Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 25/05/2026🪲 A PhD position in my lab will open soon! Work includes Caribbean fieldwork, visits to major European entomological collections, and cutting-edge morphology, phylogenomics & museomics. If you’re interested in beetle evolution and biodiversity research, consider applying! 🔬🌍 22919
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Honored to receive the 2026 Ross Taylor Bell & Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant from @coleopsoc.bsky.social🪲 Grateful to the Bell family for their support! Announcement: www.coleopsoc.org/ross-taylor-... If you love beetles, consider joining the Society! #Coleoptera #Entomology #ColeopSoccoleopsoc.orgRoss Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant – 2026 Awards - The Coleopterists SocietyThe Coleopterists Society is pleased to announce two winners of the 2026 Ross Taylor Bell and Joyce Rockenbach Bell Research Grant! The awardees are: Dr. Vinicius S. Ferreira for the […] 140
Reposted by Vinicius S. FerreiraAnurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Job #AJO31867, WDR-00057721 Postdoctoral Associate, CALS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US 05565
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026🪲 !Deadlines! 🪲 Registration with a contribution (talk or poster): up to 1st May Registration without any contribution: up to 15th May Abstract submission (talk or poster): up to 15th May Registration form here: forms.gle/V8pWKzNKiKji... 011
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I spent a great day at the Zoological Collection of University of Halle! I saw not only important beetle materials, but also lots of other fun stuff, including a really interesting collection of domesticated animals and some taxidermized animals! 030
Reposted by Vinicius S. FerreiraLaurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Calling all OrthoFinder users! We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny. GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... github.com/lauriebelch/... (1/10)biorxiv.org 110548
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026New open-access paper in Systematic Entomology 🪲🔬 Review of Omethidae with a key to all genera, species checklist, and habitus images. Once and for all, “Telegeusidae” are Omethidae 😄 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1102
Reposted by Vinicius S. FerreiraFly School @dipteracourse.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Join us in Costa Rica for Fly School IV! Applications are now open. Visit dipterists.org/fly_school.h... for application & info. @dipterists.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @bertonemyia.bsky.social @ariannatc.bsky.social @phorid.bsky.social 02612
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 17/01/2026🚨 New paper! 🚨 We sequenced the mitochondrial genome of Hypocephalus armatus, a rare mole beetle endemic to Brazil’s Cerrado & Caatinga, helping clarify its long-mysterious evolutionary placement. First paper of the year with colleagues from UFRJ: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...academic.oup.comMitochondrial genome and phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic mole beetle, Hypocephalus armatus Desmarest, 1832 (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea)Abstract. The mole beetle, Hypocephalus armatus Desmarest, 1832, is an enigmatic insect with an uncertain phylogenetic placement. Hypocephalus armatus is e 0143
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Dear colleagues and friends, Yes, it’s been said, many times, many ways, but I still mean it just as much: Happy Holidays! Wishing you a joy-filled holiday season! 140
Reposted by Vinicius S. FerreiraThe Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025#LiteratureNotice Barbosa et al. Phylogenomic analyses of rare Neotropical lineages reveal the independent loss of antennal rami in railroad-worm beetles (Coleoptera: Phengodidae) doi.org/10.3897/asp.... #Beetle #Beetles #railroadwormbeetles 092
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I’m back! 🎉 And Happy to share our latest paper describing a new subfamily of paedomorphic net-winged beetles endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest! The paper is open access, and available at academic.oup.com/isd/article/... #ColeopteraResearch #Coleoptera #Entomology @coleopsoc.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comPhylogenomics supports a new subfamily of paedomorphic net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) endemic to the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot. The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is one of the most endangered and diverse biomes on the planet. The region houses thousands of endemic species. Among these 092
Reposted by Vinicius S. FerreiraNatural History Collections and Museomics @nhcm.pensoft.net · 12/09/2025We are thrilled to present our first completed topical collection, "Entomological Outreach Collections and Community Engagement." Read all about it here! blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/12/b...blog.pensoft.netBugs in drawers: entomological outreach collections and their role in community engagementA completed topical collection in the journal Natural History Collections and Museomics explores insect outreach drawers, their uses and best practices. 02611
Reposted by Vinicius S. FerreiraJoan Díaz-Calafat @jdiazcalafat.bsky.social · 06/06/2024In some cases, while mating, winged males will carry the wingless females. This is called phoretic mating. 📷 Jason D. Roberts in t.co/sx6ai0nQJ5 2204
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 09/01/2025First day of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic! Some goats, nice sightseeings…but no beetles…yet! 060
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Where are the #coleoptera folks of BlueSky? 0114
Reposted by Vinicius S. FerreiraElli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 09/12/2024PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...trees-dla.ac.ukEvolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL TreesThis project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species... 04055
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 08/01/2025A simple, but beautiful, #Macraspis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) to lighten the mood! Photographed in Biritiba Mirim, São Paulo, Brazil! 0142
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 21/12/2023Our revision and phylogeny of Thonalmus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) is finally out, with the discovery of 7 new species! In your opinion, which of these is prettier? Publication available for download at: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #AmazingBeetles 1205
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 10/11/2023This #FossilFriday is also special for us, because we have a new paper on Mysteriomorphidae (Coleoptera)! Check it out: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 120
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 10/11/2023I am immensely honored to have been the guest speaker at @coleopsoc.bsky.social annual meeting. This is a great recognition from the community and an incredible opportunity to share some of the research I have been doing! #EntSoc23 0122
Reposted by Vinicius S. FerreiraThe Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · 03/11/2023#LiteratureNotice Keller. On the firefly (#Coleoptera: #Lampyridae) species of Carl Linnaeus centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi... #Beetle #Beetles #FireFlies #Taxonomy 011
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 16/10/2023If you want to learn more or simply have cool beetles in your timeline follow the @coleopsoc.bsky.social profile! Fun(ny) beetles, funding opportunities and an amazing community to be part of! 000
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 16/10/2023This weekend, the Museum of Nature held its annual #Openhouse, where the public visited our research and collections facilities! I estimate that more than 2,000 people showed up! It was great to share with the public what we do in the museum, and I hope we inspired people! 040
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 29/09/2023I am pleased to announce that, in 2024, I will be joining the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (SDEI) as the Curator and head of the Coleoptera section, taking care of more than 2 million beetles and 15.000 types! Stay tuned for future opportunities!🪲 050
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 15/09/2023Photo from earlier this week, but #FossilFriday is the perfect excuse for me to post this here and share the wonders of working in the Canadian Museum of Nature! A mosasaurus skull passing by the halls of the museum! 041
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023Just another normal day at the Canadian Museum of Nature, with a giant snail in the hallways… 191
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 05/09/2023How many gels one need to run before realizing their PCR didn’t work?? #labdrama 020
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 22/08/2023Our lab manager at the CMN is so thoughtful that he even assigned a bench space AND put my name on it with my favorite colors. I’ve never been pampered like this in a lab! 010
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 01/08/2023Everybody plays the fool, sometimes! Phymata sp. (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) preying on a Yellowjacket (Vespula sp., Hymenoptera, Vespidae). So many discoveries in my backyard! 130
Vinicius S. Ferreira @neolycus.bsky.social · 31/07/2023Not my favorite group, but definitely acquiring a new appreciation level after a closer look up at them in the wild! 001