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We are proud to announce that Sol Yepes has successfully defended her PhD thesis on intraspecific chemodiversity in Black Poplar supervised by @sunsicker.bsky.social. Her work advances our understanding of plant diversity as a foundation for ecosystem resilience. Congratulations!

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All the well-deserved spotlight for this amazing researcher!

Good news! And also ..don't they look adorable eating like that?

And I had the opportunity to present our work (led by Mileidy Betancourth) on the impact of habitat disturbance on the morphology and behaviour of the Little Devil’s poison frog in Colombia # ATBC2025 @klivvvienna.bsky.social

Our group’s first study on fire salamanders is out! 🟡⚫️🦎⚫️🟡 🧪🌍We report differences in predation rates between managed and non-managed forest areas, due mostly to increased 🐦 attacks in managed areas. Both types of areas differ mainly in 🌳 diversity and evenness (1/2) doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

Every spring in Ithaca I get a pretty badass aposematic companion at home...today Fajita is having her 1st time stretching her wings 🥹🖤🧡🤍 #monarchbutterfly

Finding your resistance! www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

The Mass Spectrometry Query Language (MassQL) is an open-source language for instrument-independent searching across mass spectrometry data for complex patterns of interest via concise and expressive queries without the need for programming skills. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to an amazing scientist!

A rose by any other name ... Yours truly, -Anurag www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

Great to spend a packed day with Prof. Dan Fagan (NYU), a Pulitzer prize-winning environmental journalist. He gave a special lecture at Cornell Univ. including readings from his forthcoming book on monarch butterflies. It can be viewed here: vod.video.cornell.edu/media/Dan+Fa...

Aposematic cutie just emerging today in the lab @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social

Join us at the next SciCafe on Wednesday, May 7! Jessica Goodheart, assistant curator in the Museum’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, will be talking about sea slugs & nudibranchs! SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. For more details and to reserve tickets, visit: bit.ly/4ipH4WC

This Saturday, the California National Geographic Explorer's Hub is putting on an event in collaboration with Sports Basement and NerdNite SF! There will be >20 lightning talks about all sorts of things! Click here to learn more and RSVP: sites.google.com/view/wonderf...

So happy for this amazing researcher!!

Using a new phylogeny of the Brassicaceae (www.cell.com/current-biol... with a ton of papers on glucosinolate occurrence we did a meta analysis across the family authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S.... Chemical diversity changes quickly and doesn’t track phylogenetic relationships. #secmet

Happy to share my first major PhD work, where we show that Heliconiini caterpillars have developed more puncture resistant cuticle as a counter-adaptation against sharp Passiflora trichomes. However, we also show that the trichomes affect post ingestion, suggesting that the arms-race continues!

Proudly presenting our latest paper in @plantphys.bsky.social by @axeltouw.bsky.social and coauthor showingvthat #nematode #infection facilitates cabbage root fly larval performance via #systemic #induced #root #responses. Team work is the dream work! @igzleibniz.bsky.social @idiv and @FSUJena

People in up state New York should definitely need to catch up with the best comedian rn .. so excited to see him in Syracuse!

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

I couldn't be more proud of DR. Protti Sánchez!! An amazing fearless researcher..she does it all! brain chicks, poison frogs, color studies, behavioral analysis..aposematism research is brighter with her in it 💜💜💜

New research in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological Monographs led by @oksanabuzh.bsky.social Different facets of plant diversity differentially affect energy dynamics across trophic levels and below- or aboveground compartements. 🌱🍃🪲🪱 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Today, we honor the incredible achievements of women in science. Meet female researchers from our institute: @silkesachse.bsky.social, Sonja Bisch-Knaden, Priya Reddy, Karin Groten, and @shabmohammadi.bsky.social. Let’s continue championing diversity & equality in research! #WomenInScience

Science course announcement: “Chemical Ecology: A Multidisciplinary Approach”, @mpi-ce.bsky.social, Jena, Jun.23 – Jul 4, 2025. The course explores chemical interactions between organisms, covering evolution, methods, and new applications. events.gwdg.de/event/1003/ #ChemicalEcology

HUNGRY EATER A Macaon caterpillar consumes its host plant leaf by leaf. These voracious eaters increase their body mass by 1000 times before metamorphosis. 📹 malbafont_macrophotography #macrophotography #nature