In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

I have very similar experiences, except the Nobel prize bit, and such feelings of sadness and dread.

“I looked to this country as a beacon all those years ago, and I made the affirmative decision to create a life for myself here.”

An annotated checklist of Coleoptera (Insecta) from the island of Crete, Greece | Zootaxa

A love letter to the beetles of Crete. mapress.com/zt/article/v... we recorded more than 2200 species from the island, including +350 endemics. Inspired by the work of @andrewjohnston.bsky.social and @mcaterino.bsky.social on the California island beetles. Email or DM for pdf

Thank you for doing this!

‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out? Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be…

"I love biting midges because I know what their hearts look like.” @theguardian.com spoke with insect taxonomist Art Borkent about the vital importance of taxonomy—and the challenges this foundational biological science faces.
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Well, have you asked the authors? They may have insights that you cannot get from just barcodes and geography.

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

It seems like the days where NSF was funding Biology might be over. For now.
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Link does not work for me… thank you David, it was great while it lasted

No evidence that haplodiploidy favors the evolution of eusociality | PNAS The potential role of haplodiploid sex determination in promoting the evolution of altruism and eusociality has been the subject of intense debate ...

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For those of us without subscriptions to the Globe and Mail what are those? Damn, I thought Canada will fair better than USA in science

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole.

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The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

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The low life expectancy of Americans is not just about deaths among young people Even those who reach 65 are at a disadvantage relative to peer countries.

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Armpit squeaks: first recorded sounds, video, and images of the stridulatory apparatus in two parasitic flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Passandridae) - Zoomorphology Zoomorphology - Stridulation is an important sound production mechanism in many groups of insects but is less well-known in beetles (Coleoptera). Recently a new sound production mechanism was...

if you need a moment's distraction from Events, pls consider @monotomidae.bsky.social's extremely good new paper on passandrid beetles stridulating with their armpits. THERE'S VIDEO, WITH SOUND link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A shitton of ladybird beetles

What happens when you ran a malaise trap in the southeast in December.

Rather humbling experience to revisit your data from 20+ years ago and expect them to make sense.

Drawers of all the Plociopterus specimens

Finally the Plociopterus revision is coming to an end. All species figured out, photographed and finally organized by species name. Now to write these descriptions and diagnosis…

Gonna get my Sunday dose of Premier league. Because worrying about Mo Salah is much better for my mental health than worrying about the implications of stopping a generation of kids from getting the Hep B vaccine.

Do you want to find out what David Sharp, the famous 19th century entomologist called “the most extraordinary male characters of any Coleopterous insect”? Come to my talk tomorrow at 2:05pm in Portland Ballroom 252.

I am so proud to see not one, not two but three undergraduate students of mine (during the last 5 years) at ESA this year, being successful at their graduate programs.

Curious if we all going to make it to Portland for the Entomological society meeting with all the air travel upheaval

I will have an opening for a Ph.D. student (M.S. required) to begin Summer 2026, studying impacts to high Appalachian arthropod communities following Hurricane Helene.

I'll be at Ent. Soc. America meetings next week. Please point interested students my way.

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Noooooo, I will contribute financially to you rewriting the integration

I will be there

The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…

After almost 30 years, the Tree of Life Web Project has been retired as an actively growing site. It will be unavailable until we can build a static site that contains its final content. More details at subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

Our small research entomological collection just surpassed 40,000 databased records! Just beetles, and of course not everything ID yet but fulfilling nevertheless. ecdysis.org/collections/...

‘Fear and hopelessness’: one in four professors in the US south are leaving Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

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Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests - Communications Earth & Environment Cretaceous amber from the Ecuadorian Napo region provides exceptional evidence of a resinous forest ecosystem and diverse arthropod fauna in equatorial Gondwana, as revealed by integrated analyses of ...

A groundbreaking discovery from the Hollín formation in the province of Napo- Ecuador, gives an insight into Amazonian plant and arthropods biodiversity during the Cretaceous #Biodiversity #Ecuador www.nature.com/articles/s43...