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Just finished a paper on the role of flies in Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities for class. One of my favorite discoveries was the Victorian fly-cage. According to the Dickensian, these fly-cages allowed flies "to settle so that their buzzing should not be an annoyance”. Pretty sweet.

I recently wrote an article about Chirps! We love bugs in all their forms spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/chir…

Here’s a link to recent invited talk I gave on insect declines. 10 action items that every entomologist/bug enthusiast should do regardless of background, profession, orientation listed. Action’s needed if goal=improve public insect interest & save insects bit.ly/2PpcMcu

Visited the amazing Jennifer Angus exhibit at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg today. The elaborate insect displays were breathtaking! The artwork expertly marries science, visual art and literature to comment on climate change ethics.

Hailey Dansby and Amanda Markee from Kawahara Lab are ready for their @UFEarthSystems supported outreach program to kick-off. They will be bringing live caterpillars to #Florida classrooms near you soon! ❤️🐛🦋

Our lab fully supports diversity and inclusion and opposes racism, bigotry and hate. The lab is committed to taking actions that help dismantle systemic oppression. We hope other labs also do the same. #BlackLivesMatter #blackentomologists Florida Museum FLORIDA

Okay, Pro-tip here for Microsoft Office 365 users: Editor > Settings > Inclusivity. Tick the boxes. Your spellchecker will now help you to start overcoming your subconscious biases. (It's a brilliant feature. I wish they'd make more noise about it).

iNat user dineshvalke saw several - and by "several" we mean "thousands" of #harvestmen in #India - it's our #WildlifeWednesday Observation of the Day! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/6… #nature #biodiversity #animals #invertebrates #wildlife

夜間採集。大量の蛾だ。昨夜 - Costa Rica, Monteverde. #Lepidoptera #insects

New paper on #insects #education in the ⁦Entomological Society of America⁩ journal American Entomologist by Amanda Markee ⁦Becky⁩ Hailey Dansby ⁦⁦E Hernandez, Dr. Akito Kawahara⁩ ⁦Caroline Storer PhD⁩! Supported by ⁦Florida Museum ⁦⁦@UFEarthSystems⁩ academic.oup.com/ae/article/67/…

Great ento dinner at #EntSoc21 in Denver with paul frandsen Caroline Storer PhD Dr. Akito Kawahara Amanda Markee Chris Hamilton Hailey Dansby Toshita Barve Christian Couch David Plotkin Joe Martinez, Ph.D. and students from BYU

New methods paper in British Ecological Society Methods in Ecology and Evolution from @mothyash provides an automated, portable, & low cost tool to monitor small animal motion in any light environment. National Geographic Society FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education Imperial College London Florida Museum Dr. Akito Kawahara tinyurl.com/yckwf76m #insects

2nd pHD chapter is finally out! Check out our new method to track animal behaviour and savemany hours of student work. Thanks to the huge team that made it possible. Dr. Akito Kawahara and Dr. Theobald for support. Photos: Sam Fabian.tinyurl.com/yckwf76m. See the thread below.

🦋How do you measure the movement of tiny insects? Find out in our latest blog post, where Yash Sondhi, Elina Barredo #SOSCuba, Hailey Dansby et al. present a cost-effective tool for robust activity tracking in small animals bit.ly/35LELOb

our new paper on tracking insect activity affordably and portably is out now 🦋thanks Yash Sondhi Kawahara Lab Hailey Dansby and Dr. Akito Kawahara for such an awesome opportunity in the field besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

This is why I love science communication and why communicating your research is so important! You may recall not long ago we wrote a paper on Kleptopharmacophagy, a new, but lesser known behaviour where milkweed butterflies apparently gather chemicals from their own caterpillars.

Som abortion thoughts: I teach sex ed and when I explain the menstrual cycle, I emphasize that if you are expecting your period, it’s one day late, and you take a pregnancy test, if it comes back positive, you are considered 4 weeks + 1 day into your pregnancy.

I've muted the thread now but if you have the instinct to treat Florida as a lost cause or an exception to what's happening in higher ed elsewhere in this country, you are more ignorant than the "Florida man" memes you love to circulate.

There’s a common thread linking the decline in humanities majors, Hollywood paying its writers pennies and the tech world wanting all writers and painters to be replaced by machines. We’ve entirely forgotten how essential the arts and literature are to a healthy society.