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Come and join us ⁦UFSACNAS⁩ in celebrating #HispanicHeritageMonth ⁦Florida Museum⁩ this Sunday with the ⁦⁦@AnaVLongo⁩ lab, the Ordway lab and the Maguire Center of Lepidoptera. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/viva-mus…

Honored to be part of this!

Today’s is the first day of talks for the Association for Tropical Lepidoptera /SLS meeting in Gainesville FL with many interesting research works, but also I’m very happy to see one of my academic heroes Dr. Richard Brown talking about “sex scales” in male moths.

Very interesting course!

We're hiring! Florida Museum #McGuireCenter is hiring a new #collections #manager, salary up to $70K. Soon we’ll also be posting a job opening for a #tenuretrack Assistant Curator/Prof; keep an eye out! Please share/repost! #butterflies #moths #museum | 👉explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5294…

Did you know? There are night-flying butterflies! We assembled the #genome of a nocturnal butterfly, and the DNA shares many similarities with nocturnal moths, such as color vision/#opsins. This is so cool! Rachit Pratap Singh and YiMing Weng lead this study. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We're hiring again! #TenureTrack Curator/Professor Butterflies & moths. Special interest in those studying global change, popbio, ecology/evolution, invasives, development. Starting salary to $105,000. Due Jan 5. Please share! tinyurl.com/2p7u5fy3 Florida Museum #McGuireCenter

Come work with us! We are hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Insect Biodiversity and Conservation in Department of Entomology@Cornell University! Applications are due Jan 26th. Cornell CALS is a great place to work! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26806

I'm delighted to share that the paper based on my B.Sc. thesis has been published after a considerable period of time. Gratitude goes to all my friends who encouraged me to pursue it, even when I initially felt it might be too late. centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi/1…

Delighted that our work on chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera is published today! ✨🦋

When we think about pollinators, bees and butterflies often come to mind. But there are many other types of insects, and even some vertebrates, that can act as pollinators and also deserve appreciation. Why should bees and butterflies get all the love? floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/celebr… 🪰

Entomologists! Are you going to #ICE2024 in #Kyoto #Japan this August? Excited to be giving a talk on what to expect in Kyoto, insect stores, local food, inside tips on traveling, things to avoid, etc.! 5/20 1:30 pm EST. Register here! entsoc.org/events/webinar…. International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP

Welcome Jonathan Nations, our new curator of mammals! Like many scientists, the path from curiosity to profession was a winding journey—one filled with marmots, voles, shrews and rats. 🐀 More about Jonathan: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-fa…

Congratulations to the @JCDanielsLab! 🎉 🦋 They're a recipient for this year's UF champions for change award for work they've done to preserve endangered butterflies. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/daniel…

Nature’s aquatic architects: Caddisfly larvae use specially adapted silk to construct portable cases and underwater shelters that provide protection and facilitate feeding. New #ProcB paper explores the evolutionary origins of this trait: ow.ly/srZE50SusUJ paul frandsen

new luna moth genome just dropped!! happy to share that the second chapter of my masters thesis is now published in GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution). thank you to my Florida Museum collaborators and silk community for helping me get this manuscript to the finish line! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16…

Students+postdocs at #ICE2024 ! If you're interested in evolution, genetics, behavior, etc -I'm looking for a new grad student+PD to join my lab FLORIDA Florida Museum. Its a great dept working on many areas of biodiversity science! Please DM + schedule to chat International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP

Remembering Florida Museum curator Jacqueline Miller – Research News floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/rememb…

New paper on the evolution of caddisfly opsin genes. The result of an undergraduate research project led by wundergrad, Ashlyn Powell.

A bit of happy news: I'm joining Naturalis Biodiversity Center as a #DarkTaxa Researcher in April 2025! I also plan to be more active on that other platform (🟦🦋) and I hope some of you will follow me over there as I begin my dream job and start my own research program!