We have a new Bayesian sampler of divergence times that is smoking fast! Benchmarking by the exceptional @lauramulvey.bsky.social

Hey bsky! I’d like to share some cool work I recently coauthored that integrates entomology, paleontology, and German cultural history. 🔶🐜⚡️ We discovered a fossil ant in the amber collection of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Read on for a delightful story of #museomics and #collectomics. >> 1/

Researchers characterized the gut microbiome composition of four caddisfly genera belonging to four different functional feeding groups using 16S metabarcoding. See what they found out here: doi.org/10.3897/zook... @gjijonn.bsky.social @paulbfrandsen.bsky.social

Our paper on ancestral conditions of caddisflies (described in the quoted post) is now out! doi.org/10.3897/zook...

Excited to share this work, out today in MBE! In polar fishes, we found that antifreeze protein genes expanded in copy number at low temperatures and contracted in the deep sea, highlighting a role of depth and pressure in AFP evolution. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

AMNH is hiring a #curator! We are searching for an “Assistant Curator in #Climate #Physics: #Atmosphere or #Ocean”! Join us! careers.amnh.org/postings/4579 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

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...

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...

I'm hiring a lab technician to coordinate and assist with projects on insect silk genetics. Great for someone with a newly minted degree who is looking for more research experience. byu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/byu-ca...

Huge thanks and congrats to @siluwang.bsky.social and Anne Yoder for organising this amazing special issue. It has been fun contributing and interacting with Silu, Anne and the authors of the other manuscripts, including in a Zoom "tea break" where we presented our projects to each other.

Last PhD chapter is published! academic.oup.com/isd/article-...

New publication alert! 🎉 I am so proud of this review paper on the history of the systematics of stoneflies, and am so grateful to have collaborated with the best stonefly scientists on Earth! Check it out!! 🪰 academic.oup.com/isd/article/...

Very cool work by @jasminealqassar.bsky.social, @evolvwing.bsky.social, and co. And some stunning pictures as an extra treat!

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.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hiring an Assistant Professor specializing in insect systematics. Opportunities like this are rare and valuable! (Not many jobs like this out there!) Spread the word to anyone who might be interested or benefit. #entomology #science #sciencejobs #bugsky 🧪

If you’re interested in the past, present, and future of caddisfly systematics, we’ve got your back. Here’s our contribution to the Insect Systematics and Diversity special issue doi.org/10.1093/isd/...

Psst 🤫! You are curious to see what it looks like when 450 #Humboldtian|s from all over the world take over Schloss Bellevue? Then enjoy our look behind the scenes of day 2 of our Annual Meeting with a reception by Federal President Steinmeier! #AvHResearchUnites

A nice family friendly start to day 2 of the annual Humboldt Foundation meeting. Very happy to be here. Inspirational meeting so far. #AvHResearchUnites

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

Zoraptera!

Do you fish in freshwater? Please share or/and complete our survey gathering data on observations of insects for our study on aquatic insect population declines! The link to our survey is here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXLMY89. Please share if you know anyone who might be interested in participating!

Great to have our caddisfly silk review now included in an issue in Trends in Genetics. And, I might be biased, but that sure is a beautiful cover ;)!

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

I've written up some notes on the Madagascar #metabarcoding data as a blog post iphylo.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-me...

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 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 🕊️

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

Frustrated that MCMCtree does not have complex substitution models? The IQ-tree team has now developed IQ2MC, an interface for seamless integration of IQ-tree's substitution models with MCMCtree's fast Bayesian pipeline for clock dating. Read the preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Nice caddisfly! Yellow spotted sedge, Philopotamus montanus. And plenty of them! #yellowspottedsedge #philopotamusmontanus #caddisfly #waterfall #runningwaterspecies #stengömmenattslända #philopotamidae #röttlevattenfall #insectphotography #macrophotography #biodiversity #Inaturalist

For #WorldRobberFlyDay here's an edit I made showcasing how cool these flies are 😎

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

No one does Easter eggs quite like stick and leaf insects do www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

So very hyped that @nature.com made a video about our study on microplastic in caddisfly casings! 😱🎥 Watch it preferably next to a creek... some of them might want to tune in too. 🍿🐛

Awesome new paper by @lucalivraghi.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... in @currentbiology.bsky.social on the evo-devo of a butterfly color variation enjoy the show!

#CitizenScienceMonth - 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is a CS initiative inviting volunteers to observe and collect data on 𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 (Trichoptera), contributing to 𝑶𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.𝒐𝒓𝒈. Find out more: semblis.org #Trichoptera #CitSciMonth #OneMillionActsOfScience @scistarter.bsky.social

Our study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature! Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share that this paper is out now in Development! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

This study compares DNA metabarcoding and traditional morphology-based methods for monitoring macroinvertebrates in Ecuadorian streams, highlighting the need for improved DNA reference libraries before full adoption in biomonitoring. doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...

A new paper on our ongoing Ecuador work on testing molecular tools for bioassessment. A team effort, led by Frandlab grad student @gjijonn.bsky.social. Always grateful for an opportunity to work with @blancanauta.bsky.social :) doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...

Congratulations to my student Aaron Goodman on this new paper on Somatochlora #dragonfly #systematics! @paulbfrandsen.bsky.social @abbottnature.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

I recently shared my journey into #isopod #science 🧪 with The Marine Biologist magazine! 🦐 From Jurassic Park sparking my curiosity in DNA, to studying isopod genomics with #sanger #darwintreeoflife - read it here: mymba.mba.ac.uk/resource/unf... Thanks @thembauk.bsky.social for the opportunity!

A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Spectacular!

Our review on caddisfly silk genetics is out in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social. We’re excited about new developments in the field and we were stoked to have the chance to cover them in a review. We hope it is useful resource for people interested! www.cell.com/trends/genet...

New paper out 📝✨ "k-mer approaches for biodiversity genomics" We discuss k-mer spectra, sex determination, allopolyploid subgenome separation, among other topics - and offer a large tutorial list Link to paper: genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... Link to all tutorials: github.com/KamilSJaron/...

Join us as a Doctoral student in Biology w/focus in ecological physiology. A PhD project with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social “HotLife – Pathways to survival in a hotter world” supported by @ercresearch.bsky.social. #lunduniversity Please apply no later than 18 February! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Another Caddisfly larva feeding, this time on a more typical food, scraping algae/biofilm off a dead leaf Pretty sure this is Limnephilidae #Pondlife #BugSky #UKWildlife #inverts #Insect #Caddisflies

🧵 There's this amazing figure depicting the evolution of caddisflies from a 1939 paper by Margery and Lorus Milne. It captured my imagination as an undergraduate and helped influence me to study caddisflies. #scientificillustration