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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · 6d

#OTD 3 Oct 1990 35 years ago - Germany reunited - I grew up in East Germany what became then Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state - beautiful place in north-east on Baltic Sea coast - I view vistas of sea to symbolize freedom, democracy + opportunity that changed my life profoundly

#TagderDeutschenEinheit

chalk cliffs + Baltic Sea, Rügen Island, 1995

East German watchtower to search for people escaping East Germany at Baltic Sea, Kühlungsborn, 2023

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Steffi Lemke @steffi-lemke.de · 6d

20 Jahre Darßer Naturfilmfestival-im Oktober sind Naturschützer und Kreative an der Ostsee,um Natur zu bewundern und hieran zu erinnern:

„1990 war eine Sternstunde des deutschen Naturschutzes.
5 Nationalparks, 6 Biosphärenreservate und 3 Naturparks entstanden auf 4,5% der Landesfläche der DDR.“

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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · 8d

beautiful day in Washington, D.C. - sunny, 15C/60F right now, 23C/73F high - U.S. government shut down last night - Smithsonian museums will remain open until Monday (Oct 6) - after that, all museums will be closed to visitors + staff - employees will be furloughed

beautiful morning on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Nathan Harness @nathanharness.bsky.social · 8d

I found this rove beetle friend on the rainforest floor. They are so so fast, you can imaging me chasing it around with my camera just rolling around in the leaf litter. Just unbelievable colors. In person the rainbow iridescence is stunning. It’s hard to say much here beyond just wow.

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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · 12d

#FlyFriday

Apiocera pica Norris, 1936 (Apioceridae, USNMENT00832111) from Wandoo National Park, Western Australia collected in 2011 - more info here n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

#asiloidflies #USNMDiptera

fly specimen on insect pin in frontal view

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 13d

Each year more content moves into the #publicdoman and hence @biodivlibrary.bsky.social can make more articles freely available. Today I've added articles from the Annales of @socentomolfr.bsky.social 1923-1928 to BioStor biostor.org/issn/0037-9271 and these will appear in BHL shortly.

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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 14d

Lions across Africa are under threat from habitat loss, poaching, and wildlife trade.

A continent-wide survey of 132 lion subpopulations was conducted in collaboration with landscape managers and lion researchers to determine perceived threat severity.

[1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk

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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 14d

Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean, but support 25% of marine life + nearly 1 billion people. They’re at risk, but not lost. 🪸 🌏

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · 15d

Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?

Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!

More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

#SoilBiodiversity 🧪

A screenshot of a webpage making a call for papers announcement for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, focussed on soil and litter invertebrates. The page has a banner image photograph of a globular springtail facing towards the camera, with its head down, feeding on fungi on a decaying log.

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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · 19d

#FlyFriday

one of my favorite assassin flies - Sisyrnodytes subater Oldroyd, 1957 (Asilidae: Willistonininae, USNMENT00870084) - collected in north-western South Africa near Pella - more info here n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

#asiloidflies

fly specimen double-mounted on insect pin, frontal

fly specimen double-mounted on insect pin, dorsal

fly specimen double-mounted on insect pin, lateral

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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · 20d

@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

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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

candidate.hr-manager.net

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 20d

Yesterday was the 130th anniversary of the #ICZN, the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature. It was founded during the zoology congress in Leiden, organized by the then director the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Frederik Jentink.

black and white group photo of the international zoological congress, taken at the statue of Van der Werff, in the Van der Werff Park in Leiden in 1895.

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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 22d

@gbif.org is amazing. And so is Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), for photographing and putting online so many of their African wasps.

I can sit at home in Finland, and get a first impression of how well my Ugandan wasps fit a Madagascar species whose type specimen is in France. 🧪

Occurrence Detail 1019732979

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data.

www.gbif.org

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 24d

The BHL online collection just hit 200,000 titles! A title could be a single rare book or an entire 200-year journal run, so 200,000 titles is huge (63+ million pages!). Check out BHL's MAMMOTH collection here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org 📖 🧪 🦣 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ILoveBHL

A large orange-red shaggy mammoth with big white rusks, walking through the snow. There are trees and a rhino in the background.

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Volker Quaschning @volkerquaschning.bsky.social · 23d

Unsere #Klimaschutzpolitik reicht nicht mal mehr für das eigene #Klimaschutzgesetz. Die #Erderhitzung eskaliert – und die Regierung schaut weg 😡
Zeit für klare Stimmen bei der #Klimademo am Samstag! ✊
#Scientists4Future #FridaysforFuture

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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 29d

My amazing #Wiki colleague @tiagolubiana.bsky.social has released this lovely video on the #BHLImageExporer. This tool (bhl-gallery.toolforge.org) explores @biodivlibrary.bsky.social images in #Wikicommons. It facilities image reuse in the #Wikiverse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9i... #ILoveBHL

The BHL Image Explorer — A search tool for public domain biodiversity images

YouTube video by Tiago Lubiana

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Sep 6

AMNH is hiring a #curator! We are searching for an “Assistant Curator in #Climate #Physics: #Atmosphere or #Ocean”! Join us! careers.amnh.org/postings/4579 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

careers.amnh.org

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Been a while but well done @nytimes.com for todays #taxonomicfail (and @bfly52.bsky.social for pointing this out)

Do love a Spelling Syrphid Forum..

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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · Aug 30

So very pleased and proud to announce that our paper "Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills" has been published! #Wikidata #Bionomia #HiddenFigures acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills

Natural history collections document biodiversity and environmental change, supporting research, education, and conservation. Attribution in natural history collections is often inaccurate due to na...

acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wenn in Hamburg...
Heute abend läuft im Freiluftkino an der Uni der Film "Morenga", basierend auf dem gleichnamigen Roman, einer tollen, frühen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Genozid an den Herero und Nama Vorher gibt es eine Einführung von mir, und danach können wir diskutieren!

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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · Aug 6

#JobAlert #NatHist Smithsonian natural history museum is searching for 4 Museum Specialists in Entomology - 1 = Heteroptera coll, 2 = general coll management, 1 = informatics + data - deadline Aug 19 - 1 year (may be extended based on funds availability)

trustcareers.si.edu/postings/a15...

photo of USNM entomology collection and cabinets

tingid bug on pin (Allotingis immaculata Drake & Hambleton, 1934, holotype)

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Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · Aug 1

unfortunately not. Specimen is from National Museum of Namibia in Windhoek and GBIF record comes from me. It’s only record by
collector I have from NMNW. Did borrow several hundred more flies recently though and may come across more by same collector (and maybe a full name?)

Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social · Aug 1

#FlyFriday

rarely collected mydas-fly species Agaperemius hirtus Hesse, 1969 (Mydidae: Syllegomydinae; NMNW-H42889) - species is only known from 3 specimens - male from southern Namibia - more detail at @gbif.org record www.gbif.org/occurrence/1...

#asiloidflies

mydas fly specimen mounted on pin, lateral view

mydas fly specimen mounted on pin, dorsal view

mydas fly specimen mounted on pin, frontal view

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂 Rhipidia maculata; Dioctra linearis and Ravinia pernix. www.dipteraid.co.uk #flies #entomology #dipteraimaging

Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂 Rhipidia maculata; Head of a cranefly with pectinate antenna

Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂 Dioctra linearis, head of an Asilid fly (Robber Fly)

Just felt liking putting on some fly piccies! 🙂Ravinia pernix. Head of a parasitiod fly (Tachinidae)

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