Happy 20th Anniversary! As a taxonomist, I am incredibly grateful for your existence. I access your information nearly on a daily basis for several different projects including #ColeopteraDeColombia. The #Biodiversity world would not be the same without you! Cheers! #BHLat20 #ILoveBHL

Biodiversity Heritage Library@biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is turning 20! 🎉 We’re starting celebrations with a special anniversary blog series #BHLat20: Treasures from BHL, featuring remarkable works chosen by the people who know them best: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/03/cele... #ILoveBHL

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Nature@nature.com · 6mo ago

Nature research paper: Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature go.nature.com/4ua5R82

🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏 Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩‍💻 🌱 🌏 🧪 🔗 Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

Registration is open to attend the Weevil Workers Meeting on 17 October Registration: texastech.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Program: www.curculionoidea.org/weevil-worke... #WeevilWorkers Please spread the word!

Talk submissions are open to present at our next Weevil Workers Meeting 2025. forms.gle/1PBJXcchguzr... Titles due 12 September. Meeting on October 17, registration to attend will open soon. www.curculionoidea.org/weevil-worke... #WeevilWorkers

Researchers introduce a quick-assessment tool for insect outreach drawers based on five criteria: information, relevance, aesthetics, potential for engagement, and inspiration. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm... @entiminae.bsky.social @universityofkansas.bsky.social

Weevil course and roundup at the Southeestern Research Station in AZ! Learned a ton with some curCOOLionoid people. Thanks to all the organizers and instructors for an amazing workshop!

In 2024, the Museum of Texas Tech University ran an experimental event showcasing the Invertebrate Zoology Collection of the Natural Science Research Laboratory to the public, celebrating June Bug Day through an in-person event entitled Come Bug Me. doi.org/10.3897/nhcm... @entiminae.bsky.social

Come Bug Me: the first attempt at an outreach event showcasing the Invertebrate Zoology Collection of the Museum of Texas Tech University

The Museum of Texas Tech University (MoTTU) is a free admission, multidisciplinary, public university museum, constituting a regional attraction for the South Plains and West Texas, in the city of Lub...

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⌛️ Deadline for the “ #Collections Reaching Out” collection at @nhcm.pensoft.net is approaching ❕ Inspired by the 2024 @entcollnet.bsky.social meeting, the collection invites anyone looking into the design & use of #entomological outreach drawers as educational tools. @entiminae.bsky.social ℹ️

Call for papers: Entomological collections in public education & outreach activities

Initiated by the symposium “Collections Reaching Out”, held as part of the 2024 annual meeting of the Entomological Collections Network (ECN) in Phoenix, Arizona, a new topical collection ...

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The Sorceress based on a Pandeletius weevil, commission for @entiminae.bsky.social from last year

We are organizing a #WeevilCourse: When: July 24 – August 2, 2025 Where: Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Arizona, USA Info: www.curculionoidea.org/weevil-cours... Applications are open: www.amnh.org/research/sou...

#Proposals or #nominations for our honors, #awards, and #grants are due on March 1. More info and requirements at www.coleopsoc.org/society-info...

This is one of NZ's rarest species - the ngaio weevil, browsing on ngaio leaves that are toxic to almost all species. There are only around 300 on one island, Takapourewa in the Marlborough Sounds. Background sound is some of the million seabirds that live on the island.

Our planet is full of natural jewels. Most Natural History Collections, archives of the planet's biological diversity, are under-resourced—some direly so. Support #NaturalHistoryCollections ! That is all. Another early #BlueMonday post #MacroPhotography #FocusStacking

📢 Initiated at the last @entcollnet.bsky.social annual meeting, this topical collection welcomes contributions about #specimens curated for #public #education & awareness. ⌛️ 31 March 2025 👌 No #APCs 🤗 Open to anyone, including non-members! #entomology #ento #scicomm #scholcomm #openaccess

Call for papers: Entomological collections in public education & outreach activities

Initiated by the symposium “Collections Reaching Out”, held as part of the 2024 annual meeting of the Entomological Collections Network (ECN) in Phoenix, Arizona, a new topical collection ...

nhcm.pensoft.net

Fourth Annual Symposium and General Meeting of The Coleopterists Society: Friday, December 8th, 1:00 pm US Eastern time Registration is FREE. Everyone welcome to attend! Connect with fellow coleopterists and learn more about the society. Registration and schedule: www.coleopsoc.org/event/2023-a...

We celebrated our third #WeevilWorkersMeeting today. Here is our presentation about a world species-level catalog for the Entiminae. youtu.be/ua9j856l0kk Featuring the use of TaxonWorks.

Don't miss it!! Next Friday, October 20, the 2023 SOGA: The Online Weevil Workers Meeting will start at 15:00 UTC/GMT Registration: tinyurl.com/ycymkxfw Program: curculionoidea.org/weevil-worke... Time zone converter: timeanddate.com/worldclock/c... #WeevilWorkersMeeting

The Biology department @ SCU is hiring an assistant professor whose research focuses on biology education. Applications will be reviewed starting 11/1. Great opportunity to join a dynamic department and work with some amazing undergrads! Spread the word! Details wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

I'm Jake Francis soon to be at Fl. Atlantic Univ. - Chemical and behavioral ecology of plant-pollinator-microbe interactions. Hoping to recruit students interested in asking how microbe and plant phenotype interact to shape pollinator behavior. more details at jacobsfrancis.com 🌎

Want to go on a mental trip to distant lands while aiding our research *and* procrastinating from your other duties? Our Notes from Nature flea locality untangler is now OPEN FOR BUSINESS: www.zooniverse.org/projects/md6...

Interested in grad studies in Evolutionary Genomics? Our lab has 1-2 PhD positions open to study landscape genomics, population genomics, genome evolution, etc. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Support Native Pollinators stickers are now up in my shop! 🔗 below 🦋✨

Join us tomorrow 22 Sep for the Mesquite 20th anniversary party! 🥳🎉🍾 We plan to give demos with Sanger & genomic sequence data. (09:00 PT; 16:00 UTC/GMT; 18:00 CEST; demos within 1st hour). Link: ubc.zoom.us/j/6192835933... (requires Zoom account)

For the INSECT MICROBIOME crowd: The Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois will be hiring an Assistant Professor in Insect Microbiomes. Please share this ad with any one working in this area. (Application deadline = October 6th) illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Please apply for the Society of Systematic Biologists Early Systematist Award. You will receive $1000 in support of conference attendance or research and 3 years membership in the SSB. Requirements in image (and on linked form). Apply here: lsu.formstack.com/forms/ssb_ea...