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.
Evolutionary biology | Arachnology | Entomology | Museum collections.
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Just published a new paper in Zootaxa with my co-authors! We describe the female of Charinus santanensis for the first time and explore its hydrophobic crystal coating. Also: conservation concerns for these fragile ecosystems.
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Cave Secrets: A New Look at Charinus santanensis
I’m thrilled to share my latest research published in Zootaxa , diving deep into the mysterious world of cave-dwelling arachnids in Brazil. The genus Charinus , part of the Charontidae family, is...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just published a new paper in Zootaxa with my co-authors! We describe the female of Charinus santanensis for the first time and explore its hydrophobic crystal coating. Also: conservation concerns for these fragile ecosystems.
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The Recent Invertebrates collection made its Curiosiday debut at the Sam Noble Museum! 🐞🦋🕷️
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#Curiosiday #Invertebrates #SamNobleMuseum #ArachnidLife
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Celebrating Invertebrate Diversity at Curiosiday
This past weekend, the Recent Invertebrates collection made its return to Curiosiday at the Sam Noble Museum! We were thrilled to share some of our amazing specimens with the public. Visitors got a...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The Recent Invertebrates collection made its Curiosiday debut at the Sam Noble Museum! 🐞🦋🕷️
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#Curiosiday #Invertebrates #SamNobleMuseum #ArachnidLife
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New preprint out!
We investigated how climate and habitat influenced the evolution of body size and shape in whip spiders (Amblypygi). This is the first large-scale study on their morphology and its evolutionary patterns.
Feedback and comments welcome! tinyurl.com/2jtnaxj5
We investigated how climate and habitat influenced the evolution of body size and shape in whip spiders (Amblypygi). This is the first large-scale study on their morphology and its evolutionary patterns.
Feedback and comments welcome! tinyurl.com/2jtnaxj5
New Insights into the Evolution of Whip Spider Body Form
Our latest study, “The impact of climate and habitat on body shape and size evolution in whip spiders (Amblypygi),” is now available as a preprint. Whip spiders are an ancient group of arachnids...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New preprint out!
We investigated how climate and habitat influenced the evolution of body size and shape in whip spiders (Amblypygi). This is the first large-scale study on their morphology and its evolutionary patterns.
Feedback and comments welcome! tinyurl.com/2jtnaxj5
We investigated how climate and habitat influenced the evolution of body size and shape in whip spiders (Amblypygi). This is the first large-scale study on their morphology and its evolutionary patterns.
Feedback and comments welcome! tinyurl.com/2jtnaxj5
🎓🐟 The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History & OU’s School of Biological Sciences are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Curator of Ichthyology / Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences (start Fall 2026).
Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174674
#AcademicJobs #Ichthyology #Museum #Biology
Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174674
#AcademicJobs #Ichthyology #Museum #Biology
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October 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🎓🐟 The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History & OU’s School of Biological Sciences are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Curator of Ichthyology / Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences (start Fall 2026).
Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174674
#AcademicJobs #Ichthyology #Museum #Biology
Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174674
#AcademicJobs #Ichthyology #Museum #Biology
Last week, the Recent Invertebrates collection participated in Twilight at Water’s Edge, a program connecting families with Oklahoma’s nocturnal wildlife. From museum specimens to field observations, participants explored the hidden world that comes alive after sunset. tinyurl.com/3ruynucb
Hands-On Science at Dusk: Twilight at Water’s Edge
On September 26, the Recent Invertebrates team joined the Education Department of the Sam Noble Museum for Twilight at Water’s Edge , an all-ages program designed to explore the hidden world of...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Last week, the Recent Invertebrates collection participated in Twilight at Water’s Edge, a program connecting families with Oklahoma’s nocturnal wildlife. From museum specimens to field observations, participants explored the hidden world that comes alive after sunset. tinyurl.com/3ruynucb
We’re thrilled to welcome Shelby Hernandez as our new Collections Manager! 🪲 A true beetle lover and collections expert, Shelby will help care for and grow the incredible invertebrate collection at the Sam Noble Museum. 🎉
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Welcome, Shelby Hernandez – Our New Collections ManageR
We are thrilled to welcome Shelby Hernandez as the new Collections Manager for Recent Invertebrates at the Sam Noble Museum. Shelby joins us from Texas Tech University, where she honed her...
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September 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome Shelby Hernandez as our new Collections Manager! 🪲 A true beetle lover and collections expert, Shelby will help care for and grow the incredible invertebrate collection at the Sam Noble Museum. 🎉
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Whip spiders, beetles, and beyond! 🕷️🪲
I’ll be posting stories from research, collections, and fieldwork at the Sam Noble Museum (OU). Take a look: 👉 gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news
I’ll be posting stories from research, collections, and fieldwork at the Sam Noble Museum (OU). Take a look: 👉 gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news
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We were delighted to host Matthew Pintar at the Sam Noble Museum, where he focused on assessing the museum’s holdings of Tropisternus beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) and backswimmers...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Whip spiders, beetles, and beyond! 🕷️🪲
I’ll be posting stories from research, collections, and fieldwork at the Sam Noble Museum (OU). Take a look: 👉 gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news
I’ll be posting stories from research, collections, and fieldwork at the Sam Noble Museum (OU). Take a look: 👉 gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news
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Mosquitoes that have been in the collection for nearly a hundred years are helping us in dealing with an even older but also current problem - malaria
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Mosquitoes that have been in the collection for nearly a hundred years are helping us in dealing with an even older but also current problem - malaria
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Genetic study of malaria-carrying mosquitoes tracks evolution of insecticide resistance | Natural History Museum
It crucially also reveals promising genetic targets for potential control.
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September 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Mosquitoes that have been in the collection for nearly a hundred years are helping us in dealing with an even older but also current problem - malaria
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social
Mosquitoes that have been in the collection for nearly a hundred years are helping us in dealing with an even older but also current problem - malaria
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social
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@nhmdk.bsky.social is advertising a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research focused on dark taxa and unknown species, preferably including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology
deadline 5 October 2025
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deadline 5 October 2025
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PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research
Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen Natural History Museum Denmark invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in coll
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September 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
@nhmdk.bsky.social is advertising a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research focused on dark taxa and unknown species, preferably including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology
deadline 5 October 2025
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deadline 5 October 2025
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So excited to have this #dragonfly paper out! #Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in #Anisoptera (dragonflies) url: academic.oup.com/isd/article/... @ethantolman.bsky.social
Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in Anisoptera (dragonflies)
Abstract. Odonata is an insect order that comprises ~6420 described species distributed among three suborders. Here we review the dragonflies, or Anisopter
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August 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
So excited to have this #dragonfly paper out! #Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in #Anisoptera (dragonflies) url: academic.oup.com/isd/article/... @ethantolman.bsky.social
Job alert! Sam Noble Museum (OU) seeks a Collection Manager for the Recent Invertebrates collection (insects, mollusks, arachnids & more). You’ll team up with the incoming Curator (👋 me). Apply via jobs.ou.edu, Job # 251244. DM questions. #museumjobs #arthropods #collections
Jobs - OU Human Resources
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June 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Job alert! Sam Noble Museum (OU) seeks a Collection Manager for the Recent Invertebrates collection (insects, mollusks, arachnids & more). You’ll team up with the incoming Curator (👋 me). Apply via jobs.ou.edu, Job # 251244. DM questions. #museumjobs #arthropods #collections
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Do you have a PhD in STEM and looking to pivot to a different subdiscipline? The Simons Foundation's Pivot Fellowship provides 1 year of salary + $10k for research + travel to the fellow and $50k to their mentor. Apply by 12:00 PM (ET), May 15, 2025. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-... 🧪
Pivot Fellowship
Pivot Fellowship on Simons Foundation
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April 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Do you have a PhD in STEM and looking to pivot to a different subdiscipline? The Simons Foundation's Pivot Fellowship provides 1 year of salary + $10k for research + travel to the fellow and $50k to their mentor. Apply by 12:00 PM (ET), May 15, 2025. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-... 🧪
Wait, what?! 😱
Ever since @harrysavage.bsky.social mentioned it, stolonization has been haunting my waking hours. Now it can haunt yours too: some annelid worms develop a gamete-filled structure (stolon), which detaches and swims to find a mate. Some stolons have eyes, antennae, and nervous system 🤯
🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
February 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wait, what?! 😱
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Looking for a faculty position? How about a postdoc position?
Canadian Women in STEM launches an easy to use Job Board.
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Canadian Women in STEM launches an easy to use Job Board.
canadianwomeninstem.org/job-board/
Canadian Women in STEM - Job Board
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February 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Looking for a faculty position? How about a postdoc position?
Canadian Women in STEM launches an easy to use Job Board.
canadianwomeninstem.org/job-board/
Canadian Women in STEM launches an easy to use Job Board.
canadianwomeninstem.org/job-board/
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Some local (NE Oklahoma) symphylans to illustrate a difference between the two families -
Scolopendrellidae has sharp pointed tergites (pics 1 and 2)
...while Scutigerellidae has more rounded/lobed tergites (pics 3 and 4)
Scolopendrellidae has sharp pointed tergites (pics 1 and 2)
...while Scutigerellidae has more rounded/lobed tergites (pics 3 and 4)
January 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Some local (NE Oklahoma) symphylans to illustrate a difference between the two families -
Scolopendrellidae has sharp pointed tergites (pics 1 and 2)
...while Scutigerellidae has more rounded/lobed tergites (pics 3 and 4)
Scolopendrellidae has sharp pointed tergites (pics 1 and 2)
...while Scutigerellidae has more rounded/lobed tergites (pics 3 and 4)
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Thanks @plantpollinator.bsky.social Kelsey Byers for sharing knowledge about accessible fieldwork & a link to a useful guide created by Chloe Stevens. Take homes include bidirectional communication and trust, and improving accessibility helps EVERYone!! #PlantSciEd
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January 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Thanks @plantpollinator.bsky.social Kelsey Byers for sharing knowledge about accessible fieldwork & a link to a useful guide created by Chloe Stevens. Take homes include bidirectional communication and trust, and improving accessibility helps EVERYone!! #PlantSciEd
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🧵 1/ Words cannot describe publishing my first article in Korea as an adoptee. I am coauthoring a series on arachnid behavior in Donga Science (과학동아). It is surreal to see my Korean name in print.
Korea, I am still here and I am still your daughter.
[Korean and English translation in alt text.]
Korea, I am still here and I am still your daughter.
[Korean and English translation in alt text.]
January 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
🧵 1/ Words cannot describe publishing my first article in Korea as an adoptee. I am coauthoring a series on arachnid behavior in Donga Science (과학동아). It is surreal to see my Korean name in print.
Korea, I am still here and I am still your daughter.
[Korean and English translation in alt text.]
Korea, I am still here and I am still your daughter.
[Korean and English translation in alt text.]
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There's at least 4 different pseudoscorpion species living under the bark of a small patch of mahogany trees, and that makes me happy. 🤎
I don't know which species, but they're all silly in their own special ways.
#InverteFest
I don't know which species, but they're all silly in their own special ways.
#InverteFest
December 26, 2024 at 12:44 AM
There's at least 4 different pseudoscorpion species living under the bark of a small patch of mahogany trees, and that makes me happy. 🤎
I don't know which species, but they're all silly in their own special ways.
#InverteFest
I don't know which species, but they're all silly in their own special ways.
#InverteFest
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🟠New #genome resources expand possibilities for #insect models
🟢Assembly quality varies in contiguity & completeness
🔵Technological advances support new models with high-quality #data
🟣Emerging models advance knowledge of insect #biology & #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🟢Assembly quality varies in contiguity & completeness
🔵Technological advances support new models with high-quality #data
🟣Emerging models advance knowledge of insect #biology & #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
🟠New #genome resources expand possibilities for #insect models
🟢Assembly quality varies in contiguity & completeness
🔵Technological advances support new models with high-quality #data
🟣Emerging models advance knowledge of insect #biology & #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🟢Assembly quality varies in contiguity & completeness
🔵Technological advances support new models with high-quality #data
🟣Emerging models advance knowledge of insect #biology & #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Quick crab drawing guides that @jopabinia.bsky.social and I made a few years back to get you all started for this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme: Carcinization.
Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series
Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series
May 1, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Quick crab drawing guides that @jopabinia.bsky.social and I made a few years back to get you all started for this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme: Carcinization.
Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series
Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series
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It occurs to me that many of you may never have seen a squirting cucumber in action, please allow me remedy that for you
As you may imagine, naturalists have been gobsmacked by these seed-spurting gourds for centuries (Pliny the Elder described them and warned observers to mind their eyeballs) 🧪
As you may imagine, naturalists have been gobsmacked by these seed-spurting gourds for centuries (Pliny the Elder described them and warned observers to mind their eyeballs) 🧪
November 27, 2024 at 8:19 PM
It occurs to me that many of you may never have seen a squirting cucumber in action, please allow me remedy that for you
As you may imagine, naturalists have been gobsmacked by these seed-spurting gourds for centuries (Pliny the Elder described them and warned observers to mind their eyeballs) 🧪
As you may imagine, naturalists have been gobsmacked by these seed-spurting gourds for centuries (Pliny the Elder described them and warned observers to mind their eyeballs) 🧪
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My first time being part of a published article! Everything about Dolomedes in one place. I wrote the section on parental care. 🕷️
I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen.
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I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ara...
Frontiers | Dolomedes fishing spider biology: gaps and opportunities for future research
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November 26, 2024 at 2:44 PM
My first time being part of a published article! Everything about Dolomedes in one place. I wrote the section on parental care. 🕷️
I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ara...
I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/ara...
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A Lancet editorial highlights the reality: nature & biodiversity underpin our survival. We must act decisively-75% of emerging diseases stem from disrupted ecosystems. There are ethical/moral arguments for protecting biodiversity. + Nature's health is our health. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Biodiversity loss: a health crisis
The Earth is approaching a critical threshold of irreversible biodiversity loss. World
leaders, environmental activists, and prominent researchers are gathered in Colombia
for the 16th meeting of the ...
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November 25, 2024 at 6:52 PM
A Lancet editorial highlights the reality: nature & biodiversity underpin our survival. We must act decisively-75% of emerging diseases stem from disrupted ecosystems. There are ethical/moral arguments for protecting biodiversity. + Nature's health is our health. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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November 20, 2024 at 2:30 PM