Stelios Chatzimanolis

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 🧪

‘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/us-news/2025...

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 ...

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...

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

Gray's Anatomy illustration of a hand

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

Biology Department

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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.

Assistant Professor of Microbiology position available at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga apply.interfolio.com/172734

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/story/usda-a...

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?

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

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.

Fossil eurypterids

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

A photo of a ginormous black slug

Found a friend today in the Swiss Alps.

Dutch, I believe.

Artwork with beetles in the Kunsthaus Zürich

Found insect art at the Kunsthaus Zürich

I am here to report that it is a extremely easy to ignore all USA doom news the moment you leave the country

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.

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...

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).

#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

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

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

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

Waved sphinx (Ceratomia undulosa)

#entomology #insect #nature #photography

A small cubicle with a laptop

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.

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.....

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/...

‘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

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An impossible knot by the head of a malaise trap

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

Unfortunately this is a very small part of my job

Picture of my work desk with a microscope and a shittone of specimen trays

It must be the “sort all the specimens that accumulated over the academic year” season

AGRAWAL | Finding Your Resistance: Personal Struggle and Political Action The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

Finding your resistance!

www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

I'm thrilled to announce that the Entomology department at the NHMLAC is hiring a full-time collections manager! 🪰🐜🕸️🦋 I'm biased, but the museum is a great place to work, and our department is full of fun, thoughtful people. Job description and information for applying are here:

shorturl.at/iRqOB

Don’t. Just don’t.