@caroliinavp
Student at Lausanne University, CH. Fascinated by the (intra-specific) variation and (inter-specific) diversity in Nature. Evolutionary Developmental Biology Phenotypic Plasticity Color patterns Lepidoptera Butterflies
With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭
To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀
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Great new paper from Agathe Puissant's PhD in Ecology Letters: predation‐driven adaptive syndromes combining wing shape and colour patterns in Swallowtail Butterflies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A female Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) egg-laying on Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
Two eggs of the Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) on Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
Excited to see one of my PhD chapters now published! We found a trade-off between the quality of host plants and how warm they were for a declining grassland butterfly (Small Copper, Lycaena phlaeas) and looked at how this shaped their egg-laying choices: doi.org/10.1111/een....
I don't know, maybe it's because I'm a big Carl Sagan fan but I'm super dismayed out how many people these days seem to think that Nuclear Weapons are fine. And not, you know, a completely insane way for us all to live.
🚨JOB alert🚨
We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.
Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology
⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely
😊Come join us!
Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc
Eu ainda não vi nenhuma :p
🦋 CALLING ALL PhD APPLICANTS!
Fully funded PhD at the UPR, Río Piedras as part of the NSF-funded Blueprint of Life project. Click on the link to learn more!
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📍 Puerto Rico | Genomics | Evolution |
💩🥬this is why I can't pass up little turds on leaves - they could be frass mimics! 😰
mating Exema sp "warty leaf beetles", Oklahoma
Publilia reticulata treehopper, OK
Bolbonota sp treehoppers, Costa Rica
Beata sp jumping spider, Peru
Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly.
www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
Photo of a squid
Photo of a walrus on ice
We currently have TWO open positions within the GBIF Secretariat!
🐙 Senior software data enginee within the Engineering team 🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
📍Applications close 9 Jan 2026
🦭 Data administrator within the Data Products team
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
📍Applications close 13 Jan 2026
Atenção, diáspora! Votamos na 1.ª volta das presidenciais já entre 3.ª e 5.ª da próxima semana (6-8 de janeiro), nas embaixadas e consulados! Bora! 🗳️
Marcelo, o maior desestabilizador da política portuguesa, não se cansa de pedir estabilidade. A estabilidade faz parte do seu discurso hipócrita. Agora também quer estabilidade, mas para o Governo destruir serviços públicos, retroceder direitos laborais e degradar o Estado Social tranquilamente.
The "After all, why not?" LOTR meme, with the bottom text reading "Why shouldn't I study Lepidoptera...?"
A predominantly brown and orange butterfly perched on small bright yellow flowers. Its wings are closed and the lower wing is edged with small eye spots with wavy lines nearer the body. The upper wing is partially hidden but has a large eye spot near the tip with brighter orange segments separated by black lines. Its proboscis (tongue) is extended into one of the flowers. The background is a diffuse brown.
Another post dreaming of the warmer weather to come!
The Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) butterfly, now sadly extinct in many regions of the UK, I photographed this one in #Gredos, Spain where they're still plentiful.
#InverteFest #inverts #lepidoptera #UKButterflies @europebutterfly.bsky.social
Delighted that our review on taste in butterflies and caterpillars still made it into the special collection of "Neuroethology in Lepidoptera" 🐛 🦋:
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This article, led by Dimitri Peftuloglu, gives a great overview of how these wonderful insects detect plant metabolites 🌱.
Variation is everywhere. 🦗
#intraspecificvariation
#colorvariation
#phenotypes
#insects
Environment-induced phenotypic variation throughout development in Papilio machaon. 🌡🐛🦋
