According to blaadmineerders.nl P xenia feeds on Aspen

Could these mines not be microtheriella? Looks like the correct shape, and there's multiple mines on the same leaf, which is common for microtheriella

Collected leaf-mines of Dialectica scalariella on Viper's Bugloss/Echium vulgare from Freshwater Bay, Portland (VC 9) on 13th Sept - adults emerged on 25th Sept

@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

I am excited to share the first preprint from my postdoc work! We found that ligand-receptor pairs are not static and show an antagonistic spatial localization! We show ligand is important to fine tune the amplitude of Wnt oscillations ensuring robust tissue patterning! Check out the preprint!

Out now in Seminars in Cell & Dev Biol!

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With thanks to co-authors @callumbucklow.bsky.social and @bertaverd.bsky.social

🧪🚨Ever wondered why plant leaves 🍃look the way they do? Glad to contribute to work by Jamie Malone & team on developmental bias toward simple leaves! But there’s a backstory to it 1/4
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Haar kept moth numbers down at Findhorn dunes (VC 95) last night, with a meagre return of 15 species across two traps. However i did find a nice Portland moth / Actebia praecox resting on the heather, and an attractive Arctosa perita sought refuge (or prey) inside one of the traps

Can't be taken beyond genus but most likely to be cagnagella with those white terminal cilia

Great night mothing in Wytham Woods on midsummer's day - warm weather brought in 121 species including (presumed) Nemapogon ruricolella, Argyresthia glaucinella, and a very handsome Stephensia brunnichella

@tmbirding.bsky.social #mothsmatter

In this Perspective, students from the 2024 Embryology Course share their experiences spending the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory (@mblscience.bsky.social‬) in Woods Hole:
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The Company of Biologists and the Woods Hole Embryology Course

We explore the association of Development and @biologists.bsky.social‬ with the Woods Hole Embryology Course @mblscience.bsky.social‬ and hear from former students about the impact the course has had on them:
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From hydra grafts to butterfly gene expression, the 2024 @mblscience.bsky.social #Embryology Course was a playground for #discovery. 🌊 @planaria1.bsky.social Lab postdoc Ekasit Sonpho co-authored a reflection in @dev-journal.bsky.social on what made this summer so transformative: bit.ly/3ZIMRQu

What a fantastic essay by last year's @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology students! A perfect paean to the most wonderful science: "It's exhausting; it's exhilarating; it's Embryology."

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Somitic Change Drives Changes in Vertebral Regionalisation in African Cichlids Despite Strong Canalisation of Somite Number https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.655800v1

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

Excited to announce my second PhD manuscript is on bioRvix (biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to all co-authors, including my supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...

Segmentation clock & tissue development are decoupled - explanation for evolution of flexible body plans?
#EvoDevo #SegmentationClock

Study from Verd Lab @bertaverd.bsky.social @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social

🆕 #preprintpeerreview @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

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I assume you reared them from larvae? What did you feed them - are you close enough to Bearberry to feed them that, or did you try them on Willow?

Not argyrana IMO, suspect one of albuginana/suspectana, worth dissecting

How'd you find this one? On a fencepost?

Previously only recorded once in the UK in 2018, records of Pammene juniperana have been increasing since 2022. Pleased to finally share this paper with @jamesehammond.bsky.social confirming that this lovely moth is breeding here, probably both on both wild and garden Junipers: shorturl.at/E2LrU

Thank you!

Thank you! Obviously heavily inspired by your work