🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam

@djigr.bsky.social

PhD student in Evolutionary biology 🔸SciCom🔸Palaeoartist🔸Influenceuse corneilles🔸Chicken Wings Dinosaures🔸☕Café des Sciences They/She

Love being caught between the two fires of "no you have to rewrite this part entirely because it was written by your coauthor and thus it’s not your work to simply copy" and "are you an idiot just copy you’re a coauthor of the paper and you clearly stated "adapted from XX et al." in the intro"

Dernier post avant de retourner dans ma cave : - certains médicaments empirent la sensibilité à la chaleur, renseignez-vous - vérifiez les plages de température ambiante de vos frigos, si votre cuisine dépasse alors la température interne sera affectée

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Very small wings but not unused! I was caring for the Hemiblabera cockroaches when this individual kept flashing their wings at 90 degrees. I had no idea they had that much motion range, or even that they could move them! Why? No idea. My bet is on chemical communication.

In other news, my first Pelidnota punctata emerged! It’s a common Rutelinae from North America that primarily feeds on grape leaves, sometimes seen on Virginia creeper. Completely unrelated note, I’m now searching for grapevines/spinach/Virginia creeper that would grow in Paris :’)

A small yellow beetle with 6 dots on its back emerging from a substrate made of broken down leaves  in a plastic pot. Its legs are close to the body and it has an hexagonal faceZoom on the beetle, highlighting its big eyes and dark patterns on the head

My friend congratulating me on having went that far with comparative analyses in R by myself soothes my grief of having to put a full stop to said analyses to focus on writing the last segments of my PhD. I’m at that stage where I *see* I’ve done so much (progress!) but still have so much to do!!

It’s so frustrating to log rare species on Inaturalist just for someone to ID it as an extremely common similar one - I’m not quite sure I remember which characters we used to confirm it back then but I trust my colleague! (also made a new iNat account for work) www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Masked Chafers (Genus Cyclocephala)

Masked Chafers from Paudalho - Pernambouc, Brésil on October 27, 2023 at 12:28 AM by Diane DABIR-MOGHADDAM. Light trap. Identified by Paschoal Grossi.

inaturalist.org

Still thinking about that examiner who told me I didn’t look professional as a bioinformatician when I was searching keys on their keyboard with my eyes (I’ve been using the BÉPO layout with an ergo keyboard for years, last week I used a normal laptop for 4h and lost pinkie sensitivity for 24h)

Rien à voir mais je suis bien contente que le compte Coleoptimus (où un gars présentait son couple de scarabées Megasoma) a disparu de la circulation sans laisser de trace, le mec arrosait tellement son mâle pour ✨les photos/vidéos✨ qu’une de ses pattes avait moisi et s’était détachée 🤕

On 19/04/2026, Joanna has passed away. An egg burst in her abdominal cavity, nothing could be done (PSA get your ♀️lizard fixed). She was sweet, full of personality, 24/7 annoyed but also very curious. There was so much I still wanted to do with her.

Was asked for an ID by airport customs veterinary services for a hitchhiking bug so that we could confirm it was not an invasive or dangerous species so my self-esteem is a bit restored (Popillia japonica don’t reach 7cm of body length)(!!!)

Very quick: I have an Excel with species and the countries they are found in. Is there a way to generate a distribution map very quickly for each species? Something visual? Or click on a country and have the list of all species I put there? Have something interactive? Thank you in advance

And one last buggo before bed. Green June beetle grubs will use their little rolls of backfat to scoot around because their teeny legs are kind of worthless.