I'm super excited to share the first chapter from my PhD! We examined 14,000 online advertisements to discover which pet birds Australians are interested in, what traits make them popular, and how this relates to the risk of new invasive species 💻🦜🔍 rdcu.be/dtNsV

What a treat! Spotted this stunning Ghost wasp, Gasteruption fluviale, searching the base of a massive redgum here in Adelaide for host nests. I love the elegant long neck and those cute orange-tipped antennae of this species. #wasplove #entomology #adelaideadventure

TWEETER!! 💚 If you haven’t seen all my wildlife reels this year, we just put up a compilation on the tube! New video up!! (Link in bio)! 🎥 Hope you enjoy 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Express DNA barcoding published! We combine DNA leaching, NextGenPCR, and MinION to go from specimens to barcodes in hours without breaking the bank. Say hello to fast pest identification, food authentication and species sorting in the field. doi.org/10.1111/1755-0… Oxford Nanopore

#Bee Twitter! I am the editor for a #SpecialIssue in Insects MDPI Bee Conservation: Behavior, Health and Pollination Ecology. Please submit your ms, ESPECIALLY if its on #wild bees & their #behaviour, #health & #pollination #ecology #bees #entomology mdpi.com/journal/insect…

I’m pleased to be able to finally share this NEW RESOURCE we have created! ‘Caring for entomology collections’ provides an introduction to the management of insect collections: 📌 nms.ac.uk/EntomologyTrai… Hopefully useful for students & citizen scientists, as well as museums 🪲

Eight new Pacific masked bees just dropped 🐝! What’s really cool about these bees is that (i) they’re mostly restricted to forest canopies, (iii) prefer for red flowers, and (ii) resolve how Hylaeus tuamotuensis got to French Polynesia! 1/16 t.ly/qiTh0

Final PhD paper is out! Native 🇦🇺 roaches live in permanent burrows underground. This lifestyle has caused their symbiotic bacteria 🦠 to lose core genes, implying 🪳 have found a novel nutrient source underground. Read more #OpenAccess Insect Science ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

👋 Hey Phylogenomics Twitter 👋 We’re adding another tool to the kit, meet: pipesnake An all-in-one raw-reads to species tree pipeline. Written in Nextflow and designed for portability and ease-of-use. Check out the workflow on GitHub: github.com/AusARG/pipesna…

#BeeBDC version 1.1.0 is now live on #CRAN with an important new function that allows users to download taxonomies for ANY TAXA that's available through the #taxadb package! jbdorey.github.io/BeeBDC/index.h…

New from our lab - my second dissertation chapter published in ZooKeys! A new key to North American gall wasp genera. doi.org/10.3897/zookey…

I just uploaded a printable meshed lid for 50 ml Falcon tubes to keep #insects in an aerated container when collecting in the field! Check it out Printables.com: printables.com/model/828801 #entomology #collection #3dprint

Our team at Agriculture Victoria Made a video to explain how we use non-destructive insect #metabarcoding 🧬🔬 to rapidly identify any potential biosecurity threats 🪰 as well as the presence of any #beneficial #insect population 🦋 Have a look! 👀 youtu.be/y2R-oeYdDxk?si…

Very delayed, but I’m a couple of months into my role as a Lecturer at UOW with Damien Esquerre! It has been a wild couple of years but I couldn’t be more appreciative of the support from collaborators, friends, and potential employers. Here’s to renewed native bee research!

Interested in 3D printable lab equipment? Check out our designs! Every like, download, and make helps get the word out on these FREE & Open Source designs Printables.com by Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 Peter Pietrzyk Trevor Rife and myself printables.com/model/45750-co…

What happens once a specimen has been collected, and why is curation so important? I recently discussed this topic with Zoe Albion for the New Species podcast (New Species Podcast) 🪲 🎧 Have a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/2wO6yF… #NameItToSaveIt #Taxonomy #CollectionsAreEssential

Second paper in a week out! This time clarifying the generic boundaries of bethylid wasps, because some just won't behave and stick to their assigned morphology. DM/email me if you don't have access and want a copy! doi.org/10.11646/zoota…

#BeeBDC v 1.2.0 is up with a new function, continentOutlieRs, that works the same as countryOutlieRs but should help people working on taxa without a country checklist or those not wanting to be so precise with that filter ☺️ t.ly/6ieSG

Insect Investigators is a finalist in the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes category for Innovation in Citizen Science! We are proud be able to share the contributions our teachers, students and project team have made to documenting insect biodiversity in Australia 🐝🧬 #eurekaprizes

🏆 Insect Investigators is awarded the @ScienceGovAU Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science. #EurekaPrizes Learn more: youtu.be/jCmmHqqBYdM South Australian Museum UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board WA Gould League Queensland Museum Kurilpa Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) iBOL Consortium, @sascience @austentomology