I’m in the lounge, nearest bookAnts, standard methods…
“Little is known of fungal diseases of ants, although ant-pathogenic fungi have been described in the families Clavicipitaceae, Hyphomyce-tales, and Laboulbeniales…”
I’m in the lounge, nearest bookAnts, standard methods…
“Little is known of fungal diseases of ants, although ant-pathogenic fungi have been described in the families Clavicipitaceae, Hyphomyce-tales, and Laboulbeniales…”
Ooh nasty! I’m guessing g the mountains had broken down and liquified?
January 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Ooh nasty! I’m guessing g the mountains had broken down and liquified?
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The @nhm-london.bsky.social has a new sparkle on display, & it’s rather nice
A Smokey quartz crystal #octopus that took master carver Patrick Dreher 500 hours to craft- only fitting for a creature that’s spent millions of years evolving its complex nervous system & sophisticated behaviours
A Smokey quartz crystal #octopus that took master carver Patrick Dreher 500 hours to craft- only fitting for a creature that’s spent millions of years evolving its complex nervous system & sophisticated behaviours
January 20, 2026 at 9:43 AM
The @nhm-london.bsky.social has a new sparkle on display, & it’s rather nice
A Smokey quartz crystal #octopus that took master carver Patrick Dreher 500 hours to craft- only fitting for a creature that’s spent millions of years evolving its complex nervous system & sophisticated behaviours
A Smokey quartz crystal #octopus that took master carver Patrick Dreher 500 hours to craft- only fitting for a creature that’s spent millions of years evolving its complex nervous system & sophisticated behaviours
Mmm… was checking V021 of my #entomology microscope mount in my CAD program this morning…
Maybe 3D print it this week?
Maybe 3D print it this week?
January 19, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Mmm… was checking V021 of my #entomology microscope mount in my CAD program this morning…
Maybe 3D print it this week?
Maybe 3D print it this week?
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This might be the most metal beetle I've ever seen.
January 18, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This might be the most metal beetle I've ever seen.
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So 2016….
EF4 tornado struck southern Katie, Oklahoma
The noise of the hail smashing into each other was deafening. Nature unleashing its destructive force. Followed by the mammatus clouds..
EF4 tornado struck southern Katie, Oklahoma
The noise of the hail smashing into each other was deafening. Nature unleashing its destructive force. Followed by the mammatus clouds..
January 18, 2026 at 11:06 AM
So 2016….
EF4 tornado struck southern Katie, Oklahoma
The noise of the hail smashing into each other was deafening. Nature unleashing its destructive force. Followed by the mammatus clouds..
EF4 tornado struck southern Katie, Oklahoma
The noise of the hail smashing into each other was deafening. Nature unleashing its destructive force. Followed by the mammatus clouds..
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Butterflies and moths are sounding the alarm. Nature in the UK is in crisis. 🚨
Wildlife and natural places are under pressure from development, climate change and habitat loss - and yet a new report, the Nuclear Regulatory Review, suggests weakening the protections that help keep what remains safe.
Wildlife and natural places are under pressure from development, climate change and habitat loss - and yet a new report, the Nuclear Regulatory Review, suggests weakening the protections that help keep what remains safe.
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Butterflies and moths are sounding the alarm. Nature in the UK is in crisis. 🚨
Wildlife and natural places are under pressure from development, climate change and habitat loss - and yet a new report, the Nuclear Regulatory Review, suggests weakening the protections that help keep what remains safe.
Wildlife and natural places are under pressure from development, climate change and habitat loss - and yet a new report, the Nuclear Regulatory Review, suggests weakening the protections that help keep what remains safe.
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Arthropod Photo of the Week: January 14, 2026
Robber fly with winged termite
Asilus sp. / Reticulitermes sp.
Diptera: Asilidae / Blattodea: Termitidae
Observed in West Bengal, India
By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal, India
#arthropodPOTW
Robber fly with winged termite
Asilus sp. / Reticulitermes sp.
Diptera: Asilidae / Blattodea: Termitidae
Observed in West Bengal, India
By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal, India
#arthropodPOTW
January 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Arthropod Photo of the Week: January 14, 2026
Robber fly with winged termite
Asilus sp. / Reticulitermes sp.
Diptera: Asilidae / Blattodea: Termitidae
Observed in West Bengal, India
By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal, India
#arthropodPOTW
Robber fly with winged termite
Asilus sp. / Reticulitermes sp.
Diptera: Asilidae / Blattodea: Termitidae
Observed in West Bengal, India
By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal, India
#arthropodPOTW
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Very disappointing - also, how many fellows of the Royal Society are there who are not scientists but business men ?
January 14, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Very disappointing - also, how many fellows of the Royal Society are there who are not scientists but business men ?
An excellent talk by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social . What a remarkable story.
This was recorded. If you can, give it a watch.
#dinosaurs
#palaeontology
www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...
This was recorded. If you can, give it a watch.
#dinosaurs
#palaeontology
www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...
Bizarre Dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco: Implications for Armoured Dinosaur Evolution by Susannah Maidment
The Middle Jurassic is a critical time in the evolution of the dinosaurs because it witnessed the radiation of many groups, giving rise to a diversity of familiar forms such as the plated stegosaurs a...
www.bilnas.org
January 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
An excellent talk by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social . What a remarkable story.
This was recorded. If you can, give it a watch.
#dinosaurs
#palaeontology
www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...
This was recorded. If you can, give it a watch.
#dinosaurs
#palaeontology
www.bilnas.org/event/bizarr...
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Can’t wait for this! Very excited to be one of the tutors - great team, great habitat
Join us in Costa Rica for Fly School IV! Applications are now open. Visit dipterists.org/fly_school.h... for application & info. @dipterists.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @bertonemyia.bsky.social @ariannatc.bsky.social @phorid.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Can’t wait for this! Very excited to be one of the tutors - great team, great habitat
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Lasius claviger citronella ants tend to eggs in their underground nest. This species is abundant in eastern North America, but as it is subterranean most people never see them unless they happen across a late summer mating flight.
January 13, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Lasius claviger citronella ants tend to eggs in their underground nest. This species is abundant in eastern North America, but as it is subterranean most people never see them unless they happen across a late summer mating flight.
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#ElkeDagEenInsect
Glanzende houtmier (doet haar naam eer aan) overbrugt een groot ravijn.
#Entomologie #Entomology🐜
Glanzende houtmier (doet haar naam eer aan) overbrugt een groot ravijn.
#Entomologie #Entomology🐜
January 13, 2026 at 11:01 AM
#ElkeDagEenInsect
Glanzende houtmier (doet haar naam eer aan) overbrugt een groot ravijn.
#Entomologie #Entomology🐜
Glanzende houtmier (doet haar naam eer aan) overbrugt een groot ravijn.
#Entomologie #Entomology🐜
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Myrmicinae have two isolated node segments in the waist, with the abdomen pointed downward. Here is Chelaner, from Australia:
January 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Myrmicinae have two isolated node segments in the waist, with the abdomen pointed downward. Here is Chelaner, from Australia:
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Formicinae have a single isolated node segment in the waist, and the abdomen oriented more backwards and straight. Here is Polyergus, from Illinois:
January 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Formicinae have a single isolated node segment in the waist, and the abdomen oriented more backwards and straight. Here is Polyergus, from Illinois:
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Worker ants run through an underground tunnel. Linepithema micans, Argentina. This species, like most insects, has no common name.
January 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Worker ants run through an underground tunnel. Linepithema micans, Argentina. This species, like most insects, has no common name.
I was searching for a photograph on my iPhone and realised that almost _every_ image of a flower that I have ever taken also has an insect in it!
#flowers
#insects
#macrophotography
#photography
#flowers
#insects
#macrophotography
#photography
January 10, 2026 at 9:54 AM
I was searching for a photograph on my iPhone and realised that almost _every_ image of a flower that I have ever taken also has an insect in it!
#flowers
#insects
#macrophotography
#photography
#flowers
#insects
#macrophotography
#photography
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#ElkeDagEenInsect
"pretty in pink" een van de eerste foto's toen ik aan het klooien was met dubbele flitskoppen. Erg leuk, maar was onhandig meenemen altijd.
#Entomologie #Entomology🪰
"pretty in pink" een van de eerste foto's toen ik aan het klooien was met dubbele flitskoppen. Erg leuk, maar was onhandig meenemen altijd.
#Entomologie #Entomology🪰
January 10, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#ElkeDagEenInsect
"pretty in pink" een van de eerste foto's toen ik aan het klooien was met dubbele flitskoppen. Erg leuk, maar was onhandig meenemen altijd.
#Entomologie #Entomology🪰
"pretty in pink" een van de eerste foto's toen ik aan het klooien was met dubbele flitskoppen. Erg leuk, maar was onhandig meenemen altijd.
#Entomologie #Entomology🪰