I am pleased to announce that, starting in November, I will be the Assistant Professor of Insect Biodiversity and Director of the NC State University Insect Museum at NC State University NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology. Here is the new lab profile Powell Insect Evolution Lab shoutout to TenderLemonWedge🍋 for the sweet logo!

Opportunities hopefully coming soon!!! The Coleopterists Society SysEB ESA those interested in systematics, natural history collections, phylogenetics, and much more stayed tuned

New Ant Lab video today. Filming these rove beetles with projectile mouthparts has been on the to-do list for years! Thanks to @Bertonemyia showing me his Stenus site this summer, I finally got the opportunity! Check it out: youtu.be/RjKhIg3kCpM

Gearing up for one of our bigger research projects this upcoming spring! Can’t wait to start this one with help from @ameeds11 Powell Insect Evolution Lab and a few others🪲🐜#wildlifeforensics

Big things are happening in the department! Congratulations Michael Reiskind on being named University Faculty Scholar. NC State University NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology

Please reach out with any questions, couldn’t be more excited about this! International Society of Hymenopterists @ColeopSoc Dipterists Society TheLepSoc Dragonfly Society of the Americas

Postdoc position in insect biodiversity at NC State University, awesome project on seasonal activity as it relates to bat diet! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/199699 The Coleopterists Society Entomological Collections Network SysEB ESA Center for Systematic Entomology International Society of Hymenopterists

Better late than never…A PhD chapter published in Ethology recently! We looked at population and sex-specific responses to chemical alarm cues in my favorite Costa Rican fish. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/et… BYU Biology evo_eco_lab

For those going to ICE #International #Congress of #Entomology International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP this month - I made a pdf of things to do in Kyoto during the conference, including my recommendation of local foods, best insect stores to visit, etc. Please share! tinyurl.com/ycxs7mpz | #ICE2024

Had so much fun working on this one, lots of phenomenal coauthors including BybeeLab Alexandra Duffy, PhD Nicole Gunter CameronGenomes @nsaxton55, Repeated feeding guild evolution: the impact of competition on diversification academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

A #newspecies of Atarphia (#Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Nitidulinae) from #Laos mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy