Please share: last week to apply for a PhD position on comparative and population genomics in high elevation butterflies 🦋

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️🧬 The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: May 8, 2026 Start: Autumn 2026 (Czechia) More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Huge congrats to Mar, who led this study published in @ecography.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/ecog... Nymphalidae butterfly diversity in the Atlantic Forest was shaped by repeated dispersal, over millions of years, from Amazonia and the Andes, rather than by high in situ diversification

For the past two weeks, we've hosted Paty Machado & Jessie Pereira from the University of Campinas. Together with Mar Repullés, Paty analysed genome-wide variation in Heliconius erato across the Atlantic Forest and Amazonia. Paty's visit was possible thanks to @10klepgenomes.bsky.social

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...

Planning our year during the lab retreat led us to appreciate how exciting the coming months will be! 🤩 Here, some of the most remarkable events, from fieldworks in two continents to international workshops where we'll meet our dear friends and colleagues: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/t...

Our bi-annual lab retreat had a guest this time. Many thanks, Kay @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social for joining us! We went for three days to Mount Klet' near Cesky Krumlov, in the Blanský Forest protected landscape area.

Please share: Last week to apply for a PhD position on butterfly evolution at high elevations in our lab 🦋

In Eudaminae skippers, wing tails and iridescence have evolved many times and are linked to faster diversification — yet these traits are also often lost, revealing a very dynamic, environment-driven butterfly wing evolution. 🦋 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Using a “taxogenomic” approach, researchers reveal a new species of 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 fungus parasitising trapdoor spiders in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/imaf...

New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations. DEADLINE: January 11, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Un video de divulgación grabado en la Reserva Nacional Tambopata, Perú. En colaboración con la ONG AIDER y el Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, Sernanp. Muchas gracias por la invitación, un lugar fantástico para realizar investigación científica 🦋 fb.watch/DDK1pWF8w-/

Huge congrats to Daniel and co-authors! 🤩 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... Prey avoid predators through camouflage, chemical defences, or rapid escape. But what drives their co-existence?

Had a great workshop on population and conservation genomics with Kay Lucek. We revisited key concepts and metrics, and streamlined our ongoing projects in Czechia 🦋

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓: Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years. Deadline: 27 Oct 2025 Selection: ~November Starting: ~January 2026 Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me More info👇

It's been great hosting you, @marcinwiorek.bsky.social! Looking forward to more collaborations together 🦋🧬

Our lab is celebrating! 🥳 Pedro Ribeiro @pedrogribeiro.bsky.social has excellently defended his PhD thesis: theses.cz/id/9gnm91/ Pedro has used genome data to study the evolution of butterflies and their endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia. We wish you all the best, Dr. Pedro! 🦋

New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋 The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes. Deadline: September 12, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

In skipper butterflies, the evolution of iridescence and "wing tails" comes together with particular changes in the size and shape of their two wing pairs. This points to evolutionary trade-offs between flight performance and antipredator defences doi.org/10.1101/2025...

(1/3) Have you heard about #LepEU? The European Lepidoptera Population Genomics Consortium is a group focused on unveiling patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in butterfly and moth populations across Europe 🦋🌍

(1/4) Exciting news 📣 Announcing the #COST10KLepGenomes initiative! 🦋🧬 We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.

(1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣 The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs Keep reading for all the details 👇

A milestone for our lab: Daniel Linke is our first PhD graduate! 🦋🥳 Over 4 years, he studied the evolution of antipredator defences in skipper butterflies, combining experiments in the lab and field in Peru. All the best in what's coming next, Dani! 🎓 Thesis: theses.cz/id/tyfekz/?l...

In this interview by the A-magazine (Czech Academy of Sciences), I highlighted our latest research on butterfly evolution, ecology, and conservation. Many thanks @akademievedcr.bsky.social pdf.avcr.cz/A/2025-01/#p... Foto: Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR

(1/4)🦋 Introducing Project Psyche! A groundbreaking initiative to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths in Europe. The goal is to analyse this data to understand global climate insecurity and threats to biodiversity on a genomic level🧬 #ProjectPsyche #Genomics

On our way to the COST 10kLepGenomes meeting in Lund!! A little stop in Copenhagen with Irena Klečková before the great discussions in the frame of Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social