An amazing group of enthusiastic scientists! Very lucky to have been part of the mix!

So happy I got to spend time with all the @MillipedeEats team! This was my favorite personal find, thank goodness Brian was there to tell me what I was looking at 😂

Inspired by @MillipedeEats and Damaris Brisco 🦉 to share so of my #mycology photos from a few weeks ago. Just iPhone quality but still pretty 🍄 #mushrooms #FungiFriday

This ruddy cheeked Deinopid reminded me of a old folk story that circulates around this time of year! Season’s Greetings and have a lovely winter everyone ❄️ #deinopis #spidergal #invertebratechristmas #orgefacedspider

“Each species is a wonder to behold, a long, brilliant history in itself to read, a champion emerged in our time after a long struggle of thousands or millions of years, best of the best” - E.O. Wilson, Half-Earth 💚🐜

“There are still so many undescribed species just sitting in museum collections because there aren’t a lot of spider taxonomists to describe them.” -@LGNewton10 @BrittneyJMiller reports on the gaps in California #arachnid research for Bay Nature magazine. baynature.org/2021/12/15/cha…

Leg 1 of the journey to #Madagascar is complete! Currently sitting in the Detroit airport waiting to fly to Paris. Many photos will be shared upon my return!!! #myrmecologyinmadagascar #ants #entomology

Fuzzy yellow carpenter ants! The ants here are magical. Spotted by @IrisBright12 Camponotus darwinii Antananarivo, Madagascar

Check out this lovely species of Cyrtoderes (Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini) that we (@Coleo_livia and @entoaaron) have found in this disturbed habitat along the road ;)

Come on out and see #insects and #spiders plus a whole lot more UCD Biodiversity Museum Day! Bohart Museum UC Davis Entomology and Nematology Going on today until 3pm at the UC Davis Conference Center

Found a note from 2018, charting out my class schedule as I returned to school. This tiny add on at the end of the page ended up being the only plan that didn’t change. I will be starting at UC Davis in Fall 2022!! 🪲🧡🕷 #entomology #gradschool #academicjourney #appliedin2021

#PicnicDay2022 @IrisBright12 and Steve Heydon are the hit with live #insects to hold! We are in in Academic Surge Building!

So grateful to have been a part of this work and have the opportunity to work with truly great researchers!

First quarter of grad school ✅

I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2024 through the EBE program BU Biology! I'm excited to mentor students from a diversity of backgrounds and a variety of career goals/interests. Reach out to me if you are interested in tropical beetle ecology and/or biodiversity genomics!

This is so exciting!! Can’t wait to meet new and old colleagues in Kyoto 🪲

Always exciting to read about a new species but even more special to be part of the process of describing it! So grateful to have been part of this work 🕷️

Stemming from research from the Jason Bond laboratory at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, a new genus of California trapdoor spiders, the Promyrmekiaphila korematsui, has been named after Fred Korematsu. Learn more here: shorturl.at/bdjT3