Distributed System of Scientific Collections @dissco.bsky.social DiSSCo is a new world-class Research Infrastructure for Natural Science Collections. It aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European natural science assets under common access, policies and practices.
Joe Parker @pselaphinae.bsky.social Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at Caltech
ÉPICBiodiversity @epic-biodiversity.org We are the laboratoire d'Écologie Prédictive et Interprétable pour la Crise de la Biodiversité.
🌐 https://epic-biodiversity.org
Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social Fascinated by insects, especially flies, studies Sphaeroceridae. Diptera identification services, morphological illustrations, and high-quality imaging. Bespoke identification training is also available.
Victor H. Gonzalez Betancourt @vhgonza.bsky.social 🐝🇺🇸🇨🇴🇬🇷🌎
Natural History Museum of Crete (UOC) @nhmcrete.bsky.social Since 1980, within the SSE, University of Crete.
In Heraklion, GR.
https://www.nhmc.uoc.gr/en/, https://www.uoc.gr/en/home/
Prairie Research Institute @prairieresearch.bsky.social Scientists to the State of Illinois at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Louis Nastasi @toomanywasps.bsky.social Professor of Entomology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Gall wasp systematics and more. More info at
https://NastasiWaspLab.org/
Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu.bsky.social
Milwaukee Public Museum @mkepublicmuseum.bsky.social Milwaukee Public Museum: Natural and human history museum in the heart of Milwaukee.
https://www.mpm.edu/
@basdemedeiros.bsky.social @basdemedeiros.bsky.social
Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
Black in Natural History Museums @blackinnhms.bsky.social Black in Natural History Museums Week is an initiative to share the stories, perspectives & knowledge of Black people in the NHM community.
🔗: wlo.link/@blackinnhm
Dragonfly Society of the Americas @odonataamericas.bsky.social 🗣Discovery and conservation of #Odonata
🎯Observation, collection, research, publication and education of #dragonflies
https://www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/
WeDigBio @wedigbio.bsky.social https://wedigbio.org/content/register-event-tour-or-campaign
https://scistarter.org/citizensciencemonth-participate
Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
Agnes Kreiling @agneskreiling.bsky.social Entomologist at Faroe Islands National Museum. Diptera. Coleoptera. And everything else that comes crawling my way.
Janus Hansen @leivurjanushansen.bsky.social Head of Terrestrial Zoology at Faroe Islands National Museum.
Living with wife, kid and dog.
The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social The social media home of the Society of Systematic Biologists. Keep on top of SSB announcements here!
Invertebrate Systematics and Biodiversity Lab @invertebratelab.bsky.social The ISB Lab at The University of Adelaide is dedicated to understanding the diversity and evolution of extraordinary Australian arthropods. 🐝🦐🪲🦗🧬
📍Unceded Kaurna land, South Australia
🌐 invertebratelab.com
Nick Dowdy @njdowdy.bsky.social Head of Zoology & Director of Collections Informatics @ Milwaukee Public Museum studying the evolution, behavior, and chemical ecology of erebid moths 🦋🔊🦇
Brandon Claridge @ichsofna.bsky.social Ph.D. entomologist/ ichneumonid taxonomist/ owner of Claridge Traps. See ichsofna.org for AI/web tools to help with ichneumonid identifications in North America. Need Malaise traps or light sheets for insect collecting? Visit claridgetraps.com
TETTRIX @tettrix.eu TETTRIX is an EU-funded project that aims to modernise and strengthen European taxonomy. | Grant Agreement 101286598
Organiser of Taxonomy Recognition Day - 23 May
#TETTRIX #NameItToSaveIt
Sangmi @sangmilee.bsky.social Entomologist (Lepidopterist),
Collection manager of ASU Insect and Mollusc Collections
NBN Trust: National Biodiversity Network Trust @nbntrust.bsky.social Our mission - "making data work for nature". Our vision - "nature thriving everywhere, in all its diversity".
www.nbn.org.uk - main website
https://nbnatlas.org/ - search 312 million+ UK wildlife records
https://uk.inaturalist.org - record wildlife
The Firefly Lab @lets-firefly.bsky.social Everything about the twilight twinkle & glam glow of #fireflies
• science • conservation • literature • folklore •
explorer + scientist @ Cornell
~ no, fireflies do not "flash from their butt" ~
➡️ lucidluminescence.org
Rob Wilson @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social Insects, especially butterflies; conservation, global change, mountains; working at natural sciences museum in Madrid; Ecological Entomology editor; gone birdwatching with my dog.
@debpaul.bsky.social @debpaul.bsky.social
Bryan Brunet @bryanbrunet.bsky.social aphid systematist
Steph Skipp @stephskipp.bsky.social
Kiran Marathe @zqtpck.bsky.social Jumping spider taxonomy and systematics for PhD and everything else about them for fun! Also, into natural history, Indian classical music, coffee, beers, and procrastination.
https://kiranmarathe.owlstown.net/
AnnikaMurrah @handle.invalid Museum collections
Evolution & Bioacoustic defense
MPM affiliated
Pin-It Entomological Supply @pinitentomology.bsky.social Your Home for Premium Entomological Supplies
High Quality Cal Academy and Cornell Drawers, Supplies, & More!
🦋🪲🦟
Order now: www.pinitentomology.com
Email: info@pinitentomology.com
Adam Haberski @ahaberski.bsky.social Entomologist, rove beetle systematics 🪲
Collection Manager at Mississippi Entomological Museum
Inexplicable sideburns
Jordan Rainey @jordanrainey.bsky.social Entomologist | Rove beetle taxonomy & systematics | Museum collections & biodiversity | PhD exploring beetle-termite relationships 🪲
https://jordanraineyento.wordpress.com
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordan-Rainey
Sarah Arnold @sejarnold.bsky.social Entomologist, likes pollination, insect behaviour, IPM, horticulture and agriculture, sustainability, nature and especially wild bees.
Works at Niab (UK). Views my own. she/her
Neurodivergent, quirky, sometimes wrong but usually teachable.
Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social devoted to the study & understanding of biodiversity, and public sharing of biodiversity knowledge and beauty. a "curator" of biological collections, and of the planet. Dad, Univ Prof
Bryan Vandenbrink @arctichominid.bsky.social All views to be attributed first to Diogenes, than my own. I reserve the right to ridicule the ridiculous.
All errors intended. OCD is mental illness.
Entomologistas do Brasil @ebras.bio.br Projeto Entomologistas do Brasil, desde 2002
Mantenedor das revistas EntomoBrasilis e Entomology Beginners.
Entomologistas do Brasil Project, since 2002 - Supporter EntomoBrasilis and Entomology Beginners Journals
Website: https://www.ebras.bio.br/links
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
Brendan O'Loughlin @brendanoloughlin.bsky.social He/him
PhD student at The Ohio State University studying phylogenomics in arthropod systems
GBIF @gbif.org Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Want to be the first to learn about new datasets and use of data in GBIF? Check out @gbifmorpho.bsky.social 🦋
Moritz Lürig @mluerig.bsky.social postdoc @floridamuseum.bsky.social phenomics of insect evolution. toward AI/CV-based museomics. www.luerig.net
Douglas B. ~Macrominiverse~ @macrominiverse.bsky.social Macro and Wildlife Photography
The tiny things in life interest me 🍄🐛🦟
📸 All photographs are my own
🚫 Not AI-Generated
📍 United Kingdom 🇬🇧
#macro #conservation #wildlife #photography #insects
Joe Miller @phylojoe.bsky.social Director of @gbif.org: interested in biodiversity data from source to sink, also plant phylogenetics especially Acacia
Frank-T. Krell @frankkrell.bsky.social Nationality: Human. Ethnicity: Human. Natural historian, taxonomist, zoologist. Living on the Colorado prairie, working at Colorado State University, and moving to the Smithsonian in November. Studying scarab beetles, and what is going on with taxonomy.
Natalie DS @chalcidcurator.bsky.social Curator at London Natural History Museum.
BENHS @britentsoc.bsky.social British Entomological and Natural History Society
www.benhs.org.uk
John Jackson @johnjacksonnathist.bsky.social Natural History Museum London science and humanities research, collections, laboratories and libraries - Head of Science Policy and Communication - own views - 🦇🐝🦂🐞🦖🦀🦒🌳🍄🌎☄️ &c
#NHMLondon #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon
#NHMScience
Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social Asst. Curator of Entomology @nhm.org | evolution, genomes, museums | @cornelluniversity.bsky.social & New College of Florida alumna | she/her. | views are my own.
mbarkdull.github.io
SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social The Society for the History of Natural History | https://shnh.org.uk/
Archives of Natural History published by Edinburgh University Press | https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ANH
Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social Raw pu-erh in the morning; oolong in the afternoon. Chocolate: dark milk. Would rather be drawing spider genitalia, usually. Looking forward to the next field trip. Thinking about getting a pottery wheel. Father of two amazing adults. Emeritus Prof @ UBC
Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biology at Middlebury College, lover of insect communication, good teaching, and nerd stuff
Natural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net Open-access, peer-reviewed journal for research, discussion & innovation of natural history collections.
Publications foster deeper understanding & appreciation of natural history.
Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by ARPHA.
Website: nhcm.pensoft.net
Maria Heikkilä @mariaheikkila.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, Curator
Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS
Systematics and evolutionary history of Lepidoptera and Trichoptera
Tom Thomson @envirotech-rnd.bsky.social Scientist. Naturalist. Caver. GIS and Data specialist. Driven by a love of natural history, Underground exploration & entomology. Views always my own.
Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Ecologist @ukceh.bsky.social 🌳
Citizen/Community Science 🌍
Prefer things with 6 legs 🐝
Comms officer @bes-communitysci.bsky.social
Cymraes ♥️🏴 Views own ✌🏻
AP Drapeau Picard @apdp.bsky.social Agent de recherche @ Insectarium de #Montréal 🕷️🦋
Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 @joshlukedavis.com Science writer, editor and author | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🌱🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
Doug Currie @dougcurrie.bsky.social Systematic entomologist, black fly enthusiast
Caroline S. Chaboo @cschaboo.bsky.social entomologist, beetles, Chrysomelidae
Agnieszka Anna Pierwola @agnieszkaanna.bsky.social 🪰🦋🏛️ Museum Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History for Diptera, Lepidoptera, minor Holometabolous orders, amber and other fossil insects. Immigrant, single mom.
Also: mountains, books, art, disability justice, long covid, science edu.
PJ Liesch @wisconsinbugguy.bsky.social Entomologist, director of University of Wisconsin Insect Diagnostic Lab, and science communicator.
An enthusiast of all things related to insects, bogs, running, coffee, sauna, the Northwoods, and mountains. Views my own. #LifeofanEntomologist #wibugs
Johanna Schwartz @johannaschwrtz.bsky.social Entomology PhD Candidate @ UIUC - Ohio State/UF Alumna (#ufbugs) - Micro-wasp fan and roach apologist.
Eric R. Eaton @bugeric.bsky.social Nonfiction author, blogger, insect identifier, ally. Presenter/speaker. #SciComm, entomology, urban nature, human conflict with other species, other humans. Opposed to colonialism, capitalism. Married Progressive in Kansas, USA.
he/him/they
Ryan St Laurent @ryanstlaurent.bsky.social Assistant professor and Curator of Entomology CU Boulder; systematist, phylogeneticist, lepidopterist; opinions my own
Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social 🦋 A crazy entomologist of sorts who will lead you around Ecuador🇪🇨 to look at bugs and stuff.
www.SciBugs.info/links
| Dyslexic, typos are my own | SciComm | Video Games | DnD | Cosplay | Tarot |
@lourdeschamorro.bsky.social @lourdeschamorro.bsky.social
Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social Research Curator at the Amelia, Tunbridge Wells. Entomologist. Natural historian. Local historian. Ecology & heritage of Scilly & the Channel Islands
Rosie Gibbs @rosiegibbs.bsky.social Ecologist, entomologist and all-round nature lover
Darren Ward @nzhymenoptera.bsky.social Ants, bees, wasps, taxonomic collections, insect diversity
Systematics and Biodiversity @nhmsystbiodiv.bsky.social Documenting the diversity of life through systematics research
📃Our manuscripts:
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tsab20
🏛️We're based at the Natural History Museum, London:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/business-services/publishing/Journals
Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social Promoting the study of systematics, general biology and evolution since 1937.
Journal of Systematics and Evolution @journalsysevo.bsky.social Journal of Systematics and Evolution (JSE) is a bi-monthly international English language journal dedicated to the understanding of biodiversity and evolution. Find our latest issue here: https://www.jse.ac.cn/EN/current
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde @caloptilia.bsky.social Entomologist, Insect-Plant interactions, Leafminers, Microlepidoptera, Natural History Collections, Parasitoids, Phylogenies, Systematics, Tropical forests, Urban Ecology
Aaron Mboma @mbomaaaron.bsky.social Zoologist (MSc): Butterfly Systematics, Biodiversity, Molecular Phylogenetics, Speciation, Evolutionary Genetics. ❤️ Cats. Malawian.
Sarah Bengston, PhD @sarahbengston.bsky.social Evolution, behavior, natural history, ants. Assistant Professor @ CUNY Baruch College.
Teagan Mulford @teaganmulford.bsky.social 🪰PhD student at NAU, studying Asilidae! Generally obsessed with flies, sexual selection, insect systematics and taxonomy, and natural history collections!
iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social The place where your nature photos impact science & conservation around the world. Free, nonprofit, & community-powered. 🪲🐌🌿
CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org Natural History Museums' Network.
Empowering #Taxonomy, at the heart of the decision-making process.
www.cetaf.org
Liam Crowley @liamcrowley.bsky.social Entomology and ecologist. Currently a post doctoral research associate at the University of Oxford. Interested in wasps, bees, species ID, biodiversity monitoring and pollination ecology.
Ecology Supplies @ecologysupplies.bsky.social Hello! If you're new here, we are Ecology Supplies! ✨🐜🐝🦋✨
Our mission is to provide the scientific community with innovative equipment for field collection and specimen preservation
ecologysupplies.com
https://ecologysupplies.com/the-pin-down/
INC-STEP Reference Collection @incstep.bsky.social Distributed national reference collection for insect pollinators in Spain 🦋🐝🪰
Formerly under TETTRIsEU #NameItToSaveIt
See also @SENPollColl on Instagram!
David Shorthouse @dshorthouse.bsky.social father, husband, paddler, biodiversity informatician. Opinions mine and not those of my employer.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-5230
Gustavo Silva de Miranda @gustavo-de-miranda.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Curator of Invertebrates @ Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History/University of Oklahoma.
Evolutionary biology | Arachnology | Entomology | Museum collections.
Gavin Broad @gavinbroad.bsky.social Wasps. Curator at the Natural History Museum. Opinions my own, unless they’re wrong.
Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Curator of Lepidoptera. Evo-devologist. Bug nut. Cornell University.
Roberto A. Keller @rkellerp.bsky.social Entomologist. Ant specialist. Born Mexico City. Curator of Entomology at Nacional Museum of Natural History and Science, & Researcher at Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes. http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt
Tiff Ki @tiff-ki.bsky.social Ecologist using #insectcollections to understand long-term #biodiversitychange and inform #conservationaction
Henslow Fellow @ Darwin College, Gibbs Travelling Fellow @ Newnham College based in Insect Ecology Group & Museum of Zoology (UniofCam).
Aslak Kappel Hansen @aslakkh.bsky.social Postdoc - Studying Ecology, Systematics and Evolution of Rove Beetles at NHM Denmark
Developer of the Danish Beetle Bank http://BilleBank.dk
Adrián Sánchez Albert 🐛 @adsalbert.bsky.social Biologist and Ms in Zoology + Applied Ethology 🎓 | Curator assistant in the Entomoly Coll. at MNCN-CSIC 🏛️
Etho-eco-evo 🍃, digitalisation 🖥️, bio-art 🎨 & biodiversity conservation 🤲🏻
Co-comm leader of @incstep.bsky.social. He/him
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily.
http://linktr.ee/nhmla
Nil Rahola @nil-rahola.bsky.social Medical Entomologist at #IRD / #MIVEGEC
🦟 #IRD France/Madagascar www.mivegec.fr
🦟 #IPM Insitut Pasteur Madagascar www.pasteur.mg
🦟 #ARIM collection's curator www.arim.ird.fr
Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social Research scientist · Mosquito 🦟 and Vector-borne disease Ecology · MIVEGEC @ird-fr.bsky.social 🇫🇷 · Pôle de Zoologie Médicale @ Institut Pasteur Dakar 🇸🇳
https://nmoiroux.github.io/
ARIM Collection @arimcollection.bsky.social ARIM (Arthropodes d'Intérêt Médical) is an entomological collection based in Montpellier at the Institut de Recherche pour le Dévelopement (@ird-fr.bsky.social).
Account managed by @nmoiroux.bsky.social and @nil-rahola.bsky.social
Antonia 🦋🐞 @antoniag.bsky.social Entomologist (Royal Ontario Museum) retired soccer player, cyclist, organizer of many things, President-Toronto Entomologists' Association, love my garden. COVID cautious, keep mask on….The Butterfly Whisperer Who Never Flies Under the Radar (she/her)
Dr Kym Abrams @drkmabrams.bsky.social 💜 invertebrates, subterranean fauna and dogs. Biodiversity, phylogenetics, taxonomy, biogeography, conservation of invertebrates (esp Aus Schizomida & Parabathynellidae). RA WA museum. 🦐🕷🇿🇦🇦🇺 Respectfully from Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. She/her. Skeets my own
Julia J. Mlynarek @jjmlynarek.bsky.social 🦋🪰🪲🐝🦗🐞 🧑🧒
Entomologist with a PhD. Research insect biodiversity, species at risk conservation, restoration ecology, and urban ecology. ❤️ dragonflies and flies. Also mom to a little human.