Submit your article proposals now, for our new special feature on Snow Ecology ❄️🏔️🐇 @animalecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

What a morning view in Amsterdam

I am re-posting this, in case you have missed it 😀

(1) So happy to share our recent work on Finish wood ants 🐜🧬🥳 "Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission

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...

A little late, but I still want to share the good news 🎊: I recently started my #MSCA postdoctoral fellowship. I will assess the impact of climate change on wood ants🐜 & their hybrids 🧬. My project is based at the Uni #Amsterdam with Jonna Kulmuni & @dickmerrill.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last day of #eseb2025 will kick off in a few moments with the plenary talk by Prof. Johanna Mappes from @helsinki.fi "Signals of Survival: The Genetics and Ecology of Looking Dangerous"

Last #eseb2025 poster session has just started 🎊

Are you interested in ants 🐜 and/or hybridisation 🧬 and/or the impact of climate change on them? Then come to my talk this afternoon at 15:15, room 120-121 in S30 - Genomic insights into evolutionary adaptation and species movements in a changing climate.

#ESEB2025 just started in Barcelona. I am looking forward to many interesting talks and research, to meeting friends and connecting with new people. 🤗

Sunset behind the trees

Sunrise in Utrecht

What a beautiful morning in Amsterdam it was

A picture of the kingsday (Koningsdag) festivities (the birthday of the king) celebrated on Saturday in the Netherlands

Spring is now also approaching at higher elevations in Austria ☀️

Every day, I read to many bad news. I now decised to post something postive here every (other) day. I came across this beautiful meadow with daffodils and cherry blossoms last Saturday.

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

Gestern habe ich Europas 1. Solar-Radweg besucht. Er steht in Freiburg, ist auf 300m mit 900 PV-Modulen überdacht, liefert Strom für rund 180 Menschen und schützt Radfahrer. Ein tolles Vorzeigeprojekt, dass Verkehrs- & Energiewende vereint. Ich hoffe, er wird vielen Kommunen zur Inspiration dienen❤️

🧪 I want to set up a teaching unit in a genetics course where we use sourdough starters to learn about evolution, sequencing, and diversity. Has anyone done that and can share experience, pitfalls, materials? The genetics undergrad course spans a full semester, we have a bit of time for culture!

36th Entomologendag 2024 from the Dutch Entomological Society in Ede just started.

📣 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & @philstevenson.bsky.social within @treesdla.bsky.social on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 🧪🌍 Apply by 20 Jan www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

I made a starter pack of speciation researchers. Please let me know if you or someone you know would like to be added. I am particularly sad that so far there are not many speciation researchers from the Global South represented. go.bsky.app/J7qDY56

Still time to apply! My lab has a postdoc position open! Helsinki is great and working environment is fantastic! join us! #colours #polymorphism #behavior #experiments #lepidoptera predatorpreyinteractions.com/opportunities/

🚨It is finally out: In our newest paper paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that #Cataglyphis #DesertAnts have a polarity-sensitive magnetic sense 🐜🧭 Please read & share 🧪↘️https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01519-7↙️ #Magnetoreception #Neuroethology #InsectNavigation

Der Jahresrückblick von Monitor: anschauen! Klimajahr 2024 www.ardmediathek.de/video/monito...

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting news to add to the feed—my second dissertation chapter was recently published in Systematic Entomology! doi.org/10.1111/syen... 🐜

The newly established Core Facility for Genomics at the University of Oldenburg is looking for a bioinformatician! Please apply / or spread! (3 years + possibility of permanency) uol.de/stellen?stel...