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Dark Taxonomy: From unknown to ready for biomonitoring in 5 steps. By describing 120 species, most species of fungus gnats routinely caught in Malaise traps in Singapore now have names. Bees, butterflies and birds, make room for your new friends. Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Imagine if a wealthy benefactor wanted to establish a Species Discovery Institute. For just $4k a month, you could feed a taxonomist AND give them time to describe new species…

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

I just had my first interview about a species I published and they asked “what’s it like to discover a new species?!” And I was like well it happens pretty much every day that I do IDs, I have about 300 of them in my refrigerator right now.

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This is revolting. NSF has lost its legitimacy as an institution.

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Not the most important thing here, but Omnicom and Interpublic sound like the names of the evil companies in an 80s Robocop ripoff.

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Made it into the news! Now if I can only get this kind of coverage for my big monographs with 70 new microparasitoids... 🧪🐝

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Made it into the news! Now if I can only get this kind of coverage for my big monographs with 70 new microparasitoids... 🧪🐝

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today in Bummer Emails. (if you have mosquito insectary space & can help, please reach out if you haven’t already!) 🦟

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

People leave academic jobs to be program officers at NSF and other agencies. Many programs have trouble recruiting for these permanent positions. The damage this will do to US science will be long lasting. #academicsky

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If you are an entomologist affected by these federal terminations or know someone who was, please DM me. I’m working on an advocacy plan and need to start gathering support. As a first step, if you’re a member of the Entomological Society of America, I have a link for you, DM me. #entomology 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Historically, suddenly forcing massive numbers of highly educated and well paid people into unexpected mass unemployment has not led to *stability*

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