Excited that my 2nd MSc paper is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🦋🎉 doi.org/10.1093/evol...
We find Heliconius’ impressive visual memory is not due to increased visual-structure investment over that of their outgroup relatives, but instead consistent with specialisation of the central circuitry.
Valencia right after she was rescued, adorable baby tapir in a kiddy pool
Big girl Valencia taking a bath and having a nice relaxing time
Some sad news to close out the year, our beloved tapir friend, Valencia has died.
I wrote a little memorial about her life here: mailchi.mp/e9c87190f578...
But I'll share some nice photos here too
🎉 Congratulations to Professor Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social winner of a @zslscience.bsky.social Scientific Medal!
Read more: bit.ly/4a9AD9J
We are grateful to The Company of Biologists for publishing our article on behaviours reminiscent of orientation flights in Heliconiini butterflies in Journal of Experimental Biology. As an early-career researcher, I am very pleased by the Open Access publication. University of Bristol has a Read & Publish agreement which facilitates the publication process and allows us to share our findings with a wide audience without financial barriers. We are excited with the opportunity of sharing our science with everyone. Phot of Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio, University of Bristol, UK
Thank you Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio @ficusorganensis.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social for sharing your experience of fee-free #OA publishing @jexpbiol.bsky.social via our #ReadAndPublish agreement @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Read Denise’s paper: bit.ly/4977c7N
See all institutions bit.ly/3O7BxGi
Now in its birthday suit with videos
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
And an interview with @ficusorganensis.bsky.social!
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
A fluorescent confocal microscopy image of a butterfly wing scale showing the surface and internal structures
We are looking for a physics/maths graduate with an interest in biology, or a biology graduate with strong computational/mathematical skills/interests, to join us as a PhD student working on biomechanical modelling of butterfly wing scale structure formation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Another is this hovering flight where they dance back and forth around before landing, again they do this repeatedly in a feeding bout… they also do it to artificial flowers that lack floral odours… 5/n
One pronounced behaviour are circular flights around a floral resource, where they turn back on themselves in a loop. They do this repeatedly while feeding; loop, feed, repeat… 4/n
Really like this paper, led by @ficusorganensis.bsky.social, the supplementary videos aren’t up yet but will post them when I’m back in the office!
An illustration of an anthropomorphized montane longwing butterfly skipping through the air whimsically. It's mostly black with a stripe of sulphur white on the side of its thorax, top wing, and around its eyes. There are also some fades of red on its bottom wing and wing joints. Its top wing is almost twice as long as its bottom wing, its limbs are lanky, its abdomen thin and its thorax fluffy. It touches the brim of the woven hat on its head, maybe tipping it politely to whoever its passing.
Insectember day 4: Heliconius clysonymus
Common name: Montane longwing
Bug with hat, my go-to apparently
🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart
The Ñeque-Oke celebration for #InternationalAgoutiDay went really really well!
Happy to share that the second edition of our course will take place in Argentina from November 24th to 28th. Application deadline: September 1st, 2025. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
New from @gadusmo.bsky.social’s PhD thesis 👐🏼 with @dickmerrill.bsky.social, Jake Morris, Camilo Salazar and Carolina Pardo-Díaz
‘Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude #Heliconius butterflies’ 1/n 🧪
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
🚨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
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n
Happy birthday!!
Achei que era esse o objetivo, de mostrar como o sistema social está defasado. Aliás toda a série mostra as falhas de todo processo, do início ao final.
Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.
📜 Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) genome provides new insights into convergent evolution of caffeine biosynthesis
🧑🔬 Federico A. Vignale, Andrea Hernandez Garcia, Todd J. Barkman, Adrian G. Turjanski, et al.
📔 @elife.bsky.social
🔗 elifesciences.org/articles/104...
#️⃣ #PlantSciene #PlantMetabolism
@cesarfavacho.bsky.social
Meu aniversário, aceito mimos @pt.letterboxd.social
Did you try their github? It has so many features, i'm sure you will find something there github.com/features/dis...
#Butterfly people - do any of you know any references for the ways in which butterflies fly around flowers when feeding? 🙏🏻 I can’t much but I find it hard to believe some diligent flutterologist hasn’t sketched this out…
Data Paper in ESA Ecology with native range maps for 10,000+ butterfly species 🦋 worldwide by Barnabas H. Daru
👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
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Do you live in or around the fantastically strange place, Gamboa? Did you used to? If so hit me up and I'll add you to this pack!
go.bsky.app/U5RmCPj
Me too! 👋👋
Hey Lepidoptera folks, here’s a Starter Pack of Lepidopterologists! If you want to be added (or removed), just @ me with your favourite: #buttetflies? #moths? go.bsky.app/U3HPgpW
