Another week, another giveaway! Repost for a chance to win this Mitch Garver signed baseball and World Series Champions hat.

"Right now millionaires alone are on track to burn 72% of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C. We are devoting huge amounts of energy to enable the excess consumption of the ruling class. In the midst of a climate emergency, this is totally irrational.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

Jeff Bezos pledged four years ago that Amazon would lead the way on carbon reduction. Since then, the firm’s emissions have risen by 40 percent — and its use of creative accounting suggests that the real figure is far higher. jacobin.com/2023/11/black-…

When a federation puts their athletes through this as they are paid pennies, the governing body - FIFA, should be stepping in. The hold back on protecting the players their entire body works to look after, is utterly unacceptable and frankly, disgusting. FIFA STEP IT UP!!!

The chances for real progress at COP28 were badly damaged early this year when an oil company CEO was appointed to lead the negotiations. And now investigative journalists have confirmed some of the worst fears of those who criticized that absurd appointment with the shocking

Interested in wing color pattern variation in butterflies? Take a look at this natural history review of Chlosyne lacinia. This work was led by Jamie Phelps, PhD in collab with Diego Paredes-Burneo, Kyle Harms, and myself. LSU BioGrads LSU Department of Biological Sciences shorturl.at/lPX06

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MAYHEM IN NASHVILLE 🤯 The X - Dallas Stars score twice with 15 seconds left in regulation to come back and win!

This was a bucket list encounter in Monteverde, Costa Rica this week. Can you spot it from the first image? It’s one of the most remarkable disguises in all of nature, the moss mimic stick insect.

525 private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended. Several had paper straws onboard.

So get this: the world's coral reefs disappear at 1.5C. We are past 1.5C now and heading for 2C. THEY ARE DONE. The point is not  "OMG, all those lovely colourful things we see on David Attenborough are going to go." No. The point is 25% of the world's fish will disappear as

Science Twitter- these grad students were shot while in GA attending an Entomological Society of America Branch Meeting. Random shooting on the street. They are gonna need some help with bills while they recover. Let’s share this & help where we can! gofund.me/c538310f

Am I still drunk (yes) or does Fox have an apology in its future…

Huge congratulations to newly minted PhD Dr. Jamie Phelps. Not one to rest on her laurels, Jamie will teach her first class as an Instructional Professor of Biology ⁦Pittsburg State⁩ on Monday! #LSUgrad

Are you interested in the factors that can drive pupal color polymorphisms? Check out our new study where we experimentally test for cues of increased melanization in Bordered Patch butterfly pupae! Luis Y. Santiago-Rosario, Ph.D. Morgan Kelly academic.oup.com/aesa/advance-a…

Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female. All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them at around 6 weeks of gestation.

Butterfly populations across the U.S. are in alarming decline, according to a new Science study, with total abundance falling by 22% in just 20 years. Such widespread and worrisome losses portend broader environmental threats and emphasize the urgent need for conservation

Interested in studying differences in butterfly populations in the reclaimed mine lands in southeast Kansas? Come join the Phelps and Ward Labs at Pittsburg State University as a master’s student this fall! Please share! #masters #biology #ecology #evolution #genomics #gradschool