Excited to share our new paper on pollen foraging in Heliconius himera @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼
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We explored how female and male H. himera differ in pollen foraging & sensory traits. 1/6🧵👇
Working on entomology research? Join us from 29 June to 3 July in Tours, France, for the European Congress of Entomology. The abstract submission deadline was extended to 31 January. If you are interested in genomics and evolutionary novelties, apply for our symposium on this topic.
www.ece2026.org
One of the coolest databases (and most important) in ecology and evolutionary biology
Some butterflies may seem more beautiful than others. And believe it or not, this is influencing their conservation and researchers' interest! - Take this 10-min test to contribute to a research into our perception of butterfly beauty:
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@pavelmatosm.bsky.social has a PhD position to work on rapid evolution and adaptation of flight in high altitude butterflies. Fieldwork in Peru + behavioral experiments!
If you are looking for a great PhD opportunity, read the position at the link below and contact Pável!
pavelmatos.wordpress.com
I very excited we finally made a new version of #smudgeplot: Skylight. Much faster, improved inference and interface and finally, we have a new experimental features that might be fun toying with.
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Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on.
(Please repost to reach a broad audience.)
boas notícias ao que tudo indica! boas energias seguem!
e espero que tudo bem!
Finally out in Elife @elife.bsky.social : well done @joledamoisel.bsky.social ! Convergent iridescence and divergent chemical signals in sympatric sister-species of Amazonian butterflies doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Truly great report by Glenn Zorpette at @spectrum.ieee.org on one of the most exciting scientific EU-level projects going on, the @10klepgenomes.bsky.social COST action alongside with @projectpsyche.bsky.social. Sequence all leps in Europe and make discoveries a landmark in genomics and lep biology!
A fantastic writeup by Glenn Zorpette from @spectrum.ieee.org. Glenn joined us in Italy where we collectively sampled hundreds of new species for @projectpsyche.bsky.social. Shoutout to Luigi Avantaggiato for the spectacular photos and @costprogramme.bsky.social funding for bringing groups together.
Thanks a lot, Nick!
Huge thanks also to main collaborators @lepphylo.bsky.social, @joanameier.bsky.social, @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social and many others!
That's it! On Monday I defended my PhD working with the genomics and evolutionary history of the relationship between butterflies and Wolbachia, with a comment on the use of genomics to conservation! Thanks a lot to @pavelmatosm.bsky.social for supervising and mentoring!
@pavelmatosm.bsky.social has a new PhD position opportunity to work with conservation genomics of European butterflies! The project involves very cool collaborations with @projectpsyche.bsky.social, @10klepgenomes.bsky.social and the LepEUConsortium!
Deadline Sep 12
pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
This month's ERGA BioGenome Analysis & Applications Seminar will feature a talk by speaker Pío Sierra about a new tool, pantera, which allows faster identification of Transposable Elements in genome assemblies. www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/faster-...
cool! thanks a lot for the tip, I will try that because so far no luck with that!
Anybody out there with BayesAss2 experience? I think we are not understanding each other about how the input file has to look like!
The aim of this proposal is to place population genomic insights into a comparative framework to gain fundamental insights into the determinants of evolutionary outcomes. The project will work within LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortium (https://lepeu.github.io/). LepEU provides access to field samples from European populations of diverse species. Chromosome-scale reference genomes are provided by Project Psyche (https://www.projectpsyche.org/). Networking during the postdoc will be facilitated by participation in the 10kLepGenomes COST Action (https://10klepgenomes.eu/). Existing datasets await analysis, while additional samples need DNA extraction and submission for sequencing. Functional validation capability (CRISPR/Cas9 gene manipulations) is also available to test emergent hypotheses of allele-to-phenotype impacts. Personal research interests of the postdoc will be important to determine the exact project, as the project has a generous sequencing budget.
The successful applicant should have a PhD (obtained within 6 years of the application deadline) in a suitable subject area, such as evolutionary biology or population genomics. A strong interest in population genomics, local adaptation, comparative analyses, and experience working with genomic-scale data is essential. The candidate must have a documented publication record demonstrating relevant skills. Experience working with bioinformatic pipelines (e.g., Snakemake), or working with butterflies is welcome but not essential. The net salary is 28,000 SEK/month (~2,430 Euro, not subject to Swedish income tax) and comes directly from the Carl-Trygger Foundation stipend, which is paid out directly to the postdoc. Only PhD candidates acquired outside of the host department can apply. Currently, the lab of Prof. Wheat consists of 3 postdoctoral researchers, while the Dept. of Zoology provides a vibrant and excellent research environment of active, dynamic researchers. Applications should include: i) a succinct description of research interests and experience, detailing your contribution to any relevant publications (max 1 page), ii) why you are the ideal candidate for this position in the lab (max 1 page); iii) a CV including a list of publications, and iv) the name and contact information of two personal references. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a deadline of 23 August 2025. The project is planned to start on 1 October, but flexibility in the starting date can be provided for a suitable candidate. Please contact Prof. Wheat for additional information.
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
RAxML-NG v2.0 beta is here
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Features
1. Difficulty prediction
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2. Adaptive search academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
3. Early Stop
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4. Model selection
5. Rapid bootstrapping academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
(1/4) In its first year, #ProjectPsyche has engaged with the research community by creating networks with experts in moths and butterflies 🦋 Members of the project have also trained the research community in #GenomeCuration, a key step in the generation of genomes 🧬
This Editorial by Brandon S. Gaut and Claudia A. M. Russo provides some nice insight into how #SocietyJournals work, and why it pays for Scientists to publish with #SocietyOwned Journals. 👇
A Message From the Editors-in-Chief
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#PlantScience #SciencePublishing
It's been brilliant to discuss so many aspects of Project Psyche as a community and find ways to make Psyche even better! Big thank you to @lepphylo.bsky.social @lunduniversity.bsky.social for hosting us and COST for making this meeting possible! www.cost.eu/actions/CA23...
Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.
Official petition for using em-dash in scientific publication (is it used?). It feels to me a bit too flamboyant to use it in a paper, but honestly I see it as a stylish alternative to "i.e" or sometimes colons.
I would like to be added! thanks a lot!
A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects.
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https://coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/k-mer-workshop-for-biodiversity-genomics-20250601/
🚨Registration open🚨 1st - 6th of June, me, Katie Jenike, @rayanchikhi.bsky.social and Gene Myers will run a week long workshop on k-mers for biodiversity genomics organised by @connectingscience.bsky.social at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. Join us & get equipped to wrestle large genomic datasets!
@lepphylo.bsky.social was ahead of me to post about our paper together with Pavel Matos, @joanameier.bsky.social and others!
I will come back to this to talk a bit more about it.
For me, this is the product of amazing collaborations with inspiring people!