Marcus Hicks
@marcushicks.bsky.social
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PhD student at QMUL and UCL CBER working on seasonality in Amazonian butterflies Oostra group
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IEEE Spectrum
3 days ago
Whole Genome Sequencing Will Transform Our Understanding of Life. The Earth BioGenome Project is using cutting-edge tech like long-read sequencing to map the DNA of 1.8 million organisms. Researchers anticipate major discoveries in evolution and medicine.
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Mass-Scale Genome Sequencing Will Change Our Understanding of Life
The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.8 million species. It's one of the most ambitious science projects ever, and it will revolutionize biology
https://spectrum.ieee.org/whole-genome-sequencing?share_id=8955227
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Nicola Nadeau
12 days ago
I'm looking for a postdoc to join the lab as part of
@leverhulme.ac.uk
funded interdisciplinary team working on butterfly scale structure development
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
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Great to be involved in this exciting endeavour !!
@projectpsyche.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
17 days ago
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Yuqian Huang (Arina)
about 1 month ago
Very happy to present my research at
@eseb2025.bsky.social
yesterday! It was an incredibly engaging experience, with great discussions during the poster session and thoughtful conversations afterwards. Grateful for the interest and feedback!
@eseb.bsky.social
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Very happy to have had the opportunity to share my research
@eseb2025.bsky.social
yesterday - a great turnout and some great discussion afterwards!
#eseb2025
about 2 months ago
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Just touched down in Barcelona for
@eseb2025.bsky.social
! Excited to present about reproduction (or a lack thereof) in Neotropical butterflies! Come and see my talk here: Tuesday 4pm in Room 131: S51-09 π
about 2 months ago
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10kLepGenomes
3 months ago
First field trip of the
#WG2
has come to an end! We will share some of the most relevant moments of this fantastic week! Stay tuned π¦π§¬
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Another week another poster! Pleasure to present at the QMUL Postgraduate Research Symposium
3 months ago
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Great to take my first foray into Pedagogy at the Festival of Education yesterday - lots of very inspiring scholars and teachers !!
4 months ago
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Looking forward to giving a presentation about the evolution and mechanisms of reproductive plasticity in tropical butterflies at the ESEB congress this summer! Excited to hear about other implications of climate change on reproduction in the same symposium
@eseb2025.bsky.social
4 months ago
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10kLepGenomes
4 months ago
π©πΎβπ» Itβs finally here! π©πΎβπ» Weβre excited to announce the launch of our official website for Cost Action 10kLepGenomes:
www.10klepgenomes.eu
π¦ We invite you to explore and stay updated with our progress in Lepidoptera genomics! π§¬
#10kLepGenomes
#Lepidoptera
#Genomics
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https://w10klepgenomes.eu
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Brilliant time at the
@projectpsyche.bsky.social
spring meeting in Lund this week - lovely conversations and an even lovelier library
7 months ago
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I had the privilege of sharing my work with some of the world's leading lepidopterists today - many thanks to
@gmkov.bsky.social
and co for hosting Lepinars year round!
9 months ago
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Evolution Letters
10 months ago
Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @EvolLetters by Sridhar Halali, Etka Yapar, Christopher W Wheat, Niklas Wahlberg, Karl Gotthard, Nicolas Chazot, SΓΆren Nylin, and Philipp Lehmann
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Tempo and mode of winter diapause evolution in butterflies
Abstract. Quantifying the tempo and mode via modern phylogenetic comparative methods can provide key insights into how selection and constraints shape trai
https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae054
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Another busy edition of our departmental EED (EcoEvoDevo) meetings, with special thanks to
@katieemelianova.bsky.social
for a great talk about TEs and radiations!
10 months ago
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PhD Opportunity in the wonderful Oostra lab at QMUL!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
If you know anyone interested, or know anyone working in China (PRC), please send this forward! Deadline is 29 Jan
10 months ago
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