RIP to Star Trek alumnus Tony Todd, who played Kurn, Worf's brother, & a grown-up Jake Sisko in one of my favorite Deep Space Nine episodes ever, The Visitor

Had an amazing site visit at the conclusion of my Smith Fellows experience with awesome mentors including Nicole Crane, robgural and Pedro Cardoso cardosopmb.bsky.social (not pictured, Melissa Guzman and Kevin Burls). 🌵 ☀️ 📍 Tucson, AZ

Great meeting with way too many plans for future cooperation with Univ of Florida and University of Arizona Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research CE3C

Lost then found 🪻 Artist Minna Fernald donated over 320 paintings of Florida wildflowers to us in 1942, providing a rich record of the state’s past ecological life. floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/waterc… #SciArt 🎨

Getting excited for Entomology 2024 to get started tomorrow! See you soon. #EntSoc24

🌈 What a fantastic night at the #EntSoc24 LGBTQ+ mixer! Full house and an absolutely brilliant drag show! 💃✨ Huge thanks to everyone who made this possible, and to Entomological Society of America for creating such a welcoming space at this important moment in history! 🏳️‍🌈👏

What can I say? It was a pleasure being stage kitten tonight at Entomological Society of America #EntSoc24’s Drag Show hosted by my dear friend Lewis 'Horticultural Lad' Bartlett 🐝🍰. So much queer joy in one photo and a sold out house!

Shoutout to the amazing sponsors of this event as well!

Come hang out! I’m by my poster now until lunch and then 1-2:00! 🦋 D3539 #EntSoc24 #Entomology

Xerces will be giving out two $10k DeWind Awards in 2025 to support students (grad or undergrad) studying moth and butterfly conservation! 🗓 Deadline: 7 Jan 2025 at 11:59 PST 🦋Applications are open! For full info & instructions visit xerces.org/dewind

I want to follow up on this with a huge shout out to Lewis 'Horticultural Lad' Bartlett 🐝🍰 , Vaughn M. Shirey | Ph.D., @vilasbrown , Tom Sheehan, Lauren Esposito, Jessica Ware and more for doing so much work to help this society be a safe place where I'm not scared to be my authentic self. I was worried (👇)

Well, #EntSoc24 sure went by fast! Start planning now to connect with your colleagues and share your science at an ESA Branch Meeting in Spring 2025—just a few short months away! entsoc.org/events

You can’t fight against this kind of joy! ✨💕

I performed here with the loveliest people! So thankful for Lewis 'Horticultural Lad' Bartlett 🐝🍰, Lauren Esposito, Jessica Wares and so many others for creating this beautiful space - my heart is so full! 💖🌈🌈

Sayonara Twitter/X - you can find me hanging out on 🦋(same handle) or 📸 (DM me, personal/artistic account). Catch you there! 👋

New Research: 50 years of invertebrate conservation under the United States Endangered Species Act—history and threats to species frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #ConservationScience

Back on here after a hiatus, but check out our new article in Frontiers in Conservation Science! This was a fun puzzle to pull together and there is so much more to dive into ✨

Sajan K.C. & Sapkota A (2025). Observations on the species richness, abundance, and behavior of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in Puerto Rico during a two-week survey.TROP. LEPID. RES., 35(1): 14-27. 👉🦋 journals.flvc.org/troplep/articl…