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Joel Gibson

@RBCMento

I am the curator of the Entomology Collection @RoyalBCMuseum. I will let you know about my adventures with insects and spiders in BC!

 Victoria, British Columbia
Joined April 2017
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#MyTwitterAnniversary. In my first year, I sent 350 tweets, gained 200 followers, and spread my love of western Nearctic terrestrial arthropod Biodiversity. Thanks. Twitter translation - 👍🏼❤️🐝🐞🕷🦗🐜🐛❤️🇨🇦🏔🏝#BritishColumbia #yyj
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#Coleoptera folks, especially #Buprestidae help me out. This beetle dress from turn of the century BC was made in Ireland possibly using material from India. Is there any way to determine the species??
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#Diptera friends help me out! Does anyone have an idea of who may have drawn this? Date uncertain. Found in the #RoyalBCMuseum collections.
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JOB: Full-time Collection Manager (one year) Royal BC Museum. Experience with entomology collections & knowledge of N.A. fauna is required. No cover letter to be included, so details of experience must be included in the CV. Deadline: Aug 30 2023 royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/media/62…
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British Columbia is home to nearly 500 species of bees. The Okanagan alone has close to 400 species. Fascinating, right? Here's another interesting fact: around 70% of these bees nest in the ground.
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The @RoyalBCMuseum is looking for a one-year palaeontology collections manager to help with cataloguing! Position is based in Victoria, BC, and salary is $62,255 to $70,557. Full job details here, applications are due by June 26, 2023! royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/about/ou…
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Please Share! Squamish Nation is hiring an Environmental Specialist. Full time 1-yr position. Come work in the Rights and Title Dept with our Referrals team! tinyurl.com/yrtz7kjj Pic: Ch’em’esh (herring roe) in Skwelwil'em Estuary. Siyám Smánit (the Chief) in the background.
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The Rooms @TheRooms_NL is hiring an #Entomology Collections assistant for a short term contract. This is through the Young Canada Works program so applicant must bewunder 30. link to full job ad: therooms.ca/careers
Screenshot of job at that reads: Natural History Collections Management Assistant (Entomology) The Rooms Archives and Collections Department St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Length of Assignment: 2023-05-24 to 2023-10-24 Hourly wage: $26.54

ALT Screenshot of job at that reads: Natural History Collections Management Assistant (Entomology) The Rooms Archives and Collections Department St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Length of Assignment: 2023-05-24 to 2023-10-24 Hourly wage: $26.54

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Help us better understand how you envision the @RoyalBCMuseum of the future. Learn more, register for a dialogue session, or take the online survey ➡️ow.ly/E0T450N9LL2
The Royal BC Museum alight at dawn/dusk

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Join Dr. India Young and Dr. Joel Gibson from the Royal BC Museum out on location at The Laurel Packinghouse in Kelowna this International Women's Day, Wednesday, March 8, at 12pm for a discussion on important BC women in art and entomology. buff.ly/3yhqTG9
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BC and Nunavut alone would be in the top six of this list!!!
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This Week In History - Season 11 Episode 13: Plant Galls youtu.be/O7RFgo5J25U via @YouTube
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Please share! Some great opportunities for student summer employment at @MuseumofNature nature.ca/en/careers/#studen…

Careers - Canadian Museum of Nature

Join the museum team for a passionate career! The world-renowned Canadian Museum of Nature is the national natural-history museum in Canada. Located in the National Capital Region, the Crown corpor...

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Canoes are too small to accommodate clashing personalities
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We are hiring a postdoc to bring together collaborators from 3 California institutions and barcode every insect species in the state! californiaacademyofsciences.…
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Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, the #WISElab @JessPopp, and the Young Lab are seeking applicants for a MSc position at @UofG_SES focused on species at risk plant-pollinator surveying that prioritizes Indigenous values and community outreach. Apply now! Please share.
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Chris Hamilton (@8legs2fangs) profile pictureChris Hamilton@8legs2fangs6 Dec 2022
Postdoc position in comparative genomics - The Hamilton Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to help us understand the evolution of spider genomes.
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I'm looking for a science illustrator who can draw powerful conceptual diagrams that can tell the story of ocean science concepts to a non-specialist audience. Any suggestions? #scienceillustrator #illustrator #scienceillustration #scicomm #oceanscience #STEMeducation
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New evidence that hammer-tailed herbivores used their defensive weapons on each other. “Certainly ankylosaurs could swing their tails with enough force to break bone and really cause some damage to whoever they were hitting them with” - @VictoriaArbour. cbc.ca/1.6679241
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Longtime followers may remember my tweets about #AnkylosaurFightClub asking for pictures of ankylosaurs fighting other animals - this info made its way into our new paper about intraspecific combat in ankylosaurs! royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Interested in attending ICDX next summer? The Williston Diptera Research Fund will support up to 8 graduate students or recent grads (graduation in 2022 or 2023) to present in Reno (16–21 July 2023, dipterists.org/icdx/) with US$1,500 each. Deadline extended to 15 December!
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