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Pantanal trip highlighted by DRCLAS
Brian's research trip to the Pantanal this October has been highlighted on the DRCLAS site! "Bringing together the fields of biology and music, the expedition revolved around collecting sounds to study the scientific and artistic dimensions of the...

Cover article for Integrative Systematics
Now available in Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History: Thalles and colleagues article "Discovery of snakeworm gnats in Alaska: a new species of Sciara Meigen (Diptera: Sciaridae) based on morphological, molecular, and...
Cover of Integrated Systematics V6 I2

Biodiversity Fellow Thalles Lavinscky Pereira joins the lab
The Farrell Lab warmly welcomes Thalles Lavinscky Pereira to the lab! Thalles joins us as a Biodiversity Fellow. Thalles’ research focuses on the diversity of flies (Diptera), especially the Phoridae family, using morphological and molecular data...
Thalles Lavinscky Pereira, smiling and holding a drawer of insect specimens, in front of gray collections cabinets

Biodiversity Fellow Paulino Siqueira Ribeiro joins the lab
The Farrell Lab warmly welcomes Paulino Siqueira Ribeiro to the lab! Paulino joins us as a Biodiversity Fellow. Throughout his professional career, he has undertaken research involving aspects of mosquito biology, ecology, and behavior of this group...
Paulino Siqueira Ribeiro, looking at the camera while wearing a blue shirt

EVENT & Video: Why We Animals Sing
Wednesday, September 23, at 2pm: "Music has long filled a uniquely important role in bridging human culture and biology, stretching back over millennia, and of course today provides respite and remedy in an increasingly stressful world. We do not sing...
Thumbnail of poster for Why We Animals sing (white background, blue top and bottom, Brian Farrell in middle with text)

Boston Harbor Islands ATBI in the news
The Boston Harbor Islands All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory and its database continue to be great resources for both researchers and citizen scientists. They were recently highlighed in this National Parks Conservation Association article about the Boston...
Heat map showing locations BHI ATBI specimens were collected

Successful defense!
Congratulations to Sangil Kim! On April 26, he successfully defended his dissertation, "Genomics and evolutionary origin of longhorned beetles in the temperate zone." Congratulations, Sang!!
Sang smiling in woods at night, holding monochamus odaesan beetle toward camera, green light from below

Boston Harbor Islands ATBI collection database now live!
From 2004–2009, Brian and postdoc Jessica Rykken spearheaded a biological inventory of the arthropods in the Boston Harbor Islands National Park, supported by a grant from the Stone Foundation. Most of the specimens were identified, digitized, and...
Heat map showing locations BHI ATBI specimens were collected

Brian in The Times of India
Brian was interviewed by Srijana Mitra Das of the Times of India about how insects evolved and why they are Earth's "primary engineers." Read the article here (opens in new tab)
Black and white logotype of Times Evoke section of the Times of India