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Josh Gibson, Ph.D.

@drstrangeant.bsky.social
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CT microscopist at UIUC's Beckman Institute (@beckmanillinois.bsky.social) 🔬 Entomologist and biomechanist by training 🐜 Sometimes tweet about Pokemon. Furret Aficionado. Opinions my own.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 17h
Faculty curator position in vertebrate paleontology! Great opportunity to work with outstanding colleagues at LSUMNS: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
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Assistant Professor
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's nothing quite like walking the white sands and spotting a large bright orange lump 🧡 Ms Phidippus cardinalis #EmotionalSupportSpood
Large floofy jumping spider in the shade of a small plant in the white sand; she's bright red-orange on top, just a stunner. She's peering up at you The lass on a leaf of the plant, peering up to right of frame
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
Front page of the website
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey! Jobs as Assistant or Associate Prof in the Univ. of Kentucky Dept of Biology w/focus on Cell and Molecular Neuroscience. Peeps using iPSC/organoid models, or those working with invertebrate model organisms be sure to apply. Be a colleague with @anncmorris.bsky.social !
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Biology
The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, with expertise in the field of Cell an...
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Webspinners have to be one of the coziest insects, at least the girlies.
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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Rajendhran Rajakumar @rajeerajakumar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Ants #Genomics 🐜
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Transposable elements as evolutionary catalysts of ant macrodiversity
Transposable elements (TEs) are key contributors to genome evolution, yet their macroevolutionary roles in adaptive radiations remain poorly understood, as high-quality genomic resources at sufficient...
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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sorry for my outburst here's a bug
my hand holding a polyphemus moth
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molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
raised from a baby hotdog
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Meteorologist Dan Smith @dansmithweather.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had the opportunity to interview @giuliarossi.bsky.social on this research in late 2024! I didn't include it here, but she also set one of the slow-mo vids to Unk's "Walk It Out" and it fits *perfectly*.
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Moment of Science: Vampire Bat Metabolism
It's the Running of the Vampire Bats! Here's how researchers recently found out that these unique mammals can rely solely on blood to fuel their wings and legs. 🦇🦇🦇
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
Snootfly! 😍 I was very sad that no mourning scorpionflies (panorpa lugubris) appeared for me last year; this boy chilled on my finger for a bit today, and that makes up for it. Thanks boo. Needed this today. 🖤 🌿🪰
Red-bodied flying insect, with black wings, legs, and a very long snoot; resting on the tip of my thumb
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Princeton Neuroscience Institute @princetonneuro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📢 We’re hiring! PNI is seeking a full-time Lecturer in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in computational modeling and human cognitive neuroscience. Priority consideration: Nov. 30 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/193741 #NeuroSkyence #NeuroJobs
exterior photo/rendering of the PNI and psychology building
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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Assistant Professor position at University of Michigan. Applicants in all areas of cellular/molecular biology in prokaryotes, plants, and animals are encouraged to apply. lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...
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MCDB Solicits Applications for an Assistant Professor | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
The faculty position will be tenure track with a university year appointment starting August 25, 2027 or January 1, 2028. Apply now through October 1, 2026.
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · 20/09/2026
⚡ Ground Control to Major Tom... To celebrate the opening of our annual Spider Pavilion, we need your help naming our newest resident: a David Bowie Huntsman spider! With a lot of star power, Heteropoda davidbowie deserves a stage-worthy name! Drop your suggestions in the comments below. — 🧵
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Army ants (Eciton mexicanum) are specialist predators of other ants. Here, a group of workers take down a Neoponera huntress ant in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.
Macro photo of four dark red ants with orange casters surrounding a larger metallic blue/black ant on a mossy rock.
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👀 The face of a child shamelessly trying to steal a pitcher plant's food smh #EmotionalSupportSpood
Small Phidippus jumping spider peering out at you from under the hood of a hooded pitcher plant
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Beetle 2/11 - Sophiodela #Art #SciArt
illustration of a tiger beetle, a relatively long beetle with primarily dark green-blue iridescent body interwoven with equally shiny orange-yellow spots. The jaws are as big as the head, the thighs covered in bristles.
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Arthropod Photo of the Week: September 16, 2026 Grasshopper Chortophaga viridifasciata Orthoptera: Acrididae Observed in Oklahoma, USA By Inge Vautrin (@ingevautrin.bsky.social), Oklahoma, USA #arthropodPOTW
A close-up of a pink grasshopper facing the camera and eating a green leaf. The background is out of focus, showing dry grass.
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 15/09/2026
The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270
Two Assistant Professor Positions in Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes

Description
The Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin seeks to fill two faculty positions in the areas of Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes, broadly defined. We are looking for candidates who are advancing (1) evolutionary biology or (2) the mechanistic understanding of organismal processes. These positions will be filled at the level of Assistant Professor.


Qualifications
Candidates should be using innovative approaches in evolutionary biology and/or the mechanistic understanding of whole-organism processes. Mechanistic processes include, but are not limited to, behavior, biomechanics, cognition, physiology, and development. The phylogenetic scope of the Evolutionary Biology position may include eukaryotes, prokaryotes, viruses, and the scale may include individual molecules to entire ecosystems and beyond. Candidates for either position may employ experimental, theoretical, or computational frameworks, or a combination thereof. Special consideration will be given to applicants with demonstrated potential for integrating across our target disciplines. 

We seek applicants with a strong record of high-quality research, publications, potential for extramural funding, and a commitment to excellence in teaching and mentorship. A PhD or equivalent is required at the time of appointment, and postdoctoral research experience is strongly recommended.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You're watching a sand bubbler crab hard at work. And bubbler crabs have one job: make balls. Lots of balls. With your mouth parts. They're filter-feeders/detrivores, combing through damp sand for microscopic food & the balls let them organize the "cleaned" sand so they don't nom it twice.
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Come work here, it is a fun place and we would love to have you as our colleague: careers.amnh.org/postings/4923 #Lepidoptera #Insect #Entomology #AMNH
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Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Invertebrate Zoology
The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor with expertise in the evolution of Lepidop...
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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh my. This Clouded Yellow has just let me photograph it on my phone. Just look at the colour of its eye 😁 So glad this beautiful butterflies have turned up on patch this year.
Close up of a Clouded Yellow butterfly with its striking green eyeClose up of a Clouded Yellow butterfly with its striking green eyes Clouded Yellow butterfly in the dewy grass
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Laura Ross @laurarossevo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!
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Harris Wang @harriswang.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📢 Our Dept. of Systems Biology @columbiasysbio.bsky.social has a faculty opening in the broad area of quantitative biology (Comp/AI/Bio, etc.). Come join our department in NYC! Please circulate/RT. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192256 Deadline: Nov 1, 2026. systemsbiology.columbia.edu
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Home | Columbia University Department of Systems Biology
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でんか @k-hermit.com · 04/09/2026
かわいいすぎて変な声でた
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Come be our colleague!!! TT position in Evolution careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...
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Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We're hiring! Our search for an Assistant Professor in Arthropod Biodiversity just opened. Come join us at UC Berkeley in the amazing Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management! Feel free to contact me if you have questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05523
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Assistant Professor - Arthropod Biodiversity - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Ash Whiffin @ashwhiffin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We currently have TWO collections-based vacancies at National Museums Scotland! As part of the upcoming DiSSCo UK program, we’re seeking a Digitiser and Senior digitiser to work with our insect collection: careers.nms.ac.uk/vacancies (Apply by 31st August) #Digitisation #Insects #MuseumJobs
An multi-camera imaging set-up at NMSPreserved bumblebee specimens with data labels below each individual
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
What exactly are you looking at here? Beside artwork by Paul Kämpf? The answer is going to a take a bit of unpacking, but it's a ruby-tailed cuckoo wasp, Chrysis ignita. Let's start by looking at it from another angle... (🧑‍🎨: Paul Kämpf)
I believe this is a painting "Chrysis cf. ignita by Paul Kämpf".  It appears to show a blue-green bejeweled wasp head and a red-orange bejeweled tail shoved together into what looks like two interlocked spheres.
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Dr. Allyson Sgro @allysonsgro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Interested in how cells communicate and process information to work together? Love microscopy and seeing things no human has seen before for the first time? Finishing up your Ph.D. or position in early 2027? We are looking for an experimental postdoc to join the lab. Please reach out!
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voigtvision.bsky.social @voigtvision.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🤩 It's time for some invertebrate eye candy! 🤩 Here's a ctenophore (or comb jelly) stained with phalloidin by John Alexander Salazar Hernandez & imaged on an exaSPIM built by Kaelin Wulf of the team of @adamkglaser.bsky.social as part of the FHL Functional Biodiversity course #microscopy
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Nessa O'Connor @nessocon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We are recruiting 4 Postdoctoral Fellows! 🌊🌊🌊 Applications are open now! Deadline is 10th October 2026. More details and updates here: climate-hub.ie/msdm/ #postdoc #marine #MarieSkłodowska-Curie #MarineLife!
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Marine Species Distribution Modelling – AIB Trinity Climate Hub
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Eli Amson @eliamson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨Job alert🚨: Research Group Leader position in Entomology 🪰🦗 @smnstuttgart.bsky.social naturkundemuseum-bw.helixjobs.com/_/jobad?prj=...
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Gruppenleiter*in (m/w/d) für die Systematik der Insekten (Diptera, Hemiptera oder Orthoptera) – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
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DTL @dtl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A pipevine swallowtail on red bird of paradise 🪶
A black blue and orange butterfly, sipping from a yellow flower with other orange and yellow blooms and buds around 
©️DTL 2026
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Now that I'm home I can process my many, many photos from Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 🥳 [apparently I took over 2,300] First up to share is this super spiny assassin #bug. So metal 🤘 #Reduviidae: Salyavata cf. macmahanae
A mottled brown and black squiggled assassin bug sits on a leaf. It has black and brown banded legs and the body is edged with large sharp spinesA mottled brown and black squiggled assassin bug sits on a leaf. It has black and brown banded legs and the body is edged with large sharp spines
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Another neat #bug from Costa Rica, but this time it's very smooth and beautiful, like a little abstract painting. I love the iridescent green punctures! Hnnnggg 😋 #Scutelleridae: #Pachycoris torridus
A smooth shield shaped bug sits on a white background facing right. It has orange to reddish circular markings, ringed with dark color on a light olive colored background. The body is covered with fine metallic green punctures.A smooth shield shaped bug sits on a white background facing right. It has orange to reddish circular markings, ringed with dark color on a light olive colored background. The body is covered with fine metallic green punctures.Close up of a smooth shield shaped bug showing orange to reddish circular markings, ringed with dark color on a light olive colored background, stippled with fine metallic green punctures.
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ms Methocha, a Thynnidae flower wasp who, like a large number of wasps, traded in her wings for Ant
Dark shiny red slender ant-like wasp running through white sand. She has no wings
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Found a teddy bear out front of my house. Tiniest teddy bear I've ever seen. Couldn't believe it.
a jumping spider looking so cute oh my god. All balled up so cute. on a leaf.
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🏳️‍⚧️Mel💜they/them🏳️‍⚧️ @meltheparadox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My uncle in North Carolina just sent me this picture of a Hickory Horned Devil, which is the large, striking caterpillar stage of the Regal Moth (Citheronia regalis). The largest caterpillar native to North America. They commonly grow between 5 to 6 inches long (12.5 to 15 cm). Absolutely gorgeous
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2
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Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva).
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I did it I got all the krabbys
a card binder with 11 different krabby TCG cards, one duplicate, and one extra non-TCG krabby card
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Attention: dream job alert!! 🚨 This is *my* home department, which I unabashedly love! We're a super collegial group (that really protects & supports junior faculty 💪) and Davis is a great place to live. Happy to chat more about what it's like to be a faculty here
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Inside one entomologist’s quest to pin down every Alaska insect ⤵️ @Adn.com profiled Derek Sikes, Ph.D., ESA member and curator of the University of Alaska Museum insect collection. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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One entomologist is on a quest to pin down every Alaska insect. Thousands remain.
Alaska may contain as many as 30,000 insect species. Scientists have identified only about 9,000 of them.
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