David Rivera

🇳🇮🇺🇸| UCF Biology Alumni 2021 | VT grad student '24 | All about bugs! | Pfp done by @pyxieplant | he/him

[David Rivera @Indigo_August]

@palette_splat Congrats! This is huge!

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today.

Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025.

Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon.

Now here's what you're "saving":

Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity.

Coal costs $69–$169/MWh.
Wind costs $27–$53/MWh.
Solar costs $38–$78/MWh.

99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind.

That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room.

And the human cost of what you're "saving"?

460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023)

All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.

[Matthew @regionalthicko]

How it feels to work past 4pm now

[Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager]

Super excited to share that I contributed some art to Beasts of the Four Nations: Creatures from Avatar the Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra! The book is out now and filled with gorgeous artwork from many talented artists. Here are some of my favorite color pieces I did! 💕

[JuneBuggish @JuneWasHere1]

The consequences of wanting a sweet treat

[【ｗｏｒｍｓ】 @magicianscard]

I swear to god what is with people disliking cicadas. I had no idea you were all haters. Fake bug lovers. Cicadas are one of if not the best bug that has ever existed in modern times. You need to learn to not act the way ur acting

[いずもり・よう @yizumori]

憧れを灯し続ける。　
#国際生物多様性の日
#InternationalDayforBiologicalDiversity

[BillSpooks (COMMS CLOSED!!! Keep checking back!) @BillSpooks]

The entire Applin line is just perfection. Worm in an apple but it's a "wyrm" in an apple? UGH. I LOVE IT. I hope they make even more evolutions for Applin in future gens!

[Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D @SarahMackAttack]

🚨 Cool project alert 🚨

We ALL need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em https://t.co/hw8ivFH5ED

[Meredith Willmott @the_leafhopper]

Leafhopper comic! Because I want people to stop asking me if they’re the same thing as grasshoppers.

[congming @congming33]

As music continues, life continues🎧

[acorviart 🍳 on bsky @acorviart]

sometimes I think red arapaima scales look like closed eyelids

[わらび餅 @warabimochi_ic]

Philippines🇵🇭

[Chentomology @czbugsart]

Merry Crustmas ❤️🤍❤️🤍 red and white crustaceans are always a treat to the eyes!

[Monique Rivera @moniquejrivera]

i fully endorse this message.

[yyy @yx3io]

just accidentally closed a tab i've had been meaning to read for the past 2 years

[amirtha @ewyuckugh]

stumbled into one of Vincent van gogh’s letters to his brother and in it he says ‘If I’m worth something later, I’m worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning.’

[Thilina Hettiarachchi (@bugsnapz) @ThilinaHA]

Happy to have my photo featured in the Entomological Society of America 2025 World Insect Calendar the third year in a row! This year's calendar is packed with stunning insect photography from around the world. Don’t miss out—order your copy now at https://t.co/j8E37upwdG!