i know what the authors actually meant by "boring organisms" here (organisms that bore) but i can't help but read it as like. "we removed the epiphytes and the uninteresting stuff"

i found the perfect display for my 100,000+ year old shrimp fossil

Lokiarchaeum, graphite on paper 2025

Candidatus Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, an archaeon (prokaryote separate from bacteria) with an actin cytoskeleton that allows it to form these really fascinating protrusions! Reference image is from this article, Figure 4a.

Also please look at this hat I got. Obsessed. I'm actually writing up an action statement on these guys (Southern Purple-Spotted Gudgeon) for an assessment atm so this came at the perfect time.

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zinetober day 12....

There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance

Excuse me while I get sad .

There is a community note correcting this post about the importance of researching insects - including the reproductive habits of insects. But still the fact this was posted and 2k people liked it makes me sad 🥲🥲

"stupid researchers studying the mating habits of beetles" people when they can't afford groceries because an invasive beetle species is decimating crops

An actual conversation I had with a colleague.

Colleague: so they were using the wrong species to pollinate their crops.

Me: what do you mean?

Colleague: well they were using a fly species from Canada and they’re growing onions in Texas. The fly they were using was dying in a day in their greenhouses because it’s frigging Texas in May/June.

Me: and no one was studying this or telling them otherwise?

Colleague: not till me.

Me: so they were wasting all that money on an inefficient pollinator and losing out on crop yield.

Colleague: yep…

And yet these idiots want to cut entomological research funding. Yeah, good luck with that. Come back to us when there’s huge outbreaks of pest insects and arbovectors that we were studying but y’all decided it was “too stupid” to fund.

planning a big order with my manufacturer before tariffs hit me next year 🥲 on the plus side for you this means a new lanyard design inspired by species at different ocean depths!! always love drawing a good garibaldi fish. perfect shape perfect creature

Hi everyone! I finally got off my butt and went to work setting up my etsy and putting listings on it. Yay!

To celebrate, I'm hosting a sale that will go on for a week. Everything will be 25% off! It's supposed to be for my etsy, but I put a discount code on my bigcartel too if you're so inclined.

Thanks for the support, as always! <3

working on new bumper stickers… 🫣

We need etsy to get bought by someone who will run it like the navy i need to only see small businesses in eastern europe weaving baskets by hand and anime yaoi keychains with original fanart

Literally need someone with an serial killer level obsession with content moderation to sit at a wall of monitors sniping dropshippers. I need etsy HQ to look and sound like the nerv command center in Evangelion

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