Samanta Orellana
@coleopterasam.bsky.social
Entomologist 🐞 | Anthribidae | Collections | Postdoc @KU Biodiversity Institute | Symbiota | biodiversidad.gt Portal Admin 🇬🇹
📍 https://en.bionomia.net/0000-0002-4098-5823
📍 https://en.bionomia.net/0000-0002-4098-5823
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October has been full of #Symbiota adventures in South America 🌎💚. It started last week in Peru🇵🇪, where we held a digitization workshop in collaboration with UNMSM Natural History Museum and Yale Peabody Museum. Around 80 participants from all over the country attended. We had a blast! 🌿
You can already check our #LivingData abstract in @biss.pensoft.net about the use of #Symbiota portals in Latin America 🌎 (slides in Spanish) biss.pensoft.net/article/1773.... One more abstract about our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social is in production. Stay tuned! 😁
🆕 11 extended #abstracts presented at last month's #LivingData2025 conference by @tdwg.org, @gbif.org, @obis.org & @geobon.org are already live & organised by symposia!
📌 Keep tabs on the collection & subscribe for our Email newsletter: biss.pensoft.net to stay updated on future publications!
📌 Keep tabs on the collection & subscribe for our Email newsletter: biss.pensoft.net to stay updated on future publications!
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
You can already check our #LivingData abstract in @biss.pensoft.net about the use of #Symbiota portals in Latin America 🌎 (slides in Spanish) biss.pensoft.net/article/1773.... One more abstract about our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social is in production. Stay tuned! 😁
Our abstract for #LivingData about the use of #Symbiota portals in #LatinAmerica is out! At least 140 collections in 12 countries are actively using the portals 🥰. So far, less than 40% of collections in the region are available anywhere online. We'd love to help! 💚 biss.pensoft.net/article/1773...
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our abstract for #LivingData about the use of #Symbiota portals in #LatinAmerica is out! At least 140 collections in 12 countries are actively using the portals 🥰. So far, less than 40% of collections in the region are available anywhere online. We'd love to help! 💚 biss.pensoft.net/article/1773...
It was a lovely first day of #ECN2025!! 🥰Thanks to the presenters and organizers for all the wonderful sessions! The effort to provide a virtual format is really appreciated 😊🐞💚.
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It was a lovely first day of #ECN2025!! 🥰Thanks to the presenters and organizers for all the wonderful sessions! The effort to provide a virtual format is really appreciated 😊🐞💚.
Reposted by Samanta Orellana
Huge welcome to all you lovely folks joining us today, both in-person and online! Great to have so many first-timers!
Let’s get to it, with a welcome from our President @drfirefly.bsky.social!
#ECN2025
Let’s get to it, with a welcome from our President @drfirefly.bsky.social!
#ECN2025
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Huge welcome to all you lovely folks joining us today, both in-person and online! Great to have so many first-timers!
Let’s get to it, with a welcome from our President @drfirefly.bsky.social!
#ECN2025
Let’s get to it, with a welcome from our President @drfirefly.bsky.social!
#ECN2025
Hi @gbif.org. Last time I tried it didn't work but I'm still interested in volunteering for GRSciColl! 😊 I have valuable contacts with collections across Latin America 💚. Let me know! 😁
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hi @gbif.org. Last time I tried it didn't work but I'm still interested in volunteering for GRSciColl! 😊 I have valuable contacts with collections across Latin America 💚. Let me know! 😁
October has been full of #Symbiota adventures in South America 🌎💚. It started last week in Peru🇵🇪, where we held a digitization workshop in collaboration with UNMSM Natural History Museum and Yale Peabody Museum. Around 80 participants from all over the country attended. We had a blast! 🌿
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
October has been full of #Symbiota adventures in South America 🌎💚. It started last week in Peru🇵🇪, where we held a digitization workshop in collaboration with UNMSM Natural History Museum and Yale Peabody Museum. Around 80 participants from all over the country attended. We had a blast! 🌿
Thanks to the KU Office of Research for the spotlight! Happy to be part of the @kunhm.bsky.social and continue contributing to preserving and digitizing the collections 🩵. #KUEntomology #PostdocAppreciationWeek #KUSEMC
➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...
➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thanks to the KU Office of Research for the spotlight! Happy to be part of the @kunhm.bsky.social and continue contributing to preserving and digitizing the collections 🩵. #KUEntomology #PostdocAppreciationWeek #KUSEMC
➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...
➡️ research.ku.edu/news/article...
It's #WeevilWednesday! Perfect day to introduce our #Symbiota Weevil Portal! Still under construction, but already with some data. This beautiful Curculio, deposited in #KUSEMC, was originally digitized in #Specify and has been mobilized to our portal 💚. ➡️ weevil.symbiota.org/portal/colle...
September 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It's #WeevilWednesday! Perfect day to introduce our #Symbiota Weevil Portal! Still under construction, but already with some data. This beautiful Curculio, deposited in #KUSEMC, was originally digitized in #Specify and has been mobilized to our portal 💚. ➡️ weevil.symbiota.org/portal/colle...
Don't miss this important webinar today, during the webinar series by #iDigBio "Sustaining collections digitization beyond NSF funding", featuring @gbif.org: ➡️ ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Don't miss this important webinar today, during the webinar series by #iDigBio "Sustaining collections digitization beyond NSF funding", featuring @gbif.org: ➡️ ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Today, we are celebrating our Independence Day in #Guatemala. I'm proud to keep contributing to my country from afar, helping local collections to share their data online 🇬🇹🌎. Thanks to the #Symbiota team for making it possible, and to the amazing #BiodiversityData community for their support 🥰💚.
Cinco años compartiendo la Biodiversidad de Guatemala, en apoyo a investigadores nacionales. Nuestro Portal #Symbiota ha facilitado la generación de +45 perfiles virtuales y +56,000 registros de especímenes y observaciones de animales, plantas y hongos del país. Disponible en: biodiversidad.gt 🐞🍄🌿🇬🇹🌎
September 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today, we are celebrating our Independence Day in #Guatemala. I'm proud to keep contributing to my country from afar, helping local collections to share their data online 🇬🇹🌎. Thanks to the #Symbiota team for making it possible, and to the amazing #BiodiversityData community for their support 🥰💚.
The KU Entomology group is growing! So many ideas and so much work to do! 🥰🐞🦋🐝
September 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The KU Entomology group is growing! So many ideas and so much work to do! 🥰🐞🦋🐝
Reposted by Samanta Orellana
Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529
Curatorial Associate
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cult...
careers.amnh.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529
#LivingData is quickly approaching 😱. Who is going to Bogota? 🥳. Who is attending remotely? 🌎. You can't miss our presentations (in English and Spanish) about #Symbiota and our collaborations with collections all over the world to make their data available 💚🌎.
➡️ livingdata2025.com/registration...
➡️ livingdata2025.com/registration...
September 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
#LivingData is quickly approaching 😱. Who is going to Bogota? 🥳. Who is attending remotely? 🌎. You can't miss our presentations (in English and Spanish) about #Symbiota and our collaborations with collections all over the world to make their data available 💚🌎.
➡️ livingdata2025.com/registration...
➡️ livingdata2025.com/registration...
A long weekend was perfect to catch up on digitization 🥰. Let us know if you want your own profile to digitize and mobilize your arthropod/plant/vertebrate/fungi/fossil data 💚: help@symbiota.org. #Symbiota
➡️ ecdysis.org/collections/... 🐞
➡️ ecdysis.org/collections/... 🐞
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A long weekend was perfect to catch up on digitization 🥰. Let us know if you want your own profile to digitize and mobilize your arthropod/plant/vertebrate/fungi/fossil data 💚: help@symbiota.org. #Symbiota
➡️ ecdysis.org/collections/... 🐞
➡️ ecdysis.org/collections/... 🐞
It's amazing to see our beautiful @guatemalaportal.bsky.social back online 🥰. I'm forever grateful to the #Symbiota team for their commitment to maintaining such incredible tools and making them accessible to the global #collections community 💚.
✅El Portal de Biodiversidad🇬🇹 permite la generación de recursos interactivos con especies registradas en el país. Compartimos el listado actualizado de aves de la Ciudad de Guatemala, publicado en Zeledonia por investigadores del CDC-CECON. ➡️ biodiversidad.gt/portal/check... 🐦🦜🦉🐦⬛ #Symbiota
August 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It's amazing to see our beautiful @guatemalaportal.bsky.social back online 🥰. I'm forever grateful to the #Symbiota team for their commitment to maintaining such incredible tools and making them accessible to the global #collections community 💚.
First full day of the #WeevilCourse2025 at the Southwestern Research Station, AZ! Awesome lectures, demonstrations and subfamilies identification 😄. #Curculionoidea #Weevils
July 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
First full day of the #WeevilCourse2025 at the Southwestern Research Station, AZ! Awesome lectures, demonstrations and subfamilies identification 😄. #Curculionoidea #Weevils
Leaving the beautiful #CostaRica 🇨🇷 after a few wonderful weeks! I deeply appreciate the hospitality of local researchers at Universidad de Costa Rica (in San José and Guanacaste 🥰), and the support given by @kunhm.bsky.social to make this trip possible! More soon! #Anthribidae #FranzLab #Collections
July 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Leaving the beautiful #CostaRica 🇨🇷 after a few wonderful weeks! I deeply appreciate the hospitality of local researchers at Universidad de Costa Rica (in San José and Guanacaste 🥰), and the support given by @kunhm.bsky.social to make this trip possible! More soon! #Anthribidae #FranzLab #Collections
Reposted by Samanta Orellana
Tried out my new blacklight funnels I built. Got chased off the eastern New Mexico plains by a nasty thunderstorm, but less than an hour produced quite a few beetles!
July 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Tried out my new blacklight funnels I built. Got chased off the eastern New Mexico plains by a nasty thunderstorm, but less than an hour produced quite a few beetles!
Reposted by Samanta Orellana
#LiteratureNotice Chatzimanolis & Brunke. Revisiting Phanolinopsis Scheerpeltz ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Xanthopygina), with an Updated Key and a #NewSpecies from Guatemala doi.org/10.1649/0010... #TheColeopteristsBulletin #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
June 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
#LiteratureNotice Chatzimanolis & Brunke. Revisiting Phanolinopsis Scheerpeltz ( #Coleoptera: #Staphylinidae: #Xanthopygina), with an Updated Key and a #NewSpecies from Guatemala doi.org/10.1649/0010... #TheColeopteristsBulletin #Beetle #Beetles #RoveBeetles
I had a wonderful time with the collection managers in Guatemala, sharing some updates about #Symbiota and our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social. It was great to visit the collections and learn more about their biodiversity projects 🥰🇬🇹🌿🍄🐞.
Este taller contó con la entusiasta participación de integrantes del Sistema de Colecciones EB USAC, Colecciones UVG, Centro de Estudios Conservacionistas USAC, Medicina Veterinaria USAC, INACIF e INAB 🇬🇹🌿🍄🐞. Además, se realizó una visita a la Colección Entomológica USAC para conocer sus proyectos.
June 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I had a wonderful time with the collection managers in Guatemala, sharing some updates about #Symbiota and our @guatemalaportal.bsky.social. It was great to visit the collections and learn more about their biodiversity projects 🥰🇬🇹🌿🍄🐞.
Reposted by Samanta Orellana
Want to set up your own photo-stacking imaging system for under $3000? This post which outlines all the off-the-shelf items I used this year along with some recommendations for how to use it. Planning to talk about this at @entcollnet.bsky.social this November, too! www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
Focus-stacking photography: Building your own system
Ten years ago, Alex Wild published a guide on Scientific American on how to make your own focus-stacking system for under $6000. I can't seem to find that post any more, just some secondary posts with...
www.insectid.org
June 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Want to set up your own photo-stacking imaging system for under $3000? This post which outlines all the off-the-shelf items I used this year along with some recommendations for how to use it. Planning to talk about this at @entcollnet.bsky.social this November, too! www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...
Extremely happy to be in Guatemala for a short vacation+a bit of work in the collections 🥰🐞🍄🇬🇹.
June 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Extremely happy to be in Guatemala for a short vacation+a bit of work in the collections 🥰🐞🍄🇬🇹.
Looking for #weevils, but chrysomelids will always catch my eye 🔎. Collected recently by @taxonbytes.bsky.social in Kansas. Digital records live in Specify and will soon be mobilized to @gbif.org and Symbiota 💚. #BornDigital #SEMC #KUNHM
June 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Looking for #weevils, but chrysomelids will always catch my eye 🔎. Collected recently by @taxonbytes.bsky.social in Kansas. Digital records live in Specify and will soon be mobilized to @gbif.org and Symbiota 💚. #BornDigital #SEMC #KUNHM
Welcome to KU, everyone! 😄 #SPNHC2025
May 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Welcome to KU, everyone! 😄 #SPNHC2025
Reposted by Samanta Orellana
Every time I find King Alfred’s Cakes (Daldinia concentrica) I look for the Cramp-ball Fungus Weevil (platyrhinus resinosus). They feed and breed on this fungi. I rarely find them… so when I do it’s so exciting! Remarkable creatures. @lukaslarge.bsky.social #weevil
May 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Every time I find King Alfred’s Cakes (Daldinia concentrica) I look for the Cramp-ball Fungus Weevil (platyrhinus resinosus). They feed and breed on this fungi. I rarely find them… so when I do it’s so exciting! Remarkable creatures. @lukaslarge.bsky.social #weevil