🦋 Wonder has officially taken flight at #NHMLA! Have you saved your spot for this season’s #ButterflyPavilion? Don’t miss your chance to walk among hundreds of butterflies and colorful native plants, now on view through August 23: nhm.org/butterflies And as always, Members see it for free!

Join me learn about UCEs and Phylogenomics in this workshop to be held at CIBNOR in the beautiful La Paz, Mexico, hybrid format and of course instructed En Español!!! Info: www.cibnor.gob.mx/posqrados/po...

NEWLY PUBLISHED » Dr. Jorge Velez-Juarbe (Associate Curator, Marine Mammals) discovers that sebicids, ancient land-dwelling crocodile-like beasts, reigned over the West Indies as apex predators after vanishing from South America: bit.ly/AncientCrocs

Spider Biology Field Course!! from July 1 - 9, 2025 experience the outstanding biodiversity of spiders and non-spider arachnids found in montane southeastern AZ; taught by Greta Binford, Paula Cushing, & Marshal Hedin $946 for tuition, room & board. See www.amnh.org/research/sou... for details.

Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park. Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA.

SoCal folks! @mhedin.bsky.social and I are teaching another macrophotography workshop in Anza-Borrego. We had a great time in December, and this one on March 15th should be even better, because photo subjects will definitely be more plentiful than they were in December. Hope you can join us! 📷🐙🌿

A phylogenomic analysis in the spider family Cybaeidae found one new genus and two new species. Learn more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #endemicspecies #taxonomy #phylogenomics mhedin.bsky.social

2 more open faculty positions (1 TT Asst., 1 TT Assoc./Full) - in Border Studies @sandiegostate.bsky.social, potentially in biology - e.g. cross-border land, resource management, binational biodiversity, transborder ecologies, built environments, sustainable ag, etc.! Links below. Please share!

Very interesting paper!

I don't consider myself a fan of leps, but can't deny the beauty of these Birdwing! @nhmla.bsky.social

Going through some of the material in the collection I found this package of entomological pins from Western Germany! It's amazing the historic objects, aside from the specimens itself, that can be found in collections. I wonder about the actual year those pins were made...

Dr. Allison Shultz, Associate Curator of NHMLA's bird collection, shares a glimpse into the museum's "type cabinet"—spotlighting the newest addition: the Andean storm-petrel, 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘪. Learn more about this new species of bird and other specimens in the collection: nhm.org/stories

#NHMLAC is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of #UNLAB postbaccalaureate researchers! Apply to spend a year working with a curator on a biodiversity research project in L.A.—view program details, eligibility requirements, and more: nhm.org/how-apply-un...

Practicing some manual stacking at night with this Cophura Robber Fly from Kelso Dunes!