AbiWAIL KaBOOker
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AbiWAIL KaBOOker
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she/ her Independent museum collections contractor (looking for work) . Talks about museums, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
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No book rest / pillow!?! And omg on my phone so I thought she was holding a cigarette and I was about to go nuclear
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is what I love about museum work! And I’m so happy that they are still in the collection!
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Not in the slightest

Although now I have a long-term research project to pursue: how many years for a stink beetle to stop stinking? The pitch drop experiment of Coleoptera
June 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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if you missed this thread the first time around, I tried to ID the culprit (epistolary insect taxonomy!) bsky.app/profile/amer...
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Back to Genevieve with a talk about volunteers at the DMNS:

Nice seeing how roles & tasks are broken up, so that everyone (even those w/o ento. exp.) can contribute!
Love the message that "we all break bugs" - important to emphasis!

Curious what's on everyone's insect pinning playlist?🤔 #ECN2025
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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used rubber bands in the alcohol collection? ONE THOUSAND YEARS DUNGEON
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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to say nothing of the extraordinary Oskar Vogt, Nazi-hating socialist and neurobiologist who maintained a suspiciously large staff of entomologists and bumblebee collectors. He is pictured here holding a slice of Lenin’s brain.
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Their historical material includes 19th-century insects from Dutch visitors to Japan and the extensive Hymenoptera collection of S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I for one had no idea there were social snapping shrimp and am now reevaluating everything I know about the Sea Bugs www.vims.edu/research/uni...
www.vims.edu
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM