Brent Emerson
@brentcemerson.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, sometimes faking it as an ecologist. Likes things with 6 or more legs. Professor @IPNA_CSIC. NZer in the Canary Islands.
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Weevil, weevil, rock you!
Not quite as catchy as the Queen hit, the phylogeny of broad-nosed weevils was explored using mitochondrial genomes of 130 species, helping to classify the subfamily & uncover their biogeography! 🌍👇🧪
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
Not quite as catchy as the Queen hit, the phylogeny of broad-nosed weevils was explored using mitochondrial genomes of 130 species, helping to classify the subfamily & uncover their biogeography! 🌍👇🧪
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Weevil, weevil, rock you!
Not quite as catchy as the Queen hit, the phylogeny of broad-nosed weevils was explored using mitochondrial genomes of 130 species, helping to classify the subfamily & uncover their biogeography! 🌍👇🧪
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
Not quite as catchy as the Queen hit, the phylogeny of broad-nosed weevils was explored using mitochondrial genomes of 130 species, helping to classify the subfamily & uncover their biogeography! 🌍👇🧪
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
A new and disappointing milestone reached - 30 reviewer invitations and not a single acceptance. Apathy? I doubt it. People being overstretched? Seems pretty likely to me.
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A new and disappointing milestone reached - 30 reviewer invitations and not a single acceptance. Apathy? I doubt it. People being overstretched? Seems pretty likely to me.
Someone needs to clean their space station
🌾🌱⚘️🌿🌼🦠🚀 #BUC2026 Impressive survival of moss spores, Physcomitrella patens (spreading earthmoss) on outside of International Space Station for 9 months! Vacuum, radiation, dry, too much light, cold. Over 80% germinated when back on Earth. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Someone needs to clean their space station
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Bravo on this title 👏👏
Peculiar Pigment Pattern and Population Profile of a Poisonous Pufferfish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.687103v1
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Bravo on this title 👏👏
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📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
Hybrid speciation in weevils on the Canary Islands. Or is it? What is hybrid speciation anyway? This paper was fun to work on, from start to finish. The novelty is that the parental and hybrid species are cryptic and sympatric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Hybrid speciation in weevils on the Canary Islands. Or is it? What is hybrid speciation anyway? This paper was fun to work on, from start to finish. The novelty is that the parental and hybrid species are cryptic and sympatric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Thinking of a career switch? Find your perfect job in #entomology 🪲
Visit our #job opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽
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📸 Leaping locust (c) Martin Tampier
#Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #STEMjobs
Visit our #job opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽
buff.ly/lESo5k5
📸 Leaping locust (c) Martin Tampier
#Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #STEMjobs
Job opportunities - Royal Entomological Society
Job opportunities If you have an insect-related or entomology job opportunity please send us the details [email protected] Want to work with us? Keep an eye on our RES Vacancies page for any paid…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Thinking of a career switch? Find your perfect job in #entomology 🪲
Visit our #job opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽
buff.ly/lESo5k5
📸 Leaping locust (c) Martin Tampier
#Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #STEMjobs
Visit our #job opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽
buff.ly/lESo5k5
📸 Leaping locust (c) Martin Tampier
#Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #STEMjobs
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Just when you thought Halloween was over - the ghosts of a brief colonisation has been found in the genetic record in weevils on the Canary Islands.
Guest blogger Adam Brachtl tells the story of this study, from the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social Special Issue, 'Evolution on Islands'.
Guest blogger Adam Brachtl tells the story of this study, from the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social Special Issue, 'Evolution on Islands'.
Ghosts of the Past: How DNA Reveals an Extinct Island Lineage
Discover the latest news from The Linnean Society of London.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Just when you thought Halloween was over - the ghosts of a brief colonisation has been found in the genetic record in weevils on the Canary Islands.
Guest blogger Adam Brachtl tells the story of this study, from the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social Special Issue, 'Evolution on Islands'.
Guest blogger Adam Brachtl tells the story of this study, from the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social Special Issue, 'Evolution on Islands'.
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What a cool blog post led by Adam Brachtl !! 🤩
Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻
@ipna.csic.es @brentcemerson.bsky.social
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Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻
@ipna.csic.es @brentcemerson.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What a cool blog post led by Adam Brachtl !! 🤩
Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻
@ipna.csic.es @brentcemerson.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻
@ipna.csic.es @brentcemerson.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
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How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
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@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
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@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...
www.science.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
🧵(1/n)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
🧵(1/n)
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
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We put either relatively benthic or limnetic ecotype stickleback into nine lakes; Daphnia evolved different anti-predator defenses depending on the genotypes of stickleback that we added to a given lake
October 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We put either relatively benthic or limnetic ecotype stickleback into nine lakes; Daphnia evolved different anti-predator defenses depending on the genotypes of stickleback that we added to a given lake
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🐞 Interested in taking a #course in #entomology?
We’ve compiled a list of institutions in the UK and Ireland offering full and part-time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience 🔽
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#Education #Research #Science
We’ve compiled a list of institutions in the UK and Ireland offering full and part-time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience 🔽
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#Education #Research #Science
October 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🐞 Interested in taking a #course in #entomology?
We’ve compiled a list of institutions in the UK and Ireland offering full and part-time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience 🔽
🔗 buff.ly/MYHrXx3
#Education #Research #Science
We’ve compiled a list of institutions in the UK and Ireland offering full and part-time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience 🔽
🔗 buff.ly/MYHrXx3
#Education #Research #Science
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New paper out in PNAS (led by Julia Heinen). Here, we reported a clear loss of coevolutionary history and functional potential on seed dispersal after vertebrate extinctions and introductions in islands.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
@ipna.csic.es
Photo: B Rodríguez (Gallotia galloti-Plocama pendula)
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@ipna.csic.es
Photo: B Rodríguez (Gallotia galloti-Plocama pendula)
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
New paper out in PNAS (led by Julia Heinen). Here, we reported a clear loss of coevolutionary history and functional potential on seed dispersal after vertebrate extinctions and introductions in islands.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
@ipna.csic.es
Photo: B Rodríguez (Gallotia galloti-Plocama pendula)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
@ipna.csic.es
Photo: B Rodríguez (Gallotia galloti-Plocama pendula)
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New assessment of the conservation status of wild honeybees🧐🐝
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...
Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU
The wild cousins of beehive honeybees are disappearing – here’s why that matters.
theconversation.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
New assessment of the conservation status of wild honeybees🧐🐝
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...
theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...
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☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
October 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think.
Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.
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Happy weevil Wednesday!
October 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Happy weevil Wednesday!
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Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.
September 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.
Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses
Using a species-specific reference genome significantly improves the accuracy of population
genetic analyses, as exemplified by mapping gray fox sequence data to genomes of several
canid species. Mapp...
www.cell.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration
September 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration
A nice example of hybridisation having either driven or facilitated speciation. Interesting either way I think, even if most of the attention is on hybridisation as a driver.
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Homoploid Hybrid Speciation in a Marine Pelagic Fish
Homoploid hybrid speciation (HHS) is an enigmatic evolutionary process where new species arise through hybridisation of divergent lineages without changes in chromosome number. Although increasingly ....
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A nice example of hybridisation having either driven or facilitated speciation. Interesting either way I think, even if most of the attention is on hybridisation as a driver.
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
PhD position available with myself and @victor-noguerales.bsky.social to investigate how genomes influence insect diversification
4-year contract @ IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife
Relevant MSc and coding skills required
contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more details B4 Oct 10
Pls RT
4-year contract @ IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife
Relevant MSc and coding skills required
contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more details B4 Oct 10
Pls RT
September 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
PhD position available with myself and @victor-noguerales.bsky.social to investigate how genomes influence insect diversification
4-year contract @ IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife
Relevant MSc and coding skills required
contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more details B4 Oct 10
Pls RT
4-year contract @ IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife
Relevant MSc and coding skills required
contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more details B4 Oct 10
Pls RT
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September 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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How many chromosomes can an animal have?
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly
The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most
butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that
this extraordinary karyotype is ...
tinyurl.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
How many chromosomes can an animal have?
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...