Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
@gmkov.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist 🦋
Assistant Professor, Uppsala University
https://www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com
Assistant Professor, Uppsala University
https://www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com
What a way to start the year!! Really enjoyed the usual friendly atmosphere at PopGroup and all the research shared. Many thanks to the organisers @popgroup2026.bsky.social
If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️
If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️
January 12, 2026 at 7:11 AM
What a way to start the year!! Really enjoyed the usual friendly atmosphere at PopGroup and all the research shared. Many thanks to the organisers @popgroup2026.bsky.social
If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️
If anyone is interested in joining my group or coming to Sweden please get in touch 🧬❄️
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
Oh my way to PopGroup! I’ll be talking about our preprint on bidirectional adaptive introgression between native and invasive agricultural pests: Friday, 16:30 in Amphi B
doi.org/10.64898/202...
doi.org/10.64898/202...
The collision of two genomes threatens global food security
Human activity alters selection pressures and species’ ranges, creating opportunities for hybridisation through secondary contact. Ancient hybridization has enabled adaptive radiation, but its role in...
doi.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Oh my way to PopGroup! I’ll be talking about our preprint on bidirectional adaptive introgression between native and invasive agricultural pests: Friday, 16:30 in Amphi B
doi.org/10.64898/202...
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
Excited to be in Lille for @popgroup2026.bsky.social ! Come and catch my talk on accounting for local adaptation in species distribution models @16:15 in Amphi B :)
January 8, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Excited to be in Lille for @popgroup2026.bsky.social ! Come and catch my talk on accounting for local adaptation in species distribution models @16:15 in Amphi B :)
We’ve been working on this paper longer than it took adaptive alleles to cross the species barrier (in both directions) and make two pests ever more resistant to the things we throw at them.
New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛
New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛
Excited about our new preprint showing bidirectional adaptive introgression between invasive and native crop pests over ecological timescales www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The collision of two genomes threatens global food security
Human activity alters selection pressures and species' ranges, creating opportunities for hybridisation through secondary contact. Ancient hybridization has enabled adaptive radiation, but its role in...
www.biorxiv.org
December 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We’ve been working on this paper longer than it took adaptive alleles to cross the species barrier (in both directions) and make two pests ever more resistant to the things we throw at them.
New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛
New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
Tom and John Emmel and Sterling Mattoon officially began their work on “The Butterflies of California” book in 1974.
Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-...
🦋📕
Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-...
🦋📕
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tom and John Emmel and Sterling Mattoon officially began their work on “The Butterflies of California” book in 1974.
Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-...
🦋📕
Now, more than 50 years after they began, the book draft has officially been published online and is freely available to the public:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/the-...
🦋📕
We are so pleased with our new Assist Plus robot. Already hugely upscaling magnetic bead extractions! 🧬 next up libraries and museum samples. (thanks @scilifelab.se for the funding).
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We are so pleased with our new Assist Plus robot. Already hugely upscaling magnetic bead extractions! 🧬 next up libraries and museum samples. (thanks @scilifelab.se for the funding).
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️
The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations.
DEADLINE: January 11, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations.
DEADLINE: January 11, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
Join us
Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Fully-funded PhD position The project aims to understand rapid evolution and adaptation in white butterflies flying at high elevatio…
pavelmatos.wordpress.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New PhD position: Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️
The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations.
DEADLINE: January 11, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
The project aims to understand the rapid evolution and adaptation of white butterflies at high elevations.
DEADLINE: January 11, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
Really exciting times to be doing Lepidoptera research! Incredible efforts by the consortium (and thank you for bringing Lepbase back too, sorely missed!)
I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level
reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found
in Europe. Here, we describe t...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Really exciting times to be doing Lepidoptera research! Incredible efforts by the consortium (and thank you for bringing Lepbase back too, sorely missed!)
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level
reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found
in Europe. Here, we describe t...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing temperatures affect thoracic muscle performance in Arctic bumblebees - Nature Communications
Increasing temperatures threaten cold-adapted pollinators such as Arctic bumblebees by disrupting their physiology. This study found that thorax acceleration during non-flight vibrations peaks at 25 °...
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
We are looking for a part-time research assistant with an enthusiasm for working with insects and plants to join our Leverhulme-funded project on butterfly scale development jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
Research Assistant (Entomology)
Research Assistant (Entomology)
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We are looking for a part-time research assistant with an enthusiasm for working with insects and plants to join our Leverhulme-funded project on butterfly scale development jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
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I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
September 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
Reliably hungry students @ an R crashcourse 😍
September 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reliably hungry students @ an R crashcourse 😍
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🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab
🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab
🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!
August 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab
🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab
🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!
I guess I’m a euphy biologist now ☺️
June 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I guess I’m a euphy biologist now ☺️
First day of fieldwork: one flat tyre, one gopher snake, and many Euphydryas editha 🤩
@ Piute peak, California
@ Piute peak, California
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
First day of fieldwork: one flat tyre, one gopher snake, and many Euphydryas editha 🤩
@ Piute peak, California
@ Piute peak, California
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.
We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.
Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures. Despite phenotypic changes being more rapid and predictable at hot t...
www.nature.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.
We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.
A much deserved award to the mother of climate change ecology and dear Euphydryas collaborator, Camille. Her story is one of resilience and fighting to study what she believed was important, not what was trendy at the time. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Camille Parmesan for demonstrating the impact of climate change on the geographical displacement of species round the globe
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change and Environmental Sciences goes in this seventeenth edition to Camille Parmesan (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France...
www.eurekalert.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A much deserved award to the mother of climate change ecology and dear Euphydryas collaborator, Camille. Her story is one of resilience and fighting to study what she believed was important, not what was trendy at the time. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
A little tutorial to make interactive maps with GBIF data for any species, including any metadata you want - pictures too
Great work by intern Edgar Signe from Brest University
www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com/projects/
Great work by intern Edgar Signe from Brest University
www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com/projects/
April 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
A little tutorial to make interactive maps with GBIF data for any species, including any metadata you want - pictures too
Great work by intern Edgar Signe from Brest University
www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com/projects/
Great work by intern Edgar Signe from Brest University
www.montejo-kovacevich-lab.com/projects/
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
Know a budding insect lover? Here's a new fund from @royentsoc.bsky.social and family of the great moth expert Douglas Boyes. For 14-18 year old persons who would benefit from funding to support their entomological interest? Please encourage them to apply www.royensoc.co.uk/douglas-boye...
Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society
The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access t...
www.royensoc.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Know a budding insect lover? Here's a new fund from @royentsoc.bsky.social and family of the great moth expert Douglas Boyes. For 14-18 year old persons who would benefit from funding to support their entomological interest? Please encourage them to apply www.royensoc.co.uk/douglas-boye...
What an amazing week at the @floridamuseum.bsky.social We digitised >800 Euphydryas editha, sampled hundreds of legs for genomics, and was given access to Mattoon’s incredible California butterfly collection. Thanks @vmshirey.bsky.social Anisha Sapkota and Andrei Sourakov for all your help
February 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What an amazing week at the @floridamuseum.bsky.social We digitised >800 Euphydryas editha, sampled hundreds of legs for genomics, and was given access to Mattoon’s incredible California butterfly collection. Thanks @vmshirey.bsky.social Anisha Sapkota and Andrei Sourakov for all your help
Butterfly detective by night 🦋🕵🏼♀️
February 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Butterfly detective by night 🦋🕵🏼♀️
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word!
Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
#ecoevojob
Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
#ecoevojob
February 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word!
Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
#ecoevojob
Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
#ecoevojob
Reposted by Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio