From Pisani et al: CAT-GTR is one of the most flexible models in the phylogenomic arsenal. Phylogenomic mixture models outperform homogeneous and partitioned models academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Postdoc position in Evolutionary Ecology available at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India. Applications accepted until filled. Salary: ₹60,000/month. More info: www.vanasiri.in. #postdoc

#ScienceNews: Researchers present first fossilised “emperor” butterfly An international team led by Dr. Hossein Rajaei (State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart), described a well-preserved butterfly fossil. Press release: https://t1p.de/oc67u Original publication: doi.org/10.4202/app.01332.2026

Two moth species, overlapping morphology… but different genomic stories 🧬 Our new paper shows clear nuclear divergence in the Diachrysia chrysitis complex, despite occasional shared DNA barcodes. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8CGBAS... @respublications.bsky.social @oulu.fi

You ever wondered what happens to a trait after its loss? Dollo's law predicts that it can't be reinstated in its original form. Actually true (partially)! #evolsky Happy to see this published: we have reviewed the LOSS, PERSISTENCE & REVERSAL OF PHENOTYPIC TRAITS 🖥️🧬🦑🐜 doi.org/10.1002/brv....

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

One of my PhD chapters is now out! It’s a review on pyrazines in insects and their biological roles and their evolution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @lepphylo.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social

WASTER: Practical de novo phylogenomics from low-coverage short reads https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41870206/

We’re missing a global indicator to track insects. By analyzing thousands of butterfly populations, we highlight both promising signals and key challenges—showing why these taxa are strong candidates for building a Global Index to support conservation. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Sequence alignments are notoriously prone to error. Our latest preprint offers a new tool for filtering errors out, assesses it and other filtering tools, and recommends new best practice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @phylowheeler.bsky.social 1/10

Introducing the newest species of moth from the US, and likely one of the rarest. Cicinnus albarenicolus is known from just 19 specimens, all in white sand scrub in peninsular Florida. Only one verified extant population! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1817...

JOB CLAXON: Imaging Assistant @nhm-london.bsky.social . Permanent role. Would be good for someone with CT experience! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Great to see insect conservation getting the attention it needs conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue: www.nature.com/nature/volum... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Nice summary of long distance insect migration in the Guardian today with fancy graphics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've just had a jaw-to-the-floor moment with this new paper from the Hines lab. They describe a yellow-white switch in bees, which maps to the same TF as the yellow-white switch in Colias butterflies, previously described by the @chriswheat.bsky.social lab. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

Do dim forests select for bigger butterfly eyes? Surprisingly, no. Across 59 species, eye size evolution reflects ancestry and scaling—not ecology. By @sridharhalali.bsky.social and @lepphylo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...

#MicroSky Please RT @erc.europa.eu-funded postdoc position in my lab to identify the molecular basis of prey-predator interactions using our favorite micro-vampire Bdellovibrio exovorus as a model. Let's find what the bite is made of! 🧛 Flexible start date. Info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/415877

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

A new paper out led by @sridharhalali.bsky.social on eye size evolution in temperate butterflies! Does eye size evolve in response to habitat? Based on an amazing dataset of microCT scans of 443 individuals of 59 spp, Sridhar shows that no, phylogeny explains most! doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Our paper on convergent regressive evolution of genes involved in oral anatomy of myrmecophagous mammals is now officially published @molbioevol.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag009

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

(1/2) Applications are open for the second field workshop of WG 2: Specimen collection for genomic work 📍 Vlahi, Pirin Mountains (Bulgaria) 📅 15–19 June 2026 We’re bringing together Lepidoptera taxonomists, enthusiasts, bioinformaticians, and students for real hands-on learning and exchange. ⬇️ ⬇️

Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Eye-opening findings on how light suppresses moth activity. Light attracts moths, but what if we've been missing a much more pervasive effect where even sky-glow light levels make them freeze? Paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @uniexecec.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social

Measuring predation in the wild is hard. @mherberstein.bsky.social We compared wing damage, artificial replicas, and bird surveys in Australian butterfly communities. Methods were complementary — together they better estimate predation risk. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

It was great to start the week off by welcoming the second cohort of budding curators to the Project Psyche Genome Curation Workshop! Over the next two weeks they will become experts in piecing together genomes and will use these skills to curate some Project Psyche genomes! 🔎🧬

Congrats to @etkayapar.bsky.social who has defended his PhD on integrating sparse and dense genomic datasets to infer robust phylogenies for species-rich moth groups such as Gelechioidea, Geometridae, Noctuidae & Erebidae and advancing phylogenomic methods. lunduniversity.lu.se/lup/publicat...

In our new paper, we demonstrate the potential of social media data for tracking range-shifting species, particularly in the leading edge of the expansion. doi.org/10.1111/cobi... (1/6) @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social

Apply for various research positions in Evolutionary Language Sciences and Evolutionary Demography at the University of Turku by February 26-27, 2026. More info: https://sites.utu.fi/humandiversity/news/positions-open-in-human-diversity-consortium/ #postdoc

The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Lepidoptera. Candidates should have a strong research background in Lepidoptera. Applications due March 22, 2026. Info: https://snm.dk/en/about-museum. #job

The Map butterfly differs in wing size and color between seasons. We tested how these differences influence body temperature dynamics, revealing potentially optimized thermal performance between seasons. 🦋☀️ The study, led by Dani and Irča, is in preprint version: doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2-year postdoc in canine behaviour at Linköping University, Sweden. #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

We’ve been working on this paper longer than it took adaptive alleles to cross the species barrier (in both directions) and make two pests ever more resistant to the things we throw at them. New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛

📣 The 2nd #STSM call of #10kLepGenomes is complete! Eight researchers have been awarded funding for short scientific missions to boost collaboration, training, and knowledge exchange across the network. Congrats to the selected candidates and thanks to everyone who applied! 🦋 www.10klepgenomes.eu

Join us in Upsala Sweden for BioSyst EU, 17th–19th August 2026, for a three-day conference celebrating European systematics and biodiversity research at its origin. Systematics and Biodiversity are proud to be an official sponsor! A call for symposia will be coming soon.. #BioSystEU2026

A new study shows that butterflies, unlike birds, are declining in Finnish agricultural landscapes: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PhD positions available at the University of Tartu on insect thermal traits evolution. Interested candidates should apply by Feb 10, 2026. More info at https://www.ut.ee/en. #phd

The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social has two open PhD positions, help us spread the word! 📣 We are looking for a PhD student in Lichen Biology, and one in Ecology & Evolution. Find more information and apply by 1 February below!

My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Special Feature: Can we predict the future of evolution? In this review, Jackson et al. dig into genomic analyses of change over time to determine if and when evolution can be forecast using genomic methods. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The University of Helsinki seeks a postdoctoral researcher for a 3-year role in statistical ecology and evolution, focusing on sex-specific differences in immunity and life history. Apply by Feb 28, 2026. More in… https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-science/faculty/mathematics-and-statistics #postdoc

Interested in adaptive genomics, genomic offset and simulations? This seems to be an extraordinary opportunity to work with Thibaut Capblancq and Olivier François, two excellent experts in the field (and also great people)

When @omearabrian.bsky.social saw the manuscript, he described it as: ‘What if this figure could be an entire paper?’ I choose to interpret that as high praise. Now accepted at AmNat: The geometry of macroevolution (with Dan Rabosky). www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🦋🧬 A milestone for biodiversity genomics. Project Psyche is building chromosome-level genomes for ~11,000 European butterflies & moths — 1,000 sequenced, 3,000+ collected, across 34 countries. 🔗 Read the publication: bit.ly/ProjectPsyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social #BiodiversityGenomics 🧬🌍

⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

The geometrid moth Drepanogynis insciata was only known from two historical specimens collected before 1879. Now, it has been rediscovered in South Africa's Western Cape. @smnstuttgart.bsky.social Find out more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...