🪲 A PhD position in my lab will open soon! Work includes Caribbean fieldwork, visits to major European entomological collections, and cutting-edge morphology, phylogenomics & museomics. If you’re interested in beetle evolution and biodiversity research, consider applying! 🔬🌍

Honored to receive the 2026 Ross Taylor Bell & Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant from @coleopsoc.bsky.social🪲 Grateful to the Bell family for their support! Announcement: www.coleopsoc.org/ross-taylor-... If you love beetles, consider joining the Society! #Coleoptera #Entomology #ColeopSoc

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

🪲 !Deadlines! 🪲 Registration with a contribution (talk or poster): up to 1st May Registration without any contribution: up to 15th May Abstract submission (talk or poster): up to 15th May Registration form here: forms.gle/V8pWKzNKiKji...

I spent a great day at the Zoological Collection of University of Halle! I saw not only important beetle materials, but also lots of other fun stuff, including a really interesting collection of domesticated animals and some taxidermized animals!

Calling all OrthoFinder users! We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny. GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... github.com/lauriebelch/... (1/10)

New open-access paper in Systematic Entomology 🪲🔬 Review of Omethidae with a key to all genera, species checklist, and habitus images. Once and for all, “Telegeusidae” are Omethidae 😄 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us in Costa Rica for Fly School IV! Applications are now open. Visit dipterists.org/fly_school.h... for application & info. @dipterists.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @bertonemyia.bsky.social @ariannatc.bsky.social @phorid.bsky.social

🚨 New paper! 🚨 We sequenced the mitochondrial genome of Hypocephalus armatus, a rare mole beetle endemic to Brazil’s Cerrado & Caatinga, helping clarify its long-mysterious evolutionary placement. First paper of the year with colleagues from UFRJ: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Dear colleagues and friends, Yes, it’s been said, many times, many ways, but I still mean it just as much: Happy Holidays! Wishing you a joy-filled holiday season!

#LiteratureNotice Barbosa et al. Phylogenomic analyses of rare Neotropical lineages reveal the independent loss of antennal rami in railroad-worm beetles (Coleoptera: Phengodidae) doi.org/10.3897/asp.... #Beetle #Beetles #railroadwormbeetles

I’m back! 🎉 And Happy to share our latest paper describing a new subfamily of paedomorphic net-winged beetles endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest! The paper is open access, and available at academic.oup.com/isd/article/... #ColeopteraResearch #Coleoptera #Entomology @coleopsoc.bsky.social

We are thrilled to present our first completed topical collection, "Entomological Outreach Collections and Community Engagement." Read all about it here! blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/12/b...

In some cases, while mating, winged males will carry the wingless females. This is called phoretic mating. 📷 Jason D. Roberts in t.co/sx6ai0nQJ5

First day of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic! Some goats, nice sightseeings…but no beetles…yet!

Where are the #coleoptera folks of BlueSky?

PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

A simple, but beautiful, #Macraspis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) to lighten the mood! Photographed in Biritiba Mirim, São Paulo, Brazil!

Our revision and phylogeny of Thonalmus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) is finally out, with the discovery of 7 new species! In your opinion, which of these is prettier? Publication available for download at: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #AmazingBeetles

This #FossilFriday is also special for us, because we have a new paper on Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera)! Check it out: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I am immensely honored to have been the guest speaker at @coleopsoc.bsky.social annual meeting. This is a great recognition from the community and an incredible opportunity to share some of the research I have been doing! #EntSoc23

#LiteratureNotice Keller. On the firefly (#Coleoptera: #Lampyridae) species of Carl Linnaeus centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi... #Beetle #Beetles #FireFlies #Taxonomy

If you want to learn more or simply have cool beetles in your timeline follow the @coleopsoc.bsky.social profile! Fun(ny) beetles, funding opportunities and an amazing community to be part of!

This weekend, the Museum of Nature held its annual #Openhouse, where the public visited our research and collections facilities! I estimate that more than 2,000 people showed up! It was great to share with the public what we do in the museum, and I hope we inspired people!

I am pleased to announce that, in 2024, I will be joining the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (SDEI) as the Curator and head of the Coleoptera section, taking care of more than 2 million beetles and 15.000 types! Stay tuned for future opportunities!🪲

Photo from earlier this week, but #FossilFriday is the perfect excuse for me to post this here and share the wonders of working in the Canadian Museum of Nature! A mosasaurus skull passing by the halls of the museum!

Just another normal day at the Canadian Museum of Nature, with a giant snail in the hallways…

How many gels one need to run before realizing their PCR didn’t work?? #labdrama

Our lab manager at the CMN is so thoughtful that he even assigned a bench space AND put my name on it with my favorite colors. I’ve never been pampered like this in a lab!

Everybody plays the fool, sometimes! Phymata sp. (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) preying on a Yellowjacket (Vespula sp., Hymenoptera, Vespidae). So many discoveries in my backyard!

Not my favorite group, but definitely acquiring a new appreciation level after a closer look up at them in the wild!