Let's try this again... Abstract submission for the YSF2024 closes SATURDAY, OCT 19 AT 11:59PM GMT+1 forms.gle/Cv1zbLVxjkaS... YSF2024 will be held online on Friday, November 15th We welcome presentations from all ECRs working on systematics/taxonomy/phylogenetics.
We are pleased to announce that our Founders' Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Max Telford, UCL. Title: Are we really more closely related to starfish than to earthworms? Where: Linnean Society When: Friday November 1st, 6PM. Details: tinyurl.com/2wp9xwnz
An annual event honouring the founders of the Systematics Association. An evening lecture delivered by a prominent invited systematist. In person event, free attendance.
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In 2016, a group of crested geckos in captivity started dying of a mysterious illness. The culprit turned out to be nematode worms that were tearing through their innards. This is a story about worms and the global trade of exotic animals. dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2020/08/hexa...#Invertebrate 🧪
In 2016, a group of crested geckoes in captivity suddenly got sick soon after they were transferred to a terrarium that previously held som...
Attention: ALL OF ASIA Asia is home to rich, yet largely underdocumented biodiversity. This Fri-Sun, we're having a CONTINENT-WIDE community effort to record the wildlife around us. Join us in this historic effort—there's a high chance you'd be the first person ever to observe a new species.
The Asia Nature Challenge (ANC) hosted by CitizenScience.Asia is a two phase 10-day event that invites citizen scientists, environmental groups, and individuals to document local wildlife using iNatur...
🦀 Crabs served with a side of worms - I've written a post about the horsehair worm Nectonema, and how a crab dinner led to a scientific discovery. 🦀 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/10/nect...#Invertebrate 🧪
Sometimes a new scientific discovery comes about while one is doing the most mundane things, and it might not even be a scientist who happen...
In the darkness following Earth's fifth mass extinction, ants and fungi evolved to rely on each other. I'll tell you more in my latest for Smithsonian.
A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership
Registration and abstract submission for this year's YSF is OPEN!!! forms.gle/wW3qs6a9Xo7E... (We did say it'd open soon 😉) Abstract submission closes October 19th at 11:59PM GMT+1 The YSF will be online on Friday November 15th.
Welcome to the YSF2024 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 15th 2024. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...
For background on this unhealthy obsession with linking taxonomic names to their original descriptions see doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
A major gap in the biodiversity knowledge graph is a connection between taxonomic names and the taxonomic literature. While both names and publications often have persistent identifiers (PIDs), such a...