Alex Barley

@InsectConserv
All about #conservation #entomology #LGBTStem. I make #SciComm & #SciArt
🏳️‍🌈 They/Them 🚒 NSW RFS 🌳 Bush Regen

[Alex Barley @birdsbugsbones]

What in the heck

[Kikidoodle & Purrmaids @KikiDoodleTweet]

I've never been so angry reading a scientific article as the 2nd paragraph made me.

I blocked the site from my news feed SO fast.

[EtheringtonBrothers @EtheringtonBros]

SHOULDERS part ONE from the How to THINK When You Draw ENCYCLOPEDIA - the world’s ONLY encyclopedia of drawing tutorials, posted up FREE for EVERYONE, FOREVER, + NEW & CLASSIC tutorials coming up EVERY DAY right here only on our twitter!
#gamedev #manga #conceptart #illustration

[Bureau of Meteorology, Australia @BOM_au]

This #NAIDOCWeek, why not learn about your local Indigenous community's weather knowledge? You can find traditional weather & climate expertise, that has been developed & passed down through countless generations by First Nations people, at: https://t.co/kuZGPzzLE2

[Chentomology @czbugsart]

The duality of isopods

[Isopod Propaganda @bedupolker]

#PollinatorWeek did you know that baltic isopods may be the first underwater pollinators known to science?

[Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog) @MarkusBhler10]

Exiting news from Australia: The newly described 47.000 yrs old Tiliqua frangens was a gigantic armoured skink which reached a length of about 60 cm und weighed more than 2 kg. In terms of weight it is the biggest skink on record. https://t.co/nmXtI30p2H

[Mel Capperino-Garcia @Riotswimbananas]

The trans athlete “debate” would have dramatically affected me growing up.

I was 5’2” at 8 years old. 6’0” at 12. Parents complained so often i was the wrong age, i carried a copy of my birth certificate. I would have 100% been the target of the trans-vestigators. I remember a

[X @Pteroterror]

For Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

Spotlight on a gay Magyar paleontologist, discoverer of Transylvanian Dinosaurs, who postulated on the evolution of birds and named species after his boyfriends ass. Oh, and hijacked a plane & planned on becoming the King of Albania.

Baron Franz Nopcsa 🎊 🧵

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.

[Joey Santore @JoeySantore]

Aseroe rubra is a hilarious fungus in the stinkhorn family, Phallaceae, that smells like absolute hell and mimics a rotten meat/feces mixture to help attract the flies that disperse its spores. Here it is coming up in Podocarpus totara/Agathis australis forest in NZ

[TreehopperGO_GT @TreehopperG]

今回のかわいいコガネ

[Alex Barley @birdsbugsbones]

Had a wonderful tour as part of work today at @ANSTO. Their science communication is fantastic, definitely demystified some assumptions I had about nuclear science!

[Shawn Miller @Switch4Nature]

Meet lug-nut.
One of my strangest finds so far. I found a blueberry hermit crab adapting with a lug nut cover. https://t.co/VBJRvhfsuT

[Rob Davis @Dr_Rob_Davis]

Upon rounding a bend in the road I had to stop at an amazing spectacle of what seemed like a flock of flamingos on a distant salt lake. Only problem is this was Australia! Closer looks revealed a ultra-saline soup with salt crystals forming these shapes above the surface.

[Rob Davis @Dr_Rob_Davis]

Todays highlight was seeing Hakea petiolaris flowering in it’s natural habitat.

[Rob Davis @Dr_Rob_Davis]

The Hakea francisiana is at it again dazzling us with its pink flowers. It’s getting so tall that it’s hard to get a picture these days.

[Chentomology @czbugsart]

I beleaf 🌿

[Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @Ant_Partnership]

🧶 1/9
The massive currents swirling around Antarctica are a crucial driver of the global network of ocean currents that transport heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the world. How will this lifeline change on a warming planet?
[animation: @NASAViz]

[Tom Parker @Tomozaurus]

The Badlands episode of Prehistoric Planet 2 reminded me that a really great paper came out this year on Cretaceous desert environments, which palaeoartists should appreciate as I know this is an FAQ for restorations, and it has great figures -- and is open access!