@shanemce.bsky.social
Naturalist | Taxonomist Drosophilidae | former Editor of Rec Aust Mus 1995-2023 | Australian Gadigal Country | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7747-789X
High res images of the seldom seen drosophilid genus Luzonimyia by McEvey (2025) doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
26.05.2025 00:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I keep seeing news stories saying one measles patient can infect as many as 18 people. This is a misunderstanding of the R0 value. 18 is the *average* number of secondary cases infected by a person w/ measles, not the maximum. A single super-spreader can infect far more than 18 people.
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Just out! The 4th edition of Authors of Fly Names containing over 7100 names of people who authored a fly name hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications...
01.01.2025 21:43 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 2
It is not widely known that Drosophila funebris not D. melanogaster is the type species of the family Drosophilidae… I’ve used D. funebris to illustrate morphology #Drosophilidae #Diptera #flydayfriday @dipteracourse.bsky.social @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
26.02.2025 06:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From my chapter (with David Grimaldi) on #Drosophilidae in the Manual of Afrotropical #Diptera I have further enhanced some morphological illustrations—McEvey 2022 #flydayfriday @dipteracourse.bsky.social @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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From my chapter (with David Grimaldi) on #Drosophilidae in the Manual of Afrotropical #Diptera I have further enhanced some morphological illustrations—McEvey 2022 #flydayfriday @dipteracourse.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
26.02.2025 05:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Detailed hi-res images of a poorly known, but distinctive, genus—Mulgravea Bock—in the #Diptera family #Drosophilidae. Specimens from New Guinea and the type locality in Queensland. @dipteracourse.bsky.social McEvey, 2025 doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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The lovely animals that visit
28.12.2024 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0McEvey, Shane (2024). Colocasiomyia stamenicola (Diptera: Drosophilidae)—high resolution diagnostic images. figshare. Figure. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
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Oooh bluesky on Altmetric
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It's been a good year for @mfenner.bsky.social Rogue Scholar blog.front-matter.io/posts/report... #persistentidentifiers #blogs
17.12.2024 10:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I've just assigned DOIs to 3399 articles in the Journal of Conchology from 1874 to 2005. Assigning DOIs is easy, but the gathering & checking of historic article data takes time (even with AI). All these articles are now discoverable & easily citable: e.g doi.org/10.5962/p.39... #RetroPIDs #BHLib
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Colour drawing of a Eucalypt tree with many different hollows, surrounded by drawings of the 19 animals that use those hollows. Tree and animal species associated with the Eucalypt Open Forests of south-eastern Australia.
My dream is to get these 'Tree hollows are animal homes' images into as many schools, homes and hands as possible - can you help?
This is the A5 postcard version of 'Tree hollows are animal homes #1 Eucalypt Open Forest south-eastern Australia'. www.paperbarkwriter.com/product/tree...
A yellow and white flower on red sand
A gecko on a rock, with its tongue out
3 people in canoes on a river
a seal, photographed upside-down underwater
Expect posts about biodiversity, historic literature, open science, digital collections, wildlife observations & nature adventures. Let’s connect! 🌿📚🔗 #Biodiversity #BioDivLibrary #SciArt #OpenAccess #OpenScience #iNaturalist #WomenInSTEMM #HerNaturalHistory #StripedPossums #Platypus #Thylacines 3/3
14.12.2024 08:30 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An historic illustration of a banksia
An historic illustration of a green and yellow parrot
An historic illustration of a kangaroo
An historic illustration of a Thylacine
I’m passionate about bringing historic biodiversity knowledge into the modern research network of scholarly research using persistent identifiers #RetroPIDs. This year, I’m also proud to be part of Homeward Bound, a global leadership initiative for women in STEMM. #TeamHB9 2/3
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An historic illustration of 3 fairy wrens
An historic illustration of a black and white possum in a tree
A historic book on a book scanner, open to a page showing historic illustrations of 5 colourful parrots
A woman standing in front of a bookshelf filled with historic bound journals
Hi Bluesky, I’m Nicole, Manager of the Australian branch of the Biodiversity Heritage Library @bhl-au.bsky.social, the world’s largest online repository of biodiversity literature. I work with museums, herbaria & libraries to make their collections openly accessible, discoverable & connected. 1/3
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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:
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So anyway, I had this idea that everyone, particularly young people, should learn what is taught in law school.
I also had the idea that the way it is taught to young people is boring.
It wasn't until law school that I realized how interesting this stuff is.
The result ⤵️
(I am cross-posting)
Microscope photograph in side view of a brilliant metallic blue wasp in the genus Chrysis with black wings, dead and pinned through the thorax. The photo shows tremendous detail of the fine hairs and pits on the insect's body.
Wide angle photograph of a glass-topped museum drawer filled with little white trays full of small insects. The trays are labeled "Chrysis spp." and other various species names in the genus Chrysis.
Some of what I do as an entomology curator is Chrysis management.
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A tale of two platforms:
BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀
