There’ll be several opportunities to join the group, starting w/ a PhD studentship via the BBSRC-NRP Doctoral Training Partnership.

Team up w/ us, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social & @berasymbionts.bsky.social to answer how microbes shape insect behavior:
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mic...

@bhamlalab.bsky.social Maybe some of the artists you work with might be interested?

The difference is clear. Listing decisions are to be made on the basis of scientific evidence of endangerment. Only critical habitat decisions can weigh economic impact.
www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/es...

Such soothing voices. Such <aaaaarrrgggghhhhh!!!> topic.

That helps. We never gave that soft cuticle behind the peg a name (we describe its function in a previous paper). But I agree that saying "it" is dorsal to the peg and lip should suffice.

Current version: "the region to the right of the peg when the beetle is upright and ventrally facing left, referred to here as soft cuticle."

But that sounds unscientific to me. Can you help us sound smarter? Is the soft cuticle interior to the peg (i)? Dunno.

Not sure if we should actually claim her as Dutch - technically she was German. But I won’t tell if you won’t.

I’m impressed by detail in the Ruysch paintings. It was fun to try to find all the critters. One docent pointed them all out for me. Fun to see that she was also enamored by the paintings.

MSM is well-represented. Not just the Suriname plates.

(We have two of the Suriname books at Illinois - I visit them yearly - but those are not colored). I also only saw the colored plates at the BP gallery.

The whole museum was a very pleasant surprise.

Some day I want to learn more about and then write about the importance of these women to the arts AND to science: Sibylla Merian, Herolt, Monincks, van Rijk, Ruysch, Withoos, de Heer, van Oosterwijck, Ykens, etc.
(This is a detail from a Ruysch painting from 1687)

Here are just a few of those details.