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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 6d

Webpage on the hidden curriculum of applying to ecology and evolution grad programs in the US (a lot of the info applies to other fields too, but perhaps less well): applyingtoeeb.info

#AcademicSky 🧪

Applying to US Graduate School in Ecology, Evolution, and Related Fields

applyingtoeeb.info

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 15d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘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

www.theguardian.com

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Sofía Muñoz-Tobar @smunoztobar.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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 ...

www.nature.com

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · 21d

Looks awesome. I am afraid to ask how expensive it is…

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 21d

How Did Hands Evolve? The Answer Is Behind You. (My story of some surprising evo-devo!) nyti.ms/42Cg8xH

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 28d

xkcd.com/3140

Biology Department

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yeah, there are a lot of discussions happening on the Entomological Collections Network listserv. Not sure how we are going to do revisions with specimens from European museums. Maybe will have to hand carry everything.

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Aug 26

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 · Aug 25

www.wired.com/story/usda-a...

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.”

www.wired.com

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Aug 3

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 · Jul 29

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 · Jul 15

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 · Jul 10

Found myself in the Natural History Museum in St. Galen where they had fossil Eurypterids

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jul 8

Found a friend today in the Swiss Alps.

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jul 7

Dutch, I believe.

Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jul 4

Found insect art at the Kunsthaus Zürich

Artwork with beetles in the Kunsthaus Zürich

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · Jul 1

In the 1980s, many thought tuberculosis was on the path to elimination. In reality, more were dying from the disease than ever.

The second article in our series on Tuberculosis: ourworldindata.org/the-end-of-t...

The end of tuberculosis that wasn’t

In the 1980s, many thought tuberculosis was on the path to elimination. In reality, more were dying from the disease than ever.

ourworldindata.org

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The Coleopterists Society @coleopsoc.bsky.social · Jun 27

#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

Phylogeny of the Ocyolinus group of Xanthopygina, as reconstructed from a maximum likelihood analysis of a hybrid enrichment dataset using IQTREE. Analysis from Brunke and Chatzimanolis (2024).

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jun 23

New paper with Adam Brunke describing a new species of Phanolinopsis from Guatemala. Paper here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V20P...

drive.google.com

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Adam Haberski @ahaberski.bsky.social · Jun 17

I find #caterpillars more interesting than adult #moths and #butterflies. What do you think?

Waved sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa)

#entomology #insect #nature #photography

A close up macro photograph of a sphinx moth caterpillar. The caterpillar is green with red legs and yellow stripes.

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thankful to the College of Arts and Sciences at UTC that hosted a writing retreat this week: providing a place to write away from your office, serving lunch and offering a modest stipend.

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jun 3

Finally officially published with page numbers and everything -- fun work with Adam Brunke during my sabbatical in Ottawa

resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gastritis over Gastrisus Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Xanthopygina): Resolving a major taxonomic impediment with phylogenomics

Comprehensive phylogeny of Xanthopygina rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), including 30 of 33 genera, was generated by anchored hybrid enrichment of 1229 nuclear, protein-encoding loci. We re.....

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jun 3

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

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Stelios Chatzimanolis @schatzimanolis.bsky.social · Jun 2

Let’s worry about the knots on the malaise trap next year he said. Well, next year is here and FML.

An impossible knot by the head of a malaise trap

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