🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

It's been great hosting you, @marcinwiorek.bsky.social! Looking forward to more collaborations together 🦋🧬

Many thanks to the opponents, Anne Duplouy (Uni Helsinki) and Radka Reifova (Charles Uni in Prague), and to our close collaborator Kay Lucek @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social (Uni Neuchatel), who has attended the defence.

Our lab is celebrating! 🥳 Pedro Ribeiro @pedrogribeiro.bsky.social has excellently defended his PhD thesis: theses.cz/id/9gnm91/

Pedro has used genome data to study the evolution of butterflies and their endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia.

We wish you all the best, Dr. Pedro! 🦋

Thank you for sharing!
More info on the project and how to apply: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

PhD position details: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Opportunities for international networking, hands-on training and mobility are available through the @10klepgenomes.bsky.social COST Action (10klepgenomes.eu) and close collaboration with Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social (projectpsyche.org) and the LepEU Consortium (lepeu.github.io).

New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Big congrats to Daniel Linke and to @vincentdebat.bsky.social for such a fantastic collaboration!

In skipper butterflies, the evolution of iridescence and "wing tails" comes together with particular changes in the size and shape of their two wing pairs. This points to evolutionary trade-offs between flight performance and antipredator defences
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

(1/3) Have you heard about #LepEU?
The European Lepidoptera Population Genomics Consortium is a group focused on unveiling patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in butterfly and moth populations across Europe 🦋🌍

(1/4) Exciting news 📣 Announcing the #COST10KLepGenomes initiative! 🦋🧬
We're leveraging genomic data to tackle biodiversity loss, disentangle Lepidoptera evolution and address climate change impacts on European butterflies and moths.

(1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇

Huge thanks to everyone involved: our amazing collaborators, the PhD committee, and external opponent Tom Sherratt, co-author of "Avoiding Attack", a major reference for Dani's work.

A milestone for our lab: Daniel Linke is our first PhD graduate! 🦋🥳
Over 4 years, he studied the evolution of antipredator defences in skipper butterflies, combining experiments in the lab and field in Peru.
All the best in what's coming next, Dani! 🎓
Thesis: theses.cz/id/tyfekz/?l...

In this interview by the A-magazine (Czech Academy of Sciences), I highlighted our latest research on butterfly evolution, ecology, and conservation. Many thanks @akademievedcr.bsky.social

pdf.avcr.cz/A/2025-01/#p...

Foto: Jana Plavec, Akademie věd ČR

(1/4)🦋 Introducing Project Psyche! A groundbreaking initiative to sequence the genomes of all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths in Europe. The goal is to analyse this data to understand global climate insecurity and threats to biodiversity on a genomic level🧬 #ProjectPsyche #Genomics

On our way to the COST 10kLepGenomes meeting in Lund!! A little stop in Copenhagen with Irena Klečková before the great discussions in the frame of Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social