Some more cool work from my excellent colleagues at the American Museum of Natural History! entomologytoday.org/2026/03/12/n...

It's Trilobite Tuesday—and we have new research to share! On the left is a 3D scan of Lonchodomas chaziensis babies that are about the size of a grain of sand. The accompanying photo on the right shows an adult specimen of the closely related species Lonchodomas rostratus.

Today, March 3, is #WorldWildlifeDay! More than half of all species on Earth are insects and their relatives—or in the words of conservationist E.O. Wilson, "the little things that run the world."

Interested in being a #journal #reviewer? The Entomological Society of America journals have a new reviewer application site---if you are interested, this allows you to volunteer! New reviewers will be searchable in the portal by editors, who would love your input! app.smartsheet.com/b/form/8aa2e...

I am this week's guest on MonsterTalk, discussing dragonfly biology and folklore with co-hosts Blake Smith and Karen Stollznow. They were excellent hosts, with lots of great questions that I did my best to answer. If interested you can check the episode out at www.monstertalk.org/s05e21-drago....

This is an incredible resource: The MicrobeAtlas Database www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...

Thomas is teaching me how to code in Scratch. This is the first game we coded together. Check it out, and see if you can catch the dragonfly! scratch.mit.edu/projects/121...

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Integrating #eDNA and #CommunityScience to monitor urban #Odonata diversity doi.org/10.1111/icad.70006 #UrbanInsects #Biodiversity #Monitoring @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

If you happen to be in Colombia! Come visit this awesome exhibit we just launch in #ICO2025! @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social thank to be part of these dream!

California ecologists are bringing a glimmer of hope back to the Presidio, releasing Silvery Blue butterflies to fill the ecological void left by the long-lost Xerces Blue. This creative conservation effort may reshape what it means to reverse extinction in action. www.kqed.org/news/1205298...

So excited to have this #dragonfly paper out! #Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in #Anisoptera (dragonflies) url: academic.oup.com/isd/article/... @ethantolman.bsky.social

So great to see our work on blue dasher dragonflies highlighted in the New York Times. Excellent piece by @cjgiaimo.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/s...

56 million years ago, Earth underwent rapid global warming. Here’s what it did to pollinators theconversation.com/56-million-y...

Our new piece is out in @nature.com big mihi to all my co-authors it was a pleasure to work with you on this @lanipai.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social @napaaqtuk.bsky.social @sereananaepi.bsky.social @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social Bradley Moggridge and Brittany Kamai tinyurl.com/yc4y9kfk

So excited to have this #eDNA #Aquatics paper out led by Rhema Uche Dike, @ethantolman.bsky.social, @chrisdbeatty.bsky.social and many others! doi.org/10.1111/icad...

‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Check out this great work from @ethantolman.bsky.social 's PhD thesis! I'm excited to have collaborated with him and others on this exploration of gene family expansion in dragonflies.

Very excited about this paper! It has been great to work with colleagues in NZ and around the world to make this happen.

Another paper that I am excited to share. This work was a collaboration with colleagues in Vanuatu, Fiji, New Zealand and the US. The Melanesobasis are a beautiful group of damselflies, and it is exciting to understand their distribution in the South Pacific. academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

@isaaclevesque.bsky.social @jiaweiz.bsky.social, Sam Gallafent, Randy Li, and Atharva Tripathi found that insects sampled from the same habitat have responded differently to anthropogenic change and past climate change!

@gracie-castillo.bsky.social, @harrisonpardue.bsky.social, @eredman3.bsky.social and Liam Williams found alarmingly high levels of inbreeding in Trout, and discuss what this means for the Odonata they live with!

Maleah Wei and @bengallafent.bsky.social shared an awesome talk about urban adaptation and migration in the blue dasher dragonfly, as well as the importance of community science engagement, with their advisor Dick Jordan!

Excited to have this #entomology #dragonfly paper out! Congratulations to @ethantolman.bsky.social Ellie Gamett and team! bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Glad to see the Idaho Statesmen cover the cool work @gracie-castillo.bsky.social @harrisonpardue.bsky.social @eredman3.bsky.social @jiaweiz.bsky.social @bengallafent.bsky.social @maleahwei.bsky.social and others are doing in Boise!

Excited to see @gracie-castillo.bsky.social @harrisonpardue.bsky.social @eredman3.bsky.social @isaaclevesque.bsky.social @jiaweiz.bsky.social @bengallafent.bsky.social and others present at the annual conference of @odonataamericas.bsky.social after a week of research!

"In an open letter published Monday, nearly 2,000 of the nation’s top researchers called on the Trump administration to halt this 'wholesale assault on U.S. science,' which they say is threatening America’s position as a global research leader as well as the health and safety of its citizens."

These ancient fish swam with the dinosaurs. They may not survive us. - National Geographic

The Erasing of American Science - The Atlantic

A section of the rearwing of a male #FlameSkimmer #dragonfly, #Libellula-satutara #Odonata #Insects #Anisoptera #Libellulidae #Skimmer #Invertebrate #Entomology #FocusStacking #NikonD810 #ZereneStacker #BugPics #DragonflyPhotography #Science #SteveValleyPhotography #photography #SciArt #Art

So excited for our Neurocordulia Shadowdragon #dragonfly paper to be out! #entomology doi.org/10.48156/138...

First article of 2025! Very excited to present this work with my good friend and colleague Tom Sherratt and his team. Territoriality is a fascinating phenomenon--here's hoping we have helped in understanding how it evolves. doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Excited to have another preprint out with @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social, @chrisdbeatty.bsky.social and others! We explore why the blue dasher dragonfly is so successful in our cities. #dragonflies #entomology🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full article: A new large predator (Amphipoda, Eusiridae) hidden at hadal depths of the Atacama Trench www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...

Hi All! I'm an evolutionary ecologist who works with dragonflies (mainly). I'm excited to share science and general nerdery here!

#Dragonfly nymph habitat is sometimes more just plain muddy than #lentic or #lotic! #fieldwork #entomology 🧪

What a great trip!

It was so great to get a chance to search for Tachopteryx this past week and see @willkuhn.bsky.social , @ethantolman.bsky.social, Chris, Patrick, Anton, Aaron and Larry! 🐉🪰 #dragonfly #entomology