Max Barclay
@Coleopterist
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Max Barclay has the best job in the world, caring for one of the world's greatest archives of biodiversity! Own views; no need to agree
Natural History Museum, London
Joined July 2009
New paper out! I’m excited to share that a chapter from my MS thesis has just been published in The Coleopterists Bulletin: Revision of the West Indian Belonuchus Nordmann, 1837 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). https://t.co/wrEwW1P4Zr
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PDF | The West Indian species of Belonuchus Nordmann, 1837 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) are revised to address a knowledge gap in our... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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I am very sad about the Christmas Island Shrew. I am also sad that this article is illustrated with a Sengi which is more closely related to an elephant than it is to the Christmas Island Shrew.
The Christmas Island Shrew has been lost forever in "one of the most mysterious of extinctions” Australia’s only Shrew has officially been declared extinct in the latest update of the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species and is believed to have been killed off by non-native
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'We estimate that modern and archaic humans separated 825-694ka, while Neandertals and Denisovans separated 585- 504ka. These dates are substantially older than previous estimates...and consistent with the time to the most recent common ancestor between Denisovan and modern
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Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neandertals who lived in Eastern Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, are known only from a handful of skeletal remains and limited genetic data,...
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Tragic. Preventable. Final. The Slender-billed Curlew is officially extinct, declared today by the IUCN. On our watch. We are technically brilliant and carelessly blind. Sit with the silence. Then fight for what remains. #Extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #Curlews
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Early start today to talk about ladybirds 🐞 on BBC breakfast - available today only on I-player about 50 minutes in
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I did not know him - but the quotation is moving and resonating- I love the concept of ‘time sponges’
"The bogs, rivers, mountains, and shorelines are more than preservers of old myths, bones, and memories. They are energy banks and time sponges, and what is held within them seeks release". A sage of our time. Manchán Magan RIP
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My 'Beetles of the World' book with Pat Bouchard now available on Ebay for one of the lowest prices, and including free US and Canada shipping. https://t.co/mjFlrUWETB
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The BHL online collection just hit 200,000 titles! A title could be a single book or an entire 200-year journal run, so 200,000 titles is huge (63+ million pages!). Check out BHL's MAMMOTH collection here: https://t.co/WjfWJ5QhGj 📖 🧪 🦣 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ILoveBHL #BHLib
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Chris Stringer discusses the 1 million year old Yunxian cranium https://t.co/Bhglm8VTe1 via @YouTube
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Afrorylon tibialis (Dajoz, 1978)
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‘The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits.‘ -Alfred Wainwright
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Finally got to see for real the famous Lady Macbeth beetle wing dress made for Victorian actress Ellen Terry at @SmallhytheNT - @MGLnrd - Oscar Wilde said she obviously went to Byzantium for her shopping, but to find this species she would need to go even further south east!
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Se presenta una lista de 40 especies de cerambícidos provenientes de un bosque de niebla en Cundinamarca, Colombia, de las cuales cinco son nuevas: Eurysthea chicaque sp. nov. (Cerambycinae, Elaphidiini), Nyssodrysilla escobarorum sp. nov. (Lamiinae, Acanthocinini),.. #Coleoptera
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Found this - impromptu talk on the importance of museum collections from 2015- I still stand by everything I said here.
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The UK has long profited from arts, science and entertainment. Actors, TV Series, films, pop music, art, internet, popular science writing - none of that brings in large salaries at the beginning - but to dismiss its collective value to society, is incredibly short sighted.
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Very interesting. English was my 2nd choice, & at that time was a respected option. My children avoided it because of the stigma of Sunak's 'junk degrees' where an education is reduced to a qualification, which is valued based on the mean salary of its recent graduates..
English was once a highly popular major, because it taught people to think, to weigh alternative interpretations, and to write. Captured by far-left activists, its intellectual value to students has plummeted. It won’t be long before universities start closing their English
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Buggin' and lovin' it! This #WorldEnvironmentDay, young readers can get to know #MGLeonard − a children's author passionate about beetles and nature − and learn more about her most recent book, Hunt for the Golden Scarab: https://t.co/9gWMHbRGip.
#Authors4Oceans @MGLnrd
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Our new paper in @ZoolJLinnSoc @Coleopterist Elytra weren’t a single innovation, but a highly evolvable and versatile platform for adaptive innovation. Secondary modifications and novel functions enabled beetles to enter new adaptive zones and radiate like no other.
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🐞 Interested in taking a #course in #entomology? We’ve compiled a list of institutions in the UK and Ireland offering full and part-time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience 🔽 🔗 https://t.co/kuLJUrodso
#Education #Research #Science
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