Don't forget to tune in this Wednesday 11 February at 15:00 CET to hear our first masterclass on identifying European butterflies from a top expert Rudi Verovnik, covering East Continental and Balkan species butterfly-monitoring.net/EPIC-Butterfly

📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January! Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors! Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

We’re kicking off the year with the first REC newsletter —featuring recent publications, projects, and upcoming events! Read it here: mailchi.mp/97ed6942f5b8...

The REC newsletter is out!

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

Please help! We are looking for tissue-specific RNA-seq datasets or pubs with both male and female individual gene expression data, not pooled, from animal species. If you know of any relevant resources, please drop a link in the comments or send me a DM. Also, please help spread the word - thanks!

Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology: 🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑‍💻🪸🦎 Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi... DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣

Congratulations to Tomas Roslin who yesterday gave his inaugural lecture @helsinki.fi, here with Dean @fishcongen.bsky.social joining the ceremony! All four @rececochange.bsky.social PIs are now back in Finland and full professors - we couldn’t be happier 🥳!!!

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

Our Ecology MSc course @helsinki.fi is coming to an end with a final seminar at the Lammi Biological station. Today we are visiting Evo 🍁🍂☘️

Pollinators such as wild #bees, #butterflies, and #hoverflies are in trouble worldwide. A major new study, published in Science, shows that the oft-quoted figure of 10% semi-natural habitat in farmland landscapes is far too little to safeguard pollinators jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/26/p...

Come to work with us! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

3 prof positions open in Helsinki! 🧬Human genetics and genomics (open rank, DL 10.10) 🧬Cellular physiology (TT, DL 17.8) 🏙️ Ecological restoration of urban environments (open rank, DL 17.8) www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/... Come and join us in the happiest country in the world 5 years running!

🚨 Just out in Nature Communications from my current work with fantastic collaborators @rececochange.bsky.social ! We show that moth communities are experiencing an overall “warming,” with a clear latitudinal pattern: extinction in the north and colonisation in the south. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Ilmastonmuutos muokkaa yöperhosten yhteisöjä eri puolilla Suomea. Helsingin yliopiston tutkijoiden mukaan kylmiin olosuhteisiin sopeutuneet lajit harvinaistuvat pohjoisessa samalla kun Etelä-Suomeen saapuu lämpimään sopeutuneita lajeja manner-Euroopasta. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/e...

A full report of our latest European Grassland Index has just been published. It gives individual species trends as well as the overall decline of 50% since 1991-2023. Another update will be coming soon to include 2024 (which was not a good year for many butterflies) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

New Paper: Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology - "Who conducts biological research, where they do it and how results are disseminated vary among geographies and identities." doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧪🌍 #bias #research #science #academia

The new LepEU website is looking great: lepeu.github.io 🦋🧬 #PopulationGenomics #EuropeanButterflies #COSTaction

@luonnonsuojelu.bsky.social mainiot ohjeet taloyhtiöpihan monimuotoisuustekoihin. www.sll.fi/opi-lisaa/po...

Warmest thanks to @rececochange.bsky.social Steering Group for insightful discussions - We're truly fortunate to have such a supportive group of top-tier experts helping guide our work! Hanna Tuomisto, Laura Höijer, @merikallas.bsky.social, Mikko Peltonen, Aino Juslen & Timo Lehesvirta 🌍💚

Ilmaston muuttuessa lämpimään ilmastoon sopeutuneet lajit, kuten tietyt linnut ja perhoset, ovat yleistyneet Suomessa. Samaan aikaan viileään ilmastoon sopeutuneet lajit ovat vähentyneet ja siirtyneet pohjoisemmaksi. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/i...

📢 new paper using long-term data from Finland where we show "Thermal homogenization of boreal communities in response to climate warming" now out in @pnas.org Led by Jussi Mäkinen with a great team of coau from @rececochange.bsky.social @syke.fi among many others www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Kirjoitimme @annaliisalaine.bsky.social kanssa näkemyksiämme Suomen biodiversiteettiseurantojen tulevaisuudesta: Suomen luonnon monimuotoisuuden seuranta täytyy päivittää nykypäivän tarpeisiin: www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar... 1/2

Alla kirjoittamamme @rececochange.bsky.social Policy brief luonnon monimuotoisuuden seurantojen tärkeydestä

Suomen luonnon monimuotoisuuden seurantoja tulee kehittää ja laajentaa Kirjoitimme @rececochange.bsky.social BIOMON hankkeen pohjalta politiikkasuosituksen Suomen luonnon monimuotoisuuden seurantojen tulevaisuudesta: www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/l... Alla yhteenveto 8 kehitysehdotuksestamme. 1/7

While everyone’s attention is being zapped away by all the Chaos of Trump, this study was published today, on catastrophic losses in butterfly species abundance across the US. “Between 2000 and 2020, total butterfly abundance fell by 22% across the 554 recorded species.” 😔

Uunituore uutiskirjeemme alla. Mukana ✍️ Päättäjien luonto- ja ilmastotentti ☠️ Vesien haitta-aineet 📰 Uutisia yhteistyökumppaneilta Lue täältä: ymparistotiedonfoorumi.creamailer.fi/email/67a087...

I'm happy and excited to share our latest work with Torsti Shulz and @marjosaastamoinen.bsky.social on Model-based variance partitioning for statistical ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We present it as a general tool to gain more insight from ecological data. 1/5

Unsurprisingly I am very much in agreement with this article. I've put a lot of effort in recently to prevent the undermining of field-based teaching, including pointing out the invisible subsidy that field-based teaching (& research) provide other teaching & research www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

At REC, we are thrilled to kick off the new year with great news: Tomas Roslin has been appointed as Professor in Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology at the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, effective 1 January 2025! Huge congratulations!! 🥳🎉👨‍🏫

‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’ - a special issue of Phil Trans R Soc B in honour of a very special biodiversity scientist - is published today by @royalsociety.org. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Shared heat tolerance leaves ecosystems at risk of sudden climate-driven collapse – new research theconversation.com/shared-heat-...

Have a look at out new paper on clustered thermal tolerances & potential risks on biodiversity @royalsocietypublishing.org. More in the below thread. Was great to be part of this collaborative work 🦋🪸🌱!