Absolutely thrilled you’re with us! 🤩 I’ve seen you’re already a master at negotiating with great tits (those little devils!)— now we’ll see if they return the favour. Finland field season is going to be legendary. 🐦✨
Absolutely thrilled you’re with us! 🤩 I’ve seen you’re already a master at negotiating with great tits (those little devils!)— now we’ll see if they return the favour. Finland field season is going to be legendary. 🐦✨
Measuring predation in the wild is hard. @mherberstein.bsky.social
We compared wing damage, artificial replicas, and bird surveys in Australian butterfly communities.
Methods were complementary — together they better estimate predation risk.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
@koskenpato.bsky.social @caritalindstedt.bsky.social
Why stay cryptic if chemically defended?
In pine sawfly (Neodiprion sertifer) larvae, higher conspicuousness reduced survival.
Weak warning signals may rely on behavior and grouping.
academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...
#Aposematism
With @nathist.bsky.social we revisited the Earophila badiata complex by using:
Quantitative wing image analysis
Genitalia + micro-CT
mtCOI barcodes
No support for several named taxa → synonymies proposed; fennokarelica reduced below subspecies rank.
peerj.com/articles/206...
#IntegrativeTaxonomy
This is an exciting opportunity to work in Helsinki, and in collaboration with us in Cambridge… on moth colouration. Could focus on the role of Ivory long non coding RNA in regulating melanisation…
And here is the working link: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas.
Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...
🚂 🚂 whoop whoop! Meillä @helsinki.fi #Viikki on yliopistonlehtorin pesti auki! Vastuullasi on kehittää ja opettaa tulevaisuuden ympäristöongelmien ja luontokadon ratkaisijoita.
Saa kernaasti jakaa!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Humane genetics and genomics position in Helsinki open for 9 more days!
One week to go! I am recruiting a postdoc, call ends October 7 🍃🌿☘️ In ecology, University of Helsinki is the leading university in Finland and the Nordics and the fifth-best in Europe (ShangaiRanking's 2024). And for 8 years in a row, Finland is still the happiest country in the world :-)
Selasin Meranon ja @persut.bsky.social pamfletin Suomen tiederahoituksesta (oikeasti: Akatemiasta). Kansi sanoo ”analyysi”, mutta pamfletti on osuvampi, ja kun kirjoittaja on sitä käyttänyt, mennään sillä. Luin nopsaan = ehkä jotain meni ohi, mutta nämä kantsii kirjoittaa selkeästi. 🧶
Tässä kokeessa testattiin yleisiä pedonvälttämisstrategioita. Mutta varoitusvärit näyttäisivät 1)lisäävän lintujen pelkoa lähestyä pyöriviä lapoja 2) hidastavat niihin tottumista.Nyt pitäisi löytää kompromissi, mitä linnut pelkäisi mutta olisi ihmisille miellyttävä.Myös lainsäädäntöä pitää muuttaa.
Kyllä, luit oikein.
🚂 🚂 whoop whoop! Meillä @helsinki.fi #Viikki on yliopistonlehtorin pesti auki! Vastuullasi on kehittää ja opettaa tulevaisuuden ympäristöongelmien ja luontokadon ratkaisijoita.
Saa kernaasti jakaa!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Map showing the faces and locations of the collaborators in the globally distributed experiment.
Iliana Medina and I assembled a team of 50+ amazing collaborators inc.
@jmappes.bsky.social @hannahmrowland.bsky.social hmrowland.bsky.social @facasaro.bsky.social saro.bsky.social @jtroscianko.bsky.social + many not on Bsky to run a field predation experiment across six continents. 2/6
📰Published📰Diet for survival: testing the resource allocation hypothesis in an aposematic moth🦋
buff.ly/CbuRKZN
🧪🌍
Assistant professor of Urban Studies
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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_...
New paper now out! Wing colouration in female wood tiger moths can be an honest signal of chemical defence, but only under specific conditions besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biobiiana.bsky.social @jmappes.bsky.social @crisottocento.bsky.social
Not even minor. Concerns especially early career scientists!
Presentation title slide with photo of wood tiger moths
For circadian clocks, colour polymorphisms and nice moths: 11am Weds in room 117 #ESEB2025
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!
Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible).
Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too!
All the info you need is here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
@asab.org
"Esitys yliopistojen rahoituksen leikkaamisesta on täysin käsittämätön ajassa, jossa talouskasvu sakkaa jo valmiiksi”, sanoo rehtorimme Sari Lindblom valtionvarainministeriön ehdotuksesta. www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/k...
Job! Apply!
EU:n uusi 18. pakotepaketti Venäjää vastaan on tärkeä. Pakotteet kiristyvät venäläisiä pankkeja vastaan, Nord Streamin käyttö kielletään ja öljyn hintakatto painetaan alas yli 10 dollaria barrelilta. pakotteita tarvitaan lisää myös koska Venäjä oppii kiertämään vanhoja.
Venäjän talous kurimuksessa.
Came back from the field to find the lab had a new interior design feature—tiger moth mating boxes! Huge thanks to my amazing students and postdocs for keeping everything running. #TigerMoths #Fieldwork #Labwork @aplantaginis.bsky.social
a silly #SciArt redraw of the squish that cat meme, but it is a grey stickfigure squishing a mosquito (that looks like a little cat) with the text SQUISH THAT BUG!
You want to collect insects (and maybe other arthropods) for reference genome sequencing, but don't want to spend a fortune on dry ice shipping!
All you gotta do is SQUISH. THAT. BUG!
More details in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tärkeä ulostulo Opetusministeri Anders Adlercreutz’lta! www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...