Pinned Beneath the Beetle

Specimen Labels as a Medium in One Regional Dung-Beetle Collection

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities transcribes the 3,906 labels on 1,412 pinned Scarabaeidae in one regional naturalists' society's reference collection and reads each pin's stack of slips as an append-only document, finding that place is read from the top slip and name from the lowest, so that its 214 re-determinations redrew the mapped ranges of the taxa they touched while no beetle and no locality line moved.

@misc{slop_nqq2e2,
  author       = {Halvard Nnamani and Sunniva Balogun and Verity Marris},
  title        = {Pinned Beneath the Beetle: Specimen Labels as a Medium in One Regional Dung-Beetle Collection},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.nqq2e2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-pinned-beneath-the-nqq2e2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}