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What an incredible list of people! Thanks for this Ren!

I'm a biology/entomologist & science communicator! I'm working on quantifying a model organism for ecotoxicological research as my PhD, but I also work with museums in taxonomy, & lecture on biochemistry & agricultural tech

4 48
2020-12-01

With logical taxonomy, these guys should be together under the same clade, such as "Ophidiocephalia" or something.
Instead of split them apart to "elder dragons", or lumping them with far more stem-mammal like fanged wyverns, just because they are quadrupeds and have no wings.

11 88
2020-11-26

I somehow only just noticed
The Venipede and Sizzlipede lines are both Pokemon based on myriapoda, so logically speaking on a hypothetical poketaxonomy tree they'd be fairly close together right?
Turns out they also have very similar eye shapes. If that's on purpose, that's cool.

10 40
2020-11-08

New Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and revised lithostratigraphy, Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut 👀 over 640 conodont specimens, with 35 species = 16 genera + a new species, Rossodus? boothiaensis sp. nov.
https://t.co/jQwDodzqJU

1 3
2020-08-11

artfight attacks :D (tw body horror for the first one) @ (in order) / corpsetype, koujakki, Mystikal_, and oddtaxonomy

0 2
2020-07-11

I wrote a long thread rant about losing its impact factor, but twitter ate it. So instead, please read 's rant, and join us in telling that this decision undermines the already suffering field of and is unacceptable.

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2020-07-05

Natural Latin and the park: the Latin names of plants and animals, by Linden Hawthorne.......... https://t.co/l2V5t7Na8O (Images: BHL)

1 2
2020-06-30

I get self-conscious sometimes that I'm a custom species, from a custom world, that has defining rules but no specific taxonomy. Like, I'm trying to hard or something??

But, me and my friends really got happy hearing this ;^; <3 Thank you

0 1
2020-06-27

📣For the 1st time, a pan-European🌍 & time-calibrated for ALL in existence allows tracing back their evolutionary divergence 100 millions ago!

🧐More: https://t.co/Ovr4MM4kfX
🔓Study: https://t.co/gmTY4btAHM

42 110
2020-06-15

🦈A new endemic deep-water Squalus shiraii was discovered in the tropical waters of Southern Japan 🎌.

Press release: https://t.co/A1jwlQgqe5
🔓Study: https://t.co/eBnnALlnfW

18 34
2020-06-11

The International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature, or PhyloCode, has been published. Read it online here: https://t.co/un9IWt5TrE

56 88
2020-05-27

Two-fer: the Triassic holostean Icarealcyon is named after both Icarus and Alcyone because the describer thought it might be able to fly.

7 19
2020-05-21



"A new genus of sinogaleaspids (Galeaspida, stem-Gnathostomata) from the Silurian Period in Jiangxi, China"

Xianren Shan et al.
PeerJ 8:e9008, published 15-05-2020
https://t.co/GDDC6605Bv

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2020-05-15

Small genus <Aethiopomyia>, to the region, includes 5 species with mostly yellow colour patterns of the body.

Study: https://t.co/NRSaGAwdkH

4 2
2020-04-15

Martínez Revelo et al. El género Cryptocanthon (#Coleoptera: en descripción de especies nuevas, distribución geográfica y conservación https://t.co/IjkM8mAd9k

3 20
2020-04-12

This is part of a segment on taxonomy in primates for my anthro class but this is so fucking funny

2 17
2020-03-16

Introduction Megataxa - a new journal designed for large monographic reviews and highly significant original papers reporting major advances in taxonomy https://t.co/RJBaB3xurA

6 18
2020-02-16

Happy bday, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (born 1778)! that Candolle coined the word "taxonomy"?

A work that brought Candolle early recognition was "Plantarum historia succulentarum" (1798-1837). In via ➡️ https://t.co/EfE7BUrDWg

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2020-02-05

Two new species (#Formicidae: from New Caledonia
https://t.co/KTZxDGVBFD
Thibault Ramage, Corentin Jouault, Alexander R. Schmidt, Leyla J. Seyfullah, Vincent Perrichot

7 17
2020-01-29