I love Passalidae

Are you interested about #beetles, #systematics and #biogeography? Discover our latest contribution to these fields, focusing on these lovely metallic rove-beetles #Staphylinidae Publication available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.…

Del oriente de 🇬🇹 (Chiquimula y Jutiapa) para el 🌎, estuvimos presentes en #EntSoc24 🪲🪰🐝🐛• #SomosEnto 🦋🌎

I’m recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2025 @UofMemphisBio! 🐝❄️🪲☀️🐞 If you’re interested in applying and currently attending #EntSoc24, email me to connect.

There is an exciting new opportunity for a Masters student on bumble bee niche modeling and conservation in the Entomology Department at the University of Minnesota. drive.google.com/file/d/11ZcVWC…

Check out Cristian's presentation at the @EntsocAmerica annual meeting on wood-degrading bess beetles and their gut microbiomes. 🗓️Nov. 10, 2024, room 226A at the Phoenix Convention Center. Expand your network by connecting with Cristian and other #SomosEnto members.

@bramic21 He left a great legacy. We will miss him very much.

Sad to learn that Jack Schuster has passed. He was a great collaborator and inspiration to many, especially in Guatemala. ⁦@BezaCristian⁩

Exciting new work on the biogeography and evolution of Oileus (Coleoptera: Passalidae) from @EdwinArizaMarin and #LarryJiménezFerbans. I want to thank the authors for the species named after me in this paper. It is an honor to be their colleague. zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/63/63…

Please check out our new paper "Scaling the wall: overcoming barriers to STEM knowledge mobilization" w/ @joryweintraub @CarlosGoller in @FrontComm! We argue for growing capacity to mobilize knowledge in the formal K-12 classroom by working w/ teachers. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Feeding on dead-wood poses significant challenges to those who subsist on it. Despite this, many insect lineages have evolved this hability! Our latest manuscript proposes a possible pathway for the evolution of saproxylophagy through detritivory! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Cake or passalid?

iDigBio’s Digitization Academy will offer the “Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization” course from Mar 18-Apr 17. Apply by Feb 23 . The course will be offered in Spanish. Learn more + application link digitizationacademy.org/courses. Contact @austin_mast with questions.

PhD position on tripartite interaction of termites, termitophilous rove beetles, and microbes at the Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czechia. Co-supervised by me and Thomas Bourguignon @tom_oist. Thanks for sharing! entu.cas.cz/data/files/PhD… Cheers, Ales

Chucho (@ContrerasPrezC2) is an 8th-semester student at the Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz. He is interested in arthropod evolution and morphometrics

Javier (@JavierCanul37) is an 8th-semester Biology student at the Instituto Tecnológico Conkal, Yucatán. He is interested in the systematics and taxonomy of dark taxa.

@paope2001 @JavierCanul37 @ContrerasPrezC2 are helping us curate, digitize, and image the type specimens in Pedro Reyes-Castillo's personal collection at @ColeccionIEXA. 1/4

We finished our first week working on Pedro Reyes-Castillo's personal collection at the Colección Entomológica #IEXA. Thanks to the @ColeopSoc, and Ross Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Grant. @EdwinArizaMarin #LarryJiménez @paope2001 @JavierCanul37010 @ContrerasPrezC2

I am thrilled to share our preprint "Chewing Through Challenges: Exploring the Evolutionary Pathways to Wood-Feeding in Insects." biorxiv.org/content/10.110…