No matter how much I scrutinize the seat before I sit down on MUNI, I always feel I've sat on/in something.

Lighting on #muni is so bad if someone talks to you they are really sincere or really wasted #fun

This Peep may have done some time.

Thanks for featuring Dr. Catherine Scott (she/they)...everyday is flattie day for me! (Sometimes with dictynid hour or cat hour.)

White people need to become actively anti-racist so that black people can stop defending themselves and pursue other passions—like climate science. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…

Ever open your freezer and think "ugh...I really need to deal with all the dead spiders in there"?

And a happy #WorldSnakeDay to you, with friends from the desert SW of North America and Kimberley Western Australia.

Am I too nerdy for the punks or too punk for the nerds? Who gaf!?... let's talk about spider genitalia!

Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold is a legendary figure in the study of tropical Asian spiders who celebrated her 90th birthday on 23 Nov 2020. Read about her life & work in this article by Karen van Dorp, former Arachnida collection manager at @Naturalis_Sci. tinyurl.com/y2gppvun

This opossum shoving a skunk into a pond ... 📽️ Betsy Potter

I don't want this to end. I have at least 12 more hours in me and I think they do too. #verzuztv

Special Volume Festschrift in honour of Wanda Wesołowska on the occasion of her 70th birthday was published today. mapress.com/j/zt/issue/vie… #Taxonomy

This is a caterpillar.

Breaking even. 1 sp. nov, 1 syn. nov.

Please join as our Summer Systematics Summer Systematics Institute interns present their projects at the symposium: Morning: youtu.be/wKXtKSa77yY; Afternoon: youtu.be/rabW3MiooVQ All the projects are great (but arachnid talks are at the end of the 2nd session, fyi)

Text you don't want to get from your entomologist neighbor at 7:30 am: "Hey! So, uh, how much room do you have in your freezer?" (And, yes, i imagine it in Buffalo Bill voice Benji Kessler) Fridge/freezer 💩 the 🛏️.

I made a thing: (19 new species, and I finally learned how to draw)

For Halloween, an oh-so-sweet story of spider togetherness: Congrats to our Arachnology Lab on their massive new pub proving that 3,400 species are all related despite being wildly ecologically different — adapted for caves, underwater, salt flats, & more! bit.ly/3slA3SD