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

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/...

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!

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

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

Meu aniversário, aceito mimos @pt.letterboxd.social

#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.... 🌐

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

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

Portuguese is a beautiful language. So nuanced 🙌