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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 16h

Warmer and less seasonal climates promote generalisation. This means climate change may erode the world’s most specialised pollination systems, although unevenly across taxa and regions.

This synthesis was possible only through a global collaboration of 140+ researchers...

Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 16h

Pollination is often least specialised in the tropics and peaks at northern mid-latitudes.

Plants and pollinators show contrasting, non-linear trends, and climate, not latitude, is the key driver. Temperature, rainfall, and seasonality explain global variation in interaction specialisation.

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 16h

New preprint!

“Climate-driven specialisation in plant–pollinator networks peaks outside the tropics”

Testing the long-debated latitudinal specialisation gradient using >3,400 quantitative networks (>110,000 interactions). Led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Apr 9

to mě napadlo taky, ale tahle blbost už opadla, ne?

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Apr 9

já mám už posledních ca 10 dní problém s chatGPT každé odpoledne, když Amerika pracuje. Je neskutečně pomalý a často padá, i u triviálních úloh. Docela by mě zajímalo, co se děje...

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Apr 8

That would be great!

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Apr 8

Today, we have received an announcement that Intranet of @charlesuni.cuni.cz is becoming an official communication channel between the university and its employees. Probably a good idea but... the university decides to ignore a few hundreds (I guess🤔) non-Czech speaking staff🤡 (please fix it!)

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Apr 8

Our mini-review on the role of moths in pollination of tropical plants has been published! Maybe interesting not only for entomologists, botanists, and pollination ecologists...

Michal Barták @michalbartak.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨New paper on tropical moth pollination 🧵1/8 - What happens in tropical ecosystems when the day ends?🌔🦋 Our new review that @robtrop.bsky.social and I wrote highlights moths’ vital role in pollination and outlines research gaps, challenges and biases. Sharing valued! Link: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

When the day ends: Review on the importance of nocturnal moths as pollinators in tropical ecosystems | Journal of Tropical Ecology | Cambridge Core

When the day ends: Review on the importance of nocturnal moths as pollinators in tropical ecosystems - Volume 41

doi.org

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Michal Barták @michalbartak.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨New paper on tropical moth pollination 🧵1/8 - What happens in tropical ecosystems when the day ends?🌔🦋 Our new review that @robtrop.bsky.social and I wrote highlights moths’ vital role in pollination and outlines research gaps, challenges and biases. Sharing valued! Link: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

When the day ends: Review on the importance of nocturnal moths as pollinators in tropical ecosystems | Journal of Tropical Ecology | Cambridge Core

When the day ends: Review on the importance of nocturnal moths as pollinators in tropical ecosystems - Volume 41

doi.org

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Michal Barták @michalbartak.bsky.social · Mar 14

Grateful for the opportunity to present our very recently accepted review paper on Nocturnal Moths as Pollinators in the Tropics that @robtrop.bsky.social and I wrote at the #OIKOSFin2025. Stay tuned for the full paper coming soon!

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Lenka Vrtišková Nejezchlebová @lenislavka.bsky.social · Mar 6

Naše Zvířata v éře lidí se vešla do širších nominací na Cenu Magnesia Litera. Mám radost velikou a mávám a dekuju všem, co na tom mají podíl @denikn.cz

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Mar 4

It is hard to imagine... despite my general trust in people dropped down a lot over the last years... try to stay strong and safe, they are not there forever and you will be needed to restore the American science!

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Mar 4

Serious question from a European scientist: Are there any Trump voters among American academics who are now satisfied with the situation in US research/academia? I suppose they are not common in this network but do you know any?

(I hope this nightmare will end soon)

Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · Mar 3

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Feb 28

Czech President Petr Pavel: “We stand with Ukraine more than ever. Time for Europe to step up its efforts.”

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Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.bsky.social · Feb 25

A new butterfly species in Europe: Papilio saharae. An African species with (as far as we know at the moment) one population in Europe on Lampedusa. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Whole‐genome data shed light on speciation and within‐species differentiation of the Papilio machaon complex around the Mediterranean Basin

Genomic data refine the species boundary of Papilio machaon and confirm the species status of Papilio saharae, with clarification of subspecies delineation of Mediterranean machaon and saharae. A he...

resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Feb 24

Still a bit surprising for me... I do not know many students having published results before applying for PhD. And even much less having a publication not written by their supervisors😀 Apparently, your project - your rules! I was just surprised...

Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Feb 24

Are you really expecting that candidates for PhD studentship will have "at least one relevant scientific paper published in a Q1 journal"?🤔

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Feb 21

Upřímně nechápu, jaktože @ondrejcerny.bsky.social a jeho bublině nevadí, že zůstáváním na Twitteru dodávají relevanci (a peníze) těm magorům, co se teď tak urputně snaží vyhandlovat svobodu ukrajiny🤡

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · Feb 19

Loving deep-sea fish and molecular evolution?

We're hiring!:-) Looking for a motivated PhD student to join us to study evolution of vision & to explore limits of vertebrate eye in extreme environment. Deadline 15th March. Thanks for applying and sharing!

more info: www.fishevo.com/erc-funded-p...

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Feb 18

🌿🌳 Rethinking Europe’s #Nature🍃🐘 Our new study challenges the closed-forest paradigm—pre-Homo sapiens landscapes were a fine-grained mosaic of open areas, closed #forest & light #woodland, likely linked to the rich #megafauna🐂🏵️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Feb 14

Anonymní články na Ekolistu? To snad ne...🤦‍♂️

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Niklas Wahlberg @lepphylo.bsky.social · Feb 6

A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects.
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral fellow in Noctuidae functional genomics

Subject description The project will use a comparative functional genomes approach to study a species-rich group of moths, Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Noctuidae have both a huge negative and positive imp

lu.varbi.com

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Feb 5

To je teda fakt děsivý

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Feb 5

pitty she is not wearing her clothes with a Diretmus fish picture 😁

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · Feb 5

You buy an interactive book for your kid realising its texts are based on scientific results of your wife @fishevo.bsky.social!😍 Proud a lot💪

FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · Feb 5

When you buy an interactive kid book on the oceans - and you find the results of your research there (on how deep-sea fish see their world:-). That’s the real impact!:-) hope it gets translated in Eng eventually:-)

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