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Torsten Dikow
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biodiversity researcher at USNM (Smithsonian NMNH) - discovering fly species - deciphering their evolutionary history - natural history collections + digitization + data - #asiloidflies - deserts - photography ORCID orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2909
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Entomology research job at Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (www.smnk.de) in Germany - focus taxa are Hymenoptera and Hemiptera (but not Coleoptera + Lepidoptera) - application deadline 15 July 2024

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Revisiting an earlier blog post on @jstor.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.59350/m59... and thinking it’s a shame that we can’t use GBIF custom portals to create a “free” version of Global Plants.

Where are the plant type specimens? Mapping JSTOR Global Plants to GBIF
Where are the plant type specimens? Mapping JSTOR Global Plants to GBIF

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Went in for the Calopteryx glamour shot, almost missed the photobombing asilid

Very attractive iridescent damselfly getting its photoshoot interrupted by a big rude robberfly
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Bonus points for being a big fluffy bee mimic carrying around prey, minus points for the prey being a cerambycid >:(

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Posted about these assassin flies elsewhere before - through research with @smithsonian NMNH summer research intern Tayler Blee confirmed it’s a new species of Acnephalomyia from #Namib#asiloidflies

close-up of dune sand with fly perching
close-up of dune sand with fly perching
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Straßen werden umbenannt, Denkmäler entfernt und Bücher umformuliert. Auch in der Zoologie diskutieren Fachleute, ob Tiere aus ethischen Gründen neue Namen bekommen sollen.

Hitler-Käfer und Mussolini-Falter: Kontroverse um Namen in der Zoologie
Hitler-Käfer und Mussolini-Falter: Kontroverse um Namen in der Zoologie

Straßen werden umbenannt, Denkmäler entfernt und Bücher umformuliert. Auch in der Zoologie diskutieren Fachleute, ob Tiere aus ethischen Gründen neue Namen bekommen sollen.

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Torsten Dikow
@tdikow.bsky.social
biodiversity researcher at USNM (Smithsonian NMNH) - discovering fly species - deciphering their evolutionary history - natural history collections + digitization + data - #asiloidflies - deserts - photography ORCID orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2909
29 followers53 following11 posts