It's amazing what insects can inspire us to create!
"In the digital competition, The Post won a gold medal for a portfolio of stories on the Brood X cicadas."
#BroodX
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@WVUsafety Is there a way for staff to pick these up at any other time? I have a very tight schedule during the first week of classes and was unable to make it to the pickup locations this week.
Heres my first blue-eyed #cicada of #BroodX and only the third I've ever found! Notice the blue wing veins and intersegmental membranes. This individual will be used to investigate what exactly causes the mutation. Ngl I gasped so loud I almost scared him away!
Spent a lot of time looking up science activities for high schoolers and now I'm in an existential crisis about how little I know about magnetism. #magnets#howdotheywork
@kasson_wvu @HereBeSpiders11 @lovettbr@retronek @HosannaDB @shelbyrneador @beetle_mom As the safety officer I'm legally required to say I don't think this is funny 😄
Some 45,500 years ago, ancient humans on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi sketched out the rotund form of a native pig—the oldest drawing of a creature yet discovered https://t.co/bvWyVqqzxd
Science Twitter: I need to find some online GC/MS training videos! It's find if they're behind a paywall. @kasson_wvu @HereBeSpiders11 #GCMS#ScienceTwitter#scienceduringCOVID
Representing WVU while hunting for fungus-infected goldenrod soldier beetles at Snake Hill WMA. We didn't find any, but I caught a few monarchs and had a gorgeous view! I never dreamed I'd get to catch insects for my career. #CollegeColorsDay@WorkatWVU