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Morgan Jackson, PhD
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Entomologist fascinated by flies (#Diptera), biodiversity & taxonomy. Telling the story of biodiversity, one species at a time. He/Him. Profile pic: Kerascoët
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If you can, please donate to help with funeral costs and supporting her family. RIP Sheila Colla. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...
Donate to Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment, organized by Anna Penner
There is a good chance that you already know Sheila Colla: she is a brillian… Anna Penner needs your support for Support Sheila Colla Through Cancer Treatment
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July 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
bioinfocus.bsky.social
For the first time in over 100 years we have an up-to-date checklist of Canadian Diptera. Really proud to have been a part of this effort!
pensoft.net Pensoft @pensoft.net · Mar 7
New book: A checklist to identify all known species of flies in Canada! doi.org/10.3897/ab.e...

"This checklist is a fundamental piece of work that will guide the assessment of the conservation status of those species."

@bioinfocus.bsky.social
Cover of "Checklist of the Flies (Diptera) in Canada" featuring two fly images, with contributors and publisher details below.
March 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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pensoft.net
New book: A checklist to identify all known species of flies in Canada! doi.org/10.3897/ab.e...

"This checklist is a fundamental piece of work that will guide the assessment of the conservation status of those species."

@bioinfocus.bsky.social
Cover of "Checklist of the Flies (Diptera) in Canada" featuring two fly images, with contributors and publisher details below.
March 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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A very warm welcome to ResNet's Interim Network Manager: Dr. Morgan Jackson (you can follow him @bioinfocus.bsky.social)! He will be responsible for overseeing ResNet’s daily operations while our permanent Network Manager Nicole Middlemiss is on leave.
March 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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mutillidae.bsky.social

Soldier on.

#NaturalHistoryCollections
#Macrophotography
#FocusStacking
#FlyDayFriday
#FlyFriday
#FlyDay
Upper left lateral view of a soldier fly (Stratiomyidae) against a grey background. The head is yellow, the large oval eyes are dark and the dark antennae are quite long (for a fly). The thorax and abdomen are black, slight metallic, white white maculations formed by areas of white, appressed setae. There are two horn-like projections extending back from the posterolateral corners of the scutellum. They curve inward and are slightly tapered, so they really look like horns.
January 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Last year, my fantastic co-author @bioinfocus.bsky.social and I published this note observing squirrels foraging insect galls in the Yukon: www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cf... #SquirrelAppreciationDay
Red Squirrel (<i>Tamiasciurus hudsonicus</i>) feeding on Balsam Poplar (<i>Populus balsamifera</i>) galls induced by aphids | The Canadian Field-Naturalist
www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca
January 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Do you have any favourite evolutionary biology resources that are not textbooks? E.g. podcast/youtube series or episodes, blogs, websites, news articles.. I am trying to diversify the resources I recommend to the students in the courses I teach 🤓
January 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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lovetheants.bsky.social
Coming out, transitioning, and being trans is HARD. Fortunately, there's a lot we can all do, whether cis or trans, to help our colleagues and strengthen our departments. In addition to all the actions we can take, we've also gathered a list of resources.
Hyperlinked list of resources to create a gender inclusive environment, advocate for name changes, improve information accessibility, and consider daily language and use. The full text document and the links can be accessed on this linktree: https://linktr.ee/trans_inclusion
January 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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lovetheants.bsky.social
Collaborating with @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and Kanako Shimizu, we put together what's basically a top-ten list of ways to help foster trans inclusivity and awareness within our scientific and academic communities and would love if you could help share the guide!
How to Support Trans Colleagues Create a Gender-Inclusive Environment Research institutional, governmental, local, and other bureaucratic procedures and policies that recognize and support gender transition. Support training and advocacy for colleagues’ personal/professional safety (ex. in fieldwork, lab work, conferences, institution visits, affinity groups). Establish and/or identify gender-neutral bathrooms throughout your building. Implement trans-inclusive recruitment and hiring procedures. Acknowledge intersectionality and the unique needs and barriers that someone with multiple marginalized identities may face. Consider the importance of representation in your field. Advocate for Name Changes Research institutional, governmental, local, and other bureaucratic procedures and policy to recognize and support an individual’s name change. Identify journals in your field that allow authors to change their names post- publication. Improve Information Accessibility Publicly share information on inclusive practices throughout your departments and institution. (Ensure the content centers and is created by trans people.) Consider Daily Language & Use Decrease use of gendered terms to avoid exclusionary language. Ask for personal pronouns. List on all public-facing directories, and consider including them in email signatures and on professional websites. Practice discretion. Don’t out your colleagues without their consent.
January 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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lovetheants.bsky.social
Want to know how to support trans and gender nonconforming colleagues things you can literally do right now to help?

Check out the first link here for a new two-page handout to share widely! linktr.ee/trans_inclus...
Transgender Inclusion | Linktree
Resources for transgender inclusion in STEM and beyond.
linktr.ee
January 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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What have I been working on for the last.... uh... 8 years? This 🧵 🐝🪲 entomologytoday.org/2025/01/15/l...
The Lesson Hive: A Collaborative K-12 Teaching Space
The Lesson Hive is a database of standards-aligned and reviewed K-12 teaching resources about insects and other arthropods.
entomologytoday.org
January 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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A tricky #SpotTheInsect!
bertonemyia.bsky.social Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · Jan 12
Hidden in plain sight. Can you find the critter? 🔎 🧐
A photos of a plant branch with dead leaves and twigs. Hidden within is an arthropod.
January 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Little globular springtail doodle in colored pencil and ink. Inspired by @the_forest_tin on IG, one of my fav macro photographers. 💚

#SciArt 🎨🕷️🐡🐞🌱
Globular springtail doodle using colored pencil and ink
January 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Horsefly boy in flight, very buzzy 🤎
Large horsefly with an orange booty, caught in flight with his wings motion-blurred
January 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Exciting #Arachnology news! It's been clear for some time that spiders have 'noses' on their legs but we didn't really understand how they smell airborne sex pheromones.

Now we do! Gabriele Uhl & colleagues have identified the sensilla responsible: 🕷️🧪

www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
“Olfaction with legs – spiders use wall-pore sensilla for pheromone detection"
Spiders can smell: they use pore-covered sensilla that are similar to hairs to detect volatile substances. This is the key finding of a study that has been published in the January 2025 issue of the s...
www.uni-greifswald.de
January 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
bioinfocus.bsky.social
Canadian Member of Parliament Richard Cannings found an unusual antlion in his backyard, posted it to iNaturalist, and just published it as being a new genus record for Canada in a regional society journal journal.entsocbc.ca/index.php/jo... Can't ask for much more in an elected representative TBH!
Chaetoleon pusillus (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Brachynemurini), a new genus and species of antlion for Canada | Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia
journal.entsocbc.ca
January 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Do you teach field-based courses? Or hope to? Wrote a brief commentary for the new Plant Science Bulletin on why these course need to be offered/supported. TL;DR the kids need to get outside... where integrative biology lives. #SICB2025 #STEMeducation

digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_journ/21...
Field-Based Courses Still Matter, but not Like They Used To
Increasingly, field-based courses are providing the first real opportunities for students to experience nature in meaningful ways. As a baseline, even before the content delivery and the graded assess...
digitalcommons.bucknell.edu
January 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Ribbitcoin
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Jan 2
Just an incredible opportunity from 1935
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January 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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What do we have here?

This is a scar from historical resin extraction in a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) tree. It helps to explain an important era of American history...and also the decline of one of my top two favorite tree species. A thread.
A scarred longleaf pine tree, following historical resin extraction
December 31, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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We’re now offering two permanent positions at the Bavarian State Collection for Zoology in Munich, those as curators for Diptera and Hymenoptera:

snsb.de/kurator-ento...

snsb.de/kurator-ento...

Both announcements are in German, but German skills are not required at the time of application.
SNSB – Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns » Kurator für Entomologie – Diptera (w/m/d) – Zoologischen Staatssammlung
Eine weitere WordPress-Website
snsb.de
December 12, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Ronald McWeevil isn’t real, he can’t hurt y-
leastactionhero.bsky.social Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · Dec 29
enterprise, alabama had its agricultural economy transformed in the 1910s by a boll weevil infestation that destroyed their cotton and convinced farmers to plant peanuts instead. yada yada yada, now there's a mcdonald's there with a ronald mcweevil statue.
Ronald McDonald but in the form of a four-limbed weevil thing Ronald McDonald but in the form of a four-limbed weevil thing
December 29, 2024 at 3:47 AM
bioinfocus.bsky.social
Great story, great art, great resource at the end.

Also reposting as part of Canadian Team P-AOWOO-P
josephwb.bsky.social Joseph W. Brown @josephwb.bsky.social · Dec 28
I made this over the break. Why would I do such a thing? Am I some sort of #phylogenetics dork? Well... yes, but that's not why. To fully explain I'll have to do one of those sewing-strings-wrapped-around-a-spool dealies. 1/ 🧪
A cross-stitched logo for the phylogenetic inference program PAUP. In yellow are the letters P-A-U-P, attached at the base in the pattern of a phylogenetic tree. The "tree" is outlines in dark blue, with light blue in the background. The counters in the Ps and A are orange.
December 29, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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For this amazing December 2024 edition of #InverteFest I contributed a "checkerboard of flies" for your invertebrate viewing pleasure 🪰🦟

Because the variety of flies always blows my mind
a 3x3 checkerboard with various digital paintings on flies on alternating white and black background. from top to bottom going right: Drosophila melanogaster, Syrphus ribesii, Calliphora vomitoria, Sabethes sp., Anopheles sp., Gymnosoma rotundatum, Scaeva pyrastri, Nephrotoma flavescens, Bombylius discolor
December 26, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Happy #Invertefest! I love to draw creatures with fantastical elements and one of my favorites to draw is beetles! #SciArt #Beetles #Art
Three rows of three beetles each. Each row is painted and decorated differently. The top is tie dye, the middle is fluffy white clouds on a blue sky colored beetles and the bottom row is deep indigo beetles spotted with white stars to look like a space beetle. #InverteFest #Invertfest
December 26, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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The latest BSC newsletter is now available at biologicalsurvey.ca/publications...
Newsletters – Biological Survey of Canada
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December 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM