New updated preprint! Many thanks to reviewers for their suggestions and helpful advice for improving our manuscript. Check it out if you're interested in fossils, phylogenies, and modeling morphologic evolution! 🧪

Haluaisitko tehdä elämäntaparemontin luonnon hyväksi mutta et tiedä mistä aloittaa? Tässä selvityksessä listaamme 143 arjen tekoa, joista jokainen voi valita itselleen sopivimmat.

An amazing review of the current state of knowledge of the systematics and classification of themoth family Erebidae, the most diverse family of Lepidoptera! This is a really necessary compilation of available information. 🥳 🙌 academic.oup.com/isd/article/...

Registration for the upcoming SEL congress extended until Jun 15! If you experience problems with the registration form, please reach out to the congress organiser, Zdeněk Fric ([email protected]) and he'll happily sort it out. Looking forward to seeing you in August! sel.entu.cas.cz/registration...

The #TETTRIsEU Taxonomy Recognition Day stroke Europe from Greece 🇬🇷 to Finland 🇫🇮, from Italy 🇮🇹 to Belgium🇧🇪 and in 10+Countries! Hundreds of people joined their local Natural History Museums & Natural Gardens and learned about the importance of #Taxonomy for preserving #biodiversity! #NameItToSaveIt

Womersleymeria bicornis (Womersley, H, 1940:137) Stach, J, 1949, an springtail endemic to Australia. #NAMEITTOSAVEIT

Today is Taxonomy Recognition Day! This small, elegant moth is Tinagma perdicella Zeller, 1839, a species listed as Near Threatened in Finland. Suitable habitats are diminishing due to the overgrowth of meadows and other open areas, as well as a reduction in burnt forest habitats. #NameItToSaveIt

It's Taxonomy Recognition Day! 🧡💙💚 Our partners are organising events all around Europe: 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇩🇰🇪🇸🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇳🇱🇳🇴🇦🇹🇵🇹🇨🇿🇸🇪... You can still help raise awareness about the importance of Taxonomy for Biodiversity and Natural Sciences by participating in the #NameItToSaveIt campaign! 👇 #tettriseu #taxonomy #biodiversity

Pelidnota cyanitarsis (Gory, 1833) - a splendid metallic scarab beetle from northeastern Brazil's unique arid, little-known and now threatened caatinga biome. #NameItToSaveIt

Tomorrow is #TaxonomyRecognitionDay Natural History Museums join forces to highlight taxonomy—the foundation of biodiversity research & conservation Share your favourite species to take part in a fun way! Take a photo of the species Add its scientific name Share it with the hashtag #NameItToSaveIt

The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is offering a fully funded 3-year PhD position in evolutionary genomics starting Fall 2025. Applicants should have a background in biological sciences. More info: https://jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/8154f5be04ad4a1a77e0c741dc24fc0e6bd163df0 #phd

The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, is hiring a 3-year postdoctoral fellow for a self-developed project starting October 2025. Apply by June 23, 2025. More info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/280531/postdoctoral-fellow-self-developed-project #postdoc

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬 Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections. 🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen ⏰ Deadline: June 15th 📩 Contact me! 🚀 Excited to explore new horizons! Please share 🕊️

This 🦕 couldn't count on the NameItToSaveIt campaign! Join the movement towards #Taxonomy Recognition Day (May 23) by sharing on Social Media a picture of your favourite animal/plant with the taxonomic name and #NameItToSaveIt #TETTRIsEU #biodiversity #internationalbiodiversityday #peacewithnature

🟠 🟢 🔵 Use #nameittosaveit to raise awareness about #taxonomy to a new level: 📷 Picture your favourite animal or plant 🐯🍀🍄 🔤 Give it the correct taxonomic name 🤳 Share it on social media with the #NameItToSaveIt hashtag ... And remember: May 23 is Taxonomy Recognition Day! tettris.eu/trd/ #tettriseu

Ötökkäakatemia edustettuna HY:n Tiedekulman ja YLE:n Luonto-Suomen Pörriäisillassa - tulkaapa kuulolle! www.helsinki.fi/fi/tiedekulm... #pölyttäjäpäivä #mehiläispäivä #tiedekulma

New paper with Xiling, Deng, Jacqueline Heckenhauer and co. examining silk fibroin evolution in weird case-making caddisflies. doi.org/10.1002/jez....

Carboniferous insects

(1/4) Exciting news 📣 Announcing the #COST10KLepGenomes initiative! 🦋🧬 We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.

When insect fossils are this intact, just looking at them makes you go WHOA. Plus, preserved body structures reveal how their group evolved! In my latest for @cnn.com, I wrote about how a truly stunning cicada fossil from Germany's Messel Pit places singing cicadas in Europe earlier than expected 🧪

The top 10 flying insect clades rule the skies—but defy the rules. Weak or inverted latitudinal diversity gradients leave biogeographers puzzled. Entomologists? Mildly amused. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What is the Taxonomy Recognition Day, and why do we celebrate it on May 23? #tettriseu replies! 👇 youtu.be/t_3ZMHTQnbI?... Don't forget to participate in our #nameittosaveit campaign! @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @naturalis.bsky.social @nhmwien.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org

An often overlooked issue getting the attention it deserves: Light in standardised insect photography and description of lighting devices, including the UV range nl.pensoft.net/articles.php...

🦋The Society for European Lepidopterology (SEL) is now on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/soce... 🦋 #lepidoptera

Luonnontieteellisen keskusmuseon tutkijat löysivät viime vuonna yli 150 tieteelle uutta lajia! 🦗🍄 Suuri osa maapallon eliölajeista on vielä tuntemattomia. Valtaosa niistä elää tropiikissa, mutta voi uusia lajeja löytää läheltäkin. Viime vuonna Suomesta kuvattiin mm. uusi sienilaji, suomenseitikki.

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When lepidopterist Michael Braby spotted something odd on a rare butterfly specimen, an old case was re-opened: a heist involving Scotland Yard & a forgery that created a flutter throughout the taxonomic world. cosmosmagazine.com/nature/butterfly-heist-70-years-ago-is-still-causing-flutter/

Oldest ant fossil ever found reveals history of ‘hell ants’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The 24th European Congress of Lepidopterology will take place in the Czech Republic from August 18 to 23. You can register here: sel.entu.cas.cz/registration/ Registration DL May 31. Abstract submission DL April 30.

My colleague Hanna Laakkonen explains why reference collections are important for biodiversity monitoring.

Ordo Naturae — nyt!

(1/4)🦋 Introducing Project Psyche! A groundbreaking initiative to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths in Europe. The goal is to analyse this data to understand global climate insecurity and threats to biodiversity on a genomic level🧬 #ProjectPsyche #Genomics

Welcome to Postdoctoral Researcher @elenakochanova.bsky.social, who began working on my project this Monday! The genomic dataset she is assembling is essential for research on the evolutionary history of sister groups #Lepidoptera and #Trichoptera. #museomics @nathist.bsky.social

Paleoentomologist Isabelle Deregnaucourt @isadere.bsky.social started as a postdoc in my group a year ago. 🎂 🥳 Her research on the morphology of extant and fossil #Trichoptera and their sister group #Lepidoptera is key to understanding the evolution of these insect groups. @nathist.bsky.social

We are making a brand new #Museomics Lab at NHM Denmark, University of Copenhagen - working with DNA from museum & herbarium specimens. We are looking for a lab manager to join us - unlocking the amazing potential of our collections for global change 🌐 and #conservationgenomics research