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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · 28d

🌍 Species on the Move 2026 #SOTM2026 will come to Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan! 🤩This is an amazing conference with themes from ecological mechanisms to social adaptation + great atmosphere + birding, hiking, and hot springs!
👉 www.speciesonthemove.com
✨Abstracts due November 10, 2025 – don’t miss it!

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10kLepGenomes @10klepgenomes.bsky.social · Jun 4

👩🏾‍💻 It’s finally here! 👩🏾‍💻

We’re excited to announce the launch of our official website for Cost Action 10kLepGenomes: www.10klepgenomes.eu 🦋

We invite you to explore and stay updated with our progress in Lepidoptera genomics! 🧬

#10kLepGenomes #Lepidoptera #Genomics

w10klepgenomes.eu

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · May 15

Check out our paper outlining how #species can move in space and time 🚨Expertly led by @afredston.bsky.social @mwtingley.bsky.social & with an amazing team #SOTM #biodiversity

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · May 15

👇 #BioTIME 🌐🌍 #database #biodiversity #timeseries #opendata

Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · May 15

Don't know where to start? Don't worry!

We have developed an R package to get you started. #BioTIMEr now provides tools to interact with the database and some useful tips and examples.

Our website is also getting an uplift in the upcoming days, so stay tuned!

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · May 15

Really happy to announce that the updated version of BioTIME is out!!🚨 This is the largest #database of #biodiversity #timeseries - now with 708 studies and >56 thousand species from across the planet!🦊🐀🐦🐊🐟🐙🦋🐞🌲🍀
& over 400 co-authors sharing their data🤩🤩
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Apr 24

Extended deadline ➡️ #PhD position to work on #biodiversity #changes of butterflies and moths @utu.fi - apply until May 2nd
ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Apr 23

📢 new paper using long-term data from Finland where we show "Thermal homogenization of boreal communities in response to climate warming" now out in @pnas.org
Led by Jussi Mäkinen with a great team of coau from @rececochange.bsky.social @syke.fi among many others
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Apr 22

There's still a few days to apply for this #PhD position @utu.fi to work on #biodiversity changes of #butterflies and #moths in my project - deadline is April 25 👇https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitoskirjatutkija-projektitutkija-biodiversiteettimuutos/81PyEX?lang=en&UTUID=20826

Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Apr 8

📢New position for a #PhD researcher in my lab @utu.fi to investigate large-scale patterns of biodiversity change of #Lepidoptera #moths & #butterflies 🦋🦋
Please apply if you are interested in #biodiversity #change and #ecological dynamics - deadline is April 25!
ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...

Doctoral Researcher in Biodiversity change

The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku invites applications for a doctoral researcher position at the Department of Biology. The position is fully funded 3-years, and we will support effort...

ats.talentadore.com

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Apr 8

📢New position for a #PhD researcher in my lab @utu.fi to investigate large-scale patterns of biodiversity change of #Lepidoptera #moths & #butterflies 🦋🦋
Please apply if you are interested in #biodiversity #change and #ecological dynamics - deadline is April 25!
ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...

Doctoral Researcher in Biodiversity change

The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku invites applications for a doctoral researcher position at the Department of Biology. The position is fully funded 3-years, and we will support effort...

ats.talentadore.com

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Mar 5

📢Still a few days left to apply for a #postdoc position in " #Biogeography of genetic diversity changes / #Macrogenetics" to work on my project investigating large-scale patterns of #genetic #diversity on Lepidoptera🦋 @utu.fi ➡️ ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkij...
Call is open until March 10!

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Feb 28

“Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.” theatln.tc/OBWzC38t

At Least Now We Know the Truth

The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · Feb 28

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · Feb 28

Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Feb 28

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 #slavaukraini

Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · Feb 28

Let it all come out. There will be a reckoning. Zelensky is a hero.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Feb 28

Vance: I think it's disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media...You should be thanking the president...

Zelenskyy: Have you ever been to Ukraine?...

Vance: I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour...

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Feb 28

Glad to have been a part of this study!! Led by @Malin Pinsky and with a great team @hillebr1.bsky.social @jon-chase03.bsky.social @Myriam Hirt @Ulrich Brose @michaeltburrows.bsky.social @bgauzens.bsky.social @benrosenbaum.bsky.social @Shane Blowes

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Feb 28

📢New paper!! 📢using #BioTIME #timeseries we showed that faster rates of #turnover in community composition were associated with faster rates of #temperature #change across biomes, for both cooling & warming + microclimate availability & human impacts modulate these responses
go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy to share we have a new postdoc position in "Biogeography of genetic diversity changes or Macrogenetics" at @utu.fi to work on large-scale patterns of genetic diversity using Lepidoptera= moths and butterflies 🦋🦋 Applications are open until March 10!
ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkij...

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