CONGRATS 🎉 to Dr. @vicgillman.bsky.social on passing her viva with no corrections! I’m so proud of you and so lucky to have been part of your journey! Special thank you to co-supervisors @lancasterlt.bsky.social & Vicky Pritchard and examiners @gretabocedi.bsky.social & @fishyomics.bsky.social!

Loved seeing one of my favourite invert groups pop up in this morning’s #BES2025 lecture from Joe Roman. Lots of incredible whale ecology with some Osedax thrown in there 🪱

Kicking off #BES2025 with the Georgina Mace Lecture from Sandra Diaz about 🌱 functional traits & their interaction with people & climate

Thanks also to @vicgillman.bsky.social for the excellent cake! 🌊🦀

Congrats to Dr. @ethan-ross.bsky.social on the successful completion of his viva! I’m so lucky to have been part of your journey - the future is so bright for you. Very special thanks to co-supervisors @sigwartae.bsky.social & Stu Piertney and examiners @marianilab.bsky.social & Beth Scott!

Thanks to wonderful co-authors and collaborators @lancasterlt.bsky.social, Peter Cosgrove, Barbara Morrissey and Victoria Pritchard!

Genomic evidence of local adaptation in Scottish freshwater pearl mussels - Conservation Genetics Conservation Genetics - Climate change is a global threat that is already impacting populations and species across diverse ecosystems. Local adaptation of populations, identified through...

I’m so thrilled to share @vicgillman.bsky.social first first-author paper just published in Conservation Genetics 🎉🧬🦪 (not a FW mussel). This is just the tip of the iceberg of what’s to come from Victoria - stay tuned!

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Incredible PhD opportunity working with an even more incredible team!

We’re so excited to welcome you all to CSEE 2026 in Toronto!

Tagging @ethan-ross.bsky.social here!

A Comprehensive DNA Barcode Reference Library for the Macroinvertebrates of Scottish Seagrass Beds Using Oxford Nanopore Flongle Flowcells In this study we use ONT Flongle Flowcells to produced DNA barcodes for 146 seagrass associated marine invertebrate OTUs collected from four seagrass beds in Scotland, targeting COI and 18S V4 region....

Very excited to share this paper from PhD student Ethan Ross demonstrating the utility of ONT for generating barcode reference libraries in seagrass invertebrates. A second congratulations to Ethan for submitting his PhD thesis today! 🎉🧬🐚

Victoria Gillman's talk on "Local adaptation and forecasting response in the endangered Scottish freshwater pearl mussel" was really insightful! 🤩 #ESEB2025

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

I am beyond sad to be missing #ESEB2025 but please check out this talk by my brilliant PhD student @vicgillman.bsky.social this afternoon!

Visiting the collections at the Museu de Zoologia was a highlight of the trip, topped off with a visit to a street named after a nudibranch legend

The #WCM2025 meeting was a huge success! Thanks to the LOC in São Paulo and all of our fantastic presenters in the heterobranch symposium 🙌

Excellent start to day 2 of #WCM2025 with a killer plenary by @sigwartae.bsky.social - 📣taxonomy is key for conservation!

Arrived in São Paulo for the World Congress of Malacology - all things mollusc for the next four days. What a dream! 🐌 🐚 🦪 🧬

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS Insects are declining worldwide. These declines have been documented across taxonomic groups and are worrisome given ecosystem services provided by...

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab

Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

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Back to my roots on the Thames River yesterday! We participated in some FW mussel sampling with DFO in a beautiful spot in Ontario 🌿

It’s been such a pleasure to meet and work with this wonderful group of people. I’ve learned so much from them and I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be involved! Led by the amazing @cristinaruedau.bsky.social

A huge win for Northern Arizona University! @chamberea.bsky.social is one of the most talented and lovely academics I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. Congrats Anne 🎉🥂

Phylogeny and reclassification of Limacodidae worldwide, with emphasis on the ontogeny of larval defenses (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea) Abstract. Limacodidae (Zygaenoidea), a mostly pantropical family of 1,800+ species, is known for sluglike caterpillars with suckers below rather than typic

I've been waiting for this, an update on the beautiful slug #caterpillars (Limacodidae)

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Tracing the evolution of key traits in dorid nudibranchs Reconstructing trait evolution is critically important for elucidating the processes generating biodiversity. However, this work is in its infancy in non-model clades for which we lack a basic underst...

Check out our recent paper “Tracing the evolution of key traits in dorid nudibranchs”! 🧬🐌 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Nudibranchs are a fascinating and diverse group of molluscs, unique and interesting systems in ecology and evolutionary biology.
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It’s been one hell of an awful week but I’m sailing into the long weekend with this guy 💙

Summer fieldwork mode has begun 💪 Just returned from a super productive trip w/ @mollusksatamnh.bsky.social & our stellar PhD students Anahy Garza & Lina Raubold. Lots of colour pattern analysis & sequencing to come on these Felimida nudibranchs & flamingo tongues (Cyphoma) 🎨🧬

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