I'm pleased to share this new #openaccess review article on 🌻 flower constancy🌻 and how it shapes plant-pollinator interactions. I hope you'll find it useful 🐝🦋 🌺:
tinyurl.com/mrx59pt3
In 2018, a fire destroyed irreplaceable collections housed at the National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro. This timely paper tells the histoy of the Museum and the effort to rescue it from the ashes.
url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
From our @hfspo.bsky.social project, where we have been trying to test out new methods and ideas!
NEW METHODS ARTICLE: Phylogenetic GLMMs open doors to study evolution of discrete traits. We show how binary models extend to ordinal & nominal traits, using bird data, and provide tutorials to make these methods accessible to evolutionary biologists:
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Mizuno et al.
Well deserved, Steve! Congratulations!
Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth
🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨
Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social
- employment benefits
- 4 years funding
- 1000% fun
Deadline: 14/1/2026
Details:
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Coffee prices are up 21%.
Ground beef prices up 13%.
Big reason why?
Trump’s chaotic tariffs on Brazil.
I voted to repeal these tariffs along with every Democrat and a few Republicans, and it PASSED the Senate.
All eyes now on House Republicans who are still on vacation.
Impressive work, congratulations!
Working model of SR45-interacting salivary protein (SISP) regulating plant immunity.
Insect salivary proteins alter the stability of plant splicing factors
Haoli Gao, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/3PX4GV...
#planthopper #PlantScience
Amazing eyes of the malachite butterfly (Siproeta steneles). Bosque da Barra, Rio de Janeiro.
Lots of interesting evolutionary nuggets in this study, and some we can’t exactly explain!
A great combination of Yi Peng Toh’s patient neuroanatomical work and @fcicconardi.bsky.social’s bioinformagician skills, and another fun collaboration with @dickmerrill.bsky.social
New paper out! A nice collaboration.
We explore how olfactory brain structures and receptors evolved across this remarkable group, Heliconiini butterflies.
Thanks, Adriana!
Today´s Guardian has an article about our study on butterfly colors, where we compare butterfly colors in native forest to those in eucalyptus plantations. This is study is a partnership between labs from Denmark, Spain, and Brazil.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amazing effort! Very cool indeed! And what a cover!
One of the many things I appreciated while a student in the US was the NPR system. KUT had so many amazing programs and people. Sometimes I tune in their online streaming just to fill the saudade I have. There is nothing similar to it in Brazil.
Cool. Thanks for the info. We are training students to help with the monitoring. Too many species to account for, but at least the Parides species is easy to identify. Best of luck with your endeavor. Cheers!
Hi Alan, how often do you walk your transect? I started doing transects this year here in Rio. Our goal is to monitor an endangered butterfly, Parides ascanius. Lots of other butterfly too in the transect, but very very few of our focal species so far. Waiting for spring to kick in.
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Excellent initiative! I grew up thinking Greenland was huge and larger than the whole of South America.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This is a really cool book!
Besides Trumpf deranged interference in my country, I am down to a new low. I have sent a manuscript for review to (so far) 11 potential reviewers (7 declined; 4 did not respond). I am now bothering a 12th potential reviewer... Any fellow assistant editors out there have had this happening before?
Trump is now imposing tariffs for political retribution.
With everything else going on, I'm not sure people realize that Trump's latest tariff on Brazil took things to a new (lower) level
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dic...
🍺 !!!
Wow, fantastic news! Congratulations, Steve! I wish you the best there!
Fantastic place to work!
🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
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Hi, Alison. There’s a postdoctoral associate in my lab that works with ants AND has done a book for kids. Want to talk to her?
