This year at #EntSoc25, I was honored to win an award for a talk I gave on my birthday 🎂, along with three of my talented labmates at the McGuire Center! 🦋 🙌 Thanks to @entsocamerica.bsky.social & @floridamuseum.bsky.social for the support & recognition! 🙏

Excited to wrap up a successful conservation policy symposium at #EntSoc25! Takeaways: ✍️ Make public comments 📍 Get involved at state & local levels 🗣️ Practice sharing science with family & friends 🦋 Highlight wonder inspired by charismatic species 🤝 Focus on our common humanity Keep persisting!

Make sure to check out our science & conservation policy symposium at the upcoming ESA meeting! We've got a great lineup of speakers focusing on new methods for insect biodiversity monitoring & how entomologists can engage w/ policymaking. Join us! @entsocamerica.bsky.social bit.ly/SysEBPolicyS...

Thank you @oacevedocharry.bsky.social! Also great talk on using state-space models to estimate extinction risk from community science data, with promising results from a case study on the endangered Everglade snail kite. I recommend checking out their paper! doi-org.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/10.1111/1365...

Excited to be presenting my work on ESA listing and research effort for U.S butterflies tomorrow at the UF SNRE Symposium, along with several other talented graduate students & faculty! snre.ifas.ufl.edu/news-and-eve...

Tune in TOMORROW for the "Insect Rally" to support the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, w/ National Wildlife Federation Action Fund (@wildlifeaction.bsky.social), Xerces Society, and Entomological Society of America. ⬇️

Check out this blog post by @floridamuseum.bsky.social about my summer fieldwork studying the Loammi skipper. Thanks to the FLMNH outreach team, everyone who helped me in the field and lab & to my funders! #FloridaMuseum #DisneyConserves #UFSNRE 🦋🌾

Had so much fun pinning butterflies & moths with kids and playing with katydids at a recent @FloridaMuseum outreach event! #ScienceComm 🦋🐛

This is what hurricane prep looks like at the Butterfly Rainforest 🦋🌀@FloridaMuseum @swamphiker @UFEntNem @UFBiology

Happy #WomenInScienceDay! Had a great day w/ @JCDanielsLab doing science activities with young future scientists @FloridaMuseum!