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Stelios Chatzimanolis

@schatzimanolis.bsky.social
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Professor of Entomology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, rove beetles (Staphylinidae), faunistics of southeastern USA, parenting sites.google.com/site/thechatzimano…

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I cannot imagine starting now as a brand new professor in USA in STEM and have expectations of bringing in grant money for tenure/promotion www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Got this in the mail today @mcaterino.bsky.social I will bring at ESA to get it signed!
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My workplace really wants you to be able to locate the safety data sheet.
A humungus data safety sheet mounted on the wall
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Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint @toussaintlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
JOB ALERT // 🔥New Permanent Research & Collection Officer position at the Geneva NHM @mhngeneve.bsky.social 🔥We are looking for an entomologist to join our team at the Museum !🦋🐜🐞🦗🦟🔬🧬🧪🇨🇭. Please RT massively ! Ad here (in French but don’t hesitate to DM for details : www.geneve.ch/administrati...
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Chargé ou Chargée de recherche en entomologie à 80-100%
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant Ecology. Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/192493
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New paper published today with Adam Brunke and Louri Klemann-Junior: Two new species of Nordus and new illustrated key for the genus. Paper is here bioone.org/journals/the... Rather proud of the keys we produced, inspired by Steve Marshall's work.
A graph of one of the illustrated keys for Nordus
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Starting the revision of Phanolinus; here are the specimens from FMNH. More trips on the works for London, Berlin and Vienna to borrow specimens.
A box with Phanolinus specimens from FMNH.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Got a pair of forceps for a car repair (long story) that are almost good to use as insect forceps. They are plastic and now I am wondering if we can 3D print them.
A plastic pair of forceps with a pen for scale
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David Shorthouse @dshorthouse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
PyMapper github.com/CalebHendren... by Caleb Hendren is desktop-capable & "...essentially a remake of SimpleMappr in Python." 😍
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GitHub - CalebHendren/PyMappr
Contribute to CalebHendren/PyMappr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Where post-it notes go to die after the end of a revision
A collection of discarded museum labels made of post it notes
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
New paper published with Stephanie Swenson: A revision of the genus Plociopterus Kraatz (Staphylinidae: Xanthopygina) and the evolution of spectacular secondary sexual structures. PDF here drive.google.com/file/d/1okNh...
A photograph of a live specimen of Plociopterus polychromos Chatzimanolis & Swenson
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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🧪 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 "Study finds number of insect species on Earth is more than double previous estimates" 🎁link to a wonderful article by @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com about our #OA PNAS paper doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... @gdfcf.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
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Study finds number of insect species on Earth is more than double previous estimates
Research shows there could be at least 20 million different insect species
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thrilled to share this open access paper that represents the bulk of the work done during my 2024–25 sabbatical work at INABIO in Quito! 18 new genera, 339 new species, and the species accumulation curves still headed for the sky! doi.org/10.11646/meg...
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Scraping the surface of a hyperdiverse group—new genera and species of Ecuadorian Pselaphinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), with an emphasis on the cloud forest fauna | Megataxa
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Lord Howe Island got rid of its rats and mice – now cockroaches and bugs are bouncing back
Rodents arrived on the subtropical island more than a century ago, decimating its native flora and fauna – but its invertebrates are once again booming
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures
For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...
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Marianne Alleyne @cotesia.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I have very similar experiences, except the Nobel prize bit, and such feelings of sadness and dread. “I looked to this country as a beacon all those years ago, and I made the affirmative decision to create a life for myself here.”
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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.
Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A love letter to the beetles of Crete. mapress.com/zt/article/v... we recorded more than 2200 species from the island, including +350 endemics. Inspired by the work of @andrewjohnston.bsky.social and @mcaterino.bsky.social on the California island beetles. Email or DM for pdf
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An annotated checklist of Coleoptera (Insecta) from the island of Crete, Greece | Zootaxa
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"I love biting midges because I know what their hearts look like.” @theguardian.com spoke with insect taxonomist Art Borkent about the vital importance of taxonomy—and the challenges this foundational biological science faces. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?
Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be…
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It seems like the days where NSF was funding Biology might be over. For now. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking
Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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No evidence that haplodiploidy favors the evolution of eusociality | PNAS
The potential role of haplodiploid sex determination in promoting the evolution of altruism and eusociality has been the subject of intense debate ...
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Katie Marshall @kemarshall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 24/01/2026
The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole. 🇦🇶 🐧 🇬🇱 🐻‍❄️
White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
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The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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The low life expectancy of Americans is not just about deaths among young people
Even those who reach 65 are at a disadvantage relative to peer countries.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
if you need a moment's distraction from Events, pls consider @monotomidae.bsky.social's extremely good new paper on passandrid beetles stridulating with their armpits. THERE'S VIDEO, WITH SOUND link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Armpit squeaks: first recorded sounds, video, and images of the stridulatory apparatus in two parasitic flat bark beetles (Coleoptera: Passandridae) - Zoomorphology
Zoomorphology - Stridulation is an important sound production mechanism in many groups of insects but is less well-known in beetles (Coleoptera). Recently a new sound production mechanism was...
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What happens when you ran a malaise trap in the southeast in December.
A shitton of ladybird beetles
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Rather humbling experience to revisit your data from 20+ years ago and expect them to make sense.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Finally the Plociopterus revision is coming to an end. All species figured out, photographed and finally organized by species name. Now to write these descriptions and diagnosis…
Drawers of all the Plociopterus specimens
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Gonna get my Sunday dose of Premier league. Because worrying about Mo Salah is much better for my mental health than worrying about the implications of stopping a generation of kids from getting the Hep B vaccine.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Do you want to find out what David Sharp, the famous 19th century entomologist called “the most extraordinary male characters of any Coleopterous insect”? Come to my talk tomorrow at 2:05pm in Portland Ballroom 252.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I am so proud to see not one, not two but three undergraduate students of mine (during the last 5 years) at ESA this year, being successful at their graduate programs.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Curious if we all going to make it to Portland for the Entomological society meeting with all the air travel upheaval
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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I will have an opening for a Ph.D. student (M.S. required) to begin Summer 2026, studying impacts to high Appalachian arthropod communities following Hurricane Helene. I'll be at Ent. Soc. America meetings next week. Please point interested students my way. More: sites.google.com/site/caterin...
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The Caterino Arthropod Biodiversity Lab - OPPORTUNITIES
OPPORTUNITIES Ph.D. research assistantship Start date: Summer (preferred) or Fall, 2026 Compensation: · $35,000 per year (plus 2% annual cost of living increase) for up to 5 years · Ful...
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David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
After almost 30 years, the Tree of Life Web Project has been retired as an actively growing site. It will be unavailable until we can build a static site that contains its final content. More details at subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
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The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our small research entomological collection just surpassed 40,000 databased records! Just beetles, and of course not everything ID yet but fulfilling nevertheless. ecdysis.org/collections/...
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Ecdysis University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Insect Collection
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Fear and hopelessness’: one in four professors in the US south are leaving
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
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Sofía Muñoz-Tobar @smunoztobar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
A groundbreaking discovery from the Hollín formation in the province of Napo- Ecuador, gives an insight into Amazonian plant and arthropods biodiversity during the Cretaceous #Biodiversity #Ecuador www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests - Communications Earth & Environment
Cretaceous amber from the Ecuadorian Napo region provides exceptional evidence of a resinous forest ecosystem and diverse arthropod fauna in equatorial Gondwana, as revealed by integrated analyses of ...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 17/09/2025
How Did Hands Evolve? The Answer Is Behind You. (My story of some surprising evo-devo!) nyti.ms/42Cg8xH
Gray's Anatomy illustration of a hand
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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Biology Department
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Assistant Professor of Microbiology position available at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga apply.interfolio.com/172734
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
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Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
A Liverpool and a Man city fan (me and my daughter) are going to a Man United vs Everton game in a few hours. Who do we boo more?
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Jess Awad @parasitoidrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Generating new names is not the same thing as understanding biodiversity. I appreciate the #NewSpecies hype, but a single-minded fixation on novelty devalues revisionary work, which is more difficult and often a lot more useful. #TaxonomyTuesday
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Just submitted my first (single-spaced) 300 page manuscript. It took ~2 years of writing and I do hope a journal will publish it, despite its length. If you are one of the reviewers reading this, thank you.
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Found myself in the Natural History Museum in St. Galen where they had fossil Eurypterids
Fossil eurypterids
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Found a friend today in the Swiss Alps.
A photo of a ginormous black slug
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Found insect art at the Kunsthaus Zürich
Artwork with beetles in the Kunsthaus Zürich
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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I am here to report that it is a extremely easy to ignore all USA doom news the moment you leave the country
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