interested in ants and all things living. PhD Student at the University of Texas at Austin
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Texas cholla grasshopper, which seems to be obligately tied to pencil cholla, endemic to S. & C. Texas! One of the most unique hoppers in the state.
Chloroplus cactocaetes,
Jim Wells Co., nr. Mathis, TX, USA.
Anyhow, I'm over on the 🔵🌁 app now - same name.
Much of the habitat along the LRGV Rio Grande on the US side exists nowhere else - in many stretches it's much more destroyed and nonexistent on the Mexican side. These narrow preserves along the river, many which are slated for wall destruction, is all we have left.
Every acre of habitat left in the Rio Grande Valley is irreplaceable. We can’t afford to lose more of it to a useless, medieval wall that won’t do a thing to stop immigration or smuggling.
BIDEN WAVES 26 LAWS TO RUSH BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION IN TX:
tpr.org/border-immigration/2…
The best time to preserve our southernmost borderlands was a century ago. The second best time is now. There's no more of it hiding around in the tropics or anything. This is all we have!!
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My first piece at IBM Quantum is now out!
On this week’s blog, we take a look at the career of Qiskit’s own Helena Zhang and her journey from Physics PhD to leading Qiskit Experiments, part of our Qiskit Ecosystem. qisk.it/45kq79V
Holy air pollution, it's hard to breathe today! This photo I took yesterday in Ithaca NY, PM2.5 of around 200. Latest update today is an PM2.5 of over 438!!!!
Sobering reminder to the North that nobody "wins" in climate change.
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no big deal just some remipedes
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ALT A photo through a microscope showing two remipedes. They are white, elongate, and have many legs. Like water millipedes.
ALT A photo through a microscope, close up of the head of the remipede. There is a lot going on. All kinds of appendages.
Real cool species of Lasius that builds foot-tall dirt mounds in northeastern bogs and fens! Named for their absolutely tiny queens which are to scale here - only slightly larger than males and workers!
Lasius minutus
nr. Cortland, NY, USA.
An excellent global traveler of a ponerine, widespread on the Gulf Coast US. I often find these under paving stones in residential areas, where they do extremely well.
Hypoponera opaciceps
Cypress, TX, USA.
Tons of voter suppression going on in the most diverse city in the USA! Every time I'm unable to vote because they mail absentee ballots out like 3 days before an election I feel proud to be an American
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From earlier today—another military escalation on the border by Governor Abbott. This time in Brownsville. OLS press release from yesterday goes on about stopping drugs at the border. All relevant federal agencies continue to report that drugs are coming in almost exclusively through the bridges on cars and trucks. They are not being brought on foot, and not by migrants seeking asylum.
BREAKING: @TxDPS @GregAbbott_TX bringing in a massive show of force on a P-D-I operation “prevent, deter, interdict” lining the banks of the Rio Grande in Brownsville w more than 50 TX NG Humvees arriving now @FoxNews
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Yes! Finally some recognition for Zygentoma!
One of my favorite iNat observations: inaturalist.org/observations…
Just learned there are silverfish in Western Australia that mimic velvet ants!
Smith & Mitchell. 2021. Records WAM museum.wa.gov.au/sites/defau…
