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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-02-04 at 01:06

The United States is falling. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america/

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-30 at 20:45

Texas sky update. #atxwx

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-30 at 15:57

The infamous bullet ant, Paraponera clavata. Photographed in Amazonian Ecuador. #Ants #Paraponera #Insects #Ecuador

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-30 at 02:10

This Camponotus rosariensis ant is working on a few days' stubble. (Tucuman, Argentina) #ants #Camponotus #Insects

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-28 at 12:36

Linepithema tsachila ants drink from an Inga nectary in Ecuador. I described and named this species with funding from the National Science Foundation. #NSF #Ants #science

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-27 at 01:52

Just lovely winter colors on the coral honeysuckle, a few days after the hard freeze. #nature #Lonicera

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-24 at 17:16

Reddit post reminding us all why the liberal arts are worth saving.

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-23 at 20:44

Texas sky update. #atxwx

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-22 at 16:16

A giant water bug, Belostoma. Lake Glendale, Illinois. #Belostomatidae #Insects #Nature #photography

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-21 at 21:22

We've opened registration for our annual BugShot insect photography workshop! This summer we'll be in Portal, Arizona for the start of the monsoon.

We're also very pleased to announce our newest instructor, Adrian Smith, whose exquisite high speed insect flight videos you may know from the AntLab Youtube channel.

[#]Insects #Photography #Bugshot

https://www.bugshot.net/bugshot-portal-arizona

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-20 at 21:02

When I think of great things coming historically from the United States- the music, the novels, the art, the science, the universities, the food- almost none of it comes from the strains of oppressive white Christianity that now temporarily hold power. They’ve been opposed to all of it, all along.

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-20 at 16:54

How are we all doing today, Mastodon?

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-20 at 01:32

One perk of being curator of a natural history collection is that our volunteers and staff bring me little treasures. Here's an Oiceoptoma carrion beetle that John Carroll found on a deer carcass in south Austin. Life- and death- goes on.

[#]insects #Silphidae #Beetles

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-19 at 03:08

It’s Saturday night. Here are two palmetto tortoise beetles with adorable feet having sex. #insects #coleoptera #beetles #Chrysomelidae

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-19 at 01:21

TikTok is really something right now. Servers in the United States shut down in half an hour, and people are saying goodbye, telling jokes, sharing their funniest posts, and playing their own piano outros.

I’ve never once posted there, but there’s a tangible sense of loss and community, even from a lurker’s perspective.

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-17 at 15:21

New study: How parasitic crickets co-exist with hostile ant hosts- Distancing and dodging. #ants #entomology #insects #science

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-parasitic-crickets-hostile-ant-hosts.html

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-16 at 13:13

As our global 10-year temperate average climbs to 1.2C above historical baseline, in line with model predictions from decades ago, here’s a quaint climate denial graphic from 2015. #climatechange #climatedenial

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-16 at 02:26

An absolutely gorgeous pergid sawfly, photographed in Victoria, Australia. These are herbivorous relatives of wasps. #pergidae #hymenoptera #insects #nature

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-14 at 18:59

The trouble with Hegseth isn't that he's an abusive alcoholic, or that he's unqualified, or whatever. It's that he will use the military to kill U.S. citizens. That's why Trump wants him.

Republicans absolutely hate Americans and will not think twice about doing a Tiananmen Square.

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Written by Alex Wild on 2025-01-14 at 16:31

Yes, I am aware that the Fediverse has a superior product in many ways, and is likely to outlive Bluesky, as well as other platforms. I do nudge people over here from BS when I can.

But the problem with Mastodon isn't the tech. It's the purist condescension, the constant sense of bitterness and sour grapes. This is a social network, supposedly. Ditch the antisocial behavior if you want people to feel welcome.

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