A lot can happen in just a few months! New papers, new specimens, new collaborations, and lots of arachnids. 🕷️ I wrote a blog post reflecting on our early progress at @ou.edu and at the Sam Noble Museum. 🔗 gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news/new-beg...

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Just published a new paper in Zootaxa with my co-authors! We describe the female of Charinus santanensis for the first time and explore its hydrophobic crystal coating. Also: conservation concerns for these fragile ecosystems. gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news/cave-se...

The Recent Invertebrates collection made its Curiosiday debut at the Sam Noble Museum! 🐞🦋🕷️ gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news/celebra... #Curiosiday #Invertebrates #SamNobleMuseum #ArachnidLife

New preprint out! We investigated how climate and habitat influenced the evolution of body size and shape in whip spiders (Amblypygi). This is the first large-scale study on their morphology and its evolutionary patterns. Feedback and comments welcome! tinyurl.com/2jtnaxj5

🎓🐟 The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History & OU’s School of Biological Sciences are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Curator of Ichthyology / Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences (start Fall 2026). Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174674 #AcademicJobs #Ichthyology #Museum #Biology

Last week, the Recent Invertebrates collection participated in Twilight at Water’s Edge, a program connecting families with Oklahoma’s nocturnal wildlife. From museum specimens to field observations, participants explored the hidden world that comes alive after sunset. tinyurl.com/3ruynucb

We’re thrilled to welcome Shelby Hernandez as our new Collections Manager! 🪲 A true beetle lover and collections expert, Shelby will help care for and grow the incredible invertebrate collection at the Sam Noble Museum. 🎉 gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news/welcome...

Whip spiders, beetles, and beyond! 🕷️🪲 I’ll be posting stories from research, collections, and fieldwork at the Sam Noble Museum (OU). Take a look: 👉 gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new... Mosquitoes that have been in the collection for nearly a hundred years are helping us in dealing with an even older but also current problem - malaria @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social

@nhmdk.bsky.social is advertising a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research focused on dark taxa and unknown species, preferably including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology deadline 5 October 2025 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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

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

Do you have a PhD in STEM and looking to pivot to a different subdiscipline? The Simons Foundation's Pivot Fellowship provides 1 year of salary + $10k for research + travel to the fellow and $50k to their mentor. Apply by 12:00 PM (ET), May 15, 2025. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-... 🧪

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Looking for a faculty position? How about a postdoc position? Canadian Women in STEM launches an easy to use Job Board. canadianwomeninstem.org/job-board/

Some local (NE Oklahoma) symphylans to illustrate a difference between the two families - Scolopendrellidae has sharp pointed tergites (pics 1 and 2) ...while Scutigerellidae has more rounded/lobed tergites (pics 3 and 4)

Thanks @plantpollinator.bsky.social Kelsey Byers for sharing knowledge about accessible fieldwork & a link to a useful guide created by Chloe Stevens. Take homes include bidirectional communication and trust, and improving accessibility helps EVERYone!! #PlantSciEd www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

🧵 1/ Words cannot describe publishing my first article in Korea as an adoptee. I am coauthoring a series on arachnid behavior in Donga Science (과학동아). It is surreal to see my Korean name in print. Korea, I am still here and I am still your daughter. [Korean and English translation in alt text.]

There's at least 4 different pseudoscorpion species living under the bark of a small patch of mahogany trees, and that makes me happy. 🤎 I don't know which species, but they're all silly in their own special ways. #InverteFest

🟠New #genome resources expand possibilities for #insect models 🟢Assembly quality varies in contiguity & completeness 🔵Technological advances support new models with high-quality #data 🟣Emerging models advance knowledge of insect #biology & #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quick crab drawing guides that @jopabinia.bsky.social and I made a few years back to get you all started for this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme: Carcinization. Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series

It occurs to me that many of you may never have seen a squirting cucumber in action, please allow me remedy that for you As you may imagine, naturalists have been gobsmacked by these seed-spurting gourds for centuries (Pliny the Elder described them and warned observers to mind their eyeballs) 🧪

My first time being part of a published article! Everything about Dolomedes in one place. I wrote the section on parental care. 🕷️ I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen. www.frontiersin.org/journals/ara...

A Lancet editorial highlights the reality: nature & biodiversity underpin our survival. We must act decisively-75% of emerging diseases stem from disrupted ecosystems. There are ethical/moral arguments for protecting biodiversity. + Nature's health is our health. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Q: Stressed?! A: Striking Strepsipteran: #Wasp(Parasite)Love #MalaiseTrapBycatch

The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied! #SciComms #Science #Taxonomy 🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018 @natureportfolio.bsky.social