Evolutionary biologist. Postdoc-ing in St Andrews. Interested in speciation, host-parasite evolution and viviparity. He/him. First gen. 🌈
Leeban Yusuf
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📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣
We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂
Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Leaf-mimicking katydids don’t just use their funky camouflage to survive, they’re using it to find love too! 🥰🍃💘 New paper out now in #ProcB @royalsocietypublishing.org (Photo cred: Christian Ziegler): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 1/n
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!
Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.
Applications due April, 15th.
DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
Quelle surprise, as these say in the Old Bailey!
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court rules. Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
Sir Keir Stormfront’s censorship of protest is struck down. Protest is a human right.
Booty bumping is officially a scientific term!!!!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Very excited to finally have this out in the world! The first paper from my PhD (and my first first-author publication) makes the case for a new entrant to the world of long-lived animal models: Heliconius butterflies. Out now in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/10)
Introducing the campest katydid of all time. 🦄💅🏽👸💞 Why would this animal (Arota festae) have evolved this way, other than to look utterly fabulous? We have unleashed some (slightly whacky) thoughts, now out in @esajournals.bsky.social. Photo credit: @zekerowe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 1/n
🌡️How might an increase in extreme thermal events with climate change impact the reproductive success of ectotherms?
🪲 @jakobwiil.bsky.social and @nataliepilakouta.bsky.social show that beetle larvae exposed to a heatwave suffered a reduction in survival to adulthood.
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
Have you ever lifted the covers to find a bedbug and thought: COOL! I thought not, but hopefully I can change your mind. 🧵 (1/8)
Susan Johnston
Studying long-lived species across the animal kingdom could provide insights into healthy ageing in humans. This study reveals long lifespans and slowed ageing in Heliconius butterflies, identifying t...
Same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) in insects has historically been considered a byproduct
of sex recognition failure, or “mistaken identity,” and cons...
