@poljiology
queer iskolar broadly curious about endless forms (and rhythms! and patterns!) of life in nature • in a journey of unlearning the master's tools • resists intellectual imperialism and epistemic violence • chooses to be in the periphery • he/they/siya
Photo of feet standing below some text on a floor. “The point is not for women to simply take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.” - Simone de Beauvoir
A reminder from Simone de Beauvoir on International Women’s Day.
So good!!! 💯
A new species of fringed gecko, Luperosaurus alvarezi, from the tiny island of Sibuyan (Philippines), was described by Meneses & Brown (2026).
It’s wild to think it took almost 9 years to formally describe this lizard species!
#taxonomy #Philippines #biodiversity
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
PS. Government should invest more in field-based biodiversity research. And regulatory offices shouldn’t make it unnecessarily difficult for Filipino researchers to secure collection permits—esp when the goal is to properly document species & deposit specimens in recognized natural history museums.
And now the bar keeps moving; people are asking for more genes, even genomic-scale data.
Imagine the burden that creates for #megadiverse countries—many of them in the #GlobalSouth —where most of Earth’s biodiversity exists and is undescribed, but resources for research are limited.
a certain kind of person has discovered in our present moment that you can be given unparalleled success and reach if you're willing to sell your soul, and for them that price is such an easy bargain
A drawing featuring a common bream and an eel on a simple blue and pink background.
Fish come in many shapes 🐟🐟🐟
#illustration #nature #fish #artsky
Centerlaw is not yet on Bluesky, but they have shared Joel Butuyan’s opening statement in the ICC on their Facebook page. A statement that should go down in Philippine history. (1/2)
"Southeast Asian Solidarity with Palestine
Sticker seen in Chiang Mai, Thailand
If you see this, post a dragon!
#SoftLaunch #NewPIs
Deepmind's marketing department known as Nature.
Hand holding a small painting of a salamander reading
Salamander Reading ✨
Available!
Size: 2x3.5"
Acryla gouache and ink
$55 (US shipping included)
DM to claim
#OtD 5 Feb 1971 students and workers at the Diliman University in the Philippines took over the university's UP Press and printed the first issue of Bandilang Pula (Red Flag), the official newspaper of the Diliman Commune in Tagalog and English. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1117...
University of the Philippines Diliman IDs. Left: (when entering the UP Diliman) as a student of the College of Mass Communication in 2006. Right: (now) as a faculty member of the College of Science in 2026.
Got my new ID, around 20 years after getting my first one #NewPI
butterflyfish 🦋
Six big (for a Betta) plushie Betta fish in multiple colours
Four different plushie keychain plakat bettas
Betta drop! I've got some big plushie Betta splendens and some new plakat keychains in stock over at www.palaeoplushies.com !!
I've got a few different plakats I haven't photographed yet that will be going up later today too!
Oh this one breaks my heart 😢
Various kinds of fish painted in watercolors. (The O.P. can't remember all the names of the fish and like a fool didn't write them down...) (One is of a Betta fish, though.)
Various kinds of fish painted in watercolors. (The O.P. can't remember all the names of the fish and like a fool didn't write them down...) (One is of a chunky goldfish though.)
Some watercolor fish studies I did back in 2024 when I decided to learn how to use watercolors again. 🐠 :3
🎨🖼️ #TraditionalArt #SciArt #SketchBook
She will forever be iconic ♥️
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
Prayers to lost goldfish
#art #illustration
My top 10 history of science papers from 2025. You've got material about scientists navigating their academic institutional systems and intellectual frameworks, about how science used the tools available to it to organise reality, and material practices of science.
Imperyalismo, ibagsak.
📝 The anteroposterior molecular blueprint of adult guts is shared across bilaterians
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Could adult roles of these genes have been informing the evolution of the through-gut and the conservation of its patterning system? 🐥 or 🥚?
A) Summary model of the conserved elements of the adult bilaterian through-gut, and their AP distribution, as identified in this work. Modules are color-coded. Slashed rectangle pictogram (blue, topmost): boundary between “block” and “gradient” compartments (i.e., “transition sphincter”) as defined in the main body of text. B) Larval bilaterian through-guts. A correspondence between larval and adult AP gut markers (dark arrow) was identified for sea urchin (Sp). The AP patterning of adult bilaterian guts may in turn be a conserved feature of larval through-guts (light arrow). C) Reconstruction (dark arrow) of the possible configuration of the ancestral through-gut configuration, which gave rise to the diversification of adult guts seen in extant species (light arrow to panel A). The authors' interpretative lens would further provide an investigative angle to approach the relationship between the ancestral through-gut configuration and that of its larva and the larvae of extant species (light arrows to and from panel B). A: anterior, P: posterior.
Bilaterian guts share embryonic patterning, but what about the adult gut? This study of 5 species reveals conserved TF modules that define A-P #gut compartments, with lineage-specific modifications, illuminating #bilaterian gut #evolution & diversification @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/49pgpH3
📝 The anteroposterior molecular blueprint of adult guts is shared across bilaterians
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🐥 or 🥚? Could adult roles of these genes have been informing the evolution of the through-gut and the conservation of its patterning system?
📝 The anteroposterior molecular blueprint of adult guts is shared across bilaterians
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
They also reveal ontogenetic continuity of AP organization: all bilaterian guts maintain "larval" AP patterns into adulthood, even in cases where the gut is reformed during metamorphosis.
