Melanie Brien
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Research Fellow at University of Helsinki ~ Evolution, genomics, lepidoptera, all things colour🦋
Exciting biophysics PhD and supervisor dream team 🦋
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15 days ago
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10 days left to apply! 👀
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22 days ago
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Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
about 2 months ago
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Ecology and Evolution of Interactions - EEI Group
3 months ago
We are looking for Erasmus interns to help with our bird projects at Lammi Biological Station:
www.helsinki.fi/en/research-...
Apply here and specify that you are interested in the great tit project:
www.lyyti.in/Application_...
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Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at
#ESEB2025
this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!
3 months ago
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Happy to play a small role in this nice paper, and hope to visit this region one day!
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5 months ago
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Richard Merrill
6 months ago
Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich:
www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer...
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Michal Barták
8 months ago
🚨New paper on tropical moth pollination 🧵1/8 - What happens in tropical ecosystems when the day ends?🌔🦋 Our new review that
@robtrop.bsky.social
and I wrote highlights moths’ vital role in pollination and outlines research gaps, challenges and biases. Sharing valued! Link:
doi.org/10.1017/S026...
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When the day ends: Review on the importance of nocturnal moths as pollinators in tropical ecosystems | Journal of Tropical Ecology | Cambridge Core
When the day ends: Review on the importance of nocturnal moths as pollinators in tropical ecosystems - Volume 41
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467425000057
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Lovely to be back in Sheffield for the Population Genetics group conference. First day full of colour, butterflies and tea
#pgg58
10 months ago
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Johanna Mappes
11 months ago
🧪Why does warning signal variability persist in
#aposematic
species? Our new
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paper explores this using data from 64,741 🤯 A.plantaginis, raised over 25 generations. Spoiler: no evidence that life-history traits constrain warning colours!
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Evolutionary potential and constraints in an aposematic species: Genetic correlations between warning coloration and fitness components in wood tiger moths
Abstract. Variability in warning signals is common but remains puzzling since deviations from the most common form should result in a higher number of pred
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpae172/7914542?searchresult=1
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Joe Hanly
12 months ago
Hey Lepidoptera folks, here’s a Starter Pack of Lepidopterologists! If you want to be added (or removed), just @ me with your favourite:
#buttetflies
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#moths
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go.bsky.app/U3HPgpW
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Johanna Mappes
about 1 year ago
Please re-post: I have a postdoc position open! Helsinki is great and working environment is fantastic!
#colours
#polymorphism
#behavior
#experiments
#lepidoptera
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Ecology-and-Evolutionary-Biology/806904702/?feedId=350602&utm_source=CareerSite_UniversityOfHelsinki
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Very happy to be at my first ISBE and my first visit to Australia! Will be around tonight with my poster (that printed the wrong colour 🙈)
#ISBE2024
about 1 year ago
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Sandra Winters
almost 2 years ago
Interested in planning and conducting research related to wild animal resilience (broadly defined)? We're recruiting a Research Coordinator or Planner in wild animal experimentation here in Biological & Environmental Sciences at the University of Helsinki! Applications due Jan 19.
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Research coordinator/Planner in wild animal experimentation
Research coordinator/Planner in wild animal experimentation
https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Research-coordinatorPlanner-in-wild-animal-experimentation/784080002/?feedId=350602
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For my first post I'll share our recent paper (& accompanying doodle) on the genetics of polymorphic colour in male wood tiger moths 🦋🧬✂️
elifesciences.org/articles/80116
almost 2 years ago
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