palaeoverse is a community-driven R package of generic functions to help streamline palaeobiological analyses and improve code readability and reproducibility. This is our last version before a major refactor in Autumn, supported by funding from the @softwaresaved.bsky.social.

Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...

Clockwise from top left: Nectopsyche sp. - White Miller Caddisfly Petrophila jaliscalis - Jalisco Petrophila Cyllopsis gemma - Eastern Gemmed-Satyr Cerastipsocus trifasciatus - Barklouse maybe the depicted salticid is at a low anterior angle: how real jumpers may encounter another face-to-face?

Happy pride, mollusc-botherers 🤘

Bumble bees are able to spontaneously move a ball into position so that they can reach a suspended reward demonstrating goal-directed problem-solving which extends beyond simple conditioning! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Came work with me at the emerging UC Merced Earth Institute. We have two open positions for a: 1) Grant Writer aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02181 2) Communications and Outreach Coordinator aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02180 Please share with your networks, and reach out if u have questions I can answer.

HAPPY PRIDE from California Native Plants and the Luong Lab!!! 🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 This 2026 Flag from our lab features 152 california native plants! Did you know California is a Biodiversity hotspot with over 6000 native plants? How many plants can you name or spot? 🧐 #CaliforniaNativePlants

Our new paper doi.org/10.1098/rspb... on long-term genetic threats to small populations finds that "mutational meltdown" (bad mutations fixing) is less of a problem than "mutational drought" (too few good new mutations) @wmawass.bsky.social @uliseshmc.bsky.social @jeremyjberg.bsky.social 1/5

🧨 New publication out (I think this one is 🌶️ ): Cerca & @stelkens.bsky.social - "The identity crisis of speciation genomics". academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Did you miss out on submitting an abstract for GIGA? We still have space to take a few more posters! Submit your poster abstract now at gigavi.org

Ten points if you can figure out what's going on here. (Ecuador)

There was an email from Jason Dunlop, ISA, which included a message from Julian Siggers, President of FMNH, which describes Petra’s many contributions. In addition to her work on spiders & millipedes Petra had many other interests, e.g. she is featured in this: www.changingseas.tv/season-10/10...

Beetle 🪲🐞 postdoc at the @museumofnature.bsky.social!!! nature.ca/en/our-scien... @canentomologist.bsky.social @entsocontario.bsky.social @entcollnet.bsky.social @coleopsoc.bsky.social

I guess this is what happens when an entomologist gets interested in terrestrial snails. I will deflect both credit and blame here to our collection manager Mike Ferro. We may now have to change our name to Clemson University Invertebrate Collection (from 'Arthropod')!

📣 Introducing MorphSim: an R package for simulating discrete morphological data along phylogenetic trees, built for fossil-inclusive phylogenetics, with all the complexity of real morphological data baked in 🪨🌿 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

~treasures of the dirt~

just got word from @arachnology.bsky.social that Petra Sierwald of the FMNH passed away recently. She was always really kind to me when I was there, even though I wasn't working on spiders or millipedes.

🪲 A PhD position in my lab will open soon! Work includes Caribbean fieldwork, visits to major European entomological collections, and cutting-edge morphology, phylogenomics & museomics. If you’re interested in beetle evolution and biodiversity research, consider applying! 🔬🌍

OniscidBase: A call for contributions to a global database to advance terrestrial isopod research Konstantin B. Gongalsky et al., 2025. @soilorganismsj.bsky.social 97(3): 247–269. #woodlice #Isopoda #Oniscidea doi.org/10.25674/466

GOT IT

Very excited to launch this new article category at Insect Conservation and Diversity! #ConservationNotes is a new forum for small-scale rigorous research that contributes explicitly to the conservation of insects @royentsoc.bsky.social

THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...

#LiteratureNotice Montanhini et al. Synopsis of the #myrmecophilous genus Ecitonides Wasmann (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae), with description of two new species from Brazil doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Beetle #Beetles

Want to support graduate students in uncertain times? Consider donating to our Graduate Research Excellence Grants program, which provides research funds – and a vote of confidence – for students in evolutionary biology. www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

Join us on May 27th for the next Funk Biogeography Seminar! Dr. Michael Landis from Washington University in St. Louis will be speaking about the use of phylogenetic models to explore the biogeography of the past. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ma...

Wednesday May 27th, 4pm British Summer Time / 5pm Central European Summer Time. Alfred Russel Wallace webinar, by Dr. Tom Matthews (University of Birmingham) “Assessing the wider implications of species extinctions: island birds and beyond ”. islandbiology.com/news/ver.php...

The best weekend of the year is here! If you’re in LA, come check out @nhm.org’s 40th annual Bug Fair. I’ll be there today sharing incredible specimens from our entomology collection and chatting about all things bug. nhm.org/bugfair

“Like fungi, the stuff I’m made of (that we’re all made of) has the power to move in darkness, to thrive undetected, to quietly work until such a time as there’s nothing left to do but fruit.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

don't forget to register for the American Malacological Society meeting! deadline today!

Does anyone know who or how to contact AntWiki to request an editor account? The page linked on the site to do this doesn't exist. . .

Application deadline is coming up to join us in Glasgow for the next IoS workshop!

Don't miss your last chance to submit your abstract to gigavi.org! Abstracts are due May 15, 2026. The conference runs July 6-10 in Boracay, Philippines. We hope you can join us! #invertebrates #genomics #conference

Invertebrate palaeontologists of Bluesky, I need you to tell me which species in your study taxon would look best on a band shirt, and the genre of that band, for an Art Project Reason

Biblically accurate cochlea

reminder that there's only a few days left to register for the AMS meeting in Syracuse this June! #mollusca #malacology #bivalvia #cephalopoda #gastropoda #polyplacophora #scaphopoda #caudofoveata #cricoconarida #monoplacophora #rostroconchia #solenogastres ams.wildapricot.org/AMS-2026-Reg...

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

work! www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/careers/j...

New book "A Primer for Experimental Evolution" with coauthors Michael Rose, Margarida Matos, and Joe Graves. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... A compact primer for students and colleagues interested in planning and designing experiments to address questions in evolutionary biology.

The recent NY Times article on Oath (a soil inoculant company) warrants a mini-thread, so here we go: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b... (1/9)

The Biology Department at Syracuse University is hiring! Please share with anyone you think might be interested. www.sujobopps.com/postings/112...

hi, as some of you know Them was sold last month and i was laid off as a result. this is a gofundme for myself and my colleagues who have been impacted, pls share and donate if you feel called <3 www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Thrilled to see the final chapter of my thesis now publish on Cell! It's been a long journey. @yvdp.bsky.social @almeidasilvaf.bsky.social @stevenmaere.bsky.social In this study, we try to tackle a "polyploid paradox".

Such a devasting loss 💔 If you are able to, consider donating to support Adriana's family 👇🏽 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our research was recently featured on the German TV game show "Wer weiß denn sowas?" ("Who knows?")! The question covered our #discovery of parasitism by the love vine, Cassytha fuliformis, on the gall wasp, Belonocnema fossoria, published in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @cellpress.bsky.social.

I am very happy to see Becci Morris' first ever paper published 🥳 In this study we find that the New Guinea frog genus Mantophryne diversified due to a combination of tectonic activity and climate reorganisation in the Late Pliocene – Early Pleistocene doi.org/10.1002/ece3... 🧪🐸

Congratulations to #AMNH postdoc Dr. Leland Graber @bug4bug.bsky.social on his new paper! Journal of Biogeography | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Ants #Entomology

my paper on pogonomyrmex harvester ant biogeography with bob johnson and @corriemoreau.bsky.social came out today! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MEB3T9...

Cornell pres Kotlikoff ran over the foot of a student protestor, left scene. Student is afraid to press charges because he is in charge of Cornell Police, but it is on video, matches student claims Alums who were not yet disgusted this has to be it. No more $ www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...