VP/Academic Dean at the Milwaukee Public Museum
Milwaukee, WI
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In-flight internet that works as soon as you walk on your flight 🛰️✈️
h/t @flyjsx
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I just learned there is a snow day app! Wondering what @BenHandelman and his weather friends have to say about this? Right now there’s a 99% chance - are these calculators accurate?
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📢 Registration is now open for the next Entomological Collections Management Workshop! 🦋
Taking place July 16-20 2023, this hybrid model will be held virtually & in-person at Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio.
Full details ⬇️
ecnweb.net/workshop/
#ECMWorkshop2023
ALT Course instructor, David Furth pulling out a drawer of specimens at the 2022 workshop.
ALT Course instructor, Floyd Shockley, showing workshop participants how to safely stay together multiple drawers for transit.
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The Terrestrial Parasite Tracker project is a large-scale effort to mobilize over 1.2 million parasite specimen records from over 30 collections, across the US.
Erika Tucker shares how they’re planning for longer term project sustainability. #ECN2022
ALT Title slide: Terrestrial parasite Tracker, Beyond the TCN: Project Sustainability.
ALT Erika Tucker at the speaker podium.
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Don't miss the chance to participate in the iDigBio Digitization Academy's professional development course: Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections.
The app deadline is 11/11/22. Learn more: bit.ly/3sITz8x
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Curious what the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker TCN has accomplished over the past three years? Join us for a grand report-out this Friday Oct 14th at 2pm ET. Zoom link & more info at bit.ly/3rNioPQ
#biodiversitycollections @NSFBIO #digitization @ZaspelLab
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Having a blast @CofrinBiodiv with collaborators on the @MKEPublicMuseum Statewide Community Science project!
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Great day at Harborfest sharing our community science results! @MKEPublicMuseum @HarborDistrict
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The Sept 2022 NSC Alliance Washington Report is out! Read about recent policy developments, museum job openings, and upcoming events: mailchi.mp/3cae2ef7d20a/sep2…
#CollectionsAreEssential
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Indigenous entomologists! We need you! We are putting together a "working group" of faculty, postdocs, students (grad/undergrad) of Indigenous entomologists. Please let me know who you are or tag someone we should know about (or DM me). Please RT
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.@CBS58 recently visited MPM to talk to our Head of Zoology Dr. Nick Dowdy about the endangered monarch butterfly and what its shrinking population means for over a million other species of insects: cbs58.com/news/local-enthusi…
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It's Official! 🐝🐝 My lab is now @NSF funded! We will identify the social and ecological components of collective fanning behavior in honey bees. I will be recruiting PhD students and a postdoc! Please get in touch if you're interested in this work! today.marquette.edu/2022/08/…
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The July 2022 Washington Report is out! Congress Passes Bipartisan Innovation Bill with #Collections Provisions Intact; House Makes Progress on FY 2023 Spending Bills; #MuseumJob openings; & other news: mailchi.mp/ec69c5ea8b4b/july…
#CollectionsAreEssential
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Way to go @njdowdy1
I can't believe how much we've already discovered and how much is ahead to uncover!
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!
So awesome!!!!
Almost 500 observations for the Statewide Community Science Project in the Harbor District this summer and over 2,000 overall! #communityscience inaturalist.org/projects/wis… @CofrinBiodiv @MKEPublicMuseum @HarborDistrict @CableNHMuseum
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I contributed to this exhibit! Check out the tiger moths! It's really cool (and sad too). Remember, none of this knowledge would be known without #collections.
extinctandendangered.com/
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