Our big review paper on strepsipteran systematics for Insect Systematics and Diversity is out! Hoping it's a helpful resource for anyone who needs it.

Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans! sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Check out our new paper about digitizing the physical trait data from western North American mammals! academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...

🦇 Outlined in a new paper published online in the Journal of Mammalogy, our Ranges Digitization Network will bring even more detail to digitized mammal collections in western North America, including biodiversity hot spots like L.A.: go.nhm.org/digitized-ma...

Need a distraction from current events? I Got U. Apparently pubic lice fluoresce under UV light! Link to research paper: www.cureus.com/articles/413... I need some EntoFriends to head to their collections with a UV light to confirm this 🤔🧪

It’s #TautonymTuesday! Meet Martes martes, the European pine marten. This agile #mustelid roams woodlands across Europe, known for its chestnut fur, bushy tail, and creamy throat patch. A classic tautonym in mammalian #taxonomy! #MartesMartes #CarnivoreEcology Photo: Dani Kropivnik

oh hey, I just learned that the ~2005 website we made to function as a fully illustrated, HTML-based key to California's arthropods is STILL THERE, a miracle in this age of linkrot essigdb.berkeley.edu/biokeys/inve...

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity? Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info: www.systbio.org/idea-award.h... You may self-nominate!!!

OTD in 1936, the last known thylacine—a wolf-like marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger—died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The animal’s passing marked the extinction of its species & underscores the need to protect our planet’s wildlife. Photo: Tasmanian Archives, PD, Wikimedia Commons

Does anyone know if its possible in MrBayes to combine DNA, Standard morphological discrete characters, AND Continuous data? I did not think so, but saw this in the manual. However, many attempts have failed 🙃

Proposals are due next week for the Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 US in funding for PhD students. Contact [email protected] with any questions. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Evolution Meeting 2026 logo contest! The winner will receive meeting registration and an Evolution 2026 t-shirt. www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...

October 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get some $$ to spend time collecting data in our collections, including @tarpits.org Open to: - current undergraduate and grad students - *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome) More: nhm.org/student-coll... 🧪

Finished up a batch of wine bottle and glassware caddies made from reclaimed California wine barrels. #woodworking #lofiwoodworks #winegifts #winebarrelstave #rustichomedecor

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.

I recently got a new camera for the microscope! Hopefully I will have it fully set up this week and can get back to streaming zooplankton sorting next weekend. Here's the unboxing/setup video for the new camera! youtu.be/WdGvWPpxgIg?...

This is too far!

Over the past 5 years some rare Pacific Footballfish have washed ashore in California. How rare? 41 individuals ever recorded, rare. So @realfishdoc.bsky.social, @frable.bsky.social, Michelle Horeczko, and I wrote a short note summarizing this species. Check it out here: doi.org/10.51492/cfw... 🐟🦑

It's open access too in the California Fish and Wildlife Scientific Journal, so you can just... read it!

Hey folks out there who ❤️ to #CTscan things and ❤️ museums! the @amnh.org is hiring a Laboratory Manager for their Microscopy and Imaging Facility, a.k.a. the CT lab 🧪 careers.amnh.org/postings/4550

Our #3Dprinted 1/4 scale #humpback whale skeleton is finally complete and hung up in our teaching classroom! My #mammalogy students printed the individual bones, and the #MarineMammalogy class painted and articulated the #skeleton with Dr. Jim Dines! It's about 11 feet long and looks amazing!

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm giving a talk on Tuesday about carnivores as dispersers of mycorrhizal fungal spores as part of a special session on fungal spore dispersal. Come check it out if you are here in Baltimore and like fungi, carnivores, or trophic interactions. #ESA2025

Hey folks! I wanted to share this collaborative resource I made a few years ago, and ask for your help in updating it! This is a list of grants, scholarships, and fellowships for which African nationals are eligible. Please share widely & add resources- thanks!! 🌍🧪 tinyurl.com/AfricanFellowships

Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Job alert! Sam Noble Museum (OU) seeks a Collection Manager for the Recent Invertebrates collection (insects, mollusks, arachnids & more). You’ll team up with the incoming Curator (👋 me). Apply via jobs.ou.edu, Job # 251244. DM questions. #museumjobs #arthropods #collections

Parasite extinctions in threatened species may be far more prevalent than previous estimates suggest. Our new study of kākāpō dung spanning from ~1,500 years ago to present, finds >80% of parasite species were lost as the host species declined.

A-HA! Found one of Townie the Townsend's Chipmunk's "Barking Spots" They - of course - stopped barking when I started filming - but SO FUN to get some video of ANY kind of one of these Uber Shy and Stealthy 'munks! I was dismissed me as "not a threat" and Exit Stage Right #mammals #becurious 🦊

Congratulations to Rosalyn M. Price-Waldman on her recent paper, "Hidden white and black feather layers enhance plumage coloration in tanagers and other songbirds" - research partially funded by the SSE Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Say hello to Florida's newest established species, Typhlonectes natans - the Rio Cauca Caecilian! You can read about their relative abundance, distribution, & natural history, in our brand new paper: journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda... Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

Hey wildlife disease folk! How do you see parasites in conservation? Something to be eradicated, or valued alongside the host? We'd love to hear from you as part of our research survey on attitudes to parasite conservation. Deadline 29th August 🌍🧪🪱🦠. Survey form: forms.office.com/e/KBPhk6fgz3

As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3

Thanks for the props. 🥰

Our Celebration newsletter went out Friday! If you missed it, no worries, here’s a copy: conta.cc/4nHWFok If you think you should have gotten it and didn’t, make sure your membership and email are current in our members database: www.systbio.org/my-account.h...

Authors! Bookshop.org is have a free shipping sale. This is a prime opportunity to support indies! Reply to this thread with your newest book's title, at least one cool thing about your book, and a link for people to buy it on Bookshop!

🧵 Earlier this week I took my interns and another group for a behind-the-scenes tour of a different museum. There we saw a huge blowup of a photo of their (early mid-last century) founders sitting in a quarry, surrounded by fossils, staring into the camera. All are white dudes.

Insects pressed on herbarium sheets...I'm looking for a paper I know exists on the topic, a short essay in a relatively narrow audience bulletin, ca. 1970s-1980s perhaps. Going nuts trying to locate it again.

The National Museum of Natural History is seeking experienced candidates to fill three Museum Technician (Natural Science) positions in the Department of Paleobiology. These positions will be part of the Paleobiology Collections Management team. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

My @asn-amnat.bsky.social Presidents Address for #Evol2025 is now available on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=soPd...

Did you know that today is National Catfish Day? There are more than 5,500 described catfish species—that means that roughly one out of every 12 or 13 vertebrate species is a type of catfish! 🧵

I'm looking for some colleagues interested in helping to start an initiative to seek private salary funding for Evolutionary Biology grad students, in collaboration with scientific societies like @asn-amnat.bsky.social . reach out if interested

Do you study wildlife disease? Don't just share your sequences - share your testing data! We've developed a minimum data standard and an R package to help you, and wrote a little how-to-share-data handbook for disease ecology and One Health surveillance projects 🦇🦟🦠🗺️🔢 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And if you missed it you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/vkBD3fg...