#Lepidoptera study in Puerto Rico having a renaissance! Succession and seasonality drive tropical #butterfly assembly after an extreme hurricane onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bt…

Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old apnews.com/article/coffee…

This, just released, from the fantastic folks at Sidedoor Podcast - a deep dive into carbon, markets, and the exceptional work that Smithsonian Panama ForestGEO and Smithsonian scientists are doing to anchor the importance of tropical forests. play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_…

Our #iBOL2024 website has a new face, come check it out: dnabarcodingconference.com

And we extended the abstract submission until 18 April 2024!

Join us in Belem, Brazil for updates on #DNAtechnologies for #biodiversity and more!

The geographic and phylogenetic structure of public #DNA barcode databases: an assessment using Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles) #iBOL frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

More excellent insect monitoring research from @STRI #Panama = Illuminating arthropod diversity in a tropical forest: Assessing biodiversity by automatic light trapping and #DNA metabarcoding onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ed…

A genetic atlas for #butterflies of North America - interesting way of looking at biogeography! Marco Estrada dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Forest disturbance increases functional diversity but decreases phylogenetic diversity of an arboreal tropical ant community -Papua New Guinea Binatang Research Centre besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Exciting news! Cellphone: Unseen Connections is now available as a Do-It-Yourself (DiY) exhibit!

This free exhibition package includes print-on-demand graphic panels and digital interactives featuring Smithsonian content.

None other than Science Magazine tells of the great achievement of DiSSCo UK and highlights the truly global relevance of our efforts at DiSSCo to drive mass-scale digitisation of our natural collections and make them available for all. #biodiversity
👉 science.org/content/articl…

I just added data to @biodivlibrary for 2000+ out-of-copyright articles of The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1901-23). The DOIs link to Taylor & Francis Research Insights's paywalled versions but BHL's free copies are now findable via T&F's DOIs biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/1…

Here is a post doc position working on the Ocean DNA Initiative at the Smithsonian Marine Field Station
trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/79…

Caterpillars can be wack. This one clung onto the bonnet of my car for 10km on the freeway whilst I tried not to stare at it. It made it. The benefit of sticky prolegs I’m guessing…

VCU undergrad and our ESA-SEEDS chapter president in the news:

Jennoa Fleming studies the small wonders of the rock pools to understand our future on Earth

news.vcu.edu/article/2024/0…

Edible Insect Art Show at UC Santa Barbara Displays Culinary Diversity and Sustainability independent.com/2024/03/28/edi…

THE HUMAN DISEASE by Sabrina Sholts is the amazing story of human biology, culture, and society in the age of pandemics -- available on April 9th from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! There's so much in this book for everyone. You'll want to read it cover to cover in one sitting.

Big day on University of Guelph campus: Dr. Paul Hebert's work for the last 20 years is celebrated in an audience of university officials, politicians, family, friends, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) past & present staff & collaborators. Well-deserved, Paul. 👏👏👏

What @Nicolekearney refers to as “bringing the pretty”, this article on the Monkey-eating Eagles is one of many in the ornithological journal Ibis that are being added to BHL, complete with external DOIs. See biodiversitylibrary.org/part/378536

#BarkBeetles #ClimateChange #PapuaNewGuinea Bark and ambrosia beetles on native and transplanted dead wood along an altitudinal tropical transect goo.gl/scholar/couLoy #ScholarAlerts

#DNA barcoding of mayflies 'it is still sufficient to thoroughly investigate the fauna of a small but geographically important area to enrich global databases greatly' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…