Amazing when palaeoentomology makes it into the news 🪲🪰

I have had so much fun chatting with school children and fellow scientists on I'm a Scientist Team about beetles, my research and science in general🪲🔬. I am relived that the future of science is in good hands 😀. Personal highlight has to be this message...

Category is: Coleoptera realness 🐞 The queens from #DragRaceUK S2 as beetles in our collections. A thread 👇🏽

Celebrating all my fellow #WomenInScience 🪲💪🏼

Really looking forward to tomorrow’s talk by Jenni Stockan 🐜. Hope to see many of you there!

DNA has been extracted from the tooth of a mammoth that died 1.2 million years ago. This incredible feat has revealed that the Columbian mammoth was a hybrid species & is shedding light on the origins of the woolly mammoths' adaptations to the cold 🦣 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Late to this thread but ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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🗓️ Drop by for a chat tomorrow between 10am – 5pm at the central Market with the Fostering team. Fostering is open to anyone who can offer a child the care they need.   ▶️ Ceira was fostered when she was younger, hear about her story: bit.ly/3AtS2og

Really looking forward to the first Edinburgh Entomology talk of the year from Alice 🌈🐜 Laciny! 🐜💥

Looking forward to todays talk from Dr Savanna van Mesdag 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 🪲🐝🐞

So pleased with this I had to share! Wordle 236 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Our speaker this Wednesday (16th March) is Iain MacGowan o (National Museums Scotland) who will be presenting the following talk on “Montane and Pinewood Diptera”. This meeting will be held on zoom at 5pm 🐞🦟🐛🪰

Congrats to the queen of gravel @elsgraf 🎉👑♥️

Today I finally submitted my PhD 🎉 but since physical hand-ins are no longer required, here is a photo of me/ Rowan! 🪲🪰E4 Doctoral Training Partnership School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh

Reminder for tomorrow’s talk with @ymilesz ! Email us to join online, or meet us in person at Kings buildings.

Come along to King's Buildings on Wednesday or join online if you would like to hear what I've been up to over the last 5 years 🐞🪲🪰

1/3 The recent events have been hard for everyone in Jersey and we are sending our thoughts and prayers to everyone involved. After the devastating news of the events that unfolded yesterday morning in Jersey, we want to say a huge thank you to those who came down to our game.

This next EEC meeting will take place on Wednesday 19th April at 5pm on Zoom. Our speaker this month is Steve Brooks from the Natural History Museum, London, who will deliver the following talk "Aren't Midges Brilliant?".  To join email [email protected]