Excited to share that our proposal on animal structural colors has been accepted by HFSP. This one is close to my heart, sitting right at the intersection of our lab's diverse interests. So grateful to be working with the dream team: @evolphotonics.bsky.social and Chuong lab (USC)!
Absolutely thrilled and humbled to announce our project proposal led by @kyogok.bsky.social, Cheng-Ming Chuong (@keck.usc.edu), and yours truly, has been awarded a RG. We look forward to integratively pushing the frontiers on the totally tubular physics and biology of animal structural colors.
Thanks to Marie Parra for inviting me to share a few words on camouflage and colours in nature for her very interesting and well researched article published in the quarterly magazine-book La Recherche: "L'invisible", available at newsstands and bookstores.
DERNIÈRE SEMAINE ! Notre perception ne permet d’accéder qu’à une infime partie du monde: du vivant au cosmos, de la matière aux pensées humaines, l’essentiel nous échappe largement.
Dans ce numéro, La Recherche vous dévoile... l'invisible !
👉 https://l.sciencesetavenir.fr/mGF
🥰 1,100+ abstracts submitted to #ECE2026Tours!
🌍 Scientists from 66 countries will bring a huge diversity of topics—#ECE2026Tours is set to be a global insect science hub 🐜
👉 Updates: ece2026.org
🪲 We are thrilled to announce our upcoming symposium on "Biomimetism – From biological to bio-inspired photonic materials" at the ECE2026 in Tours from 29/06 to 02/07/2026 - We hope to see you for an exceptional week of science 🪲
Abstracts and Early bird registration due 31/01/2026
#ECE2026Tours
🤩 a must see symposium at #ece2026Tours
But only one of the 48 symposium we have lined up to discuss all aspects of #insect #science
🎟️ early bird registrations and abstract submission close on December 15.
➡️ www.ece2026.org
Check out and come participate in our symposium on "Biomimetism – From biological to bio-inspired photonic materials" as part of the themed session "Insects as Solutions" co-organized with @bodowilts.bsky.social
XIII European Congress of Entomology
🚨 Registration is now open for ECE 2026
www.ece2026.org/submission-r...
#ECE2026Tours #Entomology #insectscience
@univtours.bsky.social
@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social
@cnrs.fr
@ird-fr.bsky.social
@mnhn.fr
@inrae-france.bsky.social
Is it me or is the sense of entitlement getting worse with each gen??
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Reviewer#1 nails it - there is NO such thing as an "asymmetric compact hexagonal packing" and it is IMPOSSIBLE to predict iridescent colors without the barbule cortex thickness that usually never gets preserved. This is just sophistry. Thanks @elife.bsky.social
One week left to submit dossier and apply online on ADUM (collegedoctoral-cvl.fr/as/ed/voirpr...). Pls spread the word...🙏
🥱We all know why this made it into the tabloid...Nice artist impression! 15 years of fundamentally flawed research in making unfounded inferences from impressions of melanosomes. Small mercy they are not attributing iridescence to these "dinosaur-era" critters YET😆
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The correct link for the job application is:
collegedoctoral-cvl.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
@evoldir.bsky.social
#colsci #bugs #omics
Do you love bugs? Have you ever wondered what makes insects so colorful or how insects produce iridescence in their scales? Do you have a Masters degree?
If yes 😁, we are offering a fully-funded PhD position at IRBI (CNRS/UTours). Come join us!! Applications due 11 April 2025!
#ColSci #Bugs #omics
🐛✨ Rejoignez l'IRBI pour y faire une thèse sur les "Couleurs structurelles d'ailes d'insectes : de la caractérisations matéri-omiques aux investigations CRISPR".
😀Encadrement @evolphotonics.bsky.social et Sylvain Pincebourde.
📅 Dépôts des candidatures : 11 avril 2025
#Recherche #Insectes #CRISPR
🐛✨ Join IRBI to pursue a PhD on "Structural Colors of Insect Wings: From Material-Omic Characterization to CRISPR Investigations."
😀 Supervised by @evolphotonics.bsky.social and Sylvain Pincebourde.
📅 Application deadline: April 11, 2025
#Research #Insects #CRISPR
please add me too, Joe @hanliconius.bsky.social
